Orman-Tagge sat at the conference table throughout the meeting, watching everything through his specially made glasses. Behind the lenses, his cloudy yet sharp eyes slowly swept over every face flushed red with excitement, while his own expression remained incredibly grim.
At this moment, one of the nobles said to him, "Marshal Tagg, after Marshal Ruffan-Digorinus went missing—actually, he was captured—you are the only Imperial Marshal here whom we can trust. Do you have any thoughts on this matter?"
Although the Tagge family had risen to prominence only a little over two hundred years ago, thanks to the legendary family leader Tarzan-Tagge, its reputation among the Core Worlds nobility was exceptionally strong.
Furthermore, with the Tagge Company under its banner, after the Trade Federation was destroyed and the InterGalactic Banking Clan split apart, the Tagge family had become the largest economic entity in the entire Milky Way Galaxy. To a great extent, it held enormous influence among these noble classes.
"The New Republic?" Orman-Tagge repeated, but his expression was nowhere near as composed—or even fanatical—as the others'.
Because the Tagge family's current situation was completely different from that of the other noble families.
Orman-Tagge had nearly fallen out with Adelaide-Tagge of the family Finance Department. Even after Adelaide produced evidence that Orman-Tagge had falsified financial records, he had stubbornly refused to back down.
What he had relied on at the time was a gamble on the Death Star project, a gamble that he could use it to gain sufficient support before His Majesty the Emperor. Many family elders who had joined his conspiracy back then and sought to poison Sanya-Tagge had also run out of options. They could only follow him into the darkness.
That was why he had forcibly suppressed the opposition within the family and had even turned Adelaide-Tagge's