ShadowZero
Soon enough the many blips and markers on the map light up. Menarark could have done it alone, but why even bother? This was likely but the start of it, after all, and he had a meeting with this emperor.
Knowing the location of where the actual emperor may be, or at least the controls for these synthetic counterparts, Menarark ordered the Halmark, a ship likely older than the Empire whose capital it looked at now, to leave the area.
Soon, the field of randomness started to appear again, due to the lack of interdiction within the area, there were no stops to its jump and thus, as elusive as it came, it went.
It wasn't that simple, though.
Within the capital planet, there was a new resident, one who recently appeared within the place that controlled the synthetic counterparts of the emperor. It dawned a full golden mask, staff and gloves.