User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-4835791-20120601081030/@comment-4950455-20120604234744

''With low enough EMS, you end up wiping out all life in the galaxy. Then you're just a failure, not a hero. You did more damage than the Reapers ever could. ''

I don't view this as a problem, really. If anything, the game needed more of a chance to truly fail - and truly succeed - not just get variations on the same pyrrhic victory.