The Fourth Calamity was, theoretically speaking, a standard source of chaos.
It was impossible for them to stay in one faction for long without causing trouble.
But unfortunately, aside from Great Technician, the other civilized factions were even less humane.
After players had mixed around in interstellar society for so long, learning about the other civilizations' "green card policies" and then looking into the evolutionary timelines of their technology trees—
Holy crap, their own faction was still the best!
On top of that, a large batch of players were still in the Cyber Test Field, like hungry fledglings waiting for the descent of G-someone's divine presence.
Faced with these two points of comparison, even players—or the groups most fond of stirring things up, such as Paradox players, mecha fanatics, and various fan clubs—
kept all their antics confined to the outside world or among the players themselves.
Very few caused trouble internally.
The Cyber Hackers were the first batch of players to start internal strife.
Ever since the "Star Network" was shut down, these Cyber Hackers had begun indiscriminately attacking other players and NPCs, hacking into various mechanical planets. Their biggest stunt was hacking into a "War Fortress" and "liberating" an entire mechanical civilization that had been turned red by the "fortress."
Of course, to put it more accurately, this "liberation" involved implanting viruses into the entire mechanical species and turning the processors of the whole civilization into a massive virtual virus incubator.
In the end, they created a fourth-tier civilization abyss!
This was a rare major incident that alarmed the faction's high-level NPCs.
For reasons unknown, the higher-ups had previously shown a high degree of tolerance toward these "traitors."
Because the stunt had been too massive, the legion's higher-ups even transferred more than a dozen civilization-conquest legions from several