Luxury Gaia Planet

Kaleidoscope had no shortage of formidable fighters under his command. Even his trusted lieutenants operating in Star Alliance territory were far from the strongest.

Tartarus, captain of the Anunnaki Marauder Corps stationed in the Abyss, was his greatest warrior.

He had a fivefold mixed base and multithreaded processing power comparable to a micro-particle computer. He could control more than ten million Aerospace Weapons at once.

Even after the Anunnaki Corporation went legitimate, he remained in the Abyss, commanding over a hundred million pirates of various races and maintaining the company's immense reputation in the Dark Starry Sky.

The bounty on his head exceeded a hundred million Poor Coins. That was extraordinarily high; even the Four Emperors were worth only a little over a billion Poor Coins each.

Poor Coins, as the name suggested, were made of Poor Element. Each weighed a kilogram and was worth at least a hundred thousand Lang. Even at that price, they were nearly impossible to buy. In an actual transaction, they would fetch more, because hardly anyone sold them.

They were "commemorative coins" the Star Alliance used specifically for bounties. Star River Bank would not allow the alliance to create a currency outside the Lang–Energy Coin system, so Poor Element could only serve as a commemorative coin, not circulate as public currency.

The Star Alliance had initially paid bounties in Lang, with lackluster results. Money meant almost nothing to the powerful.

Anyone capable of eliminating one of the Four Emperors would not care about the bounty. At that level, money was just a number. Connections, status, rare resources, and technological capabilities mattered far more.

Thus, the Poor Coin bounty system was born. Poor Element was the rarest resource of all: the total amount in the Milky Way was nearly fixed. It could occur naturally only