So the new shields either had to be Multi-Layer Composite Shields, or they had to fight magic with magic—starting from Dark Matter and finding technology capable of resisting Void Strikes.
If that proved impossible, they could only evade by force.
For humanity, this was not much of a problem. Some warship designers had even proposed that humanity's next generation of warships could do without shields altogether.
They could evade anyway, and removing the shield systems would also improve the warships' maneuverability.
The proposal looked somewhat absurd, but that was exactly what the Awakeners did. Their warships had no shields, because they were confident they could evade any attack from the Void.
If humanity still failed to develop corresponding shield technology after mastering Characteristic Technology, then humanity would likely do the same, at least with Consciousness-Linked Warships.
As for Characteristic Technology, Human Civilization had been working toward it all along. Scientific groups deeply involved in Microscopic High Dimension research were all searching in that direction, because Human Civilization had realized long ago that it could comprehend Microscopic High Dimension—or at least some of its structures.
With Consciousness Linking Devices, humanity could observe certain spatial structures hidden within the microscopic realm.
Over so many years of development, humanity had successfully found a type of Calabi-Yau space. There were infinitely many such spaces in humanity's theories. Whether those theories were correct remained unknown, though no errors had been found so far.
Human scientists had discovered one kind of Calabi-Yau space: Microscopic Six Dimensions. During the observation and study of its composition, they had also noticed that some of its structures corresponded to combinations of Strings in the refined Superstring Theory.
In other words, the fundamental composition of those Microscopic High Dimension structures consisted of different combinations of Strings.
Those were structures belonging to