You can get to a lot of content that you shouldn't before level 4. A good Idea would be to back off and come back to it later. Even if you do not get the memo that Gith kill on site from the various npcs telling you so, just moments before you go to speak to them they kill a bunch of people on the bridge.

I mean, fights have started in rpgs with a lot less than that.

Verily it is written that the Omnissiah grants his blessing to those who come well-equipped with explosives. -Aphorisms 96.9