Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1365 Reopening the Great Star Gate

For safety reasons, the Grand Expeditionary Force will continue its reconnaissance-first strategy, and the main fleet will only take action after the situation has been ascertained and safety has been confirmed.

The process of searching for the Great Stargate is similar.

The information from Observatory 764 was very reliable. Following the clues and adding the time parameter, the Great Voyage Organization quickly located the location of the Great Stargate.

It is about 40,000 light-years away from Observatory 764, which is more than 10,000 light-years away from the location indicated in the information, but fortunately it was still found by the Great Voyage Organization.

The moment they saw the Great Star Gate, four words came to mind for everyone: magnificent and splendid!

This stargate is different from the one the Great Voyage Organization encountered in the Andromeda Galaxy. It is not hidden in four-dimensional space, nor is it concealed in any spatial crevices. Instead, it is openly suspended in the void.

Oh, it would be more accurate to say it's fixed in space.

Preliminary scans by the probe have revealed that this giant stargate is not floating there like a natural object, but is firmly fixed in that space.

The shape of this great stargate looks like a super-large ring. From a distance, it looks like a large tire with various instruments on a wheel. Its outer diameter is about 1 astronomical unit and its inner diameter is 0.8 astronomical units.

In other words, the various devices on it occupy 0.2 astronomical units, which is quite enormous.

Compared to it, the probes of the Great Voyage Organization were like dust.

It hovered silently in the darkness, emitting no light. Yet, this massive object still evoked a powerful sense of industrial wonder, especially after seeing the rows of impressive-looking, enigmatic devices mounted on it.

The probes from the Great Voyage Organization circled it for a while longer and discovered that the concerns about the intelligent system at Observation Station 764 had become a reality.

The giant stargate had indeed ceased operation.

In the past, the Great Voyage Organization would have been helpless against it, but this time it was different because the materials provided by Observation Station 764 contained the operating methods.

Based on the information provided, the Great Voyage Organization explored it for quite some time and finally confirmed that although the Great Stargate was old and dilapidated, it did not appear to be damaged and should simply be out of service.

Indeed, with the information provided by the 764 Observatory's intelligent system and the help of the Star Guardians, the Great Voyage Organization successfully found a way to activate the Great Stargate.

This great stargate is a stargate like the one in the Andromeda Galaxy, but because of its different location, it does not use the power of a black hole to drive it like the Andromeda Galaxy stargate. Instead, it uses vacuum zero-point energy.

This is absolutely a genuine creation of a cosmic-level civilization.

Fortunately, it uses vacuum zero-point energy; otherwise, the Great Voyage Organization would not have been able to start it, because data shows that the energy required for its operation is extremely large, and the Great Voyage Organization would not have enough even if it burned its entire fleet.

But now it's different. The Great Voyage Organization only needs to send personnel to enter the Great Star Gate facility and press the start button.

Yes, it requires manual mechanical activation.

As a creation of a cosmic civilization, the Great Stargate originally had a remote information activation function, but due to its age and long period of shutdown, many functions that require energy to maintain have ceased to operate. Therefore, it can only be activated mechanically.

It is precisely because of the long downtime that starting the machine has become a challenge.

In short, the Great Voyage Organization must first supply it with energy to activate its control system, and then its system will actually start the massive machine up and running.

This is like a car that has been idle for too long; the battery has run out of power. What the Great Voyage Organization is doing now is recharging this battery so that it can send a restart command to get the whole machine running again.

Therefore, the six distinctive technological civilizations of the Great Voyage immediately issued an order in the name of the Supreme Council, instructing all member civilizations to send their fleets there to assist the engineers in recharging the system.

The situation is optimistic, and the charging operation is progressing smoothly. However, the Great Stargate lives up to its name; even though it's just charging its system, the Great Voyage Organization still pays a heavy price. Calculations show that to fully recharge its "small battery" and restore its operating system, the Great Voyage Organization would need to invest a massive amount of energy, equivalent to at least five billion fully loaded transport ships.

If all those fully loaded transport ships were converted into energy, the "small battery" charging operation of the Great Stargate could be completed.

It's alright. The Great Voyage Organization hasn't reached its limit on this route. They can still provide the resources of 5 billion transport ships. 100 million ships from each of the 60 civilizations would be enough.

However, recharging is not simple. The Great Voyage Organization cannot simply send five billion transport ships to crash into the "small battery" of the Great Star Gate, so building "charging plugs" is essential.

Based on the input of the "small battery", the Great Voyage Organization needs to build a microwave charging device near the stargate.

This is a piece of cake for the Great Voyage Organization.

With the concerted efforts of various civilizations, the charging device was completed in just a few years.

The charging operation was finally able to proceed.

The so-called charging device is not a plug, but a large device composed of a series of ring-shaped devices, the largest of which is as large as the diameter of the Earth. The entire device looks like a hollow cone. The Great Voyage Organization inputs energy from the bottom of the cone and then injects the energy into the "small battery" of the Great Stargate through the tip of the cone.

The "recharging" operation lasted for 7 years.

After charging was completed, the engineering vessels, which were already in place at various points in the Daxingmen circular area, finally pulled their robotic arms to turn on the switches of each node.

There was no sound in the universe, but the sight made the onlookers feel as if they could hear the clanging and banging of machinery.

"Bright!"

Amidst the intense anticipation of everyone, the indicator lights on the ring surface of the Great Star Gate lit up in unison, like ring lights illuminating the night, as if the light of hope had suddenly illuminated everyone's hearts.

The Great Stargate truly lives up to its reputation as a creation of a cosmic civilization; after so many years, it is still able to function again.

After all system nodes had started up, the Great Voyage Organization immediately sent a restart signal to the Great Star Gate system in accordance with the instructions.

The moment it received the restart signal, the massive stargate, which had been dormant for billions of years, suddenly trembled, as if a colossal object that had been covered in dust for a long time was shaking off the dust. The interstellar dust that had been adhering to it for many years instantly formed a thin mist, and the light from the rows of indicator lights shone through the mist and dust, revealing a dazzling circle of colors.

"Haha, it's alive!"

"Yes, that's wonderful!"

In a place unseen by the probes of the various civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization, an energy originating from nothingness was suddenly extracted by the engines of the Great Stargate.

Then, everyone saw the enormous stargate slowly begin to rotate. As the stargate began to rotate, the originally empty space in the center of its large ring began to appear as a misty scene.

The civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization knew that it was not a fog, but an optical effect caused by the distortion of space in some form. When light could no longer pass from one end of the Great Stargate to the other, it meant that the stargate entrance had been completed.

Before long, the Great Star Gate was successfully activated.

However, the civilizations of the Galactic Great Voyage Organization did not directly launch a large fleet to enter the stargate, but instead sent out batches of probes to explore the way.

Having learned from past mistakes and with the reminders from Observation Station 764, the Great Voyage Organization is proceeding with extreme caution.

(End of this chapter)