User blog comment:Hunter Zealot/Tie ins at the Trial/@comment-1900300-20110516050818/@comment-121.219.155.242-20110516150132

Thats what im saying. Their is no difference if Shepard is a Spectre or not in ME2. Even as a Spectre in ME2, Shepard no longer has a safety net as the Spectres have largely lost their crediblity. The tittle is mostly symbolic now, as the changing times has made the Council rely on more subtle agents like the STG. that is why the Alliance can call this trail and why the Council wont get involved to save Shepard. He has now more overstate and less untouchablity as a Spectre, and since this trial is really a scapegoating between the Alliance and the batarians, the Council would be wise enough to take a course of action that will most likely maintain peace: letting Shepard get scapegoated.