Bhruic wrote on Mar 18, 2012, 13:30:
Honestly, I don't know why this one bothers people. It's got such a simple explanation that it doesn't seem worth even considering. You'll note the codex refers to "rupturing". 3rd party destruction of relays does result in a huge explosion. However, it's perfectly conceivable that the race that designed the relays knows how to disable them without causing them to destroy the system.

That's even more likely when you consider what is happening at the end - each relay is beaming their "energy" to the next relay. So rather than have the energy on hand to explode, it's all getting redirected. Hence no system destruction.

With such a simple and logical explanation available, and so many other plot holes available, I don't know why people have got hung up on this one.

You want to talk a real plot hole? Ok, how about: Why the hell was Saren/Sovereign after the conduit in ME1? Think about it - the only thing the conduit was, was a "backdoor" relay on to the Citadel. The very Citadel that Saren, as a Spectre, could go to any time he wanted to. There was absolutely nothing special about the conduit beyond that ability. So why were they chasing it down? They could have just done exactly what they did at the end - go to the Citadel to manually activate it - without wasting all the time looking for the conduit, and almost certainly been successful, because they would have had the element of surprise. No beefed up Citadel defenses. No Alliance cruisers on standby.

The entire plot of ME1 was completely pointless. Now that is a plot hole.