Recaps

Qu Jianlei’s three Imperial sub-fleets raided Alliance shipping near Tianyu Star, capturing crews and destroying cargo ships until the Alliance discovered the wreckage and organized a large-scale search. As the Imperial force prepared to respond, Qinghu reminded its commander to follow the battle plan and prioritize bringing his people home safely.

• Qinghu punished a captured Everlasting Prosperity employee for speaking out, while Ketoli realized the Imperial captors included a powerful Above Supreme and feared the prisoners would never return to the Alliance.
• For more than ten days, the three Imperial sub-fleets destroyed over a hundred starships near Tianyu Star and captured crews from Alliance cargo vessels.
• Alliance investigators found wreckage from multiple missing ships and suspected that an Imperial raiding fleet had entered their territory.
• After receiving top-secret intelligence about the Digital Phantom Team, the Alliance military and city guard gathered starships for a major search near Tianyu Star.
• Claire warned Qinghu that the Alliance search was imminent, and Qinghu informed the sub-fleet commander.
• The commander expressed eagerness for a direct clash, but Qinghu insisted that he follow the battle plan and bring his comrades home safely.

The colonel’s Imperial detachment chose to confront a suspected Alliance trap rather than retreat, despite Qinghu’s warning not to get drawn into a prolonged fight. The chapter ended as three Imperial ships charged a disguised Alliance fleet, whose commander planned to hold them until reinforcements arrived.

• The colonel’s detachment ambushed four more merchant ships, then waited in hiding as cargo traffic avoided the dangerous route.
• Detectors reported suspicious starships nearby, and the Imperial officers concluded they might be facing a trap but agreed to test the enemy’s strength.
• Qinghu told the colonel not to let the detachment become trapped in a prolonged engagement, and volunteered to pilot a Small Ship if rescue became impossible.
• The colonel and his soldiers chose to fight, and Qinghu joined the volunteers selected for the dangerous Small Ship crews.
• After two cargo ships appeared as bait, six Alliance ships approached; the three concealed Imperial ships activated their systems and charged when discovered.
• The Alliance commander identified the three Imperial ships, ordered his fleet to engage and hold them, and prepared to call on a larger force waiting behind them.

The Imperial fleet fought an Alliance force while Xiao Hu identified and destroyed the enemy’s digital combat system, but approaching reinforcements forced the Imperials to retreat. When an Attack Ship was disabled, Qinghu ordered its two crew members to suit up and began a rescue as the Alliance moved to intercept her.

• The Imperial and Alliance fleets exchanged attacks, and the Alliance lost many Small Ships while the Imperial fleet suffered damage.
• Xiao Hu infiltrated the Armed Merchant Ships, then helped destroy the Alliance digital combat system and seize control of a Company-level Warship.
• After Alliance reinforcements approached, the colonel ordered a retreat, and an Attack Ship destroyed the seized warship before being disabled by enemy fire.
• The two soldiers aboard the disabled Attack Ship prepared to self-destruct and use their last ammunition, but Qinghu ordered them to suit up.
• Qinghu’s Small Ship raced toward the stranded soldiers as the Alliance ordered its warships to intercept her.

Qinghu rescued the stranded Imperial crew as the fleet escaped the Alliance pursuit, and the colonel admitted he had been wrong to reject AI implantation. After a day and a half of pursuit, the Imperial ships approached a sparse asteroid field while reinforcements closed in behind the Alliance fleet.

• Qinghu used Instant Flash to rescue two crew members from a damaged Attack Ship and returned with them to the Battalion-Class Ship as the abandoned vessel exploded.
• Qinghu’s fleet evaded the Alliance pursuers, while the Alliance concluded that the outnumbered Imperial force was fleeing and exchanged attacks with its Small Ships.
• The colonel asked Qinghu to implant AI in the Battalion-Class Ship, and Qinghu said the decision required discussion because the crew had to trust them fully.
• Qinghu teleported away and returned as a clone, while the Alliance reinforcements steadily closed the distance during the day-and-night chase.
• The Imperial ships passed through a scattered asteroid field as the Alliance fleet avoided the asteroids, and the reinforcements nearly caught up with the Alliance vanguard.

Qu Jianlei and Qinghu revealed a concealed Division Level Ship behind the Alliance reinforcements, trapping them between it and the fleeing fleet. The Alliance commander ordered his forces to turn and fight despite doubts about their chances, and the chapter ended as he questioned whether their starships could still retreat at full speed.

