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Originally Posted by Baxter Renegade
Bioware will (should) release future downloadable content making Shepard's indoctrination the real ending, with an epic final battle scene shown thereafter; The Crucible blasting away reapers with ease.
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I hope not. Let's not forget that the Crucible has no specific weapons or targeting systems (noted by Admiral Hackett and in the codex as well I believe). It's basically a big battery to attach to the Catalyst (the Citadel). If it were to fire, it would likely be like the first Death Star where it would be too slow and overpowered to fire on Reapers, anyway. It's supposed to be a one-shot-kill-all solution.
Also, they've been toting the reapers as incredibly difficult to destroy. In the final fleet attack, it took a ton of ships focusing on one destroyer to take it down. I doubt the combined fleets of the galaxy (remembering that many of them have taken heavy losses before arriving at Earth) could take on the entire Reaper fleet and win, which is why the Refusal ending is correct in how they would lose and only little information capsules would be left to find by the next cycle's population.
They haven't explained where Shepard is or how he/she's alive in what appears to be London in the special Destroy ending, but I imagine they never will.
Regarding the Normandy being able to just float in front of Harbinger without a care in the world, isn't it possible that Harbinger "sees" things via sensors, and the Normandy's stealth systems allow it to be invisible to Reapers? It kinda was able to just fly away from Earth without being attacked at the beginning of ME3, and it weaved through the massive battle over Earth at the end with no problems as well. It also has the Reaper IFF from ME2 which would make it a friendly to Reapers? I imagine all this together should work in their favor, right?