The Mysterious Benefactor

If you've fallen for the tricks of the Shadow Broker, sure, you can believe that.

But again - The Yagh we kill in Lair of the Shadow Broker isn't the real Shadow Broker according to my theory. It's just a decoy the real Shadow Broker set to make his disappearance hidden.

Liara even says that the Yagh was most likely a pet of the Shadow Broker that broke free, killed the Shadow Broker and took over the whole operation. I think the Yagh didn't kill the real Shadow Broker - It was just supposed to look like that.

Disintegration is merely a flesh wound.

So I am a little late to the discussion, but TIM shouldn't be possible as Bioware already said Cerberus was too busy with shep and preparing for the reapers to fund the Initiative. Not to mention like others have stated, it doesn't make sense that TIM would fund aliens. I like the idea that the shadow broker could be the benefactor(the one prior to the Yag broker). But, I could also see it being some sort of original character or group that we haven't ever encountered yet.

It's not damn obvious it is someone else,that is just your opinion,don't treat it like fact. To gain the material and money needed for such a large project they would of needed to open the project up to other investors,they might have plans to kill all the other races once they are there and established.The fact that the other races ships ended up in much more hostile areas and took alot of damage could of been the start of it(ie tampered navigation charts)

In mass effect 2 Miranda stated TIM has multiple projects on the go at anyone time,link where Bioware said Cerberus was too busy to fund the AI,i will need more than your word.

When i say it's TIM i don't mean he is there in person but it is his influence i am talking about,you saying  they exhausted their resources is pure supposition from your end and no amount of frowny faces is going to change that.

Have you ever heard of startup venture capitol,this is pretty much how a large project like the Andromeda initiative was done,the Mysterious Benefactor most like contacted allied or affiliated companies to raise the money through various proxies ect, following me so far....good.
Now the TIM is known as the head of Cerberus,what is not known is the companies that are proxies,fronts and affiliated to Cerberus,while Cerberus would prefer a solely human venture it is not financially viable this way so by roping in other species it get the project moving from a pipe dream to a reality.
The Benefactor could be a Highly placed Cerberus agent with a mandate from TIM or not we don't know,you outright state "they would never do this" why wouldn't they are you the arbiter of what does and doesn't happen? What i am stating as my opinion not as fact like you are doing is perhaps the Benefactor is an agent of TIM with a mandate on how to proceed.
 

I'll be down with the original Shadow Broker being the Mysterious Benefactor. Because they'd be in Andromeda, as opposed to TIM who isn't. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of the Mysterious Benefactor story arc if we find out it's somebody who has been dead for 6 centuries. Unless we get TIM clone, which is even worse.

All we know of the original Shadow Broker's death is a few notes on a terminal. Notes that make the Yahg Shadow Broker look like a god, the way they read it seems like it took him mere days to become a trusted operative and then a few days later kill the original Shadow Broker. The Yahg could have just wrote that stuff to make himself feel special.

I would also love an Asari Matriarch broker, would be a great romance for Ryder.

Just returning the favour. Your post directed at me was awfully hostile and rude.

Everything I've posted in in the games. All I've done is to point out things that make sense and things that don't make sense. It's not really a personal thing, but I think a lot of people have a hard time telling the difference between facts/opinions at times.

My point isn't that it's guaranteed that it's the Shadow Broker. My point is that it's definitively not making sense that it's the Illusive Man, or Cerberus. For some reason I see the notion repeated over and over on the forums, in some kind of attempt to affirm beliefs that just don't seem to have any grounds in reality.

YOU LITERRALLY ENDED YOU POST WITH AN INSULT RIGHT THERE.

"Have you ever heard of start up capital" is a pretty rude way to start off a sentence. It's assuming ignorance.

The whole thing with "Are you the arbiter of what does and doesn't happen" is rude.

Overall this entire interaction with you has been rather unpleasant.