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Post by SwobyJ on Mar 22, 2017 18:43:38 GMT
We aren't sure if it is Cerberus. It seems very likely, granted, but it might have been a Council agent or something else. It doesn't feel like Bioware wants to overly pursue this plotline, albeit the Benefactor might be a DLC subject. It's mostly there as background explanations, methinks, and bridging the two galaxies. I personally liked it. If it IS Cerberus, at least they're not named and prominent (albeit TIM having the money to fund the Initiative on top of all the shit he did in ME2-3 makes him even more of a Sith Emperor) and these reveals answer several questions as to how the AI got its funding and why it got off the ground at that precise timing. 'Funding' is true but a bit of an implicit exaggeration. Giving it a jump start is probably much cheaper than giving a consistent funding. The Ai was flopping, so Cerberus (at least at far as we know) made sure it didn't flop, and as time went on, more interest popped up anyway. But even this little mention opens up questions that I wonder if Bioware wants to even address. Its Cerberus-y enough to go "The Andromeda Initiative wouldn't have existed without Cerberus.", but that's it so far.
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