Nie Yun had never believed in individual heroics. He knew his greatest advantage was having plenty of underlings... the kind counted in trillions.
He had only chosen to infiltrate the enemy camp personally because he could not find anyone better suited to the job.
The metallic nature of his Mechanical Insect avatar was too easy to expose. Under scans from all kinds of biological detection equipment, it was difficult to pass as Alsace.
Although he had recruited quite a few biological underlings, he had turned the only one with any potential as a spy into a child soldier himself. Even her memories were incomplete, and her professional skills had suffered a serious downgrade.
The elites selected from humanity would struggle to cope with the complex, ever-changing alien environment, and Nie Yun could not possibly entrust everyone's fate to someone else.
A supreme commander going behind enemy lines to play 007 was such a bizarre occurrence that Nie Yun had probably set a precedent for the entire universe...
But the situation had now changed. Alsace would soon follow Ishar to the Woolf Wormhole to join the fighting.
That place was nothing like the Proxima Centauri System, a frontier of civilization where, even if he was accidentally exposed, he could still overturn the board, reveal all his trump cards, and fight his way back to the Solar System!
If he really ventured deep into Twin Stars territory, the distances involved would easily span tens or even hundreds of light-years. With major Twin Stars Fleet forces certain to guard every wormhole chokepoint, fighting his way back would be no easier than a cosmic version of running a gauntlet of five passes and six enemy generals. Even through sheer numbers alone, Twin Stars could overwhelm him.
Besides safety considerations, there was another crucial technical