The Tivan Group was probably the wealthiest private enterprise in the universe, rich enough to rival nations. Their owner, Tivan the Collector, was an oddball who seemed to have some serious misunderstanding of the word "fashion."
But despite his bizarre appearance, he was willing to offer a bounty of six billion to purchase the Orb.
How much were six billion universal credits? Rocket's previous behavior offered a comparison. Nebula's bounty within the Nova Corps was probably less than a million, yet that had been enough for Rocket to fight her tooth and nail on Xandar. He had even planned out how he would retire after getting the money.
And one million universal credits had been enough to hire Yondu and all his men to hunt down the Guardians of the Galaxy. That was over a hundred people acting together, which came out to just over ten thousand per person.
The purchasing power of these universal credits was far greater than that of U.S. dollars or British pounds on Earth.
From that, one could infer just how wealthy Tivan the Collector truly was. Tony was merely a billionaire, and Black Panther only possessed a Vibranium mine. But Tivan owned several planets, and had even converted the corpse of a gigantic ancient creature into a mine and black-market trading hub.
After multiple space jumps, the Milano arrived at the Tivan Group's "Knowhere." From afar, it looked like a corpse nearly as large as a planet, with the shape of its skull and torso still visible.
After discovering the remains of this ancient life-form, the Tivan Group had transformed the corpse into a habitable planet. While excavating the ancient remains, they had also turned the place into an interstellar black-market trading center.
Only the obscenely wealthy Tivan Group could pull off something on