"It"s amazing-it"s available to anyone with the technology to make use of it," Akia said. Her eyes became dreamy. "The universe is always ready to inflate all sails hoisted by sailors, Mother Nature gives abundance."
"It was not easy to understand how to take advantage of the universe"s generosity," Liukai said.
"At one time, Earthlings waged fratricidal wars to grab Earth"s energy resources. But it would have taken the hydrocarbon reserves of a hundred billion planets like Earth to make the Ω-Imperium travel to the Andromeda galaxy."
Liukai smiled.
"What is funny?"
"Would you travel by having a bomb explode under your buttocks? That"s what the ancient astronauts did." And he let go of the sound of a snort.
Akia"s laughter overlapped, and Liukai was glad to have infected her with goo
