Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1129: Fountain of Light
And it is precisely because of the discovery of this phenomenon that the Great Voyage Organization is also actively looking for light sources while traveling through the four-dimensional space fragment area.

Because all civilizations realize that although the probability of these four-dimensional space fragments containing matter is very small, after all, there is no matter between two galaxies, but if these space fragments are really the result of war, then there must be a party that is targeted.

That means that these space debris may contain material, such as the warships, various ships and technological creations of the attacked party.

From this we can see that if this kind of four-dimensional space fragment falls into the area where creation originally existed, it will also emit light into the three-dimensional space, just as seen in the impact dimension waterfall experiment.

Then as long as they find those lights, the Great Voyage Organization can obtain energy supplies here.

The search for the light source of the four-dimensional fragments had already begun when the Great Voyage Organization decided to pass through this area. However, this area is so vast and because of the criss-crossing of the four-dimensional space fragments, the line of sight is blocked, making it difficult for the large fleet to search only through telescopes.

However, God will not let down those who work hard. After searching for a thousand years, the Great Voyage Fleet Cluster finally received good news from the Galactic Center Civilization Probe, saying that a light source had been discovered.

The light source is located on the side of the Great Voyage Fleet, which requires the Great Voyage Fleet to travel through about 10,000 light years and go around behind a piece of four-dimensional space debris.

This discovery allowed the Great Voyage Organization to obtain a brief supply boost while traveling through the four-dimensional space debris area.

The reason why it is said to be short-lived is that the light source only lasted for more than a hundred years before disappearing.

Combining the data from four-dimensional space and various speculations, scientists believe that it is a cluster of creations that was hit by a civilization that was upgraded in dimension. They died when they were hit by the upgraded dimension. Now that the four-dimensional space has fallen back to three-dimensional, their material properties have been "formatted" and reset due to the change in dimensional rules, and they have become high-frequency light.

And that batch of creations could only last for more than a hundred years.

From this, it can be inferred that there must be other light sources in this four-dimensional fragment area, but some of them have been extinguished, and some have not yet appeared. After all, there are so many space fragments in this area, and there must be many creatures that have been hit.

As time goes by and as the four-dimensional space falls, they will all turn into light. Finally, as the space in this void area turns back into three dimensions, all creations will return to dust.

When the light source was discovered, the Great Voyage Organization was ecstatic. Thirteen civilizations dispatched their fleets one after another, placed them at the glowing point of the four-dimensional space fragments, and deployed various light energy absorption devices, sucking them madly like finding a water source in the desert.

That was the light transformed from the corpse of a creature of some advanced civilization, and now it has become the nourishment for a group of level six civilizations.

The Great Voyage Organization was very lucky. Although they did not find the dark matter island, they found a high-energy light source in the four-dimensional space fragments. They then used the light to convert energy into matter and provided a small supply here for more than a hundred years.

Although the civilizations had not yet been able to replenish their fleets, it had given the Great Voyage Organization a shot in the arm. When the great fleet left the four-dimensional fragment area, everyone was full of confidence in this voyage.

Calculations by the Energy Budget Department showed that as long as there were no unexpected events in the second half of the Great Voyage Organization’s journey, they should be able to reach the Andromeda Galaxy.

In fact, when setting sail, each civilization had already made its own budget and was confident that they could cross the distance of 254 million light years with the size of their large fleets. However, most of them were embarking on a long voyage for the first time and overestimated the level of their own civilization's creation, so that resources were consumed in large quantities due to frequent creation failures.

After replenishing supplies at the four-dimensional space fragment, the major civilizations had a clearer energy plan for the second half of the voyage. According to the calculations of the Resource Coordination Committee, the Great Voyage Fleet will reach the Andromeda Galaxy after consuming two-thirds of the transport ships.

This is acceptable, because when the Great Voyage was launched, transport ships were actually calculated into the fuel range. The reason is that in the calculations of various civilizations, the mass carried by the large fleet has reached the upper limit of the thrust-to-weight ratio. Even if there are more fleets and transport ships, they cannot go further because of the greater warp energy required for the mass.

This is determined by the navigation technology. Unless everyone is like the Feiyu civilization, which has more advanced navigation technology than other civilizations, the warp engine saves more fuel, so they can go farther.

Under such conditions, even if we can use the Milky Way as a warship, the distance is limited. To sum up, as long as matter is needed to provide energy and as long as the Higgs mechanism has not been discovered, the single voyage of a level 6 civilization must have a limit.

The maximum distance calculated by most level six civilizations in the Great Voyage is between 2.5 million and 3 million light years.

Beyond this distance, even if the large fleet burned itself as energy, it would not be able to reach the destination unless it could be resupplied along the way.

This is why many civilizations in the Great Voyage Fleet dared to embark on the Great Voyage to the Andromeda Galaxy. It is also why it is said that a Level 6 civilization is barely qualified to cross between galaxies.

However, the Andromeda Galaxy is not the end point. If the next destination is more than three million light years away, the large fleet cannot set sail directly like they did this time.

The best case scenario is to find the Pioneer route, which is also one of the expectations of the Great Expedition Fleet and one of the purposes of the Great Expedition Fleet's journey to the Andromeda Galaxy.

Having said that, after luckily having a short replenishment, the Great Voyage Fleet continued to sail in the dark void.

In the 7810th year after the voyage, the total mass of the Great Expedition Fleet was only one-third of what it was at the start. At this time, the Andromeda Galaxy was much larger than the Milky Way in terms of optical performance. It was also the brightest light source in the void and could be clearly seen through a super optical telescope array.

In the 8399th year of the voyage, the civilizations of the Great Voyage Fleet continued to dismantle transport ships for fuel, and most of the intelligent life in the cluster of living spaceships entered a dormant stage, and they reduced their scale as much as possible. Many civilizations concentrated the individual lives that were originally scattered on multiple living spaceships on one spaceship to save fuel.

In the 8897th year of the voyage, humans also decided to reduce the number of spaceships they inhabit. In the same year, the transport ships of the Alan civilization were exhausted, and they decided to dismantle half of the warships for fuel. At the same time, their ancient wisdom brain decided to enter a low-energy consumption phase to save energy.

In the 9000th year after the voyage began, the transport ship resources and the transport ships themselves of the Shenju civilization were exhausted. They concentrated all the intelligent life of their civilization on one thousand sub-civilization-level residential ships, and began to dismantle the vacated residential ships.

In the same year, the Resource Management Committee decided to provide it with material support to ensure the integrity of its battle fleet.

A year later, representatives of the Galactic Center Civilization initiated a program in the Resource Coordination Committee to discuss the possibility of using the mass of neutron battle stars for supplies.

The Shenju Civilization, together with the Feiyu Civilization, Guts Civilization, Awakener Civilization, Daya Civilization, and an ordinary level 6 civilization, rejected the plan with a vote of 5 to . Humans and one of the ordinary level civilizations abstained from voting on the proposal.

(End of this chapter)