User blog comment:Koveras Alvane/The Beauty of Mass Effect 2 Ending/@comment-68.193.155.192-20130424033031/@comment-2250460-20130424152538

Pretty sure the main goal was to stop the Reapers. I think I even (somewhat jokingly) guessed on an old Pre-ME3 blog that ME3 would have paragon Shepard make peace with the Reapers.