So what were they supposed to do?
The various Characteristic Technology civilizations that served as the leaders of the Three Great Voyage Organizations all chose to watch in secret. At the same time, in the name of their respective Great Voyage Organizations, they issued notices to the civilizations that had begun charging toward Cosmic Civilization, demanding that they publicly disclose their research progress on Vacuum Zero-Point Energy to the organization.
Leaving aside whether such a demand was reasonable or not, the civilizations being ordered around were absolutely unwilling.
In truth, if everyone had arrived at the destination together, revived together, and then launched their charge against the barrier to Cosmic Civilization together, then this demand would still have been justifiable—provided everyone shared their research progress.
But the problem was that these civilizations believed their resources would not last until the central region of the Great Void. To avoid initiating the "Kindling Plan" again, they had started their research ahead of time. They had already felt unbalanced to begin with, and being ordered around like this only made them even more uncomfortable.
But faced with the orders of the Supreme Council of the Three Great Voyage Organizations, they knew they had no right to say no. So they proposed to their own organizations that the organizations provide them with resources for future technological research.
Logically speaking, this demand was quite reasonable. If you demanded that I share my research progress, but I had only started research early because of insufficient resources, then you should provide the materials consumed by my research.
But the three Voyage Organizations clearly could not agree, because those civilizations had chosen on their own to begin energy-intensive research now. Most civilizations still had to continue onward, so they could not possibly make so many civilizations take out