Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1234: Re-entering the Star Gate
Times have changed and things have changed.

They can also be used to describe the changes in the universe and galaxies. Three billion years is really too long, which is equivalent to the Milky Way rotating about fifteen times.

Such a time span is enough to make two galaxies that were originally crossable become easy to cross, and it can also turn two galaxies that were originally easily crossable and have no gravitational relationship into an insurmountable barrier.

Just like the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way, three billion years ago they would have been farther apart and more difficult to cross. But that doesn't mean it's easier to travel farther as time goes by, because over a long period of time, there are also galaxies that move away from each other, so the pioneers' routes can only be used as a reference.

When the rescued civilizations were mourning the Great Expedition, the latter had already set foot on the stars again together with the Falcon Expedition and arrived at a vast and beautiful galaxy.

The vastness is relative to the small galaxy mentioned above. In fact, its diameter is only slightly larger than that of the Triangulum Galaxy.

The Great Voyage Organization simply named this galaxy the Triangulum Galaxy.

The reason why it has a name in the database of the Great Voyage Organization is not because there is a powerful civilization inside it, but because the Great Voyage Organization successfully found a relic left by the pioneers here. More importantly, the Great Voyage Organization obtained an important information in that relic - there is a star gate in this galaxy.

The news made the two sailing organizations ecstatic.

Because according to the observations of the Falcon Expeditions organization that arrived earlier, after arriving at this galaxy, there is no feasible route to continue to the Virgo Cluster. They must turn back and take a detour through other galaxies because the road ahead is too far.

Looking up, there are endless stars. The nearest galaxy to this large Triangle Galaxy is seven million light-years away, which is impossible for a level 6 civilization to cross.

This is a major node in the Great Voyage route, and the Great Voyage Organization feels that the Pioneers are finally reliable this time.

However, after they completely read the information left by the pioneers, they found that it was not that the pioneers were reliable, but that the pioneers themselves were very lucky. They discovered this star gate by accident.

The bad news is that this star gate is very narrow and can only accommodate less than a hundred sub-civilization-level warships in parallel. The good news is that this is a two-way channel star gate, you can go in and come back, and it is in three-dimensional space.

The Great Voyage Organization successfully found this star gate according to the information left by the pioneers. It was not near the black hole of the Triangulum Galaxy, but was located in the middle of one of the spiral arms.

It miraculously followed other stars and orbited the black hole at the center of the Triangulum galaxy for three billion years.

After three billion years, it still exists stably.

And not being near a black hole means that it seems to be different from the previous star gate, and it does not seem to need a black hole to drive its operation.

According to the information left by the pioneers, this star gate was not built from scratch, but was transformed from a natural wormhole by a cosmic civilization. The driving energy form is unknown. The pioneers and the Zhanxian civilization have studied it but still don't understand the source of the energy. They guess that it is most likely some kind of device that can generate vacuum zero-point energy on a large scale.

However, after studying for a long time, they still haven't found where the device is hidden, nor do they know how the unknown cosmic civilization transforms the wormhole.

But this time, the pioneers and the war-immortal civilization left behind some information that served as an exit, or they came back specifically to update the information after reaching the other end.

According to the information left by the Pioneers and the War Immortal Civilization, this star gate is divided into three sections. The first section exits in a void between galaxies in the middle of nowhere, about 800 million light years away. The second section exits in a dark matter island, 770 million light years away from the first exit. The third section of the star gate tunnel has the longest span, reaching 1440 million light years, and the exit is in a large galaxy. The Pioneers and the War Immortal Civilization once conducted a long period of research on the three sections of this star gate, and believed that a cosmic civilization connected many wormholes that originally existed in nature to form a star gate.

There are active wormholes that connect both ends, and there are dead wormholes that have only entrances but no exits. These wormholes are randomly distributed in the void of the universe. It was that unknown cosmic civilization that transformed and connected them one by one to form the current star gate.

As for why that unknown cosmic civilization built a star gate here, the Pioneers and the War Immortals had a guess. They thought it might be because of the needs of war.

This star gate was built by an unknown cosmic civilization for some strategic purpose. After the war, it was abandoned until it was discovered again by the Pioneers and the War Immortal Civilization.

Perhaps it is for this reason that the entrances and exits of this star gate are very hidden, and they all require passing through various three-dimensional space mazes to be found.

According to the pioneers, if the War Immortal Civilization did not have unimaginable attainments in four-dimensional space, they would not have been able to find this star gate, and would even have gotten lost at other exits, eventually being trapped in the endless space maze.

This time, the Galaxy Grand Expedition Organization and the Falcon Expedition Organization really have to thank the Pioneers and the War Immortal Civilization, because the latter came back after arriving at the other end of the galaxy and left these valuable information, including how to find the entrance to the maze, how to pass through the space maze, and what to pay attention to when navigating in this winding star gate tunnel.

There are also some records of the distribution of civilizations in the large galaxy at the other end of the star gate. However, the civilization information is three billion years old, and it is not very meaningful for reference at this point in time three billion years later. After all, three billion years have passed, and the civilizations mentioned by the pioneers and the war fairy civilization have either perished or left on the long voyage.

It was during this experience of crossing the star gate that the Falcon Civilization discovered that the so-called pioneers and war-immortal civilizations that the Galactic Voyage Organization was looking for in the Beikui Galaxy were actually so powerful and were actually the big guys from three billion years ago.

The Falcon Civilization even specifically asked its Level 6 Civilization to search the database, but found that there was no information about these two civilizations.

Well, we have come here after going through untold hardships and difficulties, but you guys actually have predecessors leading the way. It turns out that when you came through the star gate, it was also under the guidance of predecessors. It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others!

This discovery made the Falcon Civilization more inclined to join the Galactic Expedition Organization, but due to some organizational considerations, they temporarily held back.

However, after entering the star gate, the four distinctive technological civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization discovered that the Falcon Civilization was more willing to get closer to them than before, and they even proposed cooperation and exchanges on certain scientific research projects.

The Great Voyage Organization had originally intended to absorb high-end combat forces like the Falcon Civilization, so of course they readily agreed to such a request.

There is no rush for the four distinctive technological civilizations. If unfamiliar civilizations want to gain trust, it will inevitably take a long process. Just leave the problem to time.

In this way, the two long-distance navigation organizations passed through the star gate again, and once again crossed 2450 million light-years towards their destination, arriving in a new galaxy.

The reason why the distance is not the sum of the distances of the three stargate tunnels is because some of those stargate tunnels are winding, and the direction is not always towards the destination of the long voyage, but there are horizontal and reverse sections.

After all, it is a natural wormhole transformation, so it is not surprising.

(End of this chapter)