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

Just saying but Habitat 3 looks like a perfect home for a certain insect alien race.

Is that true? I hadn't come across that but then I've been trying to avoid story details. Are you saying that that explains why the Geth would be there? Like there was another splinter in the Geth of those that wanted to stay and those that left to go to Andromeda? 

I'm not saying the Geth can't be there, I'm just trying to work out a reason for why they'd leave the MilkyWay. Legion was pretty adamant that the Geth just wanted to build their space server so they could all be uploaded to it. The Geth that wanted a short cut to that were the Heretics. Legion didn't consider the Heretics Geth anymore, so any Geth that left would also not be considered Geth anymore and would be something else.  

They won't be in AI that's for sure, but it is reasonable to assume that geth had their own plans to send their own expedition to Andromeda. Perhaps as a contingency plan if their extinction in Milky Way is inevitable.

Thanks for that. 

If it's a contingency then why would they leave before the end of ME2? At this stage they are still working on their space server.  Don't get me wrong, I like the Geth, Legion is a cool character 

I'm just trying to make sense of a reason for them to leave based on the info Legion provided about them in ME2. Not that Bioware couldn't come up with a reason of course, but based on what we know so far, it doesn't seem like they should be expected to be there. 

That being said room for units doesn't really matter for Geth, they are software, they could load up a ship with millions of programs, a few mobile units for gathering resources and the equipment to make more Geth mobile platforms when they arrive. So they could definitely build a ship to get them there.

When I was little, I had read something in a comics magazine, probably the adaptation of a short story. Centuries from now, when humans are zipping from planet to planet in the galaxy, they find a planet of hunter-gatherer little purple men, which turns out to be where the Voyager ended up crashing. The purple men venerate the plaque from the Voyager as a holy item; the plaque, though, has cracked into two pieces right along the picture of the man, separating him into left & right halves. When the purple men see a male and a female astronout who look exactly like the figures on the plaque, they greet them like gods -- and then they ceremonially cut the man in half, from his head down to his crotch.

Also, I believe those plaques are sound records at the same time; they contain greetings from various languages. The Turkish one is extremely old fashioned though; I think it was already well out of use when the recordings were made; besides it's not even a straightforward greeting, it's an elaborate way of saying 'good morning'. I wonder who decided what to record.

The music in that "Golden Worlds" clip...hope it's in the game? Gorgeous.

It isn't.

I didn't say there was peace. I said there were Geth programs. That's a big difference. One can successfully capture Geth data, keep it secret, and develop more programs from it. This isn't remotely impossible, just known to be very difficult and rarely attempted anyway, since the Quarians widely hate Geth and the Geth do a lot to avoid such a situation.

And there are Quarians that want the Geth back, if even in a domination over them again. We meet them.
And there are Quarians that want good relations with the Geth. We. Meet. Them.
They exist. You can't deny them. Tali's Loyalty mission was all about letting us know that there's more opinions out there than the majority and Tali's opinion.

A distinct minority, sure. Looks like only a distinct minority of Quarians would even join on this trip anyway. Why could Quarians leave their people in colony-enough numbers, so quickly? Well..

There's a lot of minorities here. Like a specific Krogan clan. And people interested in AI development. And Asari with posh accents lol.

Don't prescribe the majority stereotype onto this minority though. ME3 dealt with the majority. Of humans, of Council races, of non-Council races, of Quarians, of Krogan. The millions, billions of people are covered.

This is the other story. So I'm speculating.

At the least, I doubt we'll see Geth design assets in MEA. Even if there's a Geth story going on, it may not be seen as worth it enough for Bioware at the moment, to put them in the base game. Maybe DLC. Maybe ME5. Maybe never, and my theory is totally wrong.



EDIT: Also if a certain small section of Quarians is being written to discover something Geth but secretly special (the combined relays; something we don't hear a peep about in ME3 of course, and no knowledge that the Quarian authorities and majority know about it), is could be that they reach a sort of alliance with particular Geth programs that the Consensus may not even know exists anymore - after learning some things (that they know their peoples would not listen to). Point is, there's a lot of possibilities.
And if any of those possibilities happen, I just think it'll be less Geth Destructive than Quarian Side/Destroy, less Quarian Destructive than Geth Side, and more peaceful than either, and less peaceful than Peace and certainly Synthesis. The pushed theme is this being a 'new start' so I would not be surprised at this point of a MEA being a NuME1 with Geth concerns but no longer paranoia or the worst aggressions, and maybe getting a DLC or next game or whatever that more directly addresses those concerns. I don't EXPECT it. But I think it is very possible, much more possible than you're saying.

Bioware already said there's ways to get all the races into Andromeda if they're not there already. Whether now or later, Geth is likely included in that. With Geth technology mentions already, I think the chance of something of them (even IF not the models of their platforms) being some part of MEA has gone up.


EDIT: Geth only knew of the Geth Consensus, but then the schism happens and the Heretics split off. They then used Legion in their attempts to understand this. These were both things the Consensus knew about, but I don't think the lore keeps there from being a situation where there is a split off the Consensus does NOT know about - whether it comes from programs using a special method to disguise their status, or programs being mistakenly considered destroyed, or from Quarians using a technological basis to make their own programs once again.
We know for a fact that not all Quarians want the Geth kept entirely away or destroyed. I think that is debunked.

I wouldn't be, not because of it at least. This is supposed to be promo material for future colonists, you wouldn't teach them xenocide and native enslavement there. Or would you? 

Jungles! Red vegetation! No Snow!!!! So happy... but I hopd for less "green" colored worlds. But NO FRIGGING SNOW!!!! Happy!

I like how they confirmed the Quarians in a one sentence, no big deal kind of way. The worlds all look varied, though that is to be expected.