User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-1841436-20120320221509/@comment-30303790-20120321014836

You do have a right to you opinion, and trying to change someones mind on something like this can literally be impossible. If the links having been provided cannot persuade you, I very seriously doubt that I can. That having been said, I'm not one to give up so easily (had to go get dinner) :p

Ok, about seeing Shepard and others wounded. You are right the battle zone is massive, encompasing not only large portions of the planet but even the space around it. What you are forgetting however is that getting someone on the Citadel is the only way of winning in the war against the Reapers. The strategic value of every other battle is null and void if this plan fails, and unlike the protheans who fought a war of attrion, this cycle has pooled all (available and "earned should you have done so in game) resources on this one push. So its hard to imagine that this area is of upmost importance, and is not being examined with exact detail.

You are also assuming that the Turians brought farming equipment (seeds/spores/something of this nature) to grow and that it is possible to be done so on Earth. Both Quarians and Turians cannot eat food that humans can, and I believe that goes the same when reversed. While the Quarians do have ships we cannot know whether they left the ships holding such resources on Rannoch or if they brought them, but in either event it would be in poor planning to bring these "glass cannons" into battle since they hold all the Quarians necessities. These ships could not support the populations of both races, and while yes, there are great deals of wreckage from the battle Turians in need of supplies could easily be reason enough for the Quarians to flee the area.

As for the Mass Relays being built, neither you nor I can actually know how long it would take to reverse engineer, but it should be noted that raw reasources in the system are realatively depleated and you can only expect so much from destroyed ship hulls. Then there is the problem of timing, with things like food and especially clean drinking water in limited amounts and needed in high demand, could a mass relay be built in time? And could it be used to find resources before the races kill each other off?

Finally, one point I saw you make earlier was that the squad members who had been with Shepard could have been picked up via shuttle. I ask you how? An experienced pilot was shot down easily, and way before the 15min of WTF occurs, yet a shuttle managed to slip in and pick up the crew and make it back to the Normandy unharmed...that is more than a stretch. If such a thing was possilble why not fly into the beam so as to actually accomplish something?