Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1410 The Cold Universe
Upon arriving at the command center, where there were always people on duty, the dust was finally gone, which eased Yue Yuan's heavy heart considerably.

In reality, the Tianqin can operate from anywhere; you could say that wherever Yue Yuan is, that's the captain's cabin. However, to conserve energy, this function has been disabled, and personnel on duty can only work from the command center.

Upon waking up this time, Yue Yuan will likely work awake for ten thousand years before entering another long hibernation period. He will wake up again a million years later, and so on until he reaches his destination.

However, upon arriving at the command center, Yue Yuan did not immediately begin working. Instead, he first sat in the captain's seat and then connected himself to the mind training center for mental training.

Millions of years of slumber have made his thinking sluggish. He needs a period of training to reactivate his mind and restore the electrical signals of all the neurons in his brain before he is qualified to take charge of the work.

In fact, the people who originally lived on the Lyra didn't need to do this, because the Lyra had a dream-making machine from the Awakener civilization. The dream-making machine could help the hibernating people keep their minds active, and their souls wouldn't rust from prolonged hibernation.

Unfortunately, recently, after the start of the new voyage, the Awakeners have fallen into a long slumber. There haven't been any Awakeners to help humanity maintain the Dream Machine for a long time, so it can only wake up once every million years as usual.

However, this is not a big deal. Once they reach their new destination, the Awakeners will send someone to help humans maintain the Dream Machine. These are extraordinary times, and Yue Yuan doesn't blame the Awakeners.

After spending a few days training his mind to be more active, Yue Yuan got into work mode.

He first consulted the navigation logs of the past million years, and then checked the current state of human civilization, including resource reserves, energy reserves, remaining military strength, whether production lines were functioning properly, whether any scientific and technological data had been lost, the maintenance status of each ship, and other matters.

Yue Yuan knew the procedures for all the routine work, but understanding the history would take some time, since there was indeed a lot of historical records.

After taking care of the daily work within humanity, Yue Yuan also took the opportunity to learn about the status of other civilizations.

The Awakeners remained silent; their rectangular warships, like coffins, floated quietly in the void. They had few transport ships left, but they seemed to be able to hold on.

The Silverheart Civilization, Falcon Civilization, Daya Civilization, and Flying Feather Civilization are all pretty much the same, as are some transport ships; they're all about the same.

The Divine Ju civilization is in a better position. Although they dismantled all the other warships, they still have the Neutron Warstar, which contains a lot of resources. They can take resources from the Neutron Warstar and should be able to make it to their destination without any problem. At most, the Neutron Warstar will just turn into a white dwarf warstar. Then they can go to a resource-rich place and have a big meal to recover.

Everyone is still alive and well, that's the best news. However, Yue Yuan remained somewhat silent about this, because the contrast was too great. Back then, which of these civilizations wasn't a powerful and influential force?
These are all unique technological civilizations. If placed in any star system, they would be overlords, capable of dominating the entire star system for tens of millions of years. If they hadn't come to the Great Voyage, these civilizations would have undoubtedly made a name for themselves and left behind their own legends.

But now, these once-powerful figures, each capable of leading a grand voyage, have become mere shadows of their former selves, clinging to life like old men on their deathbeds, trembling as they journey on this great voyage. Their frailty and decline suggest that a mere gust of wind could bring them to their knees. Their transformation from a world-conquering, powerful force to their current state is merely the tip of the iceberg in their quest to traverse this cold universe.

For this civilization, seemingly possessing the immense power to destroy stars and moons, move mountains and fill seas, the universe did nothing. It simply used its vast expanse of space and immeasurable time to reduce all civilizations to their original state. And what is truly despairing is that this so-called vast space and immeasurable time are merely the tip of the iceberg of the universe.

The Boötes Hollow is only 300 million light-years in diameter. Such a small distance has brought all the arrogant Type 6 civilizations to near annihilation. The observable universe, on the other hand, has a diameter of 93 billion light-years. And that is only the observable universe, which is limited by the expansion of spacetime and exceeds the speed of light. In reality, the universe is much larger than 93 billion light-years.

Compared to the vast scale of the universe, no matter how magnificent or legendary the stories or how glorious the achievements of these Level 6 civilizations were, they were insignificant to the universe.

The Falcon, relying on its unique technology, has destroyed countless stars; the Neutron Star can shatter a star with a single collision; the Lyra can instantly kill enemy ships numbering in the hundreds of millions with a single strike; the Awakeners are also invincible overlords throughout the Triangulum Galaxy; and the Galactic Heart Civilization has plagued the lower civilizations of the Milky Way for tens of millions of years.
Their Galactic Expeditionary Organization nearly destroyed the entire Andromeda Galaxy—what an insane act of war!

However, compared to the vastness of the universe, all of these things cannot even cause a ripple. The universe, with its vastness of space and its long duration, can cover up all of this and soothe all the turmoil.

Because from the perspective of the universe, perhaps all kinds of cosmic disasters are just ripples.

Having completed his daily work, Yue Yuan sat upright in the captain's seat. The dim light around him revealed half of his figure, and his ever-changing eyes reflected a star map, which showed the current navigation status of the three major long-range fleets in the vast void.

The star chart displays the fleet's movement speed, which is calculated based on the relative speed from the point of origin.

Frankly, if it weren't for this series of numerical changes, the entire fleet would look no different from being completely still.

If the star map is magnified to the point where the originating galaxy is displayed, the fleet becomes a tiny cursor, or rather, a cursor that is forcibly marked. Otherwise, given the space occupied by the fleet, they wouldn't even qualify to be displayed on the star map.

Whenever Yue Yuan witnessed such a sight, he felt incredibly small, sensing the helplessness of life in the face of the vast universe. Humanity and countless intelligent races from the three major voyages, despite exhausting their wisdom, could only falter and struggle through the cosmos.

The universe, with its vast space and eternal time, has driven all civilizations to despair.

When space becomes vast enough, it isolates all connections; and when time passes long enough, it can erode everything.

(End of this chapter)