Bai Xiaowen still wanted to develop. After all, White Phoenix Territory's spirit energy density was so high and it was so large that it could easily attract greed. White Phoenix Territory didn't have enough strength to intimidate other territories. Even if it had a defensive advantage, it couldn't be guaranteed.
Therefore, Bai Xiaowen added another clause to the mutual trust agreement. That was, only goods could be exchanged without a visa. The members of both territories couldn't be exempted and needed the lord's permission to enter.
This would prevent Rivendell's members from spreading the news of White Phoenix Territory's riches.
After signing the basic mutual trust agreement, Candice was very happy.
Bai Xiaowen took the opportunity to ask, "Lord Candice, I just came to Starlink and don't know much about the situation. Can you sell me the information you have on Starlink's territories? Just some simple information will do. For example, the strength levels of the active territories, especially the top territories. I don't want to accidentally provoke a big shot that I shouldn't provoke. "
Candice replied, "Of course. Actually, such simple information is very easy to find in Starlink. There's no need to charge."
This time, after a long pause, Candice finally sent a string of messages.
Bai Xiaowen took a glance and memorized the contents. It was indeed very simple information. It didn't involve the coordinates of territories or the characteristics of other territories' armies.
Unlike Bai Xiaowen's rough classification of Starlink's territories, which were divided into five grades, Candice divided the territories into seven grades according to their strength.
The worst grade, the seventh grade, was a pure colony. It couldn't even be considered a vassal territory. It was a puppet of the lord's territory after conquering it. It inherited the lord's boundary stele and sent benefits to the lord's territory. It didn't even have a share of its own territory's resources. It could only receive scraps from the lord's territory.
If Bai Xiaowen didn't choose to annex the Great Tang Territory's boundary stele and instead chose to pass it on to a friend, then Great Tang Territory would become a pure colony of White Phoenix Territory. Of course, this depended on how much leeway Bai Xiaowen left for Great Tang Territory. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't leave any leeway.
There were many such territories. Candice wrote a long list of names, including their lord's territory. There were many colonies with more than one Sect Leader. The largest colony had four Sect Leader Territories! According to Candice's explanation, this kind of situation wasn't rare. Usually, in the process of territorial wars, other territories would cooperate with the stronger side in the name of mediating. In the end, they would invade the weaker territory and divide the territory's resources.
Moreover, most of the initial lords of these colonies had died in battle. The puppets they raised were very weak and had no ability to resist at all.
The sixth tier was the vassal territories, which had a certain degree of autonomy. This was similar to the worst tier that Bai Xiaowen had drawn. Vassal territories generally didn't have an organized army. Instead, they were just a few scattered soldiers led by the lord's garrison to maintain order in the territory.
Therefore, the strength of a vassal territory would definitely be inferior to an independent territory. There was no counterexample to this in the Interstellar Alliance.
There were also many vassal territories. For example, Jinyuan Territory and Norvington Territory were vassals of Tianfu Territory.
Above that was the independent territory, where the strength span was much greater. The territory's strength was mainly measured by the "number of crystals" of battle power.
The fifth tier territories were those territories that had just developed a certain scale of army. The total amount of battle power that could be recruited, including evolvers and lords, didn't exceed 10000 crystals in "number of crystals" (an ordinary Level 11 Flame Essence had a battle power of 5 crystals).
Bai Xiaowen estimated that the current White Phoenix Territory should be in the fifth tier. The territory's three hundred Five Element Flag martial artists should have a battle strength of around four to five thousand crystals. Adding in the small number of commander level martial artists, the little companions of the White Phoenix Battle Squad, and Bai Xiaowen himself, it should not be lower than six thousand crystals.
The fourth tier territories had battle power crystals between 10,000 and 30,000. This kind of territory was considered the backbone of the old territories in the Interstellar Alliance. In the Blue Star Platform's three major organizations, they could also occupy an important seat in the group, such as Rivendell, Tianfu Territory, Gondor Territory, and so on. It needed to be said that the Great Tang Territory before its decline was also in the fourth tier.
It was worth mentioning that Candice also ranked the White Phoenix Territory in the fourth tier. The reason was very simple. The White Phoenix Territory had defeated the Great Tang Territory and proved its strength. This kind of solid battle record was recognized by every lord, and it was also the reason why Candice took the initiative to befriend Bai Xiaowen. Only when strength was equal could the status be equal.
The third tier territories had battle power crystals between 30,000 and 100,000. There were relatively few such territories. They were generally large territories that had been established for decades and had been tested by many territorial wars, such as the God's Court's Kwill Territory, Newcastle Territory, and so on.
Of course, there were some amazing people who developed extremely quickly and caught up in a short time. Such examples were extremely rare. Pan-Asia's Great Xia Territory was one of them.
The second tier territories were the core territories of the three major organizations. With Candice's intelligence gathering ability, she couldn't estimate how much battle power their armies had, but they were definitely big shots that couldn't be provoked. These three territories were the Balos Territory (God's Court), the Great Yan Territory (Pan-Asia), and the Boyd Territory (Universal Illumination Society).
The information ended there.
Bai Xiaowen was a little puzzled and sent a message to ask, "The core territories of the three major organizations are only in the second tier? Why is the first tier territory blank? "
Candice replied after a while, "Actually, this isn't a secret. Lord Lu Wang, have you heard of extraterrestrial civilizations? "
"Extraterrestrial civilizations!" Bai Xiaowen had heard of this term, but it was limited to science fiction.
Candice: "Why is the Earth's evolutionary platform called the Blue Planet platform? Because Blue Planet is the common name of Earth in the Milky Way … In comparison, Earth's psionic era came too late, barely a hundred years! Many extraterrestrial civilizations started the psionic era much earlier than us, and of course, they are much stronger! The Star Alliance we usually talk about refers to Earth's Star Alliance, but the real Star Alliance is much bigger than this. Many lords speculate that there must be the Milky Way Star Alliance, or even the Universe Star Alliance! "
Bai Xiaowen was a little shocked and asked, "Extraterrestrial civilizations have territories in the Blue Planet Star Alliance? Have you seen extraterrestrials? "
Candice: "No, but legend has it that the big shots of the three major organizations have seen the emissaries of the extraterrestrial civilizations and even gave them territories to set up observation posts."
"Observation posts?" Bai Xiaowen asked doubtfully, "Why would extraterrestrials observe us? Are they going to invade us?"
Candice: "No, interstellar travel isn't a simple matter. Extraterrestrials observe us just to experience the cultural history of different civilizations. "
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