Chapter 224: The Women's War (Part II)

Brady Planet.

Yesterday, Robin's deal with the Marquis of Timos earned him an Exotic Lord status officially recognized by the Brady system.

In the Hoffman Empire, the lords were a transitional class between the nobility and the commoners. Normally, trainee knights who are still fighting in the extragalactic system will automatically be promoted to the rank of Lord after three years of service, and the likes of Robin and Anse El? Osvid, like Osvid, who maintained his native nationality but made additional contributions to the Hoffmann Empire, could also earn the title of Lord of a foreign country through the promotion of a great nobleman with the title of count or above.

It can be seen from this that the title of Lord is actually not very precious in the Hoffman Empire. In the battlefield of the Extragalactic system, the trainee knights with the title of lord are Bibi Jie, and it is possible that in a war zone, there can be thousands of trainee knights with the title of lord.

However, although the Lord is not yet officially included in the ranks of nobility in the title, and is not allowed to build his own noble tower, his dignity is obvious compared to those temporary citizens and replicants who live below the surface. And from Robin's personal standpoint, it was in his personal interest to obtain the status of a foreign lord without having to fight for the Empire, and the meager privileges that the lord could enjoy were enough for him to carry out his plans.

Counting the privileges that a lord can enjoy, Robin values the most important is the right to foreign trade that the lord has.

Having this authority means that Robin can legally conduct foreign trade, so that he can also obtain support from the Nine Star Republic through regular channels, even if he brings an army, he does not have to worry about being accused of invasion. In addition, although the lord was not officially included in the rank of nobility, he was able to obtain the right to establish a knighthood like a true nobleman. Of course, under the system of the Hoffman Empire, there are countless armed sī people, and many free replicant mercenaries are still forming armies even if they do not have the right to establish a knighthood, but their xìng nature is completely different.

According to the Imperial Constitution, the civilian armed forces established by the citizens and replicants of the Provisional Empire are mercenary forces, and even if they are the founders of this civilian armed force, they do not have the right to own such an army. Therefore, civilian armed forces such as replicant mercenaries are often loosely structured, and they are only grouped together by the relationship of interests, and everyone is only responsible for themselves, and no one of them has the right to own this armed force. The knights formed by the lords and nobles are completely different in nature, the knights are the sī armed forces subordinate to the nobility, and each of the replicant warriors must swear allegiance to the nobles with official approval, and the nobles must provide the replicant warriors with a valid life-sustaining serum within twenty-one months. In the event of the nobleman's normal performance of his obligations, the lifelong ownership of the replicant warrior belongs to the noble, and in the event of the nobleman's death, his direct blood relatives can inherit this right and the corresponding obligations through inheritance. Only if the Lord and the Nobles do not give the allegiance to the replicant warrior a valid life renewal serum within the twenty-one month period, and automatically relinquish their ownership of the replicant warrior, the replicant warrior who is affiliated with the Order can regain their freedom. Conversely, replicant warriors belonging to the Order who do not have the permission of the nobles to exercise their sī rights are considered to be in violation of the terms of allegiance, and their owners have the right to want them and destroy them.

In this constitution of the Empire concerning the Knights, the rights and obligations of the lords and nobles to the replicants are clearly demarcated, and the Knights are also clearly listed as the sī army of the nobility in this constitution, becoming the sī army of the nobles in the true sense. The Knights' replicant warriors, on the other hand, must treat themselves as commodities, swear allegiance to the nobles and give up their lifelong freedom, and in return, the replicants who swear allegiance will be protected by the Imperial Replicant Act and receive the life-sustaining serum provided by the nobles for free. After ten years of service to the Order, even if the nobleman unilaterally relinquishes the possession of the replicant, he must bear the life renewal serum required by the replicant for the next four years, otherwise it will be considered a violation of the Imperial Replicant Act, and the replicant has the right to sue the nobleman and demand financial compensation.

In addition to the right to trade with foreign countries and the right to establish a knighthood, the Lord also had the right to own patents and exclusive dealings. In other words, the Lord was able to help the commoner scholars complete their academic research through financial support, as a true nobleman would, and had the right to patent and distribute the academic research in accordance with the terms agreed between the two parties.

Foreign trade, military, and academic, these three rights are the three most core rights of the aristocracy over the commoners. The lord who has these three rights has far surpassed the ordinary citizen of the empire in terms of class status, so in the empire, the lord is also called the commoner noble, and the only difference between the lord and the nobles above the baron is the various provisions of the noble title and the nobility bill with class special xìng, but these things are not what Robin values. For him, a foreign lord may be far more useful than a formal noble baron.

Therefore, after officially receiving the title of Lord, Robin's subsequent series of plans were immediately launched.

Relying on the foreign trade privileges of the Lord title, Robin was able to re-establish a smooth communication connection with the Nine Star Republic through the Brady System's intergalactic communication network. This allowed the 'Gaia' extension terminal, which had been operating independently, to finally connect to its host network through the communication network again, and a series of information about the Hoffman Empire collected in the Brady system was also transmitted to the database of the 'Gaia' host through this communication transfer. After the identification and sorting of these information materials, the academic list derived from the extension that only has 80% of the Xìng energy of the 'Gaia' host has been expanded again, and the information about the Empire's artificial intelligence in the data has also allowed the 'Gaia' with self-correction function to find a new direction of Xìng energy correction, which further strengthens the information operation ability of 'Gaia', and under the condition of maintaining the inter-galaxy communication network, all aspects of the Xìng energy of the 'Gaia' extension terminal will be obtained' Gaia's host support, which also allowed Robin to finally get full orientation support from a real artificial intelligence.

In addition, Robin immediately promoted the mercenary Xìng Tiger Battalion to the Tiger Knights through official procedures. The headquarters of the Knights will also be moved from the underground R-3 area to the surface, and a military fortress will be established on the surface.

According to the Hoffmann Imperial Act, the height of the sī people of lords and official citizens of the Empire could not exceed 100 meters, and they could not be built in a style similar to that of a tall tower. However, in order to distinguish the class difference between the lord and the citizens of the Empire, the sī mansions of the citizens of the Empire could not cover an area of more than one kilometer, while the lord was granted the right to use the land for a period of fifty years within a radius of 1,000 kilometers.

With a radius of 1,000 kilometers, such an area would have been the size of a city in the old days. That is, as a lord, he could have a city of his own on the lands of the Hoffman Empire. Of course, the realm that the Lord can obtain is nothing compared to the nobles who use planets and galaxies as their lordships, and they are not true realms with lifetime ownership, as is the case with noble realms. But in Robin's view, a 50-year tenure within a 1,000-kilometer radius was sufficient. As for the fact that the noble tower could not be built, Robin did not take it seriously, although he was also with the ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］