Forum:Question about the "Dash to the Conduit" in ME3

First off, this contains SPOILERS for one of the endings. Also this kind of goes without saying, but everyone's ending is different, I'm hoping someone else can still shed some light on something that happened

I'm going to try to ask this as simple as possible, but it's a confusing question to ask. I'm entirley open to having details spoiled, I know of the 16 endings and such.

In the Last Mission of ME3, After the Reaper is destroyed by the Missile Launcher in London, everyone makes a mad dash for the Citadel Beam, Or some call it the Conduit, like from ME1.

Just before you get to the beam, a Reaper's laser shines near you, the screen fades, and you end up coming back. But the two Squadmates that were with me are never heard from again.

Regardless of ending, does this sequence suggest that those squadmates were incinerated? I had a feeling that there was some "metagaming" going on when Anderson told me to "pick my squad carefully"

Can anyone else comment on this?

And assuming that Shepard survived, when does this also effect who comes out of the normandy when it crashes on the jungle planet?

I feel like I'm rambling because honestley this is best suited for something like an IM Chat, but anyone knowledgable on this stuff, it'd be appreciated if you could fill me in, Both times I made it to the final stage of the game, I was extremley drowsy and not making sense of a lot.

Kastrenzo 19:52, March 8, 2012 (UTC) -