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I'm on that mission where Liara asks you to hack terminals to find out who a Shadow Broker agent is. Observer or something. Problem is, I know that her secretary is the culprit, but I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I don't like Liara. I say this in a purely in character stance, because she's an okay person. But I never took her on any missions in the first game purely because I had to tote her around for some crackpot theory she had that just happened to be right that was explicitly based off of a hunch she had. Yes, she found out about the Reaper cycle ... but had no data to support it. And she was blaming her age on why her hypothesis was thrown out. *good job*
Anyway, I kinda ignored her for the whole game (didn't even take her to Noveria, hehe) and all was good. But then she pops up in the second game and until I see her I actually forgot who she was. Then I remembered 'oh yeah my blue handbag that I didn't want'. She explains to me that she's become a super information broker who threatens people in the same tone and sayings as Benezia (seriously, I was tempted to take the nonexistent 'biotic charge the undead Matriarch out the window' option) because she was an archeologist and archeology is exactly the same as information dealing. After a brief time raging, I did her sidequest and got XP for it, but now she gave me another one and here I am. The thing is, my Shepard's a paragon, but I'm tempted to deliberately screw Liara over just for the lulz, and because I like the Shadow Broker far far better than I ever liked Liara.