User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-123.2.70.12-20120530045707/@comment-4835791-20120530074630

I'm not sure but it's stated somewhere that the Ilos conduit isn't working anymore and that's why Shepard has to hurry before it closes... Don't force yourself to believe in such hole, my bets are that Bioware wanted to put a classic run-from -explosion scene. by the way the planet can't be Ilos as it's said that it can't hold life and the planet where the Normandy crashes looks like an unexplored garden planet.