On September 15, Cosmic Year 131, the Skywing Empire's official media reported that its expeditionary forces had established contact with the Jupiter Sphere.
The Jupiter Sphere had only one nation, known as the Jupiter Federation.
Though it was called a federation, it was in fact a dictatorship.
Its ruler was titled the Grand President, and the position was hereditary.
The current Grand President was a man in his fifties named Stein Haiheims.
The news quickly spread across the international community. No one had expected the Jupiter Federation, which had been out of contact for over sixty years, to still exist.
As for the Jupiter Federation's current state of development, not only other nations but even the Skywing Empire remained unaware.
As the Grand President of the Jupiter Federation, Stein Haiheims had likewise never expected a force from the Mars Sphere to come knocking.
What he had not expected even more was that the Mars Sphere nation seeking contact was a newly risen empire. The Dion Empire they had once known had already perished.
Grand President Stein remembered that when his father had still been in office, the Dion Empire had rarely contacted them. Furthermore, the Jupiter Federation had been undergoing internal turmoil at the time.
They had been cut off from the Earth Sphere and Colony Sphere for around sixty years.
Grand President Stein and his government team truly could not understand why a newly risen nation from the Mars Sphere had come all the way to the Jupiter Sphere.
On September 13, Cosmic Year 131, the information signal sent by the expeditionary fleet had been received by a Jupiter Sphere receiving station.
It immediately drew the attention of the Jupiter Sphere authorities. After deliberation, they decided to establish communications with the other side.
After some exchanges between both parties,