In my perception, through what we grasp from the game, Pathfinder is more like a political status than anything really specific. It's been defined that a Pathfinder had power, the say-so as they would mean here and there, and that his/her judgement upon landing and living were to be trusted.
In short, Pathfinder is power to decide, not honed skills, although you must prove yourself not being lower than the average explorer.
Agree to with the others, and I'll add:
I feel like Pathfinder is also a mark of experience. A leader. Someone who has done a lot, made tough choices, and has been against the wall while others depended on them. Understanding that would make you really not be all that impressed with Scott/Sara.
Ryder's dad was an N7. Had lots of influence. Knew how to create an AI (despite that being his drumming out of N7). He also had a lot of political ties in the Milky way. Hell, him and Shepard probably had drinks together at some point.
So in my opinion, I don't think there was any official Training. It was more about who the person was that was selected. Cora, being next in line, has years of combat training and expirence as a leader under Ryder's dad. (hehehe) Young Ryder was thrown into the mix out of desperation and has to rise to the challenge. I feel like comparing young Ryder to Shepard can't be done... as Shepard was N7 from the start... and became Specter with everyone full trust.
The real question... What does being an N7 mean?
hmmm.... I need to play ME1-3 now/again. 😃
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Nevertheless, it seems to stretch things a bit that 'because daddy said so' is enough reason to get the entire Andromeda initiative leadership to risk their few resources on someone with basically no field experience.
Apparently, it was on the whim of necessity, the fact that he was close to his son. Would SAM be able to be transferred suddenly to Cora even when she was not there? Was there more to it than just a whim of fatherly love?
If we're talking about why he transfers Pathfinder to you, yes and no on the fatherly love thing being why. I think the reason why had to do with his memories. Not sure why going to certain spots he's never been (and likely had no idea about) would unlock them but there it is.
Why people would trust you anyway... well perhaps they're actually trusting your AI? Makes you wonder if another race's Pathfinder had shown up, would they reacted similarly or did they know your father's AI was the most advanced of all the SAMs.
Like I said, a lot of this doesn't make sense to me. If their dialogue was along the lines of questioning my experience and only that, I would have had no issue, but they reference me lacking Pathfinder training more than anything.
Also keep in mind, there had to be other N7 level people who came on this journey. The Benefactor would have made sure of that possibly handpicking hundreds of people over the course of years.
But everyone seems desperate for a Pathfinder like they would know what to do. Seems odd so I was hoping someone could make sense of it.
