Erich sat on his throne... It had been a decade since he had won his war with the Emrys regime and established a new order within the Germanic Star-Empire. His people had begun to experience a renaissance of culture, while his military was more powerful than it had ever been.
The Germanic Star Empire went from owning hundreds of systems but only living on a hundred worlds. To settling nearly every world they have seized from the Dvrakian Consortium over three decades ago.
And though they still had a small size in comparison to the other civilizations that were on an equal standing in terms of military and economic might. Or even some of those who were inferior in these regards. The Germanic Star-Empire commanded a serious level of respect.
And as a result, Empress Lunaria had announced that she would be giving the now barren systems of the once mighty Rylonian Imperium to the Germanic Star-Empire, in exchange for a defensive alliance.