Voyage of the Stars

Twelve thousand years after the voyage began, the Andromeda Galaxy was already within reach.

“Although the process was a little unexpected, it’s finally here.”

On the Tianqin, Yue Yuan looked at the Andromeda Galaxy. It had been many years since he had seen the brilliant galaxy with his own eyes. In the past, every time he woke up from hibernation, he saw darkness and nothingness, but this time he finally saw the vast galaxy.

The Great Voyage Organization, which consists of thirteen level six civilizations, has sailed so far that its original super-large fleet has been severely reduced in size.

Take human civilization for example. When it set sail, the fleet size was 80 billion. Now, there are only 15 million sub-civilization-level warships and 5 million other types of ships left, including sub-civilization-level residential ships, engineering ships, scientific research ships, and several biosphere ships. There is not a single transport ship left.

Other civilizations are even worse off. Many ordinary level six civilizations are left with only residential spaceship clusters and various engineering and scientific research ships.

But it’s not a big problem, because this time after dismantling the battleship and replenishing the supplies, we will actually arrive at the Andromeda Galaxy.

There are inexhaustible resources there. Once a group of level six civilizations arrive there, they can develop a huge fleet in no time.

However, this voyage was obviously different from their previous voyages. This was a long voyage that was close to the limit of a level six civilization, and because of the Awakener's experience, everyone had made adequate preparations. At least the number of transport ships of each civilization was sufficient.

The voyage was relatively smooth, and we did not encounter the various fragments of rules that the Awakener civilization had mentioned.

It’s the last leg of the journey, and civilizations are awakening from hibernation, all looking towards the long-desired Andromeda Galaxy.

Every individual life in a civilization now looks at the Andromeda Galaxy with eyes full of desire, just like looking at a peerless beauty. It is conceivable that once this last section of the journey is completed, everyone will definitely pounce on it like a hungry tiger, desperately exploiting resources.

The stars burning with heat, the dense dark matter, the brilliant galaxies, are all resources. Some civilizations have even used telescope arrays to observe the nearest areas. They are all thirsty.

"It's so beautiful! I never thought I would be so lucky to cross the galaxy in my lifetime. It's like a dream."

"Yes, it really is a fairy!"

The two scientists next to Yue Yuan also expressed their feelings about the Andromeda Galaxy in front of them. One of them was an old man from the Callisto era, and he was even more filled with emotion.

"Haha, the Andromeda Galaxy is just the beginning, the start of our great voyage. If we try our best to survive, we will be able to see more beautiful scenery in the universe in the future."

For the last hundred thousand light years of the journey, the last six hundred years of the journey, everyone actually had a feeling that time was passing very slowly, even slower than the previous ten thousand years of sailing in the void.

Time passes quietly amid the sighs of many individual lives in civilized civilizations.

One year, two years, three years, ten years, a hundred years.

The outline of the Andromeda Galaxy became clearer as the distance got closer. The thirteen civilizations also showed their talents in this process, using super-optical telescope arrays or various large-aperture radio telescope arrays to aim at the Andromeda Galaxy, unscrupulously spying on its beauty.

This is a vast galaxy, a brilliant galaxy composed of one trillion stars, plus countless dark stars hidden in the darkness, the total number of stars is countless.

In such a vast galaxy, there must be more civilizations.

For the Great Expedition Organization composed of thirteen level six civilizations, this is also an unfamiliar galaxy. Although everyone in the Milky Way has long known about the existence of the Andromeda Galaxy, it was only seen from afar, and only knew its approximate size, the number of stars, etc. through the spectral gaps.

No one knows what kind of civilizations exist in the Andromeda Galaxy, whether those civilizations have special technologies, and how many level-VI civilizations there are with special technologies.

And now, as the distance gets closer, the mystery of the Andromeda Galaxy is gradually being unveiled by the Great Voyage Organization.

First of all, whether looking down or up, it is obviously a spiral galaxy, because the disk of the Andromeda Galaxy itself is facing the direction of the Milky Way, so everyone has known this for a long time.

But only now have the thirteen civilizations been able to clearly see the number of spiral arms in the Andromeda Galaxy, as well as the outlines of each arm and the spacing between them.

The Andromeda Galaxy has nine spiral arms. The Great Expedition named the spiral arm of their destination Arm 1, and then counted clockwise to Arm 2, Arm 3, to Arm 9.

No matter what the local civilization of the Andromeda Galaxy is called, the Great Expedition Organization simply gave the nine spiral arms simple names using numbers.

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Perhaps because of the type of galaxy, the distribution of the nine spiral arms is much more even than that of the Milky Way, which is a barred spiral galaxy.

According to this spiral arm structure, the civilizations in the Andromeda Galaxy may have regional powers, but that requires a relatively peaceful environment. If there are existences like the Reapers like in the Milky Way, it is estimated that it will be difficult to form spheres of influence divided by spiral arms.

Of course, this is just a guess made by the Great Expedition Organization based on the spiral structure of the Andromeda Galaxy, and there is no actual data to support it.

As the largest galaxy in the Local Group, the Andromeda Galaxy also has a larger central black hole than the Milky Way. Its mass is greater than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and its gravitational influence range is farther.

Regarding this point, during the voyage of the Great Voyage Organization, the Shenju civilization, which is proficient in gravitational technology, has already detected a lot of data. They even accurately drew a gravitational traction map between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way.

They even calculated the gravitational balance point between two large galaxies.

Similarly, the Shenju civilization gave a more precise time for the collision between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group.

They believe that the two galaxies will collide in 3.388 billion years, which is accurate to the level of "hundreds of years", which is completely different from the huge error of 3 to 4 billion years in the human era of the Earth.

The Shenju civilization also conducted a gravitational map of the Andromeda Galaxy and generously shared the data with the Great Voyage Organization.

This is considered the first-hand exploration data of the Andromeda Galaxy by the Great Expedition Organization.