"Alright, let's not say I'm being greedy. I'll release the hostages for a hundred trillion Cosmic Credits per family. It's not a big deal, right?"
"What? A hundred trillion Cosmic Credits?"
"Why don't you just go rob a bank?"
"This is robbery! You'll face sanctions from the Cosmic Federation for this!"
A hundred trillion Cosmic Credits could even drain the resources of a tier-three civilized family's entire wealth. If they really had to come up with such an amount, it would be catastrophic for the family.
To be honest, if it were just the senior members of these families, their families might directly abandon them, because they aren't worth a hundred trillion Cosmic Credits.
But the Controllers were different. A tier-three civilized family didn't have many Controllers. They were practically the cornerstone of the family. If these Controllers were lost, it would be a devastating blow to the entire family.
