Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1517 Not as satiating as expected

This concerns whether or not everyone can take a shortcut, so they have to take it seriously.

The other end of the stargate is also located at the central black hole of a galaxy, about 25 million light-years away from the terminal galaxy. The two galaxies are not adjacent to each other.

This is good news, after all, it allows us to cross a distance of 25 million light-years in one go.

However, the four civilizations also realized that it was not a solution to fight their way through step by step and explore each stargate one by one. The best solution was to obtain data on these stargates and determine which stargate led to which destination.

This information is clearly in the hands of the Triangular Civilization, since the stargate here was most likely built by them.

This is not easy to do.

In fact, given the current situation, the best outcome would be to avoid war with the Triangular Civilization and then borrow their stargate through negotiation and exchange. However, things have already come to this point, and there is no turning back.

Originally, some people suggested informing the Triangle Civilization that the KBC Great Void was about to be used by the Returners for their Return Experiments, and telling them their purpose of wanting to leave this star system as soon as possible. But what if they told them and the other party not only didn't appreciate it, but instead ran away and destroyed the stargate after they left?

The Starry Sky Grand Expedition Organization clearly wouldn't dare take the risk.

So in the end, we can only continue fighting, but we can't fight like we did at the beginning, because the strategic objectives are different now.

What the Great Interstellar Voyage needs now is the stargate information of the Triangle Civilization. Therefore, when fighting, the goal is not to completely annihilate the enemy, but to leave behind as many information storage devices as possible, and ideally, to capture people from the Triangle Civilization.

This is one line of thinking.

Another approach was proposed by the Galactic Heart Civilization, who believed that this method was too inefficient and that the Triangular Civilization, being an established cosmic-level civilization, would inevitably suffer heavy casualties in a war aimed at capturing the enemy.

Therefore, let the Dream Lyra take the lead and push straight through, regardless of where the stargate leads. As long as there is a Triangular civilization at the stargate exit, just wipe them out until they surrender and contact us.

Once this strategic objective is achieved, then we can make demands.

At that point, it would be a logical step to ask the other party to disclose the star map.

As for whether the Triangle civilization will resort to a scorched-earth strategy due to its inability to withstand the attack, that is, to flee and destroy the stargate, that is not something that can be decided by our side.

Because this plan revolves around the Lyra, the decision-making power rests with humanity.

Ultimately, human civilization chose the route proposed by the Galactic Heart Civilization, which was to push forward with the Lyra as the core.

Building on this foundation, the Starry Sky Expedition Organization also enabled the Galactic Center Civilization to conduct cosmic membrane broadcasts over a wide area.

The broadcast contained several points: first, it clarified that his elimination of the microscopic demons was unintentional; second, it emphasized that there was no inherent conflict of interest between the two sides; and third, it explained his intention to use the stargate due to his need to travel quickly.

The third point, while revealing the objectives of the four civilizations, is different from directly stating their demands now that the Lyra has swept through the enemy with overwhelming force.

Yes, when the Galactic Heart Civilization broadcast its wide-area cosmic membrane, the Dream Lyra had already completed its sweep of the second galaxy.

In this battle in the Stargate region, approximately 30 million conventional Nebula-class capital ships of the Triangular Civilization were decimated by the Dream Lyra.

Immediately afterwards, the Lyra passed through their stargate again and headed to the next stargate node.

It's important to note that the stargates of the Triangular Civilization were primarily constructed at the central black hole of their galaxies, using the black hole as a power source to create a network of stargates across various galaxies. In other words, each galaxy's central black hole typically has a stargate, but the presence of a single stargate doesn't mean it can only traverse in one direction; rather, it connects to the entire stargate network, making it incredibly interconnected.

After crossing the terminal galaxy, you enter the second galaxy, where the stargate acts as a gateway, allowing you to travel to many other galaxies.

The Lyra, with the help of this convenient stargate network, destroyed dozens of resistance fleets of the Triangular Civilization in just a few hundred years.

Although the number is not large, with dozens of resistance fleets totaling only two or three hundred million Nebula-class warships, cosmic civilizations generally don't have many fleets either.

In reality, a cosmic-level civilization could infinitely expand its military, but it is obvious that everyone knows about vacuum decay and the existence of god-level civilizations. Making a civilization too large might attract the attention of god-level civilizations.

The Triangular Civilization naturally understood this principle as well, so the previous 500 million warships, plus the fleets destroyed by the Dream Lyra dozens of times, accounted for roughly 80% of their strength.

The Triangular Civilization is quite resilient; even under these circumstances, it hasn't implemented a scorched-earth strategy to destroy its own stargate network in an attempt to halt the progress of the Dream Lyra.

It was under these circumstances that the Silverheart Civilization began broadcasting its message everywhere.

They dispatched a massive fleet of probe ships, using the extensive stargate system to reach galaxies, and then broadcast cosmic membranes using these galaxies as broadcast targets.

However, what none of the four civilizations of the Starry Sky Grand Expedition Organization knew was that the Triangular Civilization had no intention of responding at all, because they finally made the decisive decision to destroy the Stargate Network.

After a series of devastating battles, the Triangular Civilization was clearly terrified by the Dream Lyra. In order to ensure the survival of their civilization, they decided to leave the Guishui Great Wall, where they had lived for countless billions of years, and avoid the raging String Piper.

Thus, in a void unseen by the four civilizations of the Starry Sky Grand Expedition Organization—a void beyond all the star systems of the Guishui Great Wall—a fleet hidden there for who knows how many years set sail. They were clearly the main body of the Triangular Civilization.

While the Dream Lyra was wreaking havoc, they headed towards the other side of the Guishui Great Wall through the stargates they had already set up. At the same time, in the middle section of the Guishui Great Wall, a fleet of the Triangular Civilization carried out the operation to destroy transportation hubs. Before the Dream Lyra could arrive, they destroyed the stargates at the center of more than a dozen transportation hubs.

Because of the characteristic that entering a stargate means being teleported away, they can only destroy stargates from the outside. Therefore, after destroying a stargate, these warships will no longer be able to enter the stargate network and leave.

Therefore, these warships do not use their own weapons to destroy the stargate, but instead set up rule-breaking bombs at the stargate to disrupt the rule shield, and then detonate them after they have teleported away.

The Triangular Civilization thus disappeared from the sight of the four civilizations of the Starry Sky Grand Expedition Organization.

Clearly, the Starry Sky Expedition's plan had failed. Coercion had an effect, but it failed to subdue the Triangular Civilization, and they even managed to escape.

This is a helpless situation, after all, the stargate was built by someone else, and it is indeed difficult to stop them from destroying it.

However, there is good news: at least half of the Guishui Great Wall still has stargates, which the four civilizations can use to cross a distance of about 16 billion light-years.

After crossing the 11 billion light-year distance of the Guishui Great Wall, they could only continue flying.

Things are not entirely satisfactory, but that's all we can do.

However, to the surprise of the four civilizations, the Triangular Civilization did not give up after its defeat. But knowing they were no match for it, they pressed a button that had been sealed away for who knows how many years.

The owner of this button has a resounding name: Rebooter.

(End of this chapter)