But even though Tang Xiao remembered who this person was, there had not been much written about him in Stellaris. Or rather, there was very little written about anything in Stellaris.
So what this person was truly like, Tang Xiao could only judge for himself.
At that moment, Tang Xiao suddenly frowned. Something Skrand Sharpbeak had said earlier had seemed unremarkable at the time, but now that he thought about it, it was terrifying to contemplate!
"My name is Skrand Sharpbeak. I come from Skaravyd, a planet destroyed by the crisis."
The sentence sounded perfectly normal, and in Stellaris, Skrand had exactly that setting, word for word.
But the problem was...
"Crisis..." Tang Xiao said slowly. "You said your homeworld was destroyed by a crisis? What kind of crisis?"
"If possible, I would rather not revisit that bleak past. Everything is over now. My homeworld has been destroyed, and whether that galaxy still exists remains unknown... Everything has passed. All I can hope for is to look ahead and forget the past."
"I only have one question." Tang Xiao's expression gradually turned solemn. He asked, "Do you remember the war against the crisis?"
Skrand Sharpbeak answered casually, "We do not know where they came from, but they were unimaginably powerful. Although we once created a brilliant civilization, we were helpless when faced with their invasion. The ones who invaded our homeworld were a machinery civilization... called the Abominor."
"Wait, the Abominor? Not high-dimensional beings? Not the Purification Protocol? Not the Sorlin Vong?" Tang Xiao froze. He had originally only felt a strong sense of incongruity, but he had never expected such an answer.
Skrand Sharpbeak replied, "I do not know what the things you mentioned are."
What had deeply concerned Tang Xiao just now was that the false origin story