The time before a battle was always nerve-racking. With only half a fleet, they had to cautiously dispatch scouts and patrols while avoiding Zeon Army patrol fleets. They had to skirt around Zeon's two great fortresses and spend even more time taking a wider route to reach their destination. Every minute, every hour of the journey was especially tense.
Especially when the scouts suddenly reported finding a Zeon Army patrol fleet in a certain direction at a certain distance, the tension made the atmosphere throughout half the fleet even more oppressive, liable to erupt at any moment. It had to be said that once Minovsky Particles were dispersed in this world, they could prove tremendously useful under certain circumstances. At the very least, once both sides were separated by a certain distance, detecting one another was no easy matter.
In reality, although this half-fleet seemed to be taking all sorts of detours and passing by numerous Zeon Army patrol units, fortunately avoiding detection, the entire task force's route was actually following a special operational pattern. When to slow down, when to accelerate, when to turn, and when to cut the engines were all carried out according to the route map in Char's hands.
Char possessed detailed maps and information on Zeon Army defensive and patrol deployments. He knew where Zeon's patrol fleets were stationed, when patrol fleets would pass through which areas, and how to gradually approach his target like a ghost through the gaps between Zeon Army patrols and hidden sentries.
What should have been Zeon Army's most confidential intelligence was now in Char's hands, allowing him to lead half the fleet through the outermost defensive lines and checkpoints of Zeon territory without anyone noticing, safely entering the SIDE3 region. If what Char held were to fall into the