Galaxy Domination Guide

Bai Zhongqi sat there with his legs crossed, waiting for Nan Ma to do the demonstration.

The Flashpoint app was about to launch, and it had to pass his test first. If Bai Zhongqi was satisfied, he would naturally authorize Nan Ma. Conversely, whether or not it was allowed on Earth didn't matter much to the people of Iridium Star.

Even if the major app stores didn't approve, the people of Iridium Star had the ability to launch the app anyway, and the managers of the app stores couldn't even remove it.

Due to the rush, Flashpoint Company hadn't done much publicity and packaging work for the app, but Nan Ma and Liu Zhe believed that just by capitalizing on the hot marketing trend of being a product from Iridium Star and using aggressive, all-network popup ads, they could attract a massive user base in a short time.

However, Bai Zhongqi was still uncertain about the latter approach of irrationally deploying popup ads across the network. After all, it might have the opposite marketing effect—it would get famous, but it might lead to a negative public perception.

Flashpoint Company had made only a short advertisement of a few dozen seconds.

In the video, a beautiful girl stood behind the massive window of a spaceship, with the boundless starry sky outside. A voiceover began, "The wider the world, the lonelier the heart becomes."

The scene switched to a young man with a smile on his face, zooming through the streets of Ruyi City on a hoverboard.

"The more thrilling the experience, the more eager you are to share it with others."

A backpacker, carrying a huge travel bag, ran for his life through lush, primeval jungles, accompanied by a hovering assistant robot glowing with blue sci-fi lights. Chasing him was a huge Unihorn Lizard, a native creature from the Legendary Continent of the Emerald Sea Star, which looked much like a dinosaur from Earth.

The scene changed again. A group of energetic young people, dressed in diving suits, pinched their noses and held up their phones. From the camera's perspective, their big smiles were visible as they laughed and jumped from the yacht into the sea. The scene switched again to a middle-aged man dressed as a worker, riding in a spaceship, with the blue Earth outside.

The other half of the scene showed a little girl holding a doll, waiting for her dad to come home.

"We are always searching for the beautiful connection between hearts. We believe in companionship, no matter how many light-years apart."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

The screen switched to different people holding phones or computers. AR cursors appeared on the smart devices, and countless virtual files soared into the sky, with many more downloading.

In a group of friends, a buddy held up a phone that looked like a glass tablet, and a cool holographic image popped up—it was a video playback window provided by the Flashpoint app, appearing especially magical in the holograph.

At a business meeting, a strong woman dressed in office attire and wearing glasses held a phone; the screen displayed the cursors of all her colleagues in the meeting room. She swiped her finger, and the documents were distributed to all present at the same time.

With Iridium Star features, a page full of bizarre universal knowledge points intrigued curious young people to keep flipping through the pages.

"It is each and every one of us who has changed the trajectory of life and reshaped this world."

"It is each and every one of us who has created miracles and rushed toward a broader universe."

At last, the logo of the Flashpoint app popped up at the end of the promotional video, and the company's slogan appeared:

"A new social media in the space era, bringing hearts closer, making the Galaxy smaller!"

After watching the promotional video, Bai Zhongqi couldn't help but be amazed. This mere forty-second video, shot with techniques familiar to Earthlings including the actors' attire and behavior, had scenes that only lasted three or four seconds, yet were fascinating and unprecedented.

In such a short time, the fact that Nan Ma and Flashpoint Company had produced such a high-quality promotional video was naturally supported by Iridium Star technology, but the effort and talent of Nan Ma and the staff of Flashpoint Company were also commendable.

Nan Ma was very proud, even going so far as to ask Bai Zhongqi with a bit of arrogance, "Your Majesty, what do you think?"

Bai Zhongqi said, "Great."

Nan Ma chuckled and said, "This is the first step in introducing the Iridium Star Civilization into people's daily lives. Although it may sound arrogant, I've indeed put a lot of effort into this."

Bai Zhongqi had to admit that among the thousands of transmigrators from Iridium Star, possibly fewer than ten truly understood what he wanted to achieve, and none could grasp the deeper levels like Nan Ma did.

Xu Lanzhou, Du Peng, and others were his left and right hands as Chancellor, and were very capable in their execution. However, their actions were more politicized, whereas Nan Ma had understood Bai Zhongqi's ideas from the start. The Flashpoint Company that he set up had become a beneficial experiment in merging Iridium Star Civilization with Earth's.

Bai Zhongqi generously praised him, "Well done."

Bai Zhongqi did have his guard up against Nan Ma, after all, this was a powerful Star Warrior master. But with the strong checks and balances of the Iridium Star system and his own backup plans, Bai Zhongqi wasn't afraid of Nan Ma. However, Bai Zhongqi didn't want to see the former unquestioned superior status of the Star Warriors in society. Nan Ma had also sensed this.

