User blog comment:Legionwrex/How did Saren reach the Citadel?/@comment-1440333-20130507094740

Well Shep and Anderson go through a Conduit beam unprotected in ME3, and I imagine the Mako only crashed because of the speed it hit the Conduit - in ME3 Shepard limps in and is only thrown a few feet - no problem for a healthy Saren and a legion of geth and krogan.