Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1201 Quiet

The second largest galaxy in the Canes Venatici cluster is Messier 51, a spiral galaxy located million light-years from the Milky Way and with a diameter of about light-years.

The third galaxy is M94, which is 1600 million light years away from the Milky Way, with a diameter of only 4.5 light years and a core area of ​​94 light years. It was once the target galaxy of the Great Voyage Organization. If there were no seventh-level civilization star gate in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Great Voyage Organization would have passed by dozens of other galaxies step by step, and then arrived at M, and then continued to move towards the overall goal.

Of course, it will also pass by the Sunflower Galaxy where we are now.

It can be said that the star gate of the seventh-level civilization saved the Great Voyage Organization at least 150,000 years of travel time, or perhaps even more, because normal voyages involve many round trips.

Although the M94 and M51 galaxies and the M63 galaxy, also known as the Sunflower Galaxy, which is home to the Great Expedition Organization, are all located in the Canes Venatici galaxy group, they are also very far away from each other.

For example, M94 is even farther from the Sunflower Galaxy than the Milky Way is from the Andromeda Galaxy. M51 is relatively close, but it is still 800 million light-years away from the Sunflower Galaxy.

Yes, one is 2900 million light-years away from the Milky Way, and the other is 2300 million light-years away, but they are not in a straight line with the Milky Way, so the distance between the two is not addition or subtraction of the distance to the Milky Way.

After the Great Voyage Organization successfully emerged from the star gate, the first step was to disperse a large number of probes to explore the Sunflower Galaxy. There were probes for exploring the interior of this galaxy, and there were also probes that flew out of the galaxy's disk to observe distant galaxies in the up and down directions.

The Great Expedition Organization did not come here to live permanently, so they began to observe the extragalactic galaxies as soon as they arrived to find the voyage route described in the Pioneer star map.

At the same time, after determining their own position in the universe, many civilizations did not forget to point their telescopes in the direction of the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way.

Yes, they tried to find the light of the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, especially those civilizations that came from the Andromeda Galaxy. It was their first time traveling far away, and they couldn't help but look in the direction of their hometown.

The Great Expedition Organization has already run beyond the destroyed light cone of the Andromeda Galaxy, so the Andromeda Galaxy observed from here is still intact. If they continue to observe in this way, in about 27 million years, they will be able to observe the spot in the starry sky representing the Andromeda Galaxy becoming brighter.

That means that the light cone of the event in which the Andromeda Galaxy was struck by the Great Expedition Organization and destroyed a large number of stars has spread here.

"The universe is so vast and boundless. I'm afraid that only a cosmic civilization like the Stargate can allow civilization to travel in the universe."

After receiving the observation images from the probe, an exclamation came from the flagship of the Kabuto civilization.

Then someone echoed, "Yes, twenty-seven million light years! We have crossed such a long distance in an instant, and we didn't even use up the fuel we prepared. Stargate is truly a great technological product!"

Another voice also said: "That's true, but such a star gate should also be built after running to the location. What kind of speed is that, and how did they open the star gate passage at such a long distance?"

This makes sense. There is a star gate on each side, so it is obvious that star gates on both sides need to be built. In other words, the unknown level 7 civilization relied on other means to navigate from the Andromeda Galaxy to the Sunflower Galaxy before successfully connecting the two star gates.

"Wow, space travel is so difficult," another voice also sighed.

The existence of star gates also means that cosmic civilizations like the seventh-level civilization also need to rely on star gates to travel quickly between different galaxies. It also means that although the warp speed level of the seventh-level civilization is definitely very high, it is far from the speed of the star gate tunnel, otherwise they would not have needed to build star gates.

After passing through a star gate, many civilizations in the Great Voyage Organization saw the convenience of the star gate and were delighted by it, imagining that they could find a star gate leading to their destination and use it on the way to the Great Voyage. However, many civilizations also felt the vastness of the universe and the difficulty of the voyage. There are also teams of scientists from some civilizations who are thinking about other issues about the star gate.

For example, where did the seventh-level civilization that built the star gate go? What was their purpose in building the star gate? Why did they build the star gate but are no longer around?
No one told them that the Level 7 civilizations who knew the answer had disappeared. The Great Voyage Organization had never encountered a Level 7 civilization, whether in the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, or the Triangulum Galaxy.

If they had not left behind some relics proving their existence, everyone might have thought that the pinnacle of technological civilization was level six civilization.

anyway.

After completing the initial exploration of the Sunflower Galaxy, the Great Voyage Organization began to dispatch a detection fleet to detect and search the specific conditions of the galaxy.

Collect the physical parameters of the galaxy itself, explore unknown star regions, and search for traces of other civilizations, intending to obtain information from them about the distribution of civilizations or forces within the Sunflower Galaxy.

This is a normal operation.

Because of the lessons learned from the Andromeda Galaxy, the Great Voyage Organization hid itself in advance before conducting further exploration.

The method is also simple, which is to open up multiple small universes in the central area of ​​the Sunflower Galaxy.

Although there is also the risk of being detected when opening up a small universe, it is at least more hidden than directly hanging in the starry sky. In terms of opening up a small universe, each civilization chooses to open up its own, probably because the Great Voyage Organization is still a loose organization.

Of course, there are also some relatively close civilizations. For example, the Daya civilization has placed its own residential spacecraft cluster into the human microuniverse and has taken the initiative to undertake the task of opening up the microuniverse.

The Feiyu civilization followed the example of the Daya civilization and clung to the support of the Shenju civilization.

Only a special civilization like the Awakeners does not need any microuniverse. However, this time they are not in a hurry to go out and explore on their own. Instead, they are staying in the human microuniverse, waiting for information from other civilizations' exploration.

This time, the Great Voyage Organization had little loss of fuel and transport ships, so after arriving here, they were able to immediately focus their work on exploration.

But as time went on, the Great Expedition discovered that this galaxy seemed a little too quiet. Observations from various sources seemed to point to one conclusion: there was no intelligent life in this galaxy.

This is obviously unscientific. This is a galaxy as big as the Milky Way. Even in such a harsh environment as the Milky Way, there are signs of civilization activities. There is no reason why there should be no signs here.

But the fact is, the Great Voyage Organization has been exploring for more than a hundred years and has not found a single civilization.

Could it be that the environment in the core region of the galaxy near the black hole is not suitable for the development of civilization? Many civilizations in the Great Voyage Organization comforted themselves in this way.

(End of this chapter)