"I have no interest in the New Skrull Empire either. I will definitely not go back," Shiller said.
"However, I don't wish for this to happen either. Even if it's to seize a space for the development of our own civilization, that is no justification for humans to instigate a large-scale war with the three great empires," Shiller affirmed seriously.
"You must all know, I have a good relationship with Gana. Among those who once followed Gana, he trusted me the most."
"At this point, I can plainly state that he was able to board the Polaris without authorization because I stole my father's identity authentication, who is also the deputy commander. This enabled him to successfully carry out his own plan of stealing the spaceship..."
"He trusted me more than anyone else, because without me, his original plan would not have succeeded. He has always firmly believed that I was on his side. As a result, he had no reservations towards me. However, I always saw him as a fool who could be exploited."
Shiller narrowed his eyes and said, "You should know, there is a device on the Polaris that connects with the Skrull Empire. In order to prevent Gana from making a foolish move one day and attracting the Skrull fleet, I meddled with the communication device to prevent Gana from easily controlling it to send signals."
"But also in case there comes a day when I need to use it, I dismantled and hid the key components. Although the Polaris has crashed, the communication device is still functional. Therefore, we can use this communication device to send signals to the Skrull Empire."
"You mean..." Arengel furrowed his brow, seemingly catching on to something. He said, "Every spaceship of the Skrull Empire carries a special identification code. If we utilize the device on the Polaris to send messages to the Skrull Empire, they would certainly think that the information is being sent back from the Polaris."
"Exactly. We can fake the signal from before the Polaris crashed. Or in human terms, send black box messages."
Shiller paced around the room and said, "As we discussed earlier, we can present this as internal conflict and fight for control of the spaceship among the Skrulls. In that case, both sides can compromise and prevent this conflict from escalating into an interstellar war."
"I see, the Kree Empire doesn't actually care about the starport itself. They only really care about saving face. As long as they have a plausible reason, they wouldn't want to resort to military action against the Skrull Empire either," Barack stated.
Shiller nodded and said, "That's right, for a cosmic empire, wars must yield profits. Otherwise, there is no need to start them."
"Without the black box, their reason to wage war would be to restore their dignity. But with the black box, both sides would have a reason to start negotiations, instead of opting for war."
"In that case, let's begin," Talos nodded and said.
At the periphery of the Solar System, outside the orbits of Pluto and Neptune, a strangely designed starport quietly floated in the cosmos.
The reason for its strangeness was that, what was supposed to be a planet-like spherical starport had been split into two halves.
One half was connected by a range of machinery. An outer layer of the other half was covered by a magical shield, emitting a mysterious glow.
A few spaceships were docked at the port of the mechanized starport. Likewise, a number of spaceships shining with magical luster were docked at the magic shielded starport.
Inside one of the rooms of the mechanical starport, Stark, who was adjusting the equipment controlling the docking station, asked, "Where is Shiller? Has he returned yet?"
Peter, who was studying blueprints nearby, answered without lifting his head, "Not yet, he seems to have gone to the Skrulls, saying something about... needing them to cooperate with the plan?"
"Who knows what he's up to? This starport doesn't seem to be his ultimate goal. I've always felt that he has a greater scheme."
"This isn't the ultimate goal?!" Peter gawked and looked to Stark, saying, "Isn't that a little exaggerated? We've even managed to bring back an entire starport!"
"Although Doctor Shiller said that this starport is relatively old, but that is only in comparison to the Kree Empire. The Kree Empire is one of the most advanced civilizations in the universe..."
Peter waved the blueprints in his hand, "The energy system in here is suitable for their wireless energy core. If we want to transform it, we have to adapt it to either a stellar energy source or Ark Reactor functionality but either way, the efficiency would greatly decrease."
Peter sighed, looking at the blueprint again, "The transformation of even a small part in here would require hundreds of years of development in human basic industry. Even though we've pieced it together now, if we want to truly build it ourselves..."
Peter shook his head, not continuing his words, but Stark said nonchalantly, "As long as it is serviceable, it is enough. Have you forgotten? The first-generation mecha was also assembled from obsolete parts I found in a junk pile."
He was about to use this as an example to encourage Peter not to lose heart and to directly face the gap with advanced civilizations and strive to catch up. However, at that moment, Shiller walked in, saying, "You've been working hard, everyone. If you have time, come with me to the Large Magellanic Cloud."
