How we'll go to Andromeda?

OH YES! I love that idea!!
And for once your class would be linked with your position in the Ark?
i.e., if they keep with the six conventional mass effect classes, we could be like:

Average ship engineer (as Kenneth and Gabbie) --> Engineer for combat (aka NERD POWER!)
Gunnery Chief --> Soldier
Doctor (medical care) --> Sentinel
Average Janitor/conduct cleaner --> Infiltrator (the most epic the zero to hero in the history of stories. Mess Sgt Gardner would be proud)
Ground support team for shields (in a biotic Grissom Academy way) ---> Adept/Vanguard

HA! Now I'm the conspiracy nut.
DIBBS! (...I guess? )

I like your classification despite the fact that your lack of janitors is disturbing


Sargeant Gardner is sad. You make him sad  

My theory is that the mars archives contained far more than just the plans for the crucible, including Prothean research into ways to get out of the milky way to avoid extermination by the reapers.

Since the crucible plan was a massive gamble a mission to andromeda was organised by the forces working together to make the crucible as a contingency plan, just in case it failed.

The mission would probably have been launched at the exact same time as the final assault on earth so that the reapers were distracted and couldn't interfere.


I can't see the arcs being made after ME3's ending or before the reaper invasion at the beginning of ME3, simply because there wouldn't be a reason to travel so far to try and find a new home.

I think I remember a codex entry saying that only around 1% of the milky way had been explored prior to ME3 ( specifically, the 1% that was near to mass effect relays), so exploring the Andromeda galaxy for new colonizable planets instead of the milky way only makes sense if none of those undiscovered planets in the milky are an option, and the only thing I can think of that'd make every planet in the milky way a non-option is the reapers.

I hope it isn't explained as coming from the Mars Archives. That place has already produced a Deus Ex Machina twice, and I really don't want it to get a hat trick since that destroys any suspension of disbelief. 

No more Mars please. There should a limit of how much plot devices you can dig out of one place. And Void Dragon isn't even there at that time.