Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1377 A smug emoji above one's head

Many civilizations, much like humanity, conduct military simulations after obtaining battlefield data. They consider how they would fight if they were in that situation, what the outcome would be, and how to deal with the second type of boundary breakers.

Although they haven't yet gone to the battlefield, each civilization knows that it's only a matter of time before they join the war.

Even if the Abyss Grand Expedition Organization didn't say anything, the Galactic Grand Expedition Organization would still join, because that is indeed the only way to reach the Boötes Great Void.

Given the productivity level of the Galactic Expeditionary Organization, this timeframe would be approximately 500 years from now.

"I wonder if the war in the 627 Galaxy has ended in five hundred years," Yue Yuan muttered to himself, looking at the various busy engineering ships in the holographic image.

The holographic imagery shows a scene of human civilization producing warships. Currently, human civilization occupies 20,000 star systems and is making every effort to mine resources there, building new shipyards and producing warships.

At the same time, the pace of training soft-star warriors is being accelerated.

Human civilization has already made plans regarding fleet construction.

Human civilization will take five hundred years to complete the first phase of its shipbuilding mission, which is to maintain the original one billion consciousness-linked warships and then increase the number of ordinary warships to one billion.

This means adding one billion new warships, or two million warships per year. Currently, humanity has two million capital shipyards, requiring each shipyard to produce one warship per year.

One ship per dry dock per year is a very demanding task, because warships are different from the transport ships used for long voyages. Warships have more complex structures and more functions, so the requirements for various materials and technologies are also higher.

One capital ship per year is a production rate that is not slow. Even without knowing the various firepower configurations of the capital ship, just imagining its size and dimensions is enough to understand the difficulty involved.

The main warships of a Level 6 civilization are also called sub-civilization-class warships. They are called sub-civilization-class because they are smaller than the flagships of the civilization-class warships defined by various civilizations, but they are still behemoths in the starry sky.

A capital ship can often be 1,500 kilometers long, 800 kilometers wide, and 500 kilometers high, making it a true behemoth in space.

Civilization-class warships like the Lyra are even more extravagant, with a length of 2,000 kilometers, a width of 1,236 kilometers, and a height of 763 kilometers.

Not to mention the enormous resources required to build such a giant ship, the materials used are all special materials. The main frame of the warship must be made of a high-interaction material, otherwise it simply cannot withstand the force.

Moreover, a warship cannot be an empty shell; it must be filled with various functional equipment, such as large components like engines, main guns, and shield generators, as well as all sorts of smaller components.

Building a warship is many times more difficult than building a rudimentary transport ship.

Even a Level 6 civilization with advanced technology and highly intelligent artificial intelligence cannot achieve its goals overnight. It still requires the cooperation of various industrial sectors and construction vessels, working step by step like ants building a nest.

The Krol civilization possesses so many capital ships, which is the result of their long-term accumulation.

Based on current human understanding, the fourth logistics base in this system known as the Kroll Galaxy is filled with Kroll civilization's starship docks. Over the long years, they have built countless docks to support the needs of war.

The Galactic Grand Expedition Organization was certainly no match for the newcomers, but fortunately, due to the constant demand for transport ships and warships on the Grand Expedition route, the production scale of each civilization was relatively large. After arriving in the Krol Galaxy, they could immediately start mining resources and enter the shipbuilding stage; otherwise, it might not have been possible to join the war for five hundred years.

Of course, joining now is actually possible, but the Abyss Grand Expeditionary Organization doesn't value the Galactic Grand Expeditionary Organization's limited fleet size, so they're being given time to recover. And this recovery period has lasted five hundred years.

Over the course of five hundred years, the Galactic Expedition organized 80 civilizations. Among them, the civilizations with the technology of the Pudorad civilization were almost identical to humans, only adding about one billion warships. These civilizations, including humans, totaled 12.

Other civilizations, lacking the advanced technology of the Podorad civilization, had relatively easier time manufacturing warships, resulting in a slightly larger number of warships produced, though not by much—around 1.5 billion.

