Finding the Merova People should have been quite difficult, but I figured that as long as we had a sufficiently powerful lure, they would definitely show up again. When the Merova People had tracked the Fifth Fleet, they had been guided by the "prototype," but we had no way of knowing whether it was the prototype itself, that cubic hibernation facility, or both that had attracted them. Nor could we determine how the Merova People had tracked the signals emitted by the prototype facility. Now that the prototype and its Hibernation Pod had been completely dismantled by the Research Center once, Sandora and I could not be sure whether reassembling it would still attract the Merova People. So we decided to send the Fifth Fleet out again, this time letting them wander through the "White Zone" on the outskirts of Imperial territory to see whether they could draw the Merova People's attention.
If the enemy really was hiding in those unexplored White Zones, they would definitely appear.
Sandora had finished communicating with the Research Center by then. She shut off the Holographic Projection before saying, "The reassembly should be completed by tomorrow. Also, I spoke with Tawell just now. She suspects that it was the identification signal emitted by the Hibernation Pod that caught the Merova People's attention back then. The scientists discovered that the hibernation facility was one component of a large hibernation array and may have been designed with Void transportation capabilities. So they believe that cube was not merely a Hibernation Pod, but perhaps a prototype of the earliest legion transportation technology. In ancient times, Imperial legion transportation technology was still immature. Soldiers may have needed to be placed inside those cumbersome protective pods for cross-world transport. They found a set of transmitters on the cube. Whenever