The news report on the screen flashed a series of pictures, full of death and destruction left by Saren's attack on the Citadel.The corpses of geth and Citadel police officials filled the council hall, and the battlefield was a mess.The entire presidium area turned into a pile of twisted and scorching steel frames.Black metal fragments melted into a heap. These fragments were the battleships of the Citadel not long ago, but now they are floating in disorder in the stardust of the Serpent Nebula-this is the planetary belt produced by killing and extinction. The Phantom Man watched all this coldly, like a clinician examining a patient with detachment.Work has begun on rebuilding and repairing the great space station, but the impact of the fighting goes far beyond material damage.In the weeks since the geth's devastating onslaught began, the mainstream media outlets across the galaxy have been flooded with such images—and previously unimaginable sights.

The attack shook the galactic powers that had once been the backbone of alien society, breaking down their childish notions of invincibility.The Citadel, the seat of the Council, and their unquestionable strength and status are crumbling before the enemy fleet.Thousands were killed and wounded, and all the councils of the world mourned. While others see tragedy, the Phantom Man sees opportunity, and he understands, perhaps more than anyone else, that the sudden realization of the galactic society's vulnerability is to the good of humanity.That's what's special about him: he's a visionary.

When he once found the Protheans in ruins on Mars, he was as surprised as anyone else on Earth.He was just as enraged when the news reported the first intense firefight between humans and an alien intelligent race.Back then he was just an ordinary guy with an ordinary job and an ordinary life.He had friends, and he even had a name back then. All this has disappeared like a yellow crane.His past was deprived by his career, and he became a phantom man. In order to pursue a goal far beyond life, he abandoned the original ordinary state of existence, and of course, also surpassed the original ordinary state of existence.Human beings have broken free from the shackles of the small earth, but they still haven't seen the face of God, and haven't reached the pinnacle.What they found instead was a thriving galactic community: dozens of races spanning hundreds of star systems, including thousands of worlds.As a newcomer breaking into the field of interstellar politics, if human beings want to survive, they must tolerate, absorb, and keep moving forward.

They cannot place all their confidence in the Galactic Federation.As a bloated political community composed of government bureaucrats and independent military institutions of human countries, the alliance is just a clumsy and slow machine, struggling under the constraints of laws and treaties, and the so-called public opinion is even more overwhelming. Come. The cause of the people of Earth needs more patriots and heroes - willing to make the necessary sacrifices for the human race to stand out from its interstellar competitors.They need Cerberus, the Cerberus of Hades, and the Cerberus cannot survive without the Phantom Man.

As a visionary, he was able to understand that.Without Cerberus, human beings are doomed to become docile pariahs crawling at the feet of alien masters.Of course, some people said that what he did was criminal-immoral and impolite.Only history can prove him right.But until history proves it, he and his followers can only hide and fight for their goals in secret. The image on the screen changed, and now it was the face of Commander Shepard.He was the first human being to become a ghost agent.Shepard did a great job of repelling the geth attack led by Saren...at least that's what the official report said.

The Phantom Man can't help but wonder how many more of these official reports are going viral.He knew that a rogue turian ghost with an army of geth would never attack just one place in the Council.The Overlord is right there, Saren's giant flagship.The news said it was a geth-built warship, but only the blind and fools would accept that.Any warship capable of withstanding the combined attack fire of the Alliance and Council fleets would be too advanced, far beyond the strength of any other warship in the galaxy, to be built by any known race. Apparently those in charge had things they didn't want the public to know.Fearing it would cause panic, they fabricated facts and distorted the truth, and they also embarked on a long journey to kill the geth and wipe out the last bits of geth resistance scattered throughout the world of the Citadel Council.But Cerberus has people in the alliance, people in high positions.Give it some time, and all the details about the attack will slowly unfold in front of the Phantom Man.It may be weeks, if not months, before he knows the whole truth.But he can wait.He is a patient man.

But he couldn't deny that it was an interesting time.For the past ten years, the three races sitting in the council—the Salari, the turians, and the asari—have been working hard to keep humans out of the council, closing doors one after another in front of humans .The hinges of the doors are now broken.Nine out of ten of the Citadel's power has been wiped out by the Geths, and the Alliance Fleet is now dominant and invincible in the space of the galaxy.Even the Council, unchanged for a millennium, began to be completely restructured. Some believe that this marks the end of the tyranny of the Alien Triumvirate, and that humanity has risen unstoppably.However, the Phantom Man knows that maintaining power is much more difficult than gaining it.No matter what kind of political advantage the alliance gains in the short term, this short-term advantage is already the best result.Little by little, the shock and impact of Shepard's actions and the Alliance Fleet's bravado would wear off.The admiration and gratitude of the alien government will slowly fade, replaced by suspicion and resentment.

Over time, they rebuild their fleet.In the end, it was inevitable that other races would once again covet power, seeking to advance their own status at the expense of humanity. Humanity has taken a solid step, but the journey is far from over.In order to fight for the dominance of the galaxy, I don't know how many battles will be fought on how many fronts.The Citadel raids were just one piece of a bigger puzzle, and he'd fix them in due course. There are some urgent matters right now, and his attention must be focused elsewhere.As a visionary, he understands the importance of planning and keeping back.He knows when to wait and when to rush forward.Now is the time to get their "assets" in the Ascension Project moving forward.