In his private office, Dion and Fairy have gone back from the training room while still in their training attire. They found no discomfort nor bugs from performing their bodies so they went back to his office to begin the reports on Dion’s territory.
The two just deleted the sweat and dust codes in their body and changed back to their previous outfit.
His private room with an aquarium, an outside view of nature, two falchions forming an X in the wall behind the duke's table, ebooks stored in an eshelves, and a marble desk; a room fitting for an interstellar duke.
Dion sat down in his chair and activated the office systems to review his planetary system for immediate action. He hated this type of boring work but he understood one must set up a foundation to work on what he truly wants and begin indulging in his amusement activities.
Fairy summarizes the agendas to make it less tedious for Dion, as it should be.
He bit into the chocolate that he generated while he reviewed the different things listed for his attention. There are corrupt nobles, an old space fleet, compromised internal security, a lack of industry, only one colony, and a lack of population.
The agendas are straight to the point and Dion immediately understood what they meant. But as if they are still in the physical world, Dion asked “Read me the details of agendas, Fairy. Oh! And use visuals for easier understanding.” he looked at Fairy appealing with his looks at his secretary maid.
Unbeknownst to anyone if his appeal captivated her, but Fairy used her console commands to change the visual scenery of the room. This made Dion jump but as he exclaimed “Wow…”, Fairy made it much more fun to listen to.
Dion stood up from his chair and followed Fairy to the front of a man that materialized in the room. He passed by the visual model of the man causing it to distort; he understood that this is just a 3D hologram of sorts.
With the man wearing a crown that is sitting on a throne in a throne room, Fairy started her report “This man is not that important but he is the Star Empire’s Emperor.”
Knowing her master, Fairy didn’t name the man as she explained what this is about.
Since many of the dukes are just promoted to fill up the needed vassals to rule the many recently conquered planets, the Ades family is one of the many families that were promoted as upstart dukes who has little to no courtiers on their own, which made them incapable to rule a whole planet efficiently.
The solution of the Imperial Family thought of is to promote most of the aristocrats to fill the need for courtiers of the upstart dukes.
Fairy continued as the scenery of the room changed to spaceships cruising on space “This filled all the needed courtiers and they flew to space to their respective systems.” Dion is just playing with the images of the ships but Fairy is certain that he is listening.
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The scene changes to a planetary system of four planets, an asteroid belt, nebula gasses, and a yellow star; the system of Ades.
Fairy continued “Because of the extreme ranges of systems away from the Star Empire capital system, the Dukes have the power to do and decide whatever they want to their systems as long as they provide the Imperial Family taxes and spaceships in times of war.” And this is the power that the opportunistic newly promoted courtier nobles fear.
Unfortunately for the Ades Family, the courtiers they got already have hidden accounts of corruption in their former ranks. Many of them have embezzled money, killed others, sold imperial documents in other nations, and many more.
They become scared of the duke if their dealings were exposed, so they act first to prevent what might happen to them if the duke found out about their dealings and control the new and young duke heir to their bidding.
Dion was fiddling around with the visual presentation of the courtiers but he didn’t forget to ask “They will prevent me from having my fun, yes?” Fairy replied with a few words “They will.”
“Then we have to trash them.” Dion announced as he held his hand on the neck of the courtier.
Fairy wrote in her notes ‘Trash the nobles.’ as an action, they will take against the corrupt nobles' agenda.
But a question raised by Fairy “However though. Master Dion just recently became the duke of the Ades Star System, military forces are still adjusting to the death of the late duke and have low morale. The courtiers even have underlings in your ducal central forces, How shall we tackle this.”
“Really?” Dion thought of it slightly and arrived at the shortest answer “Then we don’t.” He said as he generated an item in the room.
Standing tall with its two legs is an android body created using synthetic materials, to look like an actual human.
Androids are widely used in the empire however their technology is still developing in this digital world. All created androids use narrow AIs that can only do one task and cannot learn other tasks on their own.
Dion looked at the android disappointingly and said “Androids downloaded with military techniques can only serve as area security guards” Dion quipped as basic androids cannot perform human-like calculations so sudden movement is janky if given a surprised calculation.
But he added “but with you, they can do more if you control them.” he said as a solution.
Fairy would create thousands of androids to control and use for attacking the noble’s bases. Dion added, “If we do it in the middle of the night, all of those nobles will be groggy to defend and our bribed officials are oblivious to our operation.”
They can just generate the pieces of evidence by reading the noble’s character history to give them the justification for their arrest “and we can shut up our officials that have light bribery accounts and acquit officials that are too deep in corruption using the ‘noble’s [we generated]’ records” concluded by Dion and having his hands in the air as if saying ‘TADA~’.
Fairy is looking at Dion's movements as her hand writes ‘Kill the nobles.’ in her notes beside the actions they will take against the corrupt nobles.
Dion put his right hand on his chin as he thought of something more “You know, we can solve most of our agendas in one fell swoop if we do this right…” he wondered
“If you think about it; lack of industry, only one colony, and compromised internal security arose from lack of population.” Dion murmured as he visually generated each issue for Fairy to see.
Although compromised internal security makes little sense to connect to the population problem since it just means that; spies are rampant around his only colony, some insurgencies are happening because of the instability, and the lack of security to his dukedom’s digital encryption.
“This can all translate to due to the lack of NPCs as intelligence agents, border patrols, and even data security analysts.” Dion said as he filtered his citizens from his hidden console menu that fit the criteria as ‘undesirables’ and needed to be evicted in his world.
Fairy stopped writing in her notepad as she turned to ask a question “This works. If we rounded up all the problems to Master Dion’s rule, they might as well make some use for Master since they inconvenience you.”
Dion nodded as well and said “Really not an inconvenience to me.” as he turned off all the visual holograms and walked back to his chair to sit down to continue “Planning all of this is fun, that’s why I chose not to be excluded to the origin randomization, right” Dion ended his sentence as he poses with his fingers intertwined and resting over his mouth.
“... What shall we do about the second-hand old space fleet?” Fairy nonchalantly questioned as she stopped Dion from savoring his ‘perfect’ plan.
Dion grudgingly looks at Fairy since he knows she interrupts his delights on purpose but he doesn’t mind, since it’s more fun to have someone to banter with.
Dion explained his plan for the second-hand old space fleet and explored his new world some more, as they waited for the sunlight to retreat and darkness to rule his portion of the planet.