Liara's Information Broker Network
Type:	Private
Industry:	Information and intelligence
Founder:	Liara T'Soni
Dates:	20 April 2184 CE - 13 November 2185 CE (1 year, 6 months and 25 days)
Owner:	Liara T'Soni
Headquarters:	Liara's office, Economy Tower, Nos Astra, Illium
Area served:	Parts of Council space, the Attican Traverse and the Terminus Systems
CEO:	Liara T'Soni
Key people:	Nyxeris M'jafi (double agent for the Shadow Broker) Sekat Mau (Broker defector)
Services:	Information Assassination Intelligence Counter-intelligence
Number of employees:	9,800 (at peak)
Subsidiaries:	BUBBLE InfoWorks

"I spent a year getting to where I am. All these contacts, all this money, all these resources...it took everything I had to acquire them. I need it, Shepard. This is how I avenge Feron. This is how I make things right."

— Liara T'Soni to Commander Shepard in 2185 CE.

Liara's Information Broker Network, also known as the Illium Information Network, was a large information and intelligence gathering network spearheaded by Liara T'Soni and headquartered on Illium formed in mid 2184 CE with the specific purpose of waging a shadow war to bring down and eliminate the Shadow Broker in the aftermath of the War for the Corpse. Following Liara's victory in snatching Shepard's body from the Shadow Broker's clutches on Alingon, preventing its sale to the Collectors, and handing it over to Cerberus, the asari was left without a clear goal in mind and with access to an OSD provided to her by Feron Huul whilst on Alingon that contained information on some of the Broker's operations, including certain assets and operatives, and decided to use it to lay the groundwork for her new mission to destroy the Shadow Broker. Using Illium as a base from which to build her operation, Liara bought an office overlooking the trading floor of Nos Astra's Economy Tower and got to work building a network of contacts and gathering resources only a week after the War for the Corpse ended, beginning the first phase of a personal war with the Broker, waged entirely through information and targeted assassination. Initially the Broker did not pay much attention to Liara's activities, as he viewed her efforts as futile, but as it became clear that she had access to information on him that could be severely damaging, the Broker made concerted efforts to sabotage her network and, and in some cases, assassinate her. Numerous attempts on her life were made, but during her time as an information broker and as a result of Feron's double-betrayal of herself and the Broker, she had learned to be paranoid, taking numerous security precautions, always carrying a weapon on her, and suspicious of anybody she didn't know personally: as a result, all of the attempts on her life failed, Liara either narrowly escaping or killing her assassins. All the while, this only enabled Liara's efforts, emboldening her as she believed the Broker was taking her seriously, suggesting she was getting too close. Pressing on, Liara only continued to expand her network, taking any and all information she could to wield in her efforts against the Broker's own network.

Despite her successes, the Broker was good at covering his tracks, and every lead Liara followed up on would be quickly smothered by the Broker before she could act on it, and when the Broker realized assassinations weren't working, he instead set up a mole, a secretary that Liara later hired named Nyxeris M'jafi (a Broker operative whose callsign was "the Observer") who would keep an eye on Liara and report her activities to the Broker, only further frustrating Liara's efforts: despite Liara suspecting Nyxeris numerous times of being a spy, Nyxeris was excellent at gaining the trust of her victims, and took control of numerous operations Liara sanctioned, proving her loyalty to Liara and thus slowly eroding Liara's suspicion over time, allowing Nyxeris to more easily manipulate her. With Nyxeris placed perfectly to hinder her operation, Liara's network became less efficient over time, but Liara herself remained tenacious, pursuing any and all leads she could on the Broker. It wasn't until mid 2185 CE when Commander Shepard arrived on Illium to meet Liara again, helping the asari pursue a lead on an operative she discovered named "the Observer", which inadvertently lead to her discovery that the Observer was Nyxeris, at which Liara killed the unsuspecting spy before she realized she was had. Realizing she now had an opportunity, and keeping Shepard in the dark to prevent leaks, Liara tricked the Broker into believing Nyxeris was still alive, and over the period of a few months, was able to establish contact with a Broker agent who knew the Broker's true location, and was willing to give it up for an enormous amount of money. When the Broker realized the deception, he first orchestrated a series of terrorist attacks in an effort to eliminate the Normandy Squad as part of a joint effort with Cerberus, then sent Tela Vasir to eliminate Liara when this failed, a joint Cerberus-Broker raid on the liveship Rayya, an assassination attempt on Shepard himself by manipulating a quarian mechanic, and finally a failed raid on the MesoReso Hotel in an effort to eliminate Liara and Shepard. Following Liara's subsequent subsequent attack on the Halcyon, the death of the Broker's assistant and the abdication of the real Broker, Liara became their successor, with Feron (revealed to be alive) as her second-in-command. Now in possession of the Broker's information empire, Liara's old network had served its purpose, and so she absorbed its resources and contacts into her new empire, dissolving the former network.