With Liara safely aboard the Normandy, we ask her if she knows anything about the Conduit. She’s never heard of it before, and explains that her main area of research is the extinction of the Protheans. We tell her that a race of killer robots called Reapers did it and that we have visions implanted in our mind from a Prothean beacon and have also talked to a living Reaper about the extinction event. We throw in that we’ve melded with another asari who imbued our mind with the ancestral memory of all Protheans, too.

Liara is taken aback by all of this and starts to throw a tantrum, complaining that it’s not fair that she’s spent the past 50 years excavating dig sites and conducting research on the Protheans, only for some random human to have all of the answers she’s been searching for dumped in her lap. Mom tells her to shut the hell up and Liara apologizes. We explain that we need help sorting out the information from the Beacon, and she melds her mind with us. She gets excited and tells us that the Conduit is located on the planet Illos.

Mom: Geez, she’s so hyper. It’s obnoxious.

There’s just one problem, she says. The only way to get to Illos is via the Mu Relay, which has been lost for centuries. Once again, Liara is late to the party, as we’ve already gotten its location from her mother. We neglect to mention that we killed her.

Liara can get us to Illos, but there’s one problem. The Mu Relay is deep in the Terminus Systems, and Council ships entering the area might be seen as an act of war. The Normandy could sneak in undetected, but Saren likely has an entire Geth army waiting for us. We need to head back to the Citadel and have the Council put together an invasion force.

But first, it’s time for one last attempt at making Kaidan love us for our money so we can steal his money.

After a fairly uneventful trip across Therum, we fight off some Geth and make our way into the Prothean ruins. There we meet Dr. Liara T’Soni, who has accidentally trapped herself inside of a stasis bubble. Evidently, she’s been stuck in there for so long that she has begun to hallucinate, and believes us to be more figments of her imagination.

After a lot of pointless arguing about whether or not we’re real, she tells us that if we do exist then we should help set her free.

Mom: Geez, she’s kind of uppity.

Me: It sounds like she’s been trapped in there for a few weeks.

Mom: That’s no excuse to be rude.

We find a mining laser that the archaeologists were using, and use it to blast a whole in the wall. We set Liara free, and she finally realizes that we are in fact real.

Before we can talk further, however, a krogan and a squad of Geth march in and demand that we hand Liara over. We make quick work of them, and escape the ruins as they collapse around us.

Wow, that planet was easy. Suspiciously easy. It’s almost like they expected just about everyone to do it first, and so made it the easiest of all the planets to complete. Oh well!