While the immortal sages began working on the Gaian Seed technology to terraform other planets into Gaian offspring, the rest of the world rapidly accelerated their investment into space technologies. The reality was that even though Gaia was extremely advanced in its technologies, they had yet to be applied to space travel to the extent that they could be because space was still largely a state venture controlled by superpower civilizations rather than the private sector.
Once Rui's desire to conquer ten thousand stars in ten years led him to unshackling human civilization and all the creativity and innovation that existed for it, the technological innovations came rushing. Especially since the legislation that the Gaian Alliance adopted made intellectual property a fundamental right, driving entrepreneurs, innovators, and inventors absolutely crazy.
New IPOs were launched gallore.
