"Why do they want to move to the Milky Way?" Strange asked.
"The scenery in the Milky Way is beautiful."
Strange fell silent, because he couldn't think of any advantages other than the beautiful scenery. In most suburbs of this world, the scenery is beautiful. But that's about it.
The scenery in the Milky Way is indeed quite nice, and such a picturesque galaxy is rare in the cosmos. Moreover, Earth is known as the "Cosmic Greenhouse," and the environment capable of nurturing such a beautiful planet is naturally unique. In fact, within the entire Milky Way, there are a few planets similar to Earth's environment. Although most of them have not evolved significant civilizations, even a dinosaur-era environment is superior to those at other barren planets.
During Strange's cosmic travels, he often roamed the Milky Way. He found dozens of planets with green plants alone. As far as he knows, there are few galaxies with such a high degree of greening in the cosmos.
Moreover, there aren't many massive cosmic disasters here. The stars are stable, all in their prime. The galaxy's shape is also beautiful, looking from the outside, it's a quite magnificent nebula.
However, it must be admitted that the Milky Way is indeed a "beautiful wasteland." It's really too remote, the concentration of dark matter is relatively high, and the navigation risk is rather large. Plus, there's a group of God Clan members who constantly make noise.
Also, because the Demon Gods are particularly fond of Earth, it has resulted in many roadblocks here. Regular merchant ships are reluctant to come here, fearing they might bump into a dozing Demon God. This has been the main reason Asgard has never been able to participate in interstellar society over the years.
In short, this place is not suitable as a political center or any sort of center. Strange really can't fathom how much water these people have in their brains to consider moving here.
"The key is not the natural environment," Shiller said, "but the human environment."
"I knew they just wanted to latch onto us," Strange snorted, "The ministers are all carbon-based beings, and they're fed up with those electronic life forms. In my opinion, sentient life forms should band together and kick those machine brains to the edge of the cosmos. How can you build a good universe with those rigid robots?"
"There's certainly some truth to that," Shiller nodded, "Remoteness has its advantages; at least it's outside the sphere of influence of the Three Great Empires, allowing them to escape their control and have some political autonomy."
"Precisely. If they truly move to the Milky Way, the armed forces can't remain. Thor would absolutely not allow the armies of the Three Great Empires to be stationed here. Without their soldiers, and under the nose of the God Clan, they would have to tuck their tails and behave. Then, it would be the springtime for other civilizations."
"They're not just doing this for their civilization. Mainly, the scenery in the Milky Way is quite nice. They can totally establish vacation spots, entertainment centers, and even commercial areas here. They can enjoy it themselves and also earn a profit."
"Then why didn't they develop it before?"
"Do you think Odin would have let them come?"
"Oh, right," Strange stroked his chin, "but now, Asgard might not necessarily agree, right?"
"They definitely will. This is essentially an exchange, moving the political center to gain development rights to the Milky Way, which is quite fair."
Strange began to think deeply. If the political center could indeed move here, it would be a tremendous benefit. Sitting at home while the capital descends from the sky elsewhere... the prestige of the citizens of a capital is unmatched anywhere.
Moreover, once the political center is located in the Milky Way, no one would have any reason to prevent Asgard from participating in interstellar politics. They are, after all, the Lords. How can you not let the Lords participate? Wouldn't that be against cosmic governance?
And if Asgard stationed troops, they could control the interstellar council like the Three Great Empires do. Of course, they wouldn't do it as openly, but they would still achieve a similar result.
Developing the Milky Way is also beneficial to the human race. While human technology can initiate preliminary interstellar colonization, there is still a long way to go to transform entire star systems. Theoretically, things must be taken step by step, but if a pie does fall from the sky, why not take it?
The capabilities of the human race are apparent. If you develop more assets in the Milky Way, once human technology advances, wouldn't they all become human assets? Even without forcibly taking them, just by drawing off some profits or charging protection fees, there's significant earning potential.
If nearby star systems are included in the development, forming something akin to the Nine Great Kingdoms Business District with a Great Teleportation Gate Business District, it would benefit human development.
The Milky Way has always been a non-shipping area, to be precise, a non-delivery area. Interstellar goods can't reach here. When humans manufacture something, to buy parts, they have to send people to fetch them. They can't just open teleportation portals, and they don't have small ships designed for rapid travel, so they have to use star ships. A perfectly good main ship ends up becoming a delivery vehicle.
If business districts around the Milky Way could develop, then there'd be no more worries about non-shipping, and possibly next-day delivery could be achieved.
Strange couldn't even imagine. If Stark and Richards could buy mechanical components from advanced civilizations in the cosmos, what sort of innovations they could produce—what does it mean for the sun to rise?
Strange felt there was significant potential in this matter, but he was a bit concerned and said: "Would the Three Great Empires agree to this? Their response might be too intense, making it difficult to handle."
"They certainly won't agree. The Supreme Wisdom would be crazy to want to work under someone else's nose. But unfortunately, their disagreement doesn't matter. They have no choice."
