But whenever they thought that the Great Voyage might actually succeed, some of the higher-ups among the Boundary Breakers felt awful, even agonizingly conflicted.
Because the insightful among the Boundary Breakers had realized through reflection that the Boundary Breakers actually did not need to consider whether they would be retaliated against by a Great Voyage civilization after it successfully advanced. As long as one Great Voyage civilization successfully advanced, emerged from the Great Void, and stood before them, the Boundary Breaker collective would collapse on its own as its most fundamental beliefs crumbled.
After all, if a Great Voyage civilization succeeded, did that not mean everyone's choice to embrace dark matter had been wrong, that all Boundary Breakers had taken the wrong path and were forever trapped in dark matter without the slightest hope of advancement?
But could the Boundary Breakers still turn back?
The answer was no, because they had already become dark matter life. This transformation was irreversible. They could not become a technological civilization again, much less leave dark matter.
That meant that even if the Boundary Breakers wanted to board a technological civilization's fleet and go to the Great Void, they could not. Once they left the dark matter region, they would be fish out of water, and all of them would die.
If the two had been considered together, then because Advanced Boundary Breakers could crush a host of technological civilizations, the Boundary Breakers had never doubted their own path at all. The powerful combat strength this path had brought them had kept them confident, confident that their path was the correct one.
But now, the Boundary Breakers had suffered an unprecedented setback. The appearance of the String Plucker organization had made them realize that they did not seem to be as invincible as they