In the R19 Fleet, people like Xu Lanzhou had little intention of making use of Nan Ma. But after Bai Zhongqi returned to the Empire, Nan Ma cleverly sought his own place in this "new Empire." His behavior was eccentric but meaningful, aligning more closely with Bai Zhongqi's thoughts.

After founding Flashpoint Company, he had become a significant pawn in Bai Zhongqi's grand strategy for civilization-building.

A large part of this scenario was devised by Nan Ma himself, and Bai Zhongqi was aware of it, often marveling at Nan Ma's intelligence and emotional quotient.

In the future, the Star Warriors recruited from Emerald Sea Star would be utilized in a much different way than the former Iridium Star's Stellar Transmission Academy did, being transformed into a military unit that strictly obeyed orders.

After all, in the Iridium Star United Empire where the Chancellor presided, no one except the Chancellor himself held special privileges.

Nan Ma, smiling, introduced to Bai Zhongqi, "Your Majesty, following your instructions, our soon-to-launch version 1.0.0 will feature only limited functionalities. They are primarily in five main areas, social, entertainment, services, social media, and payment services. The social component is still focused mainly on chatting, but we've pushed the boundaries in terms of voice and video quality.

We've also put effort into the subculture of emojis, adding a feature that allows users to create their own. Additionally, there's the social circles functionality, something many social apps have, but we can provide better community linkage and social engagement."

For entertainment, our main consideration is to align it closely with social media, which is in line with your idea of 'content creation and provision.' Not only will there be grassroots-style live streaming, but we will also focus on producing high-quality content that is organized, rich in substance, and more entertaining.

I have specifically divided the live streaming into four categories, experience-based, performance-based, gaming, and social.

The experience-based category might include outdoor activities, gourmet food, variety shows, and such. We will guide and plan for content providers, especially by involving some influential public figures in this category. The performance and gaming categories, similar to those on other platforms, need not be discussed further.

The social category aims to provide live streaming services for ordinary users with low entry barriers and various forms."

In terms of services, our main offerings now are big data cloud services and high-speed downloading. Unnecessary to mention, in the face of gradually regulated cloud services today, our nearly unlimited data services, combined with extremely fast transmission links, are bound to attract a large following.

Other services include the video player features in advertisements, which, coupled with our data storage cloud services, ensure completely lag-free video playback. Lastly, there's the browser built into the app—it's streamlined and fast, which I believe will also attract a group of users."

Bai Zhongqi nodded continuously, clearly aware that Nan Ma and his team brought in from Country C had a very accurate understanding of the pulse of demand. The combination of social and data services was also a good breakthrough. When friends chat, there's often a transfer of multimedia content, supported by robust data storage, which is bound to be powerful.

Naturally, copyright issues are a problem; however, the heavily capitalist intellectual property rights will vastly transform under Bai Zhongqi into creative property rights, rather than just tools for capitalist profiteering."

"Regarding social media, we haven't brewed enough yet, but the push of Iridium Star content is our main current focus. In the future, we also plan to attract other content providers to expand our layout in social media, not just through text platforms like public accounts, but making it closer to a complete media, providing more comprehensive coverage."

Lastly, payment services—of course, the importance of this needs no further discussion. We have already communicated with Country C, and we've obtained the license for payment services. Although its financial implications are obvious, I know this is not where your ambitions lie.

However, the official side of Country C seems keen on leveraging our technology to enter this market and share in the spoils," said Xiang Fei, proposing to establish this payment services company with us. I see this as a move by Country C to suppress the overpowering private capital in its domestic payment services."

Bai Zhongqi nodded. The domestic payment giants, by monopolizing user interfaces through their payment services, control a significant amount of soft resources and often use this public opinion power to challenge national governance. Some of it is constructive, some are just the nature of capital.

Country C also has many capable individuals, and the future direction of the Star Alliance is inevitably a form of communal welfare-like, quasi-communist social structure. The state will control a substantial amount of service resources, and payment services will naturally be included."

In fact, in the original model of Iridium Star, the payment services were already linked with citizens' welfare and basic income, covering nearly all consumption fields, forming part of the citizens' rights. Such things could not possibly lie in the hands of private capital."

Bai Zhongqi said, "Although we cannot see the widespread adoption of payment just yet, the prototype has already emerged, and I have thought about this issue. Testing the waters through the Flashpoint app to start the framework is not a bad idea.

The new payment company will be set up under the Star Alliance Financial Regulation Bureau, and I will arrange for personnel from there to assist you in handling this matter."

Nan Ma clapped his hands and said, "That would be best."