• Qu Jianlei and Qinghu waited on an asteroid and released the Division Level Ship after the Alliance fleet passed.
• Alliance observers spotted the ship and identified its Digital Phantom livery, alarming the reinforcements.
• The Alliance Commodore ordered all units except the forward search fleet to turn around and engage.
• Officers questioned the decision, arguing that the enemy could attack from both sides and that the Alliance might not withstand the fight.
• The Division Level Ship launched more than two hundred Attack Ships, and the Commodore ordered his forces to destroy as much enemy combat strength as possible.
• The Commodore asked whether the fleet’s Power Systems could still run after pursuing the enemy so far.

Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu’s forces overwhelmed the Alliance fleet, using Small Ships and a cyberattack to seize control of its warships. The Alliance fleet was destroyed or captured, and Qu Jianlei ordered the survivors and ships brought aboard before they could waste time on the battlefield.

• Xiao Hu’s Small Ships and the Division Level Ships inflicted heavy losses on the Alliance fleet, while Digital Phantom lost only a few Small Ships.
• Alliance officers realized Digital Phantom’s combat strength exceeded their intelligence and learned that its forces were invading their ship systems.
• The Commodore ordered the Alliance units to escape independently, but the Vice Admiral’s preparations could not save them as ships lost control of their power, communications, and signal systems.
• Qu Jianlei deployed another fifty-four Small Ships and ordered Xiao Hu to close the net, leaving no Alliance starship able to escape.
• Qu Jianlei ordered the captured ships and surviving Alliance soldiers brought to the Division Level Ship; more than two thousand prisoners remained.

Qu Jianlei’s force captured more than a hundred Alliance starships and over two thousand prisoners while racing to clear the battlefield before reinforcements arrived. After the fleet withdrew, the senior colonel sought Qinghu to discuss implanting artificial intelligence, warning that another battle could begin at any time.

• Qu Jianlei’s forces cleared the battlefield, destroyed useful evidence, and searched damaged ships for survivors while capturing the Alliance personnel aboard.
• Qu Jianlei detected Commodore Bobis, an Above Supreme, aboard an Assault Ship and warned the senior colonel to be cautious.
• Bobis refused to surrender and asked to be killed, but Qu Jianlei knocked him unconscious with Mental Strength so the Imperial soldiers could capture him.
• The fleet seized more than a hundred starships and over two thousand prisoners, then withdrew into space after losing two Small Ships and sustaining further damage to a Company-level Warship.
• The senior colonel returned to Qinghu and urgently asked to discuss implanting artificial intelligence, citing the danger of another battle behind enemy lines.

Qu Jianlei agreed to implant artificial intelligence in the colonel’s Battalion-Class Ship and authorized Paranoid to do the same for his. As Qinghu headed to Tianyu Star and the military processed prisoners and requested more Small Ships, Qu Jianlei proposed using captured Alliance ships for suicide attacks, but the colonel worried they might contain a backdoor.

• The colonel asked Qu Jianlei to implant artificial intelligence in his Battalion-Class Ship, and Qu Jianlei agreed while warning him against researching artificial intelligence.
• Paranoid reported that his subfleet had encountered a bait merchant ship, and Qu Jianlei told him to switch to Area Three and gave him an implant for his Battalion-Class Ship.
• Qu Jianlei checked Jia Shuiqing’s Teleportation Arrays, then let Qinghu travel to Tianyu Star while he stayed behind to oversee the more complicated situation.
• The Imperial Military processed and detained more than two thousand prisoners, and the colonel asked Qu Jianlei for additional Small Ships.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the Alliance had lost sixty-two intact Small Ships and proposed using captured ships as suicide attack ships.
• The colonel considered the plan but asked whether Qu Jianlei could ensure the enemy ships had no backdoor.

Qu Jianlei discovered that captured Alliance Small Ships had hardcoded backdoors and arranged for their chips to be modified. As his forces engaged Alliance fleets, he brought eighty-one Small Ships to Jia Shuiqing, then returned to Tianyu Star, where his team detonated explosives at military sites across the planet.

