You decide to listen to Private Dobbs, exploring this place probably isn’t the safest thing to do given that you’ve only just shaken the weird mind control you were experiencing earlier. You all head for the exit, which is fortunately without incident. You encounter some dead bodies of Elojin and some of your team when you get outside. Looks like your team won, you guess the Elojin were hoping you’d be easy pickings after coming out of the place.

When you get to the Lizard village the rest of the team looks relieved to see you. You all exchange information. You’re unsure what to do about the Xont structure though, you’re tempted to go back in, but you decide that you should probably just stick around and just report your findings to the Empire which can send in a better prepared team. In the mean time, you spend the rest of your stay at the Lizard village. It’s uneventful until one day Dobbs comes up missing for roll call, this is followed by a huge explosion later during a search for him. The shockwave of it, makes you almost think you’re being bombarded from above, but after it dies down you realize it was the Xont structure.

You and your team immediately head over to where it stood and it is completely gone. Nothing but a gigantic crater exists. Whatever useful information it contained will remain a mystery.

The disappearance of Dobbs makes you come to the conclusion of either one of two things, either he was under the influence of something that didn’t want you uncover any Xont secrets and he snuck off to activate some sort of self-destruct mechanism. Or less likely, he wasn’t under any influence, but decided that for the good of the Empire, the Xont structure needed to be destroyed so it couldn’t possibly cause any trouble like it did with you and your team.

When the Empire ship arrives you decide to leave out the whole incident with the Xont structure, your superiors would only be mad at you for losing such a find. You report that you suffered casualties with Elojin and native forces. You also add that Private Dobbs should be honored post humorously for his bravery in battle. Finally you go on to report you didn’t find anything of any use for the Empire on the planet.

Your superiors nod and dismiss you. They write Paradise off as a low priority and not worth colonizing or even keeping an outpost on. Eventually you’re sent on your next mission, which is far away from Paradise. You wonder though if you’ll get another chance to discover something on this planet though. It is a big galaxy after all.