My suggestion that Sandora and I take a stroll around Shadow City wasn't just to shop or kill time. I wanted to check on several major projects: the mass production and deployment of Executioner-Class ships, the progress of the Deep Diving Project, the reverse engineering of the Sovereign starship, and the Seventh Legion's progress. These were the New Empire's most important current tasks. I hadn't been away for very long, but it hadn't been that short either. I figured there should have been some new developments. Of course, another reason was that afterward I could go out with Sandora for a bit. It had been a long time since we'd spent time alone together like this. The noisy chaos at home was fun, sure, but bratty kids really were the destroyers of a married couple's private life...
The blueprints for the Executioner-Class ships had already been distributed to the major starship factories, with the Shilin Mainframe supervising production one-on-one and accelerating the process. The first batch of completed ships had been sent in groups to the six legions other than the Seventh Legion—which belonged to the mysterious-side forces—as well as the Royal Fleet. Naturally, each legion received only a small number of New Warships, but these vessels were merely meant to familiarize the commanders with their performance and prepare them to develop new tactics around them. When full deployment began, priority would naturally go to the Royal Fleet, the First Legion, and the Sixth Legion, the three most important units.
What I cared about most was the Deep Diving Project. When I left, the second-generation Deep Diving Ship had happened to be undergoing sea trials. Missing the chance to witness it personally had been a major regret. I'd already heard from Sandora that the trial had gone quite smoothly, and