Shepard and Mass Effect 3 Ending

Mass Effect: From the Ashes
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Commander Alexandra Shepard of the System Alliance Navy, Spectre, and galactic war hero did not survive the Reaper War. She and a few small groups of allied forces (both regular military and insurgent "N7" teams) were among the few to reboard the Citadel to position and power the Crucible that ultimately defeated the Reapers.

In particular, one misfit group of N7s including a Quarian rapper, a pacifist, a psychotic biotic, and others, were the ones to ultimately Push the Button and in the process become Big Damn Heroes. Of course, Shepard still gets all the credit. However, anybody participating in the London ground campaign whose bodies weren't found are given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to have boarded the Citadel for the final push. You all get plaques on the Wall of Heroes that holds up the massive statue of Shepard. (Think Statue of Liberty sized.)

A variant of the Destroy ending occurred when the Crucible was ignited. This resulted in decimation of the Citadel, leaving little more than a husk of a station. The weapon created by the Crucible and Citadel combined -- and emanated throughout the galaxy via the Mass Relay networks -- relied on Reaper weakness dark energy frequencies and pulses. This cascade effect of pulses throughout the galaxy eliminated all Reapers in a Relay system or any of its neighbouring systems. However, rumours abound of a few Reapers who were in deep-space transit at the time of the purge and who escaped the robotic genocide. Despite the "Star Child's" claims, the energy pulse only affected Reapers and most (but not all) Reaper forces.