I would've thought the same, except the piece of Sovereign lingering around Dr. Bryson's office had to be shielded too.
I think that was just done as a safety precaution, since it's impossible to say exactly how the indoctrination mechanic functions. I mean, the game implies it has to be a functional artifact (Like 'Object Rho'), but why take risks, yes?
Only two things bugged me:
Sur'kesh. It's never made clear why Cerberus wanted to sabotage your efforts save for the hell of it, because it gives TIM more time to research his answer and even then, that theory is something the player has to infer themselves because the game doesn't say one way or the other. Curing the genophage and earning the cooperation of the krogan slows the Reaper advance and keeps Shepard busy, which helps TIM. So why do it in the first place? Same with the bomb on Tuchanka.
Also, the Coup, while an ingenious idea, had no clear endgame. Why did Udina agree to this? What did TIM offer him that made him change his mind? It was clear Shepard was making headway in convincing the other races to cooperate because by the end of Tuchanka you likely genuinely cured the genophage and secured Turian and Krogan cooperation, so why go to Cerberus in the first place? And what would Udina have done even if the Councilors had been killed? There's no way the other races would let him take sole power.
Only two things bugged me:
Sur'kesh. It's never made clear why Cerberus wanted to sabotage your efforts save for the hell of it, because it gives TIM more time to research his answer and even then, that theory is something the player has to infer themselves because the game doesn't say one way or the other. Curing the genophage and earning the cooperation of the krogan slows the Reaper advance and keeps Shepard busy, which helps TIM. So why do it in the first place? Same with the bomb on Tuchanka.
Also, the Coup, while an ingenious idea, had no clear endgame. Why did Udina agree to this? What did TIM offer him that made him change his mind? It was clear Shepard was making headway in convincing the other races to cooperate because by the end of Tuchanka you likely genuinely cured the genophage and secured Turian and Krogan cooperation, so why go to Cerberus in the first place? And what would Udina have done even if the Councilors had been killed? There's no way the other races would let him take sole power.
TIM's crazy Indoctrination logic.
Only two things bugged me:
Sur'kesh. It's never made clear why Cerberus wanted to sabotage your efforts save for the hell of it, because it gives TIM more time to research his answer and even then, that theory is something the player has to infer themselves because the game doesn't say one way or the other. Curing the genophage and earning the cooperation of the krogan slows the Reaper advance and keeps Shepard busy, which helps TIM. So why do it in the first place? Same with the bomb on Tuchanka.
Also, the Coup, while an ingenious idea, had no clear endgame. Why did Udina agree to this? What did TIM offer him that made him change his mind? It was clear Shepard was making headway in convincing the other races to cooperate because by the end of Tuchanka you likely genuinely cured the genophage and secured Turian and Krogan cooperation, so why go to Cerberus in the first place? And what would Udina have done even if the Councilors had been killed? There's no way the other races would let him take sole power.
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Only two things bugged me:
Sur'kesh. It's never made clear why Cerberus wanted to sabotage your efforts save for the hell of it, because it gives TIM more time to research his answer and even then, that theory is something the player has to infer themselves because the game doesn't say one way or the other. Curing the genophage and earning the cooperation of the krogan slows the Reaper advance and keeps Shepard busy, which helps TIM. So why do it in the first place? Same with the bomb on Tuchanka.
Also, the Coup, while an ingenious idea, had no clear endgame. Why did Udina agree to this? What did TIM offer him that made him change his mind? It was clear Shepard was making headway in convincing the other races to cooperate because by the end of Tuchanka you likely genuinely cured the genophage and secured Turian and Krogan cooperation, so why go to Cerberus in the first place? And what would Udina have done even if the Councilors had been killed? There's no way the other races would let him take sole power.
I read somewhere on this forum that there was some sort of reasoning in the works for the Sur'kesh mission regarding Cerberus' attack on the STG base, though I don't know if that's true.
As for the coup attempt, had Shepard not intervened, it's possible that Cerberus could have eventually closed up the station, basically turning it into an impenetrable fortress, while the troopers mop up the rest of C-Sec and keep the civilian population under control. I can't imagine that the reapers wouldn't have some means to reopen the station if they wanted. I mean, puny humans have garage door controls in their cars.
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