Yet no matter how they tried to make contact, not a single Earth sent back even the slightest response. They had no way of contacting any of the three Earths. Forget Earth—even the satellites and fleets that should have been stationed outside them were completely unheard from.
Although the warships did not openly say they were trying to contact Earth, everyone knew that was what they were doing. As the expressions on Tessa, Lacus, Bright, Captain Otto, Lacus, Ruri Hoshino, Miss Huang, and the others changed, everyone could see the final result on one another's faces.
"That's enough!" Seeing morale rapidly decline and everyone's moods turn grim, Juzo Okita suddenly raised his voice. "The situation may not be as bad as it looks. We still have the Cosmic Restoration System. It will definitely restore the three Earths to their original state, so stop dwelling on pointless thoughts."
"Sanada, explain the current situation to everyone."
"Yes!" Sanada, who had served as acting captain for a time, stepped forward. After saluting Juzo Okita, he turned toward the people on the Communication Screen and saluted again before speaking. "As you can see, the fusion of time and space appears to have reached its final stage. The duration has indeed exceeded our initial calculations."
"Because the fusion has progressed this far, the dimensional walls have been completely destroyed. On a physical level, the three Earths are now extremely close to one another."
"But everyone should have noticed that, despite being at this distance, the three Earths have ignored the Roche limit. This shows that while the Earths have physically overlapped and begun affecting one another, dimensional distortion must still exist between them. The Roche limit refers to how, when two planets draw too close, tidal forces cause celestial bodies to break apart and disperse."