After Star Universe Governor's death, the governors who came after him all appeared exceptionally "mediocre."
Of course, it wasn't that the later governors were incompetent. After all, anyone capable of becoming the governor of a civilization was no mediocrity.
But the people were always comparing the later governors to Star Universe Governor, which was rather damnable, leaving each successive governor deeply frustrated.
There was nothing they could do about it. Once one had seen the sun, looking at the stars afterward—even the brightest among them—would still feel mediocre.
Thus, under such harsh circumstances, the few governors who followed Star Universe were exhausted to the point of death. Yet the achievements they produced received no recognition from the people, and in the end, each successive governor became more and more dispirited.
As time passed, the inaction of certain governors caused the aristocratic forces within the civilization to expand rapidly, eventually greatly weakening the governor's authority.
The rise of the aristocracy inevitably suppressed everyone else. This caused the conflicts between the civilization's various factions to grow increasingly severe, leaving the civilization in complete disorder. The further this situation continued, the more the conflicts accumulated. Once they erupted completely, the consequences would surely be earth-shattering.
With the slightest misstep, the entire civilization could very well split into several parts, and no governor was willing to see such a thing happen.
Yet even knowing how deep the conflicts within the civilization were, the governor had no way to deal with them. The governor's authority had been reduced by more than half, leaving him powerless to make the necessary reforms.
By the time of the Yu Luo Era, after the current governor, Sa Wei, took office, the chaotic state of the civilization nearly drove him to tear out all his hair.
Although his efforts eventually