After Bona returned from Macragge, he threw himself into building the Thunderhawk Empire with boundless enthusiasm.
Ultramar's prosperity only strengthened Bona's conviction that his path was the right one.
After all, the Eye of Terror lay between the Ultima Segmentum and Terra, leaving it a remote region. Yet even so, Ultramar had become a realm of thriving worlds.
This showed that if Imperial Citizens' quality of life could be significantly improved, rooting out rebellion and heretical cults would become very simple.
But if Imperial Citizens already lived in hell, they probably could not care less whether they worshipped the Emperor of Mankind or the Chaos Gods.
Bona, however, would not follow his father's example and concentrate the power of a vast empire in the hands of a few high officials and a multitude of nobles.
Perhaps the High Lords of Terra worked hard. Perhaps they truly worked themselves to death at their desks for the Imperium. But their crimes might well rival those of Chaos Warmaster Abaddon.
The inefficiency of the High Lords of Terra left the Imperium with next to no control over individual planets. They only wanted to collect the Imperial Tithe and did not care in the slightest what the planetary governors did on their worlds.
This left the living standards of the vast population of Imperial Citizens entirely dependent on their planetary governors' moral character, while those governors' moral character was in turn determined by the even less efficient "Department of Internal Affairs."
If the Department of Internal Affairs accidentally misplaced a single decimal point, an entire planet's Imperial Citizens could starve to death.
The Council of Terra's inefficiency had already proven his father's failure, so Bona devolved imperial authority to a multitude of mortals.
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