Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1112: The Great Voyage Formation

The outer edge of the Milky Way's outer arms.

The stars here are sparse, and after large-scale mining by more than a dozen level six civilizations, a large number of empty areas have been left. There is almost nothing here except for some hydrogen molecular clouds that spread out when resources were mined.

Darkness and nothingness are the main themes of this star region.

And in such an environment, there are fourteen huge fleets quietly hovering here across the void.

After more than a hundred years of large-scale mining, the fourteen civilizations have finally refilled their transport ships and completed the fleet formation. Each civilization has directed its fleet towards the deep void.

Fourteen civilizations, each with a fleet of no less than 80 billion ships, are huge. After completing the final resource replenishment, the fourteen fleets slowly approached each other and kept a certain distance from each other, gathering in this area of ​​about one light year to form the final departure formation.

The direct communication distance of a level six civilization is about twenty light years, so it is convenient for everyone to communicate when they get together.

The unit of light year is so large that even if hundreds of billions of ships were gathered within a light year, there would not be a feeling of crowding.

There was nothing in front of them, and stars behind them. On the edge of the stars were fourteen fleets of glittering silver light. They looked like thousands of ships docked in a harbor.

At this moment, fourteen leaders of civilizations and their delegations are having a meeting in the Internet conference room of the general network. It is the last exchange meeting before departure.

The meeting seemed to be coming to an end, but some civilizations seemed to have something to say.

The online conference room is not big, but it is divided into fourteen areas. Each area is filled with things familiar to their respective civilizations, all of which are virtual creations. After all, those who come in to attend the meeting are not real people, but virtual images on the Internet.

However, each civilization is very confident, and when they appear, they basically appear in their true form.

Take the area where humans live, for example. There are familiar seats arranged there, which are in the style of spaceship seats, full of a sense of technology.

At this moment, Yue Yuan was sitting in a fan-shaped area of ​​the virtual venue with a group of high-level human civilization leaders. On the right side of the humans was the Shenju civilization, on the left was the Awakener, and opposite was the Daya civilization.

Each civilization has a different "seat". For example, the Daya civilization has a small oval pit that can just accommodate their soft bodies. The Shenju civilization floats in the air, and there is a workbench floating in front of each floating individual life.

The individual lives of the awakeners seemed to have no entity, but they all wrapped themselves in outer clothing that looked like robes and cloaks, making it difficult to see what was inside. But looking at this appearance, Yue Yuan always felt that there was a human-shaped life form hidden in the robes and cloaks.

However, the individual lives of the Galactic Center civilization are very surprising to humans. They actually maintain the appearance of carbon-based organisms like humans. They are not big in size and look like a soft-bodied life form. Their heads, hands, and feet are all pointed, and they look a bit like starfish among the stars.

Such a meeting did satisfy everyone's desire to watch various types of aliens, but it was just out of curiosity. Everyone was a level six civilization and had seen quite a few aliens. The extreme curiosity they had back then was no longer there, and was replaced by a gaze that examined their social conditions through their appearance.

Among these civilizations, the one that humans pay the most attention to is undoubtedly the Tianxing civilization. They are not carbon-based life, but a rare sulfur-based life form. Each of them looks like stone, as if they were covered with a layer of dry sulfur, giving people the feeling of stone men. The individuals of the Tianxing civilization are very tall. They sit in the conference hall, and their bodies are also covered with a layer of lichen-like clothes. They look like twenty-meter-high mountains standing there.

They are quadrupedal creatures whose "hands" are a pair of tentacles and an elephant-like nose surrounding a circular mouth.

I guess looking at the intelligent life forms of other civilizations present from their perspective would be like looking at a Lilliput country!
Human biologists who have seen a lot of aliens can guess from their appearance that the three-petal fork at the end of the nose must be used to grasp things, and the two tentacles seem to have some kind of discharge function, which should be used to assist the nose in daily life operations.

"Everyone is ready. All civilizations have sent out unmanned probes ahead of time. The great voyage begins now." A starfish-like creature was chattering. He was the leader of the Galactic Center Civilization. "Those who can make it this far are the best in the entire Milky Way. I won't say much else. I wish us safe passage through the void and reach the other side."

The Awakener Huan took over the conversation: "The most important thing is to find traces of the pioneers."

The leader of the Shenju civilization: "Why are you talking so much? Let's set sail!"

"Wait a moment, great Shenju civilization, we, the Tianxing civilization, have one more thing to tell you."

"Say!"

The leader of the Tianxing civilization moved his hill-like body and sent a message: "It's about the fifth leadership seat of the Great Voyage Organization. Didn't you say during the last war against the Reapers that the fifth seat should be held by a civilization that has made great contributions to the organization? We played a major role in the battle and the subsequent war to pursue and annihilate the Reapers. We paid a huge price for this, so much so that we almost failed to complete the preparations for the Great Voyage. So here I want you to review the agenda of joining the leadership seat. I think our Tianxing civilization fully meets the requirements for the fifth seat."

"Hehe, do you dare to say that you meet the requirements just because you have unique technology? Speaking of contributions, do you dare to compare your Tianxing civilization with our Daya civilization?" The leader of the Daya civilization immediately jumped out.

At this time, Yue Yuan spoke: "Okay, it won't be too late to discuss this matter after we set sail. The main purpose of this meeting is not to discuss these things. The most urgent task now is for everyone present to gather their respective civilization fleets and arrange them in a certain direction to form a long-distance voyage formation. For the time being, the Tianxing civilization fleet will be at the front of the formation and start the long-distance voyage."

The so-called large long-distance navigation array means that each civilization itself acts as a large warp navigation unit, and then forms a large warp navigation formation with the large fleets of other civilizations.

Warp speed has warp speed traces, and warp speed will also cause changes in four-dimensional space-time. After all, warp speed is achieved by stretching and compressing space-time.

Research by various civilizations has found that when a large fleet is sailing at warp speed, if the formation is properly arranged, it can take advantage of this space-time fluctuation and configure the warp engine afterburner parameters along the direction of the fluctuation, thus saving engine energy to a certain extent.

It's a bit like geese flying in formation.

The reason why the leader of the Tianxing civilization is anxious to get his civilization into the fifth leadership seat is because his civilization fleet has been placed in the most strenuous position. As the leading civilization of the great voyage, the position of its civilization fleet in the large formation is relatively strenuous, which is naturally a privilege.

The Tianxing Civilization also wanted to enjoy it. After all, it was 254 million light years away. They would save as much fuel as possible. Maybe this little bit of fuel saved would be the difference between life and death. What made them feel abominable was that the Daya Civilization fleet was in a better position than them in the large formation.

Everyone knows that if a large fleet like this sails at warp speed, and if the range of each civilization's fleet is the same, then the civilization in the more difficult position will definitely run out of fuel first.

(End of this chapter)