"Yes, Grand Duke. We'll keep an eye on it," came the reply over the comm.
Tang Xiao set down the communicator and stared thoughtfully at the holographic star map before him. It showed the direction of the Unknown Regions. Besides the marker for the First Exploration Fleet near Levik planet, there was another marker in the Northern Galaxy!
The Second Exploration Fleet!
This exploration fleet had set out from Makito, backed by the Fourth Group and the InterGalactic Banking Clan (M). Its flagship was likewise an Endless-class Super Carrier—the Number Three Ship!
The Endless-class Super Carrier had never been intended for mass construction. Of the first three built, one had gone to Sefrans Tann of the Mandalore star sector, another had been assigned to Shepard's First Exploration Fleet, and the third was here, with the Second Exploration Fleet.
Unlike the First Exploration Fleet, whose mission was purely to explore the unknown, the Second Exploration Fleet had a very clear objective—make contact with the Chiss.
They had also obtained all the information about the Chiss that they could from Sefrans Tann. Unfortunately, Tann had fled after the Seff family was destroyed in internal family struggles, so even she could not clearly identify the exact location of Chiss territory.
Thus, the Second Exploration Fleet could only search bit by bit. After all, for such a powerful civilization with considerable influence, the traces of Chiss activity should not have been difficult to find.
Now, because of the Mongar-Mongar problem, the Second Exploration Fleet needed to lend a hand as well. Ideally, they would find the local powers of the Unknown Regions—the Chiss.
Meanwhile, in the direction of the First Exploration Fleet and the Normandy.
Shepard and her team had already landed on the planet. From information they had found there, they now