"Getting heavy armaments onto Kara Star isn't something one or two spies could pull off. If someone on our side really did this, then... I'm afraid the entire senior leadership of at least one colonial base has been compromised by the All Things Unity Society!"
Ishar's words carried a pointed implication. The Winged Race had barely been involved in Kara Star's defenses, so secretly shipping weapons there would have been impossible for them. Her remarks subtly suggested that the only ones capable of doing this... were the Sea Race themselves.
At those words, sweat broke out on the Sea Race Army commander's forehead. Every colonial base fell under his jurisdiction. If one of them had a problem, he would be the prime suspect!
Worse still, he had offended Alsace, the man in charge of the "spy case." If Alsace used this as an excuse to go after him...
"Lady Ishar, immediately after the incident, I sent an investigative team to inspect the Shockwave Weapon inventories at every colonial base on-site. Not a single weapon was missing!" he hurriedly protested.
"Weapons inventories don't tell us everything. Reporting weapons as lost or damaged, for instance, or secretly stockpiling parts for assembly could both circumvent our logistics records."
Ishar made the remark coolly, then turned to Gustav. "Whatever the truth may be, what's done is done. Our first priority now is resolving the problems on Kara Star! What do you intend to do?"
"There are two key issues: the astonishing production rate of those Bioweapons, and the heavy weapons emplacements in the Burning Zone. If we can resolve those two problems, Kara Star will be back under our control!" Gustav said.
"After our military biologists analyzed the biological samples, their preliminary conclusion was that these Bioweapons were indeed our Hounds, genetically optimized and