Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 928: Chapter 499, I Have Returned

Dragonhawk Star Domain, Yunluo Star.

Eight months have passed since that brutal duel in which Phoenix emerged victorious.

Even as they ensured the departure of the Fury Flame Battle Group from the Dragonhawk Star Domain, the Alliance was also hastening to dispatch various officials to each planet within the Dragonhawk Star Domain to take over these worlds.

Governance was secondary; especially the military needed to be held firmly in their own hands.

Particularly for some key planets.

Yunluo Star, of course, was of the utmost importance. Here lied not only the core of economic development but also the political core of the Dragonhawk Star Domain, where the Star Domain Government was located.

But the current Dragonhawk government was incomparable to its most prosperous days in the past. The arrival of the Fury Flame Battle Group had almost treated the Dragonhawk Star Domain as a subordinate entity. The decision-making power of military and political affairs was controlled by the Battle Group under the guise of wartime, turning the Star Domain Government into an executive body.

However, being an executive body was still okay; after all, there was work to be done.

But after the arrival of the Alliance, the situation was completely different.

The Alliance was not just the Fury Flame Battle Group with just a battle group framework. They had a complete governmental structure, fully capable of replacing the function of the Star Domain Government.

Of course, the Alliance did not actually do so, or at least not entirely. The decision-makers, for sure, were all replaced, or rather, temporarily sidelined. But some of the middle and lower-level bureaucrats responsible for execution within the Star Domain Government were retained.

These people who did the actual work couldn’t all be dismissed.

It’s not that the Alliance didn’t have enough officials.

Although suddenly having to manage almost two hundred worlds and with such a vast increase in the controlled territory, the Alliance would certainly find it overwhelming. But for the time being, they could leave other planets as is, allow local Planetary Governments to govern autonomously—this was originally the structure of the Empire anyway. When they were free in the future, they would strengthen their management.

But for a key world like Yunluo Star, no matter how scarce the number of officials was, they had to squeeze out some to properly govern Yunluo.

Officials who graduated from various academies of the Alliance and had been fully trained in the Alliance system were not inferior in ability to those from the Star Domain Government. Although the latter’s personnel were all picked from the vast populace, the consistent investments in talent cultivation over the years by the Alliance weren’t in vain. Let alone the numerous outstanding talents produced thanks to the Grace Points used by Gu Hang—there were certainly more than enough qualified individuals.

More importantly, as a relatively new force, and with Gu Hang always paying close attention to preventing systemic ossification, a large number of young talents took up government posts.

This youth was not only reflected in their age but more so in their mentality. That special vigor and readiness to do great things were scarce in the weary and inertia-driven Empire Government.

However, the main reason why the Alliance did not replace all officers was that the officials of the Alliance were after all newcomers, lacking deep understanding of many local matters. A complete replacement all at once would cause chaos.

But even with the retention of personnel, it was impossible to retain particularly high-grade officials. Decision-makers were definitely to be replaced, swapped with Alliance officials, who would then form teams with half the members brought from the Alliance homeland and the other half selected from the local officials.

The execution layer retained more personnel, but a significant proportion of Alliance officials were also incorporated among the middle and lower-level officials to learn local affairs and supervise the work of local officials.

And ensuring these measures tantamount to a power transition, were the Fleets hovering over the skies of Yunluo Star and the Alliance Army landed on the surface.

In fact, whether it was the local officials of Yunluo Star or the middle and lower-level officials of the original Star Domain Government, there was hardly any significant resistance, but rather they were quite active in moving closer to the Alliance.

The reason is simple: they are all working people, just middle and lower-level officials; their interests would be affected but not fatally so. The Alliance’s screening and dismissal process, on the contrary, required them to perform well and strive not to be sifted out.

With changes happening above, not actively aligning oneself, what else could one think of?

As for the high-level officials whose interests would be affected and who would be stripped of power, their opposition wasn’t of much consequence. After all, the Alliance intended to sideline them: not being physically eliminated was already a stroke of luck, what more could they possibly want?

Moreover, the Alliance hadn’t completely blocked their way out.

The current explanation was merely temporary evaluation, assessing their loyalty and capability. The Alliance also promised that if they passed the evaluations, these high-level officials might still have opportunities to hold senior positions in the integrated future Alliance and Star Domain Government.

By then, it should be within the Star Domain level of the Alliance Government.

These high-level officials actually had quite mixed feelings.

On one hand, they resented being stripped of power; on the other, they feared the military might of the Alliance and the possibility of being purged. Deep down, they longed to retain their positions of authority.

Some individuals with connections had already started making moves.

There were two directions for their efforts: either go to the Space Domain Government or to the Alliance.

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