It actually makes more sense if Cerberus is behind the Andromeda Initiative

There usually is a reason, just not a good one.

Haha, that might actually explain it..

Seriously


If TIM sent his own daughter on a mission that involved colonizing hostile alien worlds without weaponized vehicles I am just gonna laugh....

Could explain how our Ryder is in command eventually and Cora's demotion.
Not to mention getting rid of Cerberus once and for all.

Cora was the SECOND in command under Alec Ryder.
Once he is out of the way she would be LEADER not us.

So Alec Ryder gets spaced, turned to sludge, taken over by alien, or whatever they plan.
In the following events we find out The Illusive Man is Cora's father... our character may find this revolting (only knowing the hype about Cerberus)...

Edit: This may disturb:
Then Cora is given DEMOTION... WE RULE NOW!

As to Cora....you will obey or SAM will kill you by bursting your brain out on the floor on my order.
Ah.
Yep.
There we go.
No more control for you Cerberus. R.I.T. not R.I.P.

I see a lot of people making the argument that the Andromeda expedition doesn't make sense without Cerberus involed. Well now, Cerberus has become synonymous for not making any sense , and putting it together with something that also doesn't make sense won't make them cancel eachother out. It just adds up to double nonsense.

Even without the above, overusage and story decay are still going to be a thing with three games, three novels and a whole lot of comic books and spinoff works.

ok...I'm gonna laugh now and lose all respect in TIM

I never had any respect for the man, personally. I just couldn't take him seriously.
He was a big joke to me, but a useful big joke, with access to a lot of resources and information.

As for the weapons, I gave up trying to make sense of it all in the Ishimura.
But more and more Bioware are putting themselves in a position that will require some serious explaining.

Ha, who am I kidding...

I hope so, I just wanna go Spanish conquistador on these aliens. Humanity is in town furries!

For me, the only human organization/corporation with the resources to get behind the AI was Eldfell Ashland Energy.

From WIKI,
In 2137, the Ashland Energy Corporation successfully extracted helium-3 from Saturn's atmosphere, beginning a new era of fusion research. On the wave of this success, they merged with Eldfell Construction to vertically integrate the two companies' strengths. Ashland would recover the raw materials for energy production, and Eldfell would build power plants, refineries, and pipelines on nearby worlds to distribute Ashland's products to the consumer. Eldfell-Ashland Energy was born.

As EAE's reach extended, they absorbed companies to create a "cradle-to-grave corporate experience" for their employees. Today, subsidiaries such as Second Star Living recruit colonists to staff EAE facilities, and the education group Excelsior provides job-related education opportunities to provide EAE stations with a qualified incoming workforce. Water, power, food, shipping -- EAE provides them all. If EAE wants to put a colony on a garden world, they are able to do so and keep 90% of services performed completely in-house, creating consumers out of its own employees. Its primary revenue stream, however, continues to come from mining base elements like hydrogen, helium-3, and eezo and trading in their futures.

The Andromeda Initiative is already a pro-MW faction.

We are here to take the Kett's galaxy, remember?