Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1456 Years Have Passed
All the fleets that went to seize the intelligent life of the Blue Ocean Civilization have returned to their own civilization's territory. They had considered this outcome, but they did not expect the Blue Ocean Civilization to be so decisive.

Years later, the seemingly united Star Expedition organization finally set sail, heading towards the brilliant starry sky.

Compared to entering the Great Void, leaving is much easier. The distance is about the same, but the civilizations are vastly different now. What used to take over 100 million years to travel at the speed of light to enter now only takes a little over 146,000 years.

The universe is probably just too vast, because this journey still seems to take a very long time.

This is assuming all civilizations travel at warp speeds throughout.

Obviously, it's impossible for 84 civilizations to travel at warp speed indefinitely. It's not that they can't, but they want to complete a full upgrade of their civilization before returning to the edge of the Great Hollow.

This necessitates stopping periodically to travel at normal light speed, since large-scale industrial activities cannot be carried out at warp speed.

In this scenario, the human and winged civilizations have the highest time efficiency because their warp speeds are higher than those of other civilizations. They can use high warp speeds to get ahead of the main force, and then exit warp speeds when needed to upgrade their creations. Once the main force catches up, they can repeat this process.

However, the human civilization and the Flying Feather civilization only fought a few times before other civilizations invited them to a conference under the name of "the same organization" to discuss the issue. The purpose of the discussions was the same: warp technology.

The reason is that as a single organization, other technologies are fine, but having different warp speeds is outrageous and makes unified action impossible.

All civilizations are pressuring human and the Flying Feather civilizations to share their advanced warp technology with the organization.

Logically speaking, the same organization should indeed have the same travel speed, especially in such a vast universe. Different warp speeds would inevitably make it impossible for different civilizations to coordinate their actions.

As two key stakeholders in the Starry Sky Grand Expedition Organization, the Flying Feather Civilization and the Human Civilization should contribute their technologies.

This is a measure that is conducive to the unity of all civilizations.

But who would willingly hand over the technology that their civilization has painstakingly developed over countless years? Especially given the signs of a split within the organization, neither civilization is willing to do so.

However, we are now in the return phase, and increasing the warp speed of each civilization is indeed an inevitable trend. Human civilization and the Flying Feather civilization cannot withstand the pressure from public opinion.

Ultimately, the human civilization and the Flying Feather civilization had no choice but to agree in principle to share warp technology.

Of course, this is only in principle. In actual operation, human civilization has put forward a lot of knowledge about its own unique technologies. However, the technology of "utilizing quantum tides" is something that no one else can see except human civilization. Other civilizations have no choice but to turn their attention to the Flying Feather Civilization.

However, the reason why the Flying Feather Civilization has such powerful warp technology is also due to their unique technology, so their approach is the same as that of human civilization.

In the end, the civilizations had no choice but to settle for second best, having the Feathered Civilization and the Human Civilization provide them with finished warp drives.

That's acceptable; the leaders of both civilizations originally thought it was the best outcome.

The Flying Feather Civilization's unique technology is a collective one, making it easy for them to provide finished engines to other civilizations. As for human civilization, since the technology of "utilizing quantum tides" is actually a unique technology possessed by a Level 6 civilization, reaching the cosmic level of civilization presents no difficulty in dealing with such inherited technological products.

Thus, with the support of human and Flying Feather civilizations, the Star Expedition Organization once again increased the overall speed of its civilizations, reaching 1516 times the speed of light. At such speed, if they sped along, the return journey would take less than ten thousand years.

Ten thousand years is enough time to do a lot of things, but also not much.

Ten thousand years is barely enough time for human civilization to complete the research and development of rule-based shields, let alone fully equip them. The Divine Moment civilization is a bit faster than human civilization, having already achieved mass production of rule-based shields and implemented them on warships. Moreover, in addition to completing the research and development of rule-based shields, they also accomplished something else: they determined the development direction of their fleet and created a thousand neutron war stars on their return voyage.

Yes, the Divine Matrix civilization, which previously struggled to maintain even a single neutron star, can now mass-produce neutron stars, although the efficiency is still not very high.

However, the Neutron Star did indeed transform from a flagship with unique technological features into their conventional warship.

Although they are called conventional warships, each of the neutron warships is more powerful than their previous flagships in terms of offense, defense, and mobility.

Take spatial jump technology as an example. Previously, the neutron war star, which served as the flagship of the Divine Matrix civilization, could only jump two or three light-years at a time. Now, with the support of vacuum zero-point energy, this distance has increased a hundredfold, and its area-of-effect attack capability has also made a hundredfold leap forward.

Furthermore, the area-of-effect attacks of the neutron star have now become a standard offensive tactic for the Divine Matrix civilization. The neutron star's defensive capabilities have also undergone a qualitative leap, as has its offensive power; it no longer fears dimensional ascension or dimensional reduction.

Any one of these thousand neutron war stars could shatter four-dimensional space, and even if they jumped into two-dimensional space, they would be fine.

The reason is that the Divine Mobility civilization equipped them with rigid rule shields.

They are already creations of a cosmic-level civilization.

However, the Divine Mobility civilization was still not satisfied. They continued to cultivate their own unique technological path, and they did not believe that the current neutron war stars were the strongest products of their unique technological path. On the contrary, the Divine Mobility civilization believed that these neutron war stars were merely a stage product of their in-depth cultivation of their unique technological path, a cosmic civilization version of the original neutron war stars.

Therefore, in their fleet planning, these neutron stars are conventional warships.

As for the flagship, the Divine Ju civilization believes that it should continue to cultivate its own unique technologies, and only after the final form of its unique technologies is completed can it possibly be built.

However, they already have some initial ideas.

Within the Divine Ju civilization, some experts and scholars believe that a more powerful warship should be a black hole warship, and that the Divine Ju civilization should focus on research into the direction of gravity to create a black hole war star.

Another group of experts and scholars believe that it should be a quark war star, because a black hole war star involves the infinitely large and infinitely small safes of the universe, which is beyond the current technological capabilities of the Divine Mobility civilization to create.

They disagreed on their vision for their flagship form, but they remained united on their unique technological path, believing that they should continue to research along the direction of gravity and use their racial talents to master the ultimate application of gravity.

The Star Defenders have stated that the four fundamental forces represent four paths for war-oriented cosmic civilizations, and the scientists of the Divine Moment civilization are confident that they have mastered the ultimate application of one of them.

(End of this chapter)