"Accelerate the engines! We have to leave this force field before the Imperium's attack arrives!"
Inside the ship.
Senator Vitan roared, terrified to the extreme, as though the Imperium was even more terrifying than the Tyranid Swarms.
As an extreme liberal within the Federation, he was the most resistant to the Imperium's arrival and even less willing to share his escape space with Federation citizens.
He knew full well that once the Imperium arrived, there would no longer be any place for people like him to survive.
Especially after the Imperial Inquisitors took over the planet. Once the Federation Governor regained his authority and military power, he would certainly pursue the matter of Vitan refusing to carry out Federation orders and attempting to abandon Federation citizens.
Therefore, after receiving the news, the senator ordered the transfer of family assets to stop and had the fleet set sail, fleeing the Human Federation at maximum speed.
Their chances of escape were high. As long as they could break out of the outer orbit and make a collective warp jump, ship-mounted firepower would find it difficult to intercept them.
However, Senator Vitan had not expected the Imperial Logistics Fleet to be equipped with special force fields. Before the fleet could make its collective warp jump, it was captured.
Even his personal vessel, a top-tier ship secretly built for escape, was intercepted by the force field.
"Imperial tyranny will shroud the Human Federation. Bloodshed and slaughter have arrived as promised. This is the destruction of civilization."
Senator Vitan's hands trembled. He did not even notice the red wine spilling onto his clothes.
He muttered, "I can escape. I definitely can escape. The Inquisitors won't have a chance to catch me—"
Rumble—before he could finish speaking, the entire ship shook violently, and an intrusion signal