Now that you have eliminated the threat to Protectors' base I can move on to more pressing business.  As I stated the war here is not going well.  The Orec Protectors' defenses are spread too thin to mount an effective defense.  Their plan is to withdraw and consolidate their forces.  You have been ordered to assist the evacuation effort and keep human losses to a minimum.    

I have reviewed the mission cameras and sensory equipment from the your final mission on Lanios III.  My analysis suggests that your target was a teleportal Gate.  Human scientists have been working on this type of system without success;  it appears our enemy has been able to succeed where we have failed.  The enemy uses the teleportal gate system to transport troops and equipment across a planet's surface and quite likely across space itself.  

By analysis of the planets that the enemy has attacked, we suspect that these gates can only operate over a limited range; extrapolating the direction that the enemy is heading leads to a path directly to the core worlds.  It would seem that our foe wants to attack the very heart of our system.  We currently are uncertain as to their motivation for their attack on our race.~
