Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1132: The Great Voyage

The process of approaching the Andromeda Galaxy was uneventful. After sailing for 12,474 years, the remaining fleets of the thirteen civilizations successfully arrived at the dark matter halo region of the Andromeda Galaxy.

This voyage is of great significance to the Great Voyage Organization. It marks a great victory for the galactic civilization. It means that the Great Voyage is feasible, that space exploration is feasible, and that there is a ray of hope for the slim hope of advancement to the seventh-level civilization.

As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Although the road to the great voyage is still long, at least the first step has been taken successfully.

When the thirteen level six civilizations came into contact with the dark matter halo of the Andromeda Galaxy, all of them were imagining future voyages. With this success, with this sweet reward after all the hard work, they would have a persistent belief no matter how difficult the future voyages would be.

If the first step is successful, then continue to move forward based on the experience gained from the first step, and one day you will be able to complete 700 million light years.

We are the elite of the Milky Way, a civilization that has fought its way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, a civilization that has resolutely completed the first step of the great voyage. We all have the qualifications to become a level seven civilization.

When they rushed into the dark matter halo of the Andromeda Galaxy, the thirteen civilizations were filled with enthusiasm, and even those ordinary level six civilizations that had dismantled their battle fleets rekindled their fighting spirit.

The thirteen level six civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization could not wait any longer. The moment they came into contact with the dark matter halo, they immediately withdrew from warp speed and dispatched various engineering ships carrying dark matter probes to frantically mine dark matter resources. Then, all civilizations skillfully converted dark matter into dark antimatter and stored them in the ship's fuel tanks.

For more than twelve thousand years, the thirteen civilizations have never felt so prosperous. Some civilizations have not even been able to change their previous frugal lifestyle for a while.

All civilizations are frantically replenishing supplies and energy for their fleets, and once completed, they will continue to move towards the Andromeda Galaxy. The Great Voyage Fleet plans to directly find the nearest star field for large-scale development after actually arriving at the Andromeda Galaxy, and absorb the resources there for large-scale construction.

It is true that fleet construction can also be carried out in the dark matter halo, but the procedure is more complicated. This is no longer necessary after arriving inside the Andromeda Galaxy, where there are abundant material resources, which directly eliminates the process of energy-to-mass conversion and material element manufacturing, saving a lot of time and cost.

After completing the fuel supply at the dark matter halo, the Great Voyage Organization had only one goal: "Charge, hollow out the star field ahead!"

The stars came towards us from afar, and the Great Voyage Fleet also spread its arms to embrace the stars of the Andromeda Galaxy.

"Let's go with the starry sky in front of us. Although it is on the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy and the stars are far away, we are not picky now. Our thirteen civilizations will use this hundred-light-year range as a stopover for supplies and construction. The resources of hundreds of star systems are enough for us to squander! By the way, we want this area!"

At the exchange meeting on the public channel of the Great Voyage Organization, the leader of the Galactic Center Civilization spoke first. As he spoke, more than a dozen stars on a three-dimensional area star map in the center of the venue were marked.

"Well, let's choose this area!" The leader of the Shenju civilization also had an idea and marked the target star group of his civilization.

"We want this here!"

"Then we want this area!" "We'll just be next to you!"

Each civilization chose its own location. In fact, as long as they reached the Andromeda Galaxy, the material resources would be inexhaustible. Everyone could leave the Great Voyage Organization and go to deeper places to mine materials. However, no civilization did so. After all, the Andromeda Galaxy was very unfamiliar to them, so it was better to be careful when they first arrived.

Otherwise, it would be tragic if we encounter a strong local force.

Then, it is definitely safest to be with the four distinctive technological civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization. If you want to go out and travel on your own, if you want to go out and look for opportunities on your own, you have to wait until the fleet's strength is restored.

Yes, the Great Voyage Organization will not stay together all the time, because everyone came to the Andromeda Galaxy not to play, nor is it simply a transit station for the Great Voyage, but they have a mission.

The Great Expedition Organization must find the pioneers' footprints in the Andromeda Galaxy, and must figure out how the pioneers left the Andromeda Galaxy, where their next destination is, and where they left the Local Group of galaxies.

If these things are not understood, the difficulty of the great voyage will inevitably increase to a higher level, because not every galaxy is within the extreme voyage range of a level six civilization.

The general direction of the great voyage is the Boötes Void. To go to the Boötes Void, one must first leave the Local Group and then set foot in the area belonging to the Virgo Supercluster. After that, one must walk through the galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster, just like now, sailing through the galaxies in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, one after another, and finally reach the edge of the Virgo Supercluster.

After that, we leave the Virgo Supercluster, the upper cosmic structure of the Local Group, and then step onto the Centaurus Supercluster, where we continue sailing. After crossing more than 100 million light-years, we step onto another galaxy cluster cosmic structure called the Shapley Supercluster and continue walking until we reach its very edge, then step onto the Boötes Void and walk towards the center of the void.

This is the general route planned by the Great Voyage Organization. The specific route may have many twists and turns, and it is very likely that after reaching a certain galaxy, we will encounter a situation where we cannot go forward. At that time, we will have to go back and observe the universe again and find a new route.

When faced with large-scale cosmic structures, a Level 6 civilization may not be able to accurately calculate the distance between the various galaxies in the telescope. Therefore, the route is very important, and finding the pioneer route naturally becomes the primary task of the Great Voyage Organization, and it is also a task that must be completed.

Of course, if it cannot be completed, then we can only spend more time paving the way with stars, because the sailing direction planned by the Great Voyage Organization is a route to the edge of the Local Galaxy Group, and that route obviously has to pass through many galaxy groups.

This route is estimated to first reach the Maffei Galaxy Cluster, then go towards the M101, M81 and other galaxies, and then cross the tail of the Canes Venatici Galaxy Cluster before reaching the central galaxy cluster area of ​​the Virgo Supercluster. The next galaxy on this route is more than three million light-years away from the Andromeda Galaxy.

If we can find the footprints of the pioneers, maybe they went through the star gate, so we don't have to take so many detours, or there is a star gate that leads directly to the next galaxy.

The largest galaxies in this galaxy group are the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. Civilizations that embark on long voyages will most likely come to these two galaxies to make repairs or explore the footprints of their predecessors. The pioneers also said that their destination after leaving the Milky Way is the Andromeda Galaxy. According to their practice of leaving relics in the Milky Way, they will most likely leave some relics after arriving in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Correspondingly, large galaxies like the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy will also have many civilizations from other galaxies in the Local Group. They may follow the footsteps of some ancient civilizations like the Galactic Great Voyage Organization, or they may feel that if they want to embark on a great voyage, they must travel around the large galaxies in the Local Group to look for route opportunities.

(End of this chapter)