Although twenty million administrative points seemed expensive, a domain spanning a cube two thousand light-years on each side could hold a hundred sectors.
Coreizing those sectors one at a time would cost five hundred million administrative points.
The price of coreizing a domain was practically a giveaway.
That was hardly surprising, though. Back then, a planet had cost only a hundred administrative points, while a star system countless times larger had cost just two thousand.
And coreizing a sector, which could contain tens of thousands or even a hundred thousand star systems along with vast stretches of empty space, cost only two million points.
By comparison, the price of coreizing a domain no longer seemed so outrageous.
So when Huron saw domain-level divisions appear in the system, he selected Coreization without hesitation.
He then immediately convened a meeting to update the administrative divisions, proposing a new structure with domains as its highest level.
The Imperium of Man actually had less control over the Milky Way Galaxy than medieval feudal lords had over their lands.
Places inaccessible through warp travel might as well not have existed to the Imperium of Man, while even accessible places could not be effectively controlled because of warp storms.
The Alliance might have held territory spanning only a little over two thousand light-years, but it maintained a firm grip on every single star system within it.
The Alliance had already developed more than three hundred million star systems. Counting their planets brought the total into the billions.
Whether the entire Imperium of Man even had that many star systems was an open question.
However, because space was so empty, the Alliance's administrative divisions had no tangled, interlocking boundaries. Huron's proposed reorganization presented no difficult problems.
The Alliance's new system of administrative divisions was therefore finalized in