User blog comment:Arbington/The Next Cycle/@comment-5038903-20120805033001/@comment-3258762-20120805094111

It's meant to be a cliffhanger for either future games or to have people buy more DLC to know what happens even if they will never get it. ME2 also ended in a cliffhanger with the reapers arriving. Not sure about ME1, i don't remember the ending for that.