Chapter 310: Imperial Capital! Kaitan City! The God Emperor’s Enthronement Ceremony!
005 “Dune” universe!
Two months passed in a flash. Under the leadership of the Universal Corporation, the Atreides Family and the Harkonnen Family joined forces with a group of small families to launch a unified war that affected the Galactic Empire.

When the coalition forces of giant enterprises arrived at the city gates and came to the military strongholds of the Colino family in various places, most of them were greeted by opening the city and surrendering.

Only a very small number of stubborn ones will continue to resist, and then die tragically under the giant cannons of the giant companies.

Without the support of the sisterhood, the remaining Colino family was simply unable to resist the siege of so many families.

Faced with this overwhelming wave of offensive, they could only despairingly accept their inevitable fate.

During the final stages of the integration of the Dune universe, investigators from various departments of the Universal Corporation seized a large amount of gold and silver treasures, as well as samples of ancient AI, from the secret passages of the Corino royal family.

When the heads of other aristocratic families learned that the Colino family prohibited other families from possessing AI technology, but hid and developed AI technology on their own.

They immediately broke through the red temperature.

Sure enough, rules have always been a means to restrict the weak. Even the royal family themselves “break the law knowingly” and violate the national policy they have set. Only their small families are foolishly abiding by the law!

For a time, the voices calling for the crusade against and destruction of the Colino royal family became even louder within the empire, and all the families wanted to tear the royal family members apart.

In this regard, the Universal Corporation does not interfere in any way and is only responsible for the integration progress of the universe, as well as receiving and studying the ancient AI from the “Dune” universe.

After conducting a series of detailed studies on this ancient AI, personnel from the research department of a giant company discovered that this thing is really not simple.

They can be considered as some kind of advanced AI life form, and their strength is similar to the intelligent AI passed down by the Forerunner civilization. They also have a strong desire to reproduce and evolve.

These primitive forms of ancient AI have already demonstrated their amazing potential. After evolving for several stages, they will exhibit even more powerful capabilities and replicate the glory of their ancestors.

For such a powerful AI life form, the giant company naturally connected it to the matrix as soon as possible, using it as a breeding dish to create more controllable “Dune” ancient AIs.

As a key productivity factory resource, AI is the core technology developed by the world’s giant companies in recent years. Various automated creations cannot be separated from AI, and even the maintenance of the military requires AI.

In fact, in the human world controlled by global giants, AI has long become an inseparable part of human beings. The AI ​​girlfriend “Joey”, the same as that in “Blade Runner”, is the most fashionable AI product at the moment.

The Nexus-9 clones are of top quality made by the clone factory in Ideal City. Customers can customize the appearance and body shape of the clones, and add trained AI.

Everyone can get the soul mate they want, such as customized lifelong partner AIs, which can even become pregnant and give birth to children for customers and reproduce the next generation.

Although this has brought about tremendous changes to the traditional family structure, facing the trend of the new era, everyone has chosen to accept it calmly.

After all, humans are a convenience-seeking and selfish species. With better options, who would choose the inefficient, clichéd and backward process of “getting to know each other, falling in love, cooling-off period, breaking up, blind date”?

This ancient AI with great evolutionary potential is also one of the important trophies obtained by Leon in the 005 “Dune” universe.

With this new AI, the productivity of giant companies can be raised to a higher level, and the happiness of human society can be improved again!

Apart from the ancient AI, which still has some stuff, the other items sealed and left behind by the Colino royal family are not very interesting. They are nothing more than some precious metals, rare treasures and the like.

It is worth mentioning that the final integration of this giant enterprise was completed very smoothly, which was mainly due to the fact that the Colino family had offended too many people.

The heads of each family wanted to kill all the members of the royal family. There was no need for Song Zhaomei to remind them specifically, as these old men would take up their knives and start chopping people themselves.

Soon, the Corino royal family was completely destroyed and collapsed under the siege of other families, and it went from being a family that once dominated the Galactic Empire to a sea of ​​corpses and blood where everything was wiped out.

In less than a year, the Colino family was completely submerged in the long history of the Dune universe, and the world could no longer see any trace of their presence!

