There were no warnings before the deployment of those troops. The Hive, the Council, and the Elbas family had simply moved their assets alongside their respective borders within the domain of the Empire, and the latter had answered by showing that it could match all three of them.
It would have been impossible to catch that weakened nation by surprise. The central areas had so many buildings meant to inspect the environment that the Empire had noticed the enemy troops moving before they even exited their respective domains.
There hadn't been any negotiation either. It seemed that the Empire had understood that they had no chances to convince the enemy forces to back down.
That was just the fate that the strongest nation of a world had to face once it lost its advantage over the other forces.
