Quarian Ark and other Arks

Aren't you people tired from Reapers? Even a little bit? What's the need to drag them into Andromeda?

My money is on a new type of Kett enemy. Maybe a two second reference to Reapers.

I don't mind Reapers but given all this 'attempted' foresight into the Kett and exhalation and the Remnant, seems kind of stupid to throw it all away for "LET'S BRING BACK THE OLD ENEMY"

Seriously, Andromeda got enough of its own problems.

I really don't like that teaser in the epilogue. When Tann first mentioned the quarian ark packed with the other mw races I rolled my eyes, but I thought that since they didn't leave in time they were destroyed when the reapers arrived. That's the end of it. Sadly a (few) reaper flagship pursuing them would make sense. "Yo Larry, check this out. Let Harb have his fun on Earth we'll follow these guys!" But I hope this isn't the case and their ship just ran into a super scourge or the jardaan or the jardaan's enemy. Or maybe the eclor woke up early and killed the volus and the hanar and when Ryder arrives for their rescue they can only save the quarians and the drell.

Seriously, obvious fanservice is obvious. The whole AI was a stupid concept but the acceptable kind. The big 4 (+krogan) made some sense. They should have added the quarians as part of initial wave with a few exploration vessels and the drell (3-5+ thousand strong) could have hitched a ride with one of the arks or the nexus itself. They are the important species anyway, who needs the rest? I won't be surprised if it's revealed that there are vorcha stowaways in the storage hold too...

I think it could be possible that they will do a one-shot DLC where some Reaper ground units maybe made their way onto the Quarian Ark as they were making their late launch (which would put them right at the start of the Reaper invasion if their delay was any more than 6 months). Maybe they have the stow-aways quarantined somewhere on a lower deck, you go in to deal with them, and that is that. This way the reapers still aren't really a part of Andromeda, but they can still be referenced and perhaps bring up some interesting speculation on the part of the Initiative about what happened to the Milky Way.

It's probably got something to do with the Geth. The space magic FTL telescope the Initiative used to examine Andromeda was built by them. Why would the Geth go to the trouble of hauling mass relays around to build this telescope, and not then go there themselves? The writers appear keen to introduce all the major Milky Way species into Andromeda and I don't see why they would be excluded. 

It makes logical sense the Reapers found out about the Initiative and sent a few ships to do clean up work, but I'm pretty sure the devs have made it clear the Reaper story is over. One would think previous cycles have tried to escape to Andromeda before and that the Reapers would be prepared for this contingency. Logic isn't MEA's strong suit anyway.

Ships can't be tracked in FTL and can't be attacked in FTL last time I checked the lore. The Reapers could be there waiting, but they couldn't intercept mid flight.

I was under the impression that the Arks left during the events of ME2.

I'm assuming the threat to the Quarian ark is either a Kett trap, some kind of incident with the Jardaan, or an encounter with a new threat (new species?).

I'll be very surprised if the Quarian ark sub-plot isn't the first DLC. I'll be just as surprised if it doesn't come with a Quarian squadmate, that would be a missed opportunity.

Hope not...I think there are far more interesting enemies that we could face.

- the Kett empire (not just the nutty archon and his personal minions, but the whole damned empire)
- whoever created the scourge
- the Jaardan
- some other twiested race the Jaardan created
- other?

Also - just a side note - I have a feeling that the gal we meet in the epilouge on Meridian (the one with Vas in her name, who suggests she was raised by quarians) will be a new squad mate in the next game.

What Quarian Ark?

If the writers want Quarians in Andromeda, they should be on the Nexus like the Krogans.

The Quarians are only 17million People, to billions of the council races.

The Quarians are poor: They don´t have enough Money to build an ark.

The Quarians start a war with the Geth. If they had an Ark, the Admirals would take it for war, if not active, then as a safe place for quarian children.

If the Quarians survive Geth and Reaper war, don´t you think the quarians will recolonize their Homeworld than go on a trip to Andromeda?

There are many Argument´s against a Quarian Ark, but logic was never a obstacle for the writers.

Didn't have time to make them on release.

A few thousands are easy to spare.

Game doesn't say that quarians funded it.

Again, quarian Admirals have no word on this, that's Initiative's Ark.

Other species don't even have such problems with colonization and yet here they are.

There is single (in-game, I mean) argument for all species to be there - preservation. Whoever Benefactor is, they still cared about multitude of MW species, even those who were thrown out from Citadel. Except batarians, nobody likes batarians.

The war between the Quarians and the Geth wasn´t a Little advendure like Vietnam, or the gulf wars. It was a full scale war like world war 2! If the quarian Admirals say that the Ark is confiscated for war than it is.

The only Thing I can imagine is, that the ark is build in Hanar or Elcor space and the quarian high command haven´t Access to it, but there would be still the Problem, how many quarians would be left as Crew after high command call for war? Other question is, does the quarian Ark made it before the Reaper Invasion?