The Official Mass Effect Andromeda Thread! WE'VE GOT GAMEPLAY!!!

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The Fury said:

JEMC said:

Or, in a more conventional an easier to explain story, after the Reapers appear in the Milky Way and the different civilizations face the first defeats, a series of Ark ships are build and filled with members of the different races in our galaxy and then send them to Andromeda in hopes of at least some of them escaping the sad fate of the rest.

Even the Reaper's didn't seem to have the technology to journey the 2.5million light years required, they hibernated outside the Milky Way until it was time to 'harvest' again (every 50,000 years). The Protheon's were far more advance than any race in ME and they didn't do that either.

Of course, this is the most likely outcome. Sadly.

The Reapers had no interest in other galaxies, their mandate was to keep the Milky Way "stable". Protheans were arrogant enough to think they could actually beat the Reapers, they weren't interested in running away. And then they found out they couldn't beat the Reapers, and they came up with a different running away idea, i.e. hibernating in secret; which didn't work

I don't think the "because no one did it before the technology doesn't exist" is a good argument. When you have a lore that includes FTL travel you pretty much have carte blanche for being able to travel at least to other galaxies in the local cluster. 

I don't think there should be a series of Ark ships. There should be one ship that was experimentally designed as an intergalactic voyager, as a joint venture undertaken by all council races, that was going to travel unmanned. But with the Reapers showing up they decided that a manned mission was worth the risk.