Yang Wanqing nodded.
"There's another, more practical reason," Chen Siyao continued. "If you're going out to develop an interstellar civilization, Blue Star has to remain stable as your home base.
"If every country keeps doing its own thing, with a war here today and a conflict there tomorrow, how can anyone venture outward without worrying?"
"So unification is inevitable?"
"Unification doesn't mean merging. It means cooperation. The Human Alliance won't abolish national governments. It'll establish a higher-level coordinating body above them."
"Each country's domestic affairs will stay unchanged, but things like interstellar development, Spiritual Energy resource allocation, and cross-border Evolver management will be handled collectively."
Yang Wanqing thought for a moment. "Then what will they be bargaining over?"
"Influence. Seat allocations. Voting weights. Authority over military deployments. Any one of those could keep them arguing for a year."
"Then how long until it's established?"
Chen Siyao smiled.
"This isn't something that can be finished in a few months. It'll probably take a fairly long period of negotiation. Don't worry about it. Even if the Human Alliance is established, we'll keep living our lives as usual."
"All right." Yang Wanqing swiped through the news on her bracelet, then suddenly remembered something. "Oh, right, Yaoyao, you know Huaxia is planning to build a robot factory on the moon, don't you?"
"I do. It was in last month's news."
"Then... does that mean Lanlan can come to Blue Star soon?" Yang Wanqing's eyes lit up.
Yun Wanlan, a member of the Sushen Tribe, was still on the moon. Problems with the route between Blue Star and the moon had kept her from coming over.
"After the Origin World came out, the robotics industry saw a new wave of development," Chen Siyao said. "Previously, a lot of sectors still relied on human labor to