Federation Year 142.
More than a decade had passed since the ceasefire between the humans and the insect race.
Over the past decade, the greatest changes had still been in everything related to Dark Energy.
A new field known as Dark Energy had emerged within the Federation Department of Science. Over the past ten years, it had continued to grow and expand, even branching into several Dark Energy subfields.
The Federation Interstellar Fleet had directly established a special fleet whose core members were all Dark Energy Manipulators of at least C-Class.
Not only that, but every warship had been built using Dark Energy technology. Ordinary people could not even operate them.
Among civilians, DEAC Devices had become nearly universal.
Just as Lin Fan had predicted, aside from the official Superpower Administration Bureau, quite a few sects had emerged throughout the Federation.
Of course, the Federation had not suppressed them. After all, it was better to guide than to block, wasn't it?
But not suppressing them did not mean there were no restrictions!
Yes, people could establish their own sects, but they had to register them with the Federation, including the information of every Dark Energy Manipulator registered under their sect.
Furthermore, whenever the Federation had need of them, it could requisition any Dark Energy Manipulator from any sect at any time.
Finally, all private sects had to pay the Federation enormous annual fees based on their scale.
In other words, rather than independent sects, they were more like subdepartments of the Superpower Administration Bureau under Federation supervision. They appeared to possess autonomy, but in truth, they remained under Federation control.
On top of that, joining an unofficial sect meant automatically giving up all the benefits provided by the Federation.
Therefore, those who established unofficial private sects were generally extremely wealthy