Summary of what we know about the Shadow Broker, and what we can conjecture:
1. Shadow Broker's identity is unknown. It may be anything ranging form an ancient AI to a network of several autonomous organizations that cooperate with each other.
2. SB deals in information. All kinds of info, and all kinds of deals.
3. SB's services are available to everyone. As a rule the the highest bidder gets the info, but in some cases deals are made on special terms.
4. Through a very long time (centuries) SB's activity resulted in no advantage to any particular party.
5. Except SB itself, of course. He must have become very wealthy, although its wealth may have been dispersed among lots of its associate members. Otherwise, if it is a single person, or, say, body, this wealth have been stored somewhere. At least it haven't been used to some particular purpose, as there has no activity so far to pinpoint or track SB.
6. SB's motives are unclear. There may be three explanations. 1) It's just business for SB, making profit, earning the living; 2) Galactic stability is not just the side effect of this business, or SB's business policy, but the goal of it; 3) there is an unknown goal towards which SB works by accumulating information and other resources, while conserving the situation.
7. At some point Saren used the services of SB. Probably the last of their deals was related to the location of Eden Prime beacon.
8. SB hires Wrex to kill Fist. Maybe it's just an act of punishment for breaking the rules, but maybe Fist has some critical info, that might lead to SB's identity/location.
9. SB has had info on at least several Cerberus' installations in the Attican Traverse, and provided that info for late Admiral Kahoku.
10. SB was interested in Cerberus data aqcuired by Lt. Cmdr. Shepard. SB insists, that it is the payment, that Kahoku was supposed to deliver, once he used the info, provided to him.
The latter point suggests that SB does not have the complete files on Ceberus. That's no surprise as Cerberus is active only for the last 15 years, and then only "in shadow", and probably did not attract SB's attention before Akuze incident.
About Cerberus we know that it is a "pro-human" organization dedicated to the Humanity's advance in the Galaxy. This goal, as well as the means, by which Cerberus is trying to achieve it is denelitely a factor that's going to destabilize the Galaxy. And it is not what SB wants. It is quite obvious that SB is at odds with Cerberus.
Now, we have this mechs' attack on Cerberus facility, where Shepard has been undergoing his reanimation/reconstruction/restoration (whatever). It occurs about 2 years after Cerberus' files were acquired by Shepard. Whoever might be behind this attack, they probably got that facility's location from SB (whether it had been provided to SB by Shepard himself or acquired by SB through other channels).
Conclusion. It is in the good interests of Ceberus to seek out SB's identity and location, then dispatch a force (under Shepard's command) to terminate (or at least decrement) SB's activity and, if possible, acquire some new vital data on what's going on in the Galaxy. This should significantly tilt the scales in Cerberus's favor.
Modifié par shadowhawk233, 02 septembre 2010 - 12:49 .
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