The Benefactor is...

Actually the Benefactor is...

Since we're speculating, as I've said elsewhere I think TIM would send his son, The Elusive Man, as a stowaway son of the Benefactor on the incoming Arks. Since TIM was voice-acted by Martin Sheen, it only stands to reason that TEM would then be voiced by Charlie Sheen. NFSW and Trigger Warning:

I didn't say it was a good plan. I just said he could, because Citadel DLC did that whole evil clone thing, and now no matter what, that is always a possibility. Anyone can return. IF they made illusive man a younger version than when ME2 started, a better version than the ME3 one I might not mind it so much. Martin Sheen was amazing for that role and in ME2 until the end he was kind of one of the more interesting villains. Saren was fascinating. But with tim, you had no idea where he stood. Yeah, definitely he was looking for power. But was there true goodness in his intentions? At least initially? When he brings Shepard back? Someone like that who walks that line where you are never really sure if the are purely self motivated or if they have good intentions or when they have a balance of the two is usually a very compelling character, more so in a villain. He was actually an antagonist within ME2 while also being your psuedo ally.  At  the time, many people hated being stuck with him. I know I felt like my Shepards never really got to say most of what was on their mind. Most especially at Horizon. But I still have to admit that Illusive Man for most of that game was spot on awesome. I remember seeing some debates over his character that reminded me of the good old days with Loghain from DAO. Ah... memories.... I'm feeling nostalgic now.

The thing with Cerberus is that the Andromeda initiative would have bankrupted the Human enconomy a few time over, Cerberus' front companies would have no where near the finiancial power to support such a venture on their own.

Likewise too many suspicions transaction on the part of Cerberus' shells would cause attraction by the Alliance's finanical authorities. Unless Bioware wants us too believe Cerberus has been commiting massive finanical fraud for decades that has gone unnoticed by the authorities, hence Cerberus was able to finanance and army and dozens of super secret science projects, but that's a writing problem of the orignal trilogy.