"Go to the Large Magellanic Cloud?" Stark turned his head in confusion, looking up and down at Shiller, "You wouldn't be like one of those deranged serial killers who likes to return to the crime scene and observe the faces of the victims and investigators, all caught up in your games, would you?"
Shiller suddenly paused, then looked up at the patterns on the ceiling, "…Of course not."
Stark widened his eyes, "You really want to do that??!! Seriously? Peter! Peter! Go to the other room and stay away from this guy!"
Peter assumed they were joking, he shrugged and said, "Doctor, even if you want to go back and ridicule them, you have to ensure your own safety, right?"
"We've shattered their starport; they're probably furious. If we go back now, we'll likely be attacked."
Shiller rolled his eyes, "Don't you guys keep track of the news in the cosmos at all? Never mind, I'll make a call to Loki, The Luminous Alliance, prepare for the meeting."
After a while, in the office of the Holy Sanctuary, when Loki walked out of a portal, he appeared somewhat travel-worn, obviously from interstellar travel. He said, "Latest news, Kree's fleet has officially entered the Spider Nebula, preparing to organize a defensive line."
"There is also movement from the Skrulls, I infiltrated their capital star and found that the citizens there were celebrating victory. The citizens believed that their military operation this time achieved considerable results and gave the Kree a heavy blow."
"Has the news already spread out?" Stark asked.
"Of course, the speed of information dissemination in interstellar society is much faster than you think. Just two hours after the explosion at the First Star Harbor, most of the prosperous star zones have learned of this news. Many more foresighted civilizations have begun to prepare for war."
Loki took off his coat, hung it on the coat rack nearby, sat on the couch, took a sip of water and said, "About two hours ago, the capital of the Kree Empire lowered its flag to mourn, while declaring that the Skrull Empire must provide an explanation. If they fail to respond within a day, they will resort to unrestricted retaliation to respond to Skrull Empire's sneak attack…"
"The officials of the Skrull Empire seem to still be investigating the cause of the incident. About an hour ago, they stated that it was an accident and expressed their willingness to negotiate with the representatives of the Kree Empire."
Stark raised an eyebrow in confusion, "Why does the Skrull Empire seem a bit weak? Don't they plan to fight directly?"
Loki shook his head, "Don't you think it looks like a trap? Hasn't human complex history of warfare taught you enough about conspiracies?"
"The Skrull Empire believes that the Kree Empire must have been prepared in advance, then staged such an attack, using an old starport as bait, justifying the retaliation, and then instigating the war, ambushing the Skrull Empire catching them off guard."
"Oh, I see!" Peter raised his hand and said, "The Skrull Empire thinks, the ship that rammed into the number one starport of the Kree Empire was arranged by the Kree themselves, and the purpose was to stage an accident?"
Loki nodded, "Exactly, that's why they are reluctant to fight. Maybe, sending a few fleets over there, and waiting on the other side would be million starship military, losing the fleet is not important, but the morale decline is the most terrifying."
"In this way, two countries with a thousand years of grudges won't give in to each other in anything. As soon as they bow to the opponent, there's a risk of the peoples discontent boiling over."
Stark looked at Shiller with a bit of schadenfreude, "They won't fight anymore, your plan may have fallen through."
"However, it's not necessarily a loss." Stark leaned on the couch, "At least, the starport and the spaceship are ours, and there's progress with the mutant issue, so you don't have to be too disappointed…"
"If you want to laugh, just laugh. Don't hold it in." Shiller tuned the corners of his mouth, Looking at Stark, Stark then showed a bright smile, he said: "I wasn't even this happy on the day we got the starport, a wise man is not infallible after all, hahahahaha!!!"
Shiller shook his head and said, "…Tony, have you noticed a problem?"
Stark stopped laughing, took a deep breath, then asked, "What problem?"
"In the entire plan, there is a more suitable candidate for a certain position, but he never showed up from beginning to end."
Stark paused, but in fact, he wasn't thinking at all, he was still immersed in the joy he had just felt, so he casually asked, "What position? Who is the more suitable candidate for which position? Who hasn't showed up?"
But after he asked this question, his sharp mind already gave him the answer. He suddenly froze in place, then looked at Shiller, and slowly spat out a name:
"…Magneto??!!!"