• Qu Jianlei had Xiao Hu inspect the captured Alliance Small Ships, and Xiao Hu found hardcoded backdoors that could lock or destroy their chips.
• Qu Jianlei and the colonel discussed modifying the ships, while Qinghu reported that Paranoid's and Jia Shuiqing's fleets had entered battle with Alliance forces.
• After learning that Jia Shuiqing's fleet was fighting Alliance reinforcements, Qu Jianlei gave her eighty-one Small Ships and explained his battle plan.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Tianyu Star, where Jing Yuexin warned that the Alliance was searching underground sites and Mountain Bellies, possibly because of their Teleportation Array.
• Qu Jianlei gathered his team and arranged explosions at more than a hundred military sites across Tianyu Star.

Digital Phantom detonated explosives across Tianyu Star and used the ensuing chaos to launch a Battalion-Class Ship into space. After escaping the military’s first pursuit, the ship attacked a Space Fortress and left the Alliance scrambling to respond and investigate how the attackers had infiltrated the planet.

• Sunset Glow and the Digital Phantom Team planted explosives at more than a hundred locations, including a military training base, and detonated them across Tianyu Star.
• Qu Jianlei released the Battalion-Class Ship amid the blasts, and it escaped while military communications were overwhelmed.
• After the military identified the ship as an Evil Empire warship bearing Digital Phantom’s mark, the Battalion-Class Ship destroyed pursuing vessels and broke through the defenses.
• The Battalion-Class Ship launched three Small Ships against a Space Fortress; Xiao Hu’s ships damaged it with precise attacks and an electromagnetic pulse bomb before the Battalion-Class Ship departed.
• The military’s First One ordered pursuit and a large-scale manhunt on Tianyu Star, while the government questioned how Digital Phantom had arrived and planted so many explosives.

Qu Jianlei and his allies escaped Heavenly Expanse, reinforced Jia Shuiqing and Paranoid, and overwhelmed the enemy fleets with Xiao Hu’s help. Heavenly Expanse then learned that Commodore Bobis and his fleet had gone out of contact, while a powerful reinforcement division found only wreckage.

• Qu Jianlei’s group fled Heavenly Expanse, then joined Jia Shuiqing’s battle and gave her five Vortex Twos to help defeat the enemy fleet.
• Qu Jianlei’s group teleported to Paranoid and gave him a Calculation Unit so Xiao Hu could seize control of the pursuing enemy fleet’s systems.
• Paranoid’s forces and Qu Jianlei’s reinforcements captured the enemy ships, and Jia Shuiqing later reported that her own battle had ended.
• Jia Shuiqing agreed to bring her forces to Qu Jianlei’s position, where he planned to wait for further enemy reinforcements.
• Heavenly Expanse received word that Commodore Bobis and his fleet were out of contact, and an elite reinforcement division found only scattered starship wreckage.

The Alliance forces struggled to respond after multiple fleets vanished while pursuing Imperial forces, and the delayed Mixed Division found only wreckage in Area Three. The Major General ordered his divided fleet to search a vast area for the enemy and possible prisoners, despite the danger of ambush.

• The Full Strength Division found Imperial wreckage, relocated to a sturdy meteor to establish a defensive position, and waited for further orders rather than pursuing Bobis's fleet.
• A second support fleet disappeared, prompting a Major General to lead an enhanced Mixed Division toward the battlefield while three Local Troops regiments resisted his orders to search as directed.
• After delays caused by disputes over autonomy and command, the Mixed Division arrived in Area Three two days late and found only debris, with no survivors or clear trail of the enemy.
• The Major General concluded that missing Alliance soldiers might have been captured and ordered the fleets to search for enemy traces within a radius of one billion kilometers.
• The Mixed Division divided its seven regiments into three search groups, assigning ships and the Division Level Ship among them.

Qu Jianlei’s forces infiltrated the Alliance fleet, then struck its rear as the Empire ambushed the vanguard, throwing the Alliance into chaos. The Alliance ordered a breakout, but only one company-level warship escaped as the Imperial forces pursued the fleeing ships.

• Qu Jianlei’s team used Xiao Hu and Big Head Butterfly to infiltrate and secretly control most of the Alliance fleet’s rear cluster.
• Qu Jianlei released captured Alliance warships and the Division Level Ship behind the Alliance main force, while the Empire ambushed the vanguard.
• Qu Jianlei appeared inside the Alliance main cluster and released more captured warships, which attacked nearby Alliance ships.
• The Alliance colonel ordered a free breakout after realizing the fleet was trapped between the Empire ambush and Qu Jianlei’s attack.
• Xiao Hu disabled three fleeing company-level warships, and the Imperial fleet pursued the retreating Alliance ships using Small Ships and Item-Storing Talismans.

