Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1114: Sailing into the Void
The general order to set sail comes from the organization's system.

Fourteen civilizations, a super-large fleet cluster consisting of more than 1.2 trillion ships formed an arrow-like object and activated the warp buttons one after another.

Warp One
Warp Two
Warp Three
Warp Four
Warp Five
Large fleet clusters entered warp speed one by one from a state of relative galactic space-time stillness.

从1倍光速到10.079倍光速，再到30倍、38倍、50倍、80倍、101倍、170倍、213倍.
For this voyage, the large fleet cluster did not directly push the warp lever to its full limit, but instead allowed the warships to accelerate gradually.

The ships of the sixth-level civilization no longer have tail flames, otherwise this large-scale acceleration movement would be absolutely spectacular, but the absence of tail flames is also shocking in another way.

If someone stayed where he was and watched this super-large fleet set off, he would never forget it.

When the fleet cluster started, the countless warp bubbles that were born pulled the ships into the elongated picture of warp, the rippling space-time ripples, and the vast silver light were all the crystallization of wisdom.

"Goodbye, Galaxy!"

Countless people gazed at the bright light outside the porthole, and when they saw the stars in the sky turning into streams of light, they knew that the great fleet had set sail.

Everyone silently bid farewell to the Milky Way and their hometown which seemed to be brightly lit in their hearts.

Oh, the Milky Way. No matter how fierce the fighting is or how harsh the living environment is, it is also the home of the vast majority of civilizations present.

Except for the Awakener civilization.

Yue Yuan also looked at the starry sky from the porthole for a while, but when the stars turned into streams of light, there was nothing to see, because at this time the naked eye could no longer distinguish what the starry sky was. He only knew that what was slowly moving away was the Milky Way.

And those stars in our eyes will gather together and turn into a point of light, a dim point of light, as the distance becomes farther and farther. That is the Milky Way.

Of course, this kind of scene can only be seen if the large fleet goes a long way and then stops to look back. If it continues to sail at more than 200 times the speed of light, it will not be able to see it because of the limitations of the naked eye.

And such superluminal travel, relative to the two reference frames of the large fleet cluster and the Milky Way, is the light cone of the large fleet heading to the past of the Milky Way.

However, through instruments we can see the Milky Way gradually getting smaller. This is the power of technology.

For example, on the various display units of Tianqin, there are not only optical images of the Milky Way gradually getting smaller, but also images of space-time ripples formed by simulated virtual gravitational lines.

After Yue Yuan moved his eyes away from the porthole, what he saw was a three-dimensional picture of ripples in time and space.

According to human habit, this real-time dynamic picture is described by a series of crisscrossing dotted lines, which crisscross in the three-dimensional diagram to form circles like rippling waves. The space-time ripples caused by the warp speed of each civilization fleet in the large fleet cluster will be reflected on it.

The principle of warp navigation is to apply a distortion force to space-time itself. The front of the warp bubble is distorted, and the back is stretched. This allows the ship to move in space-time outside the warp bubble while remaining stationary relative to the space-time inside the warp bubble.

Where there is turbulence in space-time, there is also turbulence in space-time.

Yue Yuan saw on the space-time display that when countless warp bubbles appeared, the layers of ripples spread outward at the speed of light, and then intertwined with the ripples of other fleets to form space-time vortices. The fleets of the front-end Tianxing civilization were all running at full power, while other civilizations in good positions behind them could directly use this space-time vortex and follow the vortex to warp. The fleet did not need to use full power to reach the same speed as the large fleet.

That is 213 times the speed of light, which is also the highest warp speed that most level VI civilizations can achieve.

Logically speaking, the fleet at the rear that uses the space-time vortex can reach this warp speed without using full power, so the power should exceed that.

But that's just theoretically speaking, it's just human intuition. There are many counter-intuitive things in the universe, and the maximum warp speed of a level six civilization is one of them.

The fact is, if the fleet, which uses the turbulence of space and time to save energy and move forward, still runs at full power here, then it will only "spin the clutch in place", wasting fuel just like tire slipping.

The fundamental reason why the warp speed cannot exceed this upper limit is the energy level problem used by the sixth-level civilization. If the energy level cannot be broken through, it will be impossible to create a more solid warp bubble, and time and space will be distorted to allow the more solid warp bubble to run faster.

If a large amount of energy is forcibly used to stack the output, only two situations may occur: one: "the clutch slips idling", and two: the warp bubble bursts and the ship is forced to exit the warp.

As for how the pioneers managed to break through the warp speed, humans think that it probably started from these two aspects, but the specific details are unknown.

So the warp speed limit actually refers to ordinary level six civilizations. Some civilizations rely on their own wisdom to break through that limit.

After the warp speed of the Great Voyage Fleet cluster stabilized, Yue Yuan took another look at the power of the Tianqin and the human fleet cluster and expressed his satisfaction.

According to the calculation results, after the large long-distance fleet cluster is running, there will be several places where it is easier to save effort. The human civilization fleet occupies one, which is the second advantageous point. The most energy-saving position is occupied by the Shenju civilization because they have the neutron battle star.

The mass of that thing is too large, which is not conducive to long-distance voyages, but they can't abandon it. Although they now occupy the first position of saving energy, because of the neutron battle star, the energy consumption of the entire fleet is no different from that of the leading Tianxing civilization.

The second is the Awakener Civilization. They have a small population and do not compete with human civilization for position. The fourth is the Galactic Center Civilization, and the fifth is the Daya Civilization.

There are two better positions at the back, which are being fought over by the other civilizations.

The large fleet cluster did not accelerate conventionally first and then go to warp speed, because conventional acceleration is useless at such a large distance. In the large universe, movement and stillness are relative, especially when facing the vast void without a reference system, it is even difficult to distinguish between the conventional speed reaching the speed of light and the conventional speed being zero.

After a long time, Yue Yuan turned his gaze to another three-dimensional display screen.

That screen showed the Milky Way receding in time, and scenes that were invisible to the naked eye from the Lyra's exterior porthole could be seen clearly from here.

As time went by, the large fleet cluster moved farther and farther away, and the originally star-studded Milky Way became smaller and smaller, but the scene seen in the picture was different from what was seen on Earth. From the perspective of the Lyra today, the Milky Way was not a long band of light, but a slightly flat disk, because the direction of the Great Voyage Fleet's advance was sixty-three degrees from the Milky Way disk.

Behind him were bright stars, and in front of him was darkness and nothingness.

For hope, we sail towards the abyss.

(End of this chapter)