time skip and the new frontier.

After the purge.

...

Ah, yes.

Space is a beautiful yet terrifying place.

Full of mysteries and challenges, that we have never faced before.

This is a difficult task.

What task? Well, building a self-sustaining space station! Such a task requires the coordination of people, machines, and just plain old luck.

I want to build a shipyard, a place that makes ships, makes it possible to dock at them, and reach the surface through them.

Now that all opposition has disappeared, I can pretty much do whatever I want.

The first thing I have to do is give those benefits I promised, Next thing I will do is make a charity for the poor and orphans to improve my image as a benevolent ruler.

Let's call it "Valentian Aid," Nice and simple.

My sister and uncle have been having a lot of free time lately, lets give the control to them, they are incredibly kind if 'my' memory is correct.

My sister actually wanted to do this when she was younger but our father refused her for unknown reasons.

Right... let's get to work!

...

A year has passed since the great purge, and I have consolidated my power, the nobles are of no more concern.

My charity project has also been a huge success, and many of the poor have already greatly contributed with intellectual work!

With this, many talents that would have been wasted will get their chance to shine, and who will they be loyal to? me of course!

I also haven't forgotten the promise I made when I ascended to the throne.

So I set out to fulfill my promise to make the Azburgian Empire an Interstellar Empire.

The Shipyard has been finished, and I'm going to personally announce its completion to the public, and make as big of a deal as possible out of this.

And to be fair, it IS a big deal.

Now we have a place to make our own ships! we can finally expand beyond our own system.

My scientists and designers have made blueprints for these starbases that we will establish in the near future.

The first thing the Shipyard is going to make is a Recon ship, which can scan planets and investigate unknown systems.

A construction ship, which sole purpose is to make starbases and resource-gathering stations around stars and planets to proclaim our ownership of these systems to any potential aliens.

And last but not least, 5 corvettes.

Corvettes are small military vessels that will defend our sovereignty and territory.

Well small is a bit of an understatement.

They are 300 meters long and 120 meters wide, they have 2 high-impact railguns stationed at the front and back, so 4 total, as well as 4 smaller, laser point-defense turrets, and last but not least, it is surrounded by an electromagnetic shield, designed specifically to stop enemy lasers from breaching the thick, steel hull, while also simulating an atmosphere, making oxygen and simulating gravity.

One of these ships has already been built and is awaiting my orders, while the others should be fully operational later today.

First, I will use them and show them off to the populace, making them feel trust and pride.

And after that, 3 of these ships will leave with the recon ship, and begin investigating the surroundings of our home system.

During this, the construction ship will build mining and energy-gathering stations in its home system.

This isn't even everything I've done this year.

"Big brother!" I could hear a childish, high-pitched voice coming from across the hallway.

Ah, yes I almost forgot...

"Hey Brock-" I got cut off by my brother charging at me full speed, knocking the voice out of me.

I almost fell over! The little guy has a lot of energy in him.

"Are you alright, your majesty?" Sebastian and Elizabeth asked.

"Yes, don't worry he's just a child."

"My lord please wait!" I now saw his personal servants chasing after him, as well as Jessica Valentia, my older sister.

"G-greetings your majesty!" They bowed before me.

"Greetings, have you had a good day so far?"

My sister caught up and also greeted me, and unlike the children, her greeting was obviously more refined.

"Yes, your majesty, so far our day has been excellent."

"That is good to hear."

As you can see, everyone is incredibly careful and formal when they speak to me, which has left me quite lonely most of the time.

The only exception is Brock since he has no idea about how he should act around me yet.

Well, I think he has an idea, but the little rascal simply doesn't care.

"How has the charity been doing? If you need any more funds you can just let me know."

I saw a glint of excitement in her eyes that was immediately suppressed. "The charity is doing very well! thank you for giving me the opportunity." She even raised her voice a little, which was very rare, that's how excited she was.

"Well that is good to hear, I will leave you to it. Make sure you watch the opening ceremony!"

"Wait! I want to come with you." Brock suddenly announced.

"N-" Just as I was about to refuse, a brilliant idea struck me.

People love children, don't they? So if I brought Brock along, it would multiply the effects of the propaganda! And on top of that, I could have some fun with my little brother! It's a win-win situation.

"...You know what? sure." Brock's eyes immediately lit up and a goofy grin covered his face.

"Thank you!"

"Come on quickly, we might be late and that would be a disgrace!" I picked Brock up and his servants were picked up by Sebastian and Elizabeth.

We ran to a large 400-by-400-meter landing pad, where a Corvette was waiting for us,

A large portion of the steel wall of the behemoth in front of us clicked and slowly opened, revealing the insides of the ship where the captain was waiting.

All of our ships are painted pitch black, in order to blend in with the rest of the universe as camouflage (The ships look like the Stellaris design for humanoid ships, just imagine they are black).

Large "Tubes" of light were wrapped around them at multiple points, to serve as emergency communicators when they couldn't do so through normal means.

The captain saluted me. "Greetings your Majesties!"

"At ease commander"

"Yes! Will His Highness Brock be traveling with us?"

