At the border of the Orion Arm's Second Star Territory, the massive Star Destroyer Mothership Fleet from the Seventh Civilization was advancing toward the Third Star Territory at ultra-high speed.
At that moment, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded from the Command Ship positioned in the middle of the fleet.
"Beep beep..."
"Distress signal received from the main force at the rear! Our wormhole passage has come under attack! Our wormhole passage has come under attack!!"
The sudden shrill alarm shattered the calm inside the Conference Room.
Parish Tengsen, the fleet's Supreme Commander, had been studying the star map of the Third Star Territory. Hearing the alarms, he jolted awake.
He frowned and looked around.
"What is going on?"
Parish Tengsen asked in a deep voice.
The other commanders looked at one another, none of them knowing what had happened.
"They said the fleet at the rear has been attacked!"
"Yes, Brigade Commander. We heard that the wormhole passage our rear fleet was traveling through was attacked and destroyed by the enemy!"
"A wormhole was attacked? That's impossible..."
"How did the enemy know our marching route? That makes no sense!"
"Exactly. The Earth Civilization shouldn't possess such capabilities! The Massim Civilization's spies might have been able to obtain this information, but their people can't even enter our territory, so that possibility can be ruled out."
"Could it be the Iron-Blood Civilization?"
"Bullshit! The Iron-Blood Civilization is even less likely!"
"..."
At that moment, inside the Conference Room aboard this Star Destroyer Mothership Command Ship,
everyone was engaged in heated discussion, commanders of every rank chiming in one after another.
They simply could not believe the message from the alarm was real.
But right then,
"Report!"
"We just received a call from headquarters confirming that our main force was attacked inside the