The Nature of Cerberus

And? Doesn't discount what the Council did. 

If you want to use this line of argument, it makes it really easy for me to prove the claim that CErberus is better and more moral as complete bullshit. 

Which is also indictive again of the mindset of those in Council Space...see my comments on the Council Fleet being used to enforce their will...just in case Earth got uppity someday.

The Asari do?

And yeah I really like the Turians they are friendly, affible, cool, military war nerds and by far the better of the three races of the Council...but then it is pretty off putting them and their military personel talking about conquering 'your Earth' to their prisoner in the Citadel DLC.  Maybe normal military bravado...but at the end of the day still indicitive of a mind set... oh and then there was the whole Taeterus planetary rebellion thing.  

Indentured servant is not a slave.  They are two different concepts.  

Very slippery slope. If you are unable to repay your debt then you are essentially a slave. They just don't call it that. Just for the hell of it. It's not the same but it's not that different. As it says, the term of servitude can be extended by making up crimes committed against their masters.


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The only thing that made sense to me is there was sort of a game mechanic/lore separation. Like they didn't have the game resources to create totally not a husk Cerberus experiment, but setting wise it wasn't technically a husk. But as a general rule I agree if you did the side missions it makes 0 sense that you would join them. Maybe not rejoin the alliance after they didn't even put in the effort to collect the dog tags from your crew, but I don't see you joining Cerberus. At least with the information you had. If they wanted this, they needed more of a reason behind it IMO. Let you leave and contact the alliance, Have expendable general #5 contact you and ask you to accept and join them in order to infiltrate them. Either have him a Cerberus spy, or get killed near the end so it just looks like you worked for Cerberus and still get arrested into ME3.

The biggest issue I've always had is not being able to make a bigger deal about Akuze to TIM and Toombs being relegated to a single email. Having a selectable backstory that gives Shepard a very huge personal stake in hating Cerberus really came back to bite the writers in the ass.
That being said I think the game gives you enough opportunities to say that you're less than psyched about the relationship and are merely using the only resources you can get at this point.
I don't mind them putting on a nobler façade in front of Shepard in ME2 either, it makes sense to me. Unfortunately with so many people starting with ME2 that's all they really had to go off of.
When it comes to ME3 I have more of an issue with them suddenly becoming this massive rogue state with an army that can be enough of a problem to distract the Alliance and basically be a third faction in the war. EDI makes them seem more like a bunch of smaller cells in key positions than an army without a nation.