The Eastern Front's supreme command bastion in the Spark War Zone hung motionless in the safest reaches behind the line, like a vast black star forged from pure dark matter and super-strong alloy.
Comparable in size to a small moon, the bastion housed a cluster of quantum command systems powerful enough to coordinate hundreds of planets and tens of thousands of fleets.
For more than a century, successive deputy commanders of the Eastern Front had worked themselves to exhaustion here, struggling day and night to plug the gaps in the line.
Today, that vast war machine welcomed its true master.
In the supreme strategic hall at the bastion's heart, the dome soared overhead, and streams of cold, precise data cascaded across the surrounding bulkheads.
Wearing the special-grade general's uniform that marked his supreme authority, Jiang Yue walked steadily onto the command platform at the center of the hall. In his hands, he held the Stellar Seal, carved from the core of a white dwarf.
With a dull metallic clang, Jiang Yue drove the seal into the slot on the Control Console.
"Humm—!"
In an instant, the entire supreme command bastion seemed to come alive, releasing a roar that shook the void.
The immense Quantum Mainframe activated fully. At the center of the hall, a giant Holographic Sand Table spanning nearly three hundred frontline planets unfolded in a blaze of blue light, laying the vast Star Domain of interwoven crimson and azure bare before Jiang Yue.
"Pass on my orders."
Jiang Yue rested both hands on the edge of the Control Console. His gaze pierced the holographic star map, and his low voice cracked like thunder through the command system:
"Activate the Eastern Front's highest-priority Quantum Communications Network. Convene every planetary defense commander and main-fleet commander for a supreme holographic military