Elsewhere, aboard the Twin Stars Fleet.
"What? They don't need us to intervene?" Reynolds looked at Ishar in astonishment.
"That's right. They told us to continue advancing into the heart of the Rock System and leave the Locke Fleet entirely to them!" Ishar wore a strange expression.
As the supporting force, the Twin Stars Fleet should have been assisting the Pirate Alliance from the flank now that the Locke Conglomerate had played every card and deployed its full strength.
Instead, the other side had taken the attitude of, "We'll take the hits. You go straight for their heart."
"Judging by the firing arc of the enemy's stellar-class weapon, our fleet is indeed in the safe zone behind it. It seems the Locke Conglomerate really does intend to concentrate all its forces against the Pirate Alliance first, even if that means leaving us free to act.
"As long as we move fast enough, we can absolutely capture Rock Planet before they return to defend it and secure victory!
"Looking at it that way... they're already prepared to sacrifice their king to save their rook!" Ishar analyzed.
The "king" Ishar referred to was, naturally, Rock Planet.
"Perhaps Kloros thought Rock Planet was impossible to hold right from the start." "Alsace" smiled.
"But clearly, they've made crippling or even routing the Pirate Alliance their primary strategic objective for now, even at the cost of sacrificing the Locke Conglomerate.
"As for us... we're just nameless pawns they've overlooked."
Ishar and Reynolds both nodded in agreement.
Being underestimated by the enemy was unpleasant, but compared with the unfathomably powerful All Things Unity Society, Twin Stars...
Well! There really was no comparison!
It was only natural for the enemy to take them more seriously...
At some point, Twin Stars had begun putting the mysterious All Things