Wonder if we'll see a Bailey.

I could see a *wink wink nudge nudge* moment like that happening in Andromeda. A character will introduce him or herself as Mary/Fred VERNER and we'll be like 'eh mer gerd'.

Not sure if it will be specifically Bailey though.

Its possible, but I doubt it.

I doubt his family would volunteer to go to Andromeda without knowing what happened to their father and former husband

She can be killed in ME1

Well it depends. Like I said, Bailey makes a comment (likely referring to himself) about doing a bang up job at being a dad. Not to mention, in the ME comic "Inquisition" Bailey tells Udina he's going to Earth for vacation to see his kids. However Udina gives Bailey a job to arrest Palin, who gets shot, and promoted to Commander and not going on vacation. Point being, it's likely his family gave up on him, and by the sound of it, his son's likely distant too. Add comm buoys going down, they likely writ Bailey off and went to start anew. 

THIS ISN'T THE PRESIDIUM *slams palm on desk*

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Yeah... I was going to put that in myself.... but my keyboard was running out of letters...

That depends on WHEN we leave to Andromeda.
If we leave before the events of ME3 start, Bailey cannot be there because he is present in the Citadel in ME3, altough other characters from ME1 and ME2 such as Maeko Matsuo, Lorik Quiin, etc. can appear.
If we leave before the ME3 ending, Bailey can be there (because since we start Cronos Assault, we don't know anything about him) and other characters such as Barla Von etc. can be there too.

That's why it would be sooo nice if devs tell us WHEN the story starts... 

Also, if we leave BEFORE ME1, no characters we know can be present.
If we leave in the lapse of time between ME1-ME2, only characters from ME1 which don't reappear later in the next games can be present.
If we leave in the lapse of time between ME2-ME3, it's the same as above. 

Yeeah, i had a feeling that one or more on the list would die sometime before the departure of the Arks, hence the "relative of" loop hole. Because i'd be surprised, if Parasini had a sister, she wasn't as awesome as Gianni herself.

He mentioned not having heard from them since the Reapers destroyed the interstellar comm buoys, which implicitly means he was in contact with them shortly before the destruction of said comm buoys occurred. In other words, they were still on Earth by the time the Reapers invaded.

And do you honestly think his family would go on a one-way trip to Andromeda without telling him first? Estranged or not, that's literally the biggest dick move anyone could pull against a father.

They confirmed it by showing us the fully built Arks being boarded in orbit around a decidedly non-invaded and non-burning Earth. As you may recall, Earth is invaded and set on fire in the first five minutes of ME3, and remains invaded and on fire for the remainder of the game. That implicitly means the Arks embark pre-ME3.

As for setting the game AFTER Mass Effect: The Turd?

As much as I would want them to set the game after ME3, there's no way to avoid the game's galaxy-impacting choices in such a scenario, least of all Synthesis.
Who the hell knows. She sure as fuck wasn't talking about the Arks, though. We already know they don't leave during the Reaper War, leaving only the time period AFTER the war... which would be pointless, as there's no need to flee the galaxy if the Reapers have been defeated.

Yeah, I think the integrity of my argument can stand up pretty well to baseless fan speculation. The cost of one Crucible collapsed the galactic economy - there's just no way they were able to build multiple, even larger devices.

If you want to say it wasn't Earth to support that its possible for Bailey's family members to be on the ships to go to Andromeda, that's fine. I will stick with that its Earth and the ships leave before the events of ME3

What hostility?

They've already confirmed it in the E3 trailer by showing the Arks in orbit around a non-invaded, not-burning Earth. As it is under invasion and on fire for the entirety of ME3, and they've strongly implied the exodus takes place before the big ME3 choices, that leaves pre-ME3 as the only possible setting for that trailer scene.


That's for BioWare to answer. I personally doubt they ran the numbers when they picked this logical clusterfuck of a premise.