User blog comment:Traditionalfire/Best characters/@comment-5959516-20120610160037/@comment-1388547-20120610204508

I do wonder a bit about why Cerberus seemed to become more overt and active not long before ME1, such that they appeared to have only recently gone rogue. My best guess is that the Illusive Man's data analysis senses were tingling -- similarly to how he saw the patterns "there, hidden in the data" showing that the Collectors were working for the Reapers, he may have sensed something was up before Saren and the geth attacked Eden Prime, and decided to step up the pace of his operations.