Although seemingly similar, after joining the Alliance, Hongjian Star could still manage its own agricultural conglomerates and farms and could decide the inheritance of these properties according to their own will.
But in reality, the landowners on Hongjian Star paid a hefty price.
Nominally, their achievements, their respective companies, now all fall under the supervision of the Alliance. Even their originally self-organized, loosely structured government that at best played a mere auxiliary role, would be replaced by the Alliance Government following its dissolution. The past model of planet management, which mainly relied on the autonomy of farm owners, would henceforth be gone forever. The rudimentary farm militia, which hardly counted as a force, would be completely disbanded, replaced by direct garrisons of the Alliance Army.
