Meanwhile, after nearly eight hours of travel through the void of Transcendent FTL space, the Void Fleet was about to emerge.
The Red Empress's voice chimed in over the command bridge.
"We're about to exit the FTL jump. Countdown—10... 9... 8... 3... 2... 1..."
BOOOOOOM.
And just like that, the not-so-lifeless Regel Star System welcomed the arrival of the Void Fleet.
Outside the viewport, the stars shimmered unnaturally, and I could see spatial fluctuations dancing faintly along the system's boundary.
Outside the viewport, the stars shimmered unnaturally, and faint spatial fluctuations danced along the system's boundary like ripples on a pond disturbed by unseen forces.