It took about two hours for High Astrologer Hemisha's words to be confirmed.
The footage had been captured by a scout ship that had approached the star system.
The imposing ship still looked like an Alliance Titan-class vessel, and had climbed beyond the planet's atmosphere. It was certainly avoiding the planet's defensive guns, but its movements still carried an air of leisurely ease.
To be fair, seeing an Alliance warship—even one wearing only a disguise—cruising above an inhabited Imperial planet was enough to make anyone's blood boil. Sobaek could tell that plenty of people's blood pressure had already shot up.
But when the footage zoomed in past the atmosphere and focused on the largest city on the planet's surface, the magnificent Imperial palace complex at its center naturally stood out. The palace grounds were the size of a small city. Their magnificent towers and halls were linked by exquisitely designed beams and pillars.
And the palace complex did not just contain magnificent buildings from the Galactic Empire. Palatial architecture from civilizations across the galaxy was arranged throughout the grounds, yet none of it looked out of place.
A hundred-meter-long jade-green city wall looked as if it had been carved entirely from jade. Elegant and imposing, it enclosed not only the palace complex but also vast lakes, forests, and mountains.
To be fair, in this age of the universe, a hundred-meter-high palace wall had no military value whatsoever. But to the palace's owner, it clearly divided the noble from the lowly, and the emotional satisfaction it offered was no doubt off the charts.
That was, of course, Golden Feather Palace: the royal palace of King Sleen, a colossal building that served as the perfect example of a monument built at the expense of the nation.
And that magnificent monument was now