Another week had passed or so, and so far, everything had been going swell. Deathclaws, the altered ones at any rate, got citizenship, the unaltered ones produced by the Replicator would remain as food. Several Akun damn near fainted when a Deathclaw strolled through the portal gate to take a look around. Thankfully they didn't own firearms otherwise I think they'd have shot him, the Deathclaws name was Dave, funny enough, he had named himself after taking a look at a list of popular names.

Several Akun meats had become popular in the Empire, something new to try, so I had several of the Akuns foodstuff animals added into the Replicators system so it could just clone more from the top specimens collected. I'll name off the new animals that have been added into the Empire's diet, Noawei a fat round lizard like species, same turreted eyes as most species on the Akun's home planet of Vanov, this one tasted quite like pork, very salty, and tasty. Thalaill, they are thick looking lizards about three times the size of an average cow, sleek and somewhat rounded, they have long necks and the same turreted eyes as is common on Vanov of most species, these tasted a LOT like turkey, or chicken. Iczai an aquatic species which shares a very strange uncanny resemblance to Earth's extinct trilobites, cooked like Lobster might for anyone who does not know what a trilobite looks like, akun have to use special tools to break the shell and eat the tasty meat within once its cooked. Soktaks are a soft shell turtle like creature of the Ruzet sea, It has an assortment of tendrils above its mouth to help identify prey, which gives the strange little creature the appearance of having a Stalin mustache, funny I know, it was mostly used in soups and stews.

These had all been tested to see if they would pose any harm to the species which already made up my Empire before the Akun became absorbed into it, a little on the salty side, otherwise they are all perfectly fine to eat, provided you COOK them properly. Several of those animals are seafood, and as it turns out, the akun I currently had living within the Empire absolutely went bonkers for things like Mirelurk Cakes, fried crawler meat, grilled hermit crab, and loved mirelurk cakes made from Queen Mirelurk meat the most. Another interesting note more on the military side, it would be a waste to just completely scrap the current weapons, and vehicles used by the Akun that had been brought with the Conquest Fleet. As such I was having a lot of them converted to Empire standards, replacing the hydrogen engines and fuel tanks within the tanks, jeeps, armored personal carriers, and other land vehicles with the fusion plant standard within my Empire's military vehicles, as for aircraft, their helicopters are a lot like the Russian Mil Mi-24, nicknamed Hind, their killercraft however are like the F-14 Tomcat before upgrades. I decided to just replace their fuel tanks and hydrogen turbofan engines with Fusion Turbofan engines and the fuel tanks with an aircraft grade fusion plant, this would effectively mean they could run purely on fusion and remain functional just as they had been before. The other thing I did, was upgrade their killercraft a little more beyond the fuel source, I made them into what people would call 'jump jets' meaning they could take off and land like a helicopter if they needed to do so.

Their automatic weapons are decent, for their size, and they had a lot of bullets ready to go with them as well, so I didn't need to produce any. Once they ran out of ammunition for their own hand held weapons, they'd be removed from service and more standard Empire ballistics would replace them, for now however their own weapons would do. Same for their missiles and the like, they had thousands upon thousands of em, from their own truck pulled Surface to Air Missiles, SAM's, to the radar and heat seeking guided missiles on their killercraft and transport killercraft. Their radar was decent, I simply had those upgraded to Plasma Detection Systems, their radios as well had been upgraded to PDS's, wasn't hard to do, it was just a simple conversion, and if the PDS's failed they could switch back to their old radio systems, but the PDS's would be set as every system default. Their artillery would actually be of use to the Empire, their artillery was all self propelled 175 millimeter cannon, however what made this artillery special was they had radar which would tell where an enemy shell had come from, and the computer within would program that into the shell and fire it, the chip in the shell altering its own course once it could detect the target, self aiming artillery, all someone had to do was drive and fire the thing, the shell would do the rest, I was having that self guidance chip studied like hell.

