Ares91 wrote...
I agree with this. You pretty much summed up my thoughts to a T.
Also I have to ask why do the relays being intact matter so much to your perception of the control vs destroy ending?
Because the galaxy will be a mess, every race will need to start rebuilding and that will be a lot more complicated without mass relays. Lots of asaris, krogans, turians, few salarians will be stuck at Earth, the situation there isn't exactly the best, lot of people are injured and there probably won't have enough medical supplies to attend to everyone. Turians and quarians will die pretty quickly on Earth without their dextro food and the supplies will be limited enough as it is for humans and now will have to be shared with every other species too? Needless to say a lot of people won't have medical care and will perish.
And all those races can't just leave Earth with only FTLs, their ships would run out of fuel before they could get anywhere.
The galaxy depended on mass relays and take that away would be the same as if, I don't know, we had to suddenly live without eletricity. It would be chaos.