The aliens who had only just become citizens of the Sea of Stars Empire were rather bewildered. They simply could not understand what madness had possessed their esteemed Sea of Stars Emperor.
To ordinary aliens, Xi Yan was a complicated figure. On the one hand, everyone acknowledged him as the greatest ruler in history, a great leader who had turned a small nation into a superpower within a hundred years.
Yet he was also a tyrannical dictator who came down hard on aliens.
And now, their leaders had surrendered almost unanimously, even betraying their homelands to become constituent states under the Sea of Stars Empire.
Moreover, the Sea of Stars Empire had immediately announced that it was stripping them of some of their human rights, then rolled out a slew of utterly baffling, deranged policies.
Most people personally supported the Ascension Plan, yet still considered it something far removed from their own lives.
My name is Li Hua, and I am a citizen of the United Nations of Earth.
Both my parents were aliens, but their interbreeding produced me, a human-looking creature. Genetic testing showed that most of my alien genes were recessive.
Ever since I was born, my homeland, the United Nations of Earth, had done nothing but surrender. These days, I did not dare show my IP address on the interstellar internet. Useless UNE.
I grew up on Earth. After Earth was ceded to the Orthodox Human Empire, I was forced to leave and move to Alpha Centauri, where I became an ordinary office worker.
I heard about ascension on the news. It all sounded perfectly right, but what did it have to do with an ordinary person like me?
Then the Sea of Stars Empire was founded, the useless UNE surrendered yet again, and I became