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I thought the Council considers Cerberus an enemy, hence their reaction to finding out Shepard was alive and working with them. It was also also why Anderson didn’t share with Shepard any information regarding Kaiden/Ashley and his/her mission.
Cerberus might not consider the Council an enemy per se, I got the distinct impression that Cerberus views existing power structures as organizations to be co-opted, corrupted, or controlled, to one degree or another. Mutual antagonism evident.
This is correct. The Council (and large parts of the Alliance) don't like/trust Cerberus. But what you said before was that Cerberus was an enemy of the Council.
Every organization in the universe thinks the existing power structure is to be co-opted (the Council principal for subordinate races) or controlled (the Council species on maintaining control of the Council system). The entire basis of you becoming a Spectre in ME1 was so that the Alliance could advance up the system and defend its interests better.
Cerberus wants the system to change in humanity's favor. But every other species wants things to shift or stay stagnant in their favor as well. It's not a novel or even hateful idea.
I should have been clearer, when I spoke of joining the war effort in a subservient role, I meant to humans in general, and Shepard, David Anderson and ADM. Hackett in specific. Those humans could be wearing Cerberus (will be most unpopular), Alliance (might win a few more friends with this one), or “other” (my personal favorite) uniforms. Every race has something to contribute, the human contribution is leadership, one way or another.
If you let the Council die, humans are going to be the primary leaders regardless of Cerberus and the Collector Base: you either have an all-human Council, or a human-led multi-racial Council.
The Human's contribution to Galactic Defense is going to be... galactic defense. Military might. Largely the same reason they were becoming powerful in the first place.
Cerberus is organized into task oriented cells, the “150 people” figure represents the current manning of those cells. The actual human-resources Cerberus can leverage must be far greater. 150 people isn’t even enough to operate a single respectable front company (of which Cerberus operates several), let alone undertake diverse intelligence ops galaxy wide.
You know, I actually completely agree with you that the figure makes no sense, and probably doesn't include their front corporations and intelligence networks. But even if we expand the manpower they can move and use to, say, a thousand, it's still a drop in a bucket.
Do you mean that that Council would have to (and probably wouldn’t want to, for fear of ending their personal political careers) go public about any deal they made with Cerberus? Well, no they wouldn’t have to, but they’d need a hell of a cover story is the base is to be fully exploited as the tech goldmine it seems to be. ANy suggestions as to what might work?
Cerberus wouldn't need to talk about the the tech goldmine. Instead, they can farm it out in much the same way they presumably already forward their tech advances to the Alliance.
So say Cerberus has, oh, a biotic amp advancement, a new type of weapon targeting system a decade ahead of the old (a cited Collector bargaining chip), indoctrination defense research, have figured out how to make their own (loyal!) Husks, and come out with a new and improved particle hand-held weapon.
Cerberus doesn't need to come out and say 'We have this from a secret base! Who wants some?' They can have their agents in the Ascension Project give the data that allows the civilian, not-at-all-Cerberus project to 'make a breakthrough.' Then a Systems Alliance military research lab quietly comes out with a prototype targeting program that can be installed in increasing number of Alliance ships. While this is going on, back-room deals with the Salarians gives them more information on Indoctrination than they have already researched, and sees that they share the information with the Council. And back on Noveria, a corporate world with a large multi-species population dedicated to semi-illegal dangerous research, Exo-Geni comes out with Husks as 'repurposed Geth technology'. And during this time, a Cerberus front-company begins selling a cutting-edge direct energy weapon on the open market, while Cerberus's secret gun-smuggling operation (mentioned in the Dossiers) produces even more and funnels them towards human interest groups.
None of these are especially amazing, noticable, or linked, unless you already know, and none of them really justify attacking the Alliance: biotics/military research is the point of Alliance R&D programs, no one can accuse the Alliance of being behind something the Salarians are pressed (extorted?) to share, Noveria exists to study dangerous technology like what the Geth have been credited to have for years, and given that direct-energy weapons are a infant technology in ME1, a company, even a human company, coming out with a better product is expected over time.
The number of ways Cerberus can spread its technology out is massive. It could even dump desired data onto the extranet and bring everyone's attention to it to get it spread around. It doesn't require anyone even knowing that there's something untoward going on: technological revolutions come and go, and if the Humans, always recognized as an inventive and creative race technologically given their rate of advancement since first finding ME tech... well, if they have a technological revolution that benefits everyone, why attack them for reaping the most gain from it?
Think about it, nationwide militarization programs CANNOT occur in a vacuum. Millions even billions of people from all over the galaxy would have to be involved to one extent or another. From soldiers and sailors who suddenly have their training regimens altered (“Hey Sarge! Why are we training to fight zombies?”), to engineers all over the galaxy who have to figure out how to turn the theoretical fruits of the CB into actual systems, to the employees of God-only-knows how many shipbuilding firms/military contractors that will be required to retrofit entire fleets with new hardware.
Actually, in space they can.
But, covered above. Vacuume isn't necessary to justify it.
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It’s fair to say that anyone not involved in the war effort will be talking about it and asking questions. Not the least of which will be: “where is all this new stuff coming from?” If the CB is to be exploited for technology, it is best if done openly. If for no other reason than that different and alien minds could think up something humans and Cerberus, for whatever reason, didn’t (such as the thanix).
I don't think the Thanix can be used as an example, since it was a scaled down copy of salvage that the Turians snuck away from the overall Council search. That was a matter of who got the salvage, not innate creativity.
Undoubtably TIM won't spread the tech as fast, freely, or evenly as we would like. But it's not some lump sum that really could be handed out at once as an all-or-nothing deal either.
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