Headcanoning Andromeda

Is anyone else planning on headcanoning Andromeda to take place after ME3’s ending? By that I mean, pretending that the Andromeda Initiative was started several years after the trilogy’s ending. People were already tearing into the holes that Andromeda creates in the lore, from the impossibility of the voyage itself to the unlikely size of the Nexus. Now we’ve see that there are also several weapons in one gameplay trailer alone that shouldn’t be present since they were created during the Reaper War, and based on that and the focus on multiplayer the devs have mentioned, I’m guessing there will be every single ME3 weapon so that means there will be even more lore-breakers. The armor is also very different from anything we’ve seen before, and while one could argue that it’s supposed to represent civilian space suits, in the trilogy we’ve seen civilians wearing ME1-style combat hardsuits into space all the time. It seems more likely that this radically different armor would be developed post-ME3.



Destroy is my canon ending anyways, and I think the Andromeda Initiative would make a whole lot more sense taking place after it. With a bunch of Reaper corpses around to study, it would be much more likely that the Milky Way races would be able to engineer ships advanced enough to make the trip through dark space to Andromeda. Control could even work, explaining the Andromeda Initiative as a group that wants to live in a galaxy free of the Reapers. It’s a stretch, but I suppose even Synthesis could be possible, if the AI is formed from a luddite group that managed to remove their green glowing “upgrades” and flee to another galaxy--not the most likely scenario, but I think most of us can agree that Synthesis is already the most nonsensical thing in Mass Effect anyways, so I don’t even bother with it, personally.



Unless there are some really plot-integral details that necessitate these out of place, super-advanced Arks and Nexus leaving oddly just before the Reaper War, I’ll stick with my headcanon instead, because it just makes a hell of a lot more sense. In fact, I would say it makes the premise plausible at all to begin with. What do you guys think?