Jarun Tann - Different Accents for Alien Races?

tbf Jack should have been locked back up by the Alliance, not sent to be a teacher.

Helping out a covert terrorist organization in a paramilitary operation shouldn't wipe her record of piracy, murder, and so on

most of those crimes were involving the Hanar or Turians as I recall

Yeah but compare earth now to 600 years ago, and who the heck can predict what it would be like in 2754 or whenever it would line up with Andromeda. Things change fella. The fact that apparently there was no Plan B on this sort of initiative is stunning.

Yeah, but Earth is a colonized world. The Golden Worlds were uninhabited as far as anyone could tell (I assume from the surprise in their seeing structures on the planet's surface). Evolution is a slow process, and they were right to anticipate that barring some cataclysmic development (which happened), the world would have been in a very similar state to what they expected. I mean, hell, the cave with a lush, living tree is proof enough of this. Had the Krett or whatevertheelsemightberesponsible not come onto the scene, the plan would have gone along swimmingly.

At least with Ark Hyperion. No idea yet what's up with the others.

Yeah, Earth now, but what about the periods that predate technologically advanced life of any sort? 

Isn't Tann that...suspect salarian that has that crazy lisp? He sounds high AF when you lispen to him.

So the Ark left without a plan B should one of those events happen and sewer the entire initiative?

This is really a scenario where having a "Plan B" is quite difficult. I mean, they're in spaceships with thousands of people in cryosleep, 2.something million light years from home. They signed on knowing it was possibly a suicide mission. The initiative was basically "this is how it's going to go." Maybe if every member of leadership wasn't MIA or dead (including the founder!), things would have panned out differently; but the narrative, as well as characters like Tann, paint a very clear picture of a people heaping all their problems onto the shoulders of the Pathfinders because there is really no other option.

Well, the probability that multiple planets would have catastrophic events within 600 years was probably considered low. And it's not like the mission was ever risk-free.

Oh my god, I didn't even think of that. Seriously

"We found habitable planets in this galaxy! Let's move in!"
"Are there aliens over there we should maybe worry about?"
"Don't be stupid. Why would there be aliens?"
"..."

I agree with OP. I just hear Dinesh from silicon valley, like he's not even trying to be different. We've encountered how many Salarians? This is the first Indian sounding Salarian we've heard. They could've put him in any other role. The same can be said for Natalie Dormer playing an Asari. I don't remember encountering Asari with English accents if my memory is correct.

Right, it only took humans like 30 to discover the rest of the galaxy once getting to Mars.

Or 150 game years from present day to Mass Effect, where you're travelling all across the galaxy at FTL speeds and covering light years of distance in like no time flat.