Chapter 136: Chaos and Flow

The Collector listened to this request and determined the efficiency of acquiescing to it. Time was of essence right now, for the Collector knew not whether dwarven reinforcements would appear.

Yet, simulated calculations proved that reinforcements, though they likely would arrive, would do so slowly. The fleet had been utterly cut off from all communications, and it would take an extended period of time for their absence to be noted.

Judging from calculations extrapolated by the level of messaging technology they likely had and their engine and thruster capacities for their aircraft, the Collector estimated it still possessed three days before any real external dwarven presence would be noted.

What was difficult to consider, however, was that when the dwarven absence was made known among their kind, it was not only their kind that would respond, but also that this information would be disseminated among other tinkering variants such as the humans.