Mechs and Warships

"This star chart looks really strange..."

The leaping creature kept changing the angle of a paper star chart roughly the size of forty A4 sheets with its tentacles, because it always felt it was holding it upside down.

"Is there a problem?"

A nearby leaping creature extended a sensory tentacle from its side. An eye grew at the tip and leaned close to the paper star chart.

"Look at the stellar coordinates on this."

A Collector used a tentacle to point at the stars marked across the chart.

"What's the problem?"

"The problem is huge. I looked for ages and couldn't find any corresponding celestial bodies. We may have gotten a fake star chart, something the Holy Womb Empire used to confuse us."

The Collector's doubts were rejected by its kin.

"That possibility is very small. To verify the chart's accuracy, our kin on the planet collected every star chart on the planet. Each one had some differences, but the discrepancies were minor."

"And they weren't collected from just one planet."

With that, its kin extended a tentacle toward the questioning Collector, asking for the paper chart.

"Let me see it."

"Here."

It took the chart and began examining it.

The chart was drawn in an extremely crude manner. It was the most detailed and information-rich star chart available on the planet where it had originated, yet it still looked exceedingly crude in the Collectors' eyes.

The chart used individual stellar systems as its basic units. Each system was recorded from a simple top-down perspective, noting how many stars and planets it contained. However, it omitted details such as the distance between planets and stars or the exact mass parameters of the stars. That was why the Collectors considered the Holy Womb Empire's star charts so crude.

Someone had come