He discovered the blast core's potential after a lab animal accidentally absorbed one, and it's implied that another gave Bertrand powers beyond his "maggot" transformation, presumably the Corrupted-making powers. Worse yet, Wolfe's dead drops account for two more.Cole absorbs seven blast cores over the course of the game It's specified in the dead drops that blast cores are used ray sphere cores.Like Nix, they were in the proximities, and probably absorbed the energy that people around emitted. Those conduits were affected by the Ray Sphere energy, but weren't in the center like Cole or Bertrand. were the Conduits, besides the main four, in the first game created the same way, somehow? John/The Beast has to suck energy out of a few dozen people to awaken a Conduit.It's confirmed that Conduits are not entirely gone.You are never safe from Sasha, and neither is the world, even with time travel. She would be weaker, but still possessing the conduit gene, she might get caught in the blast and still gain powers. In Kessler's timeline, if he didn't create the ray sphere yet, then you can get powers naturally, once again by the Beast. She lives unless some other conduit kills her, unlikely, and would probably not be stopped by Beast!Cole due to him being evil and in New Marais, or other southern cities. In the evil, all conduits live while humanity dwindles to extinction due to the plague. Thus, she can exist in any timeline, having likely lived into the events of inFAMOUS 2. The destruction of Empire City was probably caused by him creating new conduits, being a living ray sphere, and she could have lived beneath the sewers as she always did, unaffected by the blast or destruction of the city, or the plague due to being a conduit. Bouncing off that and the horror down below, It's entirely possible Sasha could exist in any of the three timelines, escaping capture by Moya with no confirmed death.What's to stop other, less heroic conduits like Sasha, with no confirmed death, to survive the blast? Better yet, what's to stop the conduit gene to merely reemerge, just starting the cycle back over again? At the end, however, the lightning forms a question mark, implying he may still be alive. In the good timeline, which according to Word of God is canon, Cole and all other conduits are killed.