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Here's my reasoning for Miranda's background:
(1) In ME:Galaxy, she's introduced as a well-traveled character with a big network of contacts. She acts as Jacob's handler or informant.
(2) She's an operative of Cerberus, which started as an Alliance black-ops agency according to Admiral Kahoku in ME1, and it's still unclear if the ties were ever completely severed.
(3) She envies Mordin's time in the STG. Clearly, she has some professional appreciation of the STG.
(4) She has combat experience and the physical attributes needed for combat.
(5) She's good enough at hacking that she's been able to put spy programs in her father's systems that went undetected for an unspecified but long time.
(6) She's good at the assessment of people. She herself says that, and it's confirmed by her role as project lead and the fact she can manage her contact network successfully. Occasional failures notwithstanding.
Facts like these (I think I could find a few more) firmly establish her primary character template as one associated with the spy trade. "Black-ops agent" is an appropriate term considering Cerberus' operational framework.
If you compare her with Mordin, who is an STG operative and also has both combat experience and scientific expertise, you notice there is a lot of similarity but one interesting difference: Mordin is a scientist/commando, with a similar problem-oriented mindset and combat experience, but apparently without the extensive contact network Miranda has. This puts her again, closer to the spy trade in comparison.
In fact, there is little in her background that points to her scientific expertise being her primary asset. Undoubtedly she has it, or she wouldn't have been able to lead the Lazarus cell, but Wilson was the primary scientific expert there, while Miranda has a stronger grasp of the bigger picture. Within the Lazarus project, I see her role in information and resources management. "Her" scientists, when they ran into a problem, would come to her to say "We know what we want to do, but don't know exactly how" or "We need some material with these attributes", and Miranda would know where to get the information and resources, and if necessary, other experts. She'd also have a different view on detail problems and may have been able to answer a few problems because of her wider range of information.
What both her roles share, the agent/operative and the project lead, is an ability to integrate information and deal with people on an individual, problem-oriented basis. Combined with her enhanced physical abilities, this makes her the perfect "superspy", as jtav has put it.
@Nightwriter:
I hope I have not "pigeonholed" her talents in this post, for this was not my intention.
@Jestina:
Try to establish a case for Miranda being nothing but a "brainwashed Cerberus cheerleader" by stating facts, please. From a certain viewpoint, and if you don't pay attention to how she says things, you might get hat impression. But I, and most of us here, maintain that picture is one-sided and ignores important personality aspects.
Modifié par Ieldra2, 27 mai 2010 - 10:11 .
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Very much that. But I first came to compare them because they share a similar outlook. They are both consequentialists tempered by compassion. They both have a ruthless streak but are not uncaring at the same time, a kind of "The ends justify some unpleasant means, but not everything" types. 
