Chapter 560: Chapter 329, Heijian Star Joins the Alliance_2
In a sense, the Fatches Family could be considered to have ‘brought in capital to join the group’; they were originally the masters of the Three Worlds of Fatches and were willing to pledge full allegiance, bringing help with them, so the Empire recognized and legalized their rule.
This is what is called the ‘historical factor’.
In short, there are all sorts of entirely different situations within the Empire that all require special handling, so there are corresponding loopholes left in place.
However, such a situation is relatively rare; normally, the Empire would not approve the establishment of a cross-stellar cooperation organization.
At least, there was no chance for Gu Hang to obtain this on his own.
Mainly because he had no ‘friends’ at the higher levels of government in the Central Empire, even if he wanted to engage in some sort of beneficial exchange, he simply had no access.
Additionally, the situation on Rage Owl Star… to put it bluntly, didn’t meet the requirements for establishing a legal interstellar organization at all.
Why would they legalize your alliance? So it would be easier for you to expand and rule other planets within the Empire?
What are you trying to do?
Moreover, not to mention striving for it, Gu Hang didn’t even know such a rule existed within the Empire beforehand.
But obviously, the current situation was not normal, and Galaraldo was not a normal person.
Even when the ‘alliance’ did not meet relevant policies at all, he managed to get it done.
A document bearing the seal of the Prime Minister of the Central Government of the Empire, reviewed by the Eastern Cosmos Administrative Court, arrived in Gu Hang’s hands one and a half months after Galaraldo had left.
He did not doubt the authenticity of the document, because along with this seal also came the inquiries of the current head of the Tianma Star Sector.
The newly appointed leader of the Tianma Star Sector, based far away on Flying Wing Star, Ivan Martinelli, sent his envoy to ask Gu Hang what was going on and why he hadn’t heard about it in advance?
Gu Hang thought for a moment, repackaged the Gu Family’s internal conflict that had occurred on Heijian Star, along with Heijian Star’s long-standing special trade relationship with the Gu Family, and informed the leader, clearly stating that Heijian Star itself was a form of ‘compensation’ for the Gu Family.
They internally agreed to be a compensation to the Gu Clan.
This legalization of the ‘alliance’ organization was a legal confirmation of this compensation.
The alliance would be limited to Heijian Star and Rage Owl Star only, with no expansion – he lacked the power for that.
At the end of the conversation, Gu Hang also stressed that this was a gift from the War Apostle and had already been officially recognized by the Empire Government.
By saying this, he wanted to tell Martinelli not to worry too much; it was just contact between two small worlds with very few populations, completely different from the structure of the Fatches Family; moreover, don’t get any bad ideas, if you want to cause trouble, consider whether you can afford to provoke the War Apostle.
As expected, everything settled down afterward; Martinelli did not come with further questions, tacitly accepting everything that had happened.
Galaraldo really hadn’t been boasting before.
Indeed, he was not like most of the War Apostles under Suo He Kaim’s command; he wasn’t a general, a commander, or a lord. But the reason he was among the 46 Apostles, receiving the Divine Power that bonded him with the Sun Lord, was naturally because of his own capabilities and his distinctiveness.
If, before this, Gu Hang really did doubt whether Galaraldo, even if he managed to get away from the Tianma Star Sector, with all the foul deeds he had done in the past, the many enemies he had made, and the loss of his biggest backing, could make a comeback?
Now, it seemed there might indeed be a chance.
At least, Gu Hang had already seen the first signs of reward.
The legalization of the alliance, this gift came at just the right time.
With it, Gu Hang’s rule over Heijian Star would become legitimate and justified.
Before this, he relied entirely on brute force and control over the Planetary Governor Nes Luman’s mind through a massive brain surgery operation in order to extract benefits from Heijian Star.
But from now on, as the ‘leader of the alliance,’ Gu Hang would have a set of solid organizational structures, allowing him legal and Empire-recognized actual ruling power over the planets that joined.
In the future, if Gu Hang wished, he could rid himself of the trouble that was Nes Luman and also take control of this world.
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He could now rightfully establish a United Government and the United Forces without worrying about anyone criticizing him for it.
Things had become much easier to handle.
This legitimacy couldn’t be bought with one million eight hundred thousand Tax Currency.
Gu Hang knew he had made a huge profit.
He couldn’t help but anticipate:
“What more surprises will you bring me in the future? I’m looking forward to it!”
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Communication within the Empire was still too primitive.
Although it was possible to achieve interstellar communication by using the Star Language Towers and Spiritual Energy practitioners, in reality, ordinary Star Language Towers could only facilitate communication within a Star Sector; for communication at a Star Domain level or even higher, larger-scale Star Language Towers were necessary, along with the establishment of information relay stations.
The Tianma Star Sector didn’t have the means to communicate directly with Holy Terra. The largest Star Language Tower was on Flying Wing Star, and it could at most reach the capital of the Eastern Cosmos Domain—Ziwei Star.
But that was enough.
Many things didn’t need to be escalated to the level of the Central Government of the Empire. The Space Domain Government was more than capable of solving most of Gu Hang’s problems.
Gu Hang very formally sent out, via the conventional governmental information channels, the hand-written application for joining the alliance from Nes Luman, the Planetary Governor of Heijian Star, in duplicate along with a copy of his own ‘alliance’ legitimacy document.
Actually, there were also two originals of this set of documents, one at the Central Empire and one in his possession. In between, from the Cosmos Domain to the Star Domain to the Star Sector, each level of government had a copy to verify.
Approval for the alliance’s new member required just reaching the level of the Space Domain Government.
After receiving the application documents and giving their approval, they would send both originals back to Gu Hang and to Holy Terra for record-keeping, then make three copies, keeping one for themselves and sending one each to the Star Domain and the Star Sector.
With that, the whole official process would be completed.
As for whether the Space Domain Government would approve Heijian Star joining the alliance…
Gu Hang wasn’t worried about that.
The possibility of disapproval was very low.
On the one hand, for the Space Domain Government, the Tianma Star Sector was too far away, and the addition of Rage Owl Star and Heijian Star—with a combined population of less than five hundred million—was too insignificant. If they wanted to form a small economic and military alliance, why would the government care? With the official documents already in place, why bother to intervene without reason?
Furthermore, the ‘alliance’ system had a key difference from that of the Fatches Family.
The Fatches were definitely restricted in scale, legally allowed only those Three Worlds.
But Gu Hang had scrutinized the documents he had, and, regarding scale, Galaraldo had been very ‘careless’ to omit mentioning it; as for the conditions of joining, Galaraldo had thoughtfully set very simple criteria of ‘having economic or military cooperation needs’, which allowed them to join under the guise of ‘united to safeguard the territories of the Empire’.
No hard conditions!
As long as the local governors made an application with sufficiently robust and complicated reasons, and the Space Domain Government was unaware of the specific local circumstances, as long as the documents were well-prepared, the chances of approval were high.
If rejected, just revise the materials and reapply. Isn’t this what a cumbersome bureaucratic system is for?
In fact, Gu Hang didn’t even encounter such a trivial issue.
About two months later, Gu Hang had already received a response and obtained the new documents.
The alliance now had its second member world—Heijian Star.
Thus, the last political obstacle Gu Hang faced on Heijian Star had been eliminated.
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