The Light Empire's heartland now centered on the Human Emperor's Eye and spread outward from there.
It encompassed the Edian Star Sector, the Bloodburn Star Sector, and the Mountain River Star Sector.
With the Light Empire's advanced technology and Su Yi's Binary Magic, the three sectors had been fully joined together.
But the merger was still so recent that the population had yet to move freely throughout the empire.
Most people in the Edian Star Sector and Mountain River Star Sector still lived in their original homes.
The focus of development was naturally the Bloodburn Star Sector, a place that had once been engulfed in chaos and now needed rebuilding on every front.
Recently, though, the situation had improved dramatically.
The Life Devourers had invaded and consumed the Bloodburn Star Sector for so long that life on most of its planets had gone completely extinct.
Later, the Shadow King had made the region his lair, and hordes of twisted cultists had carried out all manner of bloody, deranged sacrifices there.
The sector's population was consequently tiny. Even most of its survivors were people afflicted by severe corruption or twisted children born of sacrificial victims.
For more than a year, most of the Light Empire's forces had worked to secure the Imperial Center's borders, clear out roaming alien fleets and space pirates, and bring the Bloodburn Star Sector's internal troubles under control.
Fortunately, while the region had few inhabitants, the Shadow King had spent years stockpiling precious ores, supplies, and rare treasures plundered from across the universe. They were everywhere.
And because so many planets had stood empty for so long, immense quantities of new resources had accumulated beneath the constant pressure and upheaval.
Planets shattered in the divine wars of ancient times had, through entirely natural processes, become countless small