The nanotechnology Big Gray commanded in the Dessanu Concordat was undoubtedly the most advanced in the entire universe.
Long ago, the Dessanu Civilization had developed the most basic technology for nanotech ascension, then accidentally brought the uncontrollable Gray Tempest into existence.
After the original Gray Tempest became Big Gray, the advanced nanotechnology it had spawned naturally came under Big Gray's control as well. The nanotechnology held by Gray Tempest's family far surpassed that of the Synthetic Queen Cetana, who came later.
Although no text directly confirmed it, Xi Yan suspected that the Synthetic Queen had acquired her original nanotechnology from the Dessanu Civilization during her first rampage in the previous era.
When the Synthetic Queen Cetana appeared once again as a calamity, one of her lines also confirmed that she had not developed her nanotechnology herself.
With time, Big Gray's technology had clearly become more sophisticated than the Synthetic Queen's.
However, Big Gray had only mastered the military applications of Nanites, such as creating Cetana's mysterious storm.
A nanite storm that made anyone who entered it disappear!
After completing synthetic ascension, the Dessanu Concordat had rapidly grown stronger as well.
The Dessanu Concordat had already received extensive technological assistance from Xi Yan. Now, supported by the vast number of Nanite Worlds in the L-Cluster, a constant stream of its population was being converted into Nanite swarms. In other words, the Dessanu Concordat had already completed nanotech ascension on its own.
Now Xi Yan intended to draw on the Dessanu Concordat's experience and technology to prepare for his own nanotech ascension.
The Empire's nanotech ascension would clearly be more refined.
It would use Nanites to simulate living metal, then reconstruct mechanical bodies with that living metal, achieving both nanotech ascension and modularity ascension at once!
This dual ascension would give the