Global Crossing: Empire of Stars

After the surgery was revealed, it immediately sparked a frenzy of conversion among the Ratmen. In just one month, the Trade Alliance, which had grown into one of the Milky Way Galaxy's ten largest commercial organizations,

had passed an emergency resolution and high-profilely submitted several diplomatic documents to the Imperial Foreign Ministry, including a proposal for universal gene modification and an initiative to merge with the Empire. It created a miracle in the diplomatic history of the Milky Way Galaxy:

for the first time, an independent civilization had asked to merge wholesale into the Dragon Soul Empire and transform its entire population into humans through gene modification surgery.

Such a shocking diplomatic proposal, arriving as the surgery was being hotly debated, had a strategic-level impact. Some people became even more wary of the Empire, while many others were influenced by it and developed a more favorable view of the Empire.

In the end, however, the Imperial Foreign Ministry politely turned down the Morak Ratmen's request, instead proposing a new agreement—the Outstanding Talent Naturalization Program—and publishing it across the entire network.

The agreement laid out the requirements for the transformation surgery in detail. Anyone with a strong sense of belonging to the Empire and even a modest record of service to it would be eligible for a chance to transform. After submitting a naturalization application on the official website, applicants would receive surgery in order of their contributions.

The policy's release immediately sent traffic to the Empire's official website soaring. On the first day applications opened, more than a hundred billion aliens across the Milky Way Galaxy signed up. Just five days later, that number had climbed into the trillions.

The vast number of aliens yearning for the Empire gave rise to a new trend, and discussion on StarNet became especially