The surrender of the federation was an unexpected turn of events. Though it is a reasonable one, after all why fight against an overwhelming force that you have little to no hope to defeat. This made me rethink what I am going to do next. I called a meeting with all of the highest-ranking officials in the Tailmen and had them discuss. Many were expecting this outcome, while others were surprised at how quick it was to end.

After hours of talking and deliberation about what to do, I concluded. The fleets inside the galaxy would stay together and work with the federations' existing fleets. They would then patrol the galaxy and wipe out any crime and secret bases. I would give them locations of where these bases were and what to expect.

First I would go to where the senate was currently located and attend the official declaration of surrender. This would let the people of the federation know what was happening and let the transition of power commence. The transition would take years or decades to do but will eventually happen. It also told them that there would be no more official war taking place in the galaxy and that they could keep doing what they were doing without the fear of invasion.

With this decision, my fleet went to where the senate was located. Along the way I had Erendial explain to me what happened that led to this decision and if it was a trap or not. It wasn't a trap and the president had been voted out of office. She had apparently been pushing for drastic measures to end the war and didn't want to surrender, even under the light that was showing that they would lose.

They had also deemed that the crimes she had been accused of, along with the hints of evidence, was enough for her to not be suitable for office. With them voting her out of office, they then voted on the next course of action. They debated and thought of many ways of stopping me and came up with a plan. They would have one last confrontation with me and the outcome of that confrontation would decide what would happen.

They would empty out an entire world of its citizens and would wait until my fleet was in position of the destination they predicted I would attack next. They would launch a cruiser going at light speed at the location and see what would happen. They predicted that if the ship hit my fleet then either it would be wiped out or extremely damaged. A fleet would then come in and assess what had happened. They didn't think that we would come out unscathed and completely fine.

Seeing the fleet undamaged, the Admiral then reported to the senate, they then immediately told him to surrender and had a complete agreement for the federation to surrender. Currently, the former president is being held for questioning and is still on the planet.

I am now on my way to said planet to accept their formal surrender. I would then spend some time appointing new leaders and government officials before moving on to the Dynasty. I would be keeping most of the framework of the federation and making changes over time. To completely overhaul a galactic government would take years with thousands of helpers and organizers and isn't worth it.

We then traveled through Sub-Space to the planet. As we traveled I went over a, very long, list of people who would be suitable for the positions that would be opening up soon. There would be many new openings that it took me the entire time of travel to pick everyone. When we arrived I was exhausted, I had spent days looking over portfolios and reviewing candidates. It was mind-numbing and made me want the soul torture more. I truly respect paper pushers.

Once we arrived I transported down to the planet with most of my guards. We arrived at the front of the senate building and started to walk in, dozens of people watching. I walked down as my guards moved people out of the way and cleared the way. We went to the main senate chamber, a massive hall where the senate met and discussed matters.

We walked down the long hall that surrounded the entire building. It took a couple of minutes until we arrived at the foreign dignitaries room. There we waited as the senate got ready and came together. My guards spread out across the senate building and guarded as many positions as possible.

After an hour of waiting, the senate had finally gathered together and was ready. I left the room and entered the massive senate chamber. The chamber was extremely tall and wide, so tall and wide that you could fit another building inside of it. Once inside I took my seat in one of the seats used for foreign ambassadors.

The meeting started with political talk and all that. Multiple people talking about the times to come and the reason for why the president was removed from office and taken into custody. Then they moved onto the main point.

"As you all have known, from all walks of life, we have been at war. This war was started mere weeks ago and has since seen our continued loss. We lost Earth and its major manufacturer Mars. We have lost Rusch. We have lost multiple major shipyards. Finally, we have lost them all with very little casualties on a conflict of this scale. We lost nearly an entire quadrant of the galaxy within two weeks. Facing these continued losses the president called an emergency meeting earlier this week.

