User blog comment:Ironreaper/Did Shepard leave Ceberus./@comment-204.210.207.90-20100915194803/@comment-2256917-20100916051359

Spart is probably right regarding what he calls "suspension of disbelief", or, what I would call, "assuming the designer(s)'s competence". For, indeed, the labor, deadlines, or whatever, might constrain the designer(s) in this or that way. But a competent author or designer would make sure that what is ultimately effected "in-universe" is sensible or applicable in-universe. Or in short, a competent designer intends what is made. The fate of Cerberus-Shepard relations isn't yet clearly established. Just look what they did to Shepard's relation to Alliance from ME to ME2.

I guess the designers of the computer characters, at least, have free will; anyway, the example of Shepard's disposition to Cerberus is good. -- But surely we could agree that the paragon choice renders the surviving squadmates (assuming they were loyal) explicitly "loyal" to Shepard, or at any rate, in agreement with Shepard (the best example is Miranda who tells TIM to his holographic face that she is, then and there, resigning). Some of the crew banter reflects similar dispositions, but certainly not each of the crewmembers speaks. (...Of course, a romanced Ashley was in love with Shepard, but come ME2 we hear her tell us that she knows where her "loyalties" lie, apparently not altogether with Shep. Oh well).