The truth had finally come out after all of this time.
Ves rapidly connected the dots in his mind. All of the scattered clues that previously seemed to bear little relation to each other finally fit into a picture that should have been so obvious in hindsight!
The Palace of Shame never centered around the orvens at all. It turned out that the phase whales were the ones who set all of this into motion.
The original purpose for creating this asteroid base was not to build a retirement home for an exiled orven prince.
Instead, the phase whales just wanted to toss away one of their own criminals who had committed the unforgivable sin of devouring his or her own kind.
Why the phase whales refused to get rid of a hidden danger and execute the cannibal in the first place, Ves didn't know.