There was no trade in ME2, that's the point. Whether you are alliance or cerberus has no impact. In ME1 you got money from cashing in weapons and armor, it also made inventory a nightmare. With all the stuff cerberus can do you are trying to tell me that you couldn't deal weapons? It was a gameplay change, not one based on any type of codex or lore. Does Shapard earn more money with the Systems Alliance or Cerberus?
How much does the alliance pay shepard if he was with them? How much does Cerberus pay Shepard if he's with them at the time? How come Cerberus isn't apart of the Alliance? It used to be a department of the Human Alliance.
Why won't the Alliance just make Cerberus a mutual affiliate since they're still a corporate entity of humanity's interest and what not?
Why not just deal with Cerberus humane cell operations, and remain dissassociated with it's other factions that recieve bad press?
If the Cerberus corporation was still apart of the Systems Alliance or just a affiliate or something, it could probably be more productive, more effiencient, more profitlable, more humane, and more progressive regarding humanity's good interests. Was it looting credits averaging 1,cr from random sources Mass Effect 2? How did you like earning a living in Mass Effect series? How come we can only buy items, yet not legally sell any to vendors? Why can't we sell Omnigel in Mass Effect 1 you can easily reach 1, omnigel points, after you made 10mil credits?
The experiments were only ended when a group of test subjects started a riot. The surviving subjects were given mild amnesic treatments and sent to the Alliance, passed off as survivors of slaver attacks, while the facility staff were "forcibly retired".
Shepard can also help Cerberus recover sensitive data which had been obtained by Eclipse mercenaries on Lorek who had captured and tortured Tyrone Rawlings, a Cerberus operative.
The Commander has the option to send the encrypted data back to Cerberus, send it to the Alliance, or keep it for EDI to decode. After the MSV Rosalie, a survey ship with Cerberus connections, went missing, Shepard can be sent to investigate the wreck on the planet Zeona. There, the Commander recovers the prototype Hammerhead planet-side exploration rover. Cayce's discovery of a Prothean artifact.
After searching for the the scientist's whereabouts on several planets, Shepard finds the Prothean site on the planet Kopis. After the artifact's recovery, a burst of energy that contained coded information leaves the Prothean artifact. The data Cerberus was able to capture gives its researchers useful data about biotics. Cerberus runs Project Overlord , an ambitious effort to not only understand the geth, but to find a way to manipulate them through their religious fervor.
Administered on the planet Aite and run by Dr. Gavin Archer , Project Overlord was on the cusp of a breakthrough when the entire facility inexplicably went dark. Archer had connected his brother David , an autistic savant, to a VI interface to interact with the geth. The over-stimulation had driven David insane and caused him to take control of the base, unleashing geth and Cerberus' own security mechs on the staff.
If Shepard had been sent to Aite by the Illusive Man to intervene, the Commander prevents the Overlord VI from escaping into the galactic communication network and either puts an end to Project Overlord by freeing David or allows it to continue by leaving David in his brother's care. Cerberus isn't averse to dealing with the enemy itself in order to ensure human supremacy. They send an agent named Messner to the Collectors in , where the human gives them a colony to harvest in exchange for information.
True to Cerberus philosophies, Messner is willing to sacrifice whatever for a crack at the intel within the Collectors' Prothean -style repositories, and with the unwilling help of an asari named Treeya he manages to record the intel into an external storage device.
This intel never makes its way into Cerberus hands as Lieutenant James Vega gets hold of it and sends it straight to the Alliance, although by that time the Collector threat was already rendered moot by Commander Shepard.
Operatives led by the Illusive Man's favored assassin, Kai Leng , attack Grayson's apartment, kidnapping Grayson and murdering his lover Liselle.
Grayson is taken to one of Cerberus' many research stations, where the Illusive Man orders him implanted with recovered Reaper technology. Before Grayson had been kidnapped, however, he had sent all the information he had on Cerberus to Kahlee Sanders in the hope she could use it to bring down Cerberus or protect herself from harm. Sanders turns to Admiral David Anderson for assistance, who in turn seeks the help of the turians due to his concerns about Cerberus infiltration of the Alliance hierarchy.
