Ambassador choice

I was torn between him and the salarian pathfinder and the mayor of Prodomos for similar reasons. Morda and the Moshae aren't really initiative (anymore). Ultimately I chose Bradley because the needs of the colonies (including the one on Eladaan, which is of course tied to the Krogan) should come first.

I might have been tempted to pick an Asari, but I couldn't think of which. Maybe the ambassedor on Aya.

However, I doubt the decision will go quite as deep as the decision as to whether or not you save the council in Mass Effect, probably something that can be fixed, even if it turns out to be less than ideal.

It's actually the Meridian ambassador to the Nexus that we're choosing.

I choose Moshae Sjefa. She has experience, and her appointment officially recognizes the fact that the angara have a legitimate voice and claim on Meridian. I think Raeka sounded like a good option, but she was dead in my PTs. Plus, she's too talented a field agent and scientist to be forced into a diplomatic role. The rest just didn't wow me with their background and credentials. Bradley could get it done, if there weren't better options. I prefer to leave the military man on Eos, where he'll do the most good.

Her problem is that she fears you're just a nicer looking version of the kett, settling planets the angara have a historical footholds on and eventually pushing them out of the galaxy that is their home or at least making them a subservient species.

I assume she's well-aware she's reliant on your good-will because let's be honest, the angara were what, 10, 15 years away from a total defeat by the kett? Evfra's new Resistance bought them a bit of time, but that was a losing battle. Sloane also helped the angara on Kadara with the kett first before she implemented her regime and threw the angara who couldn't pay protection fees out into the badlands. Pathfinder could be the same on a bigger scale.

Honestly, I yearned for renegade interrupts with the Moshae a few times, especially during the kett facility mission (something along the lines of "okay, if you don't like my way of doing things, let's see your guys do it on their own, that was working out great"). However, I do understand where she's coming from here.

Well, yeah, it seemed like choice for the sake of choice to me. Almost as awkward as picking new Council as Shepard in ME1.

I don't understand why the Moshae is upset. Personally, I think picking her is sublimely arrogant. She belongs to the angara, not to the Initiative. The angaran should be chosen by their people. They would know who is the best for a diplomatic role. Plus, I don't know if she'd be any good at politics. She's a leader, her people look to her, but that's just symbolism. She's a historian and scholar on the Jaardan, not a diplomat.

Raeka/Hayjer, honestly, have too important a job to do. There are still worlds to explore, we still need a suitable dextro world for the turians, and scouting to find more kett is important. I'm going to put them there, they'd got better stuff to do.

Morda is probably the worst choice I could conceive of. She has no loyalty to anyone who isn't krogan. The new galaxy has no time for her racism. Yeah, I said it. I wish we could do that to her.

Bradley is really the only choice. He's done a decent enough job as mayor, after all.

I love how tann flips out.

I'm a little disappointed that when I chose Morda (just to see how the conversation with her goes after hearing the news) that there is no dialogue at all and she just grunts angrily when you go to talk to her.

Given it's a temporary appointment, I went for the moshae as it seemed a diplomatic option which accounted for sensitivities of the angarans.

The Moshae makes the most sense to me - the angara are Heleus natives, asking the Moshae, one of their leaders (in practice, even if not necessarily by title), to represent Meridian, which is the heart of the Vault system in the cluster, meaning being potentially capable of manipulating livability on worlds throughout the cluster, is saying to the angara that the Andromeda Initiative is NOT going to be a bunch of "colonial wads" out to take over the cluster but intend to work with and alongside the angara. A show of good faith, something I think both sides need, given that the kett are still out there.

she is the 'ideal' choice.

It is a bit poorly framed and written. I don't believe everything in my post is explicitly stated in that conversation. I had to think it through, and put the pieces together. That's where the "more ambassadors to come" bit came into it.

Tann's words make the most sense, with Moshae Sjefa's being a bit backward. Tann and Addison seem to somewhat clearly indicate that this is the first step in forming a Council government. Meridian isn't a small outpost town, but a permanent home for 20K humans and others. Something like that, with all of the serious work that will take place there, requires more than local leadership. It requires an embassy to coordinate with the Nexus. Addison seemed to indicate that this was always the eventual plan. Everyone just assumed that outposts would become colonies, instead of finding a cozy little micro-world all at once. As Eos, Voeld, Kadara, New Tuchanka and other such places grow, they'll eventually require full embassies. I have a feeling that it will be accelerated, because Morda won't want her colony less well represented. We'll see.

The current ambassador is appointed on a temporary basis, since the Council itself doesn't even exist, yet. Meridian and its needs arrived as a sudden surprise to everyone. I assume Bradley splits time because BioWare didn't want to create his replacement on Eos and move August to Meridian. That's too much work; just like letting Aria go home after we freed Omega from Cerberus. 

(Self-repost from the similar thread.)

First and foremost - this choice had made no sense to me. At all.

I mean...an 'ambassador' or 'representative' should... guess what? Riiight! Represent.
1. Someone.
2. Somewhere.

Let's start with 1.
- Moshae. I'm not sure she can tell asari from humans, zero experience with MW species. Makes her kinda lame candidate to 'represent' them. Oh, and I wish her all the luck with 'representing' the Krogan or Kadara people. She's going to need it.
- Bradley. Nice guy, a decent man, is able to run his li'll outpost. Can hardly imagine him 'representing' anyone anywhere, though. Obviously, he can't represent the Angara people, as he's not one of them, very likely with little knowledge about them (if any at all).
- Salarian PF...uh..they were the latest ones to arrive, and I'm pretty sure that they should have their hands full. Zero info about their social skills. Not-Angara (same issues as with Bradley). They are going to need even more luck with 'representing' the Krogan (I want to see Morda's morda* face when she hears about the salarian 'representative'.
- Morda...uh..do we even want to consider this as an option? She could possibly represent Krogans on some level, sure. But that's it.

Now - about 2.
What the fuck is that? Anything AI-bound is...well, AI-bound, they've got their own chains of commands already. Rest of the Heleus, which are NOT AI have nothing to do with their 'Councils' or whatever they like to call it. So, let's imagine we pick this...whoever we consider the least awful for the job (see above- NEITHER qualifies). And this 'representative'..does what exactly? Passes Sloan\Reyes a taxing bill from Tann? Do I need to draw a picture of where this 'bill' is going to be placed permanently?...

The 'council' idea is kinda reasonable, but it should include ALL of the mentioned above + some asari matriarch + some experienced turian. Preferably the candidates should be chosen by their own people, and I don't see where this space-magical 'ambassador' fits in any way.

I've picked Bradley just because I was not given an option of telling them all to go sober up.

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*morda - in Russian - 'an ugly face'.