The Moon, Eclipse City.
Inside a room on the top floor of the Skyscraper in the city's central district.
The councilors and consuls who represented the Eclipse Race's highest authority passed through the door's biometric checks and entered the supreme council chamber after confirming their identities.
The chamber covered 500 square meters. Automatic lights embedded in the ceiling adjusted their brightness and color temperature according to the light inside and outside, creating the most comfortable atmosphere for meetings. The interior walls were high-definition visual displays,
which could switch their backgrounds and content in real time to suit the meeting's needs. They currently displayed a set of dynamically changing data analysis charts.
A ring-shaped conference table stood in the center of the chamber, its middle left empty, with eighteen black chairs arranged around its edge.
In front of each chair was a projection display area connected to the Bio-Brain, Star Network.
After the Eclipse Race's highest-ranking members took their seats one after another, light and shadow interwove in the center of the table, forming an adorable Eclipse Race boy.
This was the Eclipse Race's intelligence core, and the overseer of its order: the Bio-Brain, Star Network.
At Star Network's appearance, all eighteen Eclipse Race attendees rose to greet it.
Although Star Network was a Bio-Brain rather than a life-form in the purest sense,
its emergence had freed the Eclipse Race completely from endless internal strife and ushered in an unprecedented era of development.
Their elders and predecessors alike had governed with the Bio-Brain's assistance, contributing together to the Eclipse Race's development.
"Good morning, consuls." Star Network smiled and bowed in response.
Once everyone was seated, Star Network's expression suddenly turned serious.
"I imagine you already know why I called this meeting. I'll explain the situation in detail."
With that, Star Network