Another Identity

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(There were still double monthly votes, so Apostles, don't let them expire—hurry up and throw them my way.)

The Old Empire had no propaganda media. Or rather, traditional Shilin Apostles did not understand what public opinion was, much less what it meant to cater to the masses. The Celestial System Fleet itself possessed devices capable of cross-world jumps; all it needed was a sufficiently powerful beacon. Over the past few days, we had been desperately building and charging the greatest beacon in history.

The first thing to enter observational range was the Psionic Death Star. This stellar warship, surging with blinding blue radiance, tore apart the space across billions of kilometers nearby. At the very beginning of its transmission, before its physical form had even entered this world, it vaporized every nearby cloud of interstellar dust. Only then did it emerge from the deep blackness of space like a ghost—though that was one hell of a huge ghost. According to an outpost located 0.5 astronomical units from the Psionic Death Star, this terrifying behemoth had turned every celestial body within dozens of astronomical units into gas. Two minutes after the Psionic Death Star took position, thirty Planet Warships serving as the Escort Fleet appeared in the observation post's field of view. Ingeniously, those Planet Warships had actually been transmitted alongside the Psionic Death Star: they were hidden beneath the Death Star's corona and chromosphere, docked between the photosphere and chromosphere. Although the psionic reaction on the photosphere was even more dangerous than the muzzle of the Star River Main Gun, Tawell had improved the Psionic Death Star's control mechanisms based on her previous experience simulating Viska's holy light abilities and designed a controllable "bubble" structure. These bubbles could appear anywhere on the Psionic Death Star except the core controller.