At first, i thought it would be a Salarian Spectre. But apparently, they don't live long. Perhaps a group of Salarian Spectres, or an Asari Spectre? Perhaps an entire organization working under the Counsil? Or an AI. Anyway, we know that Shadow Broker deals info equally so that no government gains advantage. This could suggest that he's working for the council. But it could be just that the Broker doesn't want to upset anyone or reveal his loyalties.
Could be The Illusive Man. Cerberus has lots of money, has a vast information network, and despite the Illusive Man's human centric agenda, he probably doesn't want to set other species after humans by favoring his own species. It's better to use the info he gathers more covertly and sparingly.
Rogue AI. There already was a rogue AI in Mass Effect 1, stealing money so it could one day contact the Geth and transport itself to them. So it's certainly possible a rogue AI would be interested in money.
A secret group working under Volus government. The Volus are the best merchants in the Galaxy, but they don't have a military. Instead, they rely on the protection of the Turians. With Shadow Broker, they could use the intel powerful enough to topple governments for their advantage, gain money, and ensure they aren't entirely dependent on the Turians.
It's probably Mordin though.
Interesting. If you consider it for a while, it becomes clear that whether Shadow Broker exists or not, someone would use his name for intimidation and to attract buyers. So this has to be true at least to some extent.Schneidend wrote...
The Shadow Broker isn't really a person, just a meme unknowingly perpetuated by his supposed agents. These agents exchange information in secret, all thinking they work for some Ultra Information Broker. It's actually just them, and their exchange, acquisition, and sale of information. They are ALL the Shadow Broker, and they don't even realize it.
At least, that's my theory.
Really? I wasn't aware of that.Fluffeh Kitteh wrote...
slimgrin wrote...
Me thinks the Illusive man and the shadow broker are the same.
Thoughts?
Didn't the Shadow Broker want to deliver dead Shepard to the Collectors? Seems pretty contrary to what TIM wants.
Had it been TIM, it could've presented an interesting conflict between you and your ex-partners in Mass Effect 3, as Liara's path is about to cross Shadow Broker's. Depending on your choices in ME2, you could either help Liara against TIM, or vice versa.
Yeah. Far too obvious. Working openly like that, she wouldn't last a Galactic standard day.Unata wrote...
It's Sha'ira, seems obvious to me anyway
Update:
This is not a bad theory, because Barla Von or whatever his name was, seemed really eager to get Saren, didn't even demand any pay, and his desire to get to Saren seemed almost personal.Space Shot wrote...
The volus "agent" on the presidium.
He
was the only one who freely volunteered information about the SB and,
on top of that, was the only one who identified himself in his dealings.
All of the other "conspirators" have been very careful to hide their
true identities yet the volus you met in the first game was so
incredibly open about what he did and who he was. Now, this could very
well have just been a piece of convenient exposition but if we are to
guess the identity of an illusive man (the literal term, not the
character) we must think of the one who gains the most deception in
choosing his persona. This could lead us to choose the one that, at
first, we least suspect through most improbability like Tali or Joker,
or though moderate improbability like the LI or Miranda's Father.
However each of these characters must put considerable amount of effort
in hiding their ties because if it were so known that they were having
some sort of back-room dealings of some sort suspicion would naturally
be abound. Now, if you look at the volus agent you have an individual
with very well known ties to a secret organization who can conduct
dealings with that organization without anyone thinking twice about the
affair, regardless of what that affair may be. Secret communicae, shady
people coming in at all hours, these are the sorts of things you expect
from someone involved with the shadow broker but you immediately pass
them off as the dealings of a mere agent because that is what you are
told and being a good little boy you take what you see serves as perfect
justification without a thought otherwise.
In effect, he is the
person you would lest suspect because he is the person that you would
most suspect had you not taken his word at face value, which you cannot
do when trying to peel the lies from any writers work. They are clever
and manipulative little bastards and if you turn your back on them for
even one minute they'll send you up the creak and on a tangent until the
time that they feel you are finally ready to handle the truth that was
right there in front of you to begin with.
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