He should have had a proper chat with Doom, at least letting him explain the latest progress in weaponizing Zero Matter.
But the Nuwali had just sent a transmission. Through old connections, they had contacted one of the Elders Of The Universe and traded for the current route of a team of Creator Lords.
So Su Ming decided to handle this first.
The destination was a planet called Xient. The alien Civilization there was renowned for its Dark Matter technology, and now, its development and use of Dark Matter might have drawn the attention of the Celestials.
Speaking of Dark Matter research, the Dark Elves were indeed climbing that tech tree as well, and they were doing fairly well. Their warships had powerful stealth capabilities and astonishing speed, all thanks to specialized Dark Matter engines.
But they did not even have a homeworld. They drifted through space, hiding as they went. Their efforts were probably too scattered and small-scale for the Celestials to bother with.
This time, however, a Civilization with a homeworld had been discovered researching forbidden technology. That meant trouble.
Dark Matter was an important component of the universe. Put simply from a human perspective, Dark Matter in the broad sense referred to matter that did not emit visible light.
Then every celestial body other than main-sequence stars counted as Dark Matter, including dead stars such as White Dwarf Stars, Neutron Stars, black holes, brown dwarfs, sub-brown dwarfs, and comets. Cosmic dust and interstellar gas naturally counted as Dark Matter as well.
From an energy perspective, matter that did not emit electromagnetic radiation was Dark Matter. It neither shone nor blocked light; that was to say, it did not interact with particles of other matter.
Its existence could only be revealed through gravitational effects, and its gravity was