Blue Star-class Battleship

Several months later

Because teleportation stations throughout the Milky Way had become unusable, every civilization could only rely on Dark Space navigation technology for faster-than-light travel.

Although Titan Group had lost more than ten thousand spacecraft and twenty million tons of red energy fluid, its transport fleet had become the most popular interstellar shipping company in the Milky Way.

Titan Group seized nearly all interstellar shipping business on the market by offering the lowest prices available.

As more and more newly built spacecraft joined the transport fleet, Titan Group's interstellar transport fleet continued to expand. Though it was still some distance from its target of fifteen million spacecraft, it had already become the largest transport fleet in the Milky Way.

To facilitate management of the transport fleet, Tang Shizhe separated it from the group and established a new subsidiary: Titan Transport.

While continuously building self-defensive transport ships of its own, Tang Shizhe also spent vast quantities of energy fluid purchasing spacecraft and warships built by other civilizations from the market.

To prepare for a war that could come at any time, the monthly cost of stockpiling spacecraft, production lines, and supplies had reached as high as sixty million tons of red energy fluid! This accounted for nearly eighty-five percent of all the funds Titan Group earned each month across its various industries!

Every day, warships and supplies purchased from various civilizations were continuously delivered to the Solar System alongside the transport fleet.

The Solar System had been transformed from humanity's original home star system into the location of Titan Group's headquarters.

Tang Shizhe relocated all the new residents who had once lived in the biochemically quarantined Australia and completely rebuilt the continent.

Australia now bore no resemblance whatsoever to its former self. Towering skyscrapers were arranged neatly around the Titan