Chapter 14

Walking into the giant throne room, previously used to hold court before the impossibility of that became very clear. Currently, 48 people were kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs and a guard behind them to make sure they continue to kneel.

"My brother, assassination that's a whole new low"

"Not even you can throw around those accusations to family!" he yelled before promptly getting backhanded by one of the guards standing above him "a criminal does not speak in the presence of the king without permission"

"A crimi-" he yelled in confusion before being backhanded once again by the guard.

"Enough, a celebration on a day for no reason, a giant donation to the science complexes paying a whole 40 percent of the construction off your personal coffers how generous"

"That proves nothing! You can't do this and you won't"

"I am king, I can do whatever I please, ooh that must sting! A position that you covet, one that if not for the rules on succession oh and the fact that you lost the Padishah you may have sat in this seat" He mocked ruthlessly.

"You bastard" Braeden ripped up headbutting the guard in the face to the horror of all of the other chained people, after headbutting the man he kicked the other guard in the face before jumping and whipping his hands down and into the front of his body.

Despite his surprise attack, neither of the guards had so much as a nose bleed, considering that the helmets were slightly damaged but still mostly the same it was more likely that Braeden's brain was recoiling around his skull right now.

Quickly the guards pushed the man back to the ground with this time their knees into his back "You absolutely right, even I couldn't charge you with a thing, as you know criminal trials are dealt in the name of the royal family so it wouldn't make sense for the royal family to be charged by the royal family, however, High treason doesn't follow such rules and attacking the personal guard of the king in front of the king constitutes as such"

"You bastard!!!!"

"Don't worry, I hear that how many was it Khoris?"

"18 thousand your majesty"

"Ahh yes 18 thousand, 18 thousand of your former personal secret soldiers will be joining you in prison therefore you will not be lonely"

"AHHH!!!!" Braeden yelled before fainting from pure anger

"Ha he fainted from anger, never seen that before, take him and friends away they sully this beautiful structure" Aleister laughed before calling out to a Sanguisugion man who just hung his head deeply in regret and self hate "And Horzous I expected more from the minister that my father so heavily trusted"

"Your majesty with 18 thousand people incoming along with the thousands sent there almost every week without those expansions complete then there won't be enough room in Shádsals"

"It's fine even if there isn't enough room there is plenty in the vacuum of space" the king retorted "Anyway I have a meeting in-"

"Your majesty" a man jogged into the room through the side entrance that Aleister entered through, He handed him a holoprojector which suddenly turned on showing the face of the Admiral Noldoz

"Your majesty!"

"What is it, are those Caesseians attacking"

"No your majesty apparently over a day ago a military coup d'etat occurred completely uprooting their royal family, and they had sent an envoy with their former queen"

"Queen? They were a matriarchy?"

"No your majesty, but due to special circumstances their royal family was headed by their former queen"

"Alright are they on the Orpheus"

"Yes your majesty they are in a hanger in their ship" the admiral replied

"Good, keep them there I'm coming personally"

Turning off the holoprojector he handed it back to the man and walked off out of the main door, as though that area is a shortcut to the terrace where his trusty transport is held. Almost speed walking he turned a dozen corners into the outside and walked into the transport, at full atmospheric speed the shuttle zipped into space, and without waiting for the escort ships the shuttle activated the onboard FTL drive and was off at 447,081 light-years per hour.

In a mere 40 minutes, he made his way from the Nulmuater system to the Uber system then to the Waddonia system where the Orpheus class carrier was, quickly the dorsal sliding doors opened and the shuttle made its way into one of the many, many hangers. Exiting the Shuttle was a giant mass of officers and troopers, and in the center of the path between the squares of people were the admiral and the captain.

"Where are they, admiral?"

"They and their ship were moved to the hanger on the left, your majesty"

Fairly quickly all three of them made their way to the large opening in the wall that allowed trans-hanger movement, and even before they were in the other hanger they could see the ship that they had sent the envoy in.

With 5 light guns, a blocky long shape, and very large thrusters in the back, it was a classic envoy vessel with almost no armaments however he could tell the shielding was better comparatively than all of his ships; With what looked like two main array plates and six redundant ones for its size it truly was better shielded than his ships.

Walking into the ship he saw a spacious interior showing that their armor was lacking and was not very thick. The very first thing he saw was an elfish man sitting next to what he thought was an elfish woman due to the breasts and they were on a Caesseian ship, however with a black bag over her head it was difficult to really guarantee on closer inspection however, he snidely snorted.

"What do your leaders say?" Aleister asked, walking into the main room where the two Caesseians were. "My leaders surrender on a few conditions, one their skill will be respected and they will be retained in their positions, two slavery of the caesseians or caesseian royals is completely unacceptable, and three the wealth and prosperity of the Caesseian peoples will not be touched"

"And you think I can't just take all of your systems?"

"Do you not accept your majesty?"

"The second and third ones are a given, however people who betray their leaders will not be given any leadership position that will and can only be gained through shows of skill and loyalty, so after a test at an Officers academy of which they have to pass, they will be given a medium importance role and then just like every other they will use their skill to climb the latter" Aleister said while making a certain subconscious negative motion with his hands.

"Alright then we surrender"

"Ohh even though one of the conditions was not met?" Aleister asked

"Of course your majesty, they had given me the authority to make such decisions based on your response" He replied "So envoy was your queen a robot"

"What! How did you know?"

"Sanguisuges have excellent smelling, especially when it comes to blood, so when you have blood but she doesn't it's not hard to tell it's not a common trait"

"I'm very sorry your majesty but in case we were unfairly detained the real queen was hidden in a compartment of the ship along with if you accepted the kingdom's greatest treasure" The envoy said while bending over and opening a compartment in the floor, interestingly not even with his vision was the seam from the compartment hatch visible as it looked completely seamless.