I was playing Illos a few hours ago when all of the sudden it hit me, how exactly did Saren survive going through the Conduit? He clearly wasn't in a vehicle when Shepard and Co. dropped down, and there certainly isn't some crashed vehicle or Dropship near the Citadel Relay when you look around.
So did he just walk into it? Forget if you can even survive going through a Mass Replay unprotected, but the sheer amount of force you come out of on the other side would certainly be enough to kill him.