The end of the Tekur race changed everything. Michael never counted the number of Tekur slain by his people, but his main body sensed the energy influxes and death energy of trillions of Tekur. And that was only the mass of energy influxes from the Tekur in the Origin Expanse. There were far more Tekur in their lands, which Sylth and others conquered.
They claimed the planets while giving Michael all corpses. The Normie Tekur carcasses were used to nourish the Untamed Jungle, while the Awakened were plundered first. Plundering the Awakened took a while, but it was much faster than Michael had expected since hundred of workers used Plunder Crystals on the Lesser Lifeforms to extract their War Rune storages, Soultrait Symbols, and SoulStar Fragments.