Meanwhile, before December 13, 833, Galactic Standard Time, the Blue Star Princess, carrying the head of state of the Blue Star Commonwealth, President Keith Nishita, had completed a series of engagements in the Grand Open Sea region and was heading toward the Alliance's gates.
President Nishita had been in a good mood for two weeks.
As a highly conscientious leader, he felt empty and lonely when he had nothing to do, and even got cold. He might even have a nervous breakdown from feeling insecure. After all, only by keeping himself busy and filling his days could he feel fulfilled and put himself at ease.
Fortunately, the president had been keeping himself very busy lately.
First, President Nishita had held a grand military memorial in the Grand Open Sea region.
One ceremony honored Marshal Navy Brook, a famous general from the War of Independence.
In the Battle of the Karen System, fought in the Grand Open Sea region, he had defeated an Imperial fleet. It had been only a small-scale fleet engagement, with fewer than a hundred ships between the two sides, and the heaviest vessels were heavy cruisers. The battle report had not even made it onto the desks of the Privy Council's top brass. But regardless, it had been the first time Earthlings had defeated an Imperial fleet of comparable strength in a head-on battle. That made it a groundbreaking moment in the history of warfare.
The other ceremony, of course, commemorated the opening battle of this war: the so-called "Battle of the Hanwang Star Strait."
It had been a battle that showed the Earthlings' mettle. Without that glorious victory, the course of the entire war on the main front in the Galactic homeland would have been impossible to predict.
To put it in the most inauspicious way