"Each and every one of us has our own reasons for volunteering to go, and those too are legion. Some of us feel a sense of duty. Some of us do indeed fear what the future has in store for the Milky way. We flee our past, we seek a future. We wish to begin anew. We crave the unexplored wonders that no doubt will reshape all that we know. All equally valid, in my estimation- but that’s not important here. What is important as we depart, what I want to be sure you all know is as you prepare to cross this ocean of time and space, is this… none of those reasons matter anymore. Not for us. What matters now, for you and me, is what we do when we arrive. Who we become, and how we carry ourselves in Andromeda.”
Jien Garson, Andromeda Initiative Founder and Benefactor, to the assembled crew of the Nexus the eve of departure of the Milky Way galaxy for Andromeda.
Jien Garson, Andromeda Initiative Founder and Benefactor, to the assembled crew of the Nexus the eve of departure of the Milky Way galaxy for Andromeda.
The year is 2819CE, 634 years after the Andromeda Initiative departed the Milky Way galaxy to be pioneers in a new age of space exploration. Years of preparation and dreaming had led the colonists of the Milky Way on the landmark voyage, making history in such a way that perhaps even the Protheans never accomplished; the Andromeda Initiative took the brave first leap as extra-galactic colonists, leaving behind everything they had ever known and loved to forge a new identity across the stars. Whatever the motivations, each colonist shared the dream of starting new and leaving behind all of the millennia of prejudice and animosity that had come to define galactic civilization. It was to be a clean slate, a new beginning to build a world of their own design.
That world and dream were shattered as soon as the Nexus arrived in the Heleus Cluster when the Nexus encountered the Scourge, the mysterious and unspeakably dangerous energy field that snaked across the entire cluster, rendering all of the impossibly perfect garden worlds that had been discovered prior to the voyage inhospitable, making the plight of the colonists a life or death situation. A significant portion of the Nexus population staged an uprising to remove the Nexus leadership when they had been ordered to go back into cryo sleep due to rationing, the orders coming from people nobody knew after the top leadership of the Nexus had been killed by the Scourge including founder Jien Garson, the single uniting figure of the Initiative. The uprising to force a change in leadership was brutally rushed when Jarun Tann, the new director of the Initiative according to the line of succession, had set the krogan population to end the uprising by force. The remaining mutineers were subsequently exiled, and when the krogan realized they had been lied to about gaining a council seat in exchange for their help in putting down the uprising chose to strike out from the Initative themselves to forge their own destiny, feeling that the dreams of equality between species and starting with clean slates died with Jien Garson. The Initiative was dangerously close to failure.
When the decision was made to attempt colonization on Eos, the radiation scorched wasteland, it truly was a last ditch effort to try and establish a new home in the face of insurmountable odds. Perhaps there would have been some measure of success, but it was at this time that first contact was made, and it was of the most feared scenarios; these aliens were the Kett, and they were hostile. Suffering attacks and raids by the Kett and missing the krogan warriors to secure the Nexus and the fledging settlements on Eos, the decision was made to wake the security forces that would form the Nexus militia. And so, the first of the APEX strike teams were assembled and begun preparations for war with the Kett as well as hostile Angaran factions and the Exiles if need be. Andromeda would never be home if they didn’t take the deeply unpleasant steps to defend it.
However, hope resides; Ark Hyperion with the human Pathfinder Sara Ryder had made contact with the Nexus and with her the discovery that whatever the ancient alien technology is that’s scattered across the Heleus Cluster can terraform worlds. Shortly after departing for Eos to try and salvage the colony prospects of the best shot for the Initiative to have a home, Ryder did the impossible and activated the Remnant Vault and the lethal radiation levels of Eos began to rapidly dissipate, and with it gave the Initiative its first hope in 14 months; the outpost of Padromos was established as a militia-oriented settlement with a small science contingent. It is here that a newly awoken APEX team is being formed for training for the fight ahead to make sure that Andromeda becomes the home they all dreamt of six centuries ago…
Welcome to Mass Effect Andromeda: Frontier, a roleplay run by DearTrickster, Mortarion, and myself. Something of a spiritual successor to Mass Effect: Borealis, there may be a few returning characters and players, but fret not newcomers; prior knowledge or experience is not required or expected to participate, nor will it put you at a disadvantage past not having years of knowing some charming people.
The premise of this roleplay is simple; your character will be one of the APEX strike team operatives who have been awoken from cryo sleep after the Nexus Uprising and around the time Ark Hyperion reunited with the Nexus. Your character will begin duties as a part of a newly formed team of 10 operatives to begin their training on Eos, which in this continuity has established Padromos as a militia outpost rather than a scientific one. From there, the team will take part in events that run parallel to Ryder’s exploits, facing danger from all corners of the Heleus Cluster and working to establish working relationships with the angaran populace.
Experience with Andromeda and the Mass Effect series in general is highly recommended and the time frame this RP starts is shortly after Nexus first contact with the angara and after Eos is rendered habitable thanks to Ryder reactivating the vault. Typical advanced posting standards apply and regular participation in the OOC is expected as well as expecting a post once every couple of weeks or more.
With that said and done, welcome to the Initiative; it's time to fight for our new home.
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