I think one of my beefs with making Cerberus major antagonists in ME3 is it seems to contradict that we found out in 1 and 2- that Cerberus is a relatively small, cell-based, decentralized organization that nearly bankrupted itself bringing Shepard back and constructing a new Normandy. But suddenly they're an outright army with tons of ships, soldiers and the most advanced equipment? All of this without so much as a sneeze from the Alliance?
Cerberus seems to freely mutate to fill whatever role the writers want it to without much thought to realism, or what was previously established.
There are Cerberus agents on the Alliance's payroll according to the novels, so it's not surprising that they don't do much to stop them, and part of their resources might even come from there. The troops you fight in ME3 might even be former Alliance soldiers, just like Jacob.
Oh, I'm sure they have agents all over the place. It's just the scale of it. It was supposed to be a sleeper op, working under everyone's radar. Shepard and the SR2 were supposed to be highly unusual and taxing for them. And yet they suddenly have uniforms, ships and heavy armament, and also built a whole space station in nothing flat. I have trouble buying that they could get all the pomp and circumstance without even attracting the Alliance's notice.
Real-world deep-cover spy operations don't have tanks, jet fighters and spiffy uniforms for everyone, you know? People notice that stuff.
I'm not saying it ruins everything, but it stretches credibility when they give us contradictory information. Are they a deep-cover op, or a full-on private paramilitary group?
I suppose it's much easier to hide a huge deep cover operation like that with a huge economy and thousands of worlds to hide in. Cerberus' military could be considered small in the grand scale of things.
Yeah, Cerberus was supposed to have been majorly crippled by the attack coordinated between Anderson and the turians at this point, as well.
I'll accept "well TIM still has backers in the military industrial complex" as an answer just because I want them to bother to address the question of funding at all.
Isn't Cord-Hisop (sp?) supposedly one of their backers? If the Alliance is using them as their shipbuilder to rebuild their fleet from the Citadel attack then there's a very real chance that they could amass the funds in a very short period of time.
Cerberus seems to freely mutate to fill whatever role the writers want it to without much thought to realism, or what was previously established.
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Real-world deep-cover spy operations don't have tanks, jet fighters and spiffy uniforms for everyone, you know? People notice that stuff.
I'm not saying it ruins everything, but it stretches credibility when they give us contradictory information. Are they a deep-cover op, or a full-on private paramilitary group?
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I'll accept "well TIM still has backers in the military industrial complex" as an answer just because I want them to bother to address the question of funding at all.
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