Gloucester's roar echoed throughout the entire bridge.
At that moment,
not a single person could answer his question.
"What, has everyone gone silent?"
"Commander Gloucester, we did not detect any Black Hole Channels opening. The fleets stationed at the Current Mouth likewise found no abnormalities. Those fleets seemed... seemed to have appeared out of thin air!"
After Gloucester pressed them repeatedly, someone finally spoke up.
But to Gloucester, this was no different from saying nothing. It had no meaning whatsoever!
"Report!"
"Speak!"
At that moment, an officer on the bridge suddenly stood up and reported.
"We have received three reports stating that Black Hole Channels were observed. However, when we scanned the coordinates listed in those reports, we found nothing!"
"Hm?"
This was a matter worth investigating.
The soldiers claimed they had seen them, yet their own side detected nothing.
So, were the soldiers lying, or had their instruments malfunctioned?
Gloucester leaned more toward the latter possibility. After all, these were not reports from a single fleet, but from fleets in three different Superclusters. The odds of them all lying at the same time were far too low.
But if that was truly the case, did it mean the Federation had mastered a new Black Hole Channel technology, one that the Empire could not detect?
That would explain why nearly all of his war zones had been ambushed, yet they had no idea where the enemy had come from.
This was going to be troublesome!
"Order the reporting fleets to observe them again and transmit the footage they capture!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Very quickly, in less than a minute, three fleets from different war zones transmitted their live footage. When the images were opened on the bridge—
sure enough,
the footage showed Black Hole Channels!
"Have the technical team analyze those