QEC between MW and Andromeda

A large part of MEA is wanting to make more ME games without having to deal with the consequences of the original trilogy. Having active communication with the MW would work counter to this.

Either they don't have any such communication because it wasn't widely available at the time, especially not for the private sector, that or they do have QEC devices with but they end up not working, can't connect to its pair and we have no way of knowing why.

Ok people. Let me tell you that it's extremely unlikely that we are ever going return to the Milky Way again in Mass Effect (at least, in the not so near future) (unless, they decide to make one of the endings canon). Communicating is also unlikely (but not as much) because talking to our home galaxy would be a great deal to implement and it too much cost to put it there in a way that would be satisfying.

Would you call them just to ask? "What's up?" 
Nope.

Creating a huge relay to make travel possible (such as Citadel/dark space) in the games is also unlikely because of development cost (i'm not arguing plausibility in-game, this time). Imagine constant traffic of ships and personnel from in and out, taking into account all the Destroy/Control/Synthesis/Reject possibilities.

You can't reconnect with a civilization that might have been destroyed either.

You could have green humans in one, and in others completely new aliens because our species got reaped (if there would even be a possible spacefaring species with this technology in such short amount of time after our galactic annihilation).

Can't ignore their data from the trilogy, its effects on us, its effects on the galaxy. It's just too many variables, too many variables.



Maybe one day it will be viable, if the gamers even care at that point. 

The Quantum Entanglement Communicators work by having one entangled particle with each person that wants to communicate, between only two "people". They always come in pairs. For Alliance operations, all entangled pairs are located at Arcturus station. Arcturus station was destroyed when the Reapers attacked, so if the QE particle from the Andromeda Initiative pair was also kept there, which seems likely as it was headed by a human (though it's possible it could be somewhere else), then communication to the MW would be permanently cut off. I'm guessing this will actually be addressed in the game, but not majorly. There will probably just be speculation "maybe Arcturus was destroyed somehow" and then they'll move on.

I hope they have an excuse for keeping FTL communications out of the setting, or at least limiting them. If you want to have a sense of exploration, then being able to phone home doesn't help that. And if you want your protagonist to be making big decisions, then having them constantly reachable by the boss doesn't help.

Good point.  Disappointing

I wouldn't be surprised if the Andromeda Initiative has a QEC to communicate with the Milky Way. After all the long-term goal of the Initiative is to create a way to connect the Milky Way and Andromeda together, like through perhaps the Nexus being one of a pair of Mass Relays, so coordinating with each other is essential.

I suspect at some point Bioware will do something like the Dragon Age Keep for Mass Effect, and include the choices of the Shepard Trilogy in there so that can be reflected in possible conversations.

Possible? Yep.
In this game though? Probably not.
Maybe in a sequel.
I 'd love for the franchise to return to where it was actually "born" , I know now it is messy and counter productive for Bioware to go anywhere near the MW right now but...
I just cannot imagine this franchise NEVER returning EVER to its origins.
It 's sad.Just as sad it will be for all the individuals on the Arks leaving their homes and knowing everyone and everything they ever knew is dead because it s been 600 years .Well unless we re talking about Asari or Krogans

Anyway, you get the gist of what I 'm trying to say.

What can Bioware do from now on?
-It's either continue going anywhere else apart from the MW.
-Just end the franchise sooner.
-Or finally return somehow narratively to the MW.

I think it's more likely that Bio will just expand through Andromeda and build upon its new setting. I don't expect there to ever be a return to the Milky Way, not when there's essentially a blank slate for this backdrop.

....hence why I opened with "as of right now"

Seems like Bioware should have made Mass Effect Andromeda take place in an alternate universe because an alternate galaxy doesn't seem to be enough.
Bioware wants a clean slate. Too many different endings can happen after ME3. It's been nearly 600 years since the Initiative left for Andromeda. I doubt anyone from the Milky Way will remember us or care to remember. Even if they did I doubt even at the time we get to Andromeda the Milky Way will have the tech to communicate to another galaxy.

Really hoping this is mentioned in the game. A somewhat handwavey explanation is much better than "No, we didn't think to use QECs", especially since SAM would pretty much have to be linked to the Pathfinders via QECs, so they have the technology.