Chapter 1115: Chapter 610, For Whom Does the Dragon Spear Fight?
With this specialized spacecraft, agents could navigate enemy-controlled cosmic space without worrying about being caught.
On one hand, it was fast and nimble, making it difficult to intercept with conventional ships.
On the other hand, and most importantly, it was barely tens of meters long, combined with anti-detection equipment, truly making it vanish without a trace.
Anti-detection equipment aboard normal ships generally doesnât have a significant effect. Those ships are too large, and while itâs fine during normal navigation, during Star Realm traversals, if the observing Star Language Tower isnât too rudimentary and if the Star Speakerâs abilities arenât entirely subpar, the equipmentâs usefulness becomes limited. At best, it could delay observation results or cause minor discrepancies in precise positioning.
However, on these specialized agent vessels, the equipment practically renders the ship invisible.
As long as they donât pilot their vessel directly in front of enemy ships, issues generally do not arise.
Even during a Star Realm Tunnel traversal, even if the opposition has checkpoints or even Star Fortresses stationed at the jump point, traversing a "point" isnât straightforward. In reality, these points span a range that could encompass seven to eight stars at its smallest or dozens of stars layered together at its largest.
Checkpoints and Star Fortresses cannot cover all possible positions.
If a large ship traverses through, it is bound to be detected; but a small, 80-meter vessel equipped with anti-detection equipment, operating from several starsâ distance away, is genuinely difficult to pinpoint.
Of course, nothing is absolute.
Several of Amandaâs colleagues got discovered during such traversals.
However, getting discovered doesnât necessarily mean getting captured. These nimble, compact, and fast agent ships are not built for combat, but as long as they can put some distance between themselves and the pursuers, the anti-detection systems can typically disrupt the lock and facilitate their escape.
In truth, only a few dozen unlucky agents ever died on the spot; none were ever captured.
Amanda herself faced a few precarious moments but ultimately reached the Western Front safely.
The agent ship could silently infiltrate certain planets with less rigorous defense measures. After all, most planets lacked surveillance systems capable of covering all orbital regions. By piloting the ship covertly and leveraging stealth functionality, moving at relatively low speeds to enter the atmosphere, finding an uninhabited area to land, activating the camouflaging system, and gathering local materials to conceal the ship, the operation could generally succeed.
There wasnât just Amanda onboard the shipâthere were five agents in total, each specializing in different skills, and hailing from disparate departments. Amanda didnât know them personally.
This didnât hinder their shared fateâunited on the same rope, reliant on each other. Amanda herself was, in fact, the team leader for this operation.
The five agents began their mission, utilizing advanced Star Language equipment to eavesdrop on Star Language communications; they stopped at key locations on the planet to observe; they attempted to integrate into the local society to gather intelligence...
Upon completing the intelligence collection for a planet, they would retrieve their hidden vessel, depart, and head to the next destination.
This process usually did not take much time. Most worlds hold no major intelligence valueâthey were simply assessed, documented, and the findings sent back to headquarters.
Amandaâs original mission was supposed to lead her to the Magrey Cosmic Domain, where she would collect firsthand intelligence. Otherwise, the Allianceâs awareness of Magreyâs domain would rely solely on information supplied by the Empire. Beyond questioning the reliability of such data, the lag in timeliness was unacceptable to the Alliance.
It was far better for the Allianceâs agents to gather intelligence tailored to their needs.
However, en route, they passed by a planet temporarily occupied by the Spear of the Dragon King. Amanda became intrigued by this battle unit and decided to integrate into the local society, fabricate an identity, and, under this guise, infiltrated the Spear of the Dragon King as it recruited personnel on the planet. She joined as a battle unit servant and civilian consultant.
Her actions carried high risk, but she did not fear. Her four teammates had already departed on the spacecraft, leaving her alone. Even if she failed, it wouldnât expose the others.
Becoming a servant in a Starfighter Battle Group was quite dangerous. Even excluding those groups that disregarded human life entirely, most still showed indifference toward civilians. Attempting to accomplish anything within such groups was challenging. However, Spear of the Dragon King was different. Its lineage traced back to the Giant Dragon Legion, who respected civilians, much like their parent group. This provided Amanda with an opportunity.
Her fabricated identity was, in truth, quite susceptible to exposureâbut, upon thorough analysis, that hardly mattered. As long as she successfully infiltrated the battle group, she would leave the planet soon thereafter. Once exposed, local civilians revealing her would be inconsequential.
Of course, there was also a chance she wouldnât succeed in infiltrating the group. But even so, she possessed far greater advantages than most candidates on the planet. She was, after all, a highly-trained elite agent cultivated by the Alliance, with a proven track recordâincluding having orchestrated the overthrow of a planetary government, with outstanding results.
It wasnât arroganceâit was genuine confidence. She asked herself: on this ordinary, electrically-powered civilization, how many elites like her could they possibly produce?