"Information brokers?"
Everyone looked at the Starry Sky Defenders curiously.
"That's right. The Observer Civilization was famed for being well informed even before the many Cosmic Civilizations left. According to the Great Evolution Civilization's records, they had extremely unique research in observation technology. It could be called a Characteristic Technology of a Cosmic Civilization, somewhat similar to the Silver Heart Civilization."
"But they were far more powerful than the Silver Heart Civilization. Leaving aside the matter of civilization level, it was precisely because they were so well informed and enjoyed observing everywhere that they obtained many technologies from other Civilization Ruins that they never should have possessed."
As the Starry Sky Defenders retrieved data from their own database, they said, "And possessing those powerful technologies was also the capital that allowed them to remain neutral. Take the Spatial Proportional Compression technology you mentioned earlier. In truth, not every Cosmic Civilization—oh, in the terms of your era, Level Seven Civilization—could master it. Not every Level Seven Civilization could, but it was not especially rare either."
"At least in the era of the Great Evolution Civilization, many Cosmic Civilizations had mastered that technology. The same was true of spatial folding technology. And the existence of these two technologies also gave all kinds of Cosmic Civilization vessels greater internal space and smaller external appearances."
"Oh, I'm getting off topic. Back to the point, back to the point. Speaking of the Observer Civilization, they were an extremely powerful civilization back then. As far as the Great Evolution Civilization knew, they mastered more than one kind of Characteristic Technology, and used that as capital to remain neutral. They themselves possessed an extremely powerful Characteristic Technology creation called the Observer, which was also the origin of their civilization's name."
"That Observer was the terminal for these