Who did you choose to temporarily rule andromeda?

I just wanted that inbred monarchy Addison mentioned

If you come into a new place populated by a native group, putting your own ruler over them isn't a sign of cooperation especially so soon after arriving. Because of that I felt that putting the Moshae in charge is the most logical option.

The Reapers.

Ryder picks up phone calls Harborger. Look machine forget what you are doing in the Milky Way it is way more screwed up over here in Andromeda. Please come here and do the Galaxy a favor.

Stannis

I chose the Moshae simply because she is the most developed character. By comparison I hardly know Mordant or Raeka. I didn't even remember who the 4th guy was other than him being the mayor.

Morda. As things are, it'd still be pretty easy for the Initiative to back out of working alongside Krogan, especially with Tann's bias towards them. I wanted to ensure that a long time alliance persists.
My second choice was the Moshae, but I'm saving my second play through until all the DLC is out.

And destroyed a valuable resource in the process (I guess it was Bradley on those shuttles in Liam's loyalty mission, right?)...I would have loved to SALVAGE that KETT-SHIP (S.A.M. can hack doors, too no need to mess the whole ship up even more than those crappy pirates that own it did )

I myself chose Morda, why? Because the A.I. screwed the Krogan over and they deserve to be shown some trust (not to mention that they need that trust to truly make a new start and work on overcoming their war like nature and return to what they were before the Salarians uplifted them to use as throw away warriors that they quickly discarded after the Rachnii wars! I mean we don't really know how they were treated, but my gut tells me that the Krogan after the war ASKED for worlds to settle (as a kind of reward!) and were told "Nah - we own those worlds and you thugs don't deserve them! Go back to Tuchanka and ask us again in a hundred years or so!" (sounds like what the Salarians, who - except for Mordin - kind of hate the Krogan (but still think about uplifting the Yagh...go figure...damned Salarians!), would do and what the Asari would support (after all they wouldn't want a similarly long-lived species in a position of power, they might challenge the Asari dominance (by also being able to play "the long game", unlike the Salarians (most short-lived species we know!)...and the Krogan are also good at war, unlike either the Asari or the Salarians! They make good spies and commandos, but they don't have the grunts to actually form an effective fighting force - that's why they needed the Krogan and later on the - easier to control (!) - Turians! Hell, very few of either species have the mindset that is required to fight a longer war!)

greetings LAX
ps: I think that humanity was only received as well as they were (and given a council seat) because we were already too big for the to simply keep as a lowly client species forever (look at the other species: The Quarians are outcasts and don't have any planets, the Hanar, the Drell, the Elcor etc. have few worlds between them and very small militaries, while humanity compared to the size of human space and the time spent in space has a huge armada (nothing like the other council species yet, but getting there, especially since we see more adept at thinking outside the box - carriers instead of more dreadnoughts to expand our fleet while still being within the Treaty of Farixen!)) and because they knew we weren't going to accept it for long (Shepard saving the council (or killing it off...which I never did, that choice is not "renegade", it's IMHO STUPID!) just sped that process up a lot!)

pps: We are also closer to the other council species than most others, we are bipedal, we breath oxygen (unlike say the Volus!), we can fight (unlike the Volus, the Hanar and even the Quarians, who are quite bad groundside soldiers because every suit-rupture can put a soldier out of commission and even kill them!)...so there's some kind of "racism" at work, too (the Asari probably find us visually pleasing, too we look like them the most after all and they probably like our art (poetry, music, plays, movies etc.))

Raeka, i have no time to entertain colonial rubes.

PS. true ME fans will get the reference

I'm surprised that no one mentions the two major problems with the Moshae.

1.) She's important to the angara. You can't just volunteer her and take her from her people like that.

2.) We have no idea if she's any good at the job.

Bradley, because he's the logical choice.

I've mixed thoughts on the choice. As it is, the choice is kinda forced in, but I do think it's a good one and that some of the options are good. The Moshae is an excellent option for the position, and Bradley is perfectly arguable.

What I don't think fits so much is Morda/the Salarian pathfinder.

Morda lacks charaterization. I suspect the Eladen arc was pretty heavily cut in the first place, as Morda seems to lack a fair deal of buildup or interaction. Bradley helps in a few missions, but Morda goes from being uniformly hostile to maybe not guilty to just being 'hmmph' if you do side with her. If it weren't for Drack vouching for her we wouldn't have a reason to have faith in her, and I'm honestly still not clear what about her is supposed to be 'good'- as a leader or for the initiative. The Elaaden arc- and a Krogan choice- would have made much more sense if it had played it straight as the Overlord villain, as then we could have had a clearly pro-Nexus Krogan who at least seemed reasonable until the sudden betrayal. As it is, besides the merits of pissing of Tann- and being a clear 'neutral' candidate between the Nexus and the Angaaran- there's not too much to say for Morda because there's not much to say about Morda. She calls herself Overlord and has silly slap-fights. Yay?

The Salarian Pathfinder, on the other hand... I think this was let down a bit by a lack of context as to why it would be good/desirable, both beforehand and after. As only Tann likes the Salarian, and it seems to suggest the worst aspects of Council space (racial maneuverings for institutional power), there's not much reason TO do it. Why does the Ambassador position help the Nexus leadership? What influence do they have? Why doesn't anyone else see how awesome the Salarian pathfinders are as individuals? It's all cost with not clear gain.


I think that, for simplicity's sake, narrowing the candidate list to just two- Moshae and Bradely- would have allowed a bit more coherent space. It definitely sets a tone for the Andromeda Initiative's attempt to set up the next galactic council. In Helius an Angaaran sector, and we just live in it, or are Milky Way Rules (and colonizers) going to define the political establishment going forward?