Global Crossing: Empire of Stars

Flames devoured the steel megastructure. This industrial miracle, which had taken over 200 years to build, lasted barely a dozen minutes under the fleet's bombardment. The Battle Star under construction and the Planetary Titan nearing completion alike were reduced to wreckage beneath the fierce artillery fire.

The entire starfield became a steel graveyard. Countless starships and megastructure fragments formed an alloy wasteland resembling an Asteroid Belt, littered with the frozen remains of hundreds of millions of their kin.

This great industrial star system was dead. Along with it went the efforts of countless colonists over the past 200 years. The Ankordri would need another 200 years of hard work to restore their ability to produce Battle Stars and Planetary Titans.

Perhaps word of the Megastructure Shipyard's destruction had reached them. Just minutes later, Lin Zhichen noticed the fleet in the Galactic Core Area growing restless. The chaos in High-Dimensional Space-Time had only just finished taking shape when vast numbers of warships, led by Planet Warships, entered high-dimensional space to scan the vast

starfield.

"Some people never learn." As he spoke, his thought plucked a key node in High-Dimensional Space-Time once more, like a finger strumming a seven-stringed zither. The not-yet-stabilized space-time had its crucial node destroyed, and chaos swept across the entire region again.

In that brief interval, the colonists finally used the wide-area detection capabilities of High-Dimensional Space-Time to locate the Imperial Fleet, more than a thousand light-years from the hidden forging system.

Though they had no idea how the enemy fleet had managed to travel so far from the Megastructure Shipyard in such a short time, the kin made a decision as quickly as they could—descend dimensions and strike directly at the enemy's star region!

Descending from high-dimensional to low-dimensional space required no Hyperspace Jump. In the chaos-filled