Qu Jianlei’s forces debated whether to pursue a Major General after their costly victory, then used an impersonated Company-level Warship to infiltrate the Alliance fleet. Digital Phantom’s Division Level Ship appeared inside the fleet’s protective perimeter and launched a surprise attack, leaving the Major General ordering an all-out counterattack.

• Qu Jianlei warned the soldiers to prioritize controllable harassment over loot, but Fourth Boss agreed to pursue the Major General after the colonel argued that the operation’s purpose was to earn merit and deter the Alliance.
• Hua Xiezhi and Yuanyuan used a battered Company-level Warship and an injured colonel’s identity to pass inspections and approach the Major General’s fleet.
• The Major General questioned the supposed survivors about Digital Phantom’s Division Level Ship while an Imperial warship secretly released the Division Level Ship inside the fleet’s formation.
• The Major General recognized that the Company-level Warships had been compromised and ordered both destroyed, but Digital Phantom’s Small Ships attacked the Alliance vessels during the confusion.
• The Division Level Ship endured the guard fleet’s fire while damaged unmanned Small Ships drew enemy fire, prompting the Major General to deploy every Small Ship and crush the attackers.

The Alliance Division Level Ship lost control of its systems to Digital Phantom, and the battle turned against the Alliance. After a major general activated the Ship-Sacrifice Ritual and destroyed his ship, the reinforcements fled, but Digital Phantom pursued them and captured a Regiment-level ship.

• The major general ordered the Alliance Division Level Ship's systems isolated and its Small Ships deployed, but the power failure trapped most of them and left the ship unable to fight.
• Digital Phantom's Division Level Ship destroyed Alliance escorts while Xiao Hu controlled its weapons, then released captured Alliance Company-level, Battalion-Class, and Regiment-level ships into the battle.
• The major general activated the Ship-Sacrifice Ritual, and Fourth Boss revealed the prisoners were alive, but the major general refused to believe him and let the countdown continue.
• The Alliance Division Level Ship exploded, and the two reinforcing formations fled before Digital Phantom's forces pursued them for seven hours.
• Digital Phantom destroyed one Regiment-level ship and captured another after a Battalion-Class Ship invaded its systems.

After the battle on Tianyu Star, Qu Jianlei’s team withdrew into space rather than pursue another enemy fleet. A soul search revealed that the Alliance was preparing Warp Jammers to counter their teleportation, leaving the team to reconsider how safely they could use their trump cards.

• Fourth Boss rejected the soldiers’ proposal to attack the last detached fleet, and Qu Jianlei’s team left Tianyu Star behind.
• Qu Jianlei discovered that Fourth Boss had rescued a colonel-level regiment commander, then ordered a soul search to prevent the Alliance from learning how they had escaped the artillery barrage.
• The search revealed that the Alliance was secretly buying Warp Jammers to counter Digital Phantom’s suspected Near-Earth Jump ability.
• Paranoid warned that teleportation had been crucial to their recent victories, while Qu Jianlei said the team should avoid using it and worried about the arrays on their planets.
• Jing Yuexin suggested asking Evening Glow Senior to bury the Teleportation Arrays deeper, and Ruler enthusiastically thanked her.

Qu Jianlei’s fleet returned to the main force, then launched a series of surprise attacks across the Zhongliang Star Region and Taigu Star, capturing multiple Alliance formations. Near Taigu, the leading Battalion-Class Ship spotted a fleet escorting two luxury starships and an Electronic Ship.

• Bentley returned in the Battalion-Class Ship, and Qu Jianlei’s group transferred aboard before sending prisoners, wounded soldiers, and damaged warships back with the Division Level Ship.
• Hua Xiezhi announced Taihe as the fleet’s next target, and the Imperial colonel accepted the plan to strike the Zhongliang Star Region.
• The fleet jumped to Taihe, disguised its Battalion-Class Ship, and captured several Alliance formations and their subordinate warships through surprise attacks.
• Hua Xiezhi shifted operations to Taigu Star, where the fleet captured two more regiment-level fleets and numerous cargo starships while leaving passenger starships alone.
• More than forty million kilometers from Taigu Star, the leading Battalion-Class Ship discovered two luxury starships and an Electronic Ship escorted by three Company-level Warships.

