In the Virtual Meeting Room, Verto paid no attention whatsoever to the looks the other three were giving him.
"It's not like we're bombing your planets. Why are you all so worked up?"
Verto spoke from his seat with a disdainful expression.
"Verto, I think you've forgotten the Planetary Life Convention!"
Hussein glared at Verto, his face filled with anger.
The Planetary Life Convention had been jointly formulated by the five great civilizations of that era. Every civilization throughout the Milky Way was required to abide by it strictly, and its contents mainly concerned three types of planets.
The first type was natural Life Planets. Every natural life-bearing world was a treasure of the universe. Under no circumstances were they allowed to be destroyed, and even large-scale damage was forbidden.
The second type was Life Planets that had been terraformed later on. Their value was considerably lower than that of natural Life Planets, but they were still extremely precious. Their destruction and large-scale damage were likewise prohibited!
The final type consisted of planets with terraforming potential that had not yet been terraformed. Under the convention, such planets could not be destroyed, though no strict limits were placed on the extent of damage they could suffer.
After all, there were only so many planets in the Milky Way, and natural Life Planets were rare beyond rare. With current technology, destroying a planet was simply far too easy.
There had once been a case where both sides of a war went madly about destroying each other's Life Planets to cripple the other's war potential. By the end of the war, the number of Life Planets in the entire star region had fallen by a full seventy percent!
The incident had caused an enormous uproar at the time.
After all, in wars between