"Lord Vader wants to nominate you as the eleventh marshal of the Empire!" The "messenger" who had not bowed before stepped over and answered Sauron's question. And as soon as his words came out, everyone in the room was shocked. The leading messenger glared fiercely at the person behind him, but did not say anything to stop or deny it.

As a professional negotiator, he didn't want to reveal this hole card so quickly, and Vader's instructions to him were to do everything he could to pull Lieutenant General Zoro into his camp, but in his opinion, this small base stationed on the frontier was not worth the knight's effort to curry.

As one of Vader's long-term supporters, the negotiator of this team leader is actually a star lord of a less developed business planet, and among the people he carries, only the one who grabbed the conversation was given to him by Vader, and the others were his own retainers and thinkers.

"I haven't done anything for Lord Vader, so why would he want to give me such a great responsibility?" Lieutenant General Zoro asked after a pause, gesturing his men to take the other messengers out of the room, he had a hunch that only this guy in front of him could reveal Vader's true intentions.

"Because he doesn't need to do anything for him, he is looking for people who are willing to serve the empire loyally." Based on your profile and reports, he thinks you're the perfect fit. The messenger said unhurriedly after the others were sent out of the room.

But what he gave was not entirely true, because it was not for these reasons that Vader made this decision. The reason why he sent envoys to woo Sauron so early was largely because of the influence of the expedition.

At the beginning of his defeat of the emperor, Sister Xue took advantage of the chaos to contact Vida, expressing the hope that Vader would transfer a small group of soldiers from the Imperial Army to help the expedition team adapt to the fleet hardware of the Imperial Army as quickly as possible. At that time, Vader was entangled in trivial matters and almost agreed to this seemingly inconspicuous little request.

But after seeing the list given by Sister Xue, he suddenly realized that this request might have another meaning. So he carefully reviewed the information of everyone on the list, and then he was surprised to find that except for Sauron, everyone else on the list was some very ordinary Imperial soldiers.

After all, Vader has been tested by conspiracy for a long time, and he has some impressions of Sauron he saw a few years ago, so after a short investigation. He quickly guessed that everyone else on the list was foils, and that all the expedition wanted was this one inconspicuous general stationed on the frontier.

When he figured this out, he was amazed. After all, he had been a guest of honor within the expedition organization for a while, and he knew very well how good the expedition personnel were. The person who can make them look at and carefully recruit is not a miscellaneous fish.

What's more, Zoro is an alien, and the people seen in the expedition are all humans, it stands to reason that such an organization should advocate great humanism more than the Imperial Army, and in such a situation, it can only show that the other party has an irreplaceable role.

At this point, Vader's interest was piqued. Desperate to know why the expedition was trying to dig into its own corners. He had seen Sauron though. But he didn't have a deep impression of the other party, and he always regarded Sauron as a close confidant of the emperor.

Unbeknownst to him, this was a deliberate misunderstanding caused by the Emperor at the time, in order to prevent a military genius like Sauron from being recruited into Vader's fleet. The combination of Vader and Admiral Tajin two years ago was already a headache for the emperor at that time.

The suspicious Emperor was always worried about Vader's power swelling, so once he found any outstanding military talent, Palpatine would give priority to sending him to the frontier, trying to make Vader unreachable or misunderstand the other party.

It was because of the Emperor's obstruction that Sauron had never had anything to do with Vader. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, Vader would have pulled a military talent like Zoro to his side a long time ago. Of course, it's never too late to pull it again.

Vida knew that the foundation of her cooperation with the expedition was very strong. It's just getting on track, and it stands to reason that now should be the time when their mutual trust is the highest. In order to dispel his doubts, he summoned Sister Xue to his side, asked the other party face-to-face why he was digging his own wall, and simply said that no matter what benefits the expedition team promised, he would never hand Zoro over to the expedition team.

After being discerned of the intentions. Sister Xue could only give up the branch plan to secretly recruit Zoro with a little regret, and explained the ins and outs of the matter at Vader's request. Although Sauron was a valuable military talent, he was far less important to the expedition than Vader.

Maintaining the alliance with Vida is their priority right now, for this. She explained everything. After learning from Sister Xue that Sauron, who was now honestly stationed on the frontier, was actually the strongest recorded military commander in the history of his own plane, Vader finally came to his senses.

