JohnnyDollar wrote...
@Flamewielder
The ME3 story will be alluring that is for sure. I hope so anyway. Cerberus may not even play an integral role in ME3. I would like Shep to be involved in something original though. First it was the Alliance and the Spectres and then it was Cerberus. Although it is a weird twist being resurrected by Cerberus and working with them, it was awkward at the same time. I hope that Shep's association with another organization or entity will be different and maybe even unconventional like it was with Cerberus.
I hear ya. I personally think that the table is kinda set, though. We first heard of Cerberus back in ME1 and we have not heard of any new organisation in ME2 (aside from the Justicar order and I don't think Shep would be invited...). It feel rather like the chess board is now set up, with all the pieces in position for the endgame. Bioware's got us where they wanted: drooling in anticipation of ME3 to see how everything will resolve itself. Clever buggers!

Wether my Shepard decided to return to Spectre status or told the Council to shove it is probably going to be irrelevant in the grand scheme of things and thats alright. To me, it's just a role-playing decision. We can probably hasard a guess at the rough outline of ME3 by analysing the challenges facing Shepard:
1) Convincing Council races of the Reaper threat (Turians, Asari, Salarians and Humans); or winning back the confidence of alien Council races following the death of the Councillors.
2) Convincing Quarians and Geth not to go to war or persuading survivor species to join the fight
3) Convincing Wrex/Warlord to contribute Krogans to the fight even if that set back his plans for Krogan revival
4) Convince the Terminus systems and other non-council species that war preps are not preparation for an invasion of their space
5) Figure out how the Reapers will next try to return and make sure they fail.
Plenty of work to keep the crew busy... plenty of Reaper daddy bags to kick...