When this Level Six Civilization received the broadcast, it was like finding a lifeline and wanted to respond immediately.
But the psychological trauma inflicted by the Heavenly Maiden Civilization's combat methods was simply too great. Even after hiding for two hundred thousand years, they still had no way to deal with that method of directly jumping inside warships.
Therefore, after receiving The Great Voyage Organization's broadcast, they did not immediately have their entire civilization emerge from their Small Universe and throw themselves into The Great Voyage Organization's embrace. Instead, they chose to awaken some dormant individual lifeforms, refit a relatively small fleet, secretly emerge from the Small Universe, and head toward the First Star Region where The Great Voyage Organization was located using their meager remaining stockpiles of resources and energy.
During the conflict with the Heavenly Maiden Civilization, The Great Voyage Organization knew that its location had been exposed. The Heavenly Maiden Civilization already knew it was at the end of Arm One, so it simply made its location public in the broadcast, giving those civilizations that might not have fallen and wished to join them in resisting the Heavenly Maiden Civilization a direction.
Unexpectedly, that casual move really did draw out a civilization that had been hiding for two hundred thousand years.
Perhaps there were other civilizations as well. It was just that this civilization's Small Universe happened to be located in the Void along the outer edge of Arm Two. They received the broadcast before the other civilizations and were thus the first to arrive in the star region where The Great Voyage Organization was located.
Because The Great Voyage Organization had already completed part of its Interstellar Communication Network, this civilization's fleet was discovered shortly after entering the organization's star region.
After their initial contact, the