Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1043: Everything has two sides

As an ancient level six civilization, the Shenju civilization, like other old level six civilizations, has a huge fleet, and there are many life planets in their fleet.

What surprised humans was that ordinary individuals of the Shenju civilization did not live on life planets, but lived on spaceships like humans.

Their life-bearing planets are basically biospheres, and there are about thirty biosphere planets.

Under the constraints of the gravity technology of the Shenju civilization, they did not show gravity to the outside world. However, humans know that the mass of the planet is still there, and if the mass is there, the gravity is there, but its expression is blocked by the Shenju civilization.

More than 30 biosphere planets are inconspicuous in the huge fleet, but the fleets of the three civilizations are very close at this moment, all within one light year, so humans can easily observe their existence, and watch them openly through the third-person driving perspective.

The entire tripartite joint fleet is in full view.

The largest civilization is the Shenju civilization. They own nearly 80 billion ships, which is the sum of all types of ships, big and small, including residential ships, engineering ships, exploration ships, warships, etc.

A level six civilization has a huge fleet, which is basically in the tens of billions, and some even reach hundreds of billions, but they do not have that many warships. The reason is that the warships of a level six civilization are too large, and the resources consumed to build a sub-civilization-level warship are naturally more. If every level six civilization can build unlimited warships, the Milky Way would have been emptied long ago.

The scale of the main battleships of a level six civilization is also affected by various factors, such as the size of the civilization and maintenance costs.

Similarly, the fleet of a level six civilization is not monotonous, nor is it entirely composed of huge sub-civilization-level warships. There are also various mountain-level, lake-level, sea-level, planetary-level, and star-level spaceships. The scale of 80 billion warships of the Shenju civilization is the sum of all these ships.

In fact, their main battleships only number around 10 billion.

This number is less than that of many civilizations, but it is already the limit of the Shenju civilization because they have more important warships to take care of, that is, the neutron battle star.

And having a neutron battle star is enough.

In comparison, the scale of human civilization's ships is very small. After all, when they came to the Shenju civilization microcosm, the human fleet had almost been wiped out. After so many years of construction, there are only 30,000 sub-civilization-class battleships now, while the number of star-class battleships has recovered to 3 million.

The Daya civilization is similar, but the total number of their ships is much greater than that of humans. After all, they are an old-fashioned level five civilization.

Therefore, the joint fleet of the three civilizations looks as if there is only one civilization, the Shenju civilization.

Of course, the Shenju civilization did not look down on the human and Dayan civilizations because of the difference in the number of fleets, especially the human civilization. They were well aware of the power of the human ship, the Lyra.

Humanity has long learned from the Daya civilization that some level six civilizations can easily dispatch fleets of tens of billions in size. In fact, the fleets are also mixed with various types of spacecraft, and the super-stellar battleships that serve as the main combat force also number nearly tens of billions.

But that's already a lot, considering that the Milky Way only has 400 billion stars. If every Level 6 civilization had hundreds of billions of warships as big as stars, the Milky Way would have been hollowed out long ago.

Of course, the way a level 6 civilization obtains matter is not limited to the star system, but comes from dark matter with a higher content, which is the main source of material for them to build warships.

However, dark matter is not used directly to build warships. After all, dark matter only interacts with gravity, which is something that even a level six civilization cannot change. But they can use technological means to convert some dark matter into bright matter through certain physical processes.

This is an important technology in the technology tree of the sixth-level civilization. The Shenju civilization calls it dark matter conversion technology. Whether or not it can be mastered is the key to whether a sixth-level civilization can have a fleet of hundreds of billions.

Without this technology, one can only go to those poor star systems in the universe to mine or even pack stars. Obviously, this is a huge project that is thankless. Most level 6 civilizations do not rely on it to complete the construction of ships on a scale of hundreds of billions. There are basically no level 6 civilizations in this galaxy that want to mine directly in the universe. No, there were some before, but they made too much noise and were destroyed by the reapers long ago.

Since then, no civilization in the Milky Way has dared to recklessly capture stars in the universe. Correspondingly, there has been no mechanical civilization that only knows how to expand itself infinitely.

At the beginning, humans even consulted the Shenju civilization about this issue.

The Shenju civilization said that there was actually such a civilization in the Milky Way, which was said to have come from a rebellious strong artificial intelligence. Later, after destroying its main civilization, that strong artificial intelligence built itself into a huge mechanical life empire.

After that, the mechanical life empire began to expand infinitely. After mining all the resources and stars of a galaxy, they would move on to the next galaxy, replicating and expanding infinitely.

But they were destroyed when they seemed to be sweeping across the galaxy with an unstoppable trend. Oh no, they were just sweeping across one-third of the galactic spiral arms.

It was the Reapers who destroyed them.

The Reapers simply dispatched electronic warships and completely wiped out the mechanical life empire that was so huge and arrogant that it did not take any technological civilization seriously.

That was about seven million years ago, and since then, the Milky Way has never been plagued by mechanical life.

The silicon-based consortium that emerged later actually had the ability to expand infinitely, but they didn't dare to do so at all.

From this perspective, the existence of the Reapers has provided a very comfortable living environment for many low-level carbon-based life forms in the galaxy. In addition, the Reapers themselves do not bother to touch those low-level civilizations, so it is not an exaggeration to say that they are a protective umbrella for low-level civilizations.

However, this is only limited to low-level civilizations. Once they grow into a level six civilization, they will naturally become the targets of the harvesters.

Everything has two sides. The sixth-level civilization looks at the extremely evil Reapers who are hindering its own voyage, but in some ways, it protects the lower civilizations.

Of course, perhaps they did this deliberately to allow the low-level civilizations to grow, but no matter what, it is better for the low-level civilizations than being directly abducted by the Galactic Heart Alliance.

Every civilization defines good and evil from its own perspective, but nature does not distinguish between good and evil. Everyone is just trying to survive.

The figures of the three civilizations' fleets sank into the void of the universe and moved in a certain direction at normal cruising speed. At the same time, a large number of detection spacecraft were also sent out to guard against any movements in the surrounding starry sky.

At the same time, it is also searching for any traces of advanced civilizations in the nearby starry sky.

The three civilizations that have survived in the small universe for five thousand years now have the greatest need of information, the latest information on the Milky Way. They need to know the situation of the major sixth-level civilizations in the Milky Way, as well as those ancient sixth-level civilizations.

According to the plan of the Shenju civilization, the three civilizations formed a joint fleet thereafter, and after exploring the current situation in the Milky Way, they began to promote the plan of a united front against the Reapers.

Admittedly, human civilization still has a lot of things to do, such as revenge and exploring some magical phenomena encountered in the past. But since we have already stood on this front, it doesn't hurt to delay those things a little. Maybe we can find the celestial civilization in the process.

(End of this chapter)