Brother, just how powerful is our family?

Technology is developing rapidly.

Disaster is the best catalyst.

The deaths of 4.5 billion people have fueled a burning desire in every scientist, engineer, and researcher of the Yanhuang civilization.

They don't need mobilization or motivation; they themselves are the most powerful driving force.

Stargate technology achieved revolutionary breakthroughs in the decades following the disaster.

The original stargates were fixed, enormous, and required a huge amount of resources to build.

A ring structure with a diameter of 500 kilometers can only connect two fixed coordinates and can only be deployed in the most core node galaxy.

This kind of stargate is sufficient for defense and logistical support, but it is far from enough for offense.

Offense requires mobility—the ability to open passages at any time and in any place, and the ability to traverse space anytime and anywhere without relying on fixed facilities.

The idea of ​​"installing stargates on warships" was proposed in the first year after the disaster.

But it took a full thirty years to achieve it.

Miniaturization is the biggest challenge.

A stargate with a diameter of 500 kilometers has an energy core that is the size of a Conqueror-class warship.

To compress the entire stargate system to a size that can be installed on a warship, breakthroughs are needed in all aspects of energy confinement technology, space folding technology, and materials science.

Over the past thirty years, countless scientists have contributed their wisdom to this field.

Someone optimized the structure of the energy core, reducing its volume by 90%.

A new type of superconducting material has been invented that can carry greater energy in a smaller space.

Someone improved the spatial folding algorithm, which increased the stability of the channel by two orders of magnitude.

In the year 4910 of the Yellow Emperor's era, the first warship equipped with a miniaturized stargate—the "Shuttle" class—was launched in a superport in the Kuiper Belt.

It is only one-third the size of the Conqueror-class, but its core, the device known as the "warp engine," can teleport the warship to any coordinate hundreds of light-years away in an instant.

It doesn't need a fixed stargate or a pre-built passage. As long as there is energy and coordinates, it can tear through space and open a temporary rift for warships to pass through.

"Isn't this the technology of the Kujira Beasts?" someone asked.

"No," the scientist in charge of the research replied, "The Kumozu's channels are based on biotechnology; they tear space apart using their body organs. Ours is based on technology; we tear space apart using energy and equipment. The principles are different, but the results are similar. What they can do, we can do too."

The emergence of the Shuttle-class completely changed the strategic landscape of the Yanhuang civilization.

Previously, the fleets of the Yanhuang civilization could only maneuver quickly through a fixed network of stargates and could only move between star systems with stargates.

Now, any Shuttle-class ship can independently open a passageway for strategic deployment at any time and any location.

This means that the Yanhuang civilization no longer needed to wait for the Qiong beasts to come to their door.

They can take the initiative, go to the lair of the worms, to their homeland, and fight a real decisive battle.

Following the Shuttle-class came larger, stronger, and more lethal warships.

Titan-class battleships were originally designed for defense.

Their weapon systems are mainly railguns, laser arrays, and particle beam cannons, which are suitable for combat within fixed defensive lines.

But offensive operations require different weapons: longer range, stronger penetration, and more flexible mobility.

The new generation of warships is codenamed "Revenge" class.

It is 500 kilometers long, larger than a Titan.

Its main weapon is not an electromagnetic railgun or a particle beam cannon, but a gravity cannon named "Star Destroyer".

The principle behind this cannon is somewhat similar to the beam used by the worm to attack a star; it can instantly disrupt the gravitational balance inside the target, causing it to collapse under its own gravity.

For celestial bodies such as planets and stars, the planet-destroying cannon is devastating.

Even against giant creatures like the Kuru, the Star Destroyer Cannon is deadly; the hit area will instantly collapse into a miniature black hole, swallowing everything around it.

The Avenger-class's secondary weapon is a modified quantum foam bomb launcher.

Unlike previous versions that required fighter jets or spaceships to get close and deliver the bombs, the Avenger-class can launch quantum foam bombs at sub-light speed from a distance of hundreds of light-seconds, accurately hitting the target.

The blast radius of each quantum foam bomb has also increased from one kilometer in diameter to five kilometers, increasing its power by dozens of times.

The Avenger-class defense system employs multiple layers of energy shields and heavy composite armor.

The innermost layer is a deflection shield made of a strong magnetic field, which can deflect incoming projectiles and beams.

The middle layer is a honeycomb-shaped energy absorption layer that can disperse, absorb, and convert the attacks of energy weapons.

The outer layer is a thick composite armor, more than 100 meters thick, enough to withstand multiple attacks from the giant beast.

The Vengeance-class's power system consists of two parallel jump engines.

One is used to maintain the warship's daily navigation, and the other is dedicated to space jumps.

When both engines are working simultaneously, the Avenger-class can traverse thousands of light-years in a single jump, and can jump directly from the territory of the Yanhuang civilization to the vicinity of the Que Beast's lair in just a few jumps.

By the year 4920 of the Yellow Emperor's era, the Yanhuang civilization had built twelve Avenger-class ships, over three hundred Shuttle-class ships, and thousands of Conqueror-class and Titan-class ships.

This fleet represents the most powerful military force in the history of the Yanhuang civilization.

Its mission is singular—to completely eradicate the worms.

While the Yanhuang civilization was preparing for war at full speed, another equally important task was also underway near a black hole 1,100 light-years away from the solar system.

Holy area.

This is the code name for that black hole.

It will become the genetic optimization center of the Yanhuang civilization, and the place where the best Yanhuang citizens will undergo the fourth, fifth, and sixth optimizations.

The goal of optimization is to enable humans to survive in a vacuum, fight in space, and operate in extreme environments.

The result of this optimization is that the descendants of Yan and Huang evolve from "humans" to "superhumans," and from "mortals" to "gods."

The engineering team arrived here decades ago.

They spent fifteen years flying the 900-light-year journey, and then spent even more time building the optimization center and stargate.

The working environment is extremely harsh. The gravitational field of a black hole is strong enough to distort light, and the radiation intensity is high enough to kill an unoptimized ordinary person. The surrounding accretion disk and star clusters make the journey exceptionally dangerous.

But the engineering team persevered.

They wear state-of-the-art protective suits and work day after day at the edge of the black hole.

They used materials transported from the solar system and resources mined locally to build a space station with a diameter of over 1,000 kilometers.

The space station is suspended on the outer edge of the black hole's accretion disk, about one light-hour from the black hole's event horizon.

Here, the strength of the gravitational field is just right—extreme enough, but not fatal.

The space station contains hundreds of optimization modules, each capable of accommodating dozens of people for genetic optimization at the same time.

The optimization process is fully automated and controlled by the space station's core AI, ensuring that every step is accurate to the nanosecond level.