Year 4609 AD.
Anaya Collins and her fleet had arrived in the Andromeda Galaxy but did not aggressively expand. Instead, they stealthily infiltrated the core region of the Andromeda Galaxy, like a virus entering a human body. They discreetly settled on a seemingly unremarkable planet in a binary star system in the central area, rapidly growing their population while secretly probing the nearby civilizations.
The Andromeda Galaxy had a diameter of 160,000 light-years and had at least 400 billion stars, making it much larger than the Milky Way Galaxy.
This place had always been fertile ground for civilizations.
However, the Compound-Eyed Observer had little set up here, only placing a few core ships shaped like octopuses. Instead, they focused more on enslaving and controlling numerous Tier 3 civilizations.
Over the course of a thousand years, hundreds of Tier 3 civilizations had emerged in the Andromeda Galaxy.
