Not only was Daniel Thompson shocked, the Sage Project Committee, the Cloudtop Star Region leadership, and the Empire leadership were all thrown into chaos.
The maintenance staff rushed into the long-unseen main brain of Star, the simulation personality center, to initiate a request to Star. They hoped that Star would preside over the search operation and analyze the possible ways and whereabouts of Nico Ross within the shortest amount of time. They also asked Star to remotely control numerous detectors located in the Hard Sun III to search for Nico Ross's traces on the No.7 Star and nearby star area.
Star agreed, but within a few minutes, it shrugged helplessly as if there was nothing it could do.
Well, that was not good.
This not only destroyed the confidence of human detection technology practitioners who had been improving through their dealings with the Compound-Eyed observer over the past few centuries.
