The sun dipped low over the horizon of OIYBE, painting the sky in warm hues of amber and violet. The air was thick with the scent of blooming nightflowers, their petals unfurling as the twin moons began their slow ascent.
In a small, vine-covered home at the edge of a sprawling meadow, the Veylan family gathered around their wooden dining table. Father Kael, a broad-shouldered farmer with calloused hands, laughed as he recounted an old story—something about the time he outran a storm-beast in his youth. Mother Liora, her silver-streaked hair tied back in a loose braid, shook her head with a smile as she passed a steaming dish of spiced grain to their eldest daughter, Mira.
Outside, their youngest, Tobin and Elara, shrieked with laughter as they chased fireflies through the tall grass. Tobin, barefoot and grinning, held up a jar where a few of the glowing insects flickered like tiny stars. Elara, her dark curls bouncing, clapped her hands as one landed on her fingertip.
Above them, the sky was clear, the constellations of their home galaxy gleaming peacefully. The evening was perfect.
Then—3.9 million light years away regillia activated her hyper drive 0.9 second ago
A distortion. A ripple in the fabric of space itself.
For the briefest instant, the stars twisted.
And then—
Nothing.
A hyperdrive wake, moving at incomprehensible speeds, tore through the solar system. The planet OIYBE, along with its sun and neighboring worlds, was reduced to subatomic particles in microseconds . The Veylan family did not even have time to look up.
One second, they existed.
The next, they were simply… gone.
Princess Regillia's fleet had made the jump.
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51 seconds ago.
at the spaceship
Regillia's fingers tapped impatiently against her throne's armrest, her violet eyes locked onto the star map hovering before her. A full year of travel, and the progress was pathetic.
"Antis," she snapped, "recalculate projected arrival time at Exit 125—maximum possible speed."
A holographic display shimmered into existence:
ESTIMATED TRAVEL TIME AT CURRENT LIGHTBREAKER CAPACITY (100%): 110 YEARS.
Her lips curled in disgust. "Unacceptable. I want to be there in ten years."
CALCULATING...
REQUIRED LIGHTBREAKER OUTPUT INCREASE: 30,000,000%
WARNING: SUSTAINED OPERATION AT THIS LEVEL WILL CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE ENGINE DAMAGE.
Regillia scoffed. "I don't care. Do it."
ACKNOWLEDGED. OVERRIDING SAFETY PROTOCOLS.
LIGHTBREAKER PERFORMANCE INCREASED TO 30,000,000% CAPACITY.30MILLION IS THE MAXIUM IT CANT BE INCREASED ANYMORE
For a moment, the ship hummed with power—then the star map flickered, recalculating.
NEW ESTIMATED TRAVEL TIME: 10 YEARS.
She smirked. "Better."
Then her eyes narrowed. "Still too slow."
Her gaze locked onto the hyperspace drive controls.
"Antis. Prepare hyperdrive jump."
WARNING: HYPERDRIVE ACTIVATION IN SOVEREIGN TERRITORY REQUIRES IMPERIAL CLEARANCE.
ADDITIONAL WARNING: JUMP PATH CONTAINS 39,782 PLANETARY BODIES—
"how long will it take to reach exit if we used hyper drive?"
IT WILL TAKE 2 SECONDS TO REACH EXIT
"Marvelous, now charge the drive engine so we can use hyper drive continuously for 1 year"
ACKNOWLEDGED. HYPERDRIVE CHARGING.
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Human Intelligence Centre – Unknown Location
The alert blared through the command hub like a siren.
"Commander Virel!" The tactical officer's voice was razor-sharp. "Unscheduled hyperspace signature detected—Imperial Princess Regillia's fleet!"
POWER SURGE DETECTED—LEVEL 8 ENERGY SIGNATURE. TEN SHIPS PRIMED FOR HYPERSPACE IN
Virel, a towering Nascent Realm cultivator (3.8), didn't flinch. His eyes flicked to the tactical display, absorbing the data in an instant.
"She didn't even request for clearance." His voice was stone cold.
Jia, his second-in-command, stepped forward. "Protocol mandates we destroy any unauthorized hyperdrive activation in sovereign space."
Virel's jaw tightened."That's the Emperor's daughter.Do what to be blamed to killing a royal?"
"And her jump path will annihilate 39,782 planets," Jia countered. "Six thousand are high priority ones."
A beat of silence.
Virel's mind worked at lightning speed. Five seconds. That's all they had.It would take 5 seconds to charge the engine for the distance the princess wants to travel
"Antis," he commanded, his voice absolute. "Engage Hyperlock. Displace all Tier 0 and 1 star systems in the jump path."
ACKNOWLEDGED. EXECUTED.
The hub trembled as the Hyper lock system activated in a fraction of a second temporarily moving 3000 star system preserving more than 6000 high priority planets.these planets include planets with high minerals, experimental labs, farms and densest human colony.
the command center waited for the fleet to rip through the galaxy but even after 5 seconds there was no movement
100% OF THE HIGH PRIORITY TARGETS MOVED.
