"Am'Ke, have you ever thought that this move of yours will make your colleagues look very... cowardly?"
After removing his hand from the hourglass, Soshyan made a slightly teasing voice.
"Even if you really take on this responsibility for them, they may not be grateful to you, and may even be hostile to you, because you represent an indelible shame on them, and you may be slapped with a hat that humiliates the country after the incident.
hat, you will never be able to stand up again, and you will be completely erased from history to eliminate their sense of shame."
Ammon'ke just replied calmly:
"Your Highness the Phoenix King, your thinking is very much like that of a Jiu La."
"Hmm? Can I take that as an insult?"
"I'm just stating the fact that we don't have so many dirty political considerations, nor do we have so many fights for power and intrigue among each other. We only follow the Greater Good."
"Then I'm even more curious. How do you ether control other clans to make them so...obedient to you? It's almost like a kind of mind control. Is it psychic? Or is it some kind of technology?"
"I don't know what psychic energy is, let alone what technology it is."
"Then how to explain it?"
"Selflessness, dedication, everything is only for the higher good."
"Can you guarantee that this is true for every ether?"
"I can."
Soshyan shook his head.
"If it is true, then it is definitely not normal. Any group of thinking individuals should not have such a high degree and purity of ideological consistency, unless you are a Gestalt biological group like Tyranids, but it is obvious
Not really...but your secrets are well hidden. We dissected the corpses of the etheric soldiers and found no psychic organs or pheromone organs."
But his words did not anger the ether.
"We have never considered using control methods to rule the people. We are guides and facilitators, but not rulers. Only those tyrants in Jura like to use poison gas, explosive collars and starvation to coerce themselves.
The people use superstition and nihilistic idols to hypnotize and anesthetize the people, but we will not."
Soshyan clapped his hands.
"You are bragging very confidently. So, N'ke, do you know what the consequences will be if you accept this responsibility?"
"Of course I know that if so many sacrifices and deaths can be resolved with just an apology and kneeling, then it would be too easy."
What Am'ke said was something that most of the ethers didn't understand, the subtext hidden in the first article of the armistice treaty - Soshyan only said to kneel down and apologize, but he didn't say that he could come back.
This means that Ke'shan must sacrifice a high-level ether and use his blood to appease his anger.
Soshyan laughed a few times, lowered his eyes and shook his head.
"Well, what a brave and heroic man."
"I am not a hero, nor a good man. I am an ether, an ether, and I have the obligation and responsibility to bear all this for the sake of the greater good."
Soshyan raised his hand and pointed at him.
"I said you are a hero, and you are a hero. What I like most in my life is a hero."
Then he waved his hand, and a spindle wasp that Am'ke had previously thought was a statue came over holding a scroll.
"Then we've settled on the first point."
Am'ke opened the scroll and noticed that it was made of a flexible material, with a series of terms written on it in both the Titan and Ada languages.
But this is somewhat different from the previous ones. For example, the number of star systems to be handed over to the Arrakhan has changed from one to three, which are marked by the Tau as Sha'Drag, Hou'Saan, and Delmara.
Of the three galaxies, Sand'Draag and Hou'Sain both once had Tau colonies. However, during the Tyranid invasion of 902.M41, both colonial galaxies suffered devastating blows. The original
The livable world has also become a dead world, and the colonies have been completely abandoned. However, the Tau still have some resource extraction stations and monitoring stations there, and they regularly send fleets to patrol. In a sense, it is indeed the Ke'shan family.
a part of.
The previous treaty only demanded the Delmara system, which had been ravaged by the Tyranids, but there was no Tau colony because it was far away from the home world and was surrounded by a dense asteroid belt.
It is not suitable for development, but if a military stronghold and naval base are established here, it will become a good space fortress area. The Ke'shan family already had a similar plan after the Tyrannic War, intending to turn the Delmara system into a fortress.
As the eastern barrier of Jiamen World, the investment is too huge, and Jiamen World has just experienced the Tyrannic War and is in dire straits, so the plan can only be continuously postponed and may not be officially implemented until M42. However, the Tau are still there
A series of monitoring stations and unmanned small airports have been established there to pave the way for future major projects.
Originally, the Eternal Court wanted to carve this place away, and the Ether Parliament could only reluctantly do so, but now it wants two more galaxies, and Am'ke's noses are tightly squeezed together.
He looked up at Soshyan and said seriously:
"Your Highness the Phoenix King, why did you suddenly change your mind?"
"It wasn't me who changed my mind temporarily, it was you. It was you who rejected my original conditions. Now that I've got it back, it's definitely not as good as it was at the beginning."
"What's the point of you wanting these places? The Arakans don't have that many people, and I believe you don't even bother to occupy those barren lands."
"You don't have to worry about the development of the Arrakans."
The smile in Soshiyang's words made N'ke helpless. He probably guessed that this mysterious and powerful race really wanted to support Arakan, a puppet who was extremely hostile to the Tau.
Am'ke's guess was correct. Soshyan wanted to support the Arakans near the Ke'shan family. This was not specifically aimed at the Ke'shan family. In fact, they were not worthy of doing so. On the one hand, Soshyan was
Build a barrier for the Kingdom of Lilarsus, because the star field nearby is indeed not peaceful. Greenskins and Tyranids often appear, and the Royal Court has limited troops and cannot send a large number of troops to garrison. Therefore, a powerful vassal race can effectively alleviate the problem.
The pressure of the Royal Court's national defense will prevent the Royal Court's troops from running around when encountering even the slightest trouble.
As for the population problem of Arakan, it is actually not a big problem in itself, because this race actually belongs to the type with high reproductive efficiency, but their breeding process is more cumbersome. Generally, a female with a normal life span (80-120 years old)
Arakans can have 3-4 breeding opportunities in their lifetime. After dating the male of their choice for a period of time, they will first undergo a gestation period of about a year, and then give birth to 6-20 eggs, which is more efficient than viviparous reproduction.