Empire 06: Conquerer by Richard F. Weyand

Author:Richard F. Weyand [Weyand, Richard F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Space Opera
Published: 2019-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

Jeremy Totten finally had his two hundred and fifty-one members, and he called the Parliament to vote in the new government. The shadow government won the election, and Harold Pinter’s government became the loyal opposition.

It was the morning of the next day before the staff had cleaned Pinter’s things out of the prime minister’s office in the Executive Building and moved Totten’s things in.

“Finally!” Jeremy Totten said as he sat in the conversation group to one side of his office.

After eight weeks of moving the no-confidence vote, the short campaign, the elections, and then the agonizing wait as the Parliament assembled, he was finally Prime Minister.

Totten looked out the picture window down Central Mall toward the Legislative Building.

“That’s a nice view of the Legislative Building, I must say. It looks great from here.”

“Yes, but now we need to govern,” Interior Minister Edmond Descartes said.

“That’s the easy part,” Totten said.

“And the war?” Descartes asked.

“Easier still. This whole war has been badly mismanaged from the start. Losing our support infrastructure while we occupied a bunch of lesser frontier planets? What the hell were they thinking?”

Totten turned to his defense minister.

“Boris. Get over there and get briefed on what the actual situation is. We don’t even know what’s going on since the previous government clammed up on us. Get the facts, learn what plans are in place, and plan to brief us in, what? Say a week?”

“That should be plenty of time, Jeremy.”

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