User blog comment:Damous/Why Bioware has NOT betrayed us/@comment-791183-20120315214345

Well there was one great thing that came out the of the ending. There is so much to interpret from it. Even if this may have been unintentional, you can unpick whatever you want and make it your ending. My thoughts were that either three parallel universes were created at the point when Shepard was going to choose the ending (which would mean future games could be feasible).

My other theory is that the Normandy didn't actually maroon on that world. That symbolises Paradise, Heaven or whatever. And that the organic species were harvested into the Reapers, but their minds lived on collectively in a dream-world as represented with the paradise-like planet.