Stars glittered endlessly.
The vast universe hid boundless mysteries and beauty.
Yet within its utter darkness lurked countless dangers and terrors.
Everything here was so silent, until streaks of blue light began appearing out of thin air.
[Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh----]
The first to appear were five heavy Battlecruisers, seven light battleship destroyers, fifteen frigates, and fifty transport ships led by Admiral Momonga's Amaterasu.
They served as the vanguard.
The fleets behind them would arrive in sequence after receiving confirmation that nothing was amiss.
"Commander, a Level Nine warp jump has been completed."
"Current location: the junction of the Nerona Arm and the Figarland Arm within the galaxy, galactic longitude 52.17°, galactic latitude -3.25°, approximately 3,000 light-years from Sea Star."
The artificial intelligence, Warhammer, made its report inside the command cabin of the three-kilometer-long Amaterasu.
Level Nine warp here referred to the distance covered by each engine activation.
Level One was roughly equivalent to one light-year, Level Two to roughly five light-years, and so on. The maximum, Level Nine, covered three thousand light-years.
Beyond that, there was also a sublight cruise mode, which was conventional spaceflight.
These were all settings from the Galactic Empire. The Academy of Sciences had made no adjustments.
Even Boros's Dark Matter space battleship operated the same way.
As for making a spacecraft cruise at light speed, even Planet Deviluke could not accomplish that.
After all, the universe's conventional physical laws dictated that matter itself could not reach the speed of light, much less surpass it.
Technology often made use of physical laws, which made it difficult to break through their limits.
Fortunately, this universe possessed many extraordinary powers that transcended physical laws.
And the Nerona Arm and Figarland Arm mentioned by Warhammer—
They were actually the World Government's names for the various spiral arms of