One Against Two Million

This time, the First Fleet returned to Civilization Headquarters laden with gains, like victors returning in triumph.

As the First Fleet's foremost commander and the civilization's leader, Yue Yuan's victorious return would inevitably raise his prestige once more.

This would help consolidate internal stability within Human Civilization and was highly significant.

Moreover, after being away for so long, perhaps certain interest and power groups had already formed within the main Human Civilization cluster. To put it bluntly, there might even be a new leader by now.

Of course, that was unlikely. Yue Yuan knew Zhu Pete's capabilities and sense of responsibility, and with the commanders of the two great fleets providing military support, there should not be much of a problem.

But even if there really had been political upheaval, Yue Yuan was not afraid. He only needed to push things back into place.

He believed those people possessed a vision for all humanity, but human hearts were unpredictable. Sometimes, he could not help thinking in that direction.

As for the Strong Artificial Intelligence-piloted warships lost by the First Fleet, that was not much of a problem. The shipbuilding technology remained, and as long as humanity had time, replacing them would be a matter of minutes.

The First Fleet encountered no accidents on its journey home. Traveling at full Warp speed, the fleet took just over three years to reach the outskirts of the Star System where Human Civilization was located.

"We're back!"

The fleet was still in Warp, but the Tachyon detectors had already detected the target star ahead and transmitted the distance data back to the First Fleet.

Yet before the First Fleet could celebrate, the detectors sent back another piece of information.

It was a set of image data. Captured by the detectors' optical equipment, converted into