The Earth Defense Force and the United Nations were naturally overjoyed when the "authority to impose sanctions" fell into their laps.
The practical benefits of this authority were obvious.
As long as the four powers were not foolish enough to resist the Ghost Captain to the bitter end, they would obediently cooperate with the "joint investigation" and seek leniency.
Even if the Ghost Captain had no intention of wiping them out, however, those powers would have to suffer considerable losses to give him a satisfactory answer.
As for how severe the final sanctions would be, that depended on what price they were willing to pay to buy their way out of disaster.
Judging by Lord Wei's rise to fortune, the fastest way to get rich overnight in this world was undoubtedly... "confiscating estates by imperial decree"!
The authority to impose sanctions would not only bring enormous, tangible benefits to the Earth Defense Force and the United Nations. More importantly, it carried a deeper political significance.
Think about it: once this sanctions-related "investigation system" became standard practice, it would effectively mean that the Ghost Captain had entrusted them with the authority to arbitrate Earth's internal disputes.
Predictably, every country would place greater importance on these two organizations from then on, and everyone would do everything possible to increase their influence within them.
One was a "security team," the other a "neighborhood committee." For a time, the Earth Defense Force and the United Nations, the nominal military and civil administrators of the Global Village, actually began to live up to their titles.
In fact, from single-handedly facilitating the establishment of the Earth Defense Force to gradually strengthening its status and authority, Nie Yun had been quietly pushing toward centralized global governance, step by step, slowly uniting the scattered nations under a single