Yu Lian immediately understood what she meant.
She meant that while the Broad Silence remained in its current, ordinary starship configuration, it wasn't invincible. The Empire could still sink it.
That wasn't surprising.
If it were truly invincible, how could Feifei and he have slipped aboard and launched a strike right at its heart?
The so-called "dimensional displacement shield" could indeed create nearly impregnable spatial rifts for defense, but the Empire certainly had no shortage of powerful beings capable of traversing space, nor was it lacking in methods for doing so.
The dual-phase arc cannons were powerful conceptual weapons, able to pierce armor and shields with ease and damage a ship's hull. But against high-ranking psions, they'd probably have a hard time escaping their intuition.
That was much like predicting an opponent's moves in a psionic duel. In a battle between masters, if you waited until you saw your opponent make a move before dodging or blocking, it was already too late.
...Good grief, why was it always psions?
As the fastest-rising psion of the century, Yu Lian thought psions were a real nuisance of a concept.
In any case, Little Gray had at least stopped being cryptic this time. She gave Yu Lian's guess an enthusiastic endorsement, then smiled. "And you need to understand that with you aboard, with you and Feifei aboard, and with all your subordinates aboard, she can only remain in the narrow sense of the word! That's the kind of quality I, your big sister, ought to have as a neutral civilization-guiding AI."
She paused, then patted her chest. "I'm really, truly neutral. You understand?"
Yu Lian could only say that he understood. He really didn't dare not understand.
"Of course, you also need to understand that as long as I'm here, in the broad