Afterward, Ina carefully explained to Yu Lian the so-called URW46 Ghost Hunt incident and the clues behind it.
The incident had begun with a series of strange and terrifying events in this sector: unmanned ghost ships drifting through space, eerie shadows in the deserts of distant planets, residents disappearing from space stations, and so on.
Yang Xiyi had been investigating the truth behind the New Jade Gate Incident from the beginning. He had secretly ordered his own fleet's security ships, deep-space exploration vessels, and all observation stations to monitor communications. As a result, in August of last year, they successfully intercepted a distress signal from the notorious pirate "General Redwing," Hromel.
He was one of the most famous pirates, ranking among the top twenty on the pirate bounty list. A Kimeyang native, he had been an ace pilot in the Imperial military and had even risen to the rank of brigadier general.
A man who rose to general through his military achievements would surely have been granted lifelong noble status upon retirement, even if he were a nonhuman species. He could also have directly secured citizenship for his immediate family. For a soldier born into an ordinary nonhuman family, his career in the Imperial military had been an undeniable success.
But perhaps he was a liberal who longed for poetry and faraway places. During an expedition to explore a New World under his command, he had staged a mutiny, seized six ships and all the expedition's records with his subordinates, and fled.
...By this point, anyone clever enough could probably guess why pirates, underworld kingpins, and certain interstellar megacorporations always seemed to possess New World route data that even the authorities didn't know about.
After all, this was the New World. There was no real-time Source Quality Wave communication, and