Listening to the impeccably standard yet faintly humorous Black Tower Language in the broadcast, Han Dong caught a whiff of conspiracy lurking within it. At the same time, he noticed a key term—Escape Planet.
"Little Yellow, was this person once a high-ranking human administrator on Pandora Planet?"
"H... Handsome Jack. He was not merely human.
"He was extremely dangerous. When he existed, even the humans at the pinnacle of the Nine Great Companies feared him. It is strange that he appeared here.
"Pandora endured eight full years of Jack's dictatorial rule under his identity as the top executive of Hyperion Company. That period was also known as the Handsome Era.
"You could see airdrop machines bearing the Hyperion logo all over the streets.
"Worshippers wearing Jack masks were everywhere.
"Many factions that tried to resist Hyperion Company were secretly erased."
"A dictator? So this guy once ruled Pandora all by himself... What happened afterward? Did the other Arms Companies form a coalition army and drag him down?"
"No.
"There was only one rumor accepted by the public: a group of treasure hunters like you, who came to Pandora from the Outside World, secretly ended Jack's Great Plan.
"However, after my later investigation, I found this rumor untrustworthy. Every treasure hunter mentioned in the story could be found by name in cemetery records."
"Then how did his dictatorship end?"
"No one knows the specifics.
"But according to information from our internal Hyperion employees, the conclusion was that Jack found dictatorship too boring and left of his own accord, vanishing completely from Pandora.
"When Jack disappeared, his ruling position had not wavered in the slightest. If anything, it had been growing increasingly secure."
Han Dong nodded thoughtfully.
"Hmm... A former ruler like this vanished suddenly at the height of his glory, only