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[Fiery Phoenix]

I was bored and in a Mass Effect mood, so I loaded one of my "complete" saves and went back to the Shadow Broker base to check stuff out. I read through the entire dossiers again and suddenly had this question occur to me.

We know that, from Admiral Hackett's dossier, some Alliance personnel sent him a message requesting permission on capturing and taking Shepard into custody (after she resurfaced on Omega). I'm not going to go into the details as I assume you all have read the dossier and know why the Alliance would want to bring Shepard in (besides, this isn't the thread for it). In any case, why did Hackett deny the Alliance's request? Was it because he and Shepard have a friendly relationship and as such it was his rather "emotional" response to the Alliance? Or does he simply disagree with them, for whatever reason?

I realize this isn't something we know for sure (at least not currently), but it's always fun to speculate. I'm also interested to hear your thoughts.

[Village_Idiot]

Cerberus = Alliance conspiracy theories aside, there is a relatively simple answer to this question: Hackett trusts Shepard. He knows whatever s/he's doing, s/he's doing it for the right reasons.

[Gabey5]

Hackett trusts shep

[Fiery Phoenix]

Shadrach 88 wrote...

Cerberus = Alliance conspiracy theories aside, there is a relatively simple answer to this question: Hackett trusts Shepard. He knows whatever s/he's doing, s/he's doing it for the right reasons.

That's exactly what I thought; I was just wondering if it was really that simple.

More comments are welcome.

[AkiKishi]

Your like a free agent for 5th fleet for a lot of ME1.

[Rune-Chan]

Already answered. It is especially fitting if you completed a lot of the UNC missions (including ones against Cerberus) in ME1.



Hackett is just awesome. Never met the guy but he still trusts you more than the morons in the Council and the Alliance (like Virmire Survivor).

[Dean_the_Young]

Hackett doesn't necessarily trust Shepard, but (similar to the Council) wants Shepard to be given a chance, or at least doesn't want to make a hasty move that, should the capture attempt fail, might drive Shepard permanently from the Alliance.



Not unconditional support, but not desiring an immediate, potentially irrevocable, confrontation.

[netfire_]

I can't imagine Hacket wants shep as a naked enemy of the alliance.

[CroGamer002]

Hackett trusts and respects Shepard.



Plus I did so many missions for him in ME1 so he owes me a lot!

[Fiery Phoenix]

That makes sense, Dean.

[jbblue05]

Hackett is under orders from Alliance command

[Ahriman]

Hackett is a smart man and he knows what will happen with people if they try to arrest Shepard. Remember that mission with crime lord and asteroid in ME1, excellent analytical skills in action.

[Tamahome560]

Trust aside (I do believe that it also influenced ''Request Denied'') it would not be wise of Alliance to capture a Spectre (for people who got reinstated) since it is outside of their jurisdiction.



And since Shepard is a symbol for people if there was any leak on Shepard being captured by Alliance than the backlash would be nasty.

[frylock23]

Like someone said. Hackett owes Shep. For crying out loud, the man sent Shep to hunt monkeys ... MONKEYS ... in ME1. That alone has to have earned some latitude.

[ObserverStatus]

Hackett knew that whatever Shepard was doing was more important than the interrogation.

[KenKenpachi]

He needs you to pick up more balls that he's droped or for you to kill someone. I mean he most likely could get ahold of Shepard at any time he wanted. Remember in ME1 your in a stealth ship in the middle of space and yet he knows when your in a start system that needs something done. Hackett might just want you around, or know's you'ld just break out if caught anyways.

[Sentox6]

Dean_the_Young wrote...

Hackett doesn't necessarily trust Shepard, but (similar to the Council) wants Shepard to be given a chance, or at least doesn't want to make a hasty move that, should the capture attempt fail, might drive Shepard permanently from the Alliance.

Not unconditional support, but not desiring an immediate, potentially irrevocable, confrontation.

While this is probably the most sensible explanation in a military context, I suspect in the Mass Effect space opera it was intended more as "trust and respect".

[Dean_the_Young]

Sentox6 wrote...

Dean_the_Young wrote...

Hackett doesn't necessarily trust Shepard, but (similar to the Council) wants Shepard to be given a chance, or at least doesn't want to make a hasty move that, should the capture attempt fail, might drive Shepard permanently from the Alliance.

Not unconditional support, but not desiring an immediate, potentially irrevocable, confrontation.

While this is probably the most sensible explanation in a military context, I suspect in the Mass Effect space opera it was intended more as "trust and respect".

That applies far more to Anderson, who actually has an established personal relationship with Shepard. And that's how Anderson's interaction is displayed: personal connection, unconditional (if not unlimitted) support.

Hackett lacks that: there's no real basis in any of the Shepard/Hacket interactions to give a basis for Hackett's views of Shepard: he's neither positive or negative at any stage, while he's proven to be willing to take advantage of Shepard's status, and personal nature, at multiple stages. (Examples: tricking Shepard in UNC: Negotiation as a ploy to murder Darius, or the numerous cases in which Shepard is asked to use Spectre status to cover up uncomfortable facts/incidents on the Alliance's behalf against the Council.)

Hackett isn't arrayed against Shepard, but neither is he in Shepard's corner as well. He's never been set up to be, nor have we even seen his face, let alone a personal connection. Hackett is an Alliance admiral, advancing Alliance interests as they come to his attention. If Hackett isn't inclined to try and take Shepard by force, his prior characterization isn't on the basis that it's because of a personal connection, but rather because he doesn't view it in the Alliance's interests.

[Pwener2313]

Hackett is with Cerberus obviously. Anderson seems to be too.

[JaerWolfe]

Perhaps Hackett knows there are already alternate plans to take Shepard into custody that are in place and those requesting the go ahead to arrest Shepard would interfer and/or possible ruin that attempt.

[Pwener2313]

Yeah, and it's not like just deciding to arrest Shepard is enough. I would choose to kill Alliance soldiers before going to prison. Shepard is too good to be caught by simple means like those.

[Exile Isan]

I think Hackett believes Shepard about the Reapers. I think he either knows or suspects that she is working on a way to defeat said Reapers. I also got the impression that the person who wanted to bring Shepard in was looking more to advance his career than having any real interest in what Shepard was doing just from the way that letter was written.

[Thompson family]

Hacket, Undina and Anderson are the people who recommended Shepard for Spectre status in the first place, remember.



It's in the conversation at the beginning of ME1.



Hackett trusted Shep with a lot of sensitive missions in ME1.



Also, I think Hackett knows full well that the Reaper threat is real. The Allliance found Sovereign before the events of ME1, after all. That's the big secret of the graybox, as many have speculated before.