When there were no tigers in the mountains, the monkey called himself Great King.
The Great Voyage Organization had left, the Saidesi Empire had become the Cydus Civilization and left with them, and the M87 Nebula could no longer return to its former state.
The Saidesi Empire's departure left an enormous vacant living space in the M87 Nebula. The civilizations that had not left certainly would not miss this opportunity. The various powers that had originally been in the Otto Star Sea surfaced one after another, scrambling to rush into the former territory of the Saidesi Empire and declare this place and that place to be their own domain.
Before long, scenes of interstellar conquest began playing out one after another.
A new empire would appear there, or perhaps multiple empires. From then on, M87 would fall into a long era of interstellar struggle for supremacy, until one empire could once again unify the entire Star System, or some kind of military balance formed again.
But none of that had anything to do with the Cydus Civilization anymore. They could only watch from afar as the vast M87 gradually shrank, then vanished from sight.
They worked hard to look ahead. A new road was waiting for them in front.
The Cydus Civilization had already made up its mind. They merely looked from afar at the M87 Nebula as it gradually receded, without any feeling of longing for their old land or nostalgia for their home. They felt that their destiny should belong to the distance.
Passing through unknown star regions one after another, touring cosmic islands one after another, we set foot upon those magnificent stars and walked through those splendid nebulas. Sailing through the universe—what a romantic thing that was.
Following the Great Voyage Organization, the Cydus Civilization arduously