For all the ordinary citizens living in the core, or rather, in the Rixi Reconquest Empire, far too much had happened recently. Many still had no idea what was going on.
At first, they had lived lives of endless pleasure under the old emperor as members of the Precursor social class, with every resource produced automatically by lost technology.
Then, just like that, the old emperor was gone. The young emperor who took the throne was clearly a ruler of grand vision and ambition. He swiftly consolidated power and took control of the military, then launched sweeping reforms.
Their Precursor status vanished, replaced by worker and specialist jobs just like those in ordinary empires. The military forced them into those positions, and many had no choice but to abandon their pleasures and pick up skills they had neglected for countless years.
Later, the empire suddenly went to war with the powerful neighboring Human Empire. No one had expected it to perform so abysmally. In a single encounter, all the ancient warships preserved from the previous age were annihilated.
Immediately afterward, the Human Empire's fleets sailed in without a care. Ferocious Space Marines landed in the core and went straight for their sacred Imperial Palace. In the end, the ancient empire bowed to the oppressive might of the rising power.
Then things became even more surreal. The citizens had thought they would share the fate of the countless nations they had destroyed ages ago, but Xi Yan spared them and even offered them very generous terms.
And he shared a common goal with them: to bring the Phethisia Primordial Empire to its knees.
At the mention of the Rixi Species' sworn enemy, Phethisia in the far north of the Milky Way, every Rixi was fired up, barely able to contain their