Andromeda Initiative briefings (6/6 Golden Worlds and Settlements)

Or even between ME1 and ME3, there's just not enough time.

So I'm betting on a retcon that construction started before ME1. For some other purpose. Then got retasked as Plan B against the expected return of the Reapers.

I believe they're using Occam's Magical Space Razor

Just when I thought I was out...

That's highly unlikely. No matter how they approach the Andromeda initiative/Arks, they'll need a retcon.

Should they also have combat stilettos? It's just silly. Still, I'm sure they'll still be in.

It can't take place during the Reaper War because the Reapers went straight to Earth after curb-stomping the batarians. It can't be after because it'll (de)canonize endings. It can't be before if it isn't secret, and it would be hard (and pointless) to keep it secret at all. So I'm still drawing a blank as to how this is all supposed to work.

The game itself could be great, the story phenomenal, but the premise will bug me forever.

Yeah, I've played them and a few other games with him. I understand why people thought it sounded like him. I thought it was similar, but something was just... off. He sounded too boring to be Nolan North Still, he's really good at putting on voices, so it could be him, but I doubt it. On the other hand, Bioware did seem to direct the Inquisitors to sound flat and boring, so you never know! To be fair, we need to hear more either way, so yeah, hopefully we'll at least find out who voices all of the Ryders on N7 Day!

That's a very good question I doubt we'll get a satisfying answer to, sadly. It's something I've been wondering about since we were speculating on ME:A's premise. It's simply too huge a project to remain secret, but being public knowledge is a character retcon on the scale of the entire galaxy. I feel like I'm just repeating myself at this point (and a bit like a downer), but I can't seem to get over how implausible this situation is. I wish they'd show us something else so I could do less criticizing.

That honestly sounds like a much better setup than any other possibilities at this point. Could be interesting!

Good catch, but it's not likely part of another trailer, just an edited shot from this one for the thumbnail. Obviously, Andromeda isn't close enough to see on a reflection like that, so it's not supposed to be literal. As for the surface, it just looks like Luna to me

I also doubt we'll use wormholes, but I don't see how that would invalidate the franchise title. We'd still use mass effect FTL to get places in the galaxy, and there are countless other ways the technology is used in the setting. We'd hardly be "no longer using" it.

Good point. My best guess is that they added it to the historic site, but I don't know why they would in the first place. Or it could just be a mistake.

That's racist. *plin*

Whats the chance 600 years from now on, someone already invented the Claymore shotgun?

Um no, with all the wormhole talk, I was just putting in a poor quip about Saturn (where wormholes have recently been found in orbit of late in sci-fi) and the fact its on the moon... yeah no I can't tell whether your being sarcastic or not so I should probably just go away now 

Not really much else to say about the video. Pretty much everything was discussed already, just this thing:




I don't get it about that... thing (whatever the F you call it, I just don't know) around the neck like if it was some sort of winter coat or something.
It's supposed to be a space suit/armor. I know it's there just for "art style" but I think it's really unnecessary on a space suit.

Futurama's jokes in MEA makes me extremely hopeful