The Star Alliance Guard had still not dealt with the Great Silence Barrier, and panic spread among the Nomu people.
Their civilization had suffered terribly from it before.
In a space battle, communications were vital. Without them, an enemy could do as it pleased.
Under the Great Silence Barrier, ships could not contact one another or receive any orderly electromagnetic signals traveling through space. Any signals they did receive had been tampered with.
The only things it could not affect were a living being's senses.
But eyesight was of limited use in war, especially across the vastness of space. At that scale, almost everything vanished into the distance.
Take the Solar System. If the Kuiper Belt marked its boundary and it was sliced along the ecliptic, its cross-sectional area would be 2.0096 trillion trillion square kilometers!
The Sirius Star System was larger still, with a cross-sectional area of at least three trillion trillion square kilometers. And that was only a cross section of a vast three-dimensional space.
A battle at any point within it, even one spanning millions of square kilometers, would be like a few cells fighting to the death in some forgotten corner of Earth.
Without scientific means of detection, no one would notice.
That was what made the Great Silence Barrier so terrifying. It was a strategic weapon of mass destruction.
Nine thousand years ago, when the Sirius Star System was invaded by an internet celebrity, that Podcaster had used the Great Silence Barrier to defeat the Nomu military single-handedly.
The people on the Homeworld knew nothing. No word came back from space, so they kept eating, drinking, playing music, and dancing.
Then the Podcaster descended on the Homeworld and unleashed a Grade 4 Nano Storm. Factories vanished one after another, and the Nomu people had no