The earliest concept of Barton Augustus was to use the free cloned population on Source Star to develop a cheap and efficient new method of creating a "net" for the Empire. If successful, it would give the Mechanical Empire an advantage in negotiations and confrontations with the Pilgrims.
This was unimaginably great merit.
Projects including Legion Beast, regularly induced Demon Infant, and the Brain Tree plan all advanced around this core purpose.
This was, of course, extremely difficult and was only successful during Hugh Augustus's generation.
Mengdu Group simultaneously acquired Sun Miao and another person.
Sun Miao completed the "Tree Plan," helping Mengdu Group produce a large number of human brains at low costs, and sharply raised Mengdu Group's status within the Nine Major Groups.
