Help! Help! We've been attacked by the Geth!! There are over a hundred of them! Help... help!!
The intermittent transmission carried the terrified cries of the advance force, accompanied from time to time by explosions. Clearly, their warships' shields had been breached, and their main armor belts were under bombardment!
"General! It's the Geth! They're ambushing our advance force! Should we send reinforcements to support them?" the Fleet Adjutant walked over and said to Admiral Gillard-Perine.
But Gillard-Perine shook his head grimly. "No. They've already been wiped out. If they had truly been ambushed by the Geth, they couldn't possibly still have had a chance to send a distress call."
No one understood the Geth better than he did. The Geth had used such tricks many times. Their electronic interference technology was unparalleled across the Milky Way Galaxy. When facing Geth ships, the Imperial fleet was usually thrown into communications chaos.
The main reason was that the Geth were essentially virtual data. Their true forms were data existing within the Geth network, while their bodies were merely vessels that made movement convenient. Thus, Geth electronic interference often involved transmitting the data of vast numbers of Geth units to sabotage communications networks.
It was nearly impossible to guard against, and even the Empire's most advanced firewalls could not stop it.
Therefore, when fighting the Geth fleet, the best approach was to shut down the network, avoid communications as much as possible, and follow the strategies and tactics arranged before battle.
So, if the advance force had truly come under Geth attack, it would have been nearly impossible for them to send back a distress signal amid the communications interference. There was a high probability that this distress call had been sent by the Geth, its purpose being to lure them over