'Patrick Star' possessed powerful spatial perception and could even create subspaces.
Because of that, it could see many things others could not. It 'saw' the expanding spaceport, the dense army of advanced mechanical entities taking shape, the designs of countless mechanical marvels being conceived, and the millions of Tier Three machinists.
Machinists of this number and caliber could only be found in a starfield-level mechanical production center belonging to a Tier Three civilization.
After all, even a Tier Three lifeform might not necessarily be able to change class into a machinist. This profession required not only talent, but also time to realize that talent.
However, to an advanced mechanical civilization, this was nothing special.
The strongest aspect of a mechanical civilization was its ability to mass-produce troops. This ability did not merely mass-produce combat power; it could mass-produce logistical units as well. It could even mass-produce 'civilization leaders' and increase production capacity. Otherwise, how could the Old Mechanical Man have survived from the Big Bang until now and even grown younger with every passing day? Beneath his mechanical throne lay countless skeletons of 'himself.' Even the act of becoming the 'Ironheart Annihilator' was most likely his way of using the extinction of ten thousand races to re-anchor his mechanical personality.
That was actually why he had been placed on the 'civilization blacklist.'
The Civilization Council did not control civilization wars or interfere with species extinction. Its true purpose was to regulate the evolution and development of civilizations. To a certain extent, civilization wars could instead stimulate civilizational evolution.
But if an evolutionary method like the Old Mechanical Man's spread, it was highly likely that other mechanical civilizations would also be stimulated into becoming 'Ironheart Annihilators.' At that point, it could trigger a civil war between the 'four great civilization systems.'