Forum:Default Choices

Hello ME wiki community. This is my first forum post here. The question I need help in is in regards to the default choices of ME2 on the PS3. I know that the default Shepard chooses renegade options for the major plot decisions as well as the minor plot decisions from the first ME, but I don't know about his decisions regarding the assignment missions. I saw on the Bioware forum from someone that the default Shepard ignores the assignment missions from the first game considering that they are optional, and only provides small cameos and references from the first game to the second if completed, and therefore they would be ignored since newcomers to the series would not understand the references from ME1, unless they go this wiki. With that all said, it seems that the default Shepard could have just ignored all the assignment missions, but completing the assignments from the first game with renegade choices also yields the same effect as ignoring them. The only difference between the two is that if you ignore the assignments from the first game then some of the NPCs will live and could possibly make a cameo in ME3. I'm talking about NPCs like Conrad Verner, Helena Blake, Chorban, and Jahleed. I mean I understand that the default Shepard is a renegade, earth born, sole survivor, soldier and that all his decisions will be renegade, but I REALLY want to know whether or not Shepard ignored or went renegade on the assignment missions from the first game. I can't fully complete/play ME2 without knowing this because of my OCD.