Once the tenth-largest publicly traded company in the Milky Way, Galaxy Heavy Industries, which had once been valued at eight billion tons of red energy fluid, had now reached the brink of bankruptcy.
The vast funds it had gained from the stock market had not become a catalyst for Galaxy Heavy Industries' growth. Instead, they had become the noose around its neck.
It was precisely because it had once obtained nearly 1.5 billion tons of red energy fluid in funding that Galaxy Heavy Industries had begun aggressively expanding every aspect of its business. For a time, the frenzied expansion devoured vast amounts of the company's capital.
Originally, as long as the artificial planets were gradually completed, those invested funds could have been steadily recovered and brought enormous profits to Galaxy Heavy Industries.
But with the destruction of eighteen planetary docks and eighteen artificial planets, Galaxy Heavy Industries no longer had enough funds to sustain the operation of so many businesses. Worse still, those businesses required substantial follow-up investment before they could generate any profit.
"If you go bankrupt, what happens to the Andromeda Plan?" Tang Shizhe grabbed Jeffrey by the shoulders and asked in a low voice.
"The Andromeda Plan will continue. They'll settle down in a new star system and develop an entirely new civilization there. Do you think a company that has already gone bankrupt can keep leading those employees aboard the Andromeda?"
"They'll definitely rebel!" Jeffrey looked as though he had long seen through everything.
After thinking it over, Tang Shizhe realized that was indeed true. After all, no one liked being managed. Once Galaxy Heavy Industries' employees aboard the Andromeda learned that their parent company had gone bankrupt, they would certainly choose to establish themselves as rulers.
At that point, Galaxy Heavy Industries' shares in Andromeda