"Greed is insatiable, the only sin that everyone carries within themselves, even if it is hidden deep in the hearts of every being in the universe." Thoughts of Aenar Targaryen, God-Emperor of Humanity.
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Sitting on the sofa, Aenar looked at Alysanne with provocation. He picked up an apple and bit into it, smiled, and commented with a touch of amusement. "You seem discouraged, my dear daughter. Tell your father what worries you."
Beside him, Daenerys, Rhaenys, and Visenya looked equally provocative. They never imagined seeing the confident Alysanne lose so badly.
Alysanne gritted her teeth at the shamelessness of her father and her three mothers. They were provoking her even though they knew whose fault it was that all this happened.
"You know very well what worries me, my power in the Imperial Senate will be devoured by Maegor and Aegon." Alysanne said with a grim tone, almost a thousand years of hard work thrown into the trash because her father wanted to teach her something.
"Wow, what a big problem!" Daenerys commented with a touch of sarcasm, looking at her niece with a provocative gaze. She gave her political power to Aegon, Visenya gave her political power to Alysanne, and Rhaenys gave her political power to Maegor, all to balance the powers in the court.
Even being the Crown Princess, Alysanne shouldn't have all the political power of the Imperium in her hands; conflict on a smaller scale was always good for training people.
"Don't be dramatic, Aly." Visenya, Alysanne's mother, spoke in a gentle tone. "You are immortal; time is the most useless thing for you. You can always start over, and unlike your brothers, many support you, so it's only a matter of time before you return to the Imperial Senate."
Of course, Alysanne knew this, but it was a thousand years, a damned thousand years of hard work, conspiracies, and assassinations. Everything thrown into the trash by her father, as if all her effort was nothing before his power. This was frustrating.
"Oh, she seems to resent me. What should I do, dear?" Gently kissing Daenerys's neck, Aenar asked with a provocative tone.
Daenerys felt a shiver from the kiss and her legs weakened. She bit her lips and stopped herself from moaning in front of her daughter. Aenar knew which buttons to press to cause her pleasure. She hated and loved this, as it was one of her husband's great prides.
Alysanne wanted to vomit at the intimacy of her parents. Having the memories of Aenar and Visenya having sex wasn't enough; her father had to torture her by showing so much of their intimacy in front of her. "Can you two please go to a damned room?" She said with a touch of irritation.
"Your parents love each other; you should be happy about it. Imagine when ladies are alone in a cold bed without the comfort of their husbands." Aenar said with a smile. He really liked to provoke his daughter, as she usually shows nothing but a professional and cold smile.
Alysanne crossed her arms and showed an expression of disgust. "That's because they are with their mistresses on some pleasure planet."
The so-called Pleasure Planets were basically planetary brothels, where women of every imaginable race could be found. Sex has always been a lucrative thing on a planet with sentient life, much less on a scale where entire civilizations were involved.
Aenar's face also showed a trace of disgust. He had heard that real men don't hesitate to stick it in any hole, but he had absolute appreciation only for human women, especially his wives.
"Let's not talk about that." Daenerys changed the subject. She looked at Aenar and asked with a curious tone. "Who was that red-haired woman next to Miquella?"
The focus of everyone shifted from Alysanne to Aenar in an instant. Alysanne herself was curious about this. She had seen Malenia's birth but knew absolutely nothing about the woman.
"Miquella's soul came from another universe to ours, and because of her special destiny, she was chosen by our universe for a mission and was born as Naerys's daughter, a birth that did not involve a man." Aenar explained in a casual tone, but his words made everyone present widen their eyes in shock.
The existence of other universes was simply shocking.
"Malenia is Miquella's sister in another universe. She preserved her sister's soul and managed to revive her using a clone's body." Aenar finished eating the apple and said in a calm, still casual tone, as if reviving from the dead was no big deal.
"In short, I gained another granddaughter." He said with a satisfied smile.
"So my daughter is still a virgin." Daenerys said with a disappointed tone. She looked at Naerys and Leda, who were behind the sofa, with a tone of disappointment. She had long wanted her daughter to leave this life of celibacy and live happily with a husband.
Naerys's lips twisted abnormally upon hearing her mother's words. Other mothers would have been happy about it; after all, it showed that the woman valued herself, but her mother was disappointed. She didn't know what to do and simply remained silent.
"Everyone has a way to be happy; don't put pressure on Naerys." Visenya acted like an older sister and reprimanded Daenerys, who simply stuck out her tongue at her older sister and looked at her daughter with a touch of apology.
"Can we colonize other universes?" Rhaenys asked the question that was on everyone's mind at that moment. If such a thing were possible, they could stop the current expansion and focus on stealing resources from another universe. When they had hundreds of millions of Astartes soldiers, they could simply wipe all civilizations off the map.
Aenar rolled his eyes at the blatant ambition to enslave another universe, but the idea wasn't bad. The only problem was how to leave the universe. Going to the end of the constantly expanding universe wasn't something so unreal for him; the problem was leaving the universe.
Aenar already felt that the universe had a barrier, a barrier that prevented certain entities from entering. He called this barrier the Crystal Barrier because it looked like a huge colored crystal. Crossing this Crystal Barrier was the real problem.
More specifically, crossing the Crystal Barrier of other universes was the core of the issue. The Barrier prevented things from entering but allowed them to leave, but that was the problem.
After hearing Aenar's explanation, the women fell silent.
"Crossing the Crystal Barrier of other universes is a big problem. Unfortunately, we don't have the technology to break the barrier." Daenerys spoke with a helpless tone. As for using Aenar as a weapon, that never crossed her mind. If the Barrier could withstand the so-called Outer Gods, it could withstand her husband's blows.
If Aenar were so strong, he would have killed the Gods of Chaos a long time ago, something he had always wanted to do.
"You are putting the cart before the horse." Visenya said with a calm and realistic tone. "Instead of worrying about enslaving another universe, we have to deal with our enemies. The Gods of Chaos and these Civilizations are watching us, all waiting for a moment to attack us."
She continued speaking. "If we are really going to colonize another universe, we have to take the Astartes Legions from the Frontier and send them to another universe. I don't need to say that this is extremely dangerous, not to mention the logistics."
Visenya's words extinguished Rhaenys's and Daenerys's ambition. Blinded by greed, they forgot that they simply didn't have enough Astartes to protect the Imperium and colonize another universe. And logistics was the most important thing in a war; without logistics, the war couldn't even begin.
"I was truly blinded by greed. I forgot that we don't have enough soldiers, much less the capacity to create logistics between two universes." Daenerys said with an embarrassed tone. She only thought about how much she would gain by colonizing a universe; she didn't think about logistical matters.
"Me too." Rhaenys said with a laugh.
"Not to mention that if this universe has powerful beings, we could face a war on many fronts." Alysanne added with a calm tone. The Cosmos was so vast that it was not surprising that powerful beings were born.
Aenar was satisfied with Alysanne's caution. Although profits are good, you have to consider whether you can achieve those profits without taking too many risks. Dying in front of a treasure chest was simply agonizing.
"By the way, Aenar." Daenerys called Aenar's attention. "A young civilization called the T'au was found; they are quite peculiar."
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