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Andromeda

40 entries tagged Andromeda, 40 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Heleus Cluster: The Initiative's New Frontier and Nexus: Heart of the Andromeda Initiative.

Alec Ryder: the first human Pathfinder in Mass Effect: AndromedaAlec Ryder was an N7 veteran, AI researcher and the human Pathfinder of the Andromeda Initiative. He built SAM, brought his twins to Andromeda, and died on Habitat 7 in 2819, passing the role to one of them.
Andromeda Initiative: the one-way voyage to the Heleus ClusterThe Andromeda Initiative was a privately funded, multi-species project to settle the Andromeda galaxy. Founded by Jien Garson in 2176, it sent the Nexus and its arks across dark space in 2185, and they reached the Heleus Cluster more than six centuries later to find almost nothing as promised.
Mass Effect: Andromeda Story ExplainedThe plot of Mass Effect: Andromeda in order, from the Hyperion's arrival in the Heleus Cluster to the battle for Meridian. Who the kett are, what the Remnant vaults do, and what the ending leaves open.
Nakmor Kesh: the krogan engineer who keeps the Nexus runningNakmor Kesh was Superintendent of the Nexus, one of the engineers who built it, and the krogan voice left on the station after her clan walked out. She calls herself fixer-in-chief and calls Director Tann "Number Eight".
Architect: Colossal Remnant Sentinel of HeleusArchitects were colossal Remnant machines that haunted the golden worlds of the Heleus Cluster, bursting from the ground to hover on element zero cores and raining destruction on anything beneath them. Pathfinder Ryder of the Andromeda Initiative first encountered them in 2819 and learned that, while they could not be destroyed, they could be grounded and reprogrammed.
Crew Info Board: the Tempest's message wallMounted in the crew quarters of the Tempest, the Crew Info Board carried the daily traffic of the Pathfinder team. Its threads ran from fire drill reports and dinner rotations to lost property notices, angaran vocabulary lessons, and one carefully chilled toast to the victory at Meridian.
Anax Therion: Drell Analyst of the Keelah Si'yahAnax Therion was a drell analyst and former data dealer who travelled to Andromeda aboard the ark Keelah Si'yah. Clinical, guarded, and quietly lethal, she had spent her life trading in secrets, and when a plague began killing the ark's sleepers she turned her investigator's mind to uncovering the cause.
AngaraThe angara were the only known living sapient race native to the Heleus Cluster of the Andromeda galaxy. After a catastrophe called the Scourge shattered their ancient civilization, they rebuilt only to face the invading kett, against whom they waged a decades-long resistance.
August BradleyAugust Bradley was a former Alliance officer who led the third wave of settlers in the Andromeda Initiative and became the first mayor of Prodromos, the first successful Initiative outpost in the Heleus Cluster, founded on the world of Eos.
Borbala FerankBorbala Ferank was the retired matriarch of a powerful batarian crime family who joined the Andromeda Initiative and crossed to a new galaxy aboard the ark Keelah Si'yah. Listed as a former security officer, the old smuggler served on a maintenance crew that periodically woke during the long voyage to keep the ship running.
Calix Corvannis: Leader of the Nexus UprisingCalix Corvannis was the turian chief life support technician of the Nexus and the reluctant leader of the mutiny that nearly tore the station apart in the Andromeda Initiative's first desperate months. Talented and fiercely loyal to his crew, he turned against a leadership he no longer trusted.
Cora Harper: Asari-Trained Vanguard of the Andromeda InitiativeCora Harper was a human biotic and former asari commando who served as the Pathfinder team's second in command aboard the Tempest. Trained among the asari huntresses of Talein's Daughters, she brought elite biotic skill and rigid discipline to the Andromeda Initiative's expedition into the Heleus Cluster.
Elaaden: Desert Moon of the Heleus ClusterElaaden was a scorching desert moon of a gas giant in the Heleus Cluster of the Andromeda galaxy. Brutally hot and starved of water, it nonetheless became home to the krogan colony of New Tuchanka and to scavengers and exiles living on its sands.
Eos: Desert World of Radiation StormsEos was a resource-rich desert world in the Heleus Cluster, long catalogued as unsettleable because of the lethal radiation storms that scoured its surface. After two colonies failed, the reactivation of its Remnant vault drove back the radiation and allowed the Andromeda Initiative's first lasting outpost to take root there.
