Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1635 Matter Decompression Device (1.0th Edition)

After more than 20,000 years of sailing and running, it's time to stop and reflect on the scientific achievements made during the voyage.

While it is possible for a fleet to conduct technological research and development during its voyages, and even turn that research into technological applications, the entire fleet still needs to stop for things like fleet maintenance, warship equipment updates, and warship engine replacements.

Technologies that can be implemented during fleet voyages are generally small-scale applications, such as modifications to individual life forms or lifespan technologies.

All of these things can be done on the spaceship.

The spaceships of cosmic civilizations are enormous. Although they may appear to be only five or six kilometers long on the outside, their interiors are composed of folded spaces several kilometers in diameter, truly containing a vast universe within.

According to the concept of cultivating immortality, that is a small world.

Furthermore, since it travels at warp speed, the space in which the warship is located is relatively stationary. Therefore, daily life and even research on the warship are actually no different from those on Earth, if the warship or spaceship uses gravity environment simulation.

Of course, not every warship or spaceship will use a gravity generator.

For example, some experimental research requires a zero-gravity environment, so the spacecraft housing the laboratory will not activate the gravity generator.

This shows that even if all of humanity were concentrated on the Dream Lyra, there would still be more than one spaceship, because various functional spaceships for scientific research and production would also be needed.

Of course, if faced with a civilizational decision-making problem like the Divine Ju civilization, humanity could also unify everyone onto one or two spaceships by simply dividing the spaceships into zones. However, doing so would weaken industrial capabilities, which is unnecessary in humanity's current state.

Not only are they unnecessary, but we also need to develop other functional spacecraft on a large scale.

After this stop at the Starry Sky Service Area, humanity will begin manufacturing a giant quantum macro-tunneling device. "Giant" does not refer to its size, but rather to its complexity and precision.

To facilitate access to various resources, the Grand Expeditionary Fleet chose to dock in the region of the central black hole, where stars are relatively dense.

Upon arriving here, the Awakener civilization simply pulled out a huge thing from their dream manufacturing factory.

Of course, it wasn't a real "takeout," but rather something they had already created using dream-building technology, which they then materialized upon arriving at the location.

There are two sets of equipment. One of them can directly extract stellar material. It is like a suction cup that orbits the star in near orbit, sucking up the stellar material in circles like a small black hole, and then processing it into various materials as needed.

The other system needs to be placed near the event horizon of the black hole and orbit the black hole. However, its working principle is different from that of the stellar material extraction device. It extracts negative energy from the black hole's force field under the influence of the super-force field, as well as the matter that has not yet entered the event horizon.

The awakeners refer to this device as the Matter Decompressor Version 1.0.

If there's a version 1.0, there will be subsequent versions.

Yue Yuan had also inquired about it before, and the reply he received was that they were developing a superior version, but due to the technological barrier of the "Infinite Safe," they still couldn't extract matter from black holes. The current 1.0 version of the matter decompression device, besides extracting negative matter and matter from the event viewpoint, could also utilize the black hole's powerful gravity to do work. The Awakeners released this device not only to extract black hole matter, but also because they wanted to use this time to do something for the local civilization of the service area's galaxy.

After all, if everyone comes here to carry out a large project, they will definitely consume a lot of resources. It takes at least seven million light-years to travel from the service area galaxy to the next galaxy. This distance is almost impossible for a level 6 civilization to cross, which cuts off their possibility of embarking on a long voyage.

Not long after arriving in this galaxy, the Galactic Heart Civilization discovered that there were quite a few Level 6 civilizations within it. Upon learning this, the Awakener, having nothing better to do, decided to take the opportunity to build a stargate for this galaxy, a good chance to hone his stargate construction skills.

In the Awakener's vision, the stargate built near the black hole in the service area galaxy is powered by this matter decompression device version 1.0, which extracts power from the black hole's force field.

In this way, this stargate will not need to rely on the vacuum zero-point energy device to continuously provide energy, and can work for a long time like the stargates I have encountered before.

It's quite poignant, perhaps because of their constant wandering, the Awakeners' stargate construction project is actually the first time the Great Voyage Organization has built a stargate, and it's also the first time since everyone became a cosmic civilization that they've had the idea of ​​building a stargate.

Why "everyone"? Because all four technological civilizations participated in this stargate construction project. The reason is simple: everyone wanted to master the stargate construction technology.

Since most of humanity's scientific efforts have been focused on quantum macro-tunneling, for this stargate construction project, humanity only sent an engineering team to learn and exchange ideas, and did not directly participate in the construction.

The other three civilizations had no objection to this; they simply didn't object to the human team revealing all the technical details of building the stargate.

Because humanity's quantum macro-tunneling construction project is also open to them to learn, as long as they can learn it.

Currently, within the Great Voyage Organization, aside from the unknown factor of the Star Guardians, humanity's military strength is undoubtedly the strongest. Given that they can guarantee their own safety with force, humanity has been very generous.

Moreover, everyone has research subjects for quantum macro-tunneling technology. If they are smart enough and their technology development is on the right track, they might be able to master it one day.

Humanity desperately wants to build a quantum macro-tunneling device for the Daya civilization, but unfortunately, current engineering and maintenance capabilities do not allow it, so we can only wait for future technological advancements to consider it.

Thus, after the four technological civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization stopped, they began the construction project.

Since it was made for the Awakeners, humans don't need to worry about resource mining at all. They can just tell the Awakeners what they want, and they will provide it immediately.

As for the shape of the creation, in order to commemorate the pioneers, human designers specially shaped it into a rhombus-shaped crystal, exactly the same as the crystal on the Lyra.

The Awakener Civilization had no objection to this.

Although the pioneers failed to overcome the barrier of cosmic civilization, and were considered a low-level civilization by everyone else, they are still pioneers in the hearts of various civilizations.

Even a civilization like the Silver Heart is willing to call them pioneers on this point.

(End of this chapter)