This was an NPC Stellar Titan Ship. The odds of encountering a Titan Ship in the vast depths of space were exceedingly low, and the odds of two Titan Ships meeting were even lower. Yet the Titan Ship Voyage had been so unlucky that it had run into one despite flying in a straight line.
Once Titan Ships encountered each other, unless both sides were willing to avoid a fight, escape was little more than a pipe dream if the battle went badly. With no other choice, Voyage returned to the Three-dimensional Universe and opened its hangar bays to release the Colony Fleet.
They might have lacked other colonization equipment, needing to manufacture it on the fly during the Titan's voyage, but they had more than enough escort warships. At the first sign of an enemy fleet, large numbers of Prime Force Warships immediately streamed out of the Titan Ship, forming one Combat Fleet after another.
The two fleets swiftly closed in on each other. Battle was imminent.
"The Will of Chaos must have driven this. The Titan Ship's course shifted by a tiny angle twenty-three days ago, setting up this encounter in deep space." In the Hall of Gods, Wei Peng opened a star map and marked the course of the opposing NPC Titan Ship.
Sure enough, the course, which had originally been a straight line, had shifted by a tiny angle twenty-three days earlier. That had led directly to the two Titan Ships crossing paths.
It looked like a coincidence, but behind it was an unseen hand quietly manipulating fate. The Gods weren't surprised. Such chance encounters were all too common in deep space. According to military reports, in theory, as long as the Empire's fleet was in deep space—whether docked or
underway—if it stayed there long enough,