Alien Diseases! And other potential side/sub-plots.

There is a lot of speculation about how the main story of Andromeda will go, but I'm actually more interested in the kinds of side-plots and sub-plots we can discover throughout the game.

Some of my favorite moments in the original trilogy, the ones that felt the most impactful to me, came not from the overarching Reaper invasion storyline, but from the smaller pieces that fit into it and the side pieces we discovered along the way.

Examples include larger arcs like learning about and dealing with the genophage through the trilogy, smaller arcs like the Cerberus quests in the first game, and character focused arcs like the loyalty missions in the second.

Theses are the stories that flesh out the game world and make the experience more meaningful than it otherwise would be if the entire game was simply focused around "rush through hordes of baddies until you can shoot boss in face with explodie thing."

What I'm wondering is what kind of side-plots and sub-plots everyone else would like to see in the game and why they feel that those plots would enhance the experience.

I'll go first.

As the thread title suggest, I would like to see a plot that deals with either Milky Way diseases negatively impacting Andromeda species or Andromeda diseases negatively impacting Milky Way species. Whenever new populations first encountered one another here on Earth, foreign disease was a big issue, and I feel that adding a quest or series of quests where Ryder either encounters the consequences of or must find some solution to the problems caused by this issue could add an interesting layer of depth and realism to the exploration and colonization experience.