2053, Tired of It—Let It All Be Destroyed
"What do you want to try? Open the Mind-harp? All I can say is, you won't be able to touch that thing. It's been well guarded by the Korlok royal family." Vishal Singh said. "Or do you want to call in a fleet? A fleet capable of defeating the Star Ring made up of tens of thousands of warships?"
"No matter how slim the chance, I have to give it everything I have, even if it costs me my life!" Shepard said. "I've seen too much along the way! Planets that had been infested and occupied by Mongal-Mongal... Empty clothes lay scattered all over the streets. Every living thing, even the flowers, grass, and trees, had withered away. Brown sludge flowed through the sewers, and the air was thick with that faintly sweet stench of decay..."
She took a deep breath. "If Mongal-Mongal cannot be destroyed, then the entire Milky Way Galaxy will suffer devastation. And what worries me even more is that perhaps we gave it such an opportunity."
"An opportunity? What opportunity?" Vishal Singh asked.
After thinking for a moment, Shepard decided to tell the truth. "A stargate. A stargate connecting the Unknown Regions and the Milky Way Galaxy."
Vishal fell silent. Then he swayed his antennae and said mockingly, "Oh, well done."
Another silence followed. Shepard and the others were unbearably awkward, while Vishal pondered. After a while, he finally said, "All right... your stargate was built on Levik planet, which is still extremely far from here. Otherwise, we would have gone to war with the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium long ago, and the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium would not have survived until your arrival. In any case, Mongal-Mongal's current range of control still has limits. By my estimation, Levik planet is already