After a hundred years, Xi Yan had finally reclaimed Blue Star, the Homeworld/Holy Terra/Super Earth.
The United Nations of Earth and the Empire signed the Peace Treaty, maintaining peace for ten years in accordance with the Rites of Zhou in Stellaris.
Under the Lease Treaty, all United Nations of Earth forces had to withdraw from the Solar System within six months.
Since Earth had always been the United Nations of Earth's Homeworld, ceding the Solar System meant it had to move its entire central government off Earth, along with large numbers of the privileged classes, to its newly established capital planet.
Those people hated Xi Yan to the bone, but he had never paid them any mind.
Within six months, the United Nations of Earth's presence had largely withdrawn from Earth, leaving behind only an enormous population and a long, rich historical heritage.
The local governments, however, remained intact, making it convenient for Xi Yan's forces to take over.
The Community Fleet Cluster returned home in triumph, while the few remaining Boarding Charge cruisers stayed to defend the Solar System, together with a contingent of Space Marines and a Cybrex Prototype Warform.
Here was a joke: all the fleets the United Nations of Earth currently possessed, put together, could not defeat a single Prototype Warform.
Compared with the various warships, a Prototype Warform was very small, with extremely high speed and evasion, allowing it to easily rush up to the United Nations of Earth's few remaining fleets and launch boarding actions.
Imagine a massive space robot boarding a ship.
Since the Empire had annexed the territories of the United Nations of Earth and Minamar Specialized Industries, it now also shared a border with the United Nations of Earth. The treaty therefore designated a transport corridor for the Empire to deliver