"Your majesty, It's completely impossible to provide such large amounts of armored walkers and vehicles in such a short amount of time" The bald director stood up and quietly yelled after gaining confidence from his fellow directors.
"Director, it has been 2 and half months since my enthronement in the 4th month of the year meaning you have 6 months left, if you and your fellow directors can't do it then I'll find replacements who can!" Aleister said while standing and looking out the door, after saying his piece he walked out the sliding door with his two guards.
Walking the opposite path he took to get to the room he soon found his way into the indoor landing platform. Walking inside his shuttle one of the guards entered the cockpit, being an expert dog fighter he was the pilot while the co-pilot was a simple officer. The other Guard dressed in a black robe covering the hard black armor walked into the modified main room for guest travel.
"Khoris I need you to find your replacement".
"Your Majesty?!".
"The oath you swore upon entering the royal guard is eternal and unbreakable, so you don't have to worry, you simply will serve me in a different position" Aleister giggled a bit while shaking his hand in dismissal before handing him a sealed envelope "Khoris you, frankly, are one of the most loyal and trustworthy people that I can trust with this important assignment".
Reaching for the envelope Khoris inwardly was filled with trepidation and fear, a fear that was brainwashed into all of the royal guards at a very young age– Did I fail, Did I Fail, rang inside Khoris's brain like an inescapable gong even at the dismissal from Aleister of any punishment.
"This is not a punishment, you swore to serve the throne and its ménage in any matter, would you deny a request?" Aleister plainly stated while firmly gripping the envelope just as Khoris's fingers wrapped around the paper.
"Of course not your majesty!" Khoris almost yelled while with a military salute standing at attention "Good, in this envelope is a list of people many many people, from diet specialists to indocturinationists, with these people you will create from, 100,000 orphans, an elite group of soldiers that will be called the Istaci, Do you accept?".
"Of course your majesty!".
"Then Khoris Governor Ithapus Secundus, Grand Admiral of the Istaci Defense Fleet, and Commander of the Istaci themselves I command you to take 1000 royal guard, 1,000,000 orphans from Dochion, every criminal from the Sanguisugion race, and everyone lucky enough to place on this list to the planet of Ithapus Secundus for the sole purpose of the creation of the Istaci. You are exempt from politics, You are exempt from Judicial calls, You are to only report to me".
"It is my honor" Khoris bowed while kneeling "However your majesty the removal of 1000 royal guards will annihilate the already overstretched royal guard".
"That is of no problem, with the supplementation of Godren regiment this should be fixed till the new batch of royal guards".
'Special forces?' Khoris thought before asking a question "your majesty, no such fleet as the Istaci defense fleet exists may I ask what you meant by this?".
"Of course, also get up kneeling like that is beneath you," Aleister said while ushering the kneeling armored man up, of course, there was nobody, not even family who could, without permission, not kneel in front of him including Khoris in his new position. However, Aleister found that treating, the person who would spend the rest of his military career on a frozen hell of a planet training a highly elite force that would eventually be able to wipe out the royal guard with ease, with respect was a more intelligent idea "anyway the fleet will be for now made of an Orpheus class carrier filled with starfighters piloted by the royal guard, two Sidenvis class destroyers, and four Harka'leeko Class cruisers Ideally these ships would fully be maned by Istaci as well but it will be a full decade before they would be complete".
Understanding everything he needed Khoris took the envelope and sat down on one of the chairs bolted to the sides and began to read the thousands of people on the giant paper list, most of the people he had never heard of but some of them were famous for one thing or another like Quequn Gobnu who wrote the general diet for the army, or Ustraik Krflen the woman who was one of the leading language specialists who helped with the creation of a fast real-time translator which helped immensely with the 14 Sanguisugion languages and the over 20 different alien ones.
'100,000 classes with 100 students each, I would be surprised if 90% of that ultimately becomes an Istaci meaning around 1 million in about 10 years while the following years would yield less and less, how to fix this problem?' Aleister thought in his own little world across from Khoris 'maybe increase the age range, 4-18? There are around 300,000,000 orphans in such an age range while large numbers of average recruits can be put into the program… maybe 4 million? Maybe a policy allowing mothers for a price to release babies into the istaci? Both? Whatever is done for it to be any real force in the future it must have a good foundation'.
'Another problem is the allowance of other species into the program… no even if one soldier is worth a thousand regular ones it won't instill the same fear as an undying army of faceless, zealous fanatics willing to die for their king and their kingdom unconditionally, this same effect isn't likely if a modgeposh of different species'.