The signal towers, also known as Babel Towers, had been built by Black Bolt Bruce, one of N52 Star's Seven Leaders. There was one in each of the Seven Leaders' territories, together forming N52 Star's entire information network.
Ordinarily, the seven Babel Towers rarely saw the presence of the seven leaders themselves. But now, with the interstellar fleets of two great empires appearing on N52 Star's outskirts, the leaders could no longer sit still. Their projections appeared one after another in the conference rooms atop the Babel Towers.
"What exactly is going on? Why are the fleets of the Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire here?"
Seated upon the Bat Throne, his entire body shrouded in darkness, Black Bolt spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Who knows? Maybe those two empires finally lost patience and decided to join forces to deal with us first." The enormous mechanical lifeform Cyborg, with a silver-white body and scarlet eyes, tapped his ten fingers against himself, producing an endless series of clinks and clatters.
"I said long ago that we should have carried out that plan sooner. If we had, we wouldn't be in this situation now." Aquaman, bare-chested and bearded, snorted coldly as he held a fork made of special metal.
"Then why didn't you volunteer back then? In the end, aren't you just afraid of dying? Keep that fork of yours for eating." Green Lantern, green-skinned, green-robed, green-haired, life-green from head to toe, ground the magic ring in his hand with a whetstone as he sneered.
"Better than you, at least. Your wife ran off with someone else."
"You want to die, fishmonger?"
"Still better than having a wife who sells herself."
"Enough, stop arguing. The most urgent thing now is figuring out what happened, not sitting here bickering. Has anyone contacted the