User blog comment:LDR/Cerberus gone mad?/@comment-71.214.242.219-20110502101211/@comment-58.164.112.231-20110503054655

It was pretty much outed as Reaper tech. the Monolith was a piece of tech similar to what we have seen in ME2 that turns organics in proximity into husks. It was much faster acting then the other one but that is unclear. the storyline was that Jack Harper, aloung with ben, were exposed to the monolith and it tried to enslave them. ben was unlucky, but Jack had an interesting reaction. While the monolith was meant to decrease intelligence and drive other to protect it and bring it more victims, Jack's reaction was a great increase in instictual knowledge. he was able to understand alien laugages and a great deal of technology. What caused this is unknown. Maybe the monolith glitched and downloaded all the information it had on aliens into Jack's head. but it has never shown that jack was indortinated by it. in fact TIM has been perparing for the reaper invasion ever since. the reapers do not need proximaty to use their indoctrinated, so TIM should have been acting up before now. Plus TIM has studed the effects of indoctrination and would likely have himself tested