"Sir Carter, are we really going to do this......" the technical staff officer asked apprehensively.

"What if you don't? Do you want to continue to stay in this bullshit empire and die for His Majesty the Emperor who is high above?! ”

More than a year has passed, Sir Carter is much more emaciated, and the Ghost Ship Incident has irreparably broken his career in power as if he had been directly hit by a mud truck.

In the past year or so, he has suffered a number of administrative punishments from the Danube Empire, such as demotion, stripping of power, seizure of titles, and imprisonment, and has changed from a high-ranking imperial knight to a prisoner.

His command of the fleet was also stripped away and passed on to others.

Subsequently, Sir Carter's fleet was ordered by the Imperial Government to immediately return to the system where the Imperial Capital Star is located for rectification.

Sir Carter knew very well that his mistake was a felony that could not be pardoned, so he was willing to accept all the punishments of the Empire, and was even willing to be punished and die on the spot to clear his name.

However, during the voyage of his fleet back to the imperial capital, he received unexpected news.

His family, including the family behind him, originally stayed in the capital of the empire, but because of his affairs, he was implicated in his affairs and was personally ordered by the Danube Emperor to be hanged.

According to imperial decrees and past customs, all mistakes made by the political aristocracy in the political arena would not harm their relatives and families, and the emperor was undoubtedly ignoring this rule.

After hearing the news, Sir Carter was immediately indignant if he was struck by lightning, even though he had become a prisoner of the ranks, but when he was in charge of the fleet in the past, he established his prestige, accumulated many close subordinates in the fleet command system, and he still maintained a certain command over the entire fleet.

Through this relationship, Sir Carter used the fleet's communication system to protest against the Imperial Capital Star, strongly condemning the Emperor's unruly behavior.

Unexpectedly, the current Danube Empire was not interested in his protest at all, and the emperor was even more angry when he was even more angry when he saw that Sir Carter had provoked an unknown powerful enemy for the Empire.

Sir Carter has been branded as a sinner for the ages within the Danube Empire, and his actions in the ghost ship incident have angered the elite led by the Emperor.

The anger of the public was even more difficult to dissolve, and the magnates demanded that Sir Carter be punished severely, and the normal punishment given was to take him back to the Imperial Capital Star and be executed directly.

The execution of the magnates was a rare event in the Danube Empire, a partial feudal power system with the power of the emperor as the core and the power of the nobility as the lower hub.

But when such a thing happened, it was obviously not enough to put Sir Carter to death just one magnate and to appease the anger of the other magnates and the Emperor himself.

Behind every political magnate is a deep-rooted, powerful family as the foundation support.

Therefore, in order to appease the anger of the public, Sir Carter's family fell into great luck, and the angry elites did not show the slightest mercy, and strangled them with all their strength, and all relatives and family members were spared.

The Emperor of the Danube Empire himself was extremely satisfied with the result.

But no matter how bloody the punishment is, it can't change the cruel status quo, and under the threat of an unknown advanced civilization, the powerful and high-ranking people show their weak and incompetent side, and they still fall into deep fear.

However, after hearing that Sir Carter's fleet sent a protest statement to the Imperial Capital Star, the magnates became angry again, and they all advised that there was no need to escort Sir Carter back to the capital, and that the fleet would be executed immediately before it returned to the Capital Star, and that the execution image should be transmitted back to the Capital Star.

The Emperor took this advice and summoned the order to Sir Carter's fleet.

Then things turned out to be wonderful.

After a series of complicated incidents such as the seizure of power, the reversal, the internal cannibalism, and the restoration of power, Sir Carter, who was originally a prisoner of the ranks, once again took command of the fleet.

After that, he took the fleet to turn around, and instead of sailing towards the capital of the empire, he planned to sail in the opposite direction to a cosmopolitan civilization under the command of the righteous order on the border with the Danube.

Sir Carter intended to take this fleet to the enemies of the past Empire, and the other Danube soldiers in the fleet did not object to this action.

Because they knew that the mistake that Sir Carter had made in the ghost ship incident was in fact the mistake of their entire fleet.

Now that Sir Carter's family has been uprooted within the Empire, it won't be long before the family behind them suffers as well.

Their fleet sailed back to the Imperial Capital from the Sakaban system where they were stationed, and it would take decades for them to sail back to the Empire's capital, a time span that was too long for anyone to predict what would happen within the Empire.

The harshness of the imperial system is obvious to all citizens of the Empire.

No one wants to be stationed in the frontier galaxy for the empire for decades, and after running back to the empire's capital star after decades of interstellar journey, the imperial system gave him his precious life to the ruthless Huo Huo.

In this way, Sir Carter led this fleet, and set off directly without any worries, to join the nearest space civilization to the Sakaban system.

……

"Bastards, a bunch of disloyal traitors!"

"Carter, you damned traitor, you don't deserve to command the Empire's fleet, let alone the power that only nobles deserve!"

The movement of Sir Carter's fleet was quickly transmitted back to the Imperial Capital Star, and the Emperor of the Danube Empire was stunned and cursed when he learned of the other party's whereabouts.

The ghost ship incident has not completely dissipated many negative effects on the elite class of the Danube Empire, and then such a thing happened, and the emperor only felt that his head was bigger, and the pressure on his body was a little greater.

As an interstellar civilization that implements an imperial government and controls a huge territory of 50 light years, limited by the lack of space technology, the power held by the elite within the Danube Empire has been relatively large for a long time.

Although the Emperor's power is not small, he cannot extend his power to every galaxy within his jurisdiction at any time.

After all, the distance between galaxies is often light-year, like a ravine, seriously hindering the passage of the emperor's power between the stars.

In normal times, the Emperor's power must rely on the powerful people below him as a link to achieve stable rule over the other systems within the empire's borders except for the capital system.

The Emperor ruled the capital system and colonized other galaxies through the magnates, extending like a spider's web, relying on the operation of this power system, they were able to establish a solid interstellar unified resource allocation system, so as to continue to develop their civilization.

This would have been no problem, but now the appearance of the ghost ship incident has made a rift in this originally stable power system.

Because of this incident, the magnates were panicked, and they had no intention of developing the cause of the empire, and began to care about their own safety and future.

This is a great hidden danger, and it must be solved as soon as possible, if it is not solved, let the powerful continue to panic, then the power system of the empire will soon slowly fall apart over time.

(End of chapter)