"Yes."
Cassian nodded.
"Good."
Aurelian waited.
His father had not contacted him just to say that.
Cassian opened another file.
"The Arcturus family council reviewed the latest Crownward reports yesterday."
Aurelian's expression changed slightly.
"Why?"
"Because your situation is no longer temporary."
That sounded familiar.
Cassian continued.
"You now have recognized authority over several Human settlements, military responsibility for additional stations, and an expanding frontier network that the Alliance itself is beginning to treat as a real regional power."
Aurelian frowned.
"I would not call it that."
"You don't have to. Other people will."
A document appeared.
It was an Arcturus family recognition order.
Not Alliance law.
Not ownership papers.
Internal family recognition.
Aurelian read it carefully.
