Starships, three to five kilometers in length, hung suspended in space.
Their numbers weren't vast, but they weren't scarce either.
There were well over five hundred of them, and that wasn't even counting the smaller military hardware like unmanned starfighters swarming around.
These Starships cruised in orbit around the entirety of Intelligent Mechanism Star.
At the same time, a vast number of small drones were deployed, blanketing the outer orbit of Intelligent Mechanism Star.
It gazed down at the world below.
Intelligent Mechanism Anita, controlling its mechanical Octopus body, was rapidly calculating various scenarios for the start of a war.
While doing so, Intelligent Mechanism Anita dedicated a portion of its processing power to muttering to itself.
'It's been over three hundred years. If he were still alive, he would probably be delighted with how civilization has progressed, wouldn't he?'
