In this universe, the Galactic Empire was the ancestor of Russian-style rescues. "We absolutely never negotiate with enemies holding hostages" had always been their creed. Whenever hostages were taken, killing both the hostages and the enemy was practically standard procedure.
The 100,000 civilians from Farhome, a planet in the Lion's Den system, who had died beneath the artillery fire of the Imperial Army's "rescue" operation just over three weeks ago, certainly would have had plenty to say about that.
The problem was that all this was premised on actually going to "rescue" someone. Now, every one of the marauder dreadnought's occupants was supposedly an "ally." A large group of innocent civilians was not in danger, let alone covered by the Imperial-style rescue principle of "never negotiating with enemies holding hostages."
Before long, Yu Lian even broadcast the living conditions and identities of every refugee aboard the ship across a wide area. That confirmed who they were.
They were indeed more than four hundred refugees who had just escaped the marauders in the Silverheart. They had previously been placed in a refugee camp on Farhome. Who would have thought that before the temporary resettlement and border quarantine periods had even ended, they would once again fall into the marauders' hands? They were the only survivors left from that original batch of refugees.
Even the cold-blooded soldiers of the Imperial Army could not help shedding a sympathetic tear for these tragic people.
Precisely because of this, the Imperial soldiers naturally became even more afraid to act rashly. Of course, they also dared not simply let the marauder warship leave their sight, so they could only escort it the entire way.
"This is practically the same spectacle as the Emperor traveling. You know what they mean by 'a true man should be like