The Power of Prestige

Now that he had come to this point, it was time for Ves to open a portal and lead everyone back to normal space.

After Ves and a number of specialists studied the convoluted attempts of the pescans to gain control over the main control center, they found that the pescans had employed a lot of clever solutions.

"These aliens had years to decipher how these alien crystals work. It shouldn't be surprising that they managed to gain control over them in their own way."

The pescan texts and pictograms were not completely unreadable. The pescans studied humans long enough to develop rudimentary translators. It was easy to obtain the software and quickly reprogram it so that it could translate the pescan data screens.

That didn't bring them any closer to opening a portal because it turned out that the entire control system was still in a locked state.

"Oh. So it hasn't been lifted yet." Ves furrowed his brows.