Yu Lian said he was only asking, really.
Since they were looking for clues, it was obviously important to take prisoners alive. Besides, though "Firebeard" Edward might have been serving as a shadowy enforcer for some big shot in the Empire, he was still, by and large, a decent man of the underworld. Blasting him to pieces without so much as an explanation didn't sit right with Yu Lian's sense of aesthetics.
He certainly had no objection to the captain's suggestion.
And so, under Captain Nemo's direction, the ship finally set off for the system's outer ring. The captain didn't take some elaborate detour for the sake of stealth. At the ship's current size, trying to sneak around would be like taking off your pants to fart. Once they came within a certain distance, even the basic gravitational disturbances would trigger warnings on the ships' terminals.
Meanwhile, the department in charge of weapons systems had found the following message on its console: "Stealth Unit: Quantum Foam Generator overloaded, restarting. Core component missing. Restart failed. (Conceptual camouflage offline.) Mirage System operating normally. Energy remaining: 46%. (Warning: Activating optical/thermal/gravitational camouflage will place an additional burden on the ship's primary power source.)"
If this so-called quantum foam and conceptual camouflage were activated, would the ship be hiding itself from the very concepts of time, space, and even causality? Yu Lian's thoughts ran wild, but he knew that was all they were: thoughts.
As for the "Mirage" system, he suspected Little Gray might have changed the name so he could understand it, but the description that followed still sounded very promising.
There were stealth systems in this world, and optical camouflage that could be used in space, but they were mainly for crest mechs and fighters. The limit of this technology was making assault