Global Crossing: Empire of Stars - Section 856

The truth might have been that, without Star-class Warships, deep-space colonization would have been nothing but a fantasy.

"Come back. There's little point in exploring further, and it's too dangerous," Link suggested.

"We're nowhere near our limit yet." Wu Tianyi smiled and declined. "I'll change course and keep pushing deeper into space. Even if we can't complete the mission this time, at least we'll learn what we might face in the future."

Faced with the enormous Chaos Fleet, the Golden Roc charged forward without the slightest fear, like a heavily armored knight riding into the enemy ranks.

Watching the battlefield from several thousand light-years away, none of them worried about the Golden Roc's lone charge. The enemy fleet looked vast, but it posed little threat to this powerful Psionic Titan.

It quickly accelerated to near light speed, and most of the weapons aimed at it missed. A streak of light cut through space. Dense Energy Beams flashed in the darkness like a welcoming salute, then vanished into the depths of space.

The Golden Roc didn't fire. Against such an enormous battle group, destroying a few thousand or even ten thousand ships would be a mere drop in the ocean. Instead, it streaked past the fleet at incredible speed.

Using the ship's radar, the Imperium—thousands of light-years away—got a clear picture of the enormous fleet's composition.

"What is that?" Link enlarged a projection of a colossal construct and asked.

It looked like an elongated regular pentagon, with two pentagonal structures joined top to bottom. It rotated as it traveled, spanning more than three thousand kilometers in diameter. Without a doubt, it was a mobile Space Fortress.

It was entirely black, radiating a purple glow. It didn't look like a purely technological creation—but then, Chaos had no purely technological creations.

"That's a