[CSI: Nexus] The Jien Garson murder case

ME1 set up a lot of dangling plot threads that weren't really resolved until later games.

Even though Cerberus and the Shadow Broker were major parts of ME2 and the LotSB DLC, they still appeared as background elements in the first game that Shepard had to contend with while hunting for Saren.

Shepard dealt with a few agents of the Shadow Broker such as Fist and Barla Von, as well as being contacted directly by the Broker when he offfered to buy classified Alliance information. Shepard also discovered and shut down several attempts by Cerberus operatives to weaponise the Geth, Husks, Creepers and Rachni.

The Mysterious Benefactor is definitely being set up as a sequel hook for future games or DLC set in Andromeda.

Flemeth is much the same in Dragon Age. She's had multiple appearances in the franchise and is responsible for setting various events in motion, but it took three games before we really learned anything that shed light on her background and motivations. And we still haven't really gotten a clue what her actual endgame is, beyond seeking revenge.

Yes they were. How do introduce groups that contraversal and not expect them to show up in later plots. the shadow broker plot even states they would interact later on. Hell, the cerberus plot is hand in hand with the akuse survives shepard's background

So what if it's side content. Bioware still abvances plot on it's side content from game to game. As I said before Cerberus and the shadow broker already been hint to be expanded on regardless.

Addison in the apartment with the tired face!

With all due respect to the writers of Nexus Uprising, which I loved, we can't rely on it at all. The events in it directly contradict how those events are recalled in the game. For instance, in the book, whereas in the game, there are emails you see where people are talking about joining the uprising Sloane is starting (which was not a thing in the book.)

I thought of that. The phrasing of that email though was about it being an uprising Sloane was starting.

The book's writers (who are great) did an AMA on Reddit where they said they just got a list of characters and a few events to include, basically. Unfortunately, the studio kept them out of the loop and this is what happened.

We don't Id bodies 'at sight', and we had not even settled the Mars yet.

To me this case has the only possible explaination, it's been mentioned here (I think). It's SAM.

Any human\alien\whatever has no reasons to keep all the secrecy.

Imagine they're left behind, and Jien knows that 'this terrible person from 600 years back had given me money'...so..uhh..ok? They're 500 years dead by now. May be aging (if that's asari or krogan...that's if you can imagine krogan with unlimited money).

OR

A man comes out and says 'hi, I'm a benefactor, I gave you the money 600 years ago'. So what? Well, nothing. It's not like he\she\they have any priveleges in Andromeda, they are just one of many here. Hardly even a good reason to replace Tann the Annoying. May be they are going to get along with each other, may be they are going to space this 'benefactor' out and give them a 'fresh start'.

No fucking reason to remove Jien (other than being 200% paranoind and killing her 'just in case').

Now, if we assume that SAM had something to do with it - everything works smoothly.

1. AI is capabale of getting the money, ME1 had made it clear, and that was just a single crappy amateur programming.
2. AI has ALL the reasons to keep its 'identity' hidden well.
- Imagine MW (especially - quarians) hearig about an AI advanced enough to pull such a project off, especially after geth show up again.
- Imagine Nexus realizing that they are all basically a sandbox for the AI studies. I'd imagine the magnitude of that witch-hunt..
3. AI\SAM has ways of faking the burned body ID. (I don't believe Sloan was only identifying the body 'at sight'- writing can't be that sloppy).
4. Sam is capable of 'accidentally' waking up the crew during the Scourge encounter.
5. All those talks about 'the new universe, where AI and people can live together' (aka 'strenghts of both, weaknesses of none')
6. Had you even looked at the mission logo? It says - AI!

We don't know who's the man in Jien's room, though. But I don't think it's impossible for SAM to talk someone into the murder...(if not manipulate directly).