User blog comment:Suparockr/List of Plotholes throughout the series/@comment-5267262-20120721102720/@comment-5267262-20120802201503

Finally worked out how holes 2 and 3 could be fixed. 'Dark energy' can create a repulsion field as well as the mass effect fields. A rather bad job in the "mass effect field" article implying that making a region have a high mass will stop things from hitting it, the codex entry for kinetic barriers mentions repulsion but again implies that it is the mass effect field bit that is causing this rather than the repulsion field intrinsic to using dark energy.

I found a decent playthough video of mass 1's illos mission and that does show the citadel fully open until after the mako reached the citadel. In short all these issue have been fixed.

I shan't bring up that so long as something has the minutest bit of rest mass, its relativistic mass should reach infinity as its velocity reaches light speed since you are dividing the rest mass by 0, since it is never made clear as to quite how relativistic mass is changed by a mass effect field.