Reckoning

Reckoning

The Selurite Special Operations Forces personnel spoke at an incredibly rapid pace, their voices running together until it was difficult to distinguish individual syllables. Yet their communication with one another seemed completely unhindered.

After a while, one of the special operations soldiers walked over carrying the head of a protocol droid and tossed it onto the floor with a clatter. At the same time, several others tore the black hoods off the heads of the officials kneeling on the ground.

"Ah... ah!! Her... Her Majesty the Queen..."

"No... impossible! General Telsi, why would she..."

At the sight of the bloody heads on the throne, the Ayrou officials screamed in terror. Some even fainted on the spot!

The Ayrou were, after all, an interstellar civilization that had colonized more than a dozen planets. Yet in less than a day, these people had wiped out the entire highest leadership of the planet!

Especially the Ayrou Queen. Her planetary palace had a full ten thousand guards stationed around it, with all manner of advanced surveillance, sensors, and security systems spread everywhere. Even so, her head had still been cut off!!

The officials could not help realizing what these mysterious people meant—they were capable of killing anyone on this planet!

One of the Selurite spoke rapidly to the protocol droid's head, which then opened its mouth and said, "This gentleman says that the riots on Annaj Planet must stop immediately. If you cannot do it, they will replace you with someone else."

"Replace... replace us..." The officials swallowed hard. The meaning was obvious. If they failed, their heads would be placed on the throne alongside those of the Ayrou Queen and the others.

The power structure and distribution of authority on a sovereign planet were extremely complex. Even if all of them were