Chapter 309 The process of power transition! Bloody and violent!
In the "cooperation" between the Universal Corporation and the Atreides Family, the Universal Corporation is undoubtedly the stronger party and the actual boss of the Atreides.
The Universal Corporation can arbitrarily ask the Atreides Family to do anything for the Corporation, and the Atreides can only obey the orders of the Corporation unconditionally.
At the beginning, the Universal Corporation would temporarily lower its profile to negotiate with Duke Leto and promise the other party benefits in order to speed up the integration process.
But now that the overall situation has been determined, it is already quite difficult for Leto to keep the benefits that the Corporation promised to him before. He dare not go too far and ask for more resources from the Corporation.
Otherwise, if the Universal Corporation is angered, Leon can take back the rights and status promised to the Atreides Family at any time and replace them with the Harkonnen Family.
So on the surface, the relationship between the Atreides and the Corporation looks like an alliance, but in fact Duke Leto knows very well that he is just a dog raised by Leon.
Whether the Atreides family can eat the dog food fed by the giant enterprise depends on whether they are obedient enough, otherwise they will be replaced by new lackeys at any time.
After listening to the explanation of the sergeant, the Virgin Helen suddenly remembered that the other party was the person she had seen on Caladan.
At that time, Rita was with the sergeant, and they claimed that they were from the Universal Corporation, but Helen at that time did not believe the other party's nonsense at all.
She thought that the Universal Corporation was just a technology and trade organization created by the Atreides family.
But now it seems that it is not the case at all!
"So, you are not Duke Leto's people."
Helen, who was a little stunned, began to turn her brain quickly, and the passing time seemed to stop at this moment.
She looked up at the Spartan warriors around her. Helen could clearly feel that these guards had a natural arrogance and confidence, and they were indeed not like ordinary guards of the Atreides family.
So this group of people is most likely from a mysterious force that is not weaker than the Atreides Family.
And these guards raided Kaitan only for the Sisterhood, which should be related to the assassination planned by the Sisterhood recently.
Obviously, Helen realized that it was the Sisterhood members she arranged on Arrakis who threatened the important figures of the Universal Corporation.
But her first task was to assassinate the senior members of the Atreides Family, but the people of the Universal Corporation were implicated, which means that there were also core members of the Universal Corporation among the people present at the time.
After sorting out all the clues here, Helen has understood the truth of most things. The Universal Corporation is an ally of the Atreides Family, and even the mastermind behind the scenes!
The strength of the Universal Corporation is so strong that it is unbelievable. The defense system of Kaitan and the Imperial Palace District is like a virtual thing to them. This force has the absolute power of "clearing the stage with one shot".
At this moment, Helen naturally thought of the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Arrakis. It was obvious that the defeat of the royal family and the Harkonnen family was due to the super fleet of the Giant Enterprise.
But neither the Harkonnen family nor the intelligence agency of the Corino royal family could obtain any effective intelligence about the fleet.
They were not even 100% sure of the true owner of the super fleet.
Whether it was the Universal Giant Enterprise or the huge and terrifying fleet, they were like aliens that appeared out of thin air!
The powerful force that the Universal Giant Enterprise showed over the Atreides family also forced Duke Leto to submit to the Giant Enterprise, and Jessica had to betray the Sisterhood.
So from the beginning to now, Jessica already knew the whole truth and the predetermined ending.
She knew that the Atreides family would achieve a brilliant victory under the leadership of the Giant Enterprise, and Paul did not need the help of the Sisterhood at all to become the capital of the Galactic Emperor.
After comprehensive consideration, Jessica made the choice that best suited her own interests, betraying the Sisterhood and joining the Universal Corporation!
At that moment, the Virgin Helen finally figured out the truth of the matter. She sighed sadly, but until now, she still didn't know which family the Universal Corporation belonged to.
You know, since the end of the AI Holy War ten thousand years ago, the power and resource base of the Galactic Empire has long been divided up by the major families.
Enfeoff the princes and protect the empire.
Under such circumstances, it is impossible for there to be a vacuum of power and resources, and suddenly an ancient family that has lasted for tens of thousands of years will emerge and act as the big boss behind the scenes.
The power and resources allocated to all the aristocratic families are all fixed and clearly visible. Who is strong and who is weak has long been destined and planned.
The Corino Royal Family ranks first, and is a T0 existence that overwhelms the heroes, while the Atreides and Harkonnen families are firmly in the T1 ranks, and the rest of the families are in the back row.
It can be said that the top families in the Galactic Empire are only the Corino, Atreides, and Harkonnen families. There will be no stronger families.
But now a top force that can force Atreides to surrender and easily defeat the Corino and Harkonnen families suddenly appears.
It's like a bucket that can only hold one liter of water suddenly gushed out a ton of water. So where did this extra water come from!
All the major families in the Galactic Empire are under the surveillance of the Sisterhood. Virgin Helen really can't figure out which family can have such a skill.
More importantly, since the giant companies in the world have the power to unify all the major families, why didn't they take action earlier instead of supporting the Atreides family?
Could it be that the boss behind a giant company in the world is not interested in the position of emperor?
