User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-30764484-20120605044952/@comment-30764484-20120608013346

Well, it's all canon even if you don't want to believe it, but here's another point about Conviction. If Shepard hadn't destroyed the Relay, then Vega wouldn't have gotten into a fight with then, and he specifically mentions that fight while trading stories with Garrus in ME3. Can't get around that. Arrival is canon.