Super Spender

Chapter 820: Chapter 815 Serious Consequences Part 2_1

As for how to choose a successor, they naturally have their own set of selection criteria. Within the family’s Elder Council, there is a supreme group known as the Highest Elder Circle, and the decisions made by this Highest Elder Circle are almost tantamount to decisions made by the entire clan. To put it bluntly, this Highest Elder Circle is very much like the cabinets of various countries on Earth.

This Highest Elder Circle is responsible for all aspects of the clan, and the Clan Leader is like the nation’s leader. The only difference is that this nation is composed of family members. It bears some similarities to the feudal societies of ancient times.

However, the reason why such a system has not collapsed is due to their prolonged lifespans. When a competent individual serves as the Clan Leader, the clan can sustain itself for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. During this time, the number of offspring naturally becomes a vast figure.

Among these people, there will always be some who are exceptional, and that is why these clans remain prosperous. As for the ordinary citizens thinking about resistance, it is likely very difficult. At least, the Galactic Federation would not allow such events to occur.

But at this moment within the Highest Elder Circle, the atmosphere is rather grave. The Rochefort Clan’s Highest Elder Circle consists of 25 family elders, including the Clan Leader, and right now, everyone has a dossier in front of them. A warship fleet has been lost, and completely destroyed, but that’s not important.

Even though the fleet was valuable, and even had the current military manager of the family’s administrative institute on board, none of that is important. The individuals are not the key issue; the key lies in the event itself.

The Highest Elder Circle leads the administrative institute, but the members of the administrative institute are not part of the Elder Council. In fact, the Elder Council is just a place to wait out one’s days, except for the Highest Elder Circle, which is elected from within the Elder Council and doesn’t really have much authority in practice.

Of course, a lack of authority does not mean a lack of influence. They wield a great deal of influence over the administrative institute. The administrative institute, to speak plainly, comprises the actual heads of the family’s various departments, the ones who take action. The administrative institute controls all the parts that make up the Rochefort Clan.

Everything is carried out by the people of the administrative institute, layer by layer. The structure is fundamentally the same across all the major clans in the Galactic Federation. Of course, within these major clans, one must account for the size of the clan, with smaller clans not needing such detailed divisions.

The death of the head of military affairs at the administrative institute is not critical. Dead is dead. The Rochefort Clan is so powerful that there are plenty of people to take his place. What they fear now is what this thing could be. Although the battlefield was extremely fierce, the entire recording of the battle situation was transmitted back.

They could see the entire process of what happened. No one knew what exactly had occurred, but what they did know was that these space monsters seemed to have come from nowhere, and they appeared to be not only space monsters but also possessed powerful offensive capabilities and could even perform star-level jumps.

This is indeed the most terrifying part. If they cannot perform star-level jumps and just fly, even if these monsters were as fast as the speed of light, that would not be frightening because even at light speed, traveling in the universe is still very slow. This would mean their mobility is poor, and they would have enough time to set up adequate weaponry along the monsters’ path before their arrival, in order to eliminate these beings.

Because for humans, the weapons they create are the most lethal, and the monsters’ offensive capabilities don’t seem very formidable, at least based on the transmitted information. Their only terrifying aspect is their numbers, but even numbers aren’t daunting—the Galactic Federation has plenty of powerful weaponry.

Whether it’s the black hole bombs or planet-level destruction weapons, all are enough to obliterate them. But now there’s a problem: these monsters can perform interstellar jumps.

Once they are capable of jumping, that’s a big issue, because the mobility is too terrifying. Jeremiah doesn’t believe these creatures lack intelligence; otherwise, Jeremiah Jenkins wouldn’t have died so miserably, practically delivering himself to death. Of course, Jeremiah understands, Jerrold was acting for the good of the clan.

This thing is too horrifying. If it were to enter into Rochefort Clan territory, the damage would not be limited to a fleet or two; the number of deaths would be astronomical. Even though the Rochefort Clan is one of the nine great surnames of the royal family, they could not bear such a loss.

“Mobilize all military forces of the clan, have several military factories start scaling up the production of first-class warships, produce more Gene Warriors, and also notify the Inspection Bureau, the Federation, and other clans about this matter, telling them that we need help,” Jerrold ordered after a long pause and without waiting for the Elder Circle to come to a decision.

No one objected to this decision, because everyone understood how terrifying it would be if these beings broke into Rochefort Clan territory.

“Deploy the Hound-class reconnaissance destroyers, send out a hundred search units with a target of 100 light-years within our inner region as the battlefield, and start ramping up the search intensity. We must find traces of these monsters,” another elder, who was in charge of military affairs, interjected.

Jerrold nodded and said, “Alright, the mobilization of military forces will be entrusted to you. This matter must be reported to the Federation, and in addition, communicate with the other clans to see if similar monsters have been found elsewhere. Such creatures have never appeared in the Heritage System before.”

“Yes!” everyone responded in unison.

“Now there’s another problem,” another elder spoke up bluntly, “The garbage we produced to help the Aitken Family has been destroyed, and with less than a month until the contract takes effect, even with our help, we can’t finish production in time. This means that this business deal is bound to fail.”

“240 billion star credits is not an amount the Aitken Family can afford. Selling them off would not cover it,” another elder added. Everyone’s gaze immediately focused on Jerrold.

Jerrold frowned, 240 billion was not a small sum even for the Rochefort Clan. Of course, if it were just Rochefort Clan currency, it wouldn’t matter—they could always find a way to produce Federal coins. However, with star credits it became more complicated, as it would not be easy to deceive Star Bank.@@novelbin@@