WOOOOOO—WOOOOOO—WOOOOOO!
Across all twelve wormhole railway tracks of Civic Galaxy Plaza #100, the brass border-watch sirens suddenly began to wail.
On the plaza’s lower landing docks, where ten trillion newly arrived refugees from the eastern galaxies were just finishing their second bowls of stir-fried beef-grain noodles, the sound of the sirens made millions of chopsticks clatter onto the tables in terror.
“Look at the Eastern Void radar screen!”
Tie Bao, the scarred Rank 8 general from the Ash-Star Dynasty, leaped up onto his wooden bench and pointed a trembling finger at the giant holographic sky-map floating over the toll booths.
Out in the pitch-black Abyssal Dust Trench fifty million light-years east of the plaza, a dark red cloud the size of three solar systems was surging through the void at terrifying speed!
As the radar zoomed in, everyone on the plaza sucked in a breath of cold air.
That wasn’t a dust cloud at all. It was a writhing, screeching swarm of ten billion giant metallic locust-beasts!
