In short, setting aside the tensions around the world and looking only at the current atmosphere in this galaxy, peace and quiet on the New Continent should last for a while yet.
But far away in the Spiral Cross Nebula, back in the Milky Way, the pirates, gangs, cults, and other unsavory organizations who made their home in the galaxy's largest "international waters" were feeling the pressure build like oil at a roaring boil. Some fled deeper into space, some lived in constant dread, some began tearing into their "colleagues," some closed their eyes and waited to die, and others started exploring the possibility of surrendering.
When the famous pirate king Gong Xiao, aboard his renowned top-tier pirate ship, the Red Pearl, left the nebula's cover and reached the main shipping route to declare his intention to surrender to the allied forces, the atmosphere in the Spiral Nebula grew even more tense.
Meanwhile, the "Snake Pit," hidden deep within the nebula—the headquarters of the Serpent Around the World, known to its members as the "Navigator Fortress"—continued to maintain its usual, orderly calm.
It was now May 15, 833 by Galactic Standard Time. The Navigator Fortress had left its usual operating region and arrived in a system composed of red giants.
The stars there were in their twilight years, and nearly all the planets had been swallowed by their swelling infernos. The giants' gravitational pull also created extremely chaotic magnetic and gravitational fields. In such an exceptionally harsh environment, neither the hyperspace readings of long-range telescopes nor the gravity wells were stable.
As a result, this system had gone undiscovered, despite being very close to the A-1 main route through the Cross Nebula.
Now, the Navigator Fortress had truly made its way here, its mass and size comparable to those of