The full extent of Selene"s miscalculation was apparent the moment they materialised near the triple stars of Omn.
Ancient plans were being put into effect. She"d assumed a small flotilla of Concordance ships would be there: Void Walker vessels summoned home to protect the First Augurs. Instead there were tens of thousands of Cathedral ships, arranged in wide defensive formation around the ocean world and its moonlets. Hundreds more of the vessels arrived with each moment. It looked like every Concordance ship in the galaxy had been recalled, their ancient metaspace drives spun up and activated to pull them home.
The people on board them, the Hierarchs and Augurs and the rest of them, presumably knew nothing about it, the controls overridden as their ships jumped without warning to slo
