Yu Lian tilted his head and thought for a moment, then suddenly realized that the Commonwealth's independence and the Seventh Galactic War had both taken place in the previous century. As for the thirty-odd years since this century began, conflicts and upheavals among small nations had certainly never been in short supply, but in terms of scale, they were nowhere near this two-million-light-year-long great expedition by the marauders.
What was more, the Empire had mobilized nearly a third of its military forces in the New World, including three Titan-class ships. Many young people born after the ninth century of the Commonwealth calendar had never even seen a Titan-class ship.
All right, Miss Tillek was right. This was indeed the biggest war of the century, and it certainly counted as the greatest stage, as the other side put it. After all, she hadn't hopped back and forth along another timeline, so she had no idea just how lively this universe would become in the near future...
Wait a second. Wasn't this woman the legendary "Great Prophet"? One of the Thirteen Faces, the highest-ranking members of the Serpent Organization beneath the three Time Lords, and a legendary genius who could see through past and future? The Time Lords' most trusted right-hand woman, the Serpent Organization's Eye of Insight...
The Great Prophet might not know that Yu Lian knew who she was, but Yu Lian certainly knew who she was. Having returned from that era, Yu Lian knew perfectly well that this Tillek woman was actually a "Universal Scholar," a seven-ring psion of the "Wisdom" ring. She must also have had some other fortuitous encounter, granting her a method of deduction known as "psychohistory." That allowed her to sift the most useful patterns from the vast quantities of information generated throughout the universe,