"MOVE AS MANY AS POSSIBLE. !! and try to initiate contact with the fleet"
The command center tried to initiate contact but they were hopeless regillia ignored all form of communication
"why is she charging for this much time !?" Jia asked
After 50 second
POWER SURGE DETECTED—LEVEL 8.9 ENERGY SIGNATURE. TEN SHIPS PRIMED FOR HYPERSPACE
THE FLEET MOVED.
The fleet ripped through the human stronghold like nothing
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Outside the Alcyoneus galaxy there were cultivators who were waiting for regillias arrival. according to their calculation there is 100 to 150 more years before the princess exit the human stronghold. Their goal was to capture , loot the cargo or kill some here to smuggle some goods in.
There were many who wanted to kill the princess. The humans who hold the No 4th position on the racial council didnt achieve it by diplomacy and peace talks. This humans drove countless species to extinction.
Anarchy ship which is hiding in the space outside the alcyoneus galaxy exit 125. This ship is lead by coils a 3.5th relam cultivator and the vice captian. He and his squadron is here to collect data on the princess to update their database.
"commander why is there so many people here it looks like most of them are here it kill the princess.Our spies have informed us about a species bringing proton cannon the problem is they have not perfected that tech and its still in the infant face but the damage is real. its just that there is no way to control it.so its a suicide mission for them.
their plan is to ram into the princess convoy before she activates her hyperdrive. In that 5 second window the possibility of them succeeding is 60% which is high considering who the target is." the vice captain asked
"The species who hate the humans cannot be counted. One of the main reason is they consider themselves as superior and does what ever they want to other species. A long ago when they were at war time their slogan was " The stars are destined for us" and they just started conquering anything that moves. But at first they were very week even weaker than some species it is because they didnt have any specialty of their own as a species. Later they started cultivating and they improved in technology and in cultivation. later they started to add other species genes to their body to gain that species strength and it worked but there were mutation.so they crazily developed their gene editing technology and played god. later they needed more species so they started conquering and climbed the ladder. according to our sources they still have farms of intelligent species.
That is why almost all species hates the humans but what can they do ? Nothing! because in this world those who have strength have the final say. So most of the people here is here to kill the princess of the human empire to get on human nerve and annoy the humans.
And then—
She jumped.
No warning. No build-up. No countdown.
A ripple. A pulse. A scream across spacetime.
Half the waiting armada—gone.
Obliterated in a white-hot wake of hyperdrive energy, vaporized by a force moving faster than thought. The void that had moments ago been cluttered with warships and weapons was now eerily empty.
Everyone was stunned. They never expected the princess to use hyper drive while in the galaxy. Everyone who came her was petrified by the implications. Every ones thought was 'Did she destroy all the solar system in her path of jump drive ? billions NO! posible trillion of humans would have died .WHICH IS GREAT !!'
Anarchy's ship tilted, angling sensors toward the source.
A hole the size of a moon glowed in the once-impenetrable imperial shield, flickering with residual distortions. Like something had torn straight through the Emperor's divine barrier.
Impossible.
"He allowed it?""No," the Voice whispered "The emperor will never allow it"
Below them, the scavengers and smugglers erupted into action, pouring into the Human Empire through the breach like rats through a burning wall. Their greed overpowered their caution. They weren't chasing Regillia anymore.
Anarchy did not follow.
They watched.
"She gave them a juicier bait." said the commander
Meanwhile, deep in Hyperspace...
A cold stillness hung in Regillia's command chamber. The stars were streaks. No signals came in. No interference, no trace of pursuit.
[NICE ONE, NOW THE EMPIRE WILL BE BUSY CLEANING UP THAT MESS SO THEY WONT HAVE TIME TO BOTHER YOU
"Once I left the Empire, I knew they'd trail me. All of them.But now?" She smiled. "I gave them something better.""They won't follow me they will try to destroy my Empire."
"Antis."
"ACTIVATE SHRINKAGE. REDUCE THE ARMADA TO ATOMIC SCALE."
"ACKNOWLEDGED. INITIATING QUANTUM SHRINKAGE PROTOCOL. WARNING: SHRINKING AT HYPERDRIVE SPEED REQUIRES ADDITIONAL STABILIZATION."
"Do it anyway."
Her fleet pulsed once.
Then vanished.
To the outside universe, it became smaller than a grain of dust, traveling faster than anything had ever moved.
There would be no destruction now. No collateral damage. She would move between atoms, surf through gravity wells, never even brushing the systems she passed.
Silent. Perfect. Untraceable.
"Increase hyperdrive output," she ordered.
"stay on this course for the next 10 years."
The engines roared in a frequency only reality itself could hear.
And just like that—she was gone.
Back at the Empire's edge, Anarchy's agents sat in silence, still staring at the fading shimmer of the breach.