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“Good fight, Jaaxi!” The Rear-Admiral's voice booms on your comms. With you clearly about to leave, his ship is in no position to give chase any more.
“We can see you are formidable warriors- and ruthless. You refused to give my <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Major</span></span> his warrior's death- if you couldn't tell, we Esaal don't exactly plan for retirement. We never thought you'd actually have the guts to board a station- perhaps the worms were wrong about you. You trounced us this time- but next time, we'll be ready! Next time Jaaxi!”
And with that, you finally manage to warp out of the system. You have finally left the Baalathi cluster- now controlled by the Esaal, with nothing left between you and your destination. Only the better part of a year's worth of suspension.
<span class="mu-g">”Your Majesty, a small report.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Hmm?”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”While we were waiting for Jale and the boarding party, the computer had some spare cycles it used to scan the system- you saw these blue asteroids around that Baalathi star?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Yes, what of it? I assumed they were ice.”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”So did we. However, as it turns out, that system is extremely rich in <span class="mu-s">Azurium</span>- those are Azurium rich asteroids. Our intelligence suggests that <span class="mu-i">almost every system with Azurium will have a red giant</span> star, but that system seemed to be the exception. There is more Azurium in that system then in all of Andoen-II, which is our empires entire source of the wonder metal.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Hmm... That explains so much. No wonder the Esaal were so secretive about the move here. And if Azurium asteroids are common in this sector of space, it would make sense how the Baalathi got their hands on so much during their colonization wave...”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Yes, but unfortunately, the Esaal now have control over it. There is more then enough Azurium in that system to heavily armor the entire Esaal space fleet- battleships and all.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”And just after we pissed them off- or made them like us. I don't know which would be worse...”</span>
