User blog comment:JakePT/Handling Mass Effect: Deception's Issues/@comment-730941-20120131124146

Re: Timeline point 7.

"7. Gillian received a pendant containing data on Cerberus from her father before leaving Grissom Academy"

Gillian leaves Grissom Academy in Ascension. This is three (or, the book calls it six) years before Deception.

The specific description of the jewel in the pendant is: "The gift from her father had arrived shortly before she left the academy."

The pendant given to her by her father contains accurate information about Cerberus' personnel, funding, assets, intentions, etc. It also contains a holovid of Paul Grayson being transformed into the Reaper husk form, which happened *three years* after it was supposedly given to her. We also must question how Grayson accessed this footage (it was obviously after his operation, and he had to be conscious enough to get the footage and send it to Gillian, which is hard to do when in a jail cell or under Reaper control).

According to Deception, Gillian received a gift from her father in 2183 (before she left the academy during the events of Ascension) that contained footage of Paul Grayson in 2186. Additionally, Grayson sent the gift while either in Cerberus' custody or under the influence of the Reapers.