Post by Axalon on Jun 16, 2016 23:20:04 GMT -5
I'd imagine the initial "wave" that the game places us in can't be that large given that the thing is small enough to land on planets. So anything roughly the size of the SR-2 Normandy or larger is out. Maybe a few hundred or so per ship at *best* if they packed in the cryo pods really tightly while allowing room for supplies and such. That or the other Ark ships are simply far larger vessels than the one the player flies around in, with more dedicated space for personal iceboxes.
Alternatively, the goal might be to set up just enough in Andromeda to pull a Prothean Empire and build a giant mass relay to get everyone else from the Milky Way to this place once preparations are complete.
Also found an older snippet that, while telling us directly nothing new, has this to say (minor spoiler warnings I suppose):
Mass Effect: Andromeda takes players to the Andromeda galaxy, far beyond the Milky Way, where players will lead the fight for a new home in history (I assume this is supposed to be hostile, not history) territory--where WE are the aliens--opposed by a deadly indigenous race bent on stopping us, […]
This deadly indigenous race has to be the most evil thing since the Reapers and the Catalyst. It's the only way to justify the actions of the player (key word there being "fight" and not "peacefully terraform and colonize") and the other races essentially invading and claiming planets to live on, the very thing the Krogans did way back when and got genophaged for their troubles (and the Rachni before them). They could also try and spin it that the Milky Way was just so damaged by the Reapers that this is a desperation move, but I think the former is far more likely due to instantly creating natural antagonists who, as far as I can see, would otherwise be fairly justified in saying "No, other galaxy from far away, you can't live here. We live here. We have our own problems. Go away." The latter isn't impossible, given that's it also speaks of making a new home for ALL OF HUMANITY, but strikes me as far too grey a move to be done nowadays. Certainly if the situations were reversed I don't see the Council races reacting too warmly to a galaxy's worth of refugees slowly creeping into their space.
Plus there's the Quarians, assuming they all didn't get killed. Are THEY going to be able to live in this galaxy, or are they going to be forever cursed to wear their iconic suits for eternity?
