The moment Jaeger Sobek accepted the communications link sent over by the captain, he suddenly realized this had to be breaking news from the edge of the Great Spiral Cross Nebula and the Fermo Nebula.
The small outpost the Empire had established was a full forty thousand light-years away.
That meant the guy was clearly using precious military-grade Source Essence waves to watch Alliance news!
And not just any news, either. It was the N channel on Nefi StarNet, which the Empire had already banned.
I'm over here busting my ass in a battle of paperwork with the Inquisition's black crows. I've held a hundred review sessions and submitted countless proposals in the past two months. Wasn't it all to protect counterestablishment types like you?
Sobek now felt that all his hard work had only protected a dog. Still, he clicked the news link—despite its suspiciously counterestablishment flavor—and cursing under his breath, headed for the bridge.
A translucent window immediately appeared at the edge of his vision. The image had stabilized, revealing a young reporter in a military-grade spacesuit. His face was brimming with barely contained excitement.
Behind him was the busy bridge of a cruiser, along with a massive tactical star map.
"Dear viewers! Less than an hour ago, on the edge of our beautiful Spiral Nebula, the Alliance's guardians finally won a magnificent and decisive victory!"
Come to think of it, this vast Great Spiral Cross Nebula had always been a "paradise" for criminals and underground organizations. The Spiral Nebula's routes were among the busiest trade lanes in the universe, and naturally an ideal haven for pirates, too. So what exactly was supposed to be beautiful about it?
But if the claim was that the nebula's complex conditions made it impossible to suppress the pirates, that excuse had