A Secret Beyond Imagination

Across the sea of stars, they reached the far shore.

As the stern of the last frigate vanished into the dazzling Light Gate, the Sixth Company Fleet, led by the Human Might Eternal, completed an unprecedented voyage between galaxies and disappeared from the Milky Way.

The Light Gate slowly revolved behind them, a vast vortex connecting two galaxies 2.54 million light-years apart.

Yet the enormous gate suspended in the void did not close.

Streams of energy along its edges remained bound by an invisible force, flowing in steady rotation and giving off a pulse of power that set hearts racing.

Far away in the Milky Way, the ring of Great Device 01 hummed soundlessly. It drew in vast quantities of dark matter energy with astonishing efficiency, maintaining the passage between the galaxies like a tireless lighthouse keeper.

The Light Gate was more than an entrance to the unknown. It was the Imperial Martial Soldiers' Expeditionary Army's vital lifeline, ensuring they could retreat to the known universe if they encountered a threat beyond their power to resist.

The moment the fleet completed its transit and stabilized in the destination galaxy, aboard the Human Might Eternal's bridge—

Without waiting for an order from Sui Meng, the War Maiden set to work.

The ship's long-range detection arrays surged to full power, casting invisible scanning beams across the unfamiliar region of space like a vast net.

Sensors gathered data at a furious pace:

Gravitational field distribution,

Cosmic background radiation,

The composition of interstellar dust,

Energy fluctuation spectra, and more.

"Preliminary environmental scan complete."

The War Maiden's clear voice broke the silence on the bridge. A rough model of the star system took shape on the main screen. "At the system's center is a relatively stable white dwarf nearing the end of its life. Its