The legionnaire's azure eyes trailed across the document she was presented. Valdez raised her eyes towards the Bretonian representative.
"Wouldn't Malta recognizing your monarch as the empress of the Taus make her the ruler of both the Kingdom of Bretonia as well as the Maltese people in the Tau sector? When I came for this conference I thought I was here to sign a just treaty that splits the Taus between your nation and ours, not to sign my people as subjects to Her Majesty, the Queen of Bretonia. Perhaps if it was worded more clearly - as empress or emperor of Tau-31, Orkney and Roussillon, then I would be more willing to put my signature on the document."