The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4034

Chapter 4034 The Cradle of Humanity

Earth. The mother planet. The cradle of humanity. The symbolic capital of one of the greatest human empires in history.

On the surface, there was nothing special about the third satellite of the Sol System.

Terrestrial globes like these were like a dime in a dozen in the Milky Way.

While there weren't many of them that happened to satisfy all of the harsh conditions to foster organic life, this still amounted to a huge number given that there were hundreds of billions of star systems in the galaxy!

From a galactic perspective, Earth really wasn't that special. Even the Red Ocean featured a lot of livable planets that played host to comparable plants and wildlife.

In fact, not only was Earth rather common as a life-bearing planet, it also ranked among the lowest of classes!

The home planets of the once-dominant Seven Apex Races were much more impressive in comparison!

Each of them were rife with an abundant quantity of medium to high-grade exotics. These powerful and in some cases unique materials not only transformed the environment of the planets they resided in, but directly affected the evolution of all of the life forms that grew up on their surfaces!

This was how individually powerful races such as the phase whales and the Alshyr were able to rise from their home planets and conquer a portion of their respective galaxies!

Since the races that evolved from more high-class planets tended to possess a lot more inborn advantages, they often overwhelmed their alien rivals and gained supremacy over the weaker races!

What was strange about the human race was how its weak members overcame their disadvantages and defeated alien civilizations that were much greater, much more powerful and much older than their own nascent civilization!

Though mankind was just one of the many organic species to have evolved from Old Earth, it was by far its greatest natural product!

By providing the circumstances that facilitated the evolution and proliferation of ancient humans, this once-savage race of hunter-gatherers had risen up and developed traits that gave their descendants a chance of overturning the previous order in a galaxy that had long been carved up by many alien hegemons.

In fact, many races with the potential to dominate had emerged throughout the history of the Milky Way.

The vast majority of them had failed to displace even a single existing alien civilization!

Only a few newcomers succeeded in toppling their rivals, and none were as successful as the human race!

The tale of humanity's rise was extremely improbable. Not only did it rely on a lot of lucky encounters, but also received a push from the shadows.

Regardless, the human race succeeded against all odds and exploded onto the galaxy with indomitable momentum!

With each successful expansion of the borders of human space, the people that reigned over their expanding empires became more convinced of their specialness.

Although it did not look like it at first, the human race was the chosen race of the galaxy!

Humans were stronger than any alien species!

The victors of many wars and the heirs to the conquerors attempted to find a clear and simple explanation for all of these successes.

Just like other typical humans, they ignored the many factors that contributed to humanity's unlikely rise and latched on to just a handful of factors as the central basis of their theories!

This resulted in the rise of popularity of many odd and not-so-logical beliefs.

One of them was the worship of the planet that spawned the human race.

This ordinary globe that was not that remarkable or even unique in the Milky Way turned into an object that was worshiped by many humans!

No matter whether they were Terrans or citizens of other states, as long as they became steeped in the remarkable history of humanity's extraordinary rise, many of them developed the tendency to worship the planet of origin!

For this reason, Old Earth became the most famed, desirable and precious planet of human civilization.

Once the seat of power of humanity's only unified empire at the time, Old Earth and much of the Sol System had become a lot calmer these days.

This was because the Greater Terran United Confederation decided not to risk any further damage to mankind's greatest planet and shift their capital elsewhere.

Once the Terran Confederation started ruling its massive superstate in a much more powerful star system in the galactic center, the Sol System seemingly went back in time before humanity became dominant.

Though much of its defenses remained, a lot of urban settlements and other man-made traces disappeared from the surface of the planet.

Under the guiding hand of the greatest experts of the Terran Confederation, Old Earth slowly and steadily regained a stable and healthy ecosystem. Tranquility had returned to much of the surface as the number of cities and towns drastically dropped!

In addition, the Terrans heavily restricted access to their historical heritage site, thereby preventing a flood of tourists from overrunning and ruining its idyllic environment.

For many centuries, Old Earth regained its status as the jewel of the human race.

As the most precious heritage of mankind, only a tiny proportion of Terran citizens were allowed to reside on the planet.

The right to live and breathe on the same planet where their grand species had emerged upon was considered one of the highest honors a Terran citizen could receive!

No more than 1 billion residents were allowed to live on Old Earth at any time!

Deaths and departures frequently took place among a population of this size, but the free slots instantly got filled up as the people on the waiting list finally received their turn!

The selection and order of the waiting list was an entirely different subject altogether. No average Terran citizen could realistically get to the front of the list in their lifetimes.

In fact, most people didn't even have the qualifications to put their names on it in the first place!

The reality was that only the richest and wealthiest citizens of the Terran Confederation were able to grasp this precious opportunity.

This basically translated to the members of the ancient clans that dominated the different star sectors and star clusters of the Terran Confederation!

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