Andromeda Initiative Leadership inept/incompetent!

Hey guys,

I know the title sounds like klick-bait kind of, but I have my reasons, so please hear me out before judging - ok?



You still here? Good, here goes:

The A.I. (despite having an AI - SAM!) doesn't seem to have a plan and it looks like they have not carefully vetted the people who signed up to the mission, let's break that down:

1. It really seems like we took the worst kind of scum along to Andromeda (or, much more disturbing: The A.I. leadership treated people like shit once we arrived - why would they rebell otherwise, if they were all well adjusted, well educated and productive members of society before we left for Andromeda?), otherwise there would be no rebells/outlaws/pirates/thieves etc.

As it looks there's at least one outlaw-faction per planet that we have to somehow pacify (bring back into the fold or exterminate?) in order to be allowed to set up an outpost on that particular planet!

So were did they come from? Shitty treatment or did entire merc-groups, crime-syndicates etc. come along and absconded once we arrived?

Also: Did they steal ships and supplies from the Initiative? Did they bring their own? (if they stole them: Weren't they guarded and if so did they kill the guards? I hope we can come down hard on them, like a ton of bricks! I have no patience for thieves, outlaws etc. (unless they really have a very good reason for their bullshit!) - especially in a survival situation, where every warm body and every shuttle etc. counts! You can debate shitty treatment etc. later, once the situation has resolved and once civilization has been established (then I'll be the frist person to give you a voice to get those guilty for shitty decisions charged (if they have violated any regs!). If you mutiny while everybody is in danger? Well, you get hung (if it were my call!) or shot!)

2. They commission bad vehicles and guns! Both the Tempest (which is probably the template for all pathfinder-ships, so there might be 4 of them (or more if the Nexus has more pathfinders!)) and the Nomad are unarmed (which is great if you do a dig on a planet that has regular police and military forces (so that you don't need to protect yourself with big guns!), same goes for the ship: Even in the Milkyway you would send an ARMED ship (or an unarmed vessel with an escort!) if you were to open a new relay/look into an unexplored system!)

As for the weapons: We will probably start out with the most crappy guns you can find (I know: Most RPGs do this, but for special forces (and the Pathfinder-Team is special forces - a mix between diplomat, hostage rescue and negotiation team and a unit of special forces...a special "breed" much like the Council's SPECTREs!) this is kind of funky (sure: You might not gain the best guns, but still not junk!) and will have to procure our own guns once in the field, if we want better ones!

3. They don't seem to have much in the way of security forces (twenty thousand people need something like C-Sec (Police basically...or at least a small constabulary/sherriff's department!) and even a small military to protect them, the A.I. doesn't seem to have either, at least we haven't seen anything like that yet!) and defensive armaments (our ship has none, the Arks seem unarmed and the Nexus is probably unarmed either!)...barriers can't solve everything (if they even stop stuff like say Remnant weapons or plasma weapons!)

4. They don't seem to have a plan (or a backup-/emergency-plan) what to do once their original plan is in shambles and they have rebells etc...shouldn't they have planned for the worst?

5. They don't even have much military personal it seems (the pathfinder team is small and so far they are the only people who seem to have military training - and not all of them do, Peebee is not a commando/huntress it seems (sure she uses biotics, but Samara would probably flatten her) and Liam is basically a less trained Garrus (the later has had prior military training, like all Turians have at some point in their lives - except the infirm probably!), the others are soldiers more or less (talking about the ground crew, I don't know about the ship's crew!))

6. There's politicians along it seems (that Salarian character, we've seen in a vid this last week!)...what the fuck? Politicians should naturally develop once we have set up, we don't need people who don't pitch in at the start (don't get me wrong: Politicians aren't un-needed in an already established society, but on an expedition into the unknown? NO WAY!), they can come later once stuff has been established (even a Mayor is not needed untill you've got shit up and running! Much less a President or something!)

Ok, there it is! Discuss!

greetings LAX