Mass Effect Andromeda has a quest called Naming the Dead, and it is a pain in the arse.
Early in Mass Effect Andromeda you’ll probably stumble across Task: Naming the Dead. This (extremely) secondary mission has you finding and scanning deceased colonists on Eos. The quest is triggered the first time you find one.
This is such a minor quest that we’d normally recommend just ignoring it, along with 95% of the “Task” section of Mass Effect Andromeda’s quest journal, but Naming the Dead is hugely annoying if left unfinished because every time you wander around Eos Ryder will talk about it, even if you’ve already scanned the dead colonist they’ve spotted (and you probably haven’t; Ryder can see through walls, apparently).
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So do yourself a favour and finish Naming the Dead as soon as possible. It’s still best to do it after you’ve cleared the Eos vault and advanced the main Mass Effect Andromeda plot a little, to clear the radiation on Eos. That makes exploration much less of a chore.
Unfortunately, there are no map icons to guide you to the dead colonists’s bodies. That’s where we come in: without further ado, here’s where to find every dead colonist in Mass Effect Andromeda and kick Naming the Dead right out of your quest journal so it never interrupts a vital audio prompt ever again.
Naming the Dead colonist body locations
1. Promise: Theo J. Harwell
Visit the Eos settlement ruin called Promise and search behind the buildings near the big circular structure for this body. If you’re back on Eos later in the game, there’s a merchant right nearby.
2. Resilience: Gordanus Trenitus
Head directly south from Theo J. Hartwell’s body until you reach Resilience, the second Eos settlement ruin. Go down to the lower level. The body is in an area with Kett mobile cover barriers. For some reason, it tends to bug out and vanish after scanning, so our screenshot shows the location, but not the body itself.
3. Resilience: Thysa Ylar
Move further south from Gordanus Trenitus’s body and search along the balconies and stairs around the cluster of buildings to find this body.
4. Resilience: Porter M. West
Search the gully east of the lower Resilience site for this body.
5. Northern monolith: Tegan C. Avante
This body is by a big rock by the road that goes past the monolith where you meet Peebee.
6. Central monolith: Amira S. Pavlov
There are several bodies at the second monolith. Pavlov is on her back with one arm stretched out.
7. Kett Research Centre: Darin T. Anton
Head to the Kett facility at the southernmost monolith and look for the autopsy room on the north side of the central complex; the body is on one of the tables.
Note that you can always return to scan a body a second time to check the name, if you’re not sure which ones you’ve done so far. Except for that damned Turian in Resilience who vanishes! Truly, he is the final boss of Naming the Dead.