I also had Combat Armor, Gas Masks, and Power Armor developed rather quickly for Akun Infantrymen, or as they called them, Infantrymales, those guys would be wielding an automatic Empire version of the Zetan Energy Rifle, using fusion cells rather than alien power cells for ammunition and the stalk cut off, these made perfect weapons for the little terrors. New ways of delivering chems like stimpacks and Med-X had to be devised because the Akun have scales, so a new version injector design was created, it was just a small thin round tube with a button on the top, Green for stimpack, Purple for Med-X, when pressed several needles so strong and thin, that they could pierce the scales and into the flesh without shattering the scales, would push out from the flat bottom of the new design before injecting whatever chem was inside as needed, and could be tossed away just like a normal stimpack or Med-x syringe. These are bound to replace the current syringes for Med-X and Stimpacks, since they are more efficient.

I looked at the time and my eyes widened before I laughed. "Hot damn almost time for that Meeting of Kingdoms!" As such I went off to get ready, simply take a shower, put on my suit, my non magical crown, the basics.
-----------------------------------------------------------Former Shiplord Trid---------------------------------------------

Former Shiplord Trid, was no longer a Shiplord, once the Conquest Fleet landed he had decided he wouldn't retake the position of second in command for the flagship that had once been the absolute command center of the Conquest Fleet. Rather Trid had decided he wanted to explore for awhile, and perhaps if he was allowed to after he was finished exploring this New capital of the New Empire which had absorbed the one he once served under, he would rejoin the fleet, perhaps as a technician or advisor, he had the skills. For now however he was skittering around, the weather being a bit chilly for him, but it didn't matter much as he made his way into what the Eponites called a 'fast food' restaurant. The bright purple sign on the tall metal pole which was lit up named the place 'Crystal Burger', he had heard several colonists had liked the food served here, and even that the taste of Vanov was being added to the menu slowly, for now however he would settle for Eponite food.

Skittering up to the counter, he had to stand back a bit and look up with his eyeturrets to see the menu, after a few moments he turned an eyeturret to the hairless Eponite, who looked quite like his new Emperor did, and ordered. "I'll have...a 'Cheeseburger' and some 'french fries' Extra salt on the fries please, and a warm Nuka Raspberry."

Joe nodded and punched the order into his machine. "That'll be 8 bits sir." Joe smiled but inside he was growling, he hated this damned job, sure the pay was decent, and he got to see a few mares or others who walked in nude sometimes to order and eat, but so far he had been unable to find ANYONE willing to smash! Madness in his eyes.

Trid held out his charge card, the hairless Eponite took it and swiped it through a machine not unlike the paycard machines back on Vanov or Letera-2. The machine beeped and he took his card back before skittering over to the other end of the counter to await his meal, he had been here before once and knew what to do. He watched several Eponites who wore no wrappings sitting at a table eating their own meal, he had wondered why some Eponites wore wrappings while some did not, and thus be was thoroughly confused when it was explained about Legal Nudity and how before it was mandatory to wear wrappings. Within minutes his food was done and he skittered over to a small one seat table and set his goodies down.

The Cheeseburger had been something he hadn't tried yet, Trid opened his maw and took a bite. His eyeturrets widened the small amount that was possible for them to do, before he continued to eat, its flavor was exotic like many of the Eponite foods he had tried so far, the most familiar to a taste of home besides food from Vanov, was the french fries with extra salt, they tasted like fried Cao Root, except he had seen the plants in which these had been made from, they are pitifully small compared to a Cao Root, but almost the exact same taste, just add enough salt and it was the same. Within moments he had finished his meal and walked out of Crystal Burger, carrying his drink in his clawed hand sipping the lukewarm Raspberry flavored Nuka Cola, he had taken quite the liking to the stuff after finding an opened mostly full bottle of it just set onto a computer console within the flagship. He was still amazed at such simple plants like trees, and grass, on Vanov water was just far too rare for plants to become to lush and green, the plants he was used to went from various shades of brown all the way to black but rarely ever was a plant on Vanov green unless diseased with fungus.

