It’s nice when your merits are appreciated in your new homeland, but you won’t be able to rest on your laurels. The main rule of a manager is that if someone is good at their job, they should be given even more work. And if your immediate supervisor is the emperor himself, it’s stupid to expect an easy life. Sarkh and his colleagues no longer work in the guard - they carry out delicate tasks at the will of the emperor. The responsibility is increasing, the tasks are more complicated, and who cares that Sid Sarch has no idea how this order can be fulfilled... There are no other specialists in the empire, and that means he and his comrades must at least turn inside out, but do what required of them.