[Call Me Queen—Wu Zhou: Lu Wang, what brings you to me?]
[Lu Wang—West River: I wanted to ask you a few basic questions, Your Majesty, if you have a moment.]
[Call Me Queen—Wu Zhou: Go ahead. I always have time for a handsome young man.]
[Lu Wang—West River: Suppose an established domain knows which star sector a newly founded domain is in and starts scanning regardless of cost... Roughly how long would it take to find the new domain's coordinates?]
[Call Me Queen—Wu Zhou: That depends on the distance between the two domains and the established domain's lord.]
[Lu Wang—West River: They shouldn't be too far apart. Maybe twenty or thirty million kilometers. As for the established domain... Let's use Taizong of the Great Tang Domain as a reference.]
[Call Me Queen—Wu Zhou: A little over twenty million kilometers really isn't far. They're probably in the same star sector. The Great Tang Domain? You mean Li Weichen, that second-generation lord who spends all day dreaming of being an emperor? At his level, scanning for Territory Coordinates twenty million kilometers away would take at least two relay stations... More than two months, I'd say.]
[Lu Wang—West River: So Taizong's real name is Li Weichen. What if he gets lucky?]
[Call Me Queen—Wu Zhou: That's the lucky estimate. If he can't find suitable celestial bodies for relay stations, it'll take even longer.]
[Lu Wang—West River: I see. Thank you for explaining, Your Majesty.]
[Call Me Queen—Wu Zhou: You're welcome. Lu Wang, from the sound of it, is an established domain threatening you with war? Is it Li Weichen?]
[Lu Wang—West River: Yes.]
[Call Me Queen—Wu Zhou: Hehe. Why not come under my protection? All I'd ask as a protection fee is mining rights to thirty percent of your domain's mineral veins... Pretty