User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-3228423-20130417021124/@comment-208.102.219.229-20130417025835

Before Commander Lancer calls down an Exterminates on this thread, that basically most of my  explanations in a  nutshell (a big one). For the last piece, though? I say the ending cloud isn't a signal but a swarm of program able nanites generating a Mass field that either seek and fry artificial synapses, become signal receiving artificial synapses, or become genetically manipulative little implants that both manufacture prosthetics and cybernetics while re-writing DNA in order to stop bodily rejection while functioning normally. Sound like a good patch on the problem or a bunch of handwavey BS?