1) Maia's recovery unfolds some 'forbidden' knowledge about Zhodani activities in the Vanguard Reaches sector [00:27 to :30] 🤔🤓 Including the existence of a multi-stellar 'island' Zhodani polity and secrets hinted about the centre of the Helix Nebula (relating to the Ancients and/or the Deepknight fungus entity) 🤔 2) The Deepknight cruiser arrives at the Erline homeworld system with surprisingly little fanfare [01:03]. 3) At this system the Citadel automation are active and busy - though apparently not hostile to the newcomers [01:03 to :20] 🤔 4) When the crew look over Citadel activity in the system - both past and present - a conclusion is teased out that the automation have been working to wholesale clear out an "infection" [first mentioned 01:05, explicitly compared with the Deepknight fungus 01:23 - :24] 🤔🧐 I feel this is the first clear linkage made between the Erlines' history and the Deepknight fungus. True, there was a suggestion [episodes ago] that going after the then-incoming, lesser, Citadel ship might yield some clues about the fungus - but that was a pure guess with little real evidence at the time. Well, that guess proved right! 🤓
1) Maia's recovery unfolds some 'forbidden' knowledge about Zhodani activities in the Vanguard Reaches sector [00:27 to :30] 🤔🤓 Including the existence of a multi-stellar 'island' Zhodani polity and secrets hinted about the centre of the Helix Nebula (relating to the Ancients and/or the Deepknight fungus entity) 🤔
2) The Deepknight cruiser arrives at the Erline homeworld system with surprisingly little fanfare [01:03].
3) At this system the Citadel automation are active and busy - though apparently not hostile to the newcomers [01:03 to :20] 🤔
4) When the crew look over Citadel activity in the system - both past and present - a conclusion is teased out that the automation have been working to wholesale clear out an "infection" [first mentioned 01:05, explicitly compared with the Deepknight fungus 01:23 - :24] 🤔🧐 I feel this is the first clear linkage made between the Erlines' history and the Deepknight fungus. True, there was a suggestion [episodes ago] that going after the then-incoming, lesser, Citadel ship might yield some clues about the fungus - but that was a pure guess with little real evidence at the time. Well, that guess proved right! 🤓