"Humphrey Paolo has been in touch with you, hasn't he?"
Communications with Holy Terra through Star Speech remains as difficult as ever. Virtual imagery displays suffer severe flickering, obscuring visibility to nearly nothing; it's better off not used at all to save on data.
It was because of this that Gu Hang could discern the weariness and hesitation in Galaraldo's words.
"Yes," Gu Hang replied candidly. "He sent me a letter."
"I knew it." Galaraldo sighed, then continued with an ironic tone, "The grandees on Holy Terra, each and every one of them is now scared like quails by the mere mention of Tie Nu Shi."
In saying this, he completely forgot that as the newly appointed head of the Military Affairs Department, he was one of those 'grandees' himself.