Chapter 1052
With constant war across dozens of systems, the fight between the Chaotic Conglomeration and the Exalted Quadrant came at a great cost for very little gain. The Conglomeration’s main goals weren’t the monopolization of the resources on various border worlds, but instead maintaining control so that they had a buffer zone between the Exalted Quadrant and their main planets.
Velvet had not been to any of those deeper planets, with the closest being Renov which was currently under stable control. However, after another series of victories, their group was invited to visit some of those core worlds.
It was impossible for Velvet to refuse. The spymaster within her wanted to learn as much as she could, and in general she found it valuable to learn about their semi-allies.
Yigora was the name of the planet they were set to visit. Runa was light on the details, telling them that it would be better to see it in person. Meanwhile, she was quite interested in their ship.
“Isn’t it problematic to bring this deeper into our territory?” she asked as she looked over some of the readouts. Most likely she could make sense of the current page of the console, but would not instantly intuit the rest of the operation.
“It’s more risky to leave it on another planet,” Velvet said. “Unless you want to constantly be looking out for it?” Velvet asked. “I do mean personally, of course. I would trust your people for most things, but I wouldn’t want the ship to explode for no good reason.”
“... It would do that?” Runa asked, slightly backing away from the console. Not that the ship contained enough power to harm an Augmentation cultivator. At least, not in a form she would recognize as a danger.
“It might,” Velvet shrugged. Though actual self-destructive methods were currently positioned to be manually activated, just in case there were people prying where they shouldn’t be. It would be annoying to lose a good ship to curious idiots. Unauthorized computer access- if they somehow managed to get that far- would end up with a full wipe, however. That would be rather inconvenient for its functionality.
“You people have such strange… tech,” Runa commented.