The Star Sea Alliance - Youth League

Three hours had passed since their return.

The Star Origin continued its voyage through the brilliant, flowing currents of subspace.

Inside the control room of the Star Origin.

"I have to say, you can see the strength of the Star Sea Human Alliance in every detail. Look at this, the new generation of genetic agents is being popularized again."

Feng Xiao scrolled through the news, clicking his tongue in admiration.

Ilde laughed. "I heard that this time, countries only need to pay the base cost to import the genetic agents; there's no markup allowed.

Citizens under eighteen can use them for free. After administration, their intelligence and physical potential will see a significant boost, and their lifespans will increase to around 800 years."

"Lifespan is just that—lifespan. If you pay a high enough price, even immortality isn't difficult. The prerequisite is that your consciousness strength must be able to accommodate the ever-increasing influx of external information.

If I recall correctly, an ordinary person's consciousness can only withstand about two thousand years of information before it dissipates due to the sheer complexity, right?"

Feeling as though he were listening to mythology, Wang Hao suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but ask: "If the genetic agents are free, what about those countries with imperial or royal systems?"

Feng Xiao and Ilde chuckled. "Whether it's an empire, a kingdom, a federation, or a republic, they are merely interest groups with different forms of distribution.

Basic laws must comply with the Alliance Law. If they illegally exploit their citizens, the Alliance Council wouldn't mind letting them know that the value of a citizen to civilization is far higher than that of their ruling class."

"The Alliance Council doesn't care about those interests?"

Wang Hao grew increasingly puzzled.

"You'll understand later. To the human government composed of the Alliance Council, only the continuous strengthening of human civilization itself counts as an interest.

Wealth... lifespan... power... in the face of the vast technology of modern society, these are merely low-level pursuits. There are narrow-minded people at the bottom, of course.

But the human civilization Alliance Council, those forces and figures who truly steer human civilization, are all incredibly rational. Not a single one of them is a waste."

Feng Xiao said calmly.

His mind couldn't help but drift to certain things his father had told him...

The Star Sea Human Alliance was surrounded by enemies on all sides, engaged in total civilization wars with hundreds of civilizations simultaneously, the weakest of which were Level 8 civilizations!

Yet, it wasn't these civilizations besieging humanity.

It was the Star Sea Human Alliance that had taken the initiative to launch wars against them, and they held the dominant position.

Even so, the Star Sea Human Alliance only devoted a small portion of its attention to these civilization wars.

The resources provided for the war accounted for only a fraction of their total resources...

The rest of their energy was still focused on developing humanity.

In other words, humanity was simply using all the nearby civilizations as tools to train their military. If they truly wanted to wipe these civilizations out, they would have been gone long ago.

"Alright, enough bragging for now. We're about to arrive at Moss Starport." Feng Xiao checked the time and interrupted their conversation.

"Then prepare to exit subspace..."

"A portion of Moss Starport extends into subspace, so there's no need to exit."

Ilde explained: "Subspace starports belong to the ETC Channel; we can just pass through directly.

Most merchant ships and star-liners in the Morton Galaxy don't have subspace navigation technology, so if you go through the Main Universe, you have to wait in line."

Wang Hao felt helpless, resolving to continue cramming on his knowledge of the Star Sea Human Alliance.

He couldn't afford to be a country bumpkin!

Meanwhile... in the central region of the Star Sea Alliance.

A silver rhomboid artificial construct, even ten thousand times larger than a star, rotated slowly.

Thousands of artificial celestial bodies, ranging from tens to millions of kilometers in diameter, surrounded this construct like stars orbiting the moon.

A massive network of artificial planets and starports connected all transportation routes, and the light of civilization completely covered the surrounding light-years, making it incredibly bustling.

Brilliant radiance dispelled all the gloom within this area.

There was no star, yet it carried its own light.

Countless starships and conventional warships emitting powerful fluctuations moved in and out, and there was no shortage of planet-sized transport ships traveling between the artificial celestial bodies.

Among them were many sightseeing vessels.

This supreme creation, made entirely of a crystalline, translucent unknown alloy, was none other than the headquarters of the official Department of Education of the Star Sea Human Alliance!

