Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 722 A Probe Spacecraft Team

The result of the meeting was as expected. The vast majority thought they should go, with only one or two people thinking they should avoid danger.

What he said is true, but there are dangers everywhere in the universe. The dangers do not only come from other civilizations. The relics left behind by advanced civilizations are also dangerous. Human beings have reached the fourth level of civilization. According to the classification of civilization levels by those civilizations at the top, it also belongs to the category of interstellar civilization.

The stars are bright and you can go anywhere. We are not like lower-level civilizations that have to hibernate year after year across the stars.

The realization of warp speed has greatly increased the speed of travel and also promoted the civilization's efficient use of time.

Humans will not rush towards the target recklessly. The residential spacecraft must be hidden, and if it is not necessary, it is best not to reveal the fact that they are a nomadic civilization.

Everyone thinks that this arrangement strategy is more appropriate. The main body of the civilization has not gone, and even if there is any danger, the entire civilization will not face the risk of destruction.

After the decision was made, the human fleet turned a corner in the void and continued to sail towards its destination. With a distance of more than 300 light years, it took humans only more than 30 years to reach the vicinity of the target star field.

However, as planned, the human fleet did not sail to the target star field together, but first docked at a star system outside it and stationed the main body of the civilization there. Various warning measures were arranged outside the star system, such as tachyon detectors, communication relay stations, etc. At the same time, the member civilizations of the Star Alliance were also allowed to patrol the space near this star system.

After doing this, the departing fleet will be supplied with resources before setting off towards the target star field.

Humanity is pretty lucky. No detectors from other civilizations have been found in the star system chosen for the main civilization cluster to dock, and the distance of 10 light years is just right. If there is any emergency, it will only take a year for the fleet to arrive for support.

The increase in speed also makes it easier for Level 4 civilizations to make various arrangements in the interstellar space. Of course, it also means that the scope of acquisition of Level 4 civilizations has become larger and is not limited to one star system.

This is the case for human beings, a fourth-level civilization, and other civilizations are not much worse.

Therefore, when the first fleet of mankind just arrived at the target star field, it was detected by the detector of the unknown civilization. Of course, humans also discovered the existence of the other party's detector. After all, tachyon detection is mutual.

This time, the First Fleet, where the flagship Tianqin was, represented humanity in going to the target star region to test the reality. This fleet had a total of one million planetary warships, of which 2,800, including the Tianqin, were equipped with the consciousness connection equipment given by the awakener at that time. It was the most powerful fleet of humanity at present.

As for the Second and Third Fleets, each is equipped with one hundred planetary-class spacecraft equipped with consciousness link devices, with the flagships being the Jupiter and the Saturn respectively, and there are nearly one million ordinary planetary-class battleships under their respective jurisdictions.

From this point of view, after reaching the fourth level of civilization, the number of human warships is much less than that of the third level of civilization. For example, the Red Flame civilization at that time, at the third level of civilization, their fleet exceeded 10 million.

However, combat effectiveness is not just about quantity, especially at the level of fourth-level civilization, where each of those ordinary warships is controlled by an independent strong artificial intelligence consciousness, and the combat effectiveness of a single ship can be said to be rising sharply. Of course, if a strong artificial intelligence can control a fleet, humans actually prefer that, but the warships of the fourth-level civilization are too complicated, and it is very difficult for a strong artificial intelligence to control a warship. In fact, if humans are not very good at mechanical technology, they even need people to assist in driving, so a strong artificial intelligence can't control a fleet like a third-level civilization. So at the fourth-level civilization level, the intelligent machine crisis like the third-level civilization will not appear at all, and there will be no intelligent machine civilization like locusts in the universe, unless that intelligent machine civilization breaks through the limitation of making itself, if so, it will really be a cosmic locust.

However, if that is the case, the intelligent mechanical civilization composed of countless strong artificial intelligence consciousnesses will also be limited by distance, and they cannot ignore the limitation of the effective distance of tachyon communication, unless their king does not care about his throne and spreads to the universe at all costs in order to expand his "race".

So if you encounter a level 4 intelligent machine civilization, it must be in the form of a kingdom, with one person as the king and all his subordinates being copies of himself.

Of course, there is another form, which is like the strong artificial intelligence consciousness of human beings now. Each one has its own independent number, and the personality template that gives birth to its self-consciousness when it is created is not all the same. This is another model.

If strong artificial intelligence rebels and destroys humans, then the resulting intelligent civilization must be a mechanical empire. Sometimes humans can't help but wonder whether the famous silicon-based consortium in the Milky Way is of this form.

Having said that, it stands to reason that humans should have sent out a low-level fleet to conduct reconnaissance this time, but in the end it was the First Fleet that took action. One of the reasons for this is that the First Fleet came this time not in the name of human civilization, but in the name of the Star Alliance.

If the other party is a civilization, then when they hear the name "Star Alliance", they will definitely think that it is an interstellar organization with many civilizations, so the fleet they see in front of them is definitely not all of its strength.

This is also an invisible deterrent, which may help avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble. Back then, the Chiyan Civilization set up a fake interstellar trading market because they saw that the lower-level civilizations could be manipulated at will.

However, what appeared within the detection range of the first fleet of mankind was a team of exploration spacecraft, 0.98 light years away. Humans detected a total of twelve tachyon signal sources.

This is the result of passive detection, that is, the number of tachyon detection sources received by humans.

When the human fleet actively launched tachyon detection, it was discovered that there were about thirty opposing detection ships in the distance. The reason for saying "about" is that it is possible that some ships are standing behind other ships and cannot be detected.

For the sake of navigation safety, the one million human warships activated tachyon detection to scan themselves in all directions on their way to the target star field. Because of this, the detection spacecraft team was detected as soon as it entered the detection range.

Of course, the human fleet must be within the field of view of the opponent's detectors if the opponent's grand unified force field technology is at the same level as that of humans.

The two sides had just met, and before humans could send out any information, the spaceship on the opposite side, like the broadcasting spaceship that humans had encountered before, sent a digital pattern composed of 0, 1, and 2 to humans by sending tachyons at short intervals.

(End of this chapter)