Qu Jianlei’s fleet attacked Alliance forces near Taigu, prompting an emergency military mobilization and costly reconnaissance battles. After withdrawing from Taigu, his people captured senior officials and researchers who revealed what the Alliance knew about teleportation, while Sunset Glow returned with the Teleportation Arrays modified.

• Hua Xiezhi ordered an attack on a privileged fleet, and Qu Jianlei shifted the battle away from Taigu after Big Head Butterfly detected a powerful distress signal.
• Taigu’s military declared emergency martial law, mobilized its defenses, and sent fleets to search for Digital Phantom’s forces.
• Over three days, Qu Jianlei’s fleet attacked Alliance warships, while Taigu’s military lost several ships and sent divisions to sweep the enemy’s approximate location.
• Paranoid and Qinghu subdued five Supremes aboard captured luxury starships, and the prisoners revealed that the Alliance’s Extraordinary Affairs Research Institute had linked the Stone Chamber to teleportation.
• Qu Jianlei grew curious about the Research Institute and resolved to visit when conditions allowed, and Sunset Glow returned to report that it had modified all the Teleportation Arrays.

Qu Jianlei’s Digital Phantom left the Alliance’s damaged ships and stranded soldiers behind, then returned to the Imperial frontline with prisoners, equipment, and wounded personnel. A secret military meeting examined Digital Phantom’s artificial intelligence, magical artifacts, and mysterious travel abilities, while the Top Leader shut down speculation about the stolen Invisibility Cloak.

• Qu Jianlei’s team left powerless Alliance warships and their crews in space, and the Alliance later found survivors aboard the damaged vessels, including soldiers who had been presumed dead at a memorial service.
• The Alliance recovered increasingly wrecked ships over the following days, with many soldiers dead or injured, and blamed Digital Phantom for the cruel treatment of the crews.
• Qu Jianlei’s Division Level Ship returned to the Alliance Frontline with captured equipment and prisoners, wounded personnel, and a vice admiral who reported on the infiltration and battles.
• Imperial military leaders discussed the fleet’s use of artificial intelligence implants and inferred that Digital Phantom’s ability to transport living people might come from a magical artifact.
• The Top Leader ended speculation about Digital Phantom’s concealed travel abilities and revealed that Jing Yuexin’s people had approached Versailles about the Broken Small Pagoda before Versailles’s museum was burgled and several artifacts disappeared.

After Digital Phantom’s victories, Fourth Boss negotiated repairs, ships, and reinforcements with the military while protecting the colonel’s command. Qu Jianlei’s fleet then headed for the Blockade Zone, where the colonel eagerly backed a plan to open a gap in the Alliance’s defenses.

• Versailles abandoned his investigation into Digital Phantom after his military classmates warned him against provoking Jing Yuexin and her organization.
• The military exchanged Digital Phantom’s captured warships for new vessels, arranged repairs for its Division Level Ship, and offered a Battalion-Class Ship.
• Fourth Boss demanded Small Ship pilots and rejected changes to the colonel’s command, prompting the military to send additional soldiers and ships in a supporting role.
• After five days of preparations, Qu Jianlei and the fleet departed, and Digital Phantom had the new soldiers enter Life Support Pods before jumping to the Blockade Zone.
• Qu Jianlei proposed tearing open a gap in the Blockade Zone, and the colonel and fleet’s officers enthusiastically supported the plan.

Digital Phantom tested the Alliance blockade, uncovered a concealed Warp Jammer, and fought Alliance forces while concealing Xiao Hu’s full capabilities. Qu Jianlei revealed reinforcements to stop the Alliance fleet from retreating, leaving the pursuit to Small Ships.

• Qu Jianlei sent an unmanned Company-level Warship through the monitor-filled belt, where Alliance Small Ships identified and destroyed it.
• Digital Phantom cleared monitors for days, recovered a tiny concealed Warp Jammer, and studied it after its self-destruct damaged a Company-level Warship.
• Xiao Hu fought Alliance Small Ships while deliberately holding back and locating the enemy main warships.
• Qu Jianlei fled the battle in a Small Ship, then released hidden Alliance-standard Battalion-Class Ships to overwhelm the Alliance fleet.
• The Alliance fleet ordered a retreat, and Qu Jianlei prepared to pursue it using Small Ships.

After returning captured ships and prisoners, Digital Phantom learned that the Alliance’s Extraordinary Affairs Research Institute had identified their suspected teleportation ability. Qu Jianlei received news and jump coordinates leading to Sihe Star, and the Imperial fleet chose to join Digital Phantom in the dangerous mission against the Alien Race.

