Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1451 Speed ​​is Class

Therefore, to travel to various parts of the universe, one must have the corresponding level of navigation skills.

This is the first thing all civilizations must solve; the first thing science does to translate into application is to build a warp drive. Whether the warp drive is to be installed on an old ship or a newly designed one, the goal is to leave this place.

Today, every civilization has extracted vacuum zero-point energy in its own way, and thus large-scale industrial manufacturing has begun.

Previously, due to energy problems, civilizations had reached the point of dismantling their ships, but now they no longer have that worry. While building new warp drives, each civilization also developed energy extraction devices, which, like oil wells, continuously draw energy from the ground.

This energy will be used to do work, and then undergo energy-matter conversion to become the substances needed by various civilizations.

Normal space contains vacuum zero-point energy, which is almost inexhaustible. With energy-matter conversion technology, matter can be obtained continuously.

After becoming a cosmic-level civilization, they finally got rid of the drawback of needing to rely on galaxies to provide matter. After mastering vacuum zero-point energy, all civilizations relied on their previous technologies to truly create something from nothing.

As time went on, many civilizations developed their own warp drives and completed test flights.

Warp drive is the most obvious indicator of the technological level of each civilization among all creations.

Of the 84 civilizations, nearly 80% developed warp drives that could only reach 392 times the speed of light, which is the speed of travel in the early stages of a cosmic civilization.

The remaining civilizations, such as the Abyss Civilization, Krol Civilization, Daya Civilization, Doulei Civilization, Alan Civilization, Memoda Civilization, Green Sea Civilization, Falcon Civilization, Silver Heart Civilization, Divine Ju Civilization, and Awakener Civilization, all surpassed the initial level and achieved travel at 656 times the speed of light.

As for the Feathered Civilization, which has always been adept at warp speeds, they achieved 1516 times the speed of light when they completed the development of the new generation of warp engines, shocking all civilizations.

It is more than twice as advanced as other civilizations, and is comparable to the level of the new generation of warp drives in human civilization.

Human civilization was quite surprised by this result. When exchanging research progress, the engineers of human civilization originally thought that humans would be in the lead after seeing that the warp drive technology developed by other civilizations was in the range of 392 to 656 times the speed of light. They did not expect that the Flying Feather Civilization would be so powerful, demonstrating such strong technical strength in its first test flight.

Other civilizations have different views on this matter than humans.

Human civilization felt that the Feathered Civilization was a bit exaggerated, actually being able to reach the same level as its own "two-pronged approach." However, other civilizations thought that it was human civilization that was exaggerated. In the conference room inside the Galactic Heart Civilization, because of the warp speed level displayed by human civilization, countless tables were smashed to pieces by the leader of the Galactic Heart Civilization.

It's outrageous! The Flying Feather Civilization is one thing, since their original technology was related to warp speed, and their current level far surpasses everyone else's, so it's barely acceptable. But how can human civilization also reach 1516 times the speed of light!
1516 times the speed of light! That's already at the intermediate level of a cosmic civilization. Going any higher would truly be the level of a top-tier cosmic civilization.

We're still struggling in the early stages, while you two have jumped straight to stages 392, 656, and 1024 right off the bat. It's infuriating to compare yourself to others. At this stage where everyone has completed their warp drives, out of 84 civilizations, 67 are at 392x warp speed, and 15 are at 656x warp speed. Humanity and the Flying Feathers civilization are far ahead, reaching 1516x warp speed.

If these technologies weren't outside the scope of technology sharing treaties, everyone would probably have demanded that human civilization and the Flying Feather civilization share warp drive technology. Of course, not all civilizations were envious or wanted something for nothing. After witnessing the achievements of human civilization and the Flying Feather civilization, they also secretly devoted themselves to research, attempting to break through their current level through their own efforts.

At this point, everyone had just mastered vacuum zero-point energy, and the first warp drive they developed did not represent the final level of technology. After seeing the achievements of humanity and the Flying Feather Civilization, other civilizations were even more motivated.

Sure enough, only five thousand years later, the Divine Ju Civilization, the Daya Civilization, the Awakener Civilization, the Silver Heart Civilization, the Abyss Civilization, the Krol Civilization, the Aran Civilization, the Memoda Civilization, the Green Sea Civilization, and the Falcon Civilization all broke through their warp speed levels to 1024 times the speed of light.

However, it was in this short period of time that the Feiyu civilization seemed to have been given a cheat code, breaking through the 1516 times speed of light level again, pushing its highest warp speed level to 1649 times the speed of light, becoming the fastest in the organization.

Most importantly, in terms of energy consumption, their warp drive is even more fuel-efficient than that of human civilization.

It seems that the Flying Feather Civilization has found its unique technological path. If it continues to develop in this way, it is estimated that as long as they are given enough time to develop, they will definitely be able to raise their warp speed to the top level of a cosmic civilization, or even break through it and reach a new height that leads the world, which is the 3000 times the speed of light warp speed that some special civilizations can achieve, as mentioned by the Star Defenders.

Indeed, the warp drive technology of the Flying Feather Civilization has moved beyond the stage of "violent propulsion from zero vacuum" and entered the stage of modifying warp drive rules.

In terms of warp speed alone, the Feiyu civilization has reached the intermediate level of a cosmic civilization. However, at this stage, they are only limited to the warp speed level. In terms of combat power, those traditional and distinctive technological civilizations are still stronger.

The development of a civilization cannot be judged solely by its warp speed, both in the past and now.

The development of a cosmic-level civilization involves many aspects, and mastering vacuum zero-point energy is just the beginning. While improving their own navigation capabilities, each civilization must continue to explore applied technologies in all areas; otherwise, they will only be considered a cosmic-level civilization that can only run away.

In this regard, each unique technological civilization has a natural advantage. Their most direct approach is to replace the power that originally drove their unique technologies with vacuum zero-point energy, which can temporarily enhance their original unique technological strike capabilities.

Take the Divine Matrix civilization as an example. They used this time to upgrade the neutron war star, replacing its energy system with zero-point energy. This directly increased the neutron war star's area-of-effect attack capabilities tenfold, and its spatial elastic leaping ability also broke through the original distance.

However, the Divine Matrix civilization knew that this level of enhancement was insufficient to truly elevate their military capabilities to the level of a cosmic-class civilization. After all, they had witnessed the events at the Observer's observation station. That was merely one of the Observer civilization's observation stations, yet its area-of-effect attacks could cover an entire galaxy, even if that galaxy was not large.

In comparison, current neutron war stars are far inferior.

(End of this chapter)