Mass Effect category

Cerberus

18 entries tagged Cerberus, 17 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Cerberus and The Illusive Man.

Gavin Archer: the Cerberus scientist who wired his brother into a VIDr Gavin Archer ran Project Overlord at the Cerberus facility on Aite and forced his autistic brother David into a merger with a virtual intelligence to keep the project funded. What becomes of both brothers is the player's doing.
The Clone: Cerberus's copy of Commander ShepardA Cerberus-made duplicate of Commander Shepard, grown to supply spare organs for the Lazarus Project and stolen from the organization by the rogue agent Rasa. Awakened in 2186, it conspired with Maya Brooks to murder the original, steal the Commander's identity, and hijack the Normandy SR-2.
Dragoon: Cerberus's biotic shock trooperThe Dragoon was a heavily armored Cerberus combat specialist of the Reaper War, a biotic shock trooper who lunged across battlefields behind whips of yellow biotic energy. Often linked by players to Project Phoenix, Dragoons shunned cover, hunted in pairs and trios, and finished fallen enemies with a stomp.
M-25 Hornet: the Cerberus burst-fire submachine gunThe M-25 Hornet was a long range submachine gun created by Cerberus as standard equipment for its troops. Built to fire three round bursts, conserve ammunition, and lay down cover fire in prolonged conflicts, it armed the rank and file of the organization's private army and eventually reached armories as far away as the Heleus Cluster.
Nemesis: Cerberus's sniper specialistThe Nemesis was a Cerberus sniper specialist fielded across the galaxy during the Reaper War. Augmented with customized implants and a suite of scanning equipment, she could kill with a single round and was usually spotted only after she had already fired.
AtlasThe Atlas was a large piloted combat mech fielded by Cerberus during the Reaper War. Heavily armed and armored, it was developed as a larger and more powerful successor to the YMIR mech and carried a living operator inside an armored canopy.
CerberusCerberus was a clandestine, human-supremacist paramilitary organization led by the Illusive Man, willing to use any means to advance humanity's place in the galaxy. Branded a terrorist group by both the Systems Alliance and the Citadel Council, it was ultimately destroyed during the Reaper War.
EDIEDI was the artificial intelligence built by Cerberus and installed aboard the Normandy SR-2. Freed of her behavioral shackles during the fight against the Collectors, she grew from a ship's defensive system into a self-aware being who took a mobile body and joined Commander Shepard's crew in the war on the Reapers.
The Illusive ManThe Illusive Man was the secretive, well-informed leader of Cerberus, a human whose true identity as Jack Harper was forgotten by most. For decades he bent his vast network and resources toward a single goal, the ascension of humanity, before his obsession with controlling the Reapers led to his downfall.
Jacob TaylorJacob Taylor was a human biotic and former Alliance Marine who became the armory officer of the Normandy SR-2, serving as a steady voice of reason during Commander Shepard's mission against the Collectors. Disillusioned with both the Alliance and Cerberus, he eventually broke with the pro-human group to fight the Reapers on his own terms.
Kai LengKai Leng was the Illusive Man's most trusted assassin, a cybernetically enhanced former Alliance marine turned Cerberus operative. He hunted Commander Shepard across the Reaper War before dying at the Commander's hand.
Kelly ChambersKelly Chambers was the yeoman aboard the Normandy SR-2 during the Collector crisis, a Cerberus recruit and trained psychologist who monitored the crew's morale and whose conscience eventually drove her from the organization.
Kenneth Donnelly: Normandy EngineerKenneth Donnelly was a Scottish engineer who served in the Systems Alliance and later aboard the Normandy SR-2. A gifted technician with little patience for the chain of command, he worked the engine room alongside his close friend Gabriella Daniels through the war against the Reapers.
Maya BrooksMaya Brooks was a former Cerberus operative and master of infiltration who worked under a long string of aliases. She compiled the dossiers for Commander Shepard's gravest missions before turning against Cerberus and the Commander alike.
Miranda LawsonMiranda Lawson was a genetically engineered Cerberus officer who led the Lazarus Project that brought Commander Shepard back from death. Brilliant and driven yet haunted by her father's control, she served as Shepard's second in command before breaking with Cerberus.
Oleg PetrovskyOleg Petrovsky was a Cerberus general regarded as a formidable military strategist and a classical scholar of war. A veteran of the First Contact War who came to side with Cerberus over the Alliance, he led the conquest of Omega and its later defense against Aria T'Loak's bid to reclaim the station.
Paul Grayson: The Cerberus Operative Who TurnedPaul Grayson was a Cerberus operative and red sand addict who raised the biotic girl Gillian as his daughter. After turning against Cerberus to save her, he was captured and made into a Reaper-controlled weapon, dying at the hands of the assassin Kai Leng.
PhantomPhantoms were elite Cerberus agents created with reverse engineered Reaper technology, agile biotic cyborgs armed with monomolecular blades and palm weaponry. They served the organization as close quarters killers during the Reaper War of 2186.