The turians launch raids against several Cerberus bases and front companies. A number of Cerberus agents and supporters are also arrested on the Citadel, greatly impairing the operations of the organization. The capture of two military training bases and four major research labs is estimated to cost the Illusive Man trillions of dollars in losses. Still believing that Cerberus needs to protect and defend humanity, and that the augmented Grayson, who had escaped Cerberus custody during the turian attack, is now a huge threat to Cerberus operations and to humanity itself, the Illusive Man makes a business deal with Aria T'Loak, asking her to kill Grayson in exchange for a substantial sum of money.
The trap fails and Grayson escapes once more. Kai Leng, who had observed the failed ambush, offers to transport Sanders and Anderson off Omega, but they turn on him, overpowering him with the aid of a group of turian mercenaries, and use his ship to pursue Grayson to Jon Grissom Academy. Once they catch up with him, Kai Leng breaks free, eliminates Grayson, and escapes capture, albeit severely injured.
The Illusive Man recontacts Aria, and is able to successfully negotiate the return of Cerberus data logs from Grayson's time in captivity. With all the "loose ends" tied up, the Illusive Man returns to the twin tasks of rebuilding his damaged organization and continuing preparations to combat the Reapers.
It establishes several research bases on the other side of the Omega 4 Relay and is using Omega as a supply hub for its convoys. During a routine convoy stop, creatures called Adjutants emerge from a transport ship and begin rampaging throughout Omega.
The Adjutants are the result of Cerberus experiments with Reaper technology found beyond the Omega 4 Relay, and had broken free, taken over the research bases, and used the available transport ships to escape and attack Omega. Although this is undertaken ostensibly to eliminate the Adjutant threat, Cerberus has other plans. While Petrovsky and Aria see to defending Omega from more Adjutant ships, Ashe is kept in chains on the station, having earned Aria's dislike for arrogantly ordering her own men around.
Ashe kills his guards and contacts the Illusive Man to inform him that the real battle for Omega is ready to begin. While the Elbrus travels beyond the Omega 4 Relay to Avernus Station to contain the Adjutants, Ashe makes use of the Cerberus reinforcements to conquer Omega, taking advantage of the gang war being waged in Aria's absence.
Aria eventually fights her way back to Omega and unites the station's factions against Cerberus. Realizing that she could hold out against the invasion indefinitely, General Petrovsky takes the station itself hostage. Aria is forced to choose between continuing to fight and letting Omega be destroyed by a Cerberus fleet, or exiling herself and surrendering the station. She chooses the latter and leaves, but vows to return. Omega is secured shortly thereafter by Petrovsky's forces, a major victory for Cerberus.
While Liara T'Soni uses her influence as the Shadow Broker to find a way to stop the Reapers , the Illusive Man secretly monitors her progress and learns of her intent to investigate the Protheans for leads. Later, when Liara journeys to a Prothean ruin on Kahje , a Cerberus Phantom arrives there before her, kills the site's staff, and turns its defenses against Liara's shuttle. When Liara makes it to the site and kills the Phantom, the Illusive Man contacts her via hologram.
He apologizes for the Phantom's attack, but claims a rogue faction of Cerberus is responsible. He suggests forming an alliance with Liara to stop the Reapers and that they pool their knowledge, but when Liara challenges him to turn over his research first, he remains silent.
Liara concludes he either wants to keep his research to himself or he doesn't have any research to share. Angered, the Illusive Man insinuates she is incapable of running the Shadow Broker's organisation and claims that the criminal underworld think the Shadow Broker has become soft and weak, insisting that Liara needs his help. Liara points out that he is the one trying to make a deal, advises him to send an army the next time he tries to kill her and cuts him off before he can continue arguing.
In , Cerberus maintains a remote research space station known as the Barn near the desert planet LV Run by the enigmatic Director , the purpose of the Barn is to carry out experiments on humans, asari, krogan, and turians involving Reaper technology in order to enhance the performance of weapons and biotics. The Director sends Cerberus operatives across the galaxy to gather new test subjects. One such operative, infiltrator Randall Ezno , is deployed to capture a high value turian target and field test a set of implants that grant biotic capabilities.
