Makito, the headquarters of both the InterGalactic Banking Clan and the Fourth Group. It had long been heavily guarded, with large armed orbital space stations constructed around the planet.
Yet this time, when the Geth fleet appeared, only a handful of Munificent-class communications frigates were dispatched to intercept them. The two sides merely exchanged token fire, shooting harmless blasts into empty space.
Instead, both sides concentrated their main firepower on this Republic fleet detachment sent to lure the enemy! They completely ignored the distress signals sent by the detachment!
The detachment's Fleet Commander had originally believed that an attack on a vital location like Makito would surely provoke an immediate and fierce response from the InterGalactic Banking Clan and the Fourth Group. He had never imagined that they would seem utterly unconcerned by the Geth assault.
Especially when he saw a squadron of Vulture droid fighters and a squadron of Geth insect fighters working seamlessly from either side to bombard one of their DP-20 gunships, the shock in his heart became indescribable!
"Something's wrong! Why aren't the Geth warships attacking the Separatists? Don't they kill everyone they see?" the Commander roared in near hysteria.
"Could the Geth and the Separatists be working together?" A staff officer voiced a terrifying possibility.
"We have to report this to the Galactic Republic! If the Geth and the Separatists are in league, it will be a catastrophic consequence for the Northern Territory!" the Commander said loudly.
"Sir! They've deployed electronic interference! Our hyperspace communications have been cut off!" The communications officer turned around, panic written all over his face.
"What did you say!?" The Commander's face instantly turned livid.
Just then, however, they suddenly received a distress signal. It had come through a public channel and was transmitted through Makito's large hyperspace relay station,