After finalizing the deal with Yondu...
Alvin left the Star-Ravager with Raymond and continued the tour and treasure hunt with Qin Emperor.
He had indeed meant to use Qin Emperor's prestige to put pressure on Yondu.
Showing Yondu their strongest force would help speed up the deal.
The Dark Aster's vast cargo was extremely valuable, and what Alvin wanted wasn't hard to come by.
Stark Industries and Osborn Corporation, the two scientific organizations, had drawn up a list of "orders" based on Earth's current level of technology...
They were the most professional scientific organizations, and they knew what Earth needed.
Sometimes it wasn't just finished products, but also solutions to current scientific bottlenecks.
Compared to the developed nations of the Milky Way Galaxy, Earth's needs were trivial!
For Yondu, the only real difficulty might be "translating" those requests.
He'd have to dig up a lot of the galaxy's "antiques" to help Earth build a complete technological tree.
Sometimes just having "cannons" wasn't enough. Earth needed to know how they worked, and how to make them.
Every component had to be made locally before Earth could build on that foundation and innovate.
Blind imitation had no future!
Humanity had to thoroughly understand and absorb those technologies before it could use them to develop things better suited to its own needs.
When Stark looked at the Dark Aster, for example, his first thought was to make the ship adapt to him, not to adapt himself to the ship.
Only with that kind of determination could they forge their own path...
Alvin trusted Raymond. He was sure the old viper would win Earth enough benefits!
After all, the broad strokes had already been settled. For an old viper like him, working out the details was a piece of cake...
Figuring out how to