Fail Shep chooses to Destroy the Reapers. He approaches the power conduit that is preventing the Crucible from firing and shoots at it with his Infinite Ammo Pistol. Images of Anderson, EDI, and Liara flash before his eyes. The conduit explodes, killing Lieutenant Commander Failure Shepard.
Red energy starts to build up around the Crucible and the Citadel. Hackett orders all surviving ships to get out of the Sol System in case the Crucible destroys them as well. Hackett's orders were well timed. The Crucible destroys all Reapers in the Sol System, but when the energy reaches Earth, things start going wrong.
Back in London, some unlucky soldiers are facing down multiple Reapers. Harbinger descends upon them, but they are "saved" by the energy, which kills all the Reapers in the city, but flash-fries all organics as well. Soon, the entirety of Earth is consumed by the energy.
The Crucible fires a blast of red energy at the Sol System's Mass Relay, which spreads the energy across the entire relay network. The Mass Relay proceeds to collapse. I'm not actually sure if the Mass Relays' destruction will wipe out their solar systems, but it seems very likely that every system with a mass relay is going to face the same fate as Earth.
Also, the Citadel is badly damaged by the Crucible firing. Without anyone to repair it, it is likely that it will fall on Earth, screwing the planet over even more.
The Normandy manages to beat the energy to the Mass Relay, but she gets consumed by it while traveling at FTL speeds. She crashlands on a beautiful jungle world. The Normandy's hatch opens, but nobody exits.
On the remains of his ship, Admiral Hackett realizes that everyone is fucked, but with luck, the lessons learned during this war will live on.
Countless years later, in a scene that really doesn't make sense with this playthrough. Buzz Aldrin finishes telling his grandchild about The Shepard. Mr. Aldrin promises his child one more story.
I will be playing through this story soon. But first, I will do an update where I explain the decisions I made and present the final version of the Death List.
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