Heleus Cluster: The Initiative's New FrontierThe Heleus Cluster was a resource-rich region of star systems on the outskirts of the Andromeda galaxy, chosen by the Andromeda Initiative as its foothold in the new galaxy. Centered on a massive black hole and seeded with abundant Element Zero, it held the worlds the Initiative hoped to settle.
Irit Non: Volus Design Engineer of the Keelah Si'yahIrit Non was a volus design engineer aboard the Andromeda Initiative ark Keelah Si'yah, a celebrated maker of custom environmental suits who left a thriving career in the Milky Way to follow her dissident father to a new galaxy. Quick to take offense yet a consummate professional, she served on the ark's Sleepwalker crew during the plague that swept its sleepers.
Jaal Ama Darav: Angaran Resistance FighterJaal Ama Darav was an angaran native of Havarl and a high-ranking member of the Angaran Resistance against the kett. Sent to observe the newly arrived Andromeda Initiative, he joined the human Pathfinder's crew aboard the Tempest and became one of its most loyal members.
Jalosk Dal'Virra: Batarian Sleepwalker of the Keelah Si'yahJalosk Dal'Virra was a batarian weapons dealer and member of the Sleepwalker crew aboard the Andromeda Initiative ark Keelah Si'yah. Born into the lowest caste of batarian society and dismissed by his betters as a lout, he proved unexpectedly insightful even as he became one of the first victims of the plague that struck the ark.
Jarun Tann: Director of the Andromeda InitiativeJarun Tann was a salarian bureaucrat who became Director of the Andromeda Initiative after the deaths of every leader above him. Self-important and insecure yet broadly well-meaning, he steered the Nexus through famine, mutiny, and the search for a habitable home in the Heleus Cluster.
Kadara: Haven of Exiles and PiratesKadara was a mountainous world in the Heleus Cluster, first settled by the angara and later overrun by exiles and pirates who fled the Nexus. Its waters ran toxic with sulphides until a Remnant vault was reactivated, after which the Andromeda Initiative was able to plant an outpost there.
Keelah Si'yahThe Keelah Si'yah was an Andromeda Initiative ark, a quarian vessel uniquely engineered to carry six different species across the 600-year void between galaxies. Bearing some twenty thousand colonists in cryosleep, it survived a catastrophic plague during its long voyage toward a new home in the Heleus Cluster.
Kett: Conquerors of HeleusThe kett were a hostile, militaristic species encountered by the Andromeda Initiative in the Heleus Cluster. Unable to breed by natural means, they expanded their ranks and their empire through exaltation, a process that converted captured members of other species into obedient kett.
Lexi T'Perro: Physician of the TempestLexi T'Perro was an asari doctor who served as the medical officer of the scout ship Tempest during the Andromeda Initiative's settlement of the Heleus Cluster. A specialist in alien biology, she tended the Pathfinder's crew and served as both their physician and a trusted advisor.
Liam KostaLiam Kosta was a human security and response specialist who joined the Andromeda Initiative and served aboard the Tempest as part of the Pathfinder team. Upbeat, idealistic, and quick to speak his mind, he threw himself into making the Heleus Cluster a home and winning the trust of its native angara.
Moshae Sjefa: Angaran Scholar of the RemnantMoshae Sjefa was a revered angaran elder and scientist, regarded as the foremost expert on Remnant technology in the Heleus Cluster. Captured and tortured by the kett, she was rescued by the Andromeda Initiative's Pathfinder and went on to help unlock the secrets of the Remnant.
Nakmor Drack: The Old Krogan of Clan NakmorNakmor Drack was an aged krogan veteran who had spent more than 1,400 years as a soldier, mercenary, and pirate in the Milky Way before joining his clan on the voyage to Andromeda. Kept alive by extensive cybernetics, he became a steadfast member of a Pathfinder's crew in the Heleus Cluster.
Nexus: Heart of the Andromeda InitiativeThe Nexus was the headquarters of the Andromeda Initiative, a vast space station built to anchor the arriving arks, process resources, and shelter colonists in the Heleus Cluster. Modeled on the Citadel, it survived disaster and rebellion to become the seat of the colonization effort.
