Chapter 387: Fachs Coup
Salihovich raised his head and said to Minnik, who was sitting at the top of the palace throne:
"Mr. Minnick, the Alliance has always been friendly to Fats. We have been friends since the Blackbird Heavy Industries incident."
"We did promise to provide political and economic support to Fats, and we also promised not to make direct military threats against Fats Samsung."
"However, although we have great sympathy for Fachers' plight, we have never said that we would support Fachers in launching a rebellion against the Empire! You can recall every signed document between us!"
He said this with absolute certainty.
He may have said he supported Faucher's tough stance, but he rarely said he would rebel, and it is absolutely impossible for him to leave any documents.
There won't be such a handle.
Minnick's face was completely black.
He knew that Salihovic was right. He had wanted to sign a document with similar words before, or quietly add similar words to some documents, but all such attempts were blocked and never came true.
Both Salihovic and the league itself are very cautious about this.
Salihovic spread his hands and started to talk nonsense: "We have never agreed to your unreasonable requests. Even though your family has shown its rebelliousness, the Alliance has always provided you with resources and transported supplies while persuading you to calm down and exercise restraint."
"But you have always turned a deaf ear to the alliance's warnings."
This is really bullshit, even Minnick was so angry that he couldn't think of a rebuttal for a moment - there are too many complaints. Putting aside other things, you are transporting supplies and encouraging, while persuading, isn't that just fanning the flames?
When you were trying to persuade them, you said how disgusting the sector government was and that no one could tolerate it, but you still endured it?
Salihovic seemed to know that what he said was a bit too outrageous, but he continued speaking without changing his expression:
"All the alliance's promises and support are based on the fact that we are all subjects of the empire and we are all fighting for the empire. When you betray this principle, all the agreements lose their premise. In other words, you are the first to betray the alliance!"
"I didn't betray the Empire! We were just fighting against the Sector..."
"No, the Empire says you are traitors."
Salihovic paused and continued with his cold words:
"I reiterate to you the demands from the Empire and Governor Gu: the Fachers family must surrender unconditionally and hand over the three Empire worlds to Governor Gu Hang for disposal; you, as well as all the people mentioned on the list, must be tried by the Inquisition."
"Only in this way can we avoid war and destruction."
"Don't even think about it!" Minnick's old body suddenly burst out with great strength. He stood up and threw a wine glass at Salihovic.
It missed and just hit the diplomat's feet.
Minnick was still roaring: "Then let Gu Hang come, let those brats from your alliance come! I will let you see the bloodiness of the Faches people! You dirty traitors, lying betrayers, will bear the most terrifying wrath of Faches on the orbit of Faches and on the surface of Faches! Your blood will flow all over the ground here, your corpses will fill every battle line, you will surely be beaten to a pulp and pay the price for everything you have done!"
"Now, get out of here! Get out of my sight before I have the last bit of sanity left and won't be as dirty as you Alliance people and kill the envoys!"
Salihovic sighed, with a strange, unfathomable expression on his face.
"What a pity..."
He bowed slightly to Minnick, then touched his belt.
Then, a brilliant blue light filled Minnick's vision.
Of course he realized that something was wrong, however, the blinding psychic light caused severe pain in his eyes and he couldn't help but scream, but he didn't even hear it.
Because his screams were drowned out by the louder sound of the grenade launcher.
The gunshots were very frequent but short-lived.
Then he heard some very heavy footsteps.
Minnick couldn't help but raise his head. In his tearful and still stinging eyes, he reflected a tall, bright red, armored figure.
"No, that's impossible..."
He knew what it was—a Phoenix Space Marine.
But why is it here?
He had received intelligence before, and he knew that Gu Hang had an unknown number of space warriors working for him. He even got the case of the war on Black Arrow Star, and knew that after Gu Hang received the support of the Psionic Order, he established a so-called "Storm Mage Corps" with the ability of psychic teleportation.
The combination of these two powers can send top elite troops such as Space Marines to any place they want. This is a very terrifying decapitation strike capability.
Because of this, he would of course pay careful attention to protecting himself.
There are also psychics in his palace. They are a team of psychics that he recruited at great expense and trained in secret.
They will provide reliable psychic protection for Minnick and many of the Fats family dignitaries at the center of power.
The assassin will be caught at the first moment of invasion;
As for psychic teleportation, that was the main target of prevention. Not only was there a psychic team working on this, but Fats also bought a special anti-teleportation device two years ago, making their anti-psychic teleportation method even stronger.
If the teleportation was initiated from space, no matter how many or how powerful the psychics were, they would be seriously disturbed. At the very least, they would be deflected and thrown into space, or even get lost in the subspace, which would be a miserable outcome.
Even if the target of the teleportation is not the Palace of Time, but any place on the surface, it will be interfered with; even if the interference is unsuccessful, at least it can be detected that someone has teleported towards the surface.
The Fats family even had a plan in place. As long as they sensed psychic energy being transmitted to the surface, the Fats would immediately disband the Fats central system, and the "brains" of the entire family would be dispersed on the spot and distributed to various places across the planet, fearing that they would be beheaded.
In fact, there was no need to wait for the moment of psychic teleportation to occur. They had already done so from the moment Facherus expelled the imperial tax collectors.
It’s just that there is no real threat in the short term, so it’s not urgent.
But why are there still Space Marines being teleported in front of him?
How did these Space Marines come to Facheras when they clearly hadn't received any information about teleporting to the surface?
