1108 Rudely Interrrupted

They were just starting to get ready for the serious negotiations when everyone's communicators started to go insane with a flood of urgent messages. The Cathedral Ships that they had been watching had suddenly disappeared from their sensors, going to Warp and too far away for their movements to be tracked, though there were projections based on the initial forming of the Warp Fields that had been detected.

[How long do we have?] Max asked Nico, whose mind he could hear calculating the next steps in their strategy.

[If my analysis of their movements during the previous battles is correct, then we should have approximately seven days before they arrive. Their Warp Drives aren't as fast as what the Alliance uses, as they usually travel through the other layers of space, where they can move much faster and without being detected.] She replies an instant later.