User blog comment:Stabber ApSig/Mass Relays Gone, ME3 ending/@comment-76.178.25.200-20120311031854/@comment-82.131.106.219-20120311200122

If that's what you choose to believe... but let me challenge your logic then: - What actually caused the explosion in Arrival, was it the Asteroid exploding or the Relay exploding? - In the zoomed-out view of the galaxy where you see the relays sending the beams to each-other you can clearly see how vast the explosion is. - The Normandy was orbiting Earth at the time of the explosion (unless Joker suddenly decided to go back to Ilos to do some last minute window-shopping)... so if the cutscene shows it trying to evade the explosion then the blast surely reached Earth. BUT I'll admit that scene itself makes NO SENSE, so I'll accept if you disregard it.

I know what you're trying to do though... you're trying to compensate... explain the unexplainable to get some sort of closure... which I could do the same.