Inside a massive space station built into orbit around a habitable planetary moon......

"Dear citizens of the Duchy of Hughes, we are now at the scene of the celebration of the official commissioning of the principality's first destroyer."

"The mighty yellow battleship in front of the camera is the latest warship that the scientists of our principality have spent decades researching: the Courier-class destroyer!"

"The length of this battleship is 800 meters, which is already comparable to an aircraft carrier on our planet!"

"The official commissioning of this Courier-class destroyer means that our principality will begin to truly set foot in the starry sky, and our principality will conquer the sea of stars!" A hostess excitedly narrates to the camera, and behind her floats a battleship the size of an Imperial frigate.

As a low-level civilization that had just left its planet for two hundred years, the Duchy of Hughes spent a hundred years developing its home star system by relying on sub-light speed flight.

Immediately after that, their scientists discovered the existence of hyperspace in a chance experiment! Immediately after, the Duchy Hughes' first hyperspace engine was developed.

After a hundred years of continuous research, the Duchy of Hughes has not only reduced the cost of hyperspace engines to the point where they can be fully installed, but also used hyperspace engines to colonize several surrounding Proxima star systems!

"Look, His Majesty the King personally attended the commissioning ceremony of the Courier-class destroyer!" The host suddenly raised his voice and pointed the camera at the king of the principality who was walking not far away.

I saw the bloated king holding his beautiful wife, escorted by a group of soldiers, to the middle of the port platform.

"My dear citizens, without your support, our Duchy of Hughes would not have been able to get to where it is today!"

"I hope that in my lifetime, I can lead the Duchy of Hughes to conquer this vast starry sky, long live the Duchy of Hughes!" His Majesty walked to the middle of the square and raised his scepter in his hand.

Unexpectedly, just as the scepter was raised into the air, countless electric lights suddenly appeared at the position where the scepter was facing!

A "super" fleet of thousands of warships appeared diagonally above the space station.

The superfleet consisted of a silver "giant ship" and two thousand large warships, each of which was much larger than the Courier-class warships they had just built.

Unlike their Duchy Hughes yellow battleship livery, all the ships of this fleet that suddenly appeared were all silver, reflecting a beautiful and dazzling light.

After the fleet was discovered, the station's weapons did not fire. Because their Majesty the King is still inside the space station. And the chances of a civilization capable of building warships of such a large size are very small.

"Your Majesty, what shall we do?" The officer next to the king asked in a whisper, and now the square was silent, and all the people and high-ranking officials were speechless with the shock of the fleet that appeared.

"Since these warships did not attack when they appeared, they must be able to make contact, immediately gather linguists, psychologists, and biologists in the country to form a negotiation team, and we are ready to make contact with them!" The king pretended to be calm, in fact, he was already panicked, just by his eyes, the smallest warship in this fleet was more than a kilometer long! The largest battleship was almost three kilometers long!

What kind of concept is this, the size of the opponent's smallest warship is nearly twice that of the latest messenger-class battleship made by his own principality, and the opponent has as many as two thousand warships of this level!

A few hours later, the scientists who had been urgently summoned gathered and boarded a miniature spaceship.

As the miniature transport ship flew into the air, the fleet in space did not attack, but flew out of the fleet and a battleship flew out of the fleet to meet it.

"Sir, the other party told us to stop here." The pilot of the miniature transport ship suddenly said to an officer sitting in the cabin behind.

"Damn, these aliens are so cautious that even if we want to strike first, we won't be able to sneak into a ship loaded with nuclear weapons!" The officer hesitated for a moment before making a decision: "Listen to them, stop here." ”

The miniature transport stopped in the air, and at this moment, a miniature ship suddenly flew out of the belly of the battleship that had been separated from the fleet, but this miniature ship was larger than the miniature transport ship of the Duchy of Hughes.

After the airlocks of the two ships docked together, the alloy door of the airlock slowly opened, and the negotiation team of the Duchy of Hughes stepped into the ships sent by the unknown fleet.

To their surprise, the spaceship was empty, relying entirely on the ship's intelligent brain autopilot, and it seemed that the other party even cherished the life of a soldier, for fear that they would carry out a suicide attack.

The unmanned spacecraft brought these people to the detached battleship, and when the airlock door opened again, several members of the negotiation team finally saw the true face of this civilized creature!

Hundreds of robots stood on either side of the ship's hatch with heavy weapons, and behind these robots were special warfare mechs, which were still accumulating blue light, causing heavy pressure on the Duchy Hughes negotiation team.

"Hello, we are the negotiation team of the Duchy of Hughes, who are you? ....." An officer at the head of the Duchy Hughes negotiation team stretched out his right hand to the three soldiers who were walking towards them, ready to shake hands with them one by one.

But what embarrassed him was that the three people who came did not shake hands with him in the slightest, leaving his hands hanging in the air like that.

Seeing that no one shook hands, he hurriedly withdrew his hand and touched his nose in embarrassment, and kept comforting himself in his heart, maybe the meeting etiquette of these people was not a handshake.

"We ..... It's the Sith Empire. ”

"We are here for one purpose: to bring all civilizations far from the core of the Galactic Alliance into the Galactic Alliance's family!"

"This is an invitation from your civilization, we will only stay here for two days, and if you don't give a clear answer, we will assume that you are refusing to join the alliance." The man led by three soldiers handed a tablet to the officers of the Duchy of Hughes.

"Remember, our Sith Empire is the supreme ruler of the galaxy, once we join the Galactic Alliance, we cannot have any objections to the rule of the Empire, and we must recognize the legitimacy and rationality of the Empire's rule!"

"Once you join the Galactic Alliance, then you can't quit again, please think about it!"

"The benefits of joining us and the conditions that must be obeyed have been written on the tablet, I hope you will read it carefully." After saying that, the soldier turned and left, leaving behind the stunned Duchy Hughes negotiation team.