Venue

As the date drew ever closer, although the Zerg and the Star Sea Alliance appeared to be getting along splendidly on the surface, even the dullest species could sense the storm brewing beneath it all.

"Overlord, the time is almost here."

"Are you ready, Sarah?"

"Then go. Don't disappoint me."

"How are things on the Zerg side? Have we found the Zerg Queen?"

"Not yet. But their contact with the surface has clearly become much more frequent lately. Every day, huge numbers of transport units travel back and forth between the ground and space. But you know how it is—the Zerg's cloaking technology, coupled with the mimetic technology they recently revealed, leaves us with no way to deal with them. Whether the Zerg Queen has actually arrived here, only they themselves know."

"Damn it!"

"Don't worry. There are only a few days left until the agreement is signed. The truth will soon come out."

"Exactly. Rather than worrying about whether the Zerg Queen has arrived, I'm more concerned about our evacuation routes. We have to make absolutely sure nothing can go wrong. I don't want my family to see nothing but my uniform coming home."

"Relax. There are twelve evacuation plans in total. One of them is bound to suit you. We may only have a fleet of twenty million ships here, but that's more than enough to get this hundred-odd people out."

"What worries me most is the stretch on the ground. The warships are in outer orbit—distant water can't put out an immediate fire."

"Heh, then I do have some good news for you. After observing Zerg units at close range these past few days, we discovered that their primary combat species, the Octopus Monsters, regardless of size, have great difficulty entering a planet's low and middle