The newly formed 9th Mixed Fleet set sail almost simultaneously as Hamilton issued the orders. After a few days of fast navigation, they passed through the jump point of the Public Star System and joined the standoff with the Desic Fleet. Under the watchful eyes of the conciliators sent by the Human Supreme Council and nearly a hundred military observers from both alliances, they, together with the 4th Mixed Fleet, formed a faint encirclement around the Desic Exercise Fleet.
Meanwhile, the battle at Lucerne gained overwhelming superiority with the further engagement of the Leray Federation Army. A total of forty armored divisions and fifty-eight fully mechanized infantry divisions of the army completely crushed the enemy's airborne forces at the Amayo Mountain line that lacked supplies and formed a division and encirclement around six key military towns on the Lavos Plain.
