2003, More Protoss
Looking at the stunned Admiral Qiyala, Tang Xiao said coldly, "What? You can't give the order? You don't know who you should fire on?"
"You... you incited the people!" Qiyala said through gritted teeth.
"Incited the people? Heh heh. No, I gave them a second choice." Tang Xiao said, "Before, the people had no way to resist the families, so the families had the final say in everything. They had no choice. But now, I gave them the right and the ability to choose... I merely told them not to fear the families anymore, because someone could defeat them. And then? What did the people choose? Did they choose to keep standing with the families and fight me, the foreign enemy?"
This time, Admiral Qiyala was rendered speechless.
Tang Xiao smiled. "This is an opportunity to destroy the power of the families and give Chiss territory a more normal, enlightened, and efficient system of government."
"As a province of the Duchy of Dawn, you mean? This is naked aggression!" Admiral Qiyala said.
"That is already an established fact." Tang Xiao smiled coolly. "What I am discussing with you is how to make Chiss territory better under that established fact."
"You... you invader!"
"And isn't the reason my invasion succeeded precisely because the ruling families of Chiss territory were corrupt and backward? If those ruling families had not been fighting and restraining one another, we would not even have had the opportunity to finish building the Stargate in Chiss territory. Don't you think?" Tang Xiao said.
"I will never help you do anything!" Admiral Qiyala said viciously.
"I never asked you to help me. For example, right now, I am asking you to quell the unrest in Chiss territory. Do you think that unrest should not be quelled?