There's something shady about the Andromeda Initiative - Minius GC

While I personally wouldn't mind a convoluted excuse for another royal egg being found, we wouldn't really have to go that route, even if your Shepard killed the Queen in ME 1. Noveria has detailed information on the Rachni, in fact their whole operation was based around them studying the aliens and potentially using them for weapons of war. Between all that information (things like tissue samples, blood samples, MRI scans, etc.)  and the numerous Rachni corpses lying around (even the mostly melted Queen) you have more than enough data and material to clone a duplicate. The Salarians were able to bring back the Kalisaours for Krogan to ride into battle based off a single fossilized skull, bringing back the Rachni Queen would be child's play compared to that.  

What's more, regardless of Shepard's decision with the Queen the Council, Noveria's head scientists, CEOs at ExoGeni, and basically anyone with access to records from Peak 15 could easily see that the Rachni are in fact a sentient, and highly intelligent species. Couple that knowledge with the reports of even "mindless" Rachni drones and soldiers establishing proto-colonies in vastly different environmental and atmospheric conditions without the aid of space suits, and engaging in hit and run attacks using only teeth and claws against a society armed with modern day weapons and armor and it's not unreasonable to think that someone involved with the Andromeda Initiative could see the use for such a species, and request for a royal egg to be cloned and put on ice should the colonists need it.



As for the Elcor, they are the only species I'm aware of that can carry tank cannons on their backs into battle. Get a squad of Elcor soldiers and you can potentially have more firepower than the entire Pathfinder team (for every major species) perfect for defending a colony from attack. Elcor also evolved on a planet with five times the gravity of any other known species in the Milky Way, including the resident "warrior race" of the Krogan; their bone and muscle structure is so powerful simply as a necessity of survival that one could easily snap a person in half should it ever come down to melee combat. Garrus even alludes to this in ME 1 when he mentions an Elcor serial killer he tracked down on the Citadel during his C-Sec days, who literally ripped his victims into small chunks with his bare hands in order to kill them and then hide the bodies.

What do we know about this Nexus uprising so far?

Nothing.  Even the book abut it doesn't have a blurb on Amazon yet.

Bioware says a lot of things like

Pre ME2 "no the Archangel is not Garrus"

Pre ME3 "its not like the endings are a simple A, B or C choice."

It's more that they are doing all these things, like staging a Citadel coup -- as an aside: why did they invade a shopping mall to shoot down civilians? -- and at no point does the Council or anyone else seek retribution. Not even after Thessia! The only way I could interpret this is that Cerberus had such resources that they not only knew all the best kept secrets of all the most powerful groups in the galaxy, but they were able to hide themselves perfectly from these same groups.

At one point Anderson says, slightly paraphrased, "Watch out for Kai Leng, Shepard. The Reapers may seem like the biggest threat, but I'm telling you, you better watch out for that guy!"

Yeah, "Leader of the Resistance" Anderson is telling you that some high ranking guy in Cerberus is potentially more dangerous than 2 km long eldritch space monsters with lasers. Sure it makes no sense, but ME3 goes out of its way to convince the player that Cerberus really is that powerful.

Yeah cause we needed a human sized enemy to fight in 3rd person shooter. Lets face it, how are you gonna face a reaper, or Harbinger with just 3 soldiers? it be like if 3 ants came to me and said "yeah you better prepare, cause were gonna kill you now". Only thing that can fight reapers is a fleet of ships(or a giant tresher maw), even Normandy is just 1 frigate.

Cerberus provided that, problem is they provided too much of it, and pretty much overshadowed the reaper forces. There could have been a balance, but they broke it. Other problem: The real enemy is just too huge, too powerful to fight this way. And thats part of a problem with the ME, they made the reapers impossible to face, one on one. Unless of course they provided us with some inidividual BS anime superpowers, and broke the entire lore, whats left of it.

Even now im wondering how, realistically were gonna face the so called "andromedan superbosses", like that certain mechanical serpent in the trailer, and how were actually going to win against it?

Obviously fighting full size reapers is tricky and we can hardly fight a destroyer every mission, but the reapers did have ground forces yet we spend as much time if not more time Cerberus forces. If they needed more enemy variety they could have added more converted reaper forces or even some smaller reapers, as in smaller mechanical reaper forces, sized like Geth primes or armatures maybe.


As for not being all that powerful, invading the citadel with a force that size is no small feat. One thing if it was Kai Leng and a strike team or two but no, it's a couple of platoons worth of soldiers. Quite a sizeable fleet at Grissom academy too and let's not forget the army chasing you at the end of the ex-Cerberus scientists mission. As if that isn't bad enough they somehow have a fleet of cruisers and many large space stations and planetary installations all over the place, all kept secret from all the major powers (which I could possibly buy if we used warp drives, but not so easy when travel has to go through Mass Relays). How does a rogue black ops division get the resources to rival the military force that spawned it?

One rule of making a cosmic horror is not making them machines an d then have them claim "we have no beginning and no end", cause machines are always made by someone. I think the reapers creators would have made better villains than the reapers themselves. The whole reaper origin can be summed up into 3 words after all: Cthulhu Created SKYNET.

Nice video. Interesting thoughts! 

WRT Cerberus, wasn't TIM's goal to become an omnipotent ruler over the Reapers, similar to the Control ending? In which case, why wouldn't he throw resources into the AI, hoping to see the rewards found from the strange centre of the Andromeda Helius cluster, 1200 years later?       (Changed my mind.)  TIM wouldn't invest in the AI, he would steal the plans and build a Cerberus Ark.  In that case, he'd wait until he had Reaper FTL travel so he could get there before the AI and bring the Remnant Tech or whatnot back.  But we all know he dies, so no, no Cerberus!

With respect to Cora, if she is his daughter, then maybe she found out about the Reapers through TIM, the AI through TIM, and maybe she decided it would be the best way to get away from TIM (Cerberus, and the Reapers)? Who knows her motive.

Even if TIM paid for some of the AI, or Cora is the daughter of TIM, that doesn't mean any of the plot needs to involve Cerberus at all. My personal feeling is that it would be a neat back story to relate to Cora quickly, behind the screen. But I really hope none of the story in the game involves Cerberus in any way.

I can see it.