บท 172: Things that escape understanding and intelligence

The Argos began to receive mail ships; the enemy had launched a simultaneous attack on twenty-five systems at once. In principle, they were not the main objectives, not all of them met the requirements set for the metals that the enemy could need most. But the reports coincided in one thing, a single ship with great destructive power had carried out the attack.

Luck in the space combat had been mixed, only two of the enemy ships had been completely destroyed, seven had been damaged and withdrew and another four had fled the combat after measuring their forces with the Navy ships that were numerically superior.