Chapter 232 Vendee 6, Nothing Happened

"So, there is no news from the entire planet?"

"Yes, this week we have been monitoring the vicinity of Vendee VI, and all the communication relay satellites and penetrating communication towers have not found any abnormal information."

On the bridge of the Hermes, Randall sat in the captain's seat and said to Amber on the main screen.

There is a pair of collar badges on the collar of his cabin suit.

According to the diagram on the internal rank management regulations of the Atlas Group, this is a pair of collar badges for the rank of colonel.

Since the Atlas Private Military Company re-enables the rank system, it has also quickly produced a batch of shoulder badges and collar badges.

And at Randall's strong request, he was also promoted from the rank of "Major" during his service in the Federal Navy to the rank of "Colonel".

But the price is that he was not happy for long after receiving the shoulder badges and collar badges, and was issued an urgent task by Amber.

Commanding the Hermes, which had completed the "Secret Action Enhanced Transformation", he sneaked into the Vendee Galaxy as an "observation post".

This is also the last mission of this special mission ship transformed from a dragoon-class destroyer, which is named "Hermes".

After completing this mission, the name of the ship "Hermes" will be transferred to a light cruiser that serves as the flagship of the fleet.

As for why the ship name has to be transferred after the mission is over.

The main reason is that Hermes is not only the god in charge of commerce in ancient Greek mythology, but also the god of thieves.

And the "petty theft" work of the observation post naturally requires the protection of the god of thieves.

Originally, Amber was going to directly rename this destroyer to "Shi Qian" or "Bai Yu Tang", but he was worried that these Eastern thieves would not protect these "Westerners", so he had to give up.

At this moment, Amber, who sneaked into the empire on another destroyer and entered the quantum entanglement communication range, slowly relaxed his frown after listening to Randall's report.

"No news, but it means something is wrong."

"Because everything seems too normal?"

"Hmm, so normal that it even feels fake."

Amber clicked on the report that Randall had sent over earlier and shared it on the screen.

"The Imperial Princess arrived at Vendée VI on July 11 and delivered a global speech.

Then the news on July 12 said that she gave a public speech in the capital of the planet, but these news were all text news, and even if there were pictures, they were all old pictures that were "unrelated to the text and the pictures."

After that, no valuable news came out.

A dignified Imperial Princess visited a colonized planet in the border area, and there was only relevant news two days ago.

The days that followed were all ordinary daily news, and even social media did not have any content about "Her Royal Highness's visit", which was unusual.

What's more, a fleet under the command of the Duke of Artesia arrived yesterday and directly blocked the planet."

Amber compared the timeline given in the report and made her own analysis step by step.

Sometimes, intelligence is not something that must be taken from other people's pockets.

The 'open source intelligence' obtained from public places accounts for more than 70% of the effective intelligence.

Of course, Lilith is an exception.

"You mean that the calmness of the past few days is actually an act of covering up one's own mistakes."

Randall listened to Amber's description and gradually began to come to his senses.

Although he is not a professional intelligence officer, it does not mean that he will not use his brain to think about problems.

"Yes, you also know why I asked you to go to the Vendee galaxy as an 'observation post'.

The reason is that the intelligence I obtained from other channels said that there were split and independent voices in the Vendee galaxy.

And when this imperial princess came to visit, other forces would attack her"

"But now, there is no news at all, so it is very abnormal."

"Correct answer~"

Amber gave Randall a thumbs up and switched to another page of the report.

"Look here, according to the information you obtained from close observation, the reinforcement fleet has sent a large number of transport ships to carry out delivery operations in the planetary orbit.

As far as I know, Duke Artesia has a "scavenger" force under his command, which is responsible for suppressing planetary riots."

"Good fellow, do you mean that there is a big mess on this planet?"

"Based on the existing intelligence, it is almost certain."

Amber did not act very sure, although he actually knew the cause and effect of the whole incident, including what happened after the "laser harvest".

In the Rose Square in Urban, the capital of the planet, before the high-energy laser bloodbathed the "mob".

In fact, the jammer in the accompanying guards, under Natalia's order, carried out wide-area interference, shielding the electromagnetic signals of nearly half of the city.

Natalia Bonaparte joined the Guards not for the first time, so she naturally knew what needed to be done before "doing big things".

Agnes also sent a distress signal to Duke Artesia and the accompanying fleet in the planetary orbit at the first time.

Then, she walked to the front desk to command the anti-aircraft laser to "clean" the square.

The fleet accompanying her on this visit consisted of a total of 24 warships of various types.

From the beginning, they were cruising in the planet's orbit in the posture of "interfering with the planet".

Four of the orbital attack ships, after receiving signals from the ground, immediately dropped all the orbital paratroopers they carried as quickly as possible.

