The Three Great Empires spanned vast territories, each with countless colonial star sectors. After the interstellar situation stabilized, the three empires voluntarily adjusted the extent of their domains, creating an overlapping area between their star sectors. This region was known as the Ring Sector.
Since ancient times, the Ring Sector had been a strategic prize contested by military powers. All major conferences of the Three Great Empires were held here, and it could be considered the center of cosmic civilization. With the Ring Sector as the universe's first ring, the Milky Way Galaxy was roughly beyond the eighth ring, while Earth was practically the outskirts of the outskirts.
Its strategic position was extremely important, but it did not actually contain many civilizations, because its primary role was as a political and diplomatic center.
But if one were to ask where in the universe was the most prosperous, it would undoubtedly be the Shi'ar Empire's Great Portal sector.
The Shi'ar Empire possessed the most advanced teleportation technology in the entire universe—excluding the Nine Realms, of course. The races there had not yet entered interstellar society, so naturally they were not included in such comparisons.
Yet even including the Nine Realms, Shi'ar teleportation technology still had much to offer. Founded on ethnic integration and commercial exchange, the nature of Shi'ar civilization dictated that they needed exceptionally convenient transportation. The Great Portal was an unignorable cosmic marvel.
Although the portal had many flaws—for instance, it could only stand in one place and could not move at all; once subjected to concentrated attack, it was nearly impossible to evade, and its mobility was practically nonexistent—it far surpassed humanity's portals in one terrifying aspect: throughput.
It was hard to say exactly how many interstellar civilizations existed throughout the universe, but at least 80 percent conducted