In the 570th year of the Expedition Calendar, with the fall of the Shadow Songstress Civilization's last homeworld fortress, the war in the Northern Silence Sea Galaxy Cluster had largely settled.
At the same time, news of victory arrived from the Black Abyss Starcore Galaxy Cluster. The joint fleet of the Divine Xia Imperial Dynasty and the Red Yu Divine Dynasty swept aside the stubbornly resisting Darkstar Devourers Civilization with thunderous force, marking the official end of the military conquest phase for these two galaxy clusters.
The next several centuries would be a period for the five great empires and their affiliated forces to absorb, integrate, and develop these new territories.
Massive engineering fleets and migration fleets replaced the warship formations, traveling through one conquered galaxy after another. Standardized large-scale ultra-long-range stargates were swiftly constructed, linking the new territories to the transport lifelines of the Kindling Civilization's homeland.
Resource survey ships ventured deep into barren star regions, asteroid belts, and even the interiors of floating continents, charting detailed maps of resource distribution.
Tens of thousands of colonial starships transported wave after wave of elite immigrants from the five great empires to planets and floating continents that had undergone environmental modification and were suitable for habitation.
Ancestral Domain, Ember Humanity Galaxy Cluster.
A postwar conference jointly initiated by the five great Ember Ancestral Courts of the Kindling Civilization was soon convened. Following a unified resolution, the vast territory encompassing more than sixteen hundred galaxies—the Northern Silence Sea Galaxy Cluster, with roughly seven hundred and sixty galaxies, and the Black Abyss Starcore Galaxy Cluster, with roughly eight hundred and fifty—was clearly divided.
As the pillars of the civilization, each of the five great empires took three hundred galaxies as directly governed territory, occupying a total of fifteen hundred galaxies. These galaxies