With the death of the old emperor, it is time for the new emperor to take the throne and continue to rule this ancient galactic empire, redistribute the power and interests of the empire, and shape a new political landscape.

Among them, the most puzzling and surprising thing for the heads of the major families was that Baron Barron, who should have been treated as a war criminal, was not executed together with Emperor Saddam.

This cunning fat man was actually on the list of fiefdoms and titles of various major families. Baron was even promoted directly from Baron to Duke!
In the Galactic Empire’s title system, the duke has the highest status, followed by the earl, and the baron last. These titles were all determined in the AI ​​holy war ten thousand years ago.

The Baron of the Harkonnen family, whose natural status and rank were two levels lower than the Duke of the Atreides family, was able to reach the same level as Atreides.

From this we can see that the ability and vision of the fat old Baron Barron are indeed extraordinary, which is also the fundamental reason why Le Ang kept this villain.

He always likes to employ capable people.

Although Baron Barron’s promotion to Duke Barron caused a lot of controversy and confusion within the family, only Barron himself knew the answer.

The reason why he was able to live until now was not only because he admitted his mistakes quickly, but also because he had worked hard to build up the family business in his early years by plundering and being greedy.

For a qualified family head, the most important thing is to plunder as many resources as possible to ensure the survival and risk resistance of his family.

Because only by doing this can your family continue to survive.

The Lansgard Federation controlled by the Atreides Family is essentially aimed at plundering the emperor’s power and strengthening its own strength.

It’s just that Duke Leto was smarter. He knew to leave some soup for other younger brothers in the family and made a fortune together with a large group of brothers. Therefore, he was not hated and only offended the royal family.

But Baron Barron chose a path completely opposite to Leto’s. He supported the Colino royal family and was willing to be Emperor Saddam’s lackey to seize benefits from other small families.

In essence, there is no right or wrong or better path between these two different paths. What both families are betting on is luck and the fortune of the family.

Leto bet that he could gang up on the royal family, while Baron bet that he could bully all the families together with the royal family.

Even the sisterhood that was secretly running back and forth couldn’t see clearly who would be the winner in the end, so the Virgin Helen had to sleep with Barron while forcing her daughter Jessica to Leto.

He would even find time to visit Emperor Saddam and serve him personally.

In this power struggle, the heads of every big family are all top chess players. No one has ever made any mistakes or exposed their weaknesses.

Among these families, the one that went against the current throughout the whole process was not the Atreides, but the Harkonnen family, which was regarded as the villain!
They used small amounts to win big, and from being outsiders who had no right to play chess, they rose to the forefront of the imperial power struggle. Their hard work and efforts are truly moving.

With his unremitting efforts over the years, Barron finally raised enough resources to place bets and take sides, so at the critical moment when the global giant enterprise appeared, he seized the only chance to save his life.

After the Universal Corporation supported the Atreides family to successfully ascend to power, it definitely needed a new role to act as a check and balance.

This key piece of information was successfully captured by Barron, who had a sophisticated and unique political vision, so he volunteered to play this key role.

The resources and family heritage that the Harkonnen family has gained through years of plunder and exploitation are the basis for him to make this promise to the giant company.

If it were another small family saying something like that? Where did it come from? Go away. It’s not their turn to check and balance the Atreides.

For the giant enterprise, Barron’s volunteering just happened to achieve Leon’s strategic goal of balancing Atreides and maintaining the balance of the empire.

First of all, if we change to supporting other small families, it will be difficult to choose suitable candidates, because most of the aristocratic families have a good relationship with Atreides.

This is thanks to the old man, Duke Leto, who has been uniting the clans since his debut. Most of the imperial families have received his favor.

As the saying goes, one who receives favors shall be grateful, and one who eats the favors shall be soft-hearted. Leon really doesn’t think that the new family he supports can do what Harkonnen did and fight to the death against the Atreides family. Those good-for-nothings can do it.

But the Harkonnen family is completely different!

Whether it’s from grudges or family origins, this pair of families are natural nemesis and they dislike each other. This is the perfect chess piece for giant companies to balance the situation.

