implodinggoat wrote...
1: Proved they were incompotent by accidentally releasing Rachni.
2: Turned the entire Chasca colony into Husks just to see what would happen.
3: Used children as lab rats to try and create a superior biotic.
4: Murdered Admiral Kahoku's entire unit by luring them into a Thresher Maw lair just to see what would happen.
5: Murdered Admiral Kahoku to cover it up.
6: Murdered an entire Alliance battalion on Akuze in another Thresher Maw experiment, which just so happened to be Shepard's unit if you picked the Sole Survivor origin story.
First, in response to your suggested possibilities:
A: Proves that you are just as much of an unprincipled traitor as everyone at Cerberus. Welcome to the team!
B: C-Sec thinks you are dead. Cerberus knows everything the Alliance knows. Cerberus has people feeding intel to the Alliance. You were allowed to dock at the Citadel because of something Cerberus did. How close do you think you would have gotten without their permission? Citadel defenses are pretty good against anything that isn't Sovereign. And before you win EDI's trust, she could have easily killed everyone on the ship at a word from TIM so that probably wouldn't even have been necessary.
Not working with Cerberus isn't an option for you because it leads to the extinction of every space-faring species in the galaxy. It's not that no one else has the balls to do it, they pretty much gave Cerberus everything they needed to get it done, and then backed off - despite the garbage coming out of their mouths, the Council and the Alliance clearly know what is going on at some level and have sanctioned this.
Secondly, in response to your claims of how lame Cerberus is:
1: It's not an accident, it's an experiment with very wide parameters. Many parallels in human history. Way too many to list.
2: Again, this is sadly something that has happened a lot in history. Japan, China, America, Great Britain, Germany - doesn't make it right, but no computer program can account for the human touch to experimentation. Gruesome but true.
3: Beating a dead horse here, but .... humans don't generally breed for failures, you know? A desire to improve the species is part of our genetic code. Sometimes it is expressed more forcefully than just making babies.
4: Military leaders send units to their death all the time. Scientists experiment on living creatures. Have you seen what they do at Avon to make new colors of lipstick? At least the Cerberus test had a point.
5: Murdering people to cover up secrets is a time-honored tradition of governments, large organizations, and corporations.
6: Of all the origins, I think Sole Survivor was the most cheated in not being able to at least try to refuse to work with Cerberus. That makes no damn sense at all. Other origins, I can come up with ways to justify it but the fact that the default origin and character just weakly agrees with everything Cerberus hands them just falls flat. If the default Shepard is that much of a spineless loser, why bother bringing him back?
The point is, TIM is correct when he states that Cerberus is humanity. It is just that it is the worst parts of humanity, the parts that we should be trying to overcome, and certainly not the parts that should be in charge. However, for this particular mission, it's probably the best parts to work with. Asking the Reapers to sit down and discuss the issue isn't going to work.
I would like to clarify that I do NOT approve of Cerberus. I just rationalized working with them for both my Renegade and my Paragon characters. It was easier for my Paragon, actually. In the big picture, Cerberus is actually pretty big. I'm more disillusioned by the Alliance's weak stance on Cerberus - they're obviously still working together, and it pisses me off. But if I want to stop the Reapers, this is all I have so I have to make it work. I do plan to kick TIM in the balls someday.
I hate being a Cerberus apologist. I'm going to go wash my hands now.
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