Since the battle between the spiral arms, 177 years had quietly passed.
For most of that time, both humanity and the Daya Civilization had spent their days traveling, whether it was the Residential Spaceship Cluster that had set out ahead or the fleet that had returned from its hard-won victory on the battlefield.
By the time the two fleets rendezvoused with the Main Civilization's Residential Spaceship Cluster, both sides had completed their basic fuel replenishment. Factories and equipment had also largely been deployed throughout the Star Systems they occupied, while humanity had moved even faster and had already begun producing warships.
This location was some distance from the other side that had crossed the spiral arm, so there was no fear of pursuers finding them as soon as they arrived.
Humanity and the Daya Civilization were not docked in the same Star System, but both sides tacitly maintained communication and built simple relay stations between their systems.
After returning to the Main Civilization, the first thing Yue Yuan did was seek out Human Civilization's Administrative Officer, as well as Zhu Pete, who had once again taken up the position of Security Department Minister.
He mainly wanted to understand what had happened within humanity during this period.
Yue Yuan had seen the opposition that had emerged before the war clearly enough, but he had not had the time to deal with it then. Now that the war was over, he naturally intended to use the momentum of victory to settle the matter.
The war had, of course, been declared a victory. A costly victory was still a victory. Besides, humanity had not actually suffered many deaths in this battle. If not for the surprise attack on the Residential Spaceship Cluster that had killed tens of thousands, they would not have lost