(The chapter title number was incorrect in Chapter 1172!)
The Federation had originally been living quite comfortably.
Although its population was smaller than that of the other alliances, its technology was advanced. Vast numbers of robots had replaced labor, and countless Warship Production Lines were spread across nearly every universe under Federation rule.
Coupled with its near-monopoly over warship supplies throughout the Kunsa Realm, it had acquired immense resources to sustain the Federation's rapid development.
Originally, after unifying the entire Kunsa Realm, the Alliance had gained more than twenty God-tier Civilizations and countless Super Civilizations. Logically, warship sales should have surged.
But what was the reality?
The Kunsa Realm had been unified, and peace had followed.
No one was buying warships anymore!
While the true upper echelons—such as humanity, the Tri-Union Civilization, the White Empire, and the Gem Empire—were still frantically expanding their military forces in preparation for expeditions into other Black Hole Cavity Realms.
Their warships were, after all, produced by themselves. At most, they purchased Black Hole Engines from the Federation, and compared to the profits from warship sales, that income was negligible.
The sharp decline in resource acquisition sounded an alarm for Lin Zhen, as well as the other upper echelons of the Alliance.
For Lin Zhen, if this situation could not be reversed, the Federation would have no choice but to adjust its development plans and drastically slow its growth.
For the Alliance's other high-level civilizations, the Federation earning less also meant that the Alliance earned less.
After all, although the Federation monopolized the entire warship business, it contributed ten percent of its profits to the Alliance's development.
And when they said it was for the Alliance's development, the bulk of it ultimately ended up being divided among those upper-echelon civilizations.
Moreover, that ten percent was