Of course, what reassured everyone was that they hadn't encountered any enemy reinforcements by the time the battle ended.
"That's strange. If King Sullyuka were here, she shouldn't have abandoned the defenses around this place." Akina Mountain Hachiman voiced his doubts. Naturally, he was looking at it purely from a military perspective.
Michele Kent, who had a great deal of political instinct, thought it over before saying, "But King Sullyuka is the military governor of the Dawnstar Sector in the New World, isn't she? Unity Fortress has fallen, King Sauron's fate is unknown, and the star system is littered with the wreckage of fortresses and ships. But until King Sauron's death is confirmed, she has to provide all-out support, even if only to make a show of it."
He glanced at Yang Xiyi. "I'm only saying this with the benefit of hindsight. You saw it coming in advance, didn't you?"
Yang Xiyi gave him a sidelong glance. "You mustn't assess a genius like King Sullyuka with excessive realism. History is full of competent, even excellent commanders who were toyed with by their opponents' geniuses simply because they limited their thinking to what was conventional."
"Sorry." The young elite officers who had graduated from Central Defense University quickly bowed their heads, ready to learn. They all felt as though they had returned to their student days, with memories of their long-dead, colorful youth coming back to haunt them.
Only then did Yang Xiyi explain, "Before the war began, we set up a large number of gravitational-wave beacons near the Eye of Dawn star system."
After all, before this, the whole universe had been preparing to develop the Dawnstar region together, so it made perfect sense to build a lot of communications equipment.
Naturally, once the war began, the Empire—having seized the