Ruthless Conqueror or Peaceful Explorer?

And where's my "I'm not dealing with this shit" option? No? *cough* Nevermind.

Most likely try all 3, then choose which one is my fave.

I'm essentially going to replay my canon femShep in ME:A. She's a good renegade, basically a braver badass version of myself. So pragmatic colonist would fit that.

After that I'll explore the extremes, being nice to a fault then being more ruthless and hard nosed.

I'm mostly play a pragmatic PC, especially on the first playthrough. I think Andromeda needs to meet an easy going pathfinder so there's no worries about being kicked out the airlock. Unless of course, they've earned it. Then, well part'nar, nice meeting ya but it's time to part ways. *shwoosh*

Pragmatist colonist, though if game is good enough I'll probably do all of them.

I wouldn't take any cues from her, she's more of an;

Somewhat-Ineffectual Conqueror

"I've totally screwed up their entire world, now I'm bored, so I'm leaving to invade my old one."
-- Daenerys Targaryen GOT Season 6.

Not really. Shes placed a new system of government in the cities. Cowed her enemies. And left her general to oversee it.

She actually made a point of not leaving until it was stable. She's making an empire, not just the 7 kingdoms.

Actually, she failed to implement a stable government in the cities she conquered, had two of those "liberated" cities fall back into slaver control within minutes of her departure. She caused Meereen itself to implode as her poor mismanagement and failure to understand the importance of local customs and how vital the fighting pits were to the local economy, leading to civil unrest and an attempted uprising by the Harpies.

Then after the city had been attacked by her enemies who were narrowly thwarted, she decided to leave an untrustworthy sellsword (who she just broke up with) to govern it a city that was still battle-damaged, half razed to the ground and without any direction to fixing any of the social, economic and political problems that she had caused. After all, what's to stop the rest of the slavers from coming back and taking it, now she's not there with her Unsullied, Dragons or Dothraki anymore?

Instead it seems she got bored and now plans to invade another country with a giant war fleet, despite having failed her stated goal to learn how to become a good Queen. If she failed to rule a single city effectively without it turning into complete anarchy, she must be delusional to think she can somehow manage 7 whole Kingdoms that span an entire continent.

(It's all very good giving stirring speeches and saying you're going to "Break the wheel", but unless you actually plan to replace the wheel with something better, the whole wagon is going to topple over.)

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All the above should at least be things to consider if we're planning the conqueror route in Andromeda, as giant red flags on what not to do.

I´ll play it like I would if it was really me making the decisions given the available info and choices. So I guess that would be a peaceful base alignment with the pragmatism needed to achieve whatever outcome I deem to be the most appealing one in any given situation.

That was one of the great strengths of the ME trilogy for me - there are no higher stakes, so how far are you willing to go ? I don´t have a universal answer to that question, finding out is hopefully going to be a big part of the storyline experience.      

On first run I'll probably play the nicest person until the moment Remnant ruins will offer PC Absolute Power(tm), then it's all mine.

In MEA we are nothing but a group of alien invaders.

So we will have to be not just these three, and many more to survive.

Until those colonies rebel against the mother country.

Although in this case, there might not be a mother country.

None of this fun as a game actually.

Although conquering has the most potential.


Still like original ME deciding for me.. then it just centered on me defending.