Galactic Empire in New World

Part 8 Chapter 23

Deep Space, 420 light years from Elysia

The tranquility of deep space was disturbed by the arrival of a large number of gravimetric distortions that signaled the arrival of ships belonging to the Grenda Union. The ships came without activating their shields, so the cloaking effect was non-existent, and the ships were clearly visible. There were nearly 1,000 ships that slowly appeared in that place. Silently, they seemed to be waiting in that place.

After more than six hours, suddenly, at a location 300,000 km away from Grenda Union's starships, a large amount of gravimetric distortion appeared. Grenda Union's starships reappeared from the distortion, albeit with a slight difference in the paint scheme. There were more than 200 starships that had just arrived. They immediately signaled to the pre-existing Grenda Union ships using laser communication methods. After a while, the two groups of starships communicated using lasers, which, of course, due to the distance between the two groups, caused communication to be slow. Eventually, the second group of Grenda Union ships moved towards the first group, and then they joined the formation of the first group of Grenda Union starships.

This was repeated several times, so that after almost a day, the Grenda Union ships in that place had reached more than 2000. After that, simultaneously, the Grenda Union ships were lost in the gravimetric distortion, indicating that they had already continued their journey to their final destination.

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Elysia high orbit
Golan Defense Station III 'Ezelpa'
Fleet information center.
Main situation room
10.30am

Colonel Turfen is the current shift commander in the main situation room. Since General Armeda was in Jakarta for a meeting with Governor Ira, Colonel Turfen was the de facto leader of the Fleet Information Center at this time. Furthermore, Colonel Turfen was the most senior colonel in the Fleet Information Center compared to the other officers at the time.
Currently, the individuals in the main situation room are observing data from several probes, purposefully positioned in specific locations along the probable paths the Grenda Union ships would traverse. These were specialized probes equipped with hyperspace scanners and subspace gravimetric sensors to detect ships in subspace or hyperspace. They would try to refine the approach vector of the Grenda Union's ships.

Time passed, but telemetry from the probe did not show any starships passing through subspace or hyperspace. This was causing more tension in the main situation room.

"Check other probes. Has anyone detected the starship's trajectory? I'm afraid they've changed their course." Colonel Turfan ordered.

Several people went straight to the consoles associated with the various probes. However, after some time, no results emerged.

"There are no crossings on any of the probes that are in place heading towards Elysia and its surroundings!" said someone who had looked from console to console.

"Damn, we lost them!" said a captain.

"Calm down first. Begin a systematic check of all sensor logs on the probe located 800 light years from Elysia and facing the vector direction where the starships of the Granda Union are located. Establish a cone about 30 degrees from Elysia." Colonel Turfan said this.

"It will take some time, sir." A sensor technician said.

"That's okay. Just do it. Hopefully we get some leads." Colonel Turfan said this.

"If they are attacking targets outside of the three places we expected, it will be very worrying. Nearly 1,000 starships is not a small force," said the captain, who spoke earlier.