The ship navigated through Hin's heavily protected waters. As everyone, especially Erik, had anticipated, the area was teeming with patrols and defense systems.
Etrium's technology was spreading a lot at that point. It was making it possible for humanity to reclaim the land and was getting better and better now that more and more scientists worked on it. But even despite this massive technological and human presence, it wasn't that simple to fight on equal ground with the thaids.
To do that, many ships were needed. To guard the various small islands spread around and around their outposts, and to patrol the sea.
This part of the sea, since it was heavily guarded by the humans, had been subject to a cleaning. This left the area without many thaids around, and those who were still here tried to stay away from the ships.
