In the outer orbit of Levik planet, at the Stargate.
At the center of the ring-shaped Stargate structure, ripples suddenly spread. Then, a massive spacecraft emerged from within the Stargate.
It was unmistakably a Luukri-Hok-class battleship, entirely black! The gigantic ring-shaped vessel, over 3,000 meters in diameter, headed straight for Levik planet as soon as it exited the Stargate.
A huge red-and-white umbrella emblem was emblazoned across the Luukri-Hok-class battleship! That symbol revealed the identity of its arrival.
Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group!
Beep, beep, beep... A communications alert sounded in the command center of Kriyak Palace on Levik planet's surface, but no one answered.
Deep beneath an inconspicuous area of Kriyak Palace, several SCVs were clearing collapsed rubble.
"This is the laboratory specifically dedicated to researching Mongal-Mongal?" Shepard looked at the deep tunnel that had just been cleared before her.
Lieutenant General He Ru nodded. "I think so. Since we couldn't get any information through interrogation, I decided to take another approach. I sent a team to investigate Kriyak Palace's energy usage. Sure enough, we discovered that even with all the factories operating at full capacity, they were only using 60% of the available power supply. That was highly abnormal."
Shepard nodded. "That's right. Even accounting for reserved backup generation, that percentage is far too low."
"So there had to be some facilities that had been shut down, and they consumed an enormous amount of power," He Ru said. "As expected, the team I sent traced the energy transmission cables and found a location where a large number of cables converged—this place."
Shepard lowered her head and looked at a symbol unearthed from the rubble. Xilu writing on it read: Laboratory 101.
"Let's take a look." Lieutenant General He Ru waved his hand, and a squad of B-1 battle droids