Neuzhelin wrote...
1) No, they did not know what to expect and, terminating Grayson was recommended to TIM asap, instead he pushed it to 3 more days,
2) The fact that TIM was personal with Grayson is what started the whole mess. The vengeance and hate is what gave the Cerberus info to the turians. Grayson even warned TIM about it in the end of Ascension.
3) The base was undermanned. A few professionals, some trained personell and the rest were scientists. It is as much speculation to say it would have been under control as it is to say Grayson would have escaped on his own. (a barrier here, a singularity there followed by some AI aiming with dual assault rifles against relatively few Cerberus personell)
4) If Cerberus tourtures (even children), attacks flotillas, kidnaps Alliance admirals and performs experiments that make me hard to differentiate them from the Reapers, openly admits to xenophobia and human dominance as their policty (to name a few) it is only a question of time before a counter attack occurs. There would have been an Anderson sooner or later.
And, most importantly:
5) We can not know what would have happened without Anderson's interference. We can guess, we can speculate and theorize. What we do know is: because of another failed Cerberus experiment: the Reapers slaughtered their way through the galaxy, wrecking havoc and gathering new data on the organic life bringing them closer to their goal.
1. Well, TIM should have ordered to cut Grayson's arms and legs off, before the Repear substance was injected in him, but that would make too short a novel.
2. Everyone is entitled to little luxuries of life, such as revenge. But who else would make a better subject for a presumably lethal experiment, than a traitor. It was sort of redemption for Grayson, that even in his treason he served Cerberus.
3. Again, it was hasty (if not poor) writhing on Drew's part. Grayson just had to hit the "anykey" and BAM! Cerberus fried... That not how things work. The most interesting part in all this story remained untold - namely how was such a security leak possible, when after Grayson's defection TIM must have ordered a thourough review of all possible information on Cerberus that could have been available to him. This commends Grayson as having been an extremely resourceful individual, who managed to fool the whole of Cerberus, but how, damnit how?
4.1. If you can't see the the difference between Cerberus and the Reapers, then you should check your head. Something may be very wrong with it. If anything you let your emotions get ahead of your reason.
4.2. There is a huge difference between dominance (which TIM admits as Cerberus goal) and xenophobia (which TIM does not admit, so you are twisting the facts here). Dominance is when you tell other people what to do instead of being told what to do by other people. If that was xenophobia, then we should call the US as an extremely xenophobic state.
4.3. And, the matter of fact is, there is nothing wrong with xenophobia, just like there is nothing wrong with greed or lust. Xenophobia is the natural instinct to kill an alien on sight, just like greed is the natural instinct to acquire valuables possessed by others at once and lust is the natural instinct to rape an attractive female on sight. But even baboons don't behave like that. Civilized human societies have complex systems of moral, legal, educational and law enforcement measures to (attention!) capitalize on those instincts. Not by replacing the chaos of
bella omnia contra omnes by the chaos of nothing, but by organizing the said instincts to work in an orderly and progressive fashion. And that's not a result of the work of reason as many want to believe, but of another instinct. Humans are social animals, so, to make this short, you can lay your fears to rest: TIM does not want to destroy the "galactic community", he wants it to be reorganized to suit Humans' needs.
5. What we can is to state the fact: we indeed don't know what would happen without Anderson's interference, but as it were, without any theorizing, "the Reapers slaughtered their way through the galaxy, wrecking havoc and gathering new data on the organic life bringing them closer to their goal" as the immediate result of Anderson's interference, just as plain simple as that.
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