Better to be safe than sorry, you blast the figure, which turned out to be a Lizard. You regain your faculties and help fight the Lizards.

After all is said and done, your team wins, but the Elojin’s dead, you see a spear in his chest. You don’t really have much to go on to find the Xont structure now, even if you still wanted to look for it, which you don’t. Whatever desire that possessed you before to want to find it is gone. The coins you took from the Elojin are gone too; you must’ve dropped them when you got hit in the head. Shame, you would’ve liked something as proof.

Alyssa, and Salo survived, as did LaFleur, and none of them are eager to go looking for the Xont structure either. Salo, seems even distraught for wanting to find it in the first place, like he broke some sort of rule. He spends a lot of his time mumbling to himself about forgiveness for falling to alien influences.

As for you and the rest of your team, you spend the rest of your time on Paradise exploring as usual, you don’t run into anymore major powers, but there are a few more battles with the local fauna and a few more Lizard tribes. Still, you don’t find anything of any importance.

When the Empire ships come, you give your report to your superiors, which is pretty mundane and lack luster. You don’t mention the Xont rumor, since you don’t even have any proof and you might get reprimanded for believing an Elojin anyway. Your superiors write Paradise off as low priority and send you on your next mission. You’ll always wonder though, if the Elojin was telling the truth or even correct about a Xont structure being on the planet.