User blog comment:Stabber ApSig/Mass Relays Gone, ME3 ending/@comment-76.178.25.200-20120311031854/@comment-213.47.57.226-20120319141050

Even WHEN the relays were exploding in a controlled fashion and only emitting their intended shockwave, we still have the problem that the red shockwave grilled just about everything on earth IF you are below 1950 points. (which in itself does not make sense either, but suspension of disbelieve applies.) So still most major planets seem to be still toast, and as we see how fast those explosions were, most neighbour systems are fried too in a destruction ending, even when the relays did not destroy whole systems in this case.