Look who's doing the handwaving now lol. 600 years of a bunch of different alien races working together and developing their tech but they aren't able to contact or travel to anyone quickly in another galaxy. Initiative was a secret project? What? There were 4 Arks with thousands of colonists on board and resources that were needed to build those things. Secret project yeah right dude, give me a break lol
@r_debene91guess you didnt pay attention to the part of the plot they became a last ditch effort to save the races from the reapers. It probably started as standard exploration but changed to survival. Changing the whole point of the mission and keeping it a secret, well, that's a secret mission... and look how much was done behind the scenes rather than up front, ton of classified stuff. Is it hard to believe all knowledge of the initiative was wiped from the banks?
Oh, and there was that whole crucible project that spanned a bunch of races and required tons of resources, and it was top secret. But hey, lol right?
@AeromusPrime22I guess you didn't pay attention to the part where the colonists most likely had friends that knew them or family they left behind in the Milky Way. Someone would've known something. Yeah dude it was super secret lol What a joke of an excuse.
You have your opinion and I have mine. IF this game even gets made the current state of the Milky Way needs to be addressed. If it's not then hey no big deal. I'll pocket my $60 and watch a play through on youtube. No skin of my back.
Even if "some" people knew what was going on, do you remember the condition of the main planets Milky Way?? Do you remember the destruction on EVERY main planet?? Even on the best Synthesis ending, you still had YEARS of reconstruction to even hope to be back to pre-Reaper level of life, AND you assume that those people even survived the war. You add in the knowledge that they are on a one way trip, no communication with them, and no response for likely 600 years and most people left behind would have moved on. IF the leaders were concerned about the Reapers following for some reason, then they would also have taken time to remove info from computer systems, and tried to hide info the the mission. So if this hiding did happen, then while some people may remember that people left, there may be no real info left for them to follow and in the havoc of post-war life, that lack would hinder or prevent any tries to contact Andromeda.
Honestly, if you are so stuck on the Milky Way, then I suggest you just play ME 1-3 and call it a day, because the whole point of the Andromeda arc of gameplay was to get away from the choices of the Milky Way Mass Effect series and have a blank slate. I really hope they don't do anything with the choice and leave the Milky Way in the Milky Way and continue to develop the Andromeda Galaxy like the developed the Milky Way in ME1-3.
So if Bioware shoehorns any of the choices into the game, or worse goes back to the Milky Way post-Reaper, then I will keep my $60 and not even bother to watch on YouTube...no skin off my back, either.
@r_debene91I guess you didnt get the point of my post that the secret part was the mission being changed. They all thought they were going for exploration, not survival of the races. But keep loling...
It doesnt need addressed because its out of the picture. Am i curious too? Yes. But its at best a minor plot point and not at all relevant to the continued development of andromeda. The new series is about the ryders and andromeda, the MW plays no role in this, but its apparent youre just too hung up on the MW to let it go. I mean, not being able to let go of a game lol worthy.
@AeromusPrime22 Sorry, but the Initiative was not a secret project and was known enough that Jian Garson had people protesting outside her office to be allowed a spot on the Arks. It was not founded to send the Milky Way races to Andromeda to escape the Reapers. That was the person, or persons, known as the "Benefactor" reason. Jian Garson started the Initiative in 2176 to explore another galaxy but ran out of money to continue funding the effort before or around 2183, when ME took place; after the attack on the Citadel the "Benefactor" had approached Garson and offered her massive amounts of funding to continue the project. From what we can see in game as well as from the comic "Mass Effect: Discovery" and the novel "Mass Effect: Uprising", Jian didn't really believe in the Reapers. We also learn in game that the Initiative left earlier than was initially planned, and it's been hinted at multiple times that it was the "Benefactor" who pushed for leaving earlier.
I will say this, while I don't think the entire Initiative needed to be informed that the Reapers were real and had attacked a year after they left, at least not in the game, I'd at least expected after the Archon's defeat, we'd be able to have a meeting where we informed the other Pathfinders, Tann, Addison, Kesh and Kandros. Which I fully expect Tann to say "Let's not tell anyone." And everyone else pretty much agrees to keep it quiet until later on after they've settled and are gathering enough resources to keep things running.
As for why the Milky Way hasn't responded, the obvious reason is because EA/Bioware doesn't want to canonize any of the endings, for obvious reasons. In game though, there could be various reasons why even if the Citadel races survived the Reaper's genocidal onslaught they haven't answered. And one of those is, they simply forgot about them. 600 years is a long time for all the races except the Asari and Krogans. It's possible that the Citadel races, if they survived, completely forgot about them, or they entire Initiative was relegated as a myth, and thus their signal is being ignored as a "joke" or "prank".
Another possibility is that many of the races, humans included, were so badly damaged by the war with the Reapers that they lost the knowledge of a lot of their advanced technologies and reverted back to more primitive technology.
There's a myriad of good reasons why, if the Citadel races survived, they would or could not answer the beacons.
