I want to quit Andromeda Initiative. It's a suicide mission.

The section that I put in spoiler tags is true, it was a part of the gameplay video/ trailer they showed last week.  As far as the rest I think it is just guesswork at this point in time.  The book is not out yet and I have not seen too much press on it but the book is called Nexus: Uprising, so its likely we will not be getting a plot revolving around tea time with Director Garson. 

I was very gobsmacked to learn about Sloanne Kelly's little subplot in the latest promos and not in a good way.

I like the idea of having people go with the initiative to become deserters or have wishes of monarchy or whatever floats their boats, but the security chief? come on... That's too banal.

I definitely would've eliminated that application at stage zero.

I think its an interesting plot point, tid bit, that even someone that high up in the chain of command might be pissed off enough to do something about it. And it probably carries a lot more weight/ puts a face to something rather then 'mook 857-3 has decided to go off and form a colony somewhere'.

We're going to have a chain of spoiler blocks, soon. 

Why spend billions of dollars to go into space when at the time people really didn't know if it was gonna be anything more the symbolic. Why travel to the bottom of the ocean and go so deep that it can destroy anything due to the insanely high PSI. People do stuff just to push the limits all the time. But I get your idea and in truth my whole thought about it was this was put together because people thought the reapers might win and decided to make sure humanity and other species didn't die out

The theory comes form something said (well written) during GameInformer coverage. I'm not sure why it is in spoiler block, GI didn't really hide that



but GI could have misunderstood something, it wouldn't be the first time. In fact, GI says that the Hyperion destination is a planet, while the official briefing video about the Arks and the Nexus says that everyone hang out on the Nexus until immigration assign you a planet and the arks are supposed to get plugged to the Nexus. There is a contradiction here already.



On another subject, I'm going to laugh if the person who hired Sloane Kelly was Alec Ryder.

Not necessary. This planet is probably their rendezvous point, where Nexus was supposed to wait them.

Next time they should probably ask their future security chief if they ever dreamed of becoming a crime queen.

Aren't we jumping to conclusions here? Kelly may have had very good reason to rebel - e.g. she discovered that the AI was corrupt and/or screwing over its people. I don't think we can conclude that she was a poor choice for security chief or that she has become a crime queen.

Remember, the record we heard came from the AI itself so they might be making her sound worse than she is. Plus Kelly would have no reason to trust Ryder if Ryder is still a pathfinder with the AI.

Me too. They might be misleading us deliberately, but she couldn't look more like a crime queen, I mean, she even got herself a throne, what kind of person does that, not even Aria. It screems power hungry to me (and lack of subtlety)

I'm not saying either of you are wrong, I just don't think you can draw any solid conclusions based on 30 seconds of a clip.  If she sees herself as being on the right side of a war with the AI then how do you expect her to receive and treat one of their pathfinders?  Make her comfortable with a refreshing beverage?

Kelly's record is 'nearly spotless' with a few run-ins with officers.  It's a massive fall from grace to go from that (and a security chief to boot) to a crime queen, particularly in what appears to be a short time frame.  I just get the feeling there's much more to it than what we've seen.  But by all means, jump to conclusions if you want!

BTW, Aria had an entire couch overlooking Afterlife.  Kelly is sitting on a pretty plain bench/chair in an empty room.

It's not about the size of the chair she sits on, obvioulsy, it's the disposition of said chair in the room as well as that of other objects (which are scarce, because the room seems to be almost empty except for her chair, s you said, and that's very telling) and people (a guard by her side) in it.

And of course it's speculation, I'm not saying things can't turn out to be very different to what they look like (that's why I said they might be misleading us deliberately), and we all can have very different opinions of what it looks like. But to me, it clearly looks like she's turned into a crime queen, that's what that scene makes me think.

Also, personally I think circumstances are extreme enough to justify radical changes in a character, if well done, I'd not consider that poor writing or anything necessarily. Having a record with a few run-ins with officers, in any case, could set the bases for such change. As with anything else, we'll see 

edit: thinking about Arya v Sloane and their representation (not really trying hard to prove my point, it's just that I find very interesting this kind of thing), the fact that Arya sits on a sofa while Sloane sits on an armchair, allows Shepard (or any other possible guest) to sit beside her when talking to her, while you have to stand in front of Sloane, and look at her from a slightly lower position, down-up, an arrangement that has always been used to remark the difference of power between one person and another. Arya staying in a reserved area overlooking the club it's more the usual representation of the club's owner, and it's more about controlling what's going on than about displaying your power, I 'd say