So they were getting ready to set up a government in exile, then?
Well, Yu Lian wasn't surprised. A government in exile for the Blue Star Commonwealth was bound to be established. Even if some of the bigwigs who'd fled abroad from their homeworld lacked the spirit and resolve to do it, someone would surely force them to pick up the pieces. After all, even in his own previous life, those Frenchmen who hadn't held out as long as a single building still had Free France, established by the man hailed as "the last Frenchman."
...Seriously, if General de Gaulle counted as "the last Frenchman," what did that make the resistance groups led by the French Communist Party?
Er, anyway, back to the point. In this age of the universe, it was only natural that someone would go to the Alliance and set up some sort of Free Blue Star.
Yu Lian even felt that the government in exile had been slow to officially open for business.
Yani naturally had a convincing explanation for that. "Actually, when the Imperial Army entered New Atlantis, some wealthy Commonwealth folk had already bought a building in Nephi. They were probably making preparations."
"Now that building has officially become the provisional government headquarters of 'Free Blue Star.'"
So it really was called "Free Blue Star," huh?
"Only, they still haven't figured out who should lead Free Blue Star."
This wasn't just a case of shallow water and too many turtles. It was more like a bunch of country bumpkins had piled into a ditch too shallow to drown even a cat and were dancing and singing in it.
"The highest-ranking Commonwealth official currently in the Alliance is your foreign minister, Mr. Qiu Mosen..."
"Wait, didn't you say that guy defected?" Feifei interrupted.
"You can't