Inside the eastern border defense fortress of the Triangulum Galaxy.
The soldiers and their commanders all hid inside the fortress, monitoring the situation outside only through surveillance systems and scattered patrol ships.
Then, all of a sudden, they noticed something was wrong.
It seemed as though the entire exterior of the fortress had darkened.
"What's going on?"
"Why did the light suddenly dim?"
The fortress commander was the first to notice the anomaly and hurriedly questioned the subordinates patrolling outside.
The escort Star Destroyers patrolling around the fortress quickly sent back a report.
The reporting soldier spoke in an extremely rushed tone, even carrying deep terror.
"R-report, sir! The... the stars... all the stars have disappeared! They vanished in an instant!!"
"What do you mean, the stars disappeared?"
"I-I don't know! They just suddenly vanished! It was incredibly abrupt, without any warning! Every single star is gone! It's as if they were swallowed by a black hole!"
"A black hole?"
"Don't talk nonsense! There have never been any signs of black holes in this region!"
"And all the stars around here are extremely young. Those celestial systems can't just turn into black holes for no reason!!"
"Go investigate what happened immediately! Don't you dare slack off!!"
The fortress commander berated his subordinates.
But just as he finished speaking, before he could receive any response from the other side, the darkness outside suddenly spread over like an eternal night.
An incomparably vast curtain of black swallowed everything in an instant.
Including the entire border fortress.
With a "crack..."
The communicator in the fortress commander's hand completely lost contact with the other side at that moment.
"What exactly happened?"
He was still muttering to himself in bewilderment.
Then, at that very moment, another change occurred.
Everything happened too suddenly, too quickly.
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