I think my opinion is unpopular because people are just buying into the hype . Regardless of the original reason for leaving , once the ark arrives in Andromeda it ' s the same story , it ' s not like you can just go back home . And just because the Reapers war is going on , wouldn ' t make the motivations for all the colonist be the same . So really , I expect to be able to make it headcanon that the Ark was fleeing from the Reapers and it not really being much different in the end anyway . I don ' t think it would be all gosh , golly , I think that it would be like Battlestar Galactica , except you are so far removed from the existential threat , you can never know what happened . I think that sort of uncertainty can be cool in a story .