Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 950: Chapter 512, Prestige Strategy

Gu Hang personally took Alliance ships to the Menghe Star Domain.

His actions, of course, were detected by Tie Nu Shi.

Humphrey Paolo’s reaction was quite significant.

He personally summoned the Alliance Ambassador, a lady named Wu Yang.

As an Interstellar Warrior and the Battle Group Leader of Iron Armor, his stature was, of course, not something mortals could compare to.

Seated on the throne in the warship’s bridge, Wu Yang looked up at him as if she were beholding a deity.

It wasn’t baseless that many places referred to Interstellar Warriors as demigods.

“Gu Hang has personally led a fleet into Menghe, have you decided to become enemies with me?”

Paul’s voice was neither loud nor harsh; it was also not frivolous, just universally plain.

But even so, standing below, Alliance Ambassador Wu Yang, despite being mentally prepared, still felt very nervous under the immense pressure.

She had been in the Princess Star Domain for several months already.

In fact, when the Fury Flame Battle Group was driven out of the Dragonhawk Star Domain, the Alliance had already sent an ambassador to the Iron Armor Battle Group.

‘To uphold the representation of both sides as imperial regional powers and maintain exchanges.’

In reality, the Iron Armor Battle Group also had an envoy at Flying Wing Star. That previous handwritten letter from Humphrey Paolo was personally delivered to Gu Hang by the Iron Armor Ambassador.

And later, when the Iron Armor Battle Group officially raised the flag of rebellion, ambassadors from both sides actually did not withdraw.

Arguments with officials from the other side, and being used as a venting tool, squabbling over who is the empire’s traitor… such were their official duties.

Of course, if it were merely for this, it definitely wouldn’t be worth sending ambassadors to each other. For Iron Armor, it didn’t matter, but for the Alliance, it was politically risky.

If it were completely useless, the Alliance definitely wouldn’t do so.

Essentially, the mutual sending of ambassadors indeed played the role of conveying messages and confirming each other’s positions and attitudes.

And Wu Yang, as a fairly experienced diplomat within the Alliance Foreign Affairs Department, was assigned this important and especially hazardous mission.

Should the sides turn against each other, who knows if they might kill the ambassadors in anger?

But even so, Wu Yang still had to maintain a sufficiently firm stance.

She said, “The Alliance is a member of the Empire, and it cannot tolerate traitors to the Empire, nor will it fail to act. What’s happening now is merely the beginning of our actions.”

The attitude had to be made clear.

But the main point still had to be addressed:

“In the future, the Alliance will certainly enter the Spiderweb Domain to execute the Empire’s commands, but not now. For now, and for a long time to come, the Alliance’s focus will remain within the Eastern Cosmos Domain, staying in the Menghe Star Domain.”

At this point, Wu Yang added, “This is at the Empire’s request.”

The subtext was also very clear: the Alliance did not wish to wage a major war at the moment.

Entering the Menghe Star Domain was partly to push the Alliance’s front line forward to avoid being immediately invaded in their core area when the war starts, and partly to fulfill the Empire’s commands.

This is to avoid a misjudgment by the Iron Armor Battle Group, thinking that the Alliance intends to attack them and therefore undertake some rash action.

Of course, if the Iron Armor does decide to react this way, there’s nothing the Alliance can do; they might as well have it out in the Menghe Star Domain.

The Alliance is indeed not prepared for war and does not wish to engage.

But…

Is the Iron Armor prepared for this?

Humphrey Paolo already got the answer he wanted.

He lost interest in conversing further with Wu Yang, an ‘ambassador’ like her, and waved her away dismissively.

After Wu Yang left, Humphrey sat alone on his throne, silent and wordless.

It was only after a long while that he heaved a deep sigh.

…

Gu Hang also sighed.

His sigh had little to do with the Iron Armor Battle Group.

Wu Yang had informed him about the details of her meeting with Humphrey, including the subsequent verbal sparring with officers from the Iron Armor, and their ongoing threats to move south, to destroy the Alliance, just as Iron Armor had obliterated numerous world powers of empires.

However, in reality, Gu Hang didn’t believe that the Iron Armor would move south.

It’s not guaranteed, but it’s highly likely.

Gu Hang roughly calculated the strength of the Iron Armor Battle Group; if they wanted to maintain their current unbeaten prowess, they would not be capable of opening a third front.

Especially considering that the Alliance is a tough nut to crack.

And if their recent year’s myth of being unbeatable were to be shattered, that would be a very, very bad situation. If those many worlds no longer see the Iron Armor Battle Group as invincible, and begin to resist more, it could spell big trouble for the Iron Armor.

That would significantly increase their conquest costs, and not so many worlds would choose to surrender without resistance.

So, really, is Iron Armor’s base so much stronger than the Alliance’s? The basis of the Alliance is the Dragonhawk Star Domain, and doesn’t Iron Armor just control the Princess Star Domain? The only difference is that they have controlled their entire star domain for a bit longer than the Alliance has controlled the Dragonhawk Star Domain.

To swallow an entire Cosmos Domain and to turn the war into a tide, one cannot conquer one world at a time—who can withstand that?

How did Solakium’s Solar Expedition conquer tens of thousands of worlds? It certainly wasn’t by fighting one world at a time. The Sun Lord also made a name for himself in a key battle, then influenced dozens to hundreds of surrounding worlds to surrender directly.

And as this reputation grows stronger with each successful battle, campaigns become smoother. Often, the mere arrival of a fleet prompts immediate surrender; sometimes, it only takes a single envoy to prompt the surrender of ten worlds in an entire star sector.

This is the main method employed in conquering three worlds in two days and tens of thousands over decades of expeditions.

Reputation.

If you truly possess unbeatable strength, then nothing more needs to be said; you don’t need to rack your brains.

But usually, that’s not the case. Even during the early stages of the Solar Expedition when Sun Lord Solakium hadn’t fully established his reputation or garnered the complete support of the Empire through that reputation, he still needed to wage war sufficiently ‘smartly,’ achieving enough victories to pave the way for future developments.

And now, Gu Hang could see that Iron Armor was attempting to replicate this approach.

Of course, they are still in the early stage, still building their reputation, and so far, they are beginning to see initial success, but there are still several key hurdles to overcome.

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