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>>718820516
>The whole fucking story of 1 is enabled by you being a Spectre.
Exactly. Being a Spectre is like being James Bond with a license to kill and able to get away with a bunch of shit that would normally be super illegal for a normal citizen but it's okay because he's a secret agent.

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And in terms of carrying over story elements into the 2nd and 3rd game, a lot of players care more about the companions than anything else in the story. Their main concern is stuff like "will Tali be in this game and can I fuck her?" not "but how will my time in Cerberus affect the plot going forward?"