Sajuro wrote...
Dean_the_Young wrote...
Mass Effect doesn't factor in the advanced technologies of the ME universe. It still acts like ground armies are influential!
That said, I'm not sure what your point is referring to. The Normandy and Shepard, by the scale, size, and nature of their investment and mission, are stated exceptions to how Cerberus normally run things. That a lot of Cerberus spooks like to act all knowing does not, however, mean that they are. Which was Jacob's own implication.
Actually if cities put up mass effect shield to deter orbital bombardment and GARDIAN systems to shoot down missiles, then a ground force would be needed to walk through the shield and disable the city's protection at the very least so the orbiting ships can rain down hell on the enemy.
That's what out-of-universe logic suggests, but it's never supported in-universe. Everyone treats the Rachni and Krogan as threats for their birth rates, not for their infrastructure.
Even in-universe, there are increasingly more ways around any ground-based kinetic barriers: stealth ships like the Normandy, for example, commandoes to sabatoge generators, parachuting bombs through, or simply seiging the barriers from extreme distance.
Shouldn't the Illusive man have more then a vague idea about what his cells are doing? I doubt bugging facilities and having reports sent back to him from a reliable source would cost much in term's of Cerberus' budget, so if he doesn't take measures to monitor the cells it is like giving a small child scissors and telling them to get the candy upstairs as fast as possible, then acting suprised when they tripped on the stairs and end up getting their necks ventillated by a pair of scissors.
It depends on what you consider a 'vague' idea. Raw research data, no. That's really not any higher-leadership's role: not only is it a time sink meant to be avoided in the first place by reports, it's also usually beyond technical skills of the overseer to really comprehend what dry data might be saying. Consider the case in the Cold War, where the highly-censored topic of nuclear weapons was once allowed to be published because the author simply described it as the inner workings of a star, and the censors didn't know enough to tell the difference.
They send him regular reports at intervals. He looks them over. If he has questions, he asks for more, and if that doesn't suffice even the actual data logs themselves. Which is what he was doing at Pragia prior to Jack's breakout. To say there is no monitoring is silly, because that's exactly what we saw. The problem is that the monitoring system in Pragia convinced itself to lie to him, while the disaster of Overlord was a case of happening too quickly.
Cerberus is not a no-monitoring group. It's a loose-oversight group: it gives great leeway to its groups, for better and for worse, and part of that worse is that it takes longer to find and stop abuses.
And part of the better is that it's really impossible to have tight surveilance inside a covert organization.
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