The construction of the Star Gate was much faster than that of the Quantum Macro Tunneling equipment. Although the former was far larger in scale, for the four current technological civilizations, the latter was far more technologically advanced.
Many years passed. The basic framework of the former had already been built, while the latter was still in the preparation stage.
From this perspective, it seemed as though humanity's technology was still inferior to that of the Precursors back then. After all, the Precursors had been able to leave behind ten sets of equipment. But that was not actually the case, because the equipment humanity was building now was much larger than the Precursors' equipment, and the warships required to match it were larger as well. Besides, the ten sets of equipment the Precursors had left behind had taken them an extremely long time to build, possibly measured in tens of millions of years, while the time humanity had budgeted for building larger and more complex equipment now was only twenty thousand years.
On this point alone, humanity's attainments in Quantum Macro Tunneling Technology had already surpassed the Precursors. Of course, the two sides' technological routes might not be the same.
And so time slowly passed as everyone busied themselves.
Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years.
The Awakeners' Star Gate had long since been completed. They had even gone to nearby galaxies to build interconnected Star Gates, but humanity's project was only half finished.
It was precisely at this time that a fleet that had been hovering nearby for a long time finally mustered its courage and stepped into the central black hole region where The Great Voyage Organization was located.
It was a fleet from a Level Six Civilization in the Local Galaxy. As early