Superstar

"Far Star-18 Space Fortress, final transmission. The defense line has been breached. The Vengeance Legion is launching a full assault on the fortress armor. Data uploaded. This base will self-destruct in ten minutes."

"Horn Voyage-15b Space Fortress, emergency transmission. The Mirror Fleet has been completely wiped out. The hosts inside the base have evacuated safely. The Vengeance Legion has just punched through the fortress's main armor. This is a production center! We need support!"

"The Civilization Community's Forty-Seventh Fleet calling the Integration Department! We are en route to Sky Guard Horn-77. We encountered a Vengeance Legion interception force... The main force has escaped safely, but the Space Implosion Bombs we were transporting were lost! Please redeploy supplies to Sky Guard Horn-77!"

"E-38 Bright Star Cluster. We've discovered a large number of Vengeance Legion patrols. There's a signal transmitter here! Requesting hyperspace fire support... What? There's no hyperspace firepower quota left? Fine. Send scavengers over as soon as possible. Maybe some of us can still be revived... Long live the Empire!!"

"Bzzzt—"

Sandora raised a hand and shut off the audio feed near the Officer Platform, then switched the Star Chart before her to global mode. Her face showed some fatigue, but bright sky-blue light still gleamed in the depths of her eyes. She opened a time-event chart, where a number kept ticking upward.

"The Celestial System Fleet will arrive in two hours. Half of Phantom Base has already been dismantled. I have to say, the situation is a little better than we expected. The Vengeance Legion has fewer troops than imagined, and more importantly, their luck is terrible. Most Vengeance Legion patrols were discovered as soon as they surfaced. Eighty percent of the Space Rifts they opened were eliminated in time."

"You need to rest. You haven't slept for nearly