"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm joining the battle as planned!" Hye said. He shot her a look of genuine confusion, as if she had suddenly developed amnesia regarding their entire mission profile.
"But… you have no ships left to support a planetary invasion!" she cried, gesturing wildly at the map showing his twenty scattered detachments. "Your fleets are completely entangled with the greedy coalitions you lured in. Even with the four that weren't attacked, you don't have the numbers to contest a sector this crowded!"
"You've spent all this time checking every corner of the sector, and yet you forgot to look at the space right around us?" Hye asked. He leaned back into his command seat, casually raising a leg and resting it over the armrest. He watched her with a look of pure, mischievous amusement.
