Ling Qingyu didn't bother to care about legitimacy issues or human factors. She had no such worries.
The reason lay in her methods, because she never intended to support a single entity. Although she never sought to oppress people, resistance would always exist if a single party reigned.
Such was the reason republic and democratic nations utilized multi-party or dual-party systems—to transfer hatred, in addition to preventing authoritarian cliques from forming again.
Likewise, most people were a collective group of sand bound together through interests. And she planned to transform her Spirit Group into that hidden interest.
Establishing many smaller organizations was far better than one large group with centralized and efficient management.
In her plan, with Athena's oversight and a thorough new system devoid of redundancy, efficiency was the key component of her building blocks.
