When the general is outside, the emperor's orders may be disobeyed (I'll do whatever I want)
Chen Fei has no knowledge of the actual situation of the space rift, and the sovereigns have not shared the relevant intelligence. Before the official orders arrive, he has no choice but to deploy the strongest current mobile combat power to act first.
After all, Blue Star is Chen Fei's home, not like the two star systems he controls with more leeway. The invaders, ahem, parasitic species have already reached the doorstep, so he can't just hand it over to those politicians who thrive on nonsense.
The reinforced combat unit, the Fifth Airship Battle Group, broke through the Kamen Line an hour later, officially entering the void outside Blue Star's atmosphere.
The weakening of the planet's gravity also means that the anti-gravity field effect released by the SEG core unit becomes smaller. Gravity is a relative force field with both attraction and repulsion, not simply one or the other.
