By the time we returned to the Empire Zone, it was already three-thirty in the afternoon on the following day, capital time.
The day's delay had not been for any other reason, but to drag that shelter world into Imperial territory. Although the Abyss Zone had been rendered harmless by Abyss Shilin, and the surrounding contamination had entered an inert state, the Abyss environment was ultimately unsuitable for ordinary races. No matter how inert it became, it was still harmful stuff. Those Old Empire survivors would be safer living in the Empire Zone. Actually, if the only goal had been resettling refugees, there would have been no need to drag over an entire universe. After all, all the survivors now lived on a single planet, and there were not many of them. But after a wider scan, we discovered quite a few abandoned ruins scattered throughout that universe. Considering that they might still be useful during reconstruction—and even if they were not, Tawell could take them apart for fun—Sandora simply waved her pen and wrote the character "relocate" into the cosmic background radiation.
And then the entire world was relocated.
That world had now settled down in the Empire Zone, and a series of infrastructure projects had begun.
A large number of engineering ships were busy in space. This was an empty region less than one astronomical unit from Shelter Planet. The Engineering Team was going to build a permanent World Gate here, connecting this universe to the Empire's other territories and incorporating it into the world network. Every newly acquired territory had to be handled this way. Building a World Gate was the first step; the second was constructing a Sovereignty Nexus in the depths of the universe. If that universe was designated as a military or industrial world,