At this moment, a massive aerial formation of over a hundred Wraith fighters swept over the ceremony grounds. The pilots faced the camera screens inside their cockpits, raised their hands in salute, and pressed a button at the same time.
Multicolored streams of light immediately shot out from the emitters at the tails of all the Wraith fighters. The light actually hung in the sky without dispersing, growing brighter and brighter until it even illuminated the heavens!
This was actually a rare luminescent substance that emitted a brilliant glow after undergoing chemical reactions and energy stimulation.
Under the illumination of those multicolored lights, viewers watching the ceremony through live broadcasts from every angle finally noticed that, at some unknown point, a massive army had assembled before the ceremonial platform where Tang Xiao stood!
This broadcast was being transmitted across the entire Milky Way Galaxy. Although the Galactic Republic had blocked the signal, the senior leadership of the Republic Supreme Strategic Command had gathered in a conference room to watch the ceremony together.
They were not there to enjoy the spectacle. They wanted to see their greatest future enemy!
When these senior commanders saw the enormous army assembled on the ground, nearly all of them underwent a drastic change in expression.
At that moment, the army had already begun marching in neat steps past the platform where Tang Xiao, Count Dooku, and Adele-Ulan stood.
At the very front were one hundred soldiers equipped with CMC-300 powered armor!
In the eyes of the Galactic Republic's senior commanders, these two-meter-tall suits of powered armor were enormously intimidating. Painted dark blue, they had exaggerated spherical shoulder armor and fully enclosed helmets. Judging by the way they moved, their agility was clearly no less than that of ordinary soldiers!
Because these powered armor suits were