In other words, after five hundred years of vigorous production and manufacturing, the number of main warships of the Galactic Great Voyage Organization has reached approximately 114 billion.

In the eyes of the Abyss Grand Expedition Organization, this number might be insufficient for a single civilization to fight alone, but by forming a joint fleet of multiple civilizations, they could be deployed to the battlefield to participate in the struggle.

So five hundred years is a milestone, but it's just a milestone, because warships will continue to be built until the Grand Line is opened.

Regrettably, in the past five hundred years, the Abyss Grand Expedition Organization not only lost the 627 Star System, but also the 712 Star System, which served as the transportation hub of the Grand Line, which they had long planned to focus on.

The 17th Fleet of the Kroll Civilization suffered a defeat in the grand battle of the 627 Star System. Before they could achieve victory in their war against the Boundary Breakers' lackeys, the 1.8 billion Type II Boundary Breakers joined the battle while the two sides were locked in fierce combat. With their absolute speed advantage, the Type II Boundary Breakers, in conjunction with their lackey fleets, gained an overwhelming advantage over the 17th Fleet of the Kroll Civilization.

Therefore, the 17th Fleet could only desperately try to hold off the enemy, hoping to buy as much time as possible for the 18th Fleet and the Pena civilization to retreat to Stargate No. 2 and defend it. Unfortunately, they ultimately failed to hold out. The 18th Fleet and the Pena civilization fleet successfully broke through and annihilated more than 80% of the enemy fleet besieging the central black hole, but they also paid a heavy price for their escape.

Its remaining fleet was intercepted by the second type of boundary breakers during its retreat to Stargate No. 2, and in the end only 1.7 billion warships made it back from Stargate No. 2.

Among them, the Pena civilization has 800 million, and the 17th and 18th fleets of the Krol civilization have 900 million.

However, the Krol civilization was also very powerful. They annihilated twice their number of second-class boundary breakers, while the second-class boundary breakers themselves paid a price of nearly one billion lives.

Unfortunately, the 627 star system ultimately fell.

After that, the second type of boundary breakers gathered their henchmen and began a massive sweep of the 627 Galaxy, eliminating all the Abyss Grand Expeditionary Organization's various probe ships within the Galaxy. This phase is still ongoing.

Without the support of the main fleet, the destruction of the probe ships was only a matter of time—this was the inherent concept of the Kroll civilization, and this was also the situation they initially saw. Their probe ship fleet and the probe ship fleets of various civilizations of the Galactic Great Expedition Organization were all in the same situation, and were subsequently found and destroyed by the Type II Breakers and their henchman civilizations.

More than a hundred years after their disheartened withdrawal from the 627 Galaxy, they were surprised to find that the Galactic Great Voyage Organization was still able to share information with them about the situation inside the 627 Galaxy, such as where the second-class boundary breakers' henchman fleets were concentrated, and how many fleets were guarding Stargates 1, 2, and 3, etc.

This information is practically X-ray vision!
"How did you learn of this information?" Still immersed in the emotions of defeat, the commander of the 18th Fleet, Avel, looked at the enemy situation information that was still being updated in the 627 star system and immediately asked impatiently. He found it incredible and needed an explanation.

When this message was received, the six distinctive technological civilizations and space defenders of the Galactic Grand Expedition Organization were discussing the upcoming war in a virtual meeting hall.

So as soon as the news broke, everyone saw the leader of the Silverheart civilization with a "we're the only ones who can understand" expression. Presumably, fearing that different races wouldn't understand, he even activated the translation system's scanning function, scanned his expression, and translated it for all the civilizations present.

Then Yue Yuan saw the leader of the Silverheart civilization blink his four eyes, and then several large characters describing his expression appeared above his head, just like in a game.

The translation system also thoughtfully added a "smug emoji of Wang Yousheng from Liangjian" to the text, which is very vivid and expressive.

(End of this chapter)