The Arrival of Fresh Players, and Bai Fu's Exploitation Begins! [5k]
Bai Fu invited Dmitry inside to talk.
As soon as they entered, Dmitry got straight to the point and expressed his desire to cooperate.
"The Empire is very interested in your abilities and hopes to establish a closer partnership with you. Rest assured, the Empire never treats its partners unfairly."
Bai Fu believed him.
Half of the Empire's many elite forces hadn't been raised by the Empire itself. They'd joined for all sorts of reasons.
The Empire had always been extremely generous to those who joined its ranks, and there had never been any reports of it taking something from one of its partners.
Take Chong Xiao, for instance.
Chong Xiao was the pontiff of the Mechanical Firepower faith. He possessed a cosmic treasure known as the Living Machine Spirit, a mechanical holy relic. It could greatly enhance a fleet's combat power and even provided a substantial boost to the Empire's Radiance Mainframe.
But after Chong Xiao made it clear that he wouldn't offer up the Living Machine Spirit, the Empire still didn't try to seize it. Instead, it offered him even greater benefits in exchange for borrowing the relic when necessary.
It was because of precedents like this that Bai Fu dared to cooperate with the Empire without reservation.
However, the Empire wasn't so generous because all its leaders were open-minded. It was simply because it had two powerful rivals outside its borders: the Supernova Battle Group and Titan Industries.
If the Empire dared to play dirty with one of its partners today, those two rivals would be out poaching them by tonight.
Dmitry took a sip of water and continued, "The Empire will do everything it can to support you, providing all the resources you need so