Half an hour before Lin Yi and Irelia sealed the Star Sea Covenant at the Blue Star Community headquarters, far across the distant starry expanse, in one of the core regions of Human Race territory, the capital of the Purple Gold Star Alliance—Zichen Star—was bathed in magnificent light woven from countless artificial star rings and orbital structures.
The planet itself was an immense, super-sized city.
Skyscrapers of every shape and form rose like forests of metal and energy, tall enough to pierce the clouds. Navigation lights and streams of information flickered across their summits, as if conversing with the stars.
The skies were filled with a constant flow of vehicles of every kind, each following routes calculated to nanometer precision.
From compact personal shuttles to luxurious passenger ships stretching for several kilometers, they formed a dazzling, uninterrupted three-dimensional transportation network.
Surrounding the planet, dozens of star rings of various sizes turned slowly. They were covered with colossal ports swallowing and disgorging starships, shipyards as busy as beehives, defensive platforms radiating a chilling deterrence, and commercial centers the size of small cities.
This was the political, economic, and cultural heart of the Purple Gold Star Alliance.
Every day, countless streams of information, goods, and people from thousands of races converged here and flowed onward, sustaining the prosperity and deep-rooted order of this vast Star Domain.
Inside a magnificent structure on Zichen Star's geosynchronous orbit, its tiers opening like the petals of a silver lotus, stood the Civilization Promotion Affairs Management Bureau, under the Affairs Executive Committee—the Purple Gold Star Alliance's highest administrative body.
The bureau was responsible for monitoring, recording, and processing the promotion assessments of all fledgling civilizations within the Purple Gold Star Alliance's sphere of influence.
On ordinary days, its work proceeded in orderly fashion, like a precision Source