After replenishing their Heavy Metal Material, the three civilizations continued speeding through the Outer Arm. There was still a long way to go before they reached the Silver Heart Alliance Small Universe recorded by the Divine Matrix Civilization—roughly another seventy or eighty years of travel.
Only around fifteen thousand light-years.
Human Civilization and the Daya Civilization planned to use this time to meet their basic conventional fleet construction target: one hundred million ships.
Since part of it had already been completed, the goal was not difficult to achieve. Mainly because conventional ships and warships were far less troublesome to manufacture than flagships.
For Human Civilization, for instance, those warships would not necessarily all be Sub-Civilization Class Warships. A large number of Constant-Class Warships would also be mixed in, forming the Star Alliance's conventional combat strength.
As for the personnel piloting them, they would naturally be individual lifeforms from the Crimson Flame Civilization.
Some would also be turned into unmanned warships operated by Strong Artificial Intelligence, but that cost far more than using Crimson Flame Civilization lifeforms. With time so tight, the alliance fleet represented by humanity still relied primarily on Crimson Flame Civilization individuals as its soldiers.
As for the elite fleet, humans themselves would naturally pilot it. Every ship would be equipped with a Consciousness Linking Device.
During this period, humanity planned to raise the elite fleet's numbers from thirty thousand ships to one hundred thousand. If time allowed, they would build even more. In any case, humanity did not lack pilots using a Third-Person Perspective.
Ideally, they would build more than one hundred million ships before confronting the Harvesters head-on.
Yet some things rarely went as hoped.
After harvesting throughout the Galaxy for so many years and finally discovering traces of the Divine Matrix Civilization, the Harvesters would