We were two systems away from our target location.
The route Eva charted deliberately snaked around all the inhabited stations and planets in the next star system, making sure our "presence" wouldn't go unnoticed. The ominous presence of the so-called "Shadowless Hawks."
To make that work, we had to slow down significantly—at least outside of interstellar jumps.
We only used hyperspace jump drives when transitioning between systems. We jumped into the next one over—the Tianxin-17 Star System.
Upon arrival, our fleet commenced its parade.
We began from the orbital station around the 16th planet in the system, then proceeded to the nearest neighboring planet, one by one. From station to station, we traveled, never lingering for too long.
Our only purpose was to display our existence. That "we" were "here."
But without hyperspace jumps, traversing an entire star system became a lengthy and time-consuming process.
