Impending war between Batarians and Humans a reason to launch?

The Alpha Relay explosion hastening the launch is plausible as the hegemony seemingly wasn't invited to participate as an avowed enemy of the council races and fearing reprisal is logical response given it would be a soft target for a terror proxy and it's a privately funded initiative so an attack wouldn't be regarded as a formal act of war against the major powers.

There are however plenty of extremely rich Batarian investors who made fortunes in the black market I hope some of them are major private investors who see a different future for their people and somehow made the trip with cargo ships full of henchmen as Batarians make the best mercs and pirates and multiplayer wouldn't be the same without them.

Doubtful, as the project took years to complete and set up and would need to be planned far in advance. The events of Arrival would have happened either right before the launch of AI or after it'd already launched.

I doubt the Batarians played a role in anything. I do believe that certain people involved with Andromeda knew of the Reapers beforehand and accelerated the project or believed Shepard enough to push the project forward so that everyone could survive a pending extinction and that any goal of returning to the Milky Way would be to salvage what's left and rebuild.

As an exploration mission the premise makes little sense given the scale, unknown and dangers, and the fact we have mostly unexplored own galaxy also. Of course you would always find people willing to go, even if an ocean would be endless youd find someone whod want to see whats on the other side, as they say.

I think the ultimate reason for greenlighting and hastening the project(and maybe finding the solution to intergalactic traveling too) would be the events at the end of ME1: Sovereigns tech researched, knowledge or rumors that the reapers could be coming, some rich or influental people in the galaxy research the event, believe the danger is real and want to haul ass and hasten this originally tought to be pipedream project as their only solution for continuance of their civilization. They gain access to Sovereigns parts, hire the best scientists in the galaxy to solve the problem, in 2 years time they come up wiht ODSY drive. Better than just inventing it out of a thin air, something even protheans were not capable apparently(who knows tough). All of this is kept secret from the public and the majority of the pioneers and settlers ofc.

I think this would be the best choice. Do they go with it, I dont know, for the plots sake I hope so. Its not a perfect reason of course, but I think its loads better than going just cause its there or because of "resources".... that is stupid.

And metagaming, we know the real reasons why were going right, it involves red, green and blue.

Wait, what? What are you talking about not all of Europe was traversed before heading to North America? Europe was completely traversed centuries before that. 

Vikings were sending people to North America at the same time they were pushing further into Europe. They didn't just go in one direction, go home, and then go in the other direction is what I'm saying.

If I were talking about it in that frame of reference, I wouldn't have mentioned it since North and South America were already settled at that point. But I see where my wording could mix people up.

It would depend on who was killed, & the numbers involved, if it was the Salarians or Asari then no i don't think they'd join the Alliance in ass whupping the Batarians, the Salarians & the Asari both have there own way of dealing with such things so they wouldn't rush into a war, but if it was the Turians oh my!, you bet your rear end thats a paddlin', the birds would not sit still for that & they'd be in there kicking ass regardless of what the Alliance was doing.

Sounds good - and I was from day one a supporter of the Reaper war as the reason to leave - but a) Bioware has explicitly stated that it is not because they say that it wasn't common knowledge that the Reaper war was coming. So the purpose of this thread is: why in hell are so many people signing up for 600 years of cryo sleep etc. when presumably nothing is wrong for such a big group at home? 

That being said, of course I like your scenario.

I could be wrong on this but I like to think that the reason for the AI to the Andromeda Galaxy is because the Reapers are coming and only a select few like the founder of the AI knows about the reapers coming, so she and others come up with the AI and then create the Arks and Nexus and some of the races Human, Asari etc join the AI to leave the milkyway galaxy to go to another galaxy that hopefully will never be visited by the reapers if the defense fails and all life in the milkyway is destroyed well the starfaring ones at least. I also think that they leave before ME3 so that way the reapers won't detect them and hopefully won't detect them traveling through dark space, to a new h ome

Alot of people are saying the war between the humans and batarians would obviously end with the batarians getting beat badly. And they are right it would. However batarians would use terror attacks. And alot of that might be destroying large but weak targets early on. Think of how much the arks and everything cost. Destroying it or damaging it would kill ALOT of people (people working on it and such) and destroy alot of work and alot of money would go down the drain so it could be a real worry for the ark people. I could see the batarians doing alot of stuff like having small groups put bombs in very populated places and some vital but less protected places early on. Like I said the batarians would be destroyed and relatively quick but they would initially do some damage and considering how much the arks cost and how long they take to make it is a legitamate worry.

That said I think it would more likely be because the reapers were coming and someone high up in the ark things knew and decided to launch as soon as possible. But it could also be a mix