If you think the Andromeda Initiative made no sense, it does

I don't agree with staying in the Milky Way either.

I did recover all of Alec's memories, but I've only gone through two of them. Should check out the rest since I finished the game.

Edit: After going through them, there is a perfectly valid reason for why they did what they did.

That was a theory (probably a leak) before launch.

Unarmed?

Have you been playing Hello Kitty again?

Personally I made that first outpost scientific, and woke up special forces personnel with my first Andromeda Viability Point. I had scientists in the outpost and SpecOps hunting down shit in the general vicinity before it could threaten the outpost.

I think there is a premise that we do send off exploration vehicles unarmed - Apollo 11 was unarmed, as were the subsequent ones.  The Mars probes were not armed; and I've not heard anything about SpaceX planning to heavily arm their venture.

Premise makes sense. Colonists... let's say I'm on acceptance phase already.

The entire setup of this game makes no sense, even if you ignore why they went there in the first place.

- No pathfinders on the Nexus. Every ship that could reach Andromeda should have had pathfinders on it in case it was the only ship that made it.
- Arks made up of entirely one race. Every ark should have been a mix of all races in case, once again, it was the only ship to reach Andromeda.

The Pathfinders were supposed to be the ones testing the viability of planets, making first contact, etc. However, once you get there all of this has been done. Angarans are living peacefully with other races, people are living off the Nexus on multiple worlds.

Had there been no scourge or Kett, all of these planets would have been settled by the time the Pathfinders teams got there. It just didn't make sense to me.

Yeah, you can never put scientists and soldiers in settlements at the same time.
Seriously, though, have a settlement exclusively for one or the other?



Meaningful choices...

If you escaped the reapers you wouldn't be inclined to send a message back or visit for the holidays though would you? So we might as well say that it might of happened but if it did it's irrelevant by now anyway.

I'm sorry, but activating an ancient piece of tech in space that propels you thousands of light years away and provoking an alien species without knowing in the process, starting a war, having one of your colonies invaded by those same aliens isn't evidence enough to convince you that we need weapons in another freakin' galaxy?

We find aliens in the first corner we come across, but 100.000 colonists didn't think they would find aliens in another galaxy... seems legit.

I'm sorry, my friend, but comparing sending a few people today to explore the moon, or probes to another planet without arming them, against 100.000 colonists whose survival is paramount for the continuing existence of their species (since the Andromeda Initiative was accelerated to accomodate the revelation of Castis, as you said) is beyond moronic.

Do we still need to discuss this? You played the game, I assume, and you saw the shit they went through, no ark made to the Nexus by the time you arrived there (wonder why).

Here, we are talking about a few science teams, you send 10 people to a place and they get attacked, it won't threaten the survival of your species as a whole, nor they are there to start a new life.
You don't defend 100.000 people on a 2.5 million light years journey with no return, consider them extinct, even worse if you know what might've happened to those who stayed behind.

Yeah, up until humanity, those species didn't even know Reapers existed until they came out of the Citadel killing galactic leadership immediately and deactivating the relay network, at least, as we're led to believe. (Funny how they didn't do it in our cycle, though, attack the Citadel first).