For an organization like the expedition, Sauron is like a piece of fat meat, and it would be strange if the other party didn't make a move. But now that he knows this, he must not let such a talent stay on the frontier and become moldy.

It was only then that Vader had the idea of immediately pulling the other party into his camp. After in-depth learning about the other party's future achievements from Sister Xue, Vinda was even more willing to completely hand over his military power to the other party.

Unlike Palpatine, he is not afraid to give power to his subordinates, who has been fighting all his life. Because he knows the thinking of military personnel, especially top military talents like Zoro. They all saw war as their own career rather than a stepping stone.

It is precisely because they devote all their energy to the study of war that they will become the top military talents. Instead of worrying about rebellion after they gain power, worry that they will be useless and end up leaving you.

For this reason, he will send the nearest messenger to Sauron's garrison to recruit immediately. At the moment, the person who is talking directly to Zoro is none other than Marek, the "planetary killer" who was still fighting side by side with Vader a few days ago to assassinate the emperor together.

"You must be very close to Lord Vader," Lieutenant General Zoro asked, at this time he had already deduced that the identity of the person in front of him must not be simple, otherwise he would not say such words with personal emotions, unless it was an important person around Vader, he should not behave like this.

"I was his apprentice, then his sworn enemy, his allies ......, but we were never close! With that, Marek took off his hood and revealed his true face. Although Sauron is on the frontier and the news is relatively closed, he can still recognize the founder of the rebels.

A few years ago, when the Rebel Alliance was first established, Marek's avatar appeared in front of all the high-ranking members of the Empire. He had also heard some rumors that the man had a personal relationship with Vader, but never imagined that he would face such a "rebel".

"If you're telling the truth, then why are you running errands for Vader? Zoro stopped a few of the guards behind him from raising their guns, knowing that a few blasters were useless against a powerful Jedi Knight at this distance. And he didn't believe that the other party was hostile to him, otherwise he wouldn't have lived until now.

"I helped him kill the Emperor and even become his messenger not because I liked him, but because he was the least bad of all the choices. Our galaxy is in great danger, and he alone has the conditions to overcome the impending danger, and he can't do it alone. ”

"What the hell does Lord Vader want me to do?" Sauron asked, holding his chin and thinking about it for a moment. From the other party's words, he heard a lot of trouble and opportunity. The chance is that he does seem to be taken seriously by Vida.

The trouble is that he doesn't know how deep the pit is here. According to his preliminary conjecture, what Vader wants to do is likely to completely overthrow the existing power system of the Galactic Empire, which means irreconcilable contradictions with the real power factions in various places. Sure enough, Marek's next sentence confirmed his suspicions.

"He wants to purge the government and the army of the Empire, but he doesn't have the energy to do both, so he wants to appoint you as the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Army and put the military in order." If you wish, go to Coruscant immediately to debrief, this position will not be vacant for long......"

That's it, after a short period of consideration, Sauron decided to go to Coruscant on his own, with only a few retinues with him. On the way, only one auxiliary ship for resupply was taken. In fact, as long as he gave the order, he could naturally gather his fleet and go to Coruscant to defect to Vader.

Although his small fleet was small, it was a force to show loyalty in this tense moment. But he didn't choose to do it, because he was a man who valued responsibility over face, and in his opinion, it was still very risky to go to Coruscant by himself, and there was no need to risk his life with others. And the people in their own defense zone also need their own fleet to stay and protect.

Although he had eliminated all pirates in and around his zone two years earlier, the rest of the frontier was unstable. Once the area garrison disappears, it won't be long before pirates and bandits from other sectors will run over and resurrect in their own defenses.

Until his position and responsibilities are formally changed, his first task will continue to be to fulfill the task of protecting the frontier. For this reason, he made it all the way to Coruscant almost without a penny. Because of the lack of pomp, when he first went to the ground to check his identity, he was questioned by the ground prosecutors.

But before he could get angry, another official, who had been waiting for him, recognized him as a distinguished guest whom Lord Vader had personally instructed him to receive with ceremony, so he hurried up to greet him warmly and led him all the way to Vader's office. (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the monthly pass of "Lone Guest, Xuanhu NO1, Kaos Fargo, Moonlight and Shadow" and the reward of "Moonlight and Shadow", about Zoro's appearance, in fact, I gave a hint in the group before, but no one guessed that it would be him. As the strongest commander in the history of the Star Wars plane, I was going to send him to the expedition, but after careful consideration, I gave it up for the time being