Bang!! A thick stack of files was slammed down in front of Alan, head of the Intelligence Department. A PAD terminal sitting atop the stack was knocked straight to the floor, and its holographic projection was triggered as it fell, casting a sprawling image of wreckage and debris.
Admiral Kurny of the Galactic Republic's 17th Army Navy was livid. Staring at the middle-aged woman in her forties before him, his voice brimmed with boundless fury. "By this afternoon at the latest! I want to know exactly what happened to my fleet!!!"
Alan hurriedly rose to her feet. "Our investigators have already gone to the battlefield with the salvage teams. We will carefully analyze every detail and strive to fully reconstruct what happened. But... the scene is truly too chaotic. Even sorting through the wreckage will take at least five days."
"Five days?! Do you know that the Separatist Titan warship is eyeing Naboo from the Enarc system? Do you know that after destroying our interception fleet, the Separatist guerrilla fleet casually wiped out one of our medical outposts?!" Kurny roared in fury.
"Y-yes..." Faced with the Admiral of the Navy's wrath, Alan barely dared to breathe.
"Listen! I'm giving you one day! Find out why our fleet was defeated!!" Kurny shouted. "Remember this: if we cannot investigate the course of this encounter, we won't even be able to stop the Separatist guerrilla fleet! And do you know who we are? The 17th Army! The 17th Army!! To counter that shitty Titan warship, our fleet strength could rank in the top five of the Republic!! But now, even a measly guerrilla fleet can shit all over our faces!!"
"Yes... I'll get right on it." Alan hurriedly replied.
In the outskirts of the Kira planet, nearly the entire defensive fleet had entered