After the thrilling group chat came to an end...
Alvin let out a somewhat melancholy sigh!
What he wanted, of course, was world peace!
If the United States and Russia could reach an agreement, there was no reason Steel Digital couldn't invest in Russia.
Splitting up the business a little and letting Ivan return home to throw his weight around for a while seemed like a good thing either way.
He'd make money and give a hand to one of the main forces on the future battlefield. How could that be anything but a great thing?
The first batch of Dark Aster deals would be completed soon...
The "deposit" Yondu had brought was being thoroughly processed by several teams of scientists.
Once the finished products were ready, Earth's technological level would make a giant leap forward.
But that leap required an industrial base, and Russia had an industrial base that 90% of the countries on Earth couldn't hope to match.
If it collapsed, then apart from the damage Hydra would cause, Earth's technological progress would be delayed by at least 20%.
Alvin would never try to develop all that alien technology on his own!
No single company or country could possibly support that...
Adapting alien technology for local use and developing it in depth wasn't simply a matter of burning through money...
It was like pouring money into a furnace!
Only a superpower had the manpower and resources to support that kind of investment!
Alvin's plan was to let his own people choose the projects they were interested in first, then release all the remaining technology and license it to countries with the confidence and ability to make use of it.
You want it? No problem...
Pay for it, or trade something else I'm interested in!
When the time came,