The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7486

Chapter 7486: Possible Arche Duplicity

"Interesting."

Calabast had given the gathered people a slightly better understanding of the alien star region.

The three highlighted star systems were hardly the only sites of importance. The intelligence director merely decided that it was best to mention them first so that the Saint Commander and others could incorporate them into their subsequent planning.

As far as Ves was concerned, all three destinations may be worth a visit, but only if they managed to scout them out in advance.

It was the height of stupidity to enter these special star systems blindly!

Fortunately, the Saint Commander harbored the same thoughts.

She was responsible for leading the combined fleet and making sure that as many soldiers survived the journey as possible.

Casella could not afford to make careless decisions without respecting all of the possible risks and dangers that they might encounter.

"Do we have enough scout vessels on hand to explore these additional sites?"

"No." Calabast shook her head. "Neither our direct assets or third-party scouting vessels are numerous and capable enough to reach all of these star systems and inform us what is taking place while remaining in absolute stealth. It does not help that they are all placed fairly out of the way. We will have to choose to divert scout ships that are already tasked to explore other important locations. All of this will take time. Unless you want to take a chance and go in blind, you must decide fairly soon if you wish to visit any of the three aforementioned star systems during the ongoing campaign."

"..."

Casella could not make an immediate decision based on what little information that Calabast provided.

Ves turned to Andrea Vos. "Can you and your fellow seers gather information about Hypeh-Tekas, Eerlie and Luuh Gamma with your esoteric methods."

The Farseer expected to receive this request. "That is partially what we are here for. We will do our best to scry these star systems, but the distances are so vast that the reliability and veracity of our results may be low. Hyphen-Tekas is the closest, which means we may even be able to uncover secrets that the scouting vessels have overlooked. Luuh Gamma is located so many light-years away that our scrying results will only yield the most superficial signs, much of it will be so garbled with noise that it will be a headache to interpret it all. The latter may also be shielded from scrying due to a special reason, which is all of the religious activity that is taking place over there. Strong faith can repel our attempts."

"Damn. Does that hold even if we move closer over the course of our campaign?"

"Possibly." The female formation master said after a moment. "This is not exact science, and there are too many unknown variables in play. Our lack of experience combined with our superficial frameworks makes it difficult to obtain reliable results even when we operate under more favorable conditions. As much as I believe in my craft, you should never put absolute trust in our work. You should regard us as a supplementary source of information that is more exotic in nature. Our information should always be used to verify intelligence gathered from other sources or vice versa. That is the most prudent way to utilize our output."

That was a very wise rule in general regardless of the nature of the information source.

Even if the Farseer truly lived up to her title and eventually managed to grow into a galaxy-renowned formation master, people should never treat her word alone as gospel!

"Please inform us once you have obtained the initial batch of results, formation master." The Saint Commander said in a commanding tone. "We may ask you to repeat your scryings on these locations multiple times in the next weeks. The shifts in time and place may change enough variables to bring something important to your attention."

"Will do, commander."

Casella Ingvar turned her attention to another woman. "Before we move on from this subject, I want to ask one more question to you, Calabast. How easy did your data specialists manage to retrieve and decrypt the intelligence on the three star systems that you introduced? Do you think that there is anything suspicious about how your attention has been drawn to these supposedly important sites?"

Calabast actually chuckled. "Hehehe. I already guessed that this particular detail would not escape your attention. You are correct to harbor suspicions. I have considered the very same idea from the start. My conclusion? It is very probable that the archeship captain or one of his senior officers have seeded the databases of their archeship with pertinent intelligence on potential strike targets for the express purpose of directing us towards them. If this is indeed the case, we cannot prove it, because it is not obvious that they have enacted this scheme. I can only state that the possibility exists."

That sounded both troublesome and concerning.

Now that Ves thought about it, the arche may have chosen to pull off an incredibly elaborate scheme to fool the Larkinsons into destroying those places of importance!

He could think of many possible reasons why the arche wanted to set back the plans of their ostensive alien allies by using the humans as their borrowed knife.

After all, it was no secret that the arche still did not like the other major alien races so much.

They were very reluctant bedfellows. The only glue that truly held them together was that they all considered themselves as indigenous to the Red Ocean. They did not really have any other compelling reason to form a united front.

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