"Are you talking about the Five Brothers?" Dryden Vos frowned.
"That's right. A hundred thousand years ago, the Corellian system had only the two outermost planets—Crollia and Soronia. Its inner orbits were filled with asteroid belts and nebulae. So this was originally a barren system, with no habitable planets and no life." Tang Xiao said.
"Wait, big brother, are you telling a story, or are you talking about... reality?" Dryden Vos asked. "If it's a story, we've heard many versions, some even more fantastic than this. But if it's reality... this..."
"What I'm telling you is both a story and reality," Tang Xiao said. "It's a story because nearly all relevant records have been lost, leaving only legends behind. It's reality because... it really happened."
"The Five Brothers were artificial?" Dryden Vos found it hard to believe. "Is that true?"
"That's right. The Kilik Swarm accomplished this godlike feat." Tang Xiao concealed the most mysterious and crucial details, revealing only the Kilik Swarm. "A hundred thousand years ago, they were already active in the Milky Way Galaxy and had become its strongest and most advanced race. Until thirty-five thousand years ago, when a tremendous disaster brought about their destruction."
He continued, "It's hard to imagine just how advanced their civilization was at the time. But I can only say that it was deeply distorted. In some fields, their civilization and technology surpassed even what we can touch today, while in others, they were incredibly primitive. But one thing can tell you just how powerful they once were..."
Tang Xiao casually opened a star map and tapped one of the planets. "Alderaan was once the site of their 'father hive.' As an aside, it was called a father hive rather than a mother hive because among the Kilik Swarm, the few