The Human Civilization personnel who discovered this phenomenon silently recorded those civilizations in the voyage logs. The purpose was self-evident: to pass this information on to those who would relieve them on duty in the future, warning them to watch out for those civilizations.
Watch out for what?
Of course, to guard against them lashing out in desperation.
Times were different now!
Back when they had fought the Type II Boundary Breakers together, everyone had been in the same boat, bound by shared interests. But now, faced with an ultra-long voyage of uncertain survival, no one knew whether they could drift all the way to their destination. That changed everything.
Clearly, after only two million years of travel, the equipment of those civilizations had begun malfunctioning, forcing them to activate their production lines. Running production lines was an enormously energy-intensive undertaking. In other words, those civilizations would most likely be the first to exhaust their resources. Who knew whether, once they could no longer hold on, they would attack other civilizations and plunder their resources?
They wanted to reach the destination too. How could they willingly die halfway there, only to watch other civilizations roar past them?
Humanity was not afraid of those civilizations attacking them, but neither did they want unrest within The Great Voyage Organization, much less genuine wars between civilizations. After all, war meant massive resource waste, which would severely affect The Great Voyage, whose survival was already uncertain.
Thus, humanity would keep a close watch on those civilizations.
In the third millionth year after departure, Yue Yuan awakened for the third time.
That year was also when Human Civilization was due to maintain its characteristic technological creations. Awakener Huan's warships also required maintenance, since they too were equipped with Human Civilization's characteristic technological creations.
Thus, as