Could it be that...the giants in the world come from forces outside the galaxy? !
In an instant, Virgin Helen was stunned.
Due to the long-term use of spices, her brain works very quickly, and the spark of inspiration allows Helen to find the answer closest to the truth.
Maybe the giants in the world are ancient human forces from outside the galaxy!
The AI jihad that took place thousands of years ago spread to the entire galaxy. Some families who could not survive the war despaired of the bad war situation and chose to fly away.
These ancient humans developed a completely different human civilization outside the Milky Way, which is why they have such strong technological strength.
"Are you humans from outside the galaxy?!"
Helen looked at the Master Chief with astonishment in her eyes. No wonder she always felt weird about these Spartans. It turned out that they were not "locals" at all.
"You only know the truth now, it's somewhat too late." The Master Chief snorted coldly. It's not that the giant company didn't give Helen a chance, it was her own fault.
At this time, Rita, who received the execution list from the headquarters and successfully arrested the senior members of the sisterhood, walked out of the darkness.
The Spartan warriors behind her escorted more than ten core members of the sisterhood to this area, and were about to be executed together with the Virgin Helen.
"Helen, let me tell you the truth, Duke Leto is not qualified to sit as the Galactic Emperor. The one who wants to sit in this seat is our boss."
"He will take over all the religious and political organizations of the Sisterhood and the Empire and become the only God-Emperor here!"
At this moment, Virgin Helen felt a bolt from the blue, and her desperate eyes revealed unwillingness and endless grief and indignation.
Of course, the more emotion is still regret.
It turned out that from the beginning to the end, the Atreides family was just a dog of a giant company in the world, and the boss behind the scenes had already appeared in front of him from the beginning.
She only needs to connect with a giant company to lead the sisterhood straight to the winner's camp, instead of being completely liquidated like now!
But what surprised Helen even more was that even the Andromeda Galaxy, which is the closest to the Milky Way, is one million light-years away.
Such a long distance, what a powerful and terrifying civilization force the giants in the world must be to be able to cross such a long distance and come to the Milky Way.
The truth about this mechanical deity completely subverted Helen's cognition.
Seeing Helen's stunned and surprised look, Rita decided to tell her the whole truth so that she would not die in confusion.
Immediately, Rita explained Helen's doubts: "The assassin you arranged to assassinate Duke Leto met our Lord Governor. You should know what this means."
Hearing this, Helen was immediately heartbroken. Governor was not a very popular and obscure word. The administrative leader arranged by a giant company to come to the empire actually encountered such an assassination case.
It's no wonder that the world's giant companies are going to war, sending such an elite force to carry out precise strikes, and making a determined gesture to eradicate the sisterhood.
At this moment, Helen closed her eyes in despair, scolding the assassins sent out ten thousand times in her heart, but most of her emotions were still worrying about why she was so unlucky.
The headquarters of Arrakis is full of high-level officials of the Atreides family. How come they met the governor of a giant company? What a fool who fails to succeed but fails to succeed!
"Okay, you should be on your way now."
At this time, the Master Chief, who received the execution order, activated the custom prosthetic weapon Mantis Knife on his arm and popped it out.
Equipping yourself with a prosthetic weapon is a traditional habit of every Astartes and Spartan warrior, even the Master Chief is no exception.
Among the many prosthetic weapons, he chose the same mantis knife as V.
At this moment, the correspondent quickly set up the super-light communication device, and through Kaitan's broadcast network, the scene here was projected on every screen in the Galactic Empire in real time.
In an instant, everyone in the empire could see what was happening here.
Soon, Rita stood calmly in front of the camera and announced to the people watching the live broadcast:
"We are from a giant company in the world. We are the super civilized government that is about to take over the Galactic Empire and unify the 005 "Dune" universe."
Then, Rita glanced at the Virgin Helen who was kneeling on the ground and said:
"This is the Bene Gesserit of the Sisterhood, she is the Mother Helen of the Sisterhood, but today, that revered identity will no longer be hers."
In front of the camera, the rickety and thin, pale-faced Virgin Helen looked like an old bone that could fall apart at any time in the cold wind. This scene made the senior family members very unbelievable.
The Holy Mother, who was once so high and so honorable, could actually end up in such a humiliating and sad end.
In the footage, they could even see the iconic buildings of the palace crumbling and disintegrating, with chaos and wailing everywhere.
At this moment, the Colino family guards still did not give up their counterattack against the Spartans.
But the Sojourner dreadnought hovering in the sky has already launched a large number of AI drones and clone soldiers to help the soldiers block these irrelevant soldiers.
When there are too many enemy personnel, David doesn't mind using a hard light cannon to "clear the field with one shot".
At this moment, all the family high-ranking personnel in the empire are watching this bloody execution. They are witnessing the collapse of imperial power and the disintegration of the sisterhood.
The way to plunder power is violence. This truth seems extremely real and close at this time!
At first, some people questioned that this was a fake video, the purpose of which was to cause chaos, but soon these family heads learned about the latest developments on Kaitan through their own news channels.
When they learned that the palace area had fallen and even the chief of the imperial guards had died, they suddenly realized that the once invincible Colino family and the sisterhood were really going to be destroyed.
