The Human Federation has replaced a group of its top leaders.
The so-called three top conglomerates' behind-the-scenes power holders, the so-called true controllers of the Human Federation, and the few who knew Norton's thoughts and the secrets of God's descent—such as Piers and Mr. Ranier, mentioned many times before—these people who thought they had already secured their positions in Norton's power empire simply disappeared from human history without causing any ripples.
Norton didn't even bother to glance at it.
It's just a substitute; replacing anyone would be the same.
Moreover, these old fogies really crossed Norton's bottom line.
Today's Garden of Eden upholds freedom and civilization, and these carnivores who still fantasize about continuing their cannibalistic ways will ultimately be annihilated by the civilization Norton brought.
Norton, 168.
Garden of Eden entered an era of rapid development.
The Pale God Norton reigns Garden of Eden Pale Holy See, forcefully suppressing all criminal activity.
Thus, the Human Federation truly began to embark on the path of a genuine civilized society.
Crimes monopolized by the privileged class, such as cannibalism, human bone products, and human trafficking, were completely eradicated under the oppressive rule of the Pale God Norton. Murder, riots, rape, robbery, and other illegal and criminal acts were also completely eliminated, because any attempt to commit a crime would be crushed into particles the moment their intentions were exposed.
The Pale Church expanded accordingly, gradually replacing all the responsibilities of police stations, hospitals, military districts, and even schools. It combined divine and imperial power, dispute resolution and human education, and orphanages, nursing homes, and medical care.
Pale Church are scattered throughout cities large and small. All Human Federation who are eight years of age or older are required to join Pale Church, believe in the Pale God, and study the Church's scriptures in order to begin positive evolution.
This also led to a return to theocratic rule in human society.
However, this era of theocratic rule is far more civilized, free, equal, and harmonious than the Holy Lord Empire of the past.
Technological advancements have enabled spacecraft to be rapidly upgraded, and small nuclear fusion cores have allowed these spacecraft to fly for thousands of years at a time.
Human evolution has freed us from our greatest limitations—short lifespan and fragile bodies.
Therefore, interstellar migration shines brightly.
The Human Federation encourages interstellar migration and calls for faith in the Church.
In just one hundred years, the number of spacecraft launched into outer space and the number of newly constructed space cities have far exceeded the total number of the previous millennium. The superior physical abilities that humans have evolved have enabled some of the strongest individuals, or even certain unique races, to even fly independently into outer space and survive in a vacuum.
The space civil engineering project has boosted the economy of the entire Human Federation, and its success is foreseeable to continue.
Humanity, like industrious bees, continuously sends out troops to build, transform, and expand in the vast universe. One after another, human space cities with Pale God rise from the ground, and the population begins to grow explosively in the long lifespan and absolute peace.
The star of human civilization is rising.
This is the foundation upon which the spark of human civilization shines brightly, and also the source of its brilliance.
Pale God sits high on his throne, silently overlooking the harmonious development of humankind.
In this age of civilized technology, protected by Pale God, humanity's brilliance has rapidly traversed the Garden of Eden Galaxy ( Solar System ) and spread into the Greater Garden of Eden Galaxy ( Milky Way Galaxy ).
Norton Epoch, the third millennium.
Humanity has still not been able to break through the Greater Garden of Eden Galaxy.
Over three thousand years of development, the human population has ballooned to a terrifying level—1.47 × 10²⁰ people.
What does this mean?
If we consider the entire Greater Garden of Eden Galaxy, the number of humans is still like a small nest of ants under a house, with hundreds of trillions of times more space available, not even a fraction of the Greater Garden of Eden Galaxy.
However, if we consider the context of a very popular game like Warhammer 40,000, that would be more than ten thousand times the population of the Imperium of Man.
In reality, the actual population may be far greater than this level.
This is based on a 30-year period for one generation, with an average of two children per couple.
However, because humans are immortal and do not commit crimes, the population has hardly decreased. Now, everyone has the potential to mutate, which is a leap beyond the heavens and earth, and with the support of the Human Federation, families are going all out to have children. Some couples who are not particularly mutated but place all their hopes on their children are having children like crazy, with almost every household having four or more children.
The actual total population could even reach 10 to the power of 32, which would be even more terrifying.
Such a large population did not even manage to occupy one of the four main spiral arms of the Greater Garden of Eden Galaxy; it only occupied a small portion of it.
Although interstellar travel and even intergalactic travel have become mainstream, and spaceships made of powerful materials and the increased strength of the human body have enabled them to reach terrifying speeds, they are still far from reaching the speed of light. This has led to a desperate limitation on the speed of human development in terms of reproduction and expansion.
Without space jumps, wormholes, or warp drives like in games, it's impossible for humanity to travel in a straight line through spaceships and overcome the current rate of population growth.
In other words, the rate at which humanity expands outward is far lower than the rate at which the population reproduces.
Without technologies like warp drives, wormholes, or even space jumps, humanity would be like the classic 'rat utopia' experiment tens of thousands of years ago, eternally confined due to an excessively small living environment and an overpopulated population, or even truly wiped out! (Light-speed travel is impossible because the energy required to transport objects is too great, and the mass of an object would become infinitely large if it approached the speed of light.)
And this is the true limitation that God imposes on humanity and all living beings.
Therefore, the Norton Epoch, the third millennium.
Scholars from the Pale Church Academy of Sciences of the Human Federation have proposed a concept: could Subspace Jump be achieved by utilizing the parallelism between the soul space and the physical space?
Faced with a situation where progress seemed impossible, humanity ultimately opened Pandora's Box— a project initiated three thousand years ago that has yet to be fully understood—in order to advance.
(Sorry, guys. I went out for five days during the May Day holiday. I've been trying to update more these past few days. It's been almost a year since I took a break. I'm such a bastard. I'm guilty.)