With their cloaking fields activated, the torpedo fleet silently entered the deepest reaches of the L-Cluster, approaching the three most unusual stars hidden among its countless suns.
Three blue stars formed a stable triangle. Rather than following three-body motion, they remained in place, forming a firmly anchored trinary star system.
At the center of the triangle sat the Nanites Factory that linked countless Gray Tempest fleets, like a nail driven into the heart of the star system.
"This place used to be a Mega Shipyard. That's right, the legendary megastructure that could produce an entire fleet with a single click-"
Behind Xi Yan, Gray Tempest chattered on about the L-Cluster's unknown history, though her information had also come from Empire Will.
But Xi Yan gave her his utmost patience, and Miss Gray Tempest was more than happy to share what she had seen and heard.
"The Dessanu Civilization built both a Mega Shipyard and a Strategic Coordination Center here. My mother fused those two megastructures together using nanites, creating a new megastructure-the Nanites Factory you see before you."
"I was made here, and so was the Gray Tempest. But somehow, this place ended up being handed over to the Gray Tempest, because Mother had me, as well as the Dessanu Concordat she was so proud of."
"If you want to destroy this place, I have no objections at all-blow it up! It represents all the sordid history of the L-Cluster. Let it become the dregs of history, and we can be reborn!"
The history of the Dessanu was the history of the L-Cluster. The Nanites Factory had witnessed it all, from the Dessanu Civilization of the ancient era to the present-day Dessanu Concordat. It had witnessed history's changes, and all the L-Cluster's shameful past.
But now, everything would end. The