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The architectural style of Caladan is quite similar to that of medieval Earth. In the quiet study, Leto Atreides, the patriarch of the Atreides family, is listening to Mentate's report.

"Your Excellency, Karadan is doing well under your governance." Mentat said in a low voice with worry in his eyes, "But I feel the hostility towards Atreides from the royal family and the Harkonnen family. The storm is coming. It's brewing, but I don't know what form it will come in."

This Mentat is called Duffy Hawat, and he has Mentat's signature black rectangular tattoo on his lower lip.

It takes a huge amount of resources to cultivate a Mentat, not only money but also a strong network is needed. Du Fei deeply feels the Atreides family's kindness to him, so he has always been loyal to the Atreides family.

He calculated the hostility of the royal family and the Harkonnen family to the Atreides based on the information held by the Atreides family - trade exchanges, policy changes, and personnel transfers.

But he didn't know what the royal family and the Harkonnen family planned to do to the Atreides.

Economic crackdown?Tech sanctions?

Duke Leto looked calm. As the patriarch of the Atreides family, he experienced and defeated countless conspiracies.

Atreides has prospered under his rule, and his reputation in the galaxy is getting higher and higher every year, and the ushering in the royal family's suppression is expected.

However, although the royal family and the Harkonnen family are powerful opponents, the Atreides have always followed the etiquette and never violated the rules. Can't find a good excuse either.

Even if they take action to suppress Atreides, it will not cause serious harm to Atreides.

After all, other families are watching. If Atreides is overly targeted by the royal family and the Harkonnen family because of his good development, these families will help Atreides.

That was a huge force capable of overthrowing the throne, and the royal family would not be foolish enough to allow this force to appear.

Duke Leto thought to himself that Atreides might encounter some difficulties in the next few years, but it shouldn't be hurt, at most, his prestige would drop a bit.

"If there is any updated news, please inform me at any time." Duke Leto said slowly.

Du Fei said solemnly: "Yes! Your Excellency the Duke!"

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Suddenly, a loud siren sounded in the room.

Duke Leto's complexion changed drastically, because this was an alarm for the invasion of foreign enemies.

At the same time, the communication device on the desktop was activated, and a hurried voice came from the device: "Your Excellency, we have detected an obvious spatial fluctuation, and the location is just outside the atmosphere of Kaladan."

"The other party's identity is unknown!"

"We are inquiring about the space union, but we have not received an answer yet. Do you want to declare an emergency immediately?"

"Immediately enter a state of emergency!" Duke Leto was fearless in the face of danger, he spoke clearly, "Evacuate the people! Mobilize the army! Take off the battleship! Activate the planetary shield! Duffy and I will be there soon!"

"Yes! Your Majesty the Duke!" The communication device was turned off.

Duke Leto and Du Fei turned around and ran out of the study room, communicating while running.

"The royal family and the Harkonnen family have prepared many small measures against us. They have not used those measures and should not directly wage war against us."

Duffy is a Mentate, and his thinking ability is comparable to that of a computer. While running, he methodically analyzed Duke Leto: "Although it is not ruled out that this is a smoke bomb they used to paralyze us, but this is Caladan, Ertri Dee has been running this planet for generations. Attacking Caladan will only cause them heavy losses. They cannot take down Atreides in a short time. Other families will help us. This will lead to instability in the imperial power. They will never do this. .”

Duke Leto nodded slowly, feeling a little calmer.

"Who would come without warning?" he asked calmly.

Du Fei shook his head, and he replied: "It's not certain yet, but Karadan is indestructible, no one can defeat Atreides on this planet, please rest assured, Lord Duke!"

Du Fei's words were full of confidence.

The Atreides family has been running Kaladan for generations, and has already turned Kaladan into an iron barrel-like defensive fortress. Even if the royal family and Harkonnen's army are all out, it is impossible to defeat the Atreides family in Kaladan.

He himself is an extremely outstanding Mentat, and he is familiar with various war strategies.

If the royal family and the Harkonnen family came to fight, he would not only be sure to save the Atreides family, but even be sure to annihilate all the invading enemies.

Ten minutes later, Duke Leto and Duffy appeared in the combat command center.

Du Fei asked: "Has the enemy appeared?"

"It appeared, but it was a bit strange." The interim commander Hui reported, "This is a fleet that has never been seen before, and they didn't take the high-ships of the Astronautics Guild, and they seemed to have flown here by themselves."

Duffy nodded and sat on the seat vacated by the temporary commander. He held the microphone: "I am Duffy Hawat, and I will now take over the defense of Caladan."

Duffy opens up images of outer space.

After seeing the things in the image clearly, he froze for a moment, because even he had never seen a fleet of this style, and the painting on the fleet was different from any force he knew.

UEG?

Which family abbreviation is this?
Several families with words starting with U, E, and G appeared in Du Fei's mind, but he dismissed the idea in an instant, because these families are small families, and it is impossible to build the mighty team in the picture. fleet.

This fleet consists of 36 large warships, each of which is about forty kilometers in length.

"Why are their warships so big?"

Duffy was puzzled for the first time.

As far as he knows, even the long-distance high-speed battleships of the Astronautics Guild have a maximum length of only 25 kilometers.

Voyage high-class ships are cargo ships, and the ones in the image are all battleships.

To build a battleship into the same size as a cargo ship, and not just a prototype, requires a technological level that is a generation higher than that of a cargo ship.

He had never seen a battleship that was forty kilometers long!

"We have received the other party's communication signal!" The correspondent shouted.

Du Fei ordered without thinking: "Come in!"

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"This is the First Expeditionary Corps of the United Government. We are performing an escort mission. Our diplomatic mission is about to arrive. Please be prepared to contact us!"

"Repeat!"

"This is the First Expeditionary Corps of the coalition government, and we are performing escort missions."

Duke Leto and Dufy looked at each other, and they both saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

Coalition government?

They had never heard of the coalition government, but the other side did not seem to be attacking Kaladan, the other side's diplomatic mission was about to arrive, and the other side asked them to be ready. (end of this chapter)