Gamma World's gun barrels were aimed directly at them.
Excavation vessels and merchant ships could enter these border worlds without worry and trade with them.
World Enterprises and private enterprises played their greatest role, using the support of the Gamma government and the Private Enterprise Federation to trade resources as much as possible. They did not care whether a world was destroyed. They only needed to pay roughly thirty to seventy percent in taxes after plundering its resources and exiting the interstellar highway.
As for criminal enterprises, after a world's resources had been drained dry, they squeezed out its last remaining potential.
Using the contractual power they excelled at, they severed the economic lifelines of these worlds. They created artificial resource shortages to control the flow of capital. They manufactured weapons to ensure peace and stability on those worlds. Of course, when they encountered people from the Tau Empire, reports from those planets also brought them handsome rewards.
Merchant ships carrying trade goods traveled back and forth between the two places.
The interstellar highways made up for the lack of numbers.
A flash of light flickered in the pitch-black starry sky.
Then, an Ozrax-class merchant ship roughly two thousand meters long, bearing Gamma World's World Chapter emblem, appeared. Gamma World's light gleamed along its sides. Its hatches opened, and countless hungry transport ships flew out from the lower decks. To maximize cargo capacity, they had instinctively reduced the ship's cannons, retaining only the space most needed by merchant vessels. A standard merchant ship required tens of thousands, even a hundred thousand people to operate.
Behind it sailed a black ship, steady and silent, bearing the mark of a criminal enterprise: a pyramid emblem symbolizing piled-up resources. Even the ships nearby did not want to remain beside it and were doing