Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1435 Strange and Wonderful
That's Jupiter's orbit around the sun, with an average diameter of 7.77 million kilometers, or 5.2 astronomical units, which is 557 times the diameter of the sun. That's an enormous size.

Of course, it depends on what you compare it to. If you compare it to the star UY Scuti, it's not that big, only about one-third the diameter of the star YU Scuti.

Such a rhombus-shaped crystal does not actually appear large in the vast void; from a distance, it looks more like a bright spot in the void. However, upon closer inspection, its size becomes apparent.

Like those encountered by previous human civilizations, the rhomboid crystal is pointed at both ends and wide in the middle. If placed upright, it gives the illusion that the two pointed ends are longer, but in reality, the distance between the two pointed ends is the same as its diameter in the middle.

The images transmitted back by the detector show that the rhomboid crystal is as if it is fixed in space, not moving at all. It does not rotate or roll, but just stays there emitting a faint light.

"It must be a creation of the pioneers!"

Seeing this, Yue Yuan became even more certain, because it was almost identical to the rhomboid crystals he had seen in the small universe labyrinth left by the Pioneers, a clear manifestation of Pioneer technology.

"That's great! Although we lost track of the pioneers during the long voyage, we finally encountered the traces they left behind at the end!" Long Xinglv was not on the Lyra, but he still came to Yue Yuan's side through holographic projection to face the rhombus crystal together.

News of the rhomboid crystal has spread throughout society. Scholars and experts living on the Tianqin have come to the command center, and people who are not on the Tianqin but are related to it have also appeared through projection.

“Great, now I can thank the pioneers in person.”

Anthropologists are also delighted that the rhomboid crystal is a creation of the pioneers, and that this particular rhomboid crystal is unprecedentedly large; perhaps it can be used to contact the pioneers.

Humanity once received the favor of the pioneers, obtained the key to the pioneers' treasure, and obtained the pioneers' creation from the microcosm left behind by the pioneers, which is also a rhombus-shaped crystal.

The rhomboid crystal initially activated the warp drive function, and later, after human civilization reached a suitable level, it activated the quantum macro-tunneling function.

Those were two distinctive technologies of the pioneers.

The former grants human civilization combat power surpassing that of other civilizations at the same level, allowing it to survive when weak; the latter is far more powerful. Without quantum macro-tunneling, human civilization would be unable to defeat the electronic warships. Consequently, human civilization would likely be trapped within the Milky Way for countless years, like other uniquely technological civilizations, until one day it is harvested by the Reapers.

The reason why the Lyra was able to defeat the electronic warship was due to the indispensable combination of humanity's own unique technology, the pioneers' unique technology, and the help of the Awakeners. If it only had humanity's own unique technology, the Lyra would have been destroyed by the electronic warship in one fell swoop.

The electronic warfare ship doesn't even need to use other means of attack; its conventional attacks alone are enough to defeat the Lyra.

Although humanity lost the pioneers' quantum macrotunneling due to years of disrepair, human civilization will forever remember this great favor.

Moreover, it wasn't just human civilization that benefited from the pioneers; it could be said that all civilizations within the Galactic Great Voyage Organization received their favors. Both the routes of the Great Voyage and the messages left behind by the pioneers were invaluable, capable of determining the life or death of a civilization.

The Pioneers were the forerunners of human civilization, the forerunners of many civilizations in the Milky Way, and the forerunners of all civilizations within the Milky Way's Great Voyage Organization. Human civilization owes the Pioneers a debt of gratitude, the Divine Matrix civilization is curious about what kind of civilization the Pioneers were, and the Galactic Heart civilization is equally intrigued, wondering what the first generation of voyage civilizations in the Milky Way were like.

Looking at the rhombus-shaped crystal, all the individuals of the Awakener civilization were filled with respect. They had heard about the first Great Voyage in the Triangulum Galaxy, which was why they traveled thousands of miles from the Triangulum Galaxy to the Milky Way. Their purpose in coming here was to find the traces left by the pioneers.

As the saying goes, seeing is believing, and everyone wanted to say even a single word to the pioneers.

However, compared to the civilizations under the Galactic Great Voyage Organization, the civilizations of the other two Great Voyage Organizations were not so excited. They did not know the relationship between the Pioneers and several distinctive technological civilizations of the Galactic Great Voyage Organization. Their current interest was solely due to the discovery of a huge object in the otherwise empty void.

In their eyes, a huge object equals a massive amount of matter, and a massive amount of matter equals a massive amount of energy. Of course, they also hoped to find a way to advance to a cosmic-level civilization within this rhombus-shaped crystal, because they had learned from the Galactic Great Expedition Organization that it was a creation left behind by an early Great Expedition civilization.

Eighty-four civilizations, each with its own ideas, but the creation was discovered by the Galactic Center Civilization, which is one of the leaders of the Galactic Great Expedition Organization. Before the leaders of the Galactic Great Expedition Organization spoke, they dared not take any extreme actions, but only sent their own probes to observe.

The Galactic Grand Expedition Organization also dispatched additional spacecraft to conduct in-depth investigations into the rhomboid crystal.

Human civilization even brought the key it obtained from the pioneers with it, not for any other reason than to allow the rhombus-shaped crystal to recognize it as the inheritor.

Therefore, if there are any benefits, they will definitely be the first to receive them.

It must be said that humans have experience in this regard.

For a civilization that has traveled hundreds of millions of light-years, 7 light-years is not far away. If the probe spacecraft is pushed to its maximum warp speed, it will arrive in 329 years.

"Hey, I still find it a bit strange. Since the pioneers succeeded, why don't they return to the Milky Way?" After sending out more probe ships, concerns arose again among the crew of the Lyra.

However, this argument was quickly refuted by the zealots: "The Milky Way is so far away that even a cosmic-level civilization would take millions of years to travel there. The pioneers might have other important matters to attend to after their advancement. They have already left enough for those who come after them. They care about those who come after them, not like babysitters for those who will come."

The person who had just spoken waved his hand: "Hey, I just find it strange. Of course I hope the Pioneers succeeded. Our research has been stagnant for a long time. Maybe the Pioneers left some clues. It would be even better if they had data on advancing to a cosmic civilization."

"Who can argue with that? The pioneers must have succeeded, otherwise they couldn't have left behind such a massive creation. They didn't have that capability. As for why they didn't return to the Milky Way, only they themselves know."

"That's true, but what about the War Immortal Civilization? They were with the Pioneers. Since they succeeded, why didn't they return to the Midway Galaxy to meet the Star Guardians?"

(End of this chapter)