D-Tech Technology might not seem particularly rare on the surface. The corporate databases alone contained 1,926 types that could be sold externally.
Adding in the subsidiary technologies derived from existing ones, many of which would be downgraded because of overlapping technologies, the true number that could be counted as D-level was around 3,000.
However, before calculating that number, one extremely important factor had to be considered.
Time.
Those 3,000 technologies had not appeared overnight. They had been accumulated bit by bit on Blue Star over nearly seven hundred years, through the blood, sweat, wisdom, and painstaking efforts of countless researchers.
If distributed evenly across the years, Blue Star had produced only three or four genuinely new D-level technologies annually—without even considering the special circumstance that there had been more in the early period and fewer later on.
That was also why Captain Oujijia had initially judged it to be E-level.
With his experience, he had never dared imagine that he might discover a technology of this level during a routine expedition.
After all, the Leading Wind Exploration Team was currently D-class, but before crossing over, they had been genuinely F-level.
The team had only two achievements to its name: one F-level technology and one technology that did not even qualify as a grade.
"Thunder from the heavens! This time it's truly thunder from the heavens! This is a brand-new D-level technology!"
"We've struck it rich! My god, if we bring this back, it can at least guarantee that our scale will multiply several times over."
"Lord Su, do you have any similar technologies? We can purchase them at a high price. I can make the decision myself. As long as they're E-level or higher, we'll buy them at D-level prices."
"Right. Whether you developed them or found them, we'll take