Kaleidoscope had formidable warriors in abundance under his command. The trusted lieutenants operating within Star Alliance territory were not even his strongest.
Tartarus, commander of the Anunnaki Marauder Corps and a longtime resident of the Abyss, was the greatest warrior beneath Kaleidoscope.
He had a fivefold hybrid-base constitution, with multithreaded processing capabilities comparable to a microcomputer, and could simultaneously control over ten million Aerospace Weapons.
After the Anunnaki Corporation went legitimate, he remained in the Abyss, commanding over a hundred million pirates of various races and maintaining the corporation's formidable reputation in the Dark Starry Sky.
His bounty exceeded a hundred million Ultimate Coins, an extraordinarily high sum. Even the Four Emperors were worth only a little over a billion Ultimate Coins each.
Ultimate Coins, as the name suggested, were currency made from ultimate element. They were extremely valuable: each coin weighed a kilogram and was worth at least a hundred thousand Lang. Even then, they were practically unavailable for purchase. Their actual trading price would be higher, because very few people sold them.
These were "commemorative coins" the Star Alliance used specifically for bounties. It had no choice: the Star River Bank prohibited the Star Alliance from creating currencies outside the "Lang-Energy Coin" system. Ultimate element could therefore only take the form of commemorative coins, not publicly circulating currency.
The Star Alliance had initially paid its bounties in Lang, but the results were mediocre. For powerful individuals in particular, money had almost ceased to matter.
Anyone capable of eliminating the Four Emperors would not care about a bounty at all. At that level, money was just a number. Connections, status, rare resources, and technological sophistication mattered more.
Thus, the Ultimate Coin bounty system came into being. Ultimate element was the rarest of resources. After all, its total quantity in