"According to the intelligence we have so far, the total number of habitable planets successively brought into being by that Star-Bearing Vine in the Dead Sea Star Abyss exceeds one hundred and fifty.
Moreover, there are abundant rare minerals and other resources.
A habitable planet cluster on this scale, distributed across a small region of space, is undoubtedly a priceless fortune.
But fully developing and utilizing it
would require an astronomical initial investment as well!"
Zhong Shiji said with a troubled expression.
"If material supplies are concerned, we can still solve the problem efficiently through methods like purchasing them from outside.
Then human resources are the biggest bottleneck!"
Wang Dong remained composed.
Zhong Shiji was, of course, right.
Developing a habitable planet was no simple matter.
It wasn't like in some novels or movies, where you could simply dispatch a landing fleet, set down on a planet, establish a colony, and gradually expand it.
This kind of interstellar colonization that started with "human labor"
aside from questions of safety and whether it was even feasible,
was simply too inefficient to meet the needs of the interstellar age!
Interstellar colonization was an extremely specialized undertaking.
Take Kindling Human Civilization, for example.
First came discovery—finding a suitable habitable planet.
Not every habitable planet was suitable for interstellar migration.
Especially when it came to humans.
Many other factors had to be considered as well.
For example, the stability and safety of the space around the planet, and whether it could be terraformed.
Otherwise, they might spend a great deal of effort transforming it into a planet fit for human life,
only for it to be swept by a gamma-ray burst not long afterward.
Or for something to go wrong with the star in its system.
Wouldn't that be a terrible loss?
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