Bioware story hole how that Massive Nexus station reach Andromeda? (not spoiler)

In the Nexus Uprising book, I think the engines are mentioned as being destroyed or rendered non-functional on collision with the Scourge.

They wouldn't have needed all that, if you ask me... the only reason this whole, implausible setup was done like that is, that MEA is basically a soft reboot because they wrote the OT into a dead end. Take as much as you can of what worked in the original, and transport it into a new place/time/story line = Cheapest reboot formula ever. Funny thing is, even after game one of this new series - if it will become one, which I doubt - they already have started writing them self into similar corner yet again.

If they really wanted to tell a deep space explorers story, they would have taken a hand full of multi racial ships and just sent them off into an actual NEW galaxy, not one already populated by everything the MW had to offer... or slight variations thereof.

Yeah, the Nexus parts makes no sense. It also strips the concept of you being a "pioneer" from the game. Everywhere the game was sold with lines such as "You are the pathfinder! You are the first in Andromeda, a pioneer!"

Then when you get there, you find multiple (failed, but whatever) attempts to stablish, Milky Way tech and debris scattered all over space and planets. I even think Ryder doesn't take part in any actual First Contact.

Do you maybe have saved in bookmark/favorites any of these threads?

The more I play the game, the more I realize logic has no place in Andromeda.

I mean, think about the Tempest and the Nomad. The first wasn't in the Human ark, it was in the Nexus (with the other three, seemingly in the same place so all but one were lost when it hit the scourge. And the Nomad wasn't aboard the Tempest. So a ground vehicle is not part of the Tempest primary cargo.

Not to mention how many people didn't realize this was a one way trip, that 600 years is a long time, or that things might not go well. Or that only 1% of the Milk Way was explored.

Urgh, better not to think about it.

Sorry I didn't reply sooner. Here are a few threads I can remember:

bsn.boards.net/thread/5923/post-me-science-sins
bsn.boards.net/thread/5224/sam-matter-entails
bsn.boards.net/thread/6958/retcons-contradictions-noticed

The whole Andromeda Initiative is a massive plot hole that can't be explained adequately through previous lore, so there's no reason to just pick on this one point.

Logic really has no place in any Bioware game, to be fair.

That really doesn't help...

Better question is why were there no Pathfinders on the Nexus.  Why have race specific arks.  Wouldn't it be more logical to have every vessel have a mix of cryo pods and pathfinders, just in case it was the only one to reach Andromeda.

True.

And that means the entire foundation of ME2 and ME3 are also based on nonsensical concepts.

Even the whole race to the conduit in ME1 is illogical given Saren could have just walked straight on to the citadel.

My point is MEA is still a good and fun game just as all the above are fun games (even ME2 which I'm usually vocal about disliking) despite being based on an extremely shaky foundation.

Yes its a contrived reboot to get around the conclusion of the OT, but somehow the game is still as solid, plausible and acceptable as any of the original trilogy.

Between ME2 and ME3, which is when the Arks leave, there was no Reaper threat. No one believed Shepard that it was, in fact, a thing.

And you should try watching the Andromeda Initiative videos at the AI website.