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@Himura While I agree that Ceberus is a fair possibility and that TIM has at least recently (around Chapter 34) used some of his influence for this, I don’ really think that the timeline matches up. Assuming that the plan was initialized at time of Ross’ death, it would put it around 6 mounts prior to Shepard’s waking up. I just got the feeling that Ceberus’ interest doesn’t reach out that far. Furthermore, in the Ceberus files they describe only two current Commissariat assets (one being Chisholm) and the overall tone were simply that Commissariat wasn’t worthy of the trouble due the close connection to Lords of Sol, extensive oversight and difficulty of recruitment.
I hadn’t actually thought about Williams, though I really can’t see a motive for him whether or not his is actually indoctrinated.
That’s an interesting question – who would have both motive and means to influence Commissariat.
The second requirement eliminates the most of players of the Game (assuming that this isn’t some internal Commissariat business), since they seem to be quite opposed to the outside influences except the Lords of Sol (Ceberus files on Commissariat descripted some of this, if I remember correctly).
And to speculate about the other, let’s assume that using her as Anderson’s political officer was the original goal since having some other unknown goals make the guessing next to impossible. That would suggest that it’s related to NOVENSILES since very few people outside Ceberus were aware of Shepard’s upcoming revival at that point.
I might be complete of the target here but my guess would be President Windsor. He would probably have still some influence among the Commissariat, especially with those elements of Commissariat that feel the direction Manswells are taking is harmful for Alliance. He would also access to very limited resources at that point of time and be forced to use some more indirect ways to acquire both reliable and, if things go south, deniable agents to oppose the Manswells.
@Himura, yes I agree it would be totally in line with what we know of Commissariat to manipulate memories that way. And in my opinion that would be very clever use of different narrative perspectives. However, for me that then would really beg the question – why?
Assuming that Udina’s account is correct and Susan is being manipulated, I just can’t see the logic behind the actions of Commissariat. Why to see all the trouble for destabilizing Susan’s mental state? Because of Anderson? Are they in some indirect way trying to prevent NOVENSILES? To protect it? Furthermore, I would assume that manipulation of that sort would take some time whereas thread of her disposal seemed to be quite real (several sources has mentioned it) and the decision of appointing her to Anderson seems to be very recent (caused by the indirect influence of Shepard/TIM).
Also, there would have to be some kind of gain from the manipulation, in other words Commissariat believing that this way Susan is more effective to complete whatever mission she actually has with Anderson. That would be the only logical reason if they actually thrust her and all of their “disapproval” is just smoke and mirrors.
Hey,
On the topic of the Susan, I noticed there was some discrepancies about her actions while Shepard was being revived by Ceberus (Chapters 12 and 34).I do realize that these accounts were from the different point of views and that narrators might have incomplete or inaccurate information. This would be very logical especially on Susan’s case, since her state of mind seems to be highly effected. However, those differences seem to be quite substantial: e.g. Susan’s self-narration doesn’t mention of her being assigned to Spectre Ross and according to Udina she lost her eye in the same incident that killed Ross (instead of in the part of stopping an escape attempt on Earth). Furthermore even if this would be the same incident, it would be odd for Commissariat to assign her as prestigious position as a political officer of Humanity’s Spectre, if they would be so highly displeased of her about events following destruction Normandy SR-1. And this would also be a weird thing for Udina to misremember since Humanity’s Specters are very much within his sphere of influence.
So those were some my nit-pickings about the last paragraph. Overall loved the chapter and can’t wait for more.
