Right there, directly above the Banshee's Wail Black Hole, perpendicular to the ecliptic plane of the Milky Way.
An exceptionally massive fleet hung within the black hole's event horizon.
Yet it remained unmoving under the tearing pull of the black hole's gravity.
An eerie green glow flowed over the hulls. Dozens of terrifyingly immense motherships led nearly a hundred equally enormous Interceptors, their exaggerated, triple-headed rams aimed straight at the Hyperlane emergence point.
The fleet formed a neat triangle, suspended above the silent black hole.
Even light was sucked into the black hole, but the fleet stood rock-solid, silently aiming toward the edge of the star system.
This was the sight that greeted the Great Khan upon entering the system.
Amid the countless nanite warships was one conspicuous vessel.
Compared with the Nanite Motherships around it, this vessel was tiny, but its bright silver hull made it easy to distinguish. It looked bizarre, its entire body composed of strange mechanical structures that defied any notion of streamlined design.
Under the motherships' protection, the Great Khan sensed powerful psionic energy residing aboard that vessel.
His serpentine pupils trembled. His psionics told him that his destined enemy was aboard.
"So there really was an ambush..."
"It seems this is where I'll meet my end."
The Great Khan rose from his throne and condensed a curved saber in his hand with psionics.
He pointed the saber toward the distant fleet above the black hole and shouted.
"Then let us fight!"
"Trash!"
Empire Will personally commanded this Dessanu fleet. Her consciousness could simultaneously control every function of every ship, making the entire fleet work in perfect coordination, as though it were a single entity.
An Energy Arc erupted from a mothership, destroying a Galley Warship in an instant.
The green beams pierced the