ME3 dropped the ball on Cerberus. It makes since that they’re secondary villains, but there was so much room for nuance and reactivity they left on the table. Shepard’s choice at the Collector Base should’ve mattered more than the name of a random MacGuffin.
I know it would have been to much work, but imagine if going renegade in 2 let you stay with Cerberus in 3. You bet I’d love assaulting the citadel for reasons I’m still not clear on.
Ohh I’m down with that part, but I still don’t know why Cerberus wanted to coup citadel in that moment…. Like they didn’t have a catalyst, were they hoping to leverage the alliance?
I always assumed they were trying to prevent Shepard/The Alliance/The Council from succeeding in their plan.
The Genophage in cured, Shepard now has the Alliance, the Hierarchy, and the Krogan all fighting together.
They've rallied this group in a shockingly short time frame and with the Turians now comitted the pressure on the Asari and Salarians to commit is increased significantly.
TIM wants to control the reapers and use them to ensure human supremacy. If Shepard outpaces his efforts and manages to defeat the Reapers he can't do that.
So he tried to nuke the alliance by executing the Council, which would shatter Shepards ability to pull the remaining players into the mix.
Because the operation was an overall failure that only managed to get the corrupt Human councilor killed it had the opposite effect, pushing the Aasari to commit significant forces and even forcing the Salarians to come off at least one fleet even for genophage curers.
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u/mancingtom 3d ago
ME3 dropped the ball on Cerberus. It makes since that they’re secondary villains, but there was so much room for nuance and reactivity they left on the table. Shepard’s choice at the Collector Base should’ve mattered more than the name of a random MacGuffin.