Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 695: Towards the End of the Orion Boom
It is said that the more advanced the technology is, the greater its impact on the natural environment.

The impact of human technology in the Earth era is no more than causing some climate change and the like. A level one civilization can at most dig into the moon and build a few bases in outer space. A level two civilization can at most clean the surface of a planet. A level three civilization does have the ability to hollow out a galaxy, but that would require all the power of the civilization and take a long time. The technology of a level four civilization can directly and easily bring about earth-shaking changes in the environment of an entire star system.

After thousands of years of human demands, the originally peaceful and quiet binary star system has now turned into a space mine. The entire space is filled with dust particles that spread from the planets destroyed by humans, making this binary star system a mess.

It is estimated that it will take tens of thousands of years for the main sequence stars in the binary star system and the gas planets in the galaxy to work together to make the environment clear again.

The Milky Way is very large. Even if there are tens of thousands of civilizations like humans that engage in destructive and exploitative activities, they are just a drop in the bucket. The damage they cause to the original environment of the Milky Way is not even as much as a war between level six civilizations.

After completing the creation upgrade, humans will soon leave here and set foot on the starry sky again.

This time, humans did not have a definite goal, but only a general sailing direction, which was to stay away from the direction that the awakener 'Huan' told humans to go. Staying away from that direction meant staying away from the battlefield of the sixth-level civilization.

Humans are very concerned about the situation of the Awakener 'Phantom', but they also understand that the war between the Awakeners and the Reapers is not something they can participate in now, and they can't even get close to it.

As for the Earth star region where humans are now, even though they have been led by the awakeners to travel for more than a thousand light years and have traveled around on their own, they are still not too far away from the solar system. From the perspective of astronomical observations, the straight-line distance from here to the solar system is actually less than two thousand light years.

If humans want to return to the solar system, including supplies along the way, it will take more than two hundred years, or at most three hundred years, to get there. But humans cannot go there now, because that direction is the center of the Milky Way, and is also the direction of the sixth-level civilization battlefield.

Humans have to go in the opposite direction, toward the end of the Orion arm.

Go as far as you can, and try to stay away from the battlefield of the sixth-level civilization. The farther you are, the weaker the aftermath of the supernova. Humans really don't know what the war of the sixth-level civilization is like, but judging from the bombing of the solar system and the Centauri triple star system and the situation of the star destroyer cannons they have, the battlefield of the sixth-level civilization must have involved the destruction of various stars.

After all, humans now clearly know that a level five civilization has the ability to destroy stars, so the turmoil caused by a level six civilization war will inevitably lead to stellar explosions of various sizes.

Of course, although it is a voyage without a specific purpose, humans still have things to do, such as continuing to search for the star map information obtained from the pioneers' crystal bottle, finding the locations marked on the star map, and finding the small universe that the pioneers mentioned they left behind.

The key to that small universe is now in the storage room on the Lyra. It also looks like a diamond-shaped crystal and looks like a smaller version of the large diamond-shaped crystal message in the bottle.

I don't know if it's because of their special hobbies, but the two level six civilization creations, the Awakener and the Pioneer, that humans have seen, have their own characteristics. One likes to create a golden ratio rectangular shape, while the other is a diamond crystal style.

The starry sky is vast, the galaxy is vast. Soon, the human fleet set foot on the star road again.

After the creation upgrade, the fleet of human civilization is smaller than before, with only 3 million planetary warships and less than 1 million residential ships, biosphere ships and other planetary ships. However, if the fleets of vassal races are included, the fleets are more, after all, most of the ships and warships of those vassal races are still of the third-level civilization style, but they are equipped with warp engines by humans.

Currently, only humans have planetary-class battleships. It's not that humans are stingy and don't want to build planetary-class battleships for those vassal races, but it's too time-consuming and they can't afford to do so much.

Moreover, the Gnoll cannon fodder plan that humans originally implemented seems to have no major effect now. After all, if they encounter other level four civilizations, those level three civilization warships equipped with only warp engines will be of no use.

As for letting the Kobolds operate planetary battleships, it is actually not impossible, but that will only happen after more battleships are built in the future. Now the three million ordinary planetary battleships of mankind are basically operated by strong artificial intelligence, but it is not one strong artificial intelligence controlling a large number of battleships, but one strong artificial intelligence controlling one battleship.

The reason is that planetary battleships are too complex, and human artificial intelligence technology cannot allow a strong artificial intelligence to control a group of battleships, which would cause the host to crash.

In other words, technology itself promoted the emergence of large-scale strong artificial intelligence fleets in the third-level civilization period, but in the fourth-level civilization period it also became a restriction on the emergence of large-scale strong artificial intelligence fleets.

Although machines are making machines, the design and manufacturing of the mainframes that carry strong artificial intelligence are still personally participated by humans, not for anything else, but mainly because they are worried about problems with these strong artificial intelligences. Yes, after discovering that the thought imprinting technology seems to be beyond the control of the third-level civilization, humans are worried that their means of preventing strong artificial intelligence from rebelling will go wrong.

Therefore, when it comes to creating strong artificial intelligence, humans have always been the ones doing the work themselves, and have never allowed other strong artificial intelligences to have the ability to automatically create another self.

Having said that, this voyage is the first large fleet warp voyage after humans truly embarked on the fourth-level civilization, so the destination was not chosen too far away, but a nearby star system from the departure point, only eighteen light years away.

To reach this distance, it would take humans at least thirty-six years to sail in the third-level civilization era, but now it only takes one year, nine months and eighteen days.

With the development of science and technology, the Milky Way has become smaller for humans, and interstellar travel no longer takes a long time, making us a truly interstellar civilization.

After the order to sail was issued, the ships of the human fleet wrapped themselves in warp bubbles, and then, like the scenes in movies and TV series, the ships in the warp bubbles were stretched and disappeared into the depths of the starry sky. This was not because the warships and warp bubbles were actually stretched, but a visual illusion caused by the warp speed of 10.079 times the speed of light, just like a spaceship coming from the depths of the starry sky at superluminal speed, where an optical observer first saw the spaceship appear instantly and then saw the afterimage of the spaceship moving backwards.

If you want to see the real situation of the fleet during its movement, you have to use tachyon detection.

(End of this chapter)