User blog comment:Damous/Why Bioware has NOT betrayed us/@comment-4657589-20120711160542

I can see how the war assets - Shepard waking up thing works. If war assets change whether Earth is destroyed or not, one of endings involving a wave of fire washing over Earth, there is one thing to consider. Very little War Assets - Earth destroyed. Little WA - Wave of fire. Tons of WA - no destruction of Earth, Shepard lives. Now. Shepard was NOT on the surface of Earth when he was talking with the Cataclyst, was he? When Earth meets the wave of fire, the dust settles and the Crucible falls to the surface of Earth, or what is left of it (Assuming Shepard actually was there), but he doesn't wake up. I can understand the fact, but if the Crucible falls to the ground when you have tons of assets (Again, if Shepard actually was there), he wakes up. This can be explained by the fact that Shepard never left Earth, the Crucible fired, Reapers have been destroyed, there was no wave of fire, so Shepard didn't die. (He was lying on the ground, so a wave of fire would surely burn him to a crisp.) There are a lot of holes in this theory, but it's possible.