After a friendly conversation with Paean, a descendant of the Kree, Paean successfully added a colorful stroke to the Kree's debt with his vile attitude.
No need to elaborate on the process, anyway, by the ti the conversation ended, the Kree owed the human race more than 150 spaceships, backed by clear IOUs.
Steve beca the representative of human civilization, handling the diplomatic activities within the Androda Galaxy with Charles. Stark, Peter, and Magneto took charge of the mining operations.
As Charles reached an agreent, they imdiately set to work on the spaceships. The mining weapons on the spaceships maximized mining efficiency with the magnetic powers of Magneto and Polaris. In simple terms, they could completely mine a planet in a few days.
Oh, yeah, let's not forget the once highly-developed Sulfur Dwarf civilization. How did their civilization fare after the black hole explosion?
Since the core star zone of Androda has a very habitable environnt, Magneto deliberately protected this area with a magnetic field when guiding the super black hole explosion.
However, the sulfur dwarf's civilization was far from the core star zone and closer to the super black hole, they were not as lucky as other civilizations.
The Sulfur Dwarves controlled over 1500 resource-rich planets. The star zone they ruled had planets that mainly produced Molten Steel, and the ones that didn't were mostly Giant planets that provided auxiliary resources.
Due to the proximity of this star zone to the super black hole, when the black hole erupted, all of the sulfur dwarf's ard fleets were wiped out, several hundred planets in the path of the eruption were obliterated.
Even deadlier, the two star zones with the densest population had their stars completely extinguished during this cosmic disaster.
Originally, the planets where most of the sulfur dwarves resided had extrely high surface temperatures due to their proximity to stars, mostly around 500 degrees. The species that evolved in this environnt had very high resistance to high temperatures. They could move around physically in environnts with hundreds of degrees without discomfort.
But at the sa ti, they are a heat-resistant but cold-intolerant race. Since their places of origin and later colonized planets were all high-temperature planets, they had never experienced the extre cold after the sun died out. Therefore, more than half of the population in this highly dense star zone died within about ten days.
Normally, the population shouldn't have declined so rapidly. What was even deadlier was that the sulfur dwarves were a species entirely dependent on stellar energy. Their civilization was highly developed, and their technology for extracting energy from stars was very mature. Hence, all energy connected to the facilities on their planets was extracted from stars, with all device cores, circuits, and pipelines adapted for stellar energy extractors.
After the sun died out, all facilities on their planets requiring energy stopped, including the facilities that adjusted oxygen and rare gases.
The reason why sulfur dwarves are called so is that they need to breathe a special sulfur-slling gas. This greatly enhances their physical fitness and generates "lt Fire Energy" which increases their strength.
If they do not breathe this gas, they will not die, but they will fall into decline. Coupled with the profound coldness of the cosmos, their entire civilization collapsed within a few days.
Due to the destruction of their fleet, they no longer had large ships to mine resources from gas planets. The resources on their mother planet were still abundant, but the technology for mining resources from the mother planet has been lost in countless technological iterations. They had all those advanced high-power devices, but not even a generator that could provide basic electrical energy.
The drawbacks of rapid civilization developnt and over-reliance on special materials were evident at this mont. After losing energy supply and armant, the civilization's fla died out within a few days.
Stark, who witnessed all of this, had no sympathy but beca more alert. This kind of tragedy cannot repeat itself in human civilization. The pace and breadth of developnt are equally important.
But despite the alertness, the Luminous Alliance built an energy core capable of providing heat on a mineral-rich planet in the center of the star zone ruled by the Sulfur Dwarves.
While this core isn't powerful, it's exceedingly bright, simply put, a beacon in the universe.
The three planets of this star week are not far apart. After the star's death, the sky above the planet fell into endless night. At this mont, a bright star appeared in the night sky, which was of course seen by the sulfur dwarfs.
At this mont, the human race's just-in-ti relief ship arrived.
Human civilization, being both kind and just in the universe, expressed deep sympathy and regret for the ordeal of the sulfur dwarfs. At the sa ti, human civilization happened to build an energy core on a neighbouring planet that could provide the heat and gas needed for the survival of the sulfur dwarfs, and it was now open to migration.
Generally, humans only accept noble investor immigrants, but the situation is special now. Abiding by the principle of rescuing and resettling disaster-stricken population as much as possible, human migration ships also accept labor immigrants. Simply put, as long as you can mine, you can get on the ship.
By this ti, the sulfur dwarves had been through the population panic period. All they thought about was to survive at all costs. Although many people strongly resisted and wanted to stay to rebuild their ho planet, more people chose the quickest thod to survive, which was to get on the human's pirate... or immigration ship.
