"Which is why I'm not entirely sold on it as an explanation," Kaidan says, his hands finding his pockets again. "And I think it's pretty telling that they're keeping what little they do know close to their chests. This place being at the end of a chain of wormholes is apparently the only thing letting them waltz in and roll over the locals unopposed."

Wormholes may be farfetched, even to a man who was trying to get a spaceship back to earth a bare couple weeks ago, but that humans take the truly out there and manage to find a way to turn it to political squabbles... well, that's downright familiar.