User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination Theorists Say the Darndest Things, Part II/@comment-5830255-20121205074259/@comment-5830255-20121205085949

"Please, just have the intellectual honesty to admit that if Shepard gets indoctrinated with the Object Rho"

Why would he get indoctrinated there? He kills another Reaper on Rannoch, that speaks volumes to whether indoctrination has succeeded yet or not. Most people think it's sometime around the ME3 ending, usually after you get hit by harbinger. But he hit you 2 times before that, so I think at the top of the hill before running to the beam.

Also it's possible the loss of assets could tie in with Shepard's willpower in a way, just want to point this out before anyone mentions it. By not going there, Shepard is potentially less aware of the Indoctrination attempt at the end of ME3 if he doesn't hear "Your mind will be mine". Heck the player would be less likely to know. As I explained in one of my posts, Bioware is known for making the narrative easily misconceived simply by not doing something, or hearing something.