User blog comment:Arbington/ME3 Theories/@comment-2107876-20100702090023

Has anyone played Kasumi Goto: Stolen Memory DLC?

It's mentioned that what is contained in the graybox, that Sheperd & Kasumi are trying to steal back, is severve enough to implicate the Alliance. Perhaps the player's decision on what to do with it will have an effect on ME3.

Also what about the implications of the fate of the data obtained at the conclusion of the 'N7: Lost Operative' assignment in ME2. Once decrypted and depending on what to do with the info, it could hinder Cerberus in ME3. Then again, completing the Cerberus related assignments in ME1 didn't really have any ramifications on ME2.

Personally, I think because of the nature of importing squad member deaths from ME2 to ME3, the ME2 members will be more likely be supporting characters and the focus will return to the surviving ME1 characters. In ME3, I think we'll see rachni and geth co-operations (depending on the choices made in ME1 & ME2 respectively), Krogans coming to the fold (again depending on Wrex surviving ME1) and have either Cerberus or Alliance backed support. I think it'll be interesting, what role Cerberus will have in ME3, if the player chose destroy the Collector base. Surely the Normandy has gone rogue from Cerberus? And no doubt the Illusive Man has something up his sleeve (or hidden in EDI's programming) that will screw with Sheperd in some way.