When Randall returns to the Barn after a successful mission, he discoveres that his implants were intended to indoctrinate him and other Cerberus personnel. As Randall had adapted to the implants too quickly and rendered them ineffective, the Director forces Randall's handler and friend, Inali Renata to become the test subject for more powerful technology.
Outraged, Randall goes rogue and turned against Cerberus, fighting through the station to find Inali. Through Randall's actions, the facility's test subjects are released and violently rebel against their Cerberus captors, and a force of geth is attracted to the station after Randall activates a communications relay.
By the time Randall escapes the station, the Barn is severely damaged and its operations crippled. Vowing to take revenge on Cerberus for harming Inali, Randall goes on to contact the Systems Alliance and provide them valuable intel on other Cerberus operations.
Cerberus has a substantial number of personnel and mechs stationed at the Barn. The following are deployed attempting to stop Randall's insubordination:. By the time of the Reaper invasion in , Cerberus had undergone a dramatic transformation. Seeking to take control of the Reapers at any cost rather than to merely stop them, the Illusive Man intended to use the Reapers to make humanity the dominant force in the galaxy. Experiments with Reaper technology allowed the organization to indoctrinate civilians and convert them into absolutely loyal troops, swelling Cerberus' army.
Cerberus' rapid growth also fostered public distrust of the organization , as commentators took notice of Cerberus' increasingly anti-alien stance and the blind obedience of its employees. As the Reapers conquer Earth, Cerberus invades the research facility, massacring Alliance and civilian personnel alike. Their objective is to retrieve the data for a Prothean superweapon, the Crucible , which in theory could defeat the Reapers, or, as the Illusive Man believes, control them.
Commander Shepard arrives in time to stop Cerberus from succeeding. Although Eva had downloaded the data and damaged the archives, the Commander is able to prevent her escape, disable her, and retrieve the data. Cerberus opposes Shepard's attempts to create an alliance between the krogan and the turians, the first step to unifying the galaxy against the Reapers. A Cerberus squad raids Sur'Kesh to kill a fertile krogan female who is vital to curing the genophage. On Tuchanka, they are also attempting to detonate a massive bomb to start a war between the turians and krogan.
After Shepard gains support from both the krogan and the turians, Cerberus launches a coup attempt against the Citadel Council with the help of Councilor Udina. The invasion force is led by the assassin Kai Leng. Cerberus' strategy is to capture C-Sec headquarters, throwing any defensive efforts into disarray, and then hunt down the Councilors.
The coup is foiled by the timely intervention of Shepard, and Cerberus withdraws. Cerberus is able to triumph over Commander Shepard during the Reaper assault on Thessia. When the Commander attempts to retrieve a Prothean VI containing key information needed to complete the Crucible , Kai Leng reappears, supported by a Cerberus gunship. After a brief battle, the gunship destroys the temple floor, allowing Kai Leng to steal the Prothean VI and escape before Shepard and their squad can recover from the wreckage.
Shepard followed Kai Leng's trail to Sanctuary , a refugee center on Horizon which is actually a Cerberus research facility directed by Henry Lawson. The purpose of the facility is to study the Reapers' indoctrination signal and replicate it against them; those refugees who were not experimented on for this research were converted into more Cerberus troops.
When Shepard arrives, the Reapers had already stormed the facility in retaliation for the Illusive Man's plan. Tensions between alien species and humans has made it difficult to carve a place for mankind on the Citadel.
This extends to a degree of difficulty seeking things like protection for humans outside of Alliance space. Fear is a powerful motivator and Cerberus is a powerful ally. The Illusive Man is frighteningly intelligent and knows how to use fear to get what he wants. Cerberus is good at backing opponents into corners and forcing hands, making it a formidable foe. Oh, definitely. And Cerberus is loaded.
The goals of Cerberus are a little vague, but in broad strokes we understand that Cerberus is deeply pro-human and wants to see humans control the galaxy.
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