Pelessaria B'Sayle: Asari Remnant ResearcherPelessaria B'Sayle, known as Peebee, was a young asari adventurer who came to the Heleus Cluster with the Andromeda Initiative. A restless lone wolf with a gift for studying Remnant technology, she left the Nexus to explore on her own before joining the crew of the Tempest.
ProdromosProdromos was the first lasting outpost the Andromeda Initiative established in the Heleus Cluster, founded on the world of Eos after two earlier settlements failed. It became possible only once a Remnant terraforming vault was reset to drive back the radiation that had made the planet uninhabitable.
Qetsi'Olam vas Keelah Si'yah: captain of the quarian arkCaptain Qetsi'Olam vas Keelah Si'yah commanded the quarian ark Keelah Si'yah on its 600-year voyage to Andromeda. A charismatic radical who dreamed of a new home where quarians would lead, she secretly engineered the bioweapon that became the Fortinbras Plague, and gave her own life trying to undo it.
Reyes VidalReyes Vidal was a smuggler and intelligence broker who rose to prominence in the underworld of Kadara in the Heleus Cluster. Behind his easy charm he was the Charlatan, the secret head of the Collective, and he maneuvered to seize control of Kadara Port from the Outcasts.
SAM: Simulated Adaptive MatrixSAM, the Simulated Adaptive Matrix, was an artificial intelligence created by Alec Ryder to serve the Andromeda Initiative's Pathfinders. Linked directly to a Pathfinder's nervous system through a neural implant, SAM shared its host's senses and lent them analysis and enhancement far beyond ordinary limits.
Senna'Nir vas Keelah Si'yah: First Officer of the Quarian ArkSenna'Nir vas Keelah Si'yah was a quarian engineer and the first officer of the Andromeda Initiative ark Keelah Si'yah. Unusually drawn to machines and artificial intelligence, he led the maintenance crew that fought to save the ark when a hidden plague struck its sleeping passengers during the long voyage between galaxies.
Sloane Kelly: The Outcast Queen of KadaraSloane Kelly was the leader of the Outcasts, the criminal faction that seized Kadara Port in the Heleus Cluster of the Andromeda galaxy. A former Alliance soldier and Nexus security chief, she was exiled after the Nexus uprising and carved out a brutal fiefdom on Kadara through force of will.
Suvi Anwar: Science Officer of the TempestDr. Suvi Anwar was a member of the Nexus science team and the science officer of the scout ship Tempest during the Andromeda Initiative's settlement of the Heleus Cluster. Holding advanced degrees in astrophysics and molecular biology, she was at once a woman of science and a woman of faith.
Tempest: The Pathfinder's Scout ShipThe Tempest was the survey ship of the Andromeda Initiative's Pathfinder team, a state of the art scout vessel used to explore the worlds of the Heleus Cluster in search of new homes for Milky Way colonists. After its sister ships were lost, it became the one of a kind home and base of the human Pathfinder.
Tiran Kandros: Leader of the Nexus MilitiaTiran Kandros was a turian who founded and led the volunteer militia that took over station security aboard the Nexus in the Heleus Cluster. He also directed the APEX strike teams that protected Andromeda Initiative interests, and though technically a civilian he was counted among the Nexus leadership.
Vetra NyxVetra Nyx was a turian smuggler and fixer who left the Milky Way with the Andromeda Initiative to give her younger sister a fresh start. Resourceful and fiercely protective, she served a Pathfinder team in the Heleus Cluster as its jack of all trades, brokering deals between the lawful and the lawless alike.
Voeld: Frozen Angaran WorldVoeld was an angaran world in the grip of an ice age, set in the Heleus Cluster of the Andromeda galaxy. Once dense with cities, it had become a frozen battleground where scattered angaran settlements and a resistance held out against the occupying kett.
Yorrik: Elcor Doctor of the Keelah Si'yahYorrik was an elcor doctor and devoted student of Shakespeare who travelled to Andromeda aboard the ark Keelah Si'yah. A reluctant physician with an ear for Hamlet, he was thrust into the fight against a deadly plague that swept the ark, and he gave his life to engineer its cure.