Mass Effect 2 Become a Spectre Again
In the first Mass Effect game, the gamer plays as commander Shepard, the first human ever to be allowed into the Spectres. This is an elite task force that answers exclusively and directly to the Citadel Council and takes responsibility for maintaining galactic peace at any cost. Spectres are highly trained and privy to information that even high-ranking military officers are oblivious to.
Shepard's role as a Spectre is particularly important in the first game and less so in the second and third, but recovering the title after their revival can offer the player some significant advantages and new dialogue options. These 10 details are some that fans might have missed while they played through the game.
10 Founded in 693 CE
The Spectres were founded in 693 CE. The games use the same dating system as we do on Earth, for ease of understanding, so this was hundreds of years before humanity had even developed the telephone.
The first Spectres were chosen from Salarian operatives and Asari huntresses. It was essential that they be combat-ready, experts in their field, and unmatched in wits and strength. Since their founding, Spectres have had no official race restriction, but they almost exclusively recruit from Council races anyway (Asari, Turians, and Salarians).
9 Modelled On Salarian STG
When the Citadel founded the Spectres, they based them off of the Salarian Special Tasks Group (STG). It's an organization within the Salarian military trained for espionage and performing especially dangerous and/or sensitive missions.
The STG is so effective that it's still active almost two thousand years later when players joined Shepard to save the galaxy. It was clearly a good choice for the Spectres' foundation. At first, they intended to use Spectres to gather intel, observe and return with information, but they quickly became much more useful.
8 The Screening Process
Becoming a Spectre isn't like getting a star on your homework. Potential candidates must show extraordinary prowess in their military or law enforcement role and may be watched from a distance for years without being told.
When they do go through an official screening process for the job, the Council performs background checks on the candidate, puts them through a psychological evaluation, and has them train in the field under another Spectre.
7 Not Funded By The Citadel
Though the Spectres were based on the Salarian Special Tasks Group, there are some clear differences between the two organizations. One of the biggest is that Spectres aren't officially funded by the Citadel.
The exact methods are unclear since it seems that Spectres do receive some kind of support from the Council, but Mass Effect players will remember with clarity that they had to save up enough credits to buy the good guns. Mordin, a companion of Shepard's who was in the STG, even makes a passing joke about how he never had to buy his own equipment.
6 Blasto, The First Hanar Spectre
Just as humanity has fictional films about the FBI, so too does the Citadel have fictional films about the Spectres. Blasto is a popular character in the pop culture of Shepard's time, known to be the "first Hanar Spectre" (since no Hanar have ever been recruited into the ranks of the real organization).
If the player is looking, they can find little references to Blasto and his adventures throughout the trilogy. If anything, Blasto exhibits how fascinated the galactic population is with the mysterious Spectre organization.
5 The Political Games
Spectres almost exclusively come from the Council races (Salarians, Turians, and Asari), besides a few exceptions. As a result, races pushing to nominate a Spectre candidate can be as much a political move as anything.
The player gets a taste of this in the first Mass Effect when the other humans (especially Udina) encourage them to work towards becoming a Spectre. Humanity had been vying for a position on the Citadel Council for years, even though a race hadn't been added since the Turians in 900 CE, and hoped that a human Spectre would strengthen their case.
4 Meant To Fend Off The Krogan
Krogan
The Krogan in Mass Effect are a hard-headed race (literally) with militaristic tendencies. They were first encountered by the Council in 80 CE. A few hundred years later, their population was booming and they were beginning to invade other planets and encroach on Citadel space.
The Spectres were formed right before the Krogan Rebellions (war between the Council and the Krogans) broke out since the Council was becoming uneasy about their precarious situation. They needed a first line of defence against the Rachni, the Krogan, or any other force that posed a galactic threat. But it had to be one that answered only to the Council.
3 Only Two People Have Turned Down The Job
A position as a Spectre isn't offered lightly, so it doesn't get turned down lightly either. However, two women did decline the offer. They were both Asari matriarchs -- a stage in the Asari life cycle that begins when they are 700 years old or so.
There's a chance for Shepard to become the third. If the player doesn't renew their Spectre status in Mass Effect 2, the council will try to reinstate it at the beginning of Mass Effect 3. Being a Spectre comes with bonuses in-game, but Shepard can refuse the offer all the same.
2 All The Ones You Meet Can Die
Shepard seldom meets other Spectres over the course of the trilogy. This isn't unusual behaviour within this organization; each one tends to work alone, teaming up only as much as necessary to complete their missions.
Of the Spectres that Shepard does meet, they can all die, depending on the player's choices. The only exception to the rule is Ashley or Kaidan, one of whom becomes a Spectre in 2186. However, since one of them always has to die on Virmire, it probably still counts at heart.
1 Spectres Outrank Everyone
In-game, Shepard continues to call Alliance members by 'sir' and 'ma'am' after becoming a Spectre. It's unclear whether Shepard actually keeps their rank in the Alliance military after becoming a Spectre, but it is known that, in practicality, Shepard outranks Anderson and many others that they meet.
As a Spectre, Shepard is sworn to answer directly to the Citadel Council - regardless of what a human Alliance officer ordered them to do, Shepard, like all Spectres, is bound to follow the Council's orders (or else, like Saren's case, have another Spectre sent to kill them).
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