------------------------------------------------------------Canterlot Royal Palace, Meeting Room, Lorenzo------------------------

I looked around at those seated at the table, the ruler of every known kingdom or nation, aside from the dragons of course, they didn't give a fuck about anything outside their own territory. Princess Celestia was at the head seat which overlooked the others, given it was higher than the other chairs. Princess Celestia spoke up. "Alright the Meeting Of Kingdoms may now begin that all attendees are present." Celestia sat back down in her chair and folded her wings on her back. "Now we can begin to discus political matters and matters of trade."

Near Instantly Queen Najam Alsahra glared at Princess Celestia, Me, and Hightalon Czarina Dark Feather, before she settled on Princess Celestia. "Due to you cutting trade off with my Empire, I have no choice but to abide by your forced killing of traditions which my Empire has held for several hundred years, I do not do this willingly, but I shall not let my ponies starve as you would." Najam Alsahra spat with about as much venom as a cobra.

Princess Celestia simply gave a sweet smile. "I'm glad to hear you will begin to make it mandatory to treat stallions correctly, rather than as tools or property, we used to think of stallions like that, and it backfired rather horribly, the same was bound to happen to your male population once they realized how restricted they are and had been in the past."

Hightalon Czarina Dark Feather looked over at me. "I'd like to bring up the matter of Alien Midget wingless Dragons showing up, invading and setting up a base, killing several hundred civilians and military personal within the matter of a few hours, and absolutely turning a city into unlivable rubble and dust, only for them to surrender, then you demand them, why is that?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

I looked at her. "The Akun, what they call themselves, tried to invade my Empire as they did the same time yours and Equestria, my automated defenses shot down their starships before they landed and I simply destroyed their ships until they surrendered, with a scan of their computer systems I had the location of their home world, and simply went over there and absorbed their empire into Mine. The would have just kept sending Conquest Fleets until they won otherwise, they viewed their Emperor as an absolute divine god, and watching him bow to me while I sat on his throne got the message I was stronger than them across rather well, they are taught from birth to do as their Emperor commands, and as I am their new Emperor, they follow my commands now, they are my citizens now, all of them."

Hightalon Czarina Dark Feather actually glared. "And why did you remove all of their technology from my empire while letting the Equestrian Empire keep some of the technology they managed to salvage? Let alone why you gave the Abyssinians several of their starships, they broadcasted that rather publicly and smugly." The hatred in her voice was clear as she looked to Queen Carnelia.

I shrugged. "Rather simple, even with their magic, I will be providing no help, nor will the Akun, in how their technology works, as is Equestrian technology is far too primitive in comparison to Akun technology to even begin copying it for another 30 or 40 years, as for the starships? Simple, The Abyssians are trusted allies of my Empire, their technology was already at the pace they could send living things into space with one of their rockets, I just saved them the time."

Hightalon Czarina Dark Feather sighed. "If I was my mother I'd screech and screech about how this was unfair to leave out the Griffon Empire and how if you didn't give the technology over I'd ruin your Empire to ruble, however I am not my mother, and will ask instead if you'd be willing to trade for their technology."

I chuckled. "For their military technology, certainly not, however their civilian tech is decades, perhaps a few hundred decades, above your own, I'll trade stuff for that." That was true, due to being time tested again and again, the Akun's basic electronics are reliable as fuck, and built to last a minimum of a thousand years, for them five hundred.

Denmother Green Ruby looked over at me. "My empire is willing to trade several tons worth of gems in order to get permission to begin hauling crystal from the now uninhabited Crystal Empire that lies within the frozen north."

I raised an eyebrow. "You don't need to trade me anything to do that, take the place, I don't want it, nor do I have any need for it or what remains there." Denmother Green Ruby looked pleased at this, and went back to the paperwork she had brought along, putting a checkmark in one section.

The talks then went on for several hours, not much really happened, no new trade deals with my Empire besides Equestrian Weather Technology being traded for akun civilian technology, I had great plans for how to use that weather technology, rather great and grand plans indeed.

Author's Notes:

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Here is the Zetan Energy Rifle, modified to Empire standards, fusion cell replacement rather than alien power cells, and automatic, the stalk is cut off for easier use by Akun, whom are 4 and a half feet tall