While Yan Xia was researching the biological battleship, Ella was also doing something else.
So far, the world of the Federation is still a mess. Many explorers and interstellar pirates are operating independently, and the largest organisations are only at the level of the Death Star.
The Federation can easily destroy these so-called terrifying interstellar pirates with just a small battleship.
They are too weak and have no use for the Federation.
So, how can they be made useful to the Federation?
After discussing with Ella, Yan Xia concluded that they should be made stronger, strong enough to have a certain level of combat power and expansion capability. They should be able to establish their own government within the Federation.
The benefits of this are quite obvious.
Firstly, it can allow many scholars who should have died to avoid death in a reasonable way. They are also considered important resources for the Civilisation Federation.
Why do it this way?
If you imagine that the Federation allows these scholars to live for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, what would the ordinary citizens of the Federation think? If the inequality is only a few times, people can still accept it, but if it is hundreds or thousands of times, how can they accept it?
The Civilisation Federation would soon erupt into internal chaos because of this. The Federation can easily suppress these internal disturbances, but the fundamental chaos lies in the realm of thought, and these cannot be suppressed by battleships.
At that time, the Federation and its citizens will be indistinguishable.
Secondly, it can create competition.
Other civilisations face more pressure to be destroyed, but this pressure is very remote and ordinary citizens cannot feel it.
By creating a powerful organisation outside the Federation, citizens will be pressured to work hard. Not all of them will be motivated, but even a small portion will be enough to drive the entire Federation's social atmosphere.
The third point is the old saying about the importance of imagination as a resource.
Technology requires more imagination, and social and civilisational structures also require it. More civilisational structures will undoubtedly bring more inspiration. Mistakes made by other structures can be avoided, and correct structures can be referenced.
Within a controllable range, the more structures, the better.
It's like when you go shopping; you can compare three shops to find the best and most affordable option. Civilisation has more directions, and it can also summarise the path that goes the furthest.
There are also many other benefits.
As for the drawbacks, it's actually just being devoured, which may eventually lead to civil war, but that's impossible because Ella will definitely control these organisations. They are still part of the Federation, but only in the consciousness of ordinary citizens and the ideas of the leaders of each organisation are they opposed.
In simple terms, it's like two emperors of two countries are actually the same person, and the two countries have been opposed and at war for a long time, but no one in the two countries, including the two emperors, knows that the person behind them is actually the same person.
To create such an organisation, Yan Xia and Ella discussed for a long time.
If they secretly funded a force to completely annex it, it wouldn't be pure, and they wouldn't be able to fully control the direction of the force's development. Yan Xia and the others wanted an organisation that was independent of the Federation but focused on development and progress, not a terrorist organisation formed by interstellar pirates that constantly threatened the Federation.
If they sent individuals to cultivate them, it would make the organisation too similar to the Federation, and their hostility towards the Federation would be too small.
To achieve a balance, Yan Xia came up with a plan.
This plan is called the Era's Protagonist Plan.
It can also be simply called the Protagonist Plan.
In secret, they cultivated an individual with leadership qualities and abilities, allowing them to grow quickly and establish a large organisation. However, this individual would be unaware of what was behind them, believing that they had achieved everything on their own.
The core of this plan is also very simple.
It involves creating a System.
This system will provide various things to the individual bound to it. For example, in the early stages, if the individual encounters trouble, the system will strengthen their body and provide them with weapons, making them very powerful in combat.
As the individual gradually grows, the system can provide them with battleships, advanced knowledge, and even a mechanical god. With Ella's care, such an individual can quickly become very powerful and perfectly meet Yan Xia and Ella's requirements. Once they grow strong enough, the system can be permanently lost after the individual experiences a battle and is seriously injured.
The organisation built by this individual will appear independent of the Federation, but in reality, everything will be controlled by Ella.
To avoid uneven quality, Yan Xia asked Ella to initially select 12 protagonists, allowing them to rise in the four directions of the Federation, the Triangle Star Domain, and the Cosmic Silk Road.
The final number of organisations that will emerge is up to fate.
Yan Xia can accept 12 powerful organisations outside the Federation, or even more, but the minimum should not be less than three, with one each in the four directions of the Federation, the Triangle Star Domain, and the Cosmic Silk Road. This is the bottom line.
After proposing the Protagonist Plan, Yan Xia felt that although the Federation has invested a lot in scholars, it has invested very little in military personnel.
Currently, the Federation mainly relies on Ella to formulate tactics, and most of the so-called military leaders have all their combat experience from the safe virtual world, not from real life-and-death battles.
Therefore, Yan Xia proposed a new plan to cultivate military personnel.
The Death Selection Plan.
This plan can also be called the Main God Space.
Within the Federation and its surroundings, some citizens are randomly selected and pulled into a special virtual world through the control of quark robots, where they perform tasks in both the virtual and real worlds.
Each task is a life-or-death situation, similar to the infinite flow novels popular in the 21st century.
The test of life and death can cultivate many strong individuals. These citizens can even be assigned dangerous tasks after they grow up, such as contacting the Olive Branch Civilisation. During a war with the Silk Civilisation, tasks can be issued through the Death Selection to assign them as fleet commanders to participate in the war.
The two plans will be implemented simultaneously.
There are no technical difficulties in the next few years. The Civilisation Federation is definitely much stronger than the so-called Main God in some infinite flow novels in the 21st century. With the development of biology, there will be more and more terrifying individuals like the Supreme God, who can rival mythical divine spirits.
Yan Xia looks forward to the Death Selection Plan pushing the Civilisation Federation into the era of individuals, making the role of individuals more prominent.
Perhaps some individuals can grow beyond their current existence.
Yan Xia will not feel jealous because, as an individual, he is not very powerful, and his highest achievement is only a star of the Federation. In the scholar rankings, he cannot even reach a high position.
His true identity is the master of the entire Civilisation Federation. Any powerful individual will eventually serve the Civilisation Federation, which is to serve him.
Now, Yan Xia is quietly waiting for the success of these two plans.