Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1270 The Power of Time

After hundreds of years of preparation, the civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization finally completed preparations for routine voyages. All civilizations dismantled their sub-civilization-class transport ships, including old residential spaceships that did not meet current needs. They instead built residential spaceships with long-term biological hibernation chambers.

One person per cabin.

Everyone was preparing for a regular voyage.

This was actually done to preserve the fleet to the greatest extent possible and ensure the military strength of the Great Voyage Organization. Civilizations that had experienced many great voyages knew that military strength must not be lost.

Fortunately, the last journey across the galaxy was not too far, and the Great Voyage Organization still had some supplies left for the fleet transformation.

Now, hundreds of years later, the majority of the fleets of the various civilizations in the Great Voyage Organization have become warships. Each civilization has about 10 billion sub-civilization-level warships, and the rest are all residential spacecraft, engineering factory-type spacecraft, and biosphere spacecraft.

The biosphere spacecraft were also carried, but they did not have biological hibernation chambers to use.

Moreover, if something goes wrong, such as insufficient energy during the journey, they will be the ones to be destroyed on this regular voyage. There is nothing that can be done about it. In this case, each civilization will definitely give priority to preserving its own people and fleet.

The animals and plants in the biosphere can only try their best to reproduce. It would be great if they can survive to their destination, but if they can't, they can only give up.

The Great Voyage Organization set out again under such difficult circumstances.

During this voyage, the large fleet consisting of 46 civilizations was severely reduced in size, with only about billion ships, which is completely incomparable to the usual scale of trillions of ships.

If it weren't for the different shipbuilding styles of each civilization, perhaps to outsiders, this would just be one civilization.

You may encounter all kinds of dangers on the great voyage, including fragments of space dimensions, areas with disordered rules, powerful local civilizations, other powerful voyage organizations, malicious civilizations, ruins traps, etc. Now there is also a virtual galaxy.

This is pure murder without compensation.

Although they knew that the observer civilization did not do it on purpose, each civilization still felt a little resentful.

After everyone discovered that it was a creation of a level seven civilization, they wanted to gain some benefits from it. Unfortunately, not only did they gain nothing, they didn't even find out the other party's specific information.

It's like losing both money and life.

But that's how the great voyage was. After the decision was made, the various civilizations had no complaints. The last civilization to join, the Sides civilization, was the first to start construction as soon as it received the organization's order.

The magnetic propulsion driven by the sixth-level civilization technology exploded silently. Wave after wave of powerful thrust pushed 50 billion ships to sub-light speed, pushing the entire fleet's intrinsic time axis away from the time axis here in the virtual galaxy.

The destination also becomes shorter as the normal speed increases.

The magical effect of relativity is appearing on the fleet of the Great Voyage Organization, but the various civilizations in the sub-light speed state are unaware of it. From everyone's perspective, they all believe that the origin is moving away from them at sub-light speed.

However, the speed of light measured by the civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization in the sub-light speed state remains unchanged. It does not become twice the speed of light due to speed superposition, and the photons emitted by distant galaxies are still at the speed of light.

This is undoubtedly counterintuitive, but the universe is so magical.

In fact, if there is a great long-distance navigation organization, or if there is an entire galaxy that is moving away at the speed of light relative to other galaxies in the universe, then the civilizations living within the two planetary galaxies will believe that their time is normal, and their time flow rate must also be normal.

However, if there really are two such galaxies, they would be equivalent to two worlds with different timelines. Unfortunately, there are no such two galaxies in the universe. Almost all galaxies in the universe are relatively static, so their intrinsic time axes are almost parallel. Yes, almost, but not completely parallel or overlapping, because they are in different places. Only two objects in the same place with the same relative speed will have their intrinsic time axes overlap, just like the intrinsic time axes of creatures living on the same planet.

However, cosmological theory holds that due to certain areas of the universe such as the Great Attractor, the movement speeds of galaxies in different areas are also different. Obviously, their intrinsic time axes are not absolutely parallel. But what is certain is that the intrinsic time axis of all things has only one direction, that is, from the past to the future.

The so-called cosmic time only refers to the majority of galaxies whose relative motion speed is relatively slow.

It seems that time is really an illusion. If there were no material movement, everyone could say that time does not exist.

Of course, the civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization have not done much research on time. Now they don’t even know whether the concept of time is due to the movement of matter, or whether the measurement of the constant speed of light means the flow of time, or whether the change in time is caused by the action of electromagnetic force.

Year after year, year after year.

The great voyage organization that set out on the journey at normal speed still encountered many problems after all. The erosion of time will not let you off just because your time axis does not coincide with the time axis of the universe. Equipment and instruments that are supposed to age will age, and those that are supposed to malfunction will malfunction.

Even if the Great Voyage Organization was prepared, losses were still inevitable.

Among these, the thing that human civilization worries about the most still happened.

When the Great Voyage Fleet's original timeline reached the 200,000th year of its departure, Yue Yuan, who had just woken up from hibernation, learned that two unfixable bugs had appeared in the Pioneer's creation. The good news was that it could still be used, but the risk of using it was a little higher.

By the millionth year, the number of bugs accumulated by the Pioneers' creations had reached a thousand. After self-checking its quantum macro-tunneling system, it re-determined the safe distance of quantum macro-tunneling, and then directly reduced the original distance of nearly three light years to two light years for humans.

Humans can certainly continue to give the system orders to conduct quantum macro-tunneling over two light years, but that may result in the loss of parts of the warship or its personnel, or something else.

Human civilization does not dare to take the risk. After all, if the lost object is a human head, it will be the end of it.

Things are getting worse.

When the Great Voyage Fleet was overlapping its own intrinsic timeline with the intrinsic timeline of the destination, the number of unrepairable bugs in the Pioneer creations had reached two thousand, and the safe quantum macro-tunneling distance was once again determined by the protection program to be 1.5 light years.

Human scientists are helpless against this.

In fact, human civilization is already lucky. If it weren't for the powerful self-maintenance system of the pioneer creation, this creation would have been unusable long ago.

But despite this, the situation is becoming increasingly serious.

This also makes human civilization realize that in the near future, their pioneer creations will disappear, and Tianlya will eventually lose its quantum macro-tunneling capability.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

Human civilization would certainly not be able to accept this consequence psychologically. Even though other civilizations would not shake their five seats in the Great Voyage Organization if they knew about it, humanity's status among the five seats would inevitably be lowered, and the Lyra would no longer be the organization's most powerful battleship.

The most important thing is that the overall combat effectiveness of the Great Sailing Organization will also drop to a lower level.

The research on the method of movement based on its own unique technology is urgent. The pioneer creations, which were originally thought to last for a long time, are about to reach the end of their lifespan because of this wave of conventional voyages.

(End of this chapter)