"What I can and cannot do is none of your business. When I tell you to do something, there are only two words I want to hear: 'Yes, sir.'" — "Losers: On the First Cabinet of the Fourth Empire," Francis Underwood
Hunter Class Battlecruiser Endurance, bridge.
"General Windu! We've found traces of the Destruction!" An intelligence officer hurried over and called out to Master Windu.
The red glow in Master Windu's electronic eye flared brightly. He rose to his feet. "Where? Speak!"
The intelligence officer walked to the holographic star map and pointed at a planet. "We detected massive hyperspace fluctuations and energy readings on Akiva! This indicates that a large number of ships have been moving intensively around that planet recently!"
"Akiva?" Master Windu frowned. "That's already beyond the Neutral Alliance's territory... and it isn't even in this sector. Are you sure it's their base of operations?"
The intelligence officer shook his head. "I can't be certain, General Windu. But after expanding our search range, Akiva was the only place where we found hyperspace fluctuations on such a large scale. An ordinary-sized fleet would find it difficult to cause disturbances of this magnitude, and we found no such clues anywhere in the surrounding regions."
"Continue." Master Windu's brow remained deeply furrowed.
The intelligence officer quickly continued, "The largest fleet detachment attacked recently had eight Hunter Class battlecruisers. Based on our recent assessment of the Destruction's operational patterns, it is likely accompanied by ten to twenty thousand-meter capital ships, most likely Behemoth-class battlecruisers. At that scale, they could not possibly resupply within Neutral Alliance territory, which is why we expanded our search to neighboring sectors."
Master Windu nodded.
"Then we compared the hyperspace fluctuations from every recent attack and obtained this chart." The intelligence officer brought up an extraordinarily