Although it doesn’t have to be the Harkonnen family, the effect will be better if it is the Harkonnen family, that’s all.

Of course, the main reason is that Leon believes that Barron is indeed capable enough, given that his power base, political status, and territorial resources are inherently weaker than those of the Atreides family.

He has managed to make it to where he is today, which shows that Barron is indeed capable. If it weren’t for Barron’s greed and extortion, he would not have the confidence to say that he could be a dog for a giant company.

After all, even if you want to be a lackey, you still need to have skills.

However, among all the families, the biggest winner was still the Chosen Family of Atreides! As the head of a family who had made it clear from the beginning that he could win in the end, Leto was particularly proud at this moment.

Now, he is the president of the Galactic Empire Universal Trade Chamber, responsible for coordinating the transportation of goods for giant companies by major families.

This is a hereditary, iron rice bowl, enough to ensure the prosperity of the Atreides family from generation to generation, provided that their successors do not commit suicide.

If they don’t commit suicide, the people of Atreides can rest on their laurels and live freely and happily forever.

In addition, Leto’s wife Jessica also joined the sisterhood department of the giant company and became the supervisor of sisterhood members.

This is also the organization of a serious giant enterprise!
Now, under Jessica’s management, the sisterhood will continue to develop and research more functions of spices, and will cultivate the spice industry to achieve complete industrial integration.

The spices produced will be transported to various universes as best-selling products of the world’s giant companies, harvesting the resources of other civilized species and draining their young labor force.

Of course, the sisterhood still needs to continue to use their traditional skills within the giant company, which is publicity, using all the legends, prophecies, and proverbs that can be arranged.

In order to build momentum for the enthronement of Divine Emperor Le Ang, the witches of the sisterhood painstakingly fabricated a series of legends, confusing a large number of common people who did not know the truth.

For a time, prophecies about the Divine Emperor were everywhere.

Legends such as “The Emperor of the Galaxy replaces the cruel and incompetent Corino family” and “The dawn of hope reappears in the Empire! The Emperor’s grace spreads throughout the Milky Way” quickly spread to every corner of the empire.

In short, the global giant corporation only released one key message to the humans in the 005 “Dune” universe, which is that a change of dynasty is about to take place.

From the major families to the common people, they all came to acknowledge the master!
And today, the heads of major families of the Galactic Empire have all gathered on Kaitan, the former capital of the empire, for the coronation ceremony of the Divine Emperor Leon.

Although Kaitan had previously experienced a fierce unification war, which resulted in a large number of buildings being damaged.

Fortunately, after the war, some places were still preserved, which could be used to temporarily rebuild a decent capital.

Under the overnight construction of the engineering department of the global giant enterprise, a fairly magnificent Kaitan City will serve as Leon’s landing site this time.

Moreover, after the coronation ceremony, Kaitan will continue to exist as the capital of the empire. What the giant company needs to do is to renovate and rebuild Kaitan on the original basis.

It’s not that Leon is willing to continue living in a “haunted house” where someone has died in order to save money and trouble, but the geographical location of Kaitan Star is quite good.

The ancestors of the Colino royal family were not fools. Of course, in such a huge galactic empire, they would give priority to leaving the best planets and galaxies to their own descendants.

Since Kaitan is a good place where successive Saddam emperors “carefully select the best”, Leon will definitely not give it to other families for free. Even if he doesn’t live there himself, it would be nice to keep it as a temporary palace.

At this time, the city of Kaitan was already crowded with dignitaries from various universes, from humans to alien races, everything was available.

No one wants to miss the coronation ceremony of the Divine Emperor.

The imperial capital located on the plain had lost the post-war depression of a few months ago. Instead, people of all ethnic groups were shuttling between the main roads.

This temporarily rebuilt Kaitan City retains most of the local architectural style, but some areas already have traces of a cybercity.

Although the unique cultural atmosphere of the Galactic Empire has made the architecture here unique, compared with the efficient, convenient and simple facilities in the main universe, it seems a bit backward.

As a super civilization involved in the universe, it is of course necessary for the Universe Giant Corporation to provide more convenient living options for ordinary residents.

