Charlie Crete

When the hundred thousand warships flew out of hyperspace in the surveillance footage, everyone in the command center froze.

This...

Wasn't our Empire's fleet!!

"Quick, issue a warning to them, and order the Capital Planet Guard Fleet to surround them immediately!"

"Yes, Commander!"

Having come to his senses, Salens immediately issued a string of orders.

Fortunately, there were only a hundred thousand warships on the other side. If it had been a large-scale fleet invasion, things would have gotten ugly.

At that thought, Salens relaxed slightly.

Fortunately...

The situation was still under control!

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While Salens continuously mobilized the fleets, aboard the Melova's bridge—

"This really is prosperous. It could almost compare to the Solar System, couldn't it?"

Looking at the surrounding conditions revealed by their observations, Lin Yu could not help but sigh in admiration.

After all, civilizations of the seventh order and above already possessed planetary relocation technology. Once most civilizations reached this stage, they would relocate many high-quality planets into the Capital Sphere where their home planet was located, or into other important commercial spheres.

For example, the Federation's Capital Sphere.

The Solar System of today was no longer the Solar System of old, with only eight major planets. It had seventy-eight 3S-class Life Planets alone. Whether in quality or quantity, it far surpassed the Crete Empire's Capital Sphere.

However, when the Federation had still been a Seventh Order Civilization, the Solar System truly had not been as prosperous as this place.

"Commander, we've received a transmission from them."

"Mm, play it."

"Yes!"

In fact, there was no need to play it. Lin Yu already knew roughly what the transmission would contain. Still, he felt that occasionally listening to warnings from lower civilizations was rather interesting.

After all, long journeys through the universe were incredibly boring. Finding