User blog comment:James12708/Why Exactly is Sheperd on Earth if Arrival Wasn't Completed/@comment-4967682-20121202110330

Because Bioware is very, very lazy.

They say it's because of you working with Cerberus. However in the last game you could've potentially had the Alliance and Council be cool with it. You even could've had them reinstate your Spectre status. And you could've potentially left Cerberus as soon as the Collectors were destroyed. Not to mention, the entire POINT of a Spectre is being able to go outside the law to complete a goal.