So close

Alex had caught onto Colonel Margit's use of words right away.

"Did you just say there's 'another' interfering third party? So these guys weren't the only ones?"

He ignored Colonel Margit's first few questions and immediately addressed the last one.

Seeing Alex respond so casually, disregarding his very serious counterquestion, Colonel Margit internally sighed in relief.

His original assumption upon seeing Alex's ship attached to four other foreign ships via tractor beam was that he had been captured or something like that.

"These guys turned out to be pirates, coming to this system to leech off of any weakened victims. Unfortunately for them, they chose me as their final victim."

Since Colonel Margit didn't respond right away, Alex decided to follow up with some more information to ease the tension a little bit.

After all, he was faced with thousands of Human ships a few hundred kilometres ahead of him…