"During the meeting, we deliberated about what we could do in the face of the overwhelming force. The president pushed for more extreme measures and experimental, and highly unethical, new weapons and training. She didn't even entertain the idea of surrender. Facing this the senate held a vote of whether she should stay in office. Obviously, she was taken out of office," people cheered inside of the chamber. She didn't seem to be liked that much.

"With her removal, the senate then talked about what we should do in the face of the rapidly approaching fleets. We initiated one last plan after consulting the most brilliant military minds in our galaxy. They came up with one last plan and should it fail the senate agreed that the federation would surrender.

"That plan has since been enacted. Now the Milky Way Federation will declare its official and formal declaration of surrender to the leader of the Zel'Zari Tailmen. Know that this decision is made for the wellbeing of the citizens in mind. Now let us hear from our new leader." He then vanished and I popped up.

I stood up in my hooded cloak that concealed my face and features. I took down my hood and revealed my face as the first official reveal of it to everyone else. Erendial had blurred my face when people took my picture and video during my sightseeing on Earth.

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"Hello there. I am named Alpha, the chief deity of the Tailmen. I will tell you know, things will change. This change will happen over many years and will target many things. For now, nothing has changed except your leader and future leaders. Some of you will not like this. Some will not care. Some welcome this change. For now, all I ask you is to not resort to violence. Should that happen then expect equal punishment to follow you. I will pull all of the corruption from out of this galaxy as well as I can.

"Your deeds will not go unpunished. I will tear down the organizations that you have built on the backs of the innocent. I will ruin your life as you have down with others. Prepare all that you want but know that I am coming and you shall know my wrath." I left. I walked down the hall of the senate building as my guards regrouped with me. After a little bit, we arrived at where we teleported and we teleported back to the ship.

I gave the most trustworthy senator there a new position as my messenger. I then gave him many tasks and had ten of my guards to assist him for some time. They would also act as a badge of office and proof that he acted with my approval, they would also make sure he stayed alive.

We then started our long journey to the Dynasty. While traveling there I trained with my guards to warm up for the coming duel. I also started to make a new halberd for me to use. I had placed the other Alphas spear in the hall of the Alpha. Since there have only been six other Alphas beside me it was very empty. It only held the most used weapons, armour, and tech. I placed his rifle and spear in a special space.

It took us weeks to travel to the Dynasty, during that time I had made a new halberd. It was basically identical to the last one with few changes. The first one is that there is now a mix of a silver-colored material with the black metal. Second, was that it was now 3.5 meters tall. Third is now there is also an ebony-colored wood mixed in with the pole of the halberd. The metal was intertwined with the wood and made it look like the wood had grown into the metal.

After that, I had also made myself some new armour. It had the same design as the last one and was basically reinforced to be stronger. It also had a shield that was put with it like a mesh. The whole thing was made better and stronger and had gotten rid of useless things, like the option to make oxygen.

After making them I spent the rest of the time sleeping and meditating. We arrived at the location of the duel within days of arriving in the galaxy. As we arrived I came to a revelation, there had been zero reports of spatial anomalies in the time I have been alive. It was really strange. The fact that there had been no anomalies at all confounded me. The Empire had at least ten attacks a month within a sector and way more throughout the entire Empire.

What was even more baffling was that none of the galaxies barely had any confrontation with them. In the entire history of them, they had only encountered them around a few dozen times. This was extremely weird so I had a large group of people work with Erendial to find out why.

We arrived in orbit of a planet near the center of the galaxy. This was a planet at the very edge of the safety zone that kept it from getting swallowed by the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy. The planet was ancient, like all planets, and very special to the Dynasty. This was the place where formal royal duels were done and was also where the coronation of the new Monarch takes place.

This planet was also where the original Monarch and their Ten Duke came together and formed the Dynasty. They were all allies before that moment and banded together to form the Dynasty. This is also the first capital planet of the Dynasty but has since only been used for duels and ceremonies.

