Rebellion was a power innate to intelligent beings. It needed no guidance, only sufficient oppression.
The Merova People's millennia of brainwashing and spiritual enslavement could never fundamentally change the nature of life. The fanatic believer groups they had built with neurotoxins and brainwave suppression devices had no foundation at all. Their ruling structure was a castle in the air, with loyalty and trust built entirely upon fear and illusions. Once those illusions were forcibly dispelled by a greater power, humans who had regained the ability to think freely would never tolerate such baseless tyranny. The moment the Merova People dispatched the "Preceptors" to massacre innocent Slave Races, the slave fleets that had only just regained free will were immediately driven by rage.
The Merova People had only twisted the ideas governing whom they served; they had failed to twist their normal human emotions. Even slaves could not tolerate seeing their homeland trampled so brutally.
The Merova People had actually always done this. Their atrocities had merely been concealed by neurotoxins, brainwashing methods, and lofty rhetoric about "benevolence." Now Barrian had torn away the final fig leaf and laid all those atrocities bare, escalating them further. He had apparently completely lost trust in his Slave Soldiers. Under the immense pressure brought by the Empire Army, he actually considered purging "potential traitors" his first priority for preserving his rule. Tula Zo had been right: from the moment Barrian betrayed his people, he had already gone insane.
The Merova People were bound to move against their Slave Races sooner or later. We had anticipated this from the beginning; one could even say the Empire Army had pushed it into happening. No matter what, once the Empire Army launched an attack, Barrian would definitely send the slave fleets to the battlefield. And once the