After talking with Karl Reiss, Zeke immediately changed his appearance and appeared in the Royal Court where his parents were.
Originally, he wanted to confide in his parents, and then, under their protection, continue to be a child and play for a few days to relax.
But in fact, when he had just walked to the Royal Court of his parents, he was stopped by the guards.
"Your Highness, the high king and his wife have already left the planet. They have gone on vacation—"
...For a moment, Zeke didn't know what to say. His father took his mother on vacation, but he was the high king!
What did this mean?
Zeke's brain raced, and he quickly understood his father's intention.
Good heavens, he just wanted him to start working immediately!
Once he understood this, how could Zeke possibly stay at home? He immediately activated his warp engine and disappeared from his residence.
A few minutes after he disappeared, team after team of attendants, carrying box after box of documents, walked towards his Royal Court.
There were so many of them that they surrounded him from all directions.
It could only be said that Zeke ran fast enough. He used unconventional means to slip away directly, otherwise, no matter what, he would have been caught.
Zeke spatial warped back to his battleship and quickly issued an order.
"The transport ships will stay behind to prepare for the transport of our required supplies. The rest of the fleet will return with me immediately to prepare for the hive Fleet."
"Quick, quick, speed up! We're leaving now, leaving now, at maximum speed!"
The battleship's engines roared to life. Zeke stood on the bridge, watching the family planet gradually recede outside the viewport, and let out a long sigh of relief.
"Glad I ran fast..." He wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead. "If I had been blocked by that group of attendants, I'd probably be buried in a pile of documents for three months."
The family adjutant stood by, hesitant to speak: "Your Highness, are we... really just leaving like this? Those documents..."
Zeke waved his hand: "Don't worry, those documents will find the people who should deal with them."
Adjutant: "???"
Zeke didn't explain, just showed a mysterious smile.
As long as he ran, his father couldn't run. The family would definitely call his father back. Don't even think about throwing his current work at him.
The fleet quickly began to set sail, reaching 100,000 times the speed of light from the start, and this speed was increasing at a rate of 50,000 times the speed of light per second.
This was not like the slow return before, to avoid prayers.
This was a situation where if he was even a little late, he would be caught by the family and be finished.
Just a few minutes later, the Dominion Fleet, no longer burdened by an emperor-class battleship, quickly returned to the Stellar Base in the Calis System.
The Stellar Base was now completely different from before, but before Zeke could admire the changes to the Stellar Base, a communication came through to him.
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"Scan the location from which this communication was sent. Determine their coordinates. Why is a communication from there coming to me?"
Zeke was somewhat surprised. Why would he receive a communication? This was completely illogical.
In an instant, the scanning results were quickly presented to him.
"Reporting, Emperor. The communication was sent from your family's information, using quantum communication methods, which are completely different from the communication methods commonly used by the Imperium of Man."
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Zeke felt he had received enough surprises lately, and all these surprises came from his family. Where did his family get quantum communication methods?
It couldn't be that this thing was another legacy of the Golden Age, could it? What exactly was the situation with his family?
Although he really didn't want to answer this communication, as it was from his family's information, Zeke still chose to connect after a moment of thought.
If it was a blessing, it wasn't a disaster; if it was a disaster, he couldn't avoid it. Anyway, he was already in his own heart, and it was impossible for him to go back to deal with government affairs, no matter who called.
"Ezekiel, why did you leave like that? After you leave, who will preside over the overall situation in the family? You know, your father has already run away."
As a familiar voice came, the appearance of Zeke's uncle, Otto Yaeger, appeared in the communication.
When Zeke saw that the communication was not from his father, nor from the elders, he first breathed a sigh of relief, and then his eyes widened.
He somewhat couldn't believe what he saw, because he saw the furnishings behind his uncle. Those were not the furnishings inside an Imperial battleship; they were similar to the furnishings of a Terran Dominion battleship.
"uncle, what is this?"
Hearing this, Otto Yaeger smiled, "You want to ask me what's going on with this thing behind me, right?"
"It's nothing, nothing. This is just a tiny little technological product. If it weren't for this, I might not have been able to contact you."
"And you don't need to make such an expression, do you? Your communication methods can also do the same, can't they?"
Zeke's uncle, Otto Yaeger, said calmly.
"You also know that our family on Terra is a member of the High Lords Council. You say, why has your father been able to stay within the family and not on Terra?"
"How do you think your third uncle was able to receive news from your father in time every time and argue with those high lord?"
Otto Yaeger smiled.
"I understand." Zeke was a smart person. He didn't need his uncle to say anything else; he already understood the meaning behind it.
Good heavens, Golden Age technology!
That is to say, with Dominion-era communication, his family could even receive any news from Terra in the Segmentum Obscurus and communicate with them!!
"Ezekiel, remember, this is our family's secret. No one else knows this secret except the Emperor, not even the Primarchs."
"You are the heir of our family, so some things you will know sooner or later, and now your uncle feels it's time to share something with you."
"You must understand that our family is fundamentally different from other knight houses of the Imperium. Most of them were discovered and absorbed by the Imperial Army or the Adeptus Mechanicus, but our family is different."
