Apparently there are a lot of people who seem to like that hippy commune style of living, and feel free, don't let me stop you, but I want the Jetson's, I want humans to become
a spacefaring race, we need to mine the asteroid belt, and someday travel to the stars, but in the mean while there are oceans of liquid hydrocarbons (though not very practical as a home heating fuel, I realize) and boulders of platinum group metals out there to go get.
You play as Ryder, a
spacefaring explorer designated as a Pathfinder, one of four leaders in ark that's part of the Andromeda Initiative, a multi-species colonizing endeavour from the original series» four
races plus a Krogan contingent.