What Did You Do Today in Andromeda

Yeah the A.I. AI thing is a headache and also an, is that an intended thing!!!! But probably not as isn't Andromeda just the closest galaxy?

I saw the Geth back door helping with SAM's/AI development as a way of them surreptitiously demonstrating "hey look organics and AI can work together and all be friends and enhance each other" by stealth, just not sure of the motive.    It's almost a shout back to the Geth uploading themselves into Quarian suits if you get them to stop shooting at each other in ME3.

I think its The Periphona. 

The ern your badge mission can be a pain especially with Cora with you as she freezes the damn remnant and they fall to the ground and can be hard to see/find to kill them. Sometimes the remnant get stuck too behind those ice stalagmites. Can't remember Jaal's long winded answer for what they are called but something like ice fingers pointing at the stars.  

You have played before yeah AnDromedary? I'll spoiler just in case:

Yeah there are few really stupid quests, hey I am a really senior member of The Initiative and I know lets get there and see that the golden worlds are all F#$ked but hey I am going to steal tech and go off and have a baby in a hostile galaxy with no support!!!!! FFS  Then not to mention the Contagion mission, hey I know I am going to smuggle my highly contagious aunty Ruth on the trip, said no one ever!!!!!  And then hey my names Knight and I hate A.I. so I am going to join The Andromeda Initiative which is going to use A.I. to help explore but then get there and decide no I am going to destroy all the A.I. even the ones that keep humans who travelled there alive.   

Funny thing is I agree with Knight, I was irritated your options in that direction were limited. You have some initial what the fuck is in my head lines, then its mostly dropped. I actually kind of bought her reasons for going in that its not just they use AI, but they use AI that use a similar system on what her kid was tortured through. Don't necessarily think its the best plan, like maybe focus on helping your kid. Still its not an unusual psychological motive to become super focus on stopping the things that wronged you.

I can see that, but they multiple times emphasize how stupid fast scanning is especially with SAM on board. Something something neuro blah blah(though without sub titles i always think she is saying noodle equations)

I disagree, re her son Alain, he was a guinea pig essentially tortured by Cerberus by trying to network a human with the Geth both under duress (the geth and David Archer).

SAM was specifically designed to interface and communicate with a biological, not just hey lets just plug this savant into a networked platform of individual codes operating as an AI and see if they can communicate. 

Yeah those Geth were as much victims/prisoners as David Archer but they obviously didn't endure the emotional and physical torment and pain that David suffered.

Alright, finally went to the Leusinia last night. Cool mission overall. I like the atmosphere on board the ship. I remembered that the first time around, I had some trouble keeping up with who is who during that missions though and now, replaying it, I see again why. They all look very similar and there are a lot of rather cryptic emails and audio logs to go through. Especially the revealing moment of what exactly happened with the matriarch is a fairly confusing audio log. I mean, I got it this time around because I already had some vague idea of what the plot would be but it's not presented very well. It would have been better if the final log would have had visuals and if the characters had more distinct appearances and voices.

But that aside, I think the final decision is actually a fairly tough one (not for my Ryder this time, he chose Sarissa right away, but rather for a more balanced Ryder that I'd usually play). I mean, Sarissa may very well have done the right thing here. Keeping the data was probably not a bad call in that situation and not telling anyone what happened, well, again, given the very precarious situation the Ark is in, I also get that she wouldn't want to erode confidence in her. Since her second in command seems to be a real rookie (though showing some potential) it may really be best to keep her and honestly, I think Cora is a little harsh on herself for freaking out so much about the whole deal.

On the other hand, now that the immediate crisis is over, there is a good argument to be made that the truth about the circumstances of the matriarch's death should be laid open. Not to get rid of Sarissa but just because it's the honest thing to do and it should be done now. (My first Ryder decided that way.)

So over all, good plot line there. It's just, the biotic shield Cora and Sarissa but up at the end to deflect the Kett missiles seems a little over the top. I'm a bit afraid biotics in the ME franchise will become like the super heroes in Marvel movies, where you make them ever stronger until it's really hard to write a decent plot that involves them but doesn't make everyone else completely irrelevant because it becomes this battle of (biotic) gods scenario. So I think they need to tone it down on that one.

Otherwise, I lied to the angaaren astronomer on Aya about what happened to his satellites. Accepting his apology actually gave me a little knot in the gut (not my Ryder though). That was just a very indecent thing to do. That said, I kinda like that there are "evil" choices that actually give you a purely positive result, you don't see that often in RPGs (which is ok but every now and then it's refreshing).