User blog comment:Ironreaper/Did Shepard leave Ceberus./@comment-204.210.207.90-20100915194803/@comment-204.210.207.90-20100916003836

I have a feeling that Shepard is going to have a lot of decisions to make at the very beginning of Mass Effect 3. I can see your point with Cerberus still funding Shepard he is connected with them even if he is not actively working with them anymore. And while (because of his hero status and wide fame- especially among humans) most of his crew will support him there may be a few who are spying for the illusive man. With the whole "free will" though if Shepard finishes on the paragon side he is more than likely going to replace the crew with men and women he knows he can trust, such as Garrus. I'm sure Anderson and Shepard can put together a trustworthy crew (even if it is manned half human and half turian- as Anderson did in the last book turning to the turians to attack Cerberus because there are too many Cerberus spies in the Alliance). At any rate, Shepard is going to have to decide between the Council and Alliance, or Cerberus. If following the paragon path Shepard is reinstated as a specter by the council and they want a qucik end to his affiliation with Cerberus. The council never truly trusted Shepard to begin with and wont tolerate him having 2 way communication with Cerberus. I'm sure he would accept information from Cerberus (just like he accepted info from the Shadow Broker in the first Mass Effect only to kill him in Mass Effect 2 DLC) but he wouldn't send information back as the council and Aliance would revoke his status and hunt him down like they did Saren. It only stands to reason that Shepard is going to have to take a side either Cerberus or the Council and Aliance. The paragon path (especially after the last book) would have to be backing the Council and Aliance and ending affiliation with Cerberus.