Sprout Star!

Inside Sprout Star, which felt like the dwelling place of a god of technology, a vast number of academic headquarters were established. Because of this, one could constantly see countless leisure-seeking new-generation captains or students with special talents coming and going.

They traveled to different urban sectors for consumption and entertainment.

Of course, as the elite of the Alliance who were qualified to study here, they were all diligent, hardworking, and gifted individuals, so there was no need to worry about them falling into depravity.

In the core sector of Sprout Star.

In a massive conference room, over a dozen figures were discussing something.

"Additional funding has been allocated from above, but the entire Alliance education system is currently running well, even the small countries in the border regions have been fully funded."

"There is really no need for these funds."

The figure at the head of the table said indifferently.

"But we can't just let them sit there. Those funds are meant to optimize the next generation; leaving them idle is a waste. Are there any newly established academies?"

"Don't even think about it. It's fine for our Department of Education to hold onto educational funds for a long time, but if those academies don't touch their allocations for too long, they'll be audited."

A figure on the left hurriedly put a stop to the other's idea.

"Then what do we do? If this allocation isn't spent, it will create a vicious cycle when the next one arrives. How about we allocate a portion to the military academies?"

"Our military academies already have a surplus of accumulated funds. Don't even dream of it."

"What about the research academies?"

"Same thing."

"Come to think of it, why is there so much funding lately?"

"It's the centennial Star Sea Festival. Large-scale military activities on the front lines have been reduced, so the military budget from the last few years is being distributed among various departments..."

Hearing the discussion below gradually veer off track, the person in the main seat sighed helplessly: "Stop. I have an idea. Would you all like to hear it?"

"..."

"Since it's the Star Sea Festival, our Department of Education needs to do something. In that case, why don't we host a Star Sea Youth League?

Participants must be under twenty-five.

We can start with over a dozen major departments, including research, psionics, ancient martial arts, starships, and literature. The rules and regulations must be comprehensive, and it will provide all the academies with high-quality talent."

The eyes of the others lit up: "Not bad. It could also foster a more intense competitive atmosphere. Should we set the venues in reality or in the Second World?"

Unlike the Star Net, which is only accessible to starship captains or crew members, the Second World is a virtual world open to all of humanity.

Its scale far exceeds that of the Star Net.

The person at the head of the table said calmly: "The other competitions can be held in the Second World, but the starship league and special systems like psionics need to be held in reality.

For the starship competition, we'll base it on point acquisition. We can use Star Weapons to cover a certain area of the Main Universe, and the competing starships can hunt for points within it.

The ranking will be based on the number of Star Points obtained. As for the targets to hunt, we could consider deploying a large number of medium-sized insect swarms without Brain Bugs and the Machine Race."

"As for the venue, there's a good spot. Isn't there an eighth-level civilization recently clamoring that their territory is the center of the universe?

Let a coalition of several high-level major powers go and clear it out, then reward them with standard scavenger compensation afterward.

An eighth-level civilization's territory of hundreds of millions of light-years should be enough."

"Individual power competitions like psionics and ancient martial arts should be arranged as tournament-style matches."

"Agreed. Let the professors and masters of the relevant factions plan the rest of the events."

"We shouldn't be stingy with the rewards. Star Weapons below the orange tier shouldn't even appear in the prize pool."

"The competition schedule..."

"There are three and a half years until the Star Sea Festival, so let's set it for two Star Sea years from now. The name of the event shall be: Star Sea Alliance—Youth League!"

Dozens of minutes later, all arrangements related to the league were perfected under powerful intelligent deduction, and a vast amount of relevant information began to spread everywhere.

Fleets carrying countless medium and high-level insect nests and Machine Race intelligent factories were already prepared to deploy the insect swarms and the Machine Race in advance.

They needed to give them time to expand.

The first to move, however, were the massive, incredibly powerful expeditionary fleets and starship groups, among which Neutron War Stars and even more formidable weapons were occasionally revealed.

Dimensional Weapons! Super starships!

After all, the league venue was still quite 'barren' and needed to be cleared out as quickly as possible.