The Sea Emperor directly projected an image.
In the image, a strangely shaped starship was docked at the port of a planet, its hatch opened, and a white-robed man walked out of the vessel.
"This is the footage I captured a week before Hake went missing, on a planet more than nine hundred cosmic distances away, of course, there was a significant interference in the surveillance content, which I've repaired," Sea Emperor explained. "Having captured the shape of this starship here, I proceeded to conduct a shape comparison analysis. I didn't hold much hope, given that altering the appearance of a starship is too simple, high-level intelligent starships can complete a refit in seconds. Whether they were careless or didn't care, the shape of the starship never changed, so I traced several planets where they had previously docked."