Among the Amoebas, the individuals chiefly responsible for analysis discussed the newly discovered Man civilization.
Without question, the Man civilization was the most technologically advanced civilization the swarm had discovered among extraterrestrials. Antimatter applications were widespread, they could undertake large-scale near-light-speed voyages, and they could use the Spirit Domain to achieve faster-than-light displacement.
It held immense research value.
The Successors' main focus was not on how powerful the Man Empire was or how advanced its technology was. Those matters were important, but not the most important.
The Successors cared more about why the Man Empire had not continued expanding into other galaxies after occupying an entire galaxy.
Was it because Spirit Domain displacement could not reach other galaxies?
Of course not. Otherwise, the Demon God lineage could never have fled from one galaxy to another to survive.
The reason the Man Empire could not expand came from within itself.
Setting aside all manner of external and internal enemies, the Successors' analysis concluded that the Man Empire's greatest enemy was itself.
"The Man civilization has already reached its limit. Even if they solve the problem of faster-than-light communication, the scale of a single galaxy is already exceedingly difficult for them to govern."
It was not that the Man civilization did not know there were other galaxies beyond their own. They simply no longer had the energy to keep expanding outward.
Expansion would inevitably lead to a civilization's fragmentation. The civil wars that had once occurred within the galaxy would inevitably recur, and with a larger population, they would necessarily be more chaotic and the fighting far more terrifying in intensity.
For all these reasons, the Man Empire lacked the resources, energy, and willingness to expand into other galaxies.
Yet the development of civilization was like rowing upstream: if one did not