Zeke felt like he was about to cry, but under the treatment of the Terran Dominion, those former imperial citizens felt an unprecedented warmth.
Clean and tidy streets, and pleasant green spaces.
Everyone could eat their fill, dress warmly, and live good lives they never even dreamed of, and they even received wages!
These wages were different from the wages under the Empire. Under the Empire, their wages were for their own sustenance.
But under the Terran Dominion's governance, they didn't need to use these wages to support themselves; they only needed them for some special circumstances.
For example, some rare diseases not covered by basic medical insurance, but those few rare diseases were nothing at all.
Under the Terran Dominion's top-tier medical facilities, almost all were resolved, costing at most a few hundred Dominion credit points.
Their money could be used to buy some luxuries, some things they only dared to dream of before but never actually obtained.
Of course, it could also be used to buy food. Although they were criminals, if they wanted to eat better food, while the Terran Dominion didn't provide it for free, they could spend credit points to buy it.
In addition, these credit points could be saved and used as their savings and reserves.
They could also open a small shop or something in the future to train their temperament.
Such a life was unimaginable for these citizens at the bottom of the Empire, or even those in the middle class.
At the same time, it wasn't just the former imperial citizens who were living these lives; even the riff-raff from the underhives were incorporated into the Terran Dominion's citizen system.
They, too, began to live this unprecedented good life. Of course, the Terran Dominion's military referred to such a life as atonement and punishment.
They needed to pay the price for their disloyalty; this was the punishment the Emperor had given them to make them pay.
Unlike their previous lives, the gangs in the lower levels of the hive cities had been completely eradicated. Facing the formidable Custodes and Space Marines, they had no ability to resist and were swept away like withered leaves.
The Custodes could even overturn a continental shelf with a flick of their wrists. Facing such powerful units, especially with them wearing their exclusive Custodes armor...
As a result, these Custodes were practically gods in the eyes of ordinary people; they were true gods!
Let alone clearing out some gangs; even if they were sent to fight a Primarch, they would fight without hesitation.
The Custodes were mid-period units of the Terran Dominion's Emperor, combining genetic constructs with powerful psychic abilities!
Everything was developing in such an orderly fashion. In the eyes of Dominion citizens, these re-integrated imperial citizens were also regarded as Dominion citizens and protected.
However, there was one huge difference between these people and ordinary Dominion citizens.
It was a difference so great that even the Terran Dominion's Department of Affairs personnel, the Custodes, and the Assault Team members couldn't understand it.
These guys, who knows what was wrong with them, were actually worshipping a god!
They actually wanted to enshrine the Emperor, worship him, and even thought about making a daily morning prayer.
This act of worshipping a god was incomprehensible to all Terran Dominion military personnel and Terran Dominion officials.
Of course, they could worship a god if they wanted to; the Terran Dominion's Department of Affairs personnel and military would not stop them. But they actually tried to build a statue of the Emperor in the People's Square.
This was not right.
The Terran Dominion had never done such a thing. How could there be a statue of the Emperor in the People's Square?
When this proposal was first put forward, the Department of Affairs immediately rejected it.
But the power of rejection was weak; those new Dominion citizens, who had just been incorporated into the Terran Dominion's rule, simply wouldn't accept it.
These new Dominion citizens, who had originally been quite obedient, actually staged large-scale protests because they weren't allowed to build an Emperor's idol in the People's Square.
This was something all Terran Dominion officials had not expected; these guys were so fanatical that a large-scale protest erupted just for building an idol?!
This was incomprehensible to the officials of the Terran Dominion's Department of Affairs. After all, in the Terran Dominion, although everyone revered the Emperor, they weren't so crazy as to forcibly erect a statue of the Emperor.
The Terran Dominion had never done anything like erecting a statue of the Emperor in the People's Square, so this matter was naturally not immediately approved.