After ending their call with Su Yi, Kilman and the others quickly held a preliminary meeting.
Having received Su Yi's intelligence and orders for their next steps, both sides now had a clear objective.
With all preparations complete, the combined fleet began preparing for a jump.
Just then, Polar Bear suddenly asked, "Sister Winter, what do we do with those locals we captured?"
Only then did Winter and the others remember that, when they had met up with Kilman that day, they had happened upon a battle between the locals.
Kilman's fleet had casually crushed the fleeing pirates.
The roughly one thousand surviving crew members near their side were now being held by Alton and his people.
Winter asked Alton, "How are you planning to deal with them?"
Mota, standing nearby, said, "I've been investigating them over the past few days."
"The woman leading them is named Camilla Toynbee. Her family has considerable influence and resources throughout the Edian Star Sector."
"For generations, their family has produced master Powered Armor designers, and their ancestors received a deity's benediction."
"That's why they're known as the Sacred Mechanism Clan."
"But years of constant warfare and the declining caliber of their descendants have brought the family into decline."
"In the current generation, aside from her aunt who was exiled some time ago, Camilla Toynbee is the only young member keeping up the family's reputation."
"Then there's the usual cliché of an internal power struggle."
"A rival family secretly won over Camilla Toynbee's older sister, making one of their members her brother-in-law."
"As her brother-in-law gradually took control of the family's resources, he sent space pirates to kill her off and seize the entire family."
Leg Kicker immediately perked up. "Now that's a storyline I'm interested in."
"We still have a few hours before