Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1111 Everything is ready
In fact, if there were a large amount of dark matter between the galaxies, the long voyage would not be so difficult, but unfortunately there is not.

The gravitational effect of dark matter means that they will all be concentrated in areas of large gravitational force. According to observations of a number of level six civilizations, although dark matter envelops the entire Milky Way, its coverage area is indeed larger than the Milky Way, but it is only slightly farther than the range occupied by bright matter.

Judging from the dynamic data of the Milky Way's rotation, the range covered by dark matter is probably only about 100,000 light-years larger than the visible Milky Way. There is no matter further away.

That is to say, after the Great Voyage Organization replenishes its materials here, it will continue to sail for another 100,000 light years and will have another chance to replenish materials, but that time will be very difficult because the dark matter at the very end must be extremely thin.

And now, fourteen level six civilizations each occupy a piece of starry sky, where they are mining materials on a large scale. All kinds of ships come and go in the starry sky. Planets are directly blown up with weapons, and stars are extracted with large-scale resource mining platforms.

At this moment, all the stars in the entire star field fell into their darkest hour.

The frantic mining by the Level 6 civilization caused their brightness to change again and again, from bright to dark, then to expand, and finally to go out.

A group of level six civilizations used the power of science and technology to demonstrate myths and legends here. Moving mountains and filling the sea, picking stars and taking the moon were no problem for them. If primitive civilizations saw their crazy exploitation of stars, they would definitely think it was Dayi shooting down the sun.

The fourteen level six civilizations frantically absorbed matter from stars and planets and filled their own transport fleets.

Looking at the busy and mighty fleet in the starry sea, all the level six civilizations felt the atmosphere of a great voyage.

At this moment, no civilization had any extra words. Everyone was frantically mining materials and filling up their fleets so that their civilization could go further.

The reason why all civilizations reduce their battle fleets is because they all understand the hardships of long voyages.

In fact, if the seventh-level civilization star gate that the Awakener has been looking for can be found, these sixth-level civilizations may not need to cut down their battle fleets in this way. Unfortunately, no one seems to be the protagonist, and they have been searching for nearly ten thousand years but have not been able to find it.

If you can't find a shortcut, you'll have to just fly.

The first destination is the Andromeda Galaxy, which is 254 million light-years away from the Milky Way. It is so far away that no civilization is sure it can arrive there safely, but they all have to go.

Unfortunately, the two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are not on the Andromeda Galaxy side at the moment, otherwise the first goal of the Great Voyage Organization would definitely be to go to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, resupply there, and then continue on their way.

There is no if in the world.

The Great Voyage Organization has to face a 254 million light-year chasm as soon as it sets sail, and it must face it, because the Andromeda Galaxy is not the end, the road ahead may be even farther than 254 million light-years, and the Andromeda Galaxy is just the beginning.

The Great Voyage Organization has already determined its target, which is the Bootes Void 7 million light-years away.

Originally, the Great Voyage Organization had doubts about which void to go to, but when humans told everyone where the Pioneers were going, everyone had no objection. The target was the Boötes Void, because that was where the Pioneers were going.

The reason for going to the Andromeda Galaxy is also the route taken by the pioneers back then.

Maybe we can find traces of pioneers there. If we can find them, and follow the route they took, it will definitely be better and safer than exploring the route ourselves.

The so-called great voyage routes do not actually all go in the direction of the Bootes Void, because galaxies in the universe, such as the Milky Way, are not all arranged in the void according to the ideas of intelligent life. Sometimes galaxies in the general direction are too far away, so we can only choose to take a detour.

Therefore, for a level VI civilization in the Milky Way, the straight-line distance of the Great Voyage is 7 million light years, but the actual distance must be far more than 7 million light years, possibly even double that.

As you can imagine, it is really too far. So far that even a Level 6 civilization would despair. Just think about the experience of the Awakeners when they came to the Milky Way. They almost couldn't get through even with the Stargate that shortened the sailing distance.

It stands to reason that a Level VI civilization should not go on long voyages, because with the navigation level of a Level VI civilization, their range of activities is limited to the scope of this galaxy.

Embarking on a long voyage was a helpless act, a last hope when there was no way forward. So in theory, this kind of voyage across the galaxy was not something that a level 6 civilization should have, it was a distance that a level 7 civilization could easily cross.

So in the era of pioneers, they classified level six civilization as interstellar civilization, the highest state of interstellar civilization, while level seven civilization was cosmic civilization, the starting point of cosmic civilization.

Level one to three civilizations are collectively referred to as space-level civilizations.

Later technological civilizations divided civilization levels into one, two, three, four, five and six levels of civilization, while special life forms were matched with technological civilizations based on their combat power.

All of these are created by technological civilization. After all, technological civilization is the most numerous in the Milky Way, and the races of technological civilization have the most carbon-based life forms.

This is not a conventional setting, but is determined by the background temperature of the universe and the stable structure of the elements.

Therefore, the current situation seems grand, with a huge fleet and magnificent momentum, like an epic of cosmic civilization. But in fact, it is just a dozen galaxy level six civilizations who resolutely embarked on the unknown road of nothingness for survival and for the only slim hope.

In preparation for this great voyage, all civilizations reduced their combat fleets to the smallest possible number, while building as many transport ships as possible within the limits of their fleet maintenance capabilities.

No civilization is exempt!
The reason why a level 254 civilization can traverse the Milky Way is that some of their ships can cross a distance of light years at a time, because they have supplies anytime and anywhere. But now it is million light years, which is like a chasm, and no civilization's ships can cross it in one go.

According to human estimates, if one tenth of their fleet can reach the destination of the Andromeda Galaxy, they will be invincible. Perhaps more than 90 percent of the transport ships will be consumed during the voyage.

Yes, consume it!

Basically, the fifth-level civilization has mastered the material disintegration ray technology. At the sixth-level civilization, this technology is still very useful. It allows the sixth-level civilization to decompose ships into the most basic hydrogen element for use. The reason why the sixth-level civilization can barely have the ability to cross the galaxy is also due to this technology.

Time flies, and more than a hundred years have passed quietly.

After the fifteen level six civilizations completed this final round of supplies, it can be said that all preparations have been completed.

Each civilization has built enough transport fleets that it believes can support its own journey across the galaxy. The large equipment and facilities such as engineering spacecraft, interstellar work platforms, and space resource mining equipment that have been dispatched are being slowly retrieved into the fleet.

They are either loaded into sub-civilization-class transport ships, or have their own warp engine accessories. These are all preparations made by various civilizations for the great voyage.

Even if they were not originally a wandering civilization, they all boarded the ships.

The long voyage is too far and a planet is too heavy. Even if it can be driven, few civilizations are willing to bring their entire home planet along.

Of course, there are civilizations that did this during this great voyage, but this approach is not wise in the eyes of humans.

It's just that what others do is their own business, and humans don't interfere. On the long voyage, on this voyage across the galaxy, it's good enough for human civilization to take care of itself, and it has no time to care about other civilizations.

And once everyone is at their wit's end, perhaps they can do anything.
(ps: The star system type is called a galaxy, and the Milky Way type is also called a galaxy, which is easy to confuse. From now on, the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy will be collectively called the Milky Way)
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