Journey to the Future
Humanity doesn't have many Lake-Class Warship left, only about 2,500. Therefore, if they want the Dog-Headed People and Kuntai People to pretend to be Level 2 Civilization and probe the trading market, they need to build more warships.
Lake-Class Warship are nothing special. With humanity's current Level 3 Civilization's construction capabilities, they could be built with their eyes closed. And indeed, they could have done it with their eyes closed. Humanity simply gave the Strong Artificial Intelligence a task, then went into hibernation for a few years, and then received news that over three thousand Lake-Class Warship were completed.
Soon, the Dog-Headed People Legion and the Kuntai People Legion were established, the former with more than 4,000 Lake-Class Warship and the latter with more than 3,000 ships, divided into two routes, heading towards the coordinates mentioned in the broadcast.
Neither fleet had Residential Spaceship, since they were heading to the Interstellar Transaction Market. Bringing a large number of interstellar residents would make them a nascent interstellar civilization.
The two fleets did not set off directly from the Sunset Red Star System where humanity is currently located towards their destination. Instead, they first headed towards a nearby Star System, resupplyed there, and then proceeded to their final destination.
This is done for the sake of human safety.
As for humanity, after dispatching two fleets, they also set sail, but not to the Interstellar Transaction Market, since they had not yet figured out whether the so-called Interstellar Transaction Market was real.
Therefore, the direction from which Human Civilization set sail is a Blue Giant Star 56 light-years away from the Sunset Red Star System. The reason for choosing a Blue Giant Star is that its luminosity is bright enough to block most large-aperture optical telescopes viewing from distant outer space.
Everything is for safety reasons.
After that, except for a small number of necessary rotating personnel, all other members of Human Civilization will enter a state of hibernation until news from the Dog-Headed People Fleet and the Kuntai People Fleet arrives.
Based on the speed of the Lake-Class Warship and the speed of information transmission, humanity would need to hibernate for at least seven hundred years.
If this were when we had just left the Solar System, seven hundred years would have been an extremely long time, and our hibernation equipment would definitely have broken down along the way. But things are different now.
With the assistance of Strong Artificial Intelligence, as long as resources and supplies are available, the human Hibernation Pod will be continuously maintained, and incidents of death due to circuit damage will be virtually nonexistent.
Of course, it doesn't mean hibernating for 700 years at once, but rather in two stages. The reason is that hibernation that lasts too long at once can have some unknown effects on the human body.
As time went by, the two fleets, disguised by humans as Level 2 Civilization, finally set sail, and for some time after their departure, they also made preparations for their voyage.
After fully mastering True Nanotechnology and possessing Strong Artificial Intelligence, humans no longer find it as troublesome to work on the ship as before. Just like building a warship, all that is needed is to give the Strong Artificial Intelligence a command.
Countless Work Platform were slowly retracted under the control of an automated system. Mining equipment, resource transport ships, energy harvesting equipment, and all other machinery were loaded onto large transport ships under automated control and then set sail with the Great Fleet.
The multi-point particle accelerator in space has also been transformed from a single unit back into individual modules, just like the countless large Space Dock in this space.
This is a Great Fleet of more than 13 million ships of various types, including 10 million Sea-Class Warship and more than 3 million Biosphere Spaceship, transport spacecraft, Research Spaceship, Engineering Spaceship, and the like.
Unprecedented; since humanity set foot in space, there has never been a fleet of this size.
In the past, the departure of such a Great Fleet would have inevitably resulted in spectacular exhaust plumes, but humanity is no longer what it used to be.
While the sight of tens of millions of bright flames shooting out simultaneously is certainly magnificent, awe-inspiring, and captivating, it is not what we see now.
After the order to set sail was given, more than ten million ships, like ghosts, gradually increased their speed from a standstill relative to the Sunset Red Star System without any exhaust plumes.
Both use brute force to accelerate warships, but the acceleration provided by a Magnetic Propulsion engine is far more powerful than that of Level 2 Civilization's propulsion system. Only in this way can it propel such a massive Sea-Class Warship.
As for humans themselves, in order to counteract this stronger acceleration, everyone had to activate their Overclock Mode during the acceleration phase to withstand this super-strong high-G acceleration.
If a Level 2 Civilization were to see the way the human fleet is currently propelled, they certainly wouldn't know the underlying principles. This feeling is very familiar to humans, just like when they saw the Awakeners back then.
Therefore, from another perspective, although the advancement technology of Level 3 Civilization is not as impressive as that of Level 2 Civilization, it appears even more profound and unfathomable.
Although Magnetic Propulsion leaves a trail, a Level 2 Civilization would be unable to detect the trail of Level 3 Civilization because it lacks the relevant Magnetic Propulsion Technology and specialized instruments to detect such strange magnetic field remnants.
From this perspective, Level 3 Civilization are undoubtedly more concealed from civilizations of lower levels. If a Level 3 Civilization's fleet wanted to approach the territory controlled by Level 2 Civilization, the entire fleet could enter the Level 2 Civilization's Star System without being detected.
There's nothing we can do about it; that's just the gap in technology.
After gazing upon the Red Dwarf Star system that had accompanied humanity for countless years, Yue Yuan entered a long period of hibernation upon embarking on this voyage. Even with a lifespan five hundred years longer than others, he couldn't withstand it any longer.
The Great Hibernation, the Great Hibernation, the Great Hibernation! The fleet had just completed its acceleration when 99 percent of humanity entered a long period of hibernation, and then, along with the fleet, headed towards another star.
At the same time, the Dog-Headed People Fleet consisting of more than 4,000 Lake-Class Warship and the Kuntai People Fleet consisting of more than 3,000 Lake-Class Warship disappeared into the starry sky.
They were about to travel to the future, 560 years from now. When they awoke again, the Star System where the Interstellar Transaction Market was located appeared before them.
Yes, 560 years is the time on the spaceship. In reality, when they arrived at their destination, 587 years had already passed in the Great Universe.
Humans, having arrived at the next Star System, simply stayed there waiting for news, thus avoiding a noticeable time dilation effect.
Five hundred years passed in a flash.
Humanity had already arrived in the target Blue Giant Star system, found a planet as a resting place, and slept there for more than four hundred years.
The entire fleet, consisting of more than ten million ships, moved silently around a Rocky Planet. The area inside and outside the fleet was eerily quiet, devoid of any human presence. Occasionally, one or two resource transport ships would come from the planet to deliver supplies to the fleet; otherwise, the fleet in this state would have resembled a fleet of death.
Hibernation Pod are also jokingly referred to by humans as the place where the living sleep forever.