Time flew by.
A thousand years had now passed since the final battle against the Harvesters.
The United Front Organization had also spent a thousand years and finally succeeded in wiping out all the Harvester fleets that had fled back then, including their Residential Spaceships.
Unfortunately, as the overlords of the Milky Way Galaxy for tens of millions of years, the Harvesters possessed immense pride. It seemed that fleeing with detached forces had already been their final bottom line. When faced with the choice of their civilization's survival, they had shown no intention of surrendering whatsoever.
Once they realized there was absolutely no chance of escape, the Harvesters resolutely activated their self-destruct systems and blew themselves up. Thus, the United Front Organization's plan to obtain individual Harvester lifeforms for research came to nothing, and the Harvesters' Characteristic Technology became part of Milky Way Galaxy history.
Likewise, from that point on, the once-arrogant Harvesters were officially erased from the Milky Way Galaxy. The surviving Level Six Civilizations no longer had to live in hiding.
Of course, after so many years of Harvester devastation, there were not many Level Six Civilizations left in the Milky Way Galaxy. Over the past thousand years, fewer than ten Level Six Civilizations had responded to the United Front Organization.
That was far too few for such a vast galaxy, showing just how thoroughly the Harvesters had ravaged it in the past.
Moreover, ever since Gaia Life died, not a single Special Lifeform had appeared in the Milky Way Galaxy.
There was Adeli among the humans, but he seemed to have exhausted his potential—or perhaps his potential had simply been limited. Despite working hard for so many years, he remained a Special Lifeform at the Level 5 Civilization tier, with no sign of a breakthrough.
Nor had