• Qu Jianlei sent five captured starships and their prisoners back to the Channel Entrance, where the Imperial Military debated increasing its infiltration forces and received Jia Shuiqing’s refusal to split up Digital Phantom.
• The military told Jia Shuiqing that the Zhongliang Branch of the Extraordinary Affairs Research Institute had suspected Digital Phantom of using teleportation, and she warned that they had been too kind to their prisoners.
• Jia Shuiqing rejoined Qu Jianlei’s main force and suggested attacking Taiqing Star, but Qu Jianlei said they had received news and jump coordinates for Sihe Star.
• Qu Jianlei informed the Imperial infiltration fleet that Digital Phantom would stop harassing the Alliance and head toward Sihe Star to fight the Alien Race.
• The Imperial colonel consulted his officers, then told Fourth Boss that the entire fleet wanted to join the mission and proposed seizing more Alliance warships along the way.

Qu Jianlei and the Imperial fleets agreed to attack Ke Qi Star together, with Digital Phantom providing Xiao Hu as a safety net for the Empire’s digital combat tests. They began preparing a discreet route and coordinated drills while the military repaired another Division Level Ship.

• Fourth Boss and Qu Jianlei chose Ke Qi Star as their target and decided to notify only the fleet commanders.
• The five other fleet commanders proposed joining the assault, and Qu Jianlei agreed after the fleets requested Xiao Hu alongside their own digital combat system.
• Fourth Boss revealed that Digital Phantom had found a safe jump point behind Alien Race lines, prompting the other commanders to ask for another Division Level Ship to join the operation.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to wait for the other Division Level Ship to be repaired, while Sunset Glow proposed entering Bi Tao Star and traveling covertly to Ke Qi Star.
• Qu Jianlei gathered the fleets for drills near the Blockade Zone and urged the military to speed up the repairs, while Fourth Boss refused to reveal their plans.

Qu Jianlei’s fleets left the Blockade Zone and secretly moved toward Ke Qi Star, where Xiao Hu infiltrated military systems ahead of an attack. As the Imperial Fleet struck Alliance patrols, Ke Qi’s forces mobilized three Division Level fleets and raised defenses.

• The Alliance sent more forces into the Blockade Zone, but Xiao Hu-equipped Imperial warships defeated Alliance ships and revealed that many Imperial warships used artificial intelligence.
• Qu Jianlei suspected the Alliance would not abandon the Blockade Zone and secretly departed with six fleets before a massive Imperial Fleet arrived.
• Qu Jianlei’s fleets jumped without encountering Warp Jammers, captured Alliance patrol ships along their route, and rendezvoused with two Digital Phantom Division Level Ships.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the Space Wave Point on Sihe Star was guarded by thousands of Forest of Trees Clan trees and decided to focus on the immediate battle.
• Sunset Glow reported that Bi Tao Star’s Teleportation Arrays remained intact, while Qu Jianlei’s group used Xiao Hu to infiltrate Ke Qi Star’s military networks and prepare attacks on its supplies and control systems.
• The Imperial Fleet split into smaller groups and attacked Alliance patrols; after detecting the threat, Ke Qi dispatched three Division Level fleets and raised defensive barriers.

The Alliance fought Digital Phantom’s invading fleets near Ke Qi Star, where captured warships, artificial intelligence, and Alliance prisoners used as shields weakened its forces. The Alliance retreated toward the Sky Curtain, only to discover a Digital Phantom Battalion-Class Ship among the pursuing enemy, while its commanders debated whether to reveal the Space Fortress’s capabilities.

• The Alliance central fleet engaged unmanned Small Ships and captured warships, but suffered heavy damage despite bringing in reinforcements.
• The Alliance destroyed a damaged Battalion-Class Ship and found bound Alliance soldiers in its Escape Pods, which the Imperial forces had used as shields.
• After an enemy Small Ship dragged away a destroyed Alliance warship, the Alliance commander contacted the enemy and an Imperial colonel accused the Alliance of trying to lure the Alien Race into the Empire.
• The Alliance learned that enemy fleets were pressuring both flanks, so its central commander ordered an orderly retreat to the Sky Curtain.
• After the Alliance withdrew for a day, a Digital Phantom Battalion-Class Ship appeared among the pursuing central forces, and Alliance commanders debated whether the Space Fortress should attack.