The Galaxy Star Region in the You Fa Star Region contained a total of three hundred and six stars.
Over the past thousand years, the Milky Way had focused on doing business with the lower strata, forging ties with many Galaxy Overlords and Unified Force Civilizations. Through multilateral trade, the overall economies of the Galaxy Star Group's civilizations had grown more than tenfold.
They had no technological advantage, but their institutional structure gave them an edge. The diverse Star Alliance gave the Milky Way an enormous population of intelligent species, with particularly large numbers of low- and mid-level civilizations. These were all sources of highly intelligent, inexpensive labor.
Outside the star group, Ascension Entities were the mainstream. Even society-based civilizations generally ruled entire galaxies, with no Atomic Civilizations or Micro-particle Civilizations within their borders.
Unification made them powerful in every respect, but all their labor was extremely expensive, creating an enormous demand for workers.
This demand could not be met by simply creating a slave species. They wanted five-star elites, six-star elites and above, geniuses with exceptional creativity. Anything less would leave workers incapable of handling certain jobs.
Micro-particle Civilizations and Atomic Civilizations might lack advanced technology, but their intelligence was not far behind. With a little training and unified force equipment, their finest talents could shine just as brightly in a Unified Force Civilization.
And for equally gifted talent, these Micro-particle Civilizations and Atomic Civilizations charged much less—several orders of magnitude less! Thus, over more than a thousand years of development, thousands of low- and mid-level civilizations in the Milky Way had taken off.
Their people went abroad to work, enjoying rapid development and reaping the benefits of the Milky Way's opening to the outside, raking in wealth.
Of course, this supposed "wealth" was only wealth in their own