The nearby planets had long since been captured, and Blue Star's Subsidiary Planets had increased from 168 to 441.
Apart from the eighty planets engaged in "continuous combat," these 441 planets were deployed throughout the surrounding region in groups of three.
One group of Subsidiary Planets was deployed every hundred thousand light-years.
A cosmic web for Blue Star had been woven, like a vast net that captured planets passing through the region.
Each Star Lord could sense the star map within a hundred thousand light-years. Zhang Yang used this to deploy three planets at the edge of each hundred-thousand-light-year stretch.
When new Star Lords sensed the three planets, most suspected nothing. By the time they sank deeper and deeper into the trap, it was already too late to escape.
There was also a "toy" at one edge of Blue Star's cosmic web, which attracted many Star Lords and factions.
Of course, many Star Lords also activated Space Jump, escaping the region in an instant.
Heavenly Net also established a membership ranking system, rating subordinate Star Lords according to their combat achievements.
The higher their rank, the cheaper the goods.
While developing a Level Three Civilization, Star Lords faced two major challenges.
The first was resources-in other words, energy points.
Energy points were mainly used to purchase resources from the Cosmic Virtual Platform or develop the planets' interiors.
Resources purchased elsewhere were expensive, while Blue Star's Heavenly Net offered them cheaply.
Level Three planets received a hundred thousand energy points each year and had to hand fifty thousand over to their main planet.
Capturing a new planet could reduce their term of enslavement by a thousand years, or even ten thousand. They could also upgrade their Heavenly Net membership rank and participate in dividing up 50% of the energy points.
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