User blog comment:Mexican215/So who was satisfied with the last battle against the Reapers?/@comment-4967682-20130213023320/@comment-4950455-20130213063401

When people say Shepard solely survived due to plot armor, it's not an exaggeration: Hammer was obliterated. I don't blame Harbinger for not making certain that the guys who it mostly vaporized were genuinely, honestly dead.

(This does, of course, raise the question of how Anderson got to the beam.)