For the Grand Plan (First Update)

The fortress-factories originally transported to Mars had been modular by design. They could link up with other fortress-factories to form manufacturing plants and research facilities for different purposes. Salomon did not need to worry about that. All he had to do was transport food and fuel to Mars before the hydroponic farms and crop laboratories built there began yielding harvests, helping the ordinary people who had not yet undergone cybernetic prosthetic modification through the difficult period. Yet Mars was not useful solely for manufacturing armaments and improving crops. What lay buried deep beneath its surface was the Mars Foundry's greatest secret. Salomon hoped to use it to propel a leap in human technology, explore the path of human evolution, and take the first step in humanity's rebellion against its creators.

Whether they were gods from the Outer Dimensions or gods of the Material Plane, Salomon did not want anything in this universe to stand above the Human Race. Humanity would become a species that truly controlled its own fate—"Do not bow your heads to ignorant worship. Do not bend your knees to false honor and power. We are the finest. We are destined to conquer the Milky Way. Any species, anything that calls itself a god, will become a stepping stone for our development and progress."—that was what he told Praetorian Guard Zero. Only a species with such ideological awareness could accomplish the great undertaking of conquering the Milky Way. That was humanity's destiny.

It was not that he bore any malice toward aliens. Rather, the alien empires of the universe neither possessed the desire nor deserved the right to coexist peacefully.

The Skrulls: disgusting shapeshifters accustomed to masquerading as other races for peaceful subversion.

The Kree: blue-skinned little goblins, a warlord civilization ruled by computers.

The Shi'ar: hollow-boned birdmen