The energy core built by Luminous Alliance is very deliberate. Its heat radiation range is circular. That is to say, you need to live within this circle to avoid freezing to death.
But human civilization is so backward that their abundant molten steel minerals can only transform into a negligible amount of heat. If they don't mine vigorously, the heat radiation range will get smaller, and the dwarves living in the outer circle will freeze to death.
Of course, the closer to the core, the higher and more stable the heat. But in order not to let the circle shrink towards one's own position, the dwarves began to exploit layer by layer downwards.
Those in the inner circle exploit those in the outer circle, who in turn exploit those even further out, hoping to squeeze out all their strength so that the heat ring expands and they beco safer and safer.
This plan, proposed by the few ethical stalwarts in the Luminous Alliance, allowed the human race to exploit the Sulfur Dwarves without even having to lift a whip themselves,
But the oppressed outer circle dwellers are not just sitting ducks. Their hard work only makes life better for those in the inner circle. Within just a few days, a riot turned the entire race into a bloodbath.
At this point, the human race wisely and generously opened up an ascension channel. As long as you perford well, you could replace an inner circle dweller. If your performance was poor, you would be relegated to the alternating heat and cold of the outer circle, where supplies were constantly cut off.
The Luminous Alliance didn't want the hassle of manual mining, it's just that molten steel is a very special tal. It can only be mined with the unique lt Fire Energy of the Sulfur Dwarves. So for the ti being, the Sulfur Dwarfs had to bear with being mineworkers and endure the hardship of reviving civilization.
After all the civilizations in the Androda Galaxy were disard, they practically lost the conditions to leave the planetary surface, so the initiative is entirely in the hands of the human race. After several etings of the Luminous Alliance, most of the policies were decided and then implented, and within a short period, the situation within the galaxy was stabilized.
The Symbiont Blue Spirit was also greatly impressed. He had seen countless forms of civilization in his long lifespan, yet the wisdom that the human race displayed in sociology and relational science still topped them all.
They could accurately pinpoint the crux of complex relationships, and secure maximum benefits for themselves amid the chaos. Although this also had sothing to do with the flexible moral lines of several mbers of the Luminous Alliance, it mostly was due to the human race spending countless years developing skills in combat.
After the situation in the Androda Galaxy was settled, Peter, Steve, and Charles, whose ethical boundaries had not been tested, stayed there, continuing to spread the gospel of the human race.
Stark returned because he couldn't be away from the construction projects in the Solar System. The mining was done and the next step was rapid construction, which needed Stark's supervision.
Strange returned because he had to oversee the busy workings of the Holy Sanctuary.
Shiller returned because he still had a ss to clean up: the dostic issues of Asgard.
In the office of Arkham Sanatorium, Loki sat across from Shiller. When she took off her hood, the layers of halos behind her were dazzling. Shiller blinked and pulled out a dical record. Loki stared at the record and asked, "I saw you've been working on this recently, what is it?"
"This is your case file."
"Mine? What's wrong with ? I'm fine, aren't I?" Loki asked, sowhat confused.
"The study of psychology in Asgard is practically non-existent, so none of you even realize you have ntal illnesses. But as far as I can see, every single one of you is seriously ill."
Loki pursed her lips; she wanted to refute him but didn't know how to start. Shiller began to list off: "Thor has displayed tendencies of mania. Hela is the sa. You have an emotional disorder, probably also anxiety disorder..."
"I... I... "
"First, let's talk about how these ntal illnesses of yours ca about."
"But I don't... "
"Every psychiatric patient doesn't believe they're ill."
Shiller twirled his pen in his hand, made a calming gesture, and said, "Okay, let's assu you're ill, just for the sake of argunt."
"Firstly, I believe, the cause of your ntal illnesses probably lies in long-term discrimination and bullying. The collective environnt in Asgard is very hostile towards you which has increased your ntal pressure and led to malformation in your ntal developnt..."
As soon as Shiller finished speaking, another halo shone brightly behind Loki. Loki looked bewilderedly at her back and asked, "I've been aning to ask, what's the deal with these halos?"
Seeing this, Shiller laughed, seemingly having found his hypothesis confird. He said, "You ntioned earlier that the first halo appeared when you beca a woman, the second halo appeared when Hela continued pursuing you despite knowing you had beco a woman, the third halo appeared when Hela and Baldur started arguing over you..."
Loki's expression was still one of confusion. She hadn't seen any regularity in it, but Shiller said, "Just now, I diagnosed your ntal illnesses as part of an experint, and it seems the results are as I expected..."
"So, what are these halos?"
"You could call them 'Politically Correct Halos'."
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