The delivery area is several planetary communication base stations on Vendée 6 that can communicate with the outside world.

While the orbiting paratroopers quickly took control of the base station and shut down the transmitter, Vendée 6 temporarily lost contact with the outside world.

The remaining battleships also spread almost all communication jamming terminals in the orbit of the planet.

The highly centralized dictatorship has shown rare 'advantages' at this moment.

The garrison fleet of the Vendée galaxy absolutely did not dare to stop the princess and the imperial army from doing anything.

So after receiving the order from Agnes as the 'quasi-heir', they stayed at the mooring place honestly from beginning to end.

After completing the temporary information blockade, Agnes also obtained their identity information based on the appearance of the 'agitators' and 'separatists' previously photographed by drones and snipers.

Although it was no surprise that they were all fake identities, at least a hiding place near Urban was discovered.

Under the surprise attack by the Imperial Guards, the 'remnants' who were trapped in their hiding place were sent into the sky by multiple individual missiles before they even had time to destroy some important information.

Some information left at the scene points directly to Simon and Alvin, who were already suspected by Agnes, as the people behind the conspiracy.

After arresting the two men, the Princess Guards and Orbital Paratroopers led the planetary defense forces to attack everywhere.

A series of "dictatorship iron fists" such as curfew, public opinion control, reporting, and serial sittings were hammered hard on Vendée Six.

Next, under the temptation of high bounties, the agitators and separatists who were hiding were uncovered one by one.

After all, for ordinary civilians, the so-called 'ideal', 'freedom', and 'anti-imperialist and anti-feudal' are just slogans after all.

Only the Imperial Golden Dragon that falls into their pockets is something that can truly improve their lives.

And Agnes obviously also knows the principle of ‘slap and give a sweet date’.

When the 'scavenger' force under Duke Artesia appeared, as well as a group of temporarily organized 'secret police' forces, the planet fell into a tense situation where 'everyone is in danger'.

A series of policies to improve people's livelihood, reduce taxes, and increase residents' income were quickly implemented after being announced.

Not every resident of Vendée VI wants to be independent from the bottom of his heart.

Most of them were actually persuaded by others and believed that they could live a better life after independence, so they followed others to denounce the empire.

But now, with the promulgation of new policies and actual tax reductions, their lives are much better than before.

Since you have already obtained the ‘thing’ you want to strive for, why do you still want to participate in activities that are life-threatening?

For most people, the two options of "risking your life in order to pay 100 yuan less in tax every year" and "doing nothing now and paying 45 yuan less in tax every year" are not necessary at all for most people.

Even if the second option appeared, it was because a group of people were scanned in half under high-energy lasers.

But unfortunately, for other civilians on this planet, they have become ‘vested interests’ at this moment.

People are selfish animals. In this case, no one would be stupid enough to stand up and fight for the injustice of the "mob" in the square.

They will only try their best to keep the "concessions" they currently receive from the ruling class.

What's more, even in the Federation, which claims to be 'democracy and freedom', the Internet has no memory.

Not to mention the ‘feudal and authoritarian’ country like the Star Dragon Empire.

When the Rose Square was "cleaned" again with the assistance of the "Scavenger" troops.

A huge execution platform with a gallows was erected.

Watching the former galaxy governor and planetary administrator, as well as a group of captured 'agitators', 'separatists', and 'awakened progressives', being pushed to the gallows in the morning light.

Whether they were watching the execution live in the Rose Square or watching the execution process simultaneously on TV and the Internet, they all booed at these criminals who were convicted of "treason."

"Don't ruin our lives!"

“Long live the new policy!”

"Long live the Empire!"

Immediately afterwards, amidst the cheers of the people who were led by the 'professionals' hidden in the crowd, Agnes, who was not wearing a formal dress but was rarely seen wearing a military uniform, also walked to the front of the execution platform.

Looking at the excited crowd, she exuded her own 'dragon power', and at the same time, with the help of a loudspeaker, her voice resounded throughout the Rose Square.

"Today, we will execute a group of sinners who undermine the stability and prosperity of this planet!"

"Today, we will tell those villains who are hiding in the shadows and trying to split the empire. Under the glory of the empire, these villains have no place to hide!"

"What awaits them is death!"

"The imperial royal family will always stand with its people and spare no effort to fight against these enemies who attempt to destroy the people's good life!"

"Rejoice, children of the Empire, for you will see it all with your own eyes!"

The atmosphere in Rose Square has reached its climax at this moment.

When the shouts of "Hang! Hang!" became the "main theme" of the square.

Agnes, bathed in this strong "public opinion", gently raised her right hand.

"Execution!"