So why do you think the Ryder kids become Pathfinder?

Because like in every Bioware game the old guy dies first.

This is talking about how Cora is officially second in command but one of the Ryder children suddenly outranks her. 

I'm assuming Daddy will get other responsibilities given the mutiny that happened while they were dealing with issues and Ryder gets promoted after showing a knack for leading. Could be Cora does lead for a short time but gets them into trouble and Ryder gets them out of it.

Maybe I'm just projecting here but here you go:

**The crew disembarks on the first class M planet they find**
DadRyder: This is great, guys. Ha! We're finally in the open, breathing real air and enj...**one of the rock-dinosaur type creatures shows up out of nowhere and bites him in half**
Cora **slowly walking backwards into the Nomad**: You'll need massive amount of moral support from the Nexus, young pathfinder. I know it's a terribly demanding job, therefore I nominate myself.

The End

moral support = sexual relief?

Score!

It's an open-ended story, so... um, sure, why not.

Maybe there is some kind of improvisation in the middle of the Dad crisis.
Maybe Cora is not around and we are forced to use our Dad's implant in order to survive the first mission, and then... well, you are technically the Pathfinder because the installation of the SAM implant has been completed.

I think it's probably gonna be one of those things where... for whatever reason, your Ryder gets thrust into the leadership role for a mission and, of course, your Ryder does an amazing job and now everyone is all, "ohhh you so good, you be leader now k?"

lol

Oh damn... did not think about B.

Please don't be B, please don't be B!!

I feel that's a pretty good guess. Very plausible.

Maybe that krogan isn't Drack? The krogan in the first trailer have a different armor. Our first mission is to investigate Habitat 7 but it seems that something goes wrong once we arrive in Andromeda and our Ryder is alone. Maybe all goes wrong once we approach Habitat 7. Alec's team could have landed there and fought against the enemies and for some reason Alec goes idk where to do idk what. But with his team gone, this would explain why we're assigned as Pathfinder. Our Ryder will try to figure out what happened on Habitat 7 and this is where we could find Cora. Alec and the Krogan will be gone and one of our missions could be "Find out what happened to your father". Some of the scenes from the N7 day trailer could be of something later in the game. Once we have already rescued/found Ryder's father.

Edit: I didn't see the spoiler tag Your story makes sense but here's hoping that they don't kill Alec so soon.

I firmly believe Alec Ryder is not dead from the outset like many are predicting: there's too much proof given from the trailers to support otherwise. Cora being next in line is the cool speculative angle, I'm thinking she's with Alec for the time that a new Pathfinder has to be assigned, missing out on the field appointment: not sure why she wouldn't assume authority once back though....exciting to theorycraft on for sure.

Then there's this:


Which looks like Alec carrying out guerilla style warfare on The Kett, and this type of offensive tactic suggests to me that's he's angry as hell, something has gone down bigtime and now he's on a rampage - perhaps Cora didn't agree with his tactics and made her way back to the Tempest somehow?  Extremely hard to say till we see more (so much fun to think about though!!).

Then there's this Remnant Vault access scene, where Alec appears to be with Scott or Liam, but begs the question: when in the story is this?


Either way, I'm confident in my own speculative guessing (lol) that Alec survives at least most of the game, and the tired RPG trope of dad dying in the first area is gonski.  Rest in peace Teyrn Cousland et al.  There is the off chance that the N7 in these clips is actually Scott and that throws all the aforementioned theories out the window...(fucking lol if that's the case), then yeah...out out of ideas brothers n sisters haha.

God damn I'm thirsty for more info, can someone generate a mass effect stasis pod for me for 2 months pls? thanks