Tian Xingjian stood by the floor-to-ceiling porthole on the second floor of the command hall.
Outside the window, one battleship after another stretched out into the distance. The starlight from afar cast a flowing brilliance upon the steel fleet that extended for thousands of kilometers.
The bow of every battleship pointed in the same direction. Bright lights shone through the portholes of each ship.
Menacing turrets, flat bridges, and thick armor shifted between light and shadow in the starlight. As the fleet sailed at high speed, the ships were sometimes obscured by celestial shadows and sometimes bathed in starlight, resembling flying fish gliding across a shimmering sea.
Ships farther away were already out of sight, visible only by the long trails of blue ion glow from their thrusters, dragging through the void. There was no wind or speed like on land, only a dizzying and mesmerizing silent eternity.
