Yu Lian couldn't help freezing.
He hadn't expected to hear that name here, and couldn't help asking again, "Who did you say that was?"
"Lieutenant General Jaeger Sobeck, the Wolf of Dawn. I never expected that dangerous imperial general to be here." Lieutenant Hines spoke in a low voice, still with a trace of unmistakable concern.
So that guy had finally officially made lieutenant general! In the Imperial Army, reaching that rank meant having command authority over an entire theater. Throughout the long history of the Galactic Empire's campaigns across the stars, plenty of commanders who led armies to conquer nations had been no more than lieutenant generals.
Imperial generals of that rank could be granted a dreadnought as their flagship, depending on their seniority, battle record, and connections.
But come to think of it, Sobeck wasn't even thirty yet. He'd made his mark even earlier than in the previous timeline. Was that somehow my fault too?
...Well, that didn't seem to be a question.
No one noticed the commander's tangled feelings about it. Or rather, they were concerned about something else.
Captain Nemo frowned, his face clouded with worry. "Isn't he supposed to be in King Sulwica's court? Why isn't he over with the Commonwealth? Why is he here?"
That was exactly what Yu Lian wanted to know, too.
He remembered that Sobeck should have been serving under Marshal Ikenroga, as part of the Far Shore campaign group. After Seide fell, he had been one of the imperial squadron commanders tasked with pursuing Yu's fleet.
Judged purely in tactical terms, the pursuit hadn't succeeded.
The main fleet and the Pilgrim had gone their separate ways, and both had evaded their pursuers. The former had reached New Shenzhou, gaining an entire defensible star sector as a rear base and a