Akuze
This is arguably the most prominent crime on their list, seeing as it's possible they're directly responsible for luring the marines and the thresher maws together. Toombs claims this possibility is the truth, but at best, Cerberus knew where the marines were going and did nothing to stop them, wanting to observe and measure the result and outcome. The fact they then kidnap Toombs and experiment on him, probably for years, is just insult upon injury.
Admiral Kohoku
Another prominent crime in Cerberus' belt, they killed Kahoku for tracking them down, to keep him from exposing them (little good it did them, Shepard finds them and finishes the job). However, the apologists like to claim that Kahoku was either a traitor or a "security leak" (under this silly theory that Cerberus is still a part of the Alliance). But nowhere do the apologists explain the reasoning behind Cerberus purposefully luring his men out just so a thresher maw would ruin them. There's nothing of importance in that system, and unless Cerberus was trying to replicate Akuze, this action seems almost purely for the lulz.
Chasca, aka UNC: Colony Of The Dead
This one gets a lot of attention for the heavily debated fact of whether or not Cerberus was responsible for this, mostly due to the claim that there is no specific information implicating Cerberus, except for the presence of their agent. However, the game explicitly states that Cerberus is responsible, meaning they had the Dragon's Teeth delivered to the colony with the intention of having every member of the colony turned into husks for study. Several logs speak of the Cerberus agent who was present who left, and finishing the mission nets you the message "Cerberus has a lot to answer for." There's really no way to argue against this when the GAME ITSELF declares you guilty.
Exogeni and the Thorian Creeper
The only possible way that Cerberus could've gotten Creepers is if they either have plants inside of Exogeni, or if Exogeni itself is one of Cerberus' corporate fronts. I'm inclined to believe the latter, because otherwise it makes almost no sense for Exogeni to do what they did. To purposefully use the colonists as a test group like that is massively unethical. Such a corporation trying that today would be committing corporate and financial suicide. Why then would Exogeni take the risk of their operations being uncovered and their entire company ruined? Not to mention there are several logs on the servers that talk about Cerberus.
The Rachni
Again, Cerberus sticking their fingers into something they shouldn't. Somehow samples from Noveria were taken and intended to be used in various experiments, but like anything Cerberus seems to do, it blew up in their face. While this isn't per say a crime so much as them being incredibly stupid, it's still a mark against them seeing as how horribly wrong this particular project went.
Mass Effect: Ascension
Yeah...Cerberus decides to go screw with the Migrant Fleet because TIM is worried about them having the biggest fleet of ships, and oh yeah, Grayson and his daughter, and infiltrating the Ascension Project. Wow, good one Cerberus, let's go around antagonizing ENTIRE alien races because they happen to have a lot of ships and made the geth, despite the fact most of those ships aren't probably meant strictly for combat!
Trident
The Cerberus Daily News reported back in January about a Cerberus Cell in the Terminus Systems which was experimenting with biotic-suppressants which had a number of incredibly nasty and potentially lethal side effects on humans AND aliens, dubbed the "torture den." On top of that, they decide to blow up police cars and kill law enforcement to spring one of their allies out of jail. Hard to deny you're terrorists now, huh?
Project Overlord
Sweet Jesus where to begin. Attempting to create a virus-like "figurehead" to control the geth as a means of attaining "bloodless victory" over a race (yes, the geth can likely be called a race all on it's own) that you learn latter only a small minority have any violent intentions, and for the most part simply want to be left alone. On top of that, you use an autistic man to power your new VI/AI/whatever-David-is-now regardless of the ethical issues with that, and then send me an email about how this'll set back our research (which isn't even necessary btw) by several decades...yeah, screw you TIM.
Tetlin/Pragia
Yeah, experimentation on humans is already a morally gray area approaching on black, let's just go full-black by experimenting on children, torturing them and killing them in order to decide what is or isn't a good procedure to use on one specific child (Jack aka Subject Zero) because she has incredible biotic powers that you gave her a result of earlier torture and experimentation, which was likely done of them for YEARS.
Mass Effect: Retribution
With the release of Retribution, Cerberus' already shaking reputation just goes straight the crapper and doesn't recover...While I go into details, for the sake of those who may not have read it, or may not wish to have it spoiled, I'll simply leave this URL here for your perusal: http://social.biowar...index/3263041/1 However, to sum it up? TIM kidnaps Grayson because TIM wants revenge, puts Reaper-tech in a dude, dude runs amok, TIM gets his s*** ruined.
Yandoa
Brought to my attention by a commentor, this is apparently an incident from Ascension in which Cerberus engineered an accident in order to purposefully expose colonists (the colony's name is the title) to Eezo in order to taint them and hopefully fuel some biotic babies. I quote from the Mass Effect Wiki:
"The 'industrial accident' over Yandoa was actually orchestrated by Cerberus, and committed in an act of sabotage by Paul Grayson. After being exposed to eezo in utero, Gillian was later given to Paul by the Illusive Man; the fate of her parents back on Yandoa is not known."
That about sums up their major crimes. TIM has to be one of the worse human resource management persons I've ever seen. He hires morally challenged people and throws money at them to solve a problem or research new tech. But when thing get ethically suspect or go straight down the crapper, TIM is quick to put up his hands and claim plausible deniability. This means at best, TIM is a grossly negligent supervisor who can't seem to hire anyone decent to save his own life, or he's intentionally choosing the ethically suspect individuals knowing full-well what will result, but claims to condemn it just so he doesn't look like a Complete Monster.
I dunno about you...but I can't see a valid reason to support them beyond what was given to help stop the Collectors.
Modifié par RiouHotaru, 29 juillet 2010 - 03:41 .
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