"Yes, the little guy wanted to come with me, how long until we reach our destination?"

"We will be there in a few minutes sir! Would you like to watch from the cockpit?"

"What do you think Brock?"

"oooh..." Brock stared in amazement at the surrounding technology, although we are an extremely advanced civilization, seeing thousands of drones flying around the city was shocking for me to say the least, everything here was on a completely different level compared to the outside.

"...Let's take that as a yes..." The commander and I laughed and made our way into the cockpit.

The cockpit isn't a small crampet space like in an airplane, There is a luxurious rotating chair in the middle of the room at the top of a few steps, and below these steps are terminal after terminal next to each other, all surrounding the commander in a spider web like manner, giving him clear access to everything going on.

At the front is a giant, steel-reinforced, 30-meter-thick, bulletproof window, literally the most durable a window could be with our current technology.

It is capable of withstanding 5 railgun shots if they even make it through our laser point defense, and given if the window was close to breaking a metal shutter would come down as a last-ditch attempt to save the crew, although it's not without faults, the main negative is that the crew could see the outside only through their sensors.

We strapped ourselves into some seats on the side and watched as the sip rose up from the ground.

It angled its nose higher until we could only see the bright blue sky above us, and it took off at half the speed of light.

In a matter of seconds, we were above our home planet, and the seatbelts around us popped open, allowing us to move as we pleased.

Brock rushed to the windows, "This is so cool!" He almost had stars in his eyes.

Even I couldn't control myself and quickly walked to the window.

The stars were bright, I could see Mars and Venus in the distance, and most importantly of all.

"There it is!" I said out loud.

My beautiful creation, and our first step into outer space.

The "Crowned Azburgian Station," Even from this distance I could see the activity of life, as small spaceships with leftover building materials cleared out anything that remained before the Emperor arrived.

The captain ordered his crew to approach and we slowly docked at the giant structure.

The docking process is a very dangerous maneuver so docking alone took 30 minutes.

After we docked, we stepped out of the ship and saw the best scientists, generals, and engineers before us, they were here to give me a guide to the place, and I also need to select the crew of the corvettes, recon, and science ships.

These people here are the people I chose.

They are the best of the best, the most loyal and capable people on our planet.

They kneeled. "Greetings your majesty! Have you had a comfortable flight?"

"Yes, it was spectacular, you may stand." They all stood up and we began the check of the station.

The station is massive, as it took a whole year for an advanced, united Earth to finish it.

It was colossal, its size was a total of 29 000 km², like the country of Albania from his former world.

This nation-sized station was a long stick, that was orbited by eight massive rings that were connected to the main station by long tube-like walkways, eight for each ring.

The rings had a large number of defenses built into them and were covered in multiple layers of shielding, the walkways were covered in thick armor, and the main station was just as formidable.

Normally it would have taken them five years to build something of such scale but since the Shipyard was so massive, massive enough to be seen from the surface.

When the public inevitably spotted it, a large number of donations were given to the royal and noble families to complete the project as soon as possible, the nobles also contributed an unprecedented amount.

Probably cause they want to suck up to Adam.

"Well, here we are again. I hope you enjoyed the tour your Majesties."

"Right, it was wonderful, thank you general." "Now! everyone get to your positions! you know what we have to do now."

While Adam was being shown around the massive station, back on the ground all of the screens on all skyscrapers and all TV channels switched to the "royal network" which was used only when the royal family wanted to announce something.

The video was being broadcasted to all corners of the planet, as everyone stopped to listen to the message.

A build-up of music began as the video showed the Azburgian royal fleet, 5 corvettes to be exact begin moving out of the Shipyard.

Key moments in their history were fleeting by the spaceships as they began speeding up and everyone recognized the anthem of their nation.

*MmmMmm*

"Hear my... call to the fallen leaflings... to be with the broken wonders... The last time before I go...!"

A few of the people began singing...

*STOMP* *STOMP*

Thousands stomped with the music...

"All the... embers left us dead... We broke through it then... Now we rise up to the call...!"

Millions were singing now...

*mmmm*

"For the glory and the war..."

billions, all united...

*HMM* *HMM* *STOMP* *STOMP*

A species stood strong...

"FOR THE WEAK AND THE BROKEN!"

Together.

*HMM* *HMM* *STOMP* *STOMP*

"FOR THE LOST AND FORSAKEN!"

*HMM* *HMM* *STOMP* *STOMP*

"WE MUST NEVER SURRENDER! FOR WE FIGHT..."

*HMM* *HMM* *STOMP* *STOMP*

"...FOR ALL OF US!"

*HMM* *HMM* *STOMP* *STOMP*

"NOW WE RISE ONTO THE CALL!"

"Now we rise for our lords..."

*MmmMmm*

"For the weak and defeated... For the consumed and confused... WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER!"

"NOW WE RISE TO OUR CALL!"

*HMM* *HMM*

As the anthem finished, it showed The face of the current Emperor, with his younger brother, inside one of the corvettes leaving the system.

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Sorry to interrupt but I just wanted to say the anthem was inspired by a Stellaris music video I found on youtube, I will put the link in the comment so definitely check it out!