The Ping An Merchant Group provided the authorities with some battle footage that could prove they had indeed come under siege.
The original owners of the tissue samples they provided had been impersonating Space Pirates.
However, unfortunately, although they had pictures and the truth, the authorities still had no way to act.
"You have no footage of the annihilation itself. Just based on these videos of you being ambushed by Space Pirates, you want us to investigate Dukas?
"You can't even prove that the original owners of these human tissue samples were aboard the starships that besieged you!" Of course, that was only the superficial reason. The deeper reason was the key: Ping An was far weaker than Dukas!
One side had only one Supreme whose fate was unknown, while the other had three Supremes.
One was an aging force heading into Dusk, while the other was a rising combat group with extensive connections.
So the authorities stated that their evidence lacked key details and that they could not casually slander others.
What they wanted to know more was how Ping An's people had turned the tables after encountering the Space Pirates.
Ka Ding had no choice but to answer, yet he could not tell the truth. He could only present the story they had fabricated in advance.
They attributed the credit to two Heavy Armed Merchant Ships they had encountered by chance.
Those two merchant ships had merely been passing by, only to be dragged into the incident. In a fit of anger, they destroyed two Space Pirate merchant ships.
Then the two heavily armed ships took them away, helped repair their starships, but also deleted the relevant data.
The story sounded utterly perfunctory.
It was not as though the vast Empire had no good people, but people kind