Shinari, with a newfound resolve buoyed by her conversation with Salamander, turned to her officers, instructing them to prepare a ship for immediate departure. "I'm visiting Aldred," she announced, her tone brooking no argument.
Aldred's flagship, a testament to the Celestial Platoon's technological might and strategic dominance, floated in the vastness of space.
Within, amidst a room aglow with holographic displays and illuminated screens, Aldred sat in contemplation. The star map before him was a network of potential moves and countermoves, demonic planets marked in red, their armadas represented by moving icons, and the blueprints of enemy strongholds and bases detailed in precise, geometric lines.