1960, Investigating Step by Step
In the outer space around Kruda planet, the Normandy fled at full speed. Behind it, three battered-looking Xirui-class battlecruisers of the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium pursued relentlessly, their guns firing without pause as danger followed close behind.
But the Normandy was extremely nimble. While evading the Xirui-class battlecruisers' fire, it activated its cloaking system. The clumsy warships immediately lost their target, and their dense barrage struck nothing but empty space.
Just moments ago, Shepard and her squad had found a way aboard one of the Xirui-class battlecruisers. They had sneaked and blasted their way to the bridge, where they found the Navigation Log. Naturally, this had thrown the Mongar-Mongar aboard the ship into an uproar.
Shepard and her team were not only powerful but perfectly coordinated. They had carved a bloody—muddy—path through a ship packed with Mongar-Mongar, escaped the warship, and returned to the Normandy.
But the Mongar-Mongar had no intention of letting them go. They piloted their warships in relentless pursuit, yet they were ultimately no match for normal crews. Under their control, the vessels were far too clumsy to catch up.
As the Normandy left the gravity well and activated its hyperspace engine, it vanished in a flash of white light. The three Xirui-class battlecruisers, having lost their target, gradually came to a halt. They did not return to the planet, instead stopping wherever their engines died, like iron coffins adrift in space.
On Levik planet, Mongar-Mongar outbreaks still flared up from time to time. Although effective containment measures had kept the planet from being destroyed by the infection, the unceasing incidents meant that the stargate route between Levik planet and the Duchy of Dawn could not remain open.
The good news, however, was that as everyone on the planet gradually learned of the