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Time flies by...

 It has been a couple of months since Arc departed to complete his urgent mission. It's been a few weeks since Dianna announced that the First Bank would be part of the SS Grandline, the news traveled all over Bright Galaxy. It elevated Grand Trading status into one of the top companies in bright Galaxy. Now Liberty has a competitor as they could no longer monopolize the position of no.1 trade city. However, despite that, It's not so easy to topple the prestige and glory of Liberty, it's still the no.1 place in Bright Galaxy to trade on, but now they also have an option unlike before. 

SS Grandline can be considered as a prestigious place, and only top companies and merchants are allowed to set up shop there, as only the best products are traded over there. In a way, Liberty is like a bazaar. SS Grandline is a Mall or Shopping Center, it also became a status symbol to set up shop in SS Grandline, Dianna was very strict in choosing who to set their shop there, and Bright Galaxy has no shortage of the rich. 

SS Grandline promises top quality services, and they more than deliver it, as SSS rank solutions are given to all guests, Top quality restaurants, and even Casino's can be seen inside SS Grandline. It's a top-quality holiday resort as one of the journalists wrote in one of his articles. What's more, SS Grandline is very safe to travel, as no force was stupid enough to attack it even Ganesh learned thier lesson. 

In fact, during the maiden voyage of SS Grandline the Ganesh did set up ambushes, it consists of several squadrons of the top battleships even GFA haven't seen that many top forces during their war with Ganesh, the result being total annihilation, no Ganesh Ship survived, of course, it's not without loss in SS Grandline but its consequential compared to the total destruction enemy. 

SS Grandline lost a lot of drones and Ships. Still, no Ganesh managed to get close to SS Grandline to put a scratch on it before they were destroyed. GT earned a massive fortune in that battle. The battle was televised live courtesy of several reporters and GT's PR departments, which solidifies GT's claims that no forces in Bright Galaxy can threaten SS Grandline, which gives peace of mind to the millions of its guests on that day. 

To GT and Dianna, SS Grandline is a sailing money printing machine earning millions of Bright Galaxy Credits (BGC) by a second. SS Grandline Taxed 28% to all transactions happening in the ship, it's a bit lower compared to 33% tax in Liberty, and that's not all because all guest in SS Grandline are wealthy tycoons, all of their transactions are in massive scales and what's more the Casino is earning more than any establishment in SS Galaxy. 

Because of the Branch of First Bank, all transactions are safe and legit, of course, there are also some backdoor dealings, but that's only a few and Between the guests and GT didn't care about it after all as long as it went through the First Bank in SS Grandline GT receives a specific cut, it's one of the reasons the First Bank is trusted as they are very fair in all their dealings in fact if they wanted they can monopolize the earnings but instead they still shared it to GT as it was their original Policies, it was the same thing in Liberty.

All transactions under the First Bank in Liberty management of Liberty also get a certain cut, and that doesn't include the tax. The only difference is that several powerhouses manage liberty but in SS Grandline, all income goes directly into GT's pockets. 

GT also made a deal with the First Bank regarding Buying materials only available in the central Galaxy, and the First Bank agreed to it. It's common knowledge in Bright Galaxy that leaving the Bright Galaxy is easy entering it is another story. Still, First Bank doesn't seem to have this problem, even though natives of Bright Galaxy also don't have this problem, but traveling from one galaxy to another is still risky business and top merchants hold their star maps like an ancestral treasure and no merchant would share their trade routes and star maps to another and leaving a galaxy without a proper star-map is a good way to send yourself to the afterlife. 

But the First Bank had the resources and technology to do that without a problem, and when the First Bank Agreed to become a trade partner of GT, Dianna was ecstatic. 

The First Bank doesn't want BGC as payment. Instead, they wanted military-grade Solutions, Dianna underestimated the value of Military Grade Solutions in fact even in main Universe GT military Solutions can be considered as top quality products and cannot be made in huge quantities it's one of the reasons the First Bank agreed to set up a branch in SS Grandline in order to get close and procure an exclusive line for the military solutions, mainly because GT are limiting the sales of Military solutions. Only SS solutions are available for public purchase, and that's why GFA are willing to pay a considerable amount just to acquire an exclusive contract to purchase it. 

And the First Bank wants a lot of it at least a hundred times more than GFA are receiving. And the First Bank is willing to pay a fair amount for it, as they are paying using Chaos Credit or (CC) the official currency in the main universe. Dianna doesn't want to miss this once in a lifetime deal it's the best way for them to prepare for moving into the main universe in the future. She knows with her boss's capabilities,  It's only a matter of time before the Bright Galaxy can no longer satisfy them. And earning CC in advance is the best thing for them. 

Dianna even offered a limited quantity special solution, and when the people from First Bank tested it, they were surprised by the quality, and like anyone who tasted, they wanted to get their hands on it at all costs. 

Dianna offered 10k of special solutions every week as a start if commander Markos found out about it, in fact, if the top executives of GFA found out about it their faces would be red in anger and frustration after all they paid a huge amount of it for just a hundred of it every week, they all know that's the limit GT can make it and yet GT is offering 10k to the First Bank as a starter.

 Unfortunately, they will never find out. First Bank would never disclose it, and neither will GT. In fact, only Dianna and Tiffa are aware of the transaction of special solutions to the First Bank. 

The contract was made right away, and with the help of Gaia to verify it, Dianna immediately signed it, the First Bank would pay CC to all transactions from GT and GT can use it to purchase materials of the main universe from the first bank, it's a win-win situation to GT after all solutions are nothing to GT, it's their cheapest product to create. GT can make Billions of Special solutions in a single day using a small type of space beast meat. Solutions are GT biggest moneymaker, It costs almost nothing to produce and sells at a high price... What more can they ask for. 

Even though drones and military products are the ones that put GT on the Galactic Map, the one that gives them real income is still the solutions. GFA and many superpowers in space replaced all their ration with GT solutions as it provides their soldiers more energy in combat and its cheaper too since they no longer need to maintain all the factory and human resources to study and create a good ration for them, in fact, they save upto 50% more when they converted to GT solutions and its far more effective than any ration they ever made. 

In fact, even the Ganesh are secretly buying solutions through their spies and contacts to procure massive amounts of solutions to be used in their army, after all the Ganesh need high energy food to function effectively every day because of their massive bodies GT solutions are more than enough to meet this demand. 

Of course, Dianna or GT have no idea about it after all countless alien races, and Humans are purchasing massive quantities of solutions on a daily basis, not to mention many merchants are also buying it to sell in the far reaches of the bright galaxy. And besides, it's almost impossible to identify Ganesh's spy. Besides, GT or Dianna doesn't really care where and who are using the solutions purchased from them as they don't discriminate against anyone who wants to buy it. Unlike in military products, they are careful about who is buying it and where they are using it.

Its Arc no.1 concern as he didn't want his weapons being used to kill innocent lives, the solutions don't have that problem as the solutions cannot be used to kill. And putting poison to solutions doesn't work either as the moment any foreign substances are introduced into solutions it will change color into black, it's one of its security features any harmful or any unauthorized modification to the solutions would change its color to black, its an indication that the solutions have been tampered. And GT is very open about it, as all security features are available to the public to see. And that's what makes the GT solutions one of the safest products to consume, and every one of GT employees are proud of it. 

EDITOR: King of Mortals