User blog comment:Markurion/Extended Cut or Prolonged torture?/@comment-3538356-20120408032009/@comment-1441235-20120408175054

How does the galaxy continue without the Citadel and especially the mass relays? Travel between clusters is now next to impossible due to the time it would take to travel those distances using the galactic standard FTL drives. The only way out is if the races somehow manage to reverse engineer the Reaper's FTL drives. That can't happen in the Control ending because the Reapers leave. It can't happen in the Destroy ending because the Reapers are, as the name implies, destroyed. Maybe they get the knowledge of how to build them in the Synthesis ending through osmosis when everyone gets combined, but thats a stretch, and would screw over the other two endings. I find it hard to believe that they plan to somehow undo the extreme FUBAR-ness of this ending with just a bit more exposition.