Minnick doesn't know.
The red-armored giant in front of him obviously had no interest in telling him the answer.
There was no intention of even letting him live.
The pitch-black muzzle of the gun was pointed at his head.
"etc……"
"Bang."
His chest was a complete mess.
Salihovich looked around and saw twenty-three Space Marines coming out of the teleportation array. The moment they appeared, they killed everyone in the palace except Salihovich.
From the guards to Minnick, the head of the Facheras family.
Originally, Salihovic was still considering whether to save Minnick's life.
After all, if there was a living leader of the Facheras family who could be brought to trial, it would certainly be more symbolic than reporting a death and bringing back a head.
However, Salihovic thought again and decided that it would be better to make Old Minnick shut up forever to avoid him saying something he shouldn't say after he was put on trial.
Killing Minnick was only the first step, and what was happening here in the center of the palace was far from over.
But Salihovic's work has been temporarily finished. Next, he needs to stay in the palace and wait for someone to come.
Before this, the commander of the current Phoenix team, Captain Diego Cardoso, was the protagonist.
He is one of the century-old veterans of the Phoenix Regiment, one of the four surviving seven Phoenixes who came to the Wrathful Owl Star. Now he is the captain of the Phoenix First Company, commanding a hundred Space Marines.
His company, and half of the Storm Mage Regiment led by Therese, arrived at Farchus 1 several months ago.
The Alliance knew that the Fatsos family would not fail to take precautions against the psychic teleportation methods that the Alliance had already revealed. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, the Space Marines and psychics hid on the transport ships that were transporting supplies to the Fatsos and smuggled them over.
In fact, if it weren't for the risk of a forced attack, they would rather not use teleportation now. There are a small number of combat soldiers and fixed automatic turrets in the palace. These may not be able to stop the Space Marines' assault, but they can easily waste some time, and if Minnick runs away in the end, that would be bad.
There were actually fifty Phoenix warriors who carried out this teleportation, but only 22 of them arrived.
This is because this teleportation operation was carried out very close to the Palace of the Times; and, on Salihovic's belt, there was a locator made by Governor Gu Hang himself.
It is precisely because of the superposition of the two that this transmission was successful.
But still due to the interference, 28 people were lost.
But the good news is that at least no one was scattered too far, and no one was lost in the subspace. The remaining 28 people were in other places in the palace, and at this moment, they could hear the sound of gunfire.
They had already made a plan for this situation before taking action.
Carduso asked Salihovic to stay here safely and left ten warriors to protect him and guard the core area of the palace.
A large number of guards in the palace, as well as a small number of combat soldiers, have reacted and started to rush here. The mission of the ten Phoenixes is to defend this place.
He himself, along with twelve other men, took the initiative to attack.
The Palace of the Times is not only the residence of the current head of the Facherse family and his immediate family members, but also the ruling core.
Even though the Fachers had already evacuated some of their high-ranking officials to other places in order to avoid being caught in one fell swoop, it would still be good to be able to go to the front hall, to the offices of those Fachers officials, to catch one more, to eliminate one more, and to create more chaos.
By the way, the scattered phoenixes will be gathered together.
And at this moment, in the city where the Time Palace is located, the capital city of Fats 1, there are more than just the fifty Space Marines in the palace active.
There are still fifty phoenixes, divided into two groups, carrying out two different tasks.
This concerns two senior officials within the Fats family.
One of them was the deputy commander of the Capital Guard, a lieutenant general in the Planetary Defense Force, named Bobby Falchers. Three days ago, through his authority, thirty space warriors were stuffed into ammunition containers and sent to the Capital Guard's barracks.
Today, the Phoenixes broke out of the door and protected Bobby, and he found the commander of the capital guard and another deputy commander.
When they were found, the two had just issued an order for the capital's garrison to go to the palace area, eliminate the invaders, and rescue the head of the family.
The Phoenixes executed the two generals.
Afterwards, Bobby Falcher took over the Capital Military District and ordered all troops to remain on standby, impose martial law on the spot, and not move rashly.
At the same time, he urgently contacted the officers who had received orders to return to defend the city, asking them to return to the barracks.
The officer was at a loss for a moment.
The major general realized that something was wrong, but he didn't know what to do.
But he soon found out.
A unit belonging to Bobby Farchers's inner circle pointed their guns at them and yelled at them to follow their commander's orders.
After weighing the pros and cons of starting a firefight with his brother troops on the streets of the capital, the officer finally did not make a radical choice. He really couldn't find anyone higher up to give him any orders, so he had no choice but to do this.
In addition, twenty Phoenixes were guarding a man named Peter Faches and rushing towards the Palace of Time.
He can be regarded as the eighth person in the Facheras family and serves as the Minister of Commerce in the Facheras regime.
There is a set of rules within the Fats family. It clearly states that if the head of the family is in danger, such as death, disappearance, disability, impeachment... in short, if he is unable to perform his duties, then the young head of the family will inherit; if the young head of the family is not capable, then the chief of the elders' council will inherit, and then the marshal of the planetary defense force... and so on. There are 18 positions written in one go, which can be inherited in order.
At the same time, Fachers also has a family motto that more than two-thirds of the above-mentioned people cannot gather together at the same time or in the same place, or take public transportation, to avoid being caught in one fell swoop.
And Petters, the Minister of Commerce, is the eighth.
(End of this chapter)
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