Chapter 5: Echoes of XylosThe weight of the mission pressed down on them, a silent burden that permeated the ship's metallic corridors. Gone was the initial excitement of discovery, replaced by a somber awareness of the immense responsibility they now carried. The journey to Xylos was no longer a scientific expedition; it was a pilgrimage into the unknown, a desperate gamble for the fate of the galaxy.Rishab, usually the picture of stoic determination, stared at the star charts, his face etched with a grim intensity that Vyom had never seen before. The swirling vortex of celestial bodies seemed to mock