

When the two followed Tazzik to the Broker's base on Alingnon, they come face-to-face with the Broker, so to speak, as an obscure shadowy figure. He sent Tazzik, his personal enforcer, to retrieve Shepard's remains from the Blue Suns on Omega, a task at which he succeeded despite interference from Liara T'Soni and Feron. As Harbinger is talking about the deal to the Shadow Broker, only one voice is responding to the Collector General (possessed by Harbinger at the time) further hinting that the Shadow Broker is indeed a singular individual. In Mass Effect: Redemption the Shadow Broker was hired by the Collectors to retrieve Shepard's body and deliver it to them. Either way, the agent assures Shepard that this encounter will not be forgotten by his employer the next time Shepard needs the Broker's assistance.

If Shepard refuses, the Shadow Broker's agent claims the information will be dug out of the Alliance databases eventually.

Shepard can agree or refuse to sell the information. However, all the Shadow Broker could find out was that there was Cerberus activity in the Voyager Cluster. According to the agent, Admiral Kahoku bought the Broker's services to find Cerberus' location, in return for passing on any files he discovered. The Broker was furious at this treachery, hiring Wrex to assassinate Fist.Īfter raiding the Cerberus base on Nepheron as part of a chain of missions, an agent for the Shadow Broker contacts Shepard aboard the SSV Normandy, wanting to buy the Cerberus files the team managed to recover. However, unknown to her, Fist had changed his allegiances to Saren. She wanted to trade the information for a safe place to hide, so a local doctor by the name of Chloe Michel put her in touch with the club owner Fist, who worked for the Broker. The Shadow Broker was part of the reason Tali came to the Citadel: the data file she had proving Saren Arterius had gone rogue put her in danger but was too valuable to waste. Barla Von, one of his operatives, refers to the Broker as "he" for convenience's sake, but tells Commander Shepard that he believes the Shadow Broker is a group of individuals: it does not seem possible for a single individual to monitor all of the available information and have such a wide sphere of influence. In 2183, the Shadow Broker's identity was unknown the Broker always operates through an agent.
