The Predator Lurks

(Planet Gaia- Imperial Palace)

It was a grand banquet the likes of which had never been seen before. 

Only a few times in the history of the Federation had the heirs to every single high noble family been gathered in the same place.

Those noble families with the status of duke had power that was only below the royal family, so they were capable of influencing the very core of the empire itself.

It was for this reason that previous emperors had been very cautious when promoting noble houses and it would take a great accomplishment to even have a chance to be granted a dukedom.

But even still….

The Federation had been established for thousands of years and the human population was now conservatively estimated to be in the trillions as the number of colonies and planets controlled by the Federation increased drastically.

From the original handful of noble houses at the start of the Federation who had the status of duke…