The facts proved that the system notification—and its warning that "Anyone who fails to report within five minutes will be treated as having deserted in the face of battle and permanently banned"—was indeed highly intimidating to the players!
See?
In barely five minutes, the open space at the entrance to the Starport factory district had filled with all several hundred players who had received the notification!
Aside from the very few players who had already been at the base, rushed over immediately, and were still fully armed at their original high levels, everyone else had killed themselves, respawned at the base, and hurried over.
As a result, they were all standing around bare-chested in an extremely undignified state, staring wide-eyed at one another as they clustered in the open space and waited.
But they had no choice. The notification had given them no time to prepare and offered no advance warning. Other than finding a way to die and respawn at the base, they truly had no better option.
Of course, none of that was important!
What mattered now was this: while several hundred players gathered and waited, idly discussing the choice of captain for the battlecruiser Orks, which was about to launch, quite a few players who had applied for captain training, passed the assessments, and possessed some captain qualifications gradually began arguing:
[Dragon Knight Commander]: [Hey! Who do you think should be the captain of this first battleship?]
[Yan Wu Shi Xin Chuo Ta]: [Holy shit! Don't tell me you're planning to nominate yourself, Dog Commander?]
[Yan Wu Shi Xin Chuo Ta]: [Someone like you wants to be a captain?!]
[Dragon Knight Commander]: [...]
[Dragon Knight Commander]: [If you don't know how to talk, then shut up! No one's treating you like a mute!]
[Reader20190909194814245]: [Um... Dragon, I