Outside the Sakaban system, in a cloud of dust matter.

Sir Carter is commanding the fleet, and at the current speed of their fleet, it will take more than a decade to sail to the next closest system to them.

In the next ten years, their ships will go to their destination like a lonely boat.

Now they are flying away from the Dust Nebula, the outermost part of the Sakaban System, which is about a light-year in diameter, enveloping their original Sakaban system and connecting to other nearby galaxies.

The long interstellar voyage is a lonely journey for a low-light-speed civilization.

In order to survive this boring journey, most of the low-level personnel on each ship in the fleet, such as soldiers, engineers, technicians and other basic personnel, must go into the frozen hibernation chamber to sleep in normal times, and when they are needed, they will be collectively awakened and put into a working state.

While asleep in the hibernation pod, those basic personnel need to consume minimal material supplies to maintain their normal survival.

They are like robots, completely oblivious to the occurrence and great changes of the outside world, and only need to wait for the moment of awakening to carry out the mission given to them by the ship commander.

From life to death, some of them may not be able to leave the ship they are on for the rest of their lives, but they do give their humble lives for the ship they are on.

Sometimes if they are lucky, they may be woken up once after sleeping for a year or two to perform some tasks assigned to them by the ship's top management, and some are unlucky, from the moment they lie down in the dormant cabin, their lives are no longer in their own hands, maybe it will not be more than ten years before they have the opportunity to be awakened once, and no one knows how much difference between the time they are next ordered to wake up and the time of destruction of the warship they are on.

Of course, these things are aimed at the basic people at the bottom.

On a ship of the Danube, in addition to a large number of low-level basic personnel, it is naturally most often equipped with commanders and other high-ranking generals who hold high positions and hold great power.

These people are the masterminds of the ship, naturally they don't need to be awakened by anyone's orders, if they want, they can control the time they lie in the sleeping pod, and they have the control of most of the resources on the ship, and they are entitled to let themselves enjoy some of the better and more elegant aristocratic life than those basic personnel during the long interstellar travel.

As now, Sir Carter looked worried, having just attended an elegant banquet organized by a noble general like himself on his ship.

Ever since he decided to lead the fleet to rebel against the Danube, among the ships of the fleet, those who served as important officers at all levels, large and small, inevitably had a fluctuating phenomenon in people's hearts.

After all, not everyone would have the same good reason to defect from the empire as he did.

The generals of all levels in the other fleets, most of them came from different homelands, and the forces behind them in the Danube Empire were too mixed, and after he was coerced into a "mutiny", the previous generals did not have any objections to him on the surface.

But now the fleet has to go through more than ten years of sailing, and in such a long time span, no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents.

So Sir Carter knew he couldn't lie down in the frozen hibernation pod and go into a long hibernation to survive the long journey.

When people's hearts fluctuate, he goes to buy people's hearts and appease people's hearts.

As long as they persist for more than ten years, they will be able to reach the territory of another space civilization and regain their lives, and during these ten years of sailing, he must keep his eyes open all the time and not let any accidents happen to him......

Just as Sir Carter was thinking about how to deal with it, and in the next dozen years, the forces within the fleet rebounded against him as a commander, and a surprising news reached him.

"Report to Sir Carter, the space monitor located in the Sakaban system has sent anomalous feedback, and it is suspected that a large number of ships have broken into the interior of the Sakaban system!" The technical staff officer suddenly exclaimed.

His voice surprised Sir Carter as well.

"What? What happened, how could there be any abnormal feedback? Is it the Empire's fleet catching up? No, it can't be, the Empire's fleets are in other frontier systems, and it will take at least a few decades, decades to reach the Sakaban system...... There's no way they're going to rush to the Sakaban system right now! When Sir Carter heard this, he was immediately shocked, and said with a shocked expression:

"Even if they arrived, by that time, we would have already slipped away, how could there be any large-scale ship group to invade the Sakaban system......"

"Continue to gather information to make sure the message is accurate? Is it true that a massive ship group is invading the Sakaban system? ”

"Sir Sir, let me take a look again, maybe there is a signal failure in the monitoring system, but it is not necessarily, I will look for the reason." The technical staff officer hurriedly said.

The current location of their fleet is still in the Sakaban system, to be exact, but far from the range circle where the stellar gravitational well is located.

Before they left the Sakaban system, there were still a large number of space facilities they had built in the Sakaban system, and those space facilities contained space monitors, which could accurately capture the signals of ships and other cosmic signals in any galaxy, which were originally used by them to predict in advance to prevent the invasion of other alien fleets.

But now that they have decided to "mutiny" the Danube, those things have become useless ornaments for them, so when they tried to leave the Sakaban system in a hurry, they did not destroy those space facilities.

On the contrary, they can also use the control of space facilities in the Sakaban system to make a certain degree of signal cover and intelligence prediction for the "mutiny" of their fleet.

But just now, a group of ships of unknown origin suddenly broke into the interior of the Sakaban system at a speed they could not imagine, and when the space monitor gave an alarm, Sir Carter and the technical staff were all shocked.

After some inspection, the technical staff officer looked like he had seen a ghost, and said to Sir Carter:

"Oh no, Lord Sir, it's really a massive alien fleet that has arrived in the Sakaban system!"

"And the speed of this group of ships ...... Shhh ”

"No, no, no, the information data fed back by the space monitor shows that this group of ships that have invaded the Sakaban system is sailing at sub-light speed towards our fleet!"

"What?!"

Sir Carter was taken aback again, and he felt only a wave of dizziness when a few bad keywords fell into his ears.

Sub-light sailing?!

Attack?!

(End of chapter)