If human sociologists knew about the current state of the Apollo Civilization, they might be shocked, a Fourth-level Civilization still plagued by significant internal strife—it's simply beyond imagination!
But upon closer consideration, it's not that strange... Civilizations that haven't experienced much hardship are often like this.
As an Affiliated Civilization, if its cohesion is too strong, it's easy to pursue a path of independent development, and what Sovereign Civilization would feel comfortable with that? Only a civilization fractured and ridden with fierce internal struggles among its upper echelons, where leaders are overthrown every few years, can be considered an excellent Affiliated Civilization.
A handful of historians within the Apollo Civilization concluded after their investigations that these phenomena of civilizational division were deliberately cultivated by the Sovereign Civilization in ancient times!