In addition, the humans in the Dune universe will sooner or later be involved in various departments of the universe’s giant corporations, and obey the giant corporations’ dispatches to travel to various universes or carry out construction work.

Therefore, the Galactic Empire will definitely keep up with the transformation process of the giant enterprises and slowly transition to a new future era.

At this time, in the eastern part of Kaitan City, on a busy commercial street.

Chini Keynes, wearing brown and yellow combat uniform, was walking towards the Enthronement Square in the north of the city with her tribesmen and their leader.

Ever since the Fremen on Arrakis were recruited into the army by the Universal Corporation, Chini, the heroine of “Dune”, who was supposed to have known Paul, naturally became a member of the Freman Corps of the Universal Corporation.

Now, Chini is a legionnaire of a giant enterprise.

At this moment, Chini was following closely beside the Fremen leader, Stilgar, blinking her cautious and curious blue eyes, carefully observing everything around her.

The dazzling array of goods from various universes dazzled her. Chini really wanted to stop and pick something to take away, but unfortunately she didn’t dare to ask.

After all, logically speaking, she was not qualified to come here to visit and witness the coronation ceremony of the Divine Emperor Leon like these powerful figures.

Fortunately, as the chief of the Fremen, Stilgar naturally accepted the amnesty from the Giant Enterprise and became the leader of the Giant Enterprise Fremen Regiment.

With this identity, Stilgar was able to bring Chini to Kaitan City to broaden his horizons.

If it were an ordinary person, he would not have this opportunity.

“I heard that there is a cyber city called Night City on the home planet of His Majesty the Divine Emperor, Ideal City. The scenery there is even more magnificent than here. I wonder when I can go and see it!”

At this time, one of the Fremen warriors spoke excitedly.

He had lived in the endless sand dunes since he was a child. There was nothing but fine sand and huge sandworms there. It was nothing like the magnificent city of Kaitan.

Just standing here, he felt like he was in heaven. What a magnificent sight the legendary Night City would be like!
“Don’t worry, it won’t take long.”

Stilgar said calmly without even turning his head: “When the time comes, we will go to Ideal City to participate in military training under the unified arrangement of the giant enterprise.”

“Just do me a favor and don’t embarrass us Fremen during training.”

After saying this, Stilgar ordered the soldiers to keep their eyes open, speak as little as possible, and avoid any conflicts with others.

Because all the people who can come here are big shots who are either rich or noble. As a combat unit that has just joined the giant enterprise, they have the support of the Development Department.

But at this moment, the Fremen have not achieved any decent achievements, so they don’t have the confidence to speak up.

The best option right now is to keep a low profile as much as possible.

“Yes! Captain.”

The Fremen warriors nodded, immediately put away their playful expressions, and followed Stilgar in silence into the depths of the crowd.

Cheni kept her slightly dry and chapped lips tightly closed the whole time. She did not imagine what Night City would be like like other warriors of her race.

What she really wanted was to stand on top of Night City and overlook the entire empire of the world’s giant corporation.

The chance of staying in the Fremen regiment is too small. Only by joining the Vanguard of the Heavens or the Ace Vanguard will there be more opportunities!
“here we go–!”

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted excitedly among the crowded crowd, and the Fremen warriors immediately looked in the direction the crowd was looking.

In the center of the wide square, Astartes warriors wearing Mark X heavy armor and Spartan warriors wearing Thor’s hammer power armor began to surround the square and maintain order on the scene.

And under the high platform at the core of the square, gathered the heads of the major families of the empire in their best attire.

Duke Leto of the Atreides Family, Baron Baron of the Harkonnen Family, Jessica, the head of the Sisterhood, and the head of the Space Guild, etc., were all present and in place.

As for the people who appeared on the podium, in addition to the interstellar governor V who had just taken over, there were also the current governor of the “Dune” universe Song Zhaomei, and marshal-level generals such as Jack, Reed, and Morgan.

These people are all the heads of various departments of giant enterprises and control the administrative power of each department. At this moment, they stand on both sides of the platform with solemn and dignified expressions, like statues of gods.

(End of this chapter)