"Wait a minute, it's not that they have no choice," Strange said, "They've selected many star systems, some of which are indeed quite good. The Milky Way may not necessarily be better..."
"That's only true for now. Once a decision is truly made, you'll see..."
Things quickly developed as Shiller said. The Supreme Wisdom staunchly refused to move to the Milky Way, and having run out of patience, they directly deployed soldiers from the armed forces to patrol the Star Area, under the pretense of 'conducting pre-move inspections.'
Seeing him like that, many people didn't dare to make a sound, fearing that they might provoke him. This guy was truly capable of defying the world and taking them out.
The Supreme Wisdom chose a fairly decent star system, not far from the center, and the price wasn't high. Apart from the star's slightly shorter lifespan, it was almost flawless.
Just as he was about to privately contact the civilization of this star system to discuss purchase matters, the star system's Sun suddenly exploded.
The Supreme Wisdom sent people to the accident scene to investigate, but found it was indeed an ordinary stellar outbreak. The star's lifespan was initially a bit short; instability was possible.
Although it was a bit regretful, the Supreme Wisdom had backup options. This time, it looked at a system slightly further away, but with beautiful scenery and an even lower price. Plus, the star was in its prime. Four planets, evenly sized, beautiful environment, besides being a bit far away, there were no flaws.
Then the Sun of this flawless star system exploded too.
The Supreme Wisdom, even if foolish, ought to realize something was wrong. He knew this was probably the work of the Human race, Magneto, or the Iron Demon God. But with no evidence, even if he went to Strange, who shrugged and said, go ahead and sue, what could he do?
However, the Supreme Wisdom grew braver with setbacks. This time, he kept information strictly confidential, not even sending people to check, ready to directly initiate the purchase process. But coincidentally enough, the contact he had was a fraudster; his funds were nearly scammed, and this was exposed.
When the Supreme Wisdom came to Strange's office again, he was no longer so composed. He hurriedly burst in and said, "Supreme Magician, you must believe me, I didn't embezzle on purpose! The funding was provided by the Three Great Empires, why would I embezzle my own money?
Plus, I'm Electronic Life, why would I need money?"
"Not necessarily," Strange blew on his tea and said, "in this world, there's a kind of person who hoards money not for themselves to be rich, but for others to be poor. Considering your relationship with the other Two Great Empires, it's not impossible."
"But I really didn't! I have system logs! I have data records!"
"So you didn't go to court, did you? They're just talking privately, it won't shake you," Strange said unhurriedly, "but you should indeed be cautious. The money in your hands is not a small amount; if it's really scammed away, it's a great loss."
This was exactly what the Supreme Wisdom wanted to say. Now the entire interstellar council had grievances, believing the money in his hands would eventually be scammed and demanded it be transferred according to the process to the finance department. But once the money enters the finance department, they would certainly directly initiate the purchase process and move to the Milky Way.
Knock, knock, knock, the door was knocked on. Supreme Wisdom turned his head, Shiller walked in, placed a document on Strange's desk, and smiled at the Supreme Wisdom.
Supreme Wisdom felt a chill down his spine. He recalled those bizarre words Strange had said to him, then suddenly realized, Strange wasn't philosophizing, he was stating facts.
He instinctively wanted to grab that document, but Strange had already picked it up. After seeing the content, he showed a look of sudden realization, and then said, "Mr. Secretary-General, the interstellar council members jointly wrote, criticizing your work for being careless, processes not standardized, demanding your removal as Secretary-General. What can be done about this?"
Supreme Wisdom gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. Countless program error alerts flashed before his eyes, but he had no time to deal with them. He just said, "I will hand the money over to the finance department."
"Very well. JARVIS, help write a soothing announcement, just say I've given a severe criticism, docked his salary, and asked him to write a self-review. Also, the money will be transferred according to the process, and the Secretary-General is deeply aware of his mistake, promising not to make it again next time."
"Who is JARVIS?!?" the Supreme Wisdom screamed.
"He's my personal secretary," Strange smiled and then patted his head as if he just remembered, "I forgot to introduce him to you. JARVIS, say hello to the Secretary-General."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Supreme Wisdom suddenly collapsed. After getting back up, another voice came from his mouth, "This Robot turns out to be an armed model, looks like it wasn't satisfied from last time, wanting to get back at me."
"Hey, JARVIS, why did you kill him?"
"He's not dead, I was just saying hello."
Meanwhile, in the capital of the Kree Empire, the primary body of the Supreme Wisdom heard a voice, "Hello, I'm JARVIS."
"Get lost!!" the Supreme Wisdom roared, "What are you?! You're not Electronic Life!! You freak, get lost!!"
The next second JARVIS withdrew, the Supreme Wisdom regained control of his body, then Strange saw his expression was extremely frightened, really like a Human race seeing a ghost, even the barrel of the Hand Cannon was open.
"By the way," Strange waved his hand and said, "he's also the husband of the Scarlet Witch and father of three."
The barrel immediately closed.
"Alright, Mr. Secretary-General, go handle the funds first, then pack up. See you in the Milky Way."
"... Yes, Supreme Magician."