

Not content with this outcome, Cerberus enlisted the help of Liara and a Drell named Feron, a double agent for the Shadow Broker, to recover Shepard's body so they could attempt the impossible: resurrecting the dead. To make things worse, the Broker's buyer just happened to be the Collectors. Shepard's body had been retrieved from the icy planet on which it fell and the Shadow Broker possessed it, looking to make a decent sum of cash. Liara's beef with the Shadow Broker stems from an incident shortly after the Normandy's destruction. But if you didn't, the game adequately sets up the situation for you.

If you've read the comic series Mass Effect: Redemption, you'll already know all of the details surrounding this ordeal.


Since your good friend and former squad mate (also possible former lover) Liara T'Soni has been tracking him down for two years, Shepard rendezvous with her on Illium, and they embark on an adventure that's the best downloadable content for the game to date. Somehow the Illusive Man has tracked down intel on the location of the Shadow Broker, the galaxy's most mysterious and powerful information dealer. The Lair of the Shadow Broker begins like any other mission in Mass Effect 2: an email in your inbox. Shepard will still be able to go to places and do things with or without the council's approval, although the option of having the title back is a nice touch.Later, sucker. Although many players might put some effort into recovering the Spectre status, they might be disappointed to know that scenes mostly play out the same way, as has been spotted by those on a second playthrough. The first Mass Effect makes you use the status throughout the game, but Shepard does not start as one. This makes it is entirely possible not to be a spectre for most of the trilogy.Īlthough a Spectre is somewhat above the law, there is little change if you get reinstated as one. The Spectre status may or may not be reinstated during the second and third games of the franchise. That title is then lost right at the end of Mass Effect. The Citadel Council did not think humanity deserved a representative yet and a lot of politics and negotiation was needed until Earth was able to get one of their kind as a Special Tactics and Reconnaissance Agent. In Mass Effect, Commander Shepard had to earn the Spectre title.
