1105 Bad News

Max opened the message and went straight to the personal message from Ranarth. The information from the ancient records that he had dug up could wait until the urgent part of the communication was over.

[Commanders, I have located the missing Cathedral Ship fleets. Or at least some of them. 

They have gathered outside the Alliance territory, using the fact that the other layers are dead in this region as a way to hide from detection by my people. We can't sneak up on them through the sub layers here, so they have gathered in the vast expanse, a region where there are no stars, much less any inhabited worlds, to stage for what I can only assume is an attack.

How they got there is not yet clear, and with their limited Warp Speed capability, it will take nearly a week for them to get to the Alliance once they start moving.