Chapter 16

Walking down a smooth paved stone tunnel, with metal riveting all around the walls, Aleister made his way to a blast door guarded by 20 people. The guards of the door all moved out of the way, Aleister who was still walking to the door slightly nodded at them before putting his finger into a hole right next to the door.

After a full minute, Aleister pulled out his finger which had been pricked, making tiny driblets of blood flow out of his pointer finger. After a few seconds, the lights turned green and the blast doors began to open, upon opening it could be seen that the blast doors were as thick as Aleister was tall.

Behind the blast doors were dozens of control panels with a person tapping away on them. In the middle of the room, the place Aleister was walking to, there was the main control panel, and on the side was a wire with a connecting bit. Reaching behind his jacket he dug into a pack resting on his robe belt, inside the pack was the Star map which was promptly connected to the main computer.

Almost instantly the lights started to flicker, and the machines around the room began to slow and began to generate more noise, quickly realizing his mistake he reset the settings for how much lt scans at once. It was at maximum for expediency and the thought that by the time they had something that it couldn't handle they would have a better computing station or at least multiple to chew at it. Setting it to 0.1% of the entire map, the main computer stopped siphoning energy from non-essential things like lights and doors and stopped generating more noise than usual.

On the star map was the surrounding 250 billion square light-years, and although that is a giant area, out of 53.7 quintillion square light-years it really isn't that much. For a civilization 250 billion light-years would take hundreds of years to conquer, along with the 50,000 thousand civilizations the star map had data on, it was a giant amount for a civilization.

around 95% of the civilizations were one system minors with only 2% of them having more than three systems.

Although the star map was outdated by 500 years Aleister definitely knew that some of the bigger civilizations would still be around, such as one that had around 400,000 Systems which was the biggest one, or the one with 200,000 which was the fourth biggest, unfortunately, there was literally nothing but the location of the star on a grid-like map, and who owned them. Overall even if the map was undoubtedly helpful, Aleister still preferred something like what he called the hyperlane register as a gift.

As a gift from the "Creators", the technology was way better than their systems and even the highly advanced Vore ones used to map the galaxy meaning even though the building could create stable FTL hyperlanes most of the time more than half of the computation power was completely unused, now all of it was being used.

"Continue to compute at maximum efficiency" Aleister said to the uniformed man with a red Aiguillette on his left breast.

"But your majesty, the system is draining a quarter of the region's power supply including the capital's supply"

"And?" Aleister questioned, seeing that the officer didn't want to say anything else he once again began to leave through the giant sliding blast doors

With the extreme precautions taken to make sure the underground computation station was secure, 30 minutes later Aleister finally had sunlight beaming on his skin after an hour.

Waiting for him at the front of the entrance was a Shuttle, the same one that he usually uses, and because of the tight schedule that Aleister has been subjected to be it visiting ministers for formal events to scheduling new science projects among many many other things, the second that he sat down inside the shuttle it lifted off of the ground and into the air.

This workaholic nature was shared by both the original Aleister and the one from Earth, and because of it he was suffering, but the sources were different from each 'Aleister'. As an amalgamation between the two, the overworking of the original battle-hardened Aleister was simply due to the belief that he could do it better even if that wasn't true, while the overworking nature of the Earth Aleister was simply due to habit especially due to the overall career that was remodeling.

After a mere minute, The shuttle was in space flanked by three fighters, interestingly the shuttle was intentionally made with a slightly worse FTL drive therefore when they Jump to another system the fighters will always be able to at the very least see if there is a sneak attack in said system. However, because Aleister was almost always in a larger ship this was a strategy that only was used when such larger ships would be better used elsewhere.

Even if the Vore FTL drives were way faster than the drives painstakingly developed by the other civilizations, Aleister found it mind-meltingly slow, of course, he had gotten used to the speed over the months and simply wrote notes about what he was thinking at the time. Some of the notes included Foods from the earth that he wanted to be made in the royal kitchens, especially fried rice but due to the lack of any rice or rice alternative that wasn't possible– viable ship design that he thought of, and the listing of what needs to be expanded upon.

Recently he had been urgently requested to allow the recruitment of more special forces and a more diverse number of them, more Royal guard to accommodate the rising amount of Royal properties, and most of all more intelligence officers. However, due to the more elite aspects of each one of these areas they take two to four times the six months of training an average soldier has, meaning even if something was done immediately it would still take a whole year or more for any problems to be resolved.

In conclusion, Aleister decided to more than Quadruple the Special Forces Corp, adding infiltration and espionage-based Regiments, Sniper Regiments, and a more secret program that would be held on the barely habitable ice planet of Ithapus Secundus which was so close to inhabitable that without specialized equipment you would freeze in minutes, fires were completely impossible to make without shelter, with ice almost as hard an iron shelter couldn't be made into them.

The planet was part of the Saigatis system and had zero natural lifeforms on it, over the past day Aleister had sent a troop transport that technically was never even made, to the planet to begin the creation of a base on it. With extreme environments, enough time, and a lot of brutality Aleister believed he could make an elite special forces Regiment with the same skill and fear dune's 'Sardaukar' garnered. in fact, his training that emphasizes ruthlessness, fanatic zeal, near-suicidal disregard for personal safety, and the use of cruelty as a standard weapon in order to weaken opponents with terror, was based on them. In remembrance of what was his favorite book series, he renamed the planet from Ithapus to Ithapus Secundus, in reference to the imperial prison planet where the 'Sardaukar' were trained.

His whole plan for the unnamed elite special forces regiment was to take male orphans from the sanguine race due to their inherently better physics and for their future giant stature that would breed terror into their enemies, at the age of 5-7 and for the next 11-13 years they would be trained in harsher and more brutal ways than would be acceptable even for the war-loving Sanguisugion race, hence the secrecy beyond the obvious advantages to a secret special forces regiment. Because of the inherently special way special forces operate, they wouldn't see an open battle that often and would mostly be for Espionage, assassination, and infiltration. These new special forces would take the belief of Quality over Quantity to a whole new dimension with One special forces soldier costing more than a Thousand regular army troopers in respects to their training, food, shelter, and equipment which would be the best the kingdom had to offer.