Remnants = Arthenn and/or Inusannon (or other...

I hope not. I assume the primary reason for setting the game in Andromeda was to get away from all the Milky Way lore.

While I think some the races that are in Andromeda--either ones in MEA or those that pop up in later games--could be MW refugees, I'm expecting the Remnant to be Andromeda natives who underwent parallel evolution as the Leviathans/Reapers and their technology, but went down a different path to achieve the same end in a manner that Legion spoke of his Geth doing in ME2

That's a really interesting idea, I like it!

Not really leaving the lore behind, but the decisions and galaxy wide arcs involved in the decisions.

We're taking a massive lore library with us on The Nexus, after all

No, I want to forget the Milky Way. In fact, I will roleplay as if the Reapers wiped out everyone again.

Let old ghosts rest.

This is not about what people want or don't want to forget. It is about facts.As someone else wrote earlier, Bioware wants to leave behind the story arcs and characters of the ME behind ,not the lore itself. That lore is history and it will be available as knowledge on the Nexus hologram libraries so the later generations know where they came from.

Some people are taking the moving away from MW a bit too seriously. Even though the events will take place in the 2780s and in the MW one of the 4 endings has taken place ,the MW still exists , all or some species still exist in some capacity depending the ending we choose. Shepard and his squad may be "ghosts" but that 's it.

Even if you headcannon that the Reapers exterminated every space faring civilization ,the MW was still 99% unexplored and I presume therenwere many primitive and pre spaceflight species that the Reapers left alone.

Point is , the Milky Way will always be there should Bioware ever want to go back and it wouldn't hurt anyone if that happened.

Back to the topic , there is another potential ancient race I forgot to mention, the tho'ian or thoi'an.
To be honest, there could be a huge number of races that might have gone to another Galaxy between any Reaper cycle. In a 50,000 period anything could be possible since the Reapers avoided harvesting speciea that weren't advanced.

More like getting away from the garbage fire that the Milky Way lore became....

All that's all there's to it. Let's just forget about the mess the Milky Way was with their Reaper problem and move on. 

I always thought the Inusannon was an excuse to cover up their first Prothean concept art. In ME2 they actually put a Collector design over the original ghoulish alien one we saw in ME1.

In the latest cycle ,the one in the Trilogy, a Reaper invasion is imminent, Sovereign was the one left behind to observe yet somehow the Andromeda Initiative has been in progress for almost 10 years and not only that , it actually manages to leave the Milky Way despite that. I know it launched after Sovereign but it was under progress for years.

Also about my "facts" statement. I was referring to the Milky Way's existence ,not that my theory is fact. I didn't make that clear. I wanted to say that, no matter how behind some fans are eager to leave the MW behind ,it is still there as is its history which will be available to every one visiting or living in the Nexus.

In Mass Effect aka space magic where things like Synthesis,the Reapers,the resurrection of a dead person are possible , it is VERY possible that MAYBE an ancient spacefaring civilization,before the Protheans managed to reach the point of being able to also send an exploration team outside the Milky Way. Never said there "are" any civilizations in 2180s capable of intergalactic travel who would meet us there. Only proposing there could be remnants of ancient MW explorers (e.g. the arthenn who I think were extinct like 300,000 years before the events of the games) and went to Andromeda long ago and are long gone by the time we get there and that those "remnants" are either The Remnants themselves or have had an influence upon them.

Taken from the Wiki:

"The arthenn flourished across multiple worlds in the Zelene system some 300,000 years ago. Their homeworld appears to have been Helyme, a dead planet where all complex life was wiped out in an unknown cataclysm. The third planet in the system, Epho, was mined or otherwise settled before these settlements were wiped out by kinetic impacts. The system's outer gas giant, Gaelon, was the location of a complex helium-3 mining infrastructure. Material debris suggests arthenni technology was equal to the current galactic state-of-the-art."

When the lore is based on "space magic' and breaks itself most of the times,anything is possible. Only a writers decision away.

It was under progress because Sovereign lacked any means to bring it's brethren from dark space. It was trying for decades, maybe centuries, as Vigil tell us.


And yes, space magic breaks itself, and it has many times on Mass Effect. And that's why I said I want to forget it, because putting the species you mentioned on this game will just make things worse. And that means, if you have a whole new galaxy to explore, with a lot of new cool aliens, why revisit old ones we've heard about? The writers, as you yourself said: wants to leave behind the story arcs and characters of the ME behind , not the lore itself.

We already have a great deal of lore carrying on.

Why would they give themselves this extra work to put an Milky Way species there and bother explaining why they are there in the first place if they can just ignore and put new and interesting alien mysteries? Why complicate if you can start anew? And if they don't bother explaining why they are there, then what's the point? How would we even know, as characters? It would be the same thing as finding new aliens, no matter where they're from.

And that's precisely because it would be an even more ridiculous moment to contradict the Reapers and their threat that they should stay away from this.

Start anew. Create Andromeda with their own stories and let the Milky Way behind.

Same thing with Cerberus, for those still clinging to it. There are a lot of cool things they can create for the game, new aliens, new stories, new civilizations.

I don't want to explore what has already been mentioned or show. I want to see where Mass Effect can go and grow.

I fully understand what you are saying and where you're coming from. You're trying to say that bringing anything from MW to a new galaxy is complicating things. To an extent I agree, since they left the trilogy behind anything reffering to Shepard n' squad and Reapers should be left behind. Well it is in a way , Andromeda departs before the sh$t truly hits the fan but everything up until the departure still is as we knew it.

Bringing back an mysterious extinct alien race that lived almost 1/4 of a million years ago for which we literally only have 10 lines of text and no other info will not complicate things just because it comes from the Milky Way. Just because something in the story may appear that is related to the MW doesn't make Andromeda s story complicated or less mysterious.To me those very ancient Milky Way races are just as mysterious as the new races in the galaxy we're going to. They are all unknown races so equally interesting.But that is just my opinion.