Of course, Rita didn't care whether these family dignitaries believed it or not. As time went by, it was not difficult to distinguish the truth of the matter.
Here, Rita continued to read out Helen's crimes, and deprived the other party of her political rights for life with numerous evidences.
This operation was to find a reason to kill Helen. To put it simply, this lifelong right was deprived. As long as it was a right related to people, Helen was not qualified to enjoy it.
In other words, Helen was a beast at this moment, no longer a human being. To treat a beast that was not a human being, it was natural to kill it as you wanted.
"The Holy Mother of the Sisterhood, Helen, planned a terrorist attack against the Atreides family in Arrakis, arranged for the Sisterhood assassins to sneak into the base, and tried to assassinate the core members of the Atreides."
"In this process, important senior personnel of the Universal Corporation were affected. In line with the principle that those who offend our giant enterprise must be punished no matter how far they are."
"We will purge the Sisterhood organization and execute Helen, the mastermind behind the scenes, to serve as a warning to others!"
As the voice fell, the live broadcast suddenly split into two. In the other new picture, it was the canonization ceremony of Lady Jessica becoming the new Holy Mother of the Sisterhood under the arrangement of Song Zhaomei.
On this side, the new sisterhood is being established. Jessica will serve as the head of the department to develop and deeply explore the role of spices for giant companies.
On the other side, the old sisterhood's mother Helen is about to be executed, and Helen's trusted senior officials will die with her, and the old power is about to die.
This visually impactful picture shows that the power transition process can be so smooth, and the senior officials of the families are both surprised and excited.
Because most of them have stood on the side of the Atreides family, this time, they made the right choice!
At this moment, Helen looked up and saw that her biological daughter Jessica was taking over her position and becoming the new head of the sisterhood. She couldn't help feeling sad in her heart.
Helen knew that her relationship with Jessica was not "motherly love and daughter filial piety". After all, Jessica had been trained by Helen as a tool since she was a child.
But what Helen couldn't accept was that Jessica, who had been manipulated and controlled by herself for a lifetime, would actually set herself up at this juncture.
Jessica could have contacted Helen in private and told her the truth. It would have been enough to show some evidence, but she didn't do it.
This means that Jessica had long wanted to replace Helen!
After figuring this out, Helen smiled with relief. Jessica and she were the same kind of people, but this time, she didn't win.
"Jessica, you win."
Helen closed her eyes and straightened her back, as if she accepted her death calmly.
The next second, the sergeant raised his knife and fell, accompanied by a crisp sound, the flesh and bones were separated, and Helen's head fell from her wrinkled neck.
The whole process was neat and tidy, without any silky drag, and the other sisterhood members behind Helen were also killed one by one.
Headshot, beheading, injection poisoning, everything is available.
This time, Rita didn't prepare a long and stinky speech. Their mission here was to publicly execute the Virgin Helen and arrest Emperor Shaddam.
"Any organization that dares to endanger the interests of the Universal Corporation will be regarded as an enemy of the Corporation. The Corporation will take any necessary measures to deal with the enemy."
"In addition, the Universal Corporation accepts the challenge of any force, but if it uses improper behavior including but not limited to assassination, the Corporation will still take strong countermeasures!"
Rita's words are actually typical double-standard quotes. After all, during the war, everything is used to the extreme.
Assassination is just one of the most insignificant methods.
But the Universal Corporation is an unprecedentedly powerful force in the Galactic Empire. Whoever has a big enough fist has the final say. The rules set by the Corporation are specifically to restrict the weak.
"Biological weapons, biological weapons, nuclear weapons and other weapons that violate humanitarian principles cannot be used. Violators must be punished. Helen will be a lesson for you!"
Just when Rita said these words, the sergeant next to him subconsciously lowered his head, not knowing whether he was holding back a laugh or a little ashamed.
Because some time ago, he heard that the Universal Corporation had launched a strategic weapon called "neutron annihilation" against a certain species civilization in the 004 "Halo" universe.
It took only a few minutes to exterminate a civilization species that had lasted for 100,000 years.
Now the giant corporation does not even allow others to play with such a trivial thing as nuclear weapons. Isn't this pure double standards!
Of course, in fact, Rita was just doing what her superiors wanted. After all, the Universal Corporation was about to start the final task of integrating the 005 "Dune" universe.
Who cooperates and who attacks, the enemies and allies have long been distinguished. Since fighting is indispensable, it is better to take this opportunity to deter the enemy and force more enemies to surrender.
This can also reduce the impact of the war on civilians and reduce unnecessary casualties.
After saying that, Rita asked someone to turn off the live broadcast. After kidnapping Emperor Shaddam, they swaggered and prepared to return.
As for this Kaitan star, it will be left to the upcoming First and Second Expedition Corps to take over.
This night left too many shocks to the major families of the Galactic Empire. There is no doubt that they kept Rita's words in mind.
Today's Spartan warriors can rush into the heavily guarded palace, kidnap Emperor Shaddam and behead the Virgin Helen in full view of the public.
Tomorrow, they may also perfectly replicate this set of procedures on other disobedient families!
