Chapter 95 Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.06 Neutral Zone: Diplomatic Carrier ‘Prince of Tyre’ Prime Minister Lucifer LUCIFER Between Shay’tan’s empire and the Galactic Alliance lay the savaged remains of what had once been a third empire. Ground up and shat out by the two adjacent titans, its only purpose today was to serve as a strategic buffer, a place where “unofficial business” took place, things the movers and shakers did not wish their governments to know. Among the asteroid belt of what had once been its capital-planet—until somebody [*cough, cough, his adoptive father*] had blown it all to s**t—hovered the Alliance flagship, the ‘Prince of Tyre.’ Long and graceful, there was something organic about the way she tapered from nose to fin, her catfish-like antennae, and her t

