It all seemed like a cluster of unnecessarily complicated rules to Matt, but the Empire had been doing this for much longer than he could comprehend so he assumed they had things mostly figured out.
It just surprised him that each of Liz’s parents ruled over hundreds, possibly thousands of planets, and soon a new royal would be raised that could eventually reach similar heights.
When he asked why their parents were still ruling instead of ascending, he found out that their oldest sibling had joined the Empire’s standing army when he had hit Tier 15. Mara and Leon were unwilling to let their child be at the whims of others and inserted themselves into the political structure to watch over their firstborn.
It fit with what he knew of the over-excitable couple.
But before they could reach
