"Commander Tis, there are a large number of False Emperor lackeys in the hall ahead."
Outside a hall within the Avenger-class large cruiser, Tis led a company of Defense Force soldiers in an assault toward the bridge. The company under his command had already broken through three defensive lines established by Imperial soldiers and wiped out over a hundred thousand Imperial troops.
After hearing the officer's report, Tis activated the holographic display and examined it. He found that the hall was enormous; it was presumably a place where Imperial Navy personnel normally gathered and socialized.
After all, a warship's interior was vast, with living spaces for humans everywhere. Some people had lived inside these ships for centuries, forming family after family.
There were families responsible for operating macro cannons, families responsible for running the engines, and so on. These people had lived aboard the vessels since they were launched into service, gradually forming one family after another. Generation after generation, they lived within the warships and served the Imperial Navy fleet.
"Did you scan it with the life-detection radar? How many False Emperor lackeys are inside?" Tis asked the reporting officer as he looked at the holographic display before him.
"Commander Tis, we already scanned it with the radar. There are over a hundred thousand people inside."
"Over a hundred thousand?" Tis was somewhat startled by the officer's report.
He had not expected the population within an Imperial warship to be so enormous. He had already led one of his companies to kill more than a hundred thousand Imperial soldiers, not to mention the other Defense Force troops involved in the battle. Yet after fighting for so long, there were still so many soldiers aboard the Imperial warship.
"Since there are so many False Emperor lackeys in this hall, their