The video played in sequence, starting from the wormhole opening, the Shadari delivering the bomb, and its explosion, the same way it was posted through the Conclave channel. But then it was rewound in a fast-forward way before the camera moved from the Shadari team's perspective towards the planet. As it got closer, it went through a bubble that was made obviously visible through edits, revealing the real situation on the planet. The camera then turned to look in the direction of the Shadari group after they had released the bomb.As the camera continued moving in reverse toward the planet, and just as the bomb went through the first shield, the camera went through the second shield that was moving towards the outer one with a portion of the atmosphere. Moments before the bomb exploded, the shields shook violently but still managed to contain the explosion, even using the inside shield's feature of light filtering to reduce the amount of light that reached the people on the ground. T

FWOOOOM!!!!!A mini-fleet made of fifteen ships appeared in the capital of the hundredth-ranked civilization without even trying to hide their arrival, as they came through the connection from the VR tower. Although many, if not all, of those in the top ten and some of the top twenty civilizations had destroyed them, those in the lower-level civilizations didn’t have enough firepower to overwhelm the shields in a single period of time. This resulted in them just sending a fleet to surround it in preparation for imperial avatars coming through, which they had been spared of as the avatars were concentrated on the top and random lower-level civilizations, which excluded them.The mini-fleet found itself standing face to face with the fleet outside the shield, which had immediately moved in and locked on them, waiting for the moment they left the shield's protection to douse them with firepower and make sure they were destroyed before they arrived at their targeted destination.However,

Inside a luxurious office that looked to have been handcrafted by experienced craftsmen who had worked on it for the best parts of their lifetimes, at the peak of their craftsmanship, with the same being true for the furniture, everyone within seemed too exhausted and worried to even appreciate the beauty and hours, if not lifetimes, it took to perfect everything.With the situation having turned into each man for himself, even the beauty that used to take the breath away from anyone who entered the room, no matter how many times they had visited or seen it previously, wasn’t enough to bring them out of their current thoughts. They carelessly sat in chairs that they would have previously requested someone be killed for sullying, but the situation allowed for nothing of that sort.“What are they saying about this? Any action plan they proposed or chances that they will accept our action plan?” Lebeebee, the leader of the Lugtakabu civilization, asked his group of advisors, who all look

John J. Pershing once said, “Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars,” and the Terra Empire had taken that to heart in everything they did. No matter how minuscule it was in the grand scale of things, they used VR’s time compression ability to take a long and detailed look and come up with a logistical plan for every event, as all possible variables were taken into account.However, humans have a tendency to reduce their vigilance and focus during these meetings, and at some point, they get complacent. The empire, aware of human nature, implemented a program that actively combated complacency in all the VR devices imperial government workers used to log into the imperial government instance. This was to make sure that no matter how long someone had been serving in the government, there was no chance of them ever getting complacent, as the empire knew complacency is the slow death of governments.Thanks to that and a few more countermeasures put in place, historians said that for th

“We didn’t have enough time to get the permission as we gathered them in a hurry after receiving the news of… AUGH!” The man couldn’t even finish his sentence before he was hit by the butt of the gun of one of the robots who had come to do the final inspection. He stood in a T-position with his “wife” hiding behind him, shaking in fear of the guns pointed at them.Although they had finished going through five different inspections, all of them were security-related; the only thing they checked was if there were weapons or volatile materials. Those checks were being done by the military. However, the current in-dock inspection was being done by the space station security team. They were the ones responsible for making sure that everything people had brought had relevant documents permitting them to carry them, and they didn’t.“Only answer the question you were asked and don’t try to give me an excuse, as I don’t care about it,” the robot shouted as its metallic hand gripped the man's