After another set of ten-year goals was announced, the development planning conference came to an end.
All Alliance citizens returned to their duties and worked toward the new development goals.
Although the Alliance now had four tiers of administrative divisions, from domains down to individual star systems, its chain of administrative command actually had only one level.
Vanessa could command every Alliance citizen in parallel, and that was exactly what she did.
Every Alliance citizen answered directly to her, while she assigned administrative instructions precisely to each individual.
Thanks to the delay-free communications within the Tower of Babel's domain, the Alliance, whose territory now spanned thousands of light-years, had far greater administrative efficiency than when it had first unified the Badab System.
Back then, after all, the Alliance had only conventional electromagnetic communications besides Astropathic Communication.
That meant an outrageous delay of several hours between the outermost ninth planet and Badab Primus. They could only rely on high-performance computers and Astropathic Communication to run predictive simulations and calculations.
It was nothing like the present, when virtually no communication delay existed between the Maelstrom defensive line in the central region and remote star systems thousands of light-years away.
As the Alliance began preparing for its next war, Huron also successfully unlocked a new ascension perk slot and trait slot.
After the rapid growth of the early days, the amount of unity needed for each new ascension perk slot had become increasingly staggering.
No matter how hard the Alliance worked to develop, Huron was unlocking new ascension perk slots more and more slowly.
This time, for instance, nearly twenty years had passed since his last ascension before the new slot opened.
Fortunately, the powerful bonuses from ascension were worth the wait.
``` Ascension: Consecrated Planet.
Description: The dazzling galaxy has nurtured countless