Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1414: Chapter 805: Crickets in a Golden Cage

Magrey Cosmic Domain, Miting Star Domain, Miting Star.

The golden dome refracted the light of the artificial sun, immersing the entire council hall in a honey-colored hue. Kane Alkafon, the Cosmic Domain Chair of the Magrey Cosmic Domain, reclined on the throne inlaid with teardrop-shaped rubies, the pearl curtains making delicate sounds with his nervous tremors.

Beneath him, many ministers knelt on the black jade tiles inlaid with star maps, their necks adorned with electronic shackles engraved with family crests—this was a new policy from three months ago, which Alcafon claimed was necessary to ensure “the focus of the court meetings.”

He had no choice but to do so.

Thirty years had passed since the outbreak of the great catastrophe. And fifteen years ago, Alcafon was not like this. Back then, he was considered progressive and ambitious.

The Magrey Cosmic Domain is somewhat special.

Due to some historical legacy issues, the Cosmic Domain Chair of this domain has long been held by an imperial family.

Millennia ago, during the era of The Emperor’s great expedition, the Alkafon family was the ruling family of a human pocket empire named ’Magrey’ centered on the Miting Star. When The Emperor arrived, they quickly surrendered the entire pocket empire.

Furthermore, their realm was unique. During that prolonged dark age, the realm of Magrey astonishingly had no abnormalities.

In their realm, there was neither the nauseating alien technology nor the unsettling subspace power. A purely human realm, where the living standards of the people were quite good, it was an enlightened monarchy…

Their complete surrender not only brought the Empire hundreds of complete, pure worlds but they also actively responded to the Empire’s call, providing resources, organizing legions, and sending troops to war, playing a significant role in the Empire’s recovery of the entire domain over a hundred-year-long great expedition.

Thus, the domain was named after this nation, Magrey, and was perpetually granted to the Alkafon family. The Cosmic Domain Chair was held in perpetuity by the Alkafon Dynasty, known as the ’Magrey Royal Family.’

The Alkafon family once had a glorious history, not only achieving great feats for the Empire during the great expedition but also producing wise kings afterwards. There were even multiple instances of the Magrey kings traveling to Holy Terra to serve as High Lords as the chair of the Cosmic Domain.

However, the Empire is a grand melting pot.

Having been part of the Empire for millennia, what the Magrey kingdom once was might only be glimpsed through documents, records, and history. Today, the Magrey Starfield is no different from an ordinary Empire domain. The Magrey Royal Family, in their prolonged, worry-free life of power, has ’fallen.’

After all, one cannot truly produce wise kings generation after generation, can one?

The so-called ’eternal lineage’ of the Alkafon Royal Family, after such long years, could not truly attain the extent of ’eternal.’ In the past thousand years, the Alkafon family repeatedly lost the position of the Magrey Cosmic Domain Chair. In fact, for eight hundred of the last thousand years, their family did not hold power.

Even when not directly holding the position of the Cosmic Domain Chair, they remained one of the most important political families within the Magrey Cosmic Domain.

Kane Alkafon’s great-grandfather ascended to power during the last Iron Armor War, taking advantage of the chaos when the Magrey Cosmic Domain was invaded by the Iron Armor forces. Once the war ended, the Alkafon family again found itself besieged politically, appearing to be in a perilous state.

Kane Alkafon is a young ruler. At the age of fifty-four, he took over the unstable Magrey Throne from his great-grandfather.

To emerge from countless descendants of the Alkafon Royal Family, he was fortunate; to once again stabilize the already unstable Alkafon sovereignty proved that he was also capable.

However, in his tenth year in power, the great catastrophe erupted. From this perspective, he was unfortunately unlucky.

More unfortunate—or perhaps fortunate—was that in the first year of the catastrophe, during the most chaotic time, he received the “Declaration to Fellow Disaster Survivors” from the High Lord, from the Alliance Leader Gu Hang.

It seemed to be an opportunity.

Just like his ancestor millennia ago, when faced with the imminent arrival of The Emperor, made an exceptionally correct choice, at least ensuring the family’s millennia of prosperity.

Now, the same choice lay before him.

And without hesitation, he—

chose to vehemently curse Gu Hang.

In the entire Magrey Cosmic Domain, he was the most outspoken critic of Gu Hang.

Labeling him as a usurper, an Empire traitor, a betrayal of trust, an accomplice of Chaos…

He hurled every accusation imaginable at Gu Hang.

From the bottom of his heart, he did not accept the Alliance. Even before the catastrophic outbreak, he was a staunch anti-Alliance faction member, viewing it as a faction of warlords claiming separatism at the borders, thus receiving much policy support from the Central Empire.

He was jealous of that Gu Hang, who are you to think you can stand above me?

You think you’re fit to be a High Lord?

Fit to be a savior?

In short, he simply did not acknowledge him.

And from a practical interest standpoint, accepting the Regulatory Committee, even if it guaranteed a certain level of power in this new system, how could that compare to sovereignty?

As for comparing this opportunity to that of his ancestors millennia ago… Don’t be ridiculous, could Gu Hang really compare to The Emperor, capable of establishing a new Empire and ensuring his family millennia more of prosperity?