"Before the Imperium of Man was established, half of the star systems in the Segmentum Obscurus were under our family's control. However, when the Emperor's expeditionary fleet arrived, our family's ancestors made an agreement with the Emperor."
"What were the terms of the agreement? As descendants, we haven't fully understood them, but our records show that after that agreement was made, our family dispatched a large number of fleets to cooperate with the Imperial Army in battle."
"Before and during the Horus Heresy, the family's fleet was still fighting across the galaxy, expanding the Imperium of Man's territory."
"And you know what happened next. The outbreak of the Horus Heresy led to the Emperor being confined to the golden throne.
You should know that when a ruler needs to be replaced, the original vested interests become the biggest obstacle.
To ensure the prosperity and development of the family, and upon realizing that the Imperium of Man was beyond saving, the family head at the time issued new directives."
"The family never does things it's not confident about, nor does it do meaningless things. Without the Emperor, the Imperium of Man is destined to decline.
House Yaeger cannot continue to display its power and become the backbone of the Imperium of Man; this brings no benefit to the family."
"You must remember that with great power comes great responsibility. This is not an empty phrase. After the Emperor was gone, our family adopted a strategy of biding its time, which is what you see before you now.
This plan has been executed for nearly ten thousand years."
"Even some members of our family already believe that our family is a pure Imperial knight house."
At this point, Otto Yaeger smiled.
"Ezekiel, you should know that I also went through what you are going through now. I used to think the family was an ordinary knight house, until I became the head of the merchant fleet."
"Only a few leaders of the family are privy to its secrets. Most of the family's knights are unaware of this matter.
Those who failed the knight assessment did not die, but were directly sent to the hidden star systems controlled by the family.
You are the future heir of our family, so you can now know about this matter."
"As your uncle, I can only say so much. You just need to know that the family is not as simple as you imagine.
It can be said that we have everything the Terran Dominion had in the Golden Age, and over these ten thousand years, we have also created a few things that the Terran Dominion didn't have."
"As for the rest, you'll have to wait until you take over as the high king to find out."
"Remember, if you encounter any problems that you can't solve, you must ask the family for help!"
"Don't not ask for help. After you ask for help, the family will definitely find a way to help you. You are the next high king."
"At the same time, don't worry that the family can't solve this matter. The family's heritage is beyond your imagination!"
After Otto Yaeger finished speaking, he actively hung up the communication and then sighed deeply.
Things had changed too quickly, somewhat beyond their expectations.
Originally, their plan was to use a large amount of government affairs to prevent Zeke from returning to his colony.
House Yaeger had also detected a large Tyranid Swarm advancing towards the Segmentum Obscurus, and a battle might break out.
They had also initially calculated that the target of these tyranids might be the colony where Zeke was located.
The initial decision made by the family council was that it was just a mere world; what if that world was lost?
As long as their heir was safe, that was all that mattered.
Deploying a fleet to fight the Tyranid Swarm, honestly, the family didn't want to do that.
House Yaeger was not afraid of the hive Fleet; the tyranids were beatable for them.
However,
Deploying a large fleet for one world, and also risking exposure.
This matter was a huge loss.
At the same time, if they really did this, the family's nearly ten thousand years of biding its time would be directly exposed to everyone.
Doing so would be too much of a loss.
When the sky falls, the tall ones bear it. House Yaeger is not a tall one in the Imperium of Man, so why should it bear it?
This was an ancestral teaching!
Originally, their approach was to use a large amount of government affairs to tie down Zeke, lest his chivalry overflow and he insist on saving that world.
At the same time, they had also made preparations to dispatch a fleet to evacuate all the people on Zeke's world.
What they had to do was retreat.
Even connecting to the previous electronic communication was to persuade Zeke as quickly as possible; they had already planned to lay their cards on the table with Zeke.
But now Zeke had clearly returned to his colony.
It was clearly unreasonable to try to persuade Zeke now.
And they also knew their heir's temperament; they couldn't persuade him.
So there was no choice but to let the heir do as he pleased for now.
Let those hive Fleets be a form of training. The elders of House Yaeger were also open-minded.
They were actually all next to Otto Yaeger, and they had also seen the scenery around Zeke. Therefore, they made a new decision in just a few seconds.
Since their heir wouldn't come back, then let it be a training experience.
Since things had come to this, what else could be done?
It was just a small hive Fleet. Did they really think the family couldn't deal with such a fleet?
Don't think that the elders of House Yaeger were all crazy to support Zeke like this.
Mainly because they saw a glimmer of hope in Zeke.
They saw hope different from previous generations of the family.
That was Zeke's powerful scientific research capabilities and the fleet of battleships that appeared around him.
Most importantly, there was also the star-whisper class giant battlesuit that Zeke brought out.
These things could not be made by the Imperium of Man; even the former Dominion would have struggled to make them.
Moreover, the armor Zeke used was even a notch higher than the family's best armor, which indicated a very important thing.
Everything indicated that their heir might be a turning point.
Perhaps it was a turning point for humanity to change its tragic fate.
Or an opportunity to rebuild the Terran Dominion, to rebuild its glory!
House Yaeger had already suffered for over ten thousand years.
Now, the turning point was within their own family, so why not seize it?
Humanity will achieve its manifest destiny!
This was a legacy from the Golden Age!