Once we arrived I got myself ready with all of my equipment and then transported down. I used a shuttle this time and it landed in the oldest arena in the galaxy. As I left the ship I saw who was waiting for me. There was the Monarch dressed in his armour and equipped with his weapons, a sword and multiple guns, and the Ten Dukes. Each of them of different races and goals.

I walked forward and met up with them. "Welcome." The Monarch said. "I hope you are ready for the duel."

"I am as ready as I could be," I said.

"Good. Now let us begin with the preparations for the duel. The dukes here will stand witness to the oaths we say and will announce the winner. We will speak the terms of the duel and then once they have vacated the area we will begin."

"Then let us start."

We then said the terms and the dukes said some unimportant things before they left. Once they were a good distance away we got ready. He raised a massive Gatling gun and flamethrower. I raised my pistol along with its new twin. I fired the first shot.

I fired my dual pistols together and then rolled to my right as he fired off his Gatling gun. He pressed a button on his flamethrower then started to fire bursts of plasma at me. I moved left and right dodging them as he took my shots with his armour. The armour did little but did weaken the shots enough to be tanked by his naturally sturdy and strong body.

I wasn't going to have this last long though. I charged up my pistols and fired a beam on UE at him. This let him land a couple of shots on me but they did nothing except scrape the paint off my armour. Strange I never painted my armour.

My shots landed on him and blasted him away. He stopped when he hit the wall of the arena we were in and fell to the ground. He laid there on the ground as I approached him. I stopped a few meters away and aimed my pistol at him. "Give up." I said.

He stayed silent before flipping himself on his back. "Why?"

"Why not?"

"I would have no honor and shame my family."

"There is no shame in giving up when facing an overwhelming opponent. What use is honor when you have no use for it anyway? What would your children rather have, their father or their father's honor?"

He glared at me before sighing. "I surrender. This galaxy is now yours, along with its people."

I then aimed my pistol somewhere else and fired it. This caused someone else to jump out of the way as the shot hit the stands. When the shot hit it caused an explosion in the area it hit. I then looked at the person who jumped out of the way. It was one of the Ten Dukes. They were tall and lanky and wore a skin-tight suit. They also had a sniper that aimed at me.

"So you found out I was there huh. Good for you sadly this is where you both die." He then tried to pull the trigger but I sent out a psychic blast and stunned him. I also fired a shot from my pistol and hit him right in the head, blasting a hole straight through his head.

"That was quick." The Monarch said.

"I just didn't want to deal with him," I said.

"Does that mean that you were just playing me?"

"No. I was showing you some respect for not being a rude bastard. I also have some respect for you, so I decided to give you some time to show me what you are made of."

"Huh, I see then. Now, what will you do?"

"I am going to deal with this little rebellion," I said.

"How many of them are rebelling?" He said while getting up. His chest was charred and his insides were a little scrambled.

"Most of them, along with half of the remaining nobles that we didn't deal with are with them. Right now they are trying to take the initiative. Unfortunately, for them, my fleets are currently moving to intercept them and are destroying them. I am going to be very busy making heads roll after this." I spoke with a disinterested voice.

"You seem to be very prepared. It feels like you already knew this was going to happen." He said while dusting himself off.

"I did. After all, they weren't exactly the best people. They have all committed many crimes of varying degrees. Some have committed horrendous crimes over and over, while others just take bribes and overtax the people."

"Hmmm, I'm glad that I no longer have to deal with that. I can now take a lot of time off and spend it with my children and wives."

"Sorry to burst your bubble but that is not going to happen. You will be assisting me, along with other people, in changing the laws and social structure of the Dynasty. You will stay in a position of power and I might make you either a general or a leader of a new organization I am going to found. I haven't really decided yet."

"I hate you."

"I can tell."

We then left the planet and boarded our respective ships. Only the loyalist Dukes were in orbit as the rest of the dukes that made an appearance were all body doubles. Well except the one that I killed. That meant that only three of the ten dukes were loyal while six of them were leading the rebellion right now. Hopefully, this rebellion will not take that long to deal with.