Federation Year 2498.
More than two hundred years had passed since the Alliance began its campaign in Meridian Valley.
At this moment, all 178 Black Hole Cavity Realms along the Meridian Valley Route had fallen under Amon's control. The Violet Empire had fully developed them and continuously transported all manner of resources back to Alliance territory.
As for the empire itself, aside from the personnel left behind to develop these Black Hole Cavity Realms, everyone else had completed their migration.
In accordance with their previous agreement, the Federation selected eighteen Black Hole Cavity Realms along the route through the Noreya Empire and gave them to the Violet Empire. They were even better than the empire's original territory.
After all, the Black Hole Cavity Realms along the Meridian Valley Route did not contain a single giant or large one. They were all medium or small.
Among the Black Hole Cavity Realms allocated to the Violet Empire, there was one giant, two large, five medium, and ten small Black Hole Cavity Realms.
Empress Karen could not have been more satisfied.
It was also in this year that the Federation's foundational technology finally crossed the threshold into a Fifth Order Black Hole Civilization.
For the first time, the Federation's warship tier and its actual civilization tier stood on the same level.
After all, the Federation's development had always been somewhat unhealthy. Its warships alone were powerful, while its actual civilization tier remained low. That situation came with no small number of hidden dangers.
Now, after more than a thousand years of effort, the civilization's foundational technological tier had finally caught up. This was a major event for the Federation.
After all, if foundational technology failed to meet the standard, then no matter how capable Luo Li and the others were, it would be