Back to the Great Universe
It turns out that the large cuboid was just a shipping container; what we see now is the actual equipment. The Awakeners used Nanotechnology to pack three thousand sets of equipment into the large cuboid, while Yue Yuan's actions just now involved opening the container and connecting the main unit of the equipment to humanity's New Flagship.
After completing the operation, Yue Yuan also withdrew from the consciousness connection. Like everyone else, he was very curious, so after getting up from the chair, he kept looking at the floor.
This place was originally an empty space that was specially set aside to accommodate the Synchronized Consciousness device. Now the 'container' of the consciousness device has been opened, and the components inside have been connected to the human-preset device through Nanotechnology. Therefore, this place is now considered an empty space.
However, it's not entirely empty, because this area is also where humans specially built cockpits for many pilots. The Main Pilot is also located here. Now, these cockpits are connected by a network of crisscrossing cables to the 'Synchronized Consciousness' device standing in the center of the open space.
The appearance of the 'Synchronized Consciousness' device is the same as the Awakeners's consistent style. It is also a Golden Ratio Rectangular Prism. Now, its bottom and top are attached to the floor and ceiling of this empty space, and many cables extend from both ends like tree roots.
All the cables were wrapped in a layer of amber-like material and then extended outwards to connect to the equipment built by humans according to the instructions, thus establishing a physical connection with the new Flagship Lyra.
The vast, empty floor was divided into layers of compartments, each containing a separate cockpit, totaling ten thousand. It wasn't eight thousand, because humans always tend to manufacture extras for backup.
As for why the space used to house the 'Synchronized Consciousness' equipment can still be used to create so many compartmentalized cockpits, it's because the Lyra hasn't yet activated the 'Gravity Well' to simulate artificial gravity, so it's still in Weightless State. This avoids the situation where large 'containers' crush the individual cockpits.
Similarly, precisely because it is a 'Synchronized Consciousness' device, the Command Center of this New Flagship is vastly different from the original. It no longer has a traditional Command Center like the previous Lyra; the previous setup of a group of people working together, a bunch of computer monitors, workbenches, and a large central screen has been eliminated.
Instead, each person has a private space with a separate driving position connected to Synchronized Consciousness device, and each also has a large screen, all created using Holographic Projection Technology. Furthermore, each cockpit is not just a driving position, but also includes numerous supporting facilities and living/rest areas.
Each cockpit is like a luxury suite, and the equipment inside would be a fully functional Underground Base if it were in Earth Era.
Here, after the Synchronized Consciousness device completes the connection, it's like a town, filled with cockpits. The cockpits are connected by roads, just like in a city, and these roads are multi-level, consisting of both ground-level roads and aerial passageways.
If we were to pinpoint the location of this New Flagship's Command Center, we would say that it is Command Center, or rather, the entire area within a radius of several kilometers is the warship's Command Center and its core region.
After that, the pilots of the Lyra would basically live here, as would the ship's Science Officer and various staff such as communications officers, but each of them would have their own independent cabin.
Connecting this area are the other departments on the warship, such as the scientific research institute, Engine Crew, staff quarters, intelligence department, and Staff Officer Group, all scattered around this core area. Further outwards, upwards and downwards, are the warship's various functional equipment rooms, ammunition depots, resource storage rooms, fuel tanks, and various factories such as Nanobots production workshops.
As New Flagship of Human Civilization, it is enormous and multifunctional, a Comprehensive Warship. It carries many small spaceships, including Shuttle Ship for traveling between large warships and spaceships, transport ships for carrying supplies from previous warships, and dedicated docking platforms for personal vessels used for outbound travel.
The new Flagship Lyra, serves as a warship during wartime and as the political and military center of humanity during peacetime. The number of people living on board long-term is generally no less than 100,000.
After the pilot selection was completed, all the personnel from the old flagship were moved here, and the passage to this starry sky that had been cut out by the Awakeners was opened at this moment.
Human probes quickly detected the portal at the edge of space, where they could even see starlight emanating from the Great Universe. Humanity didn't know how the portal appeared, but they knew it was a form of Space Technology.
According to the information Yue Yuan obtained after connecting to the Synchronized Consciousness device, humanity only needs to send the Great Fleet there to leave the space created by the Awakener 'Illusion''.
The resources here were insufficient for humanity to upgrade its entire civilization, so there was no reluctance or lingering attachment. After the passage appeared, the human Great Fleet began to pack up its various deployed Work Platform and slowly headed towards the passage leading to the Great Universe.
Lyra, retaining its previous name, took the lead, directly activating Warp Speed Travel in space to reach the passage entrance, and then being the first to return to the Great Universe.
The first thing the Lyra had to do upon arriving in the Great Universe was to survey the surrounding environment to ensure its safety. After confirming there was no danger, it quietly waited at the exit for the human fleet. Because the other human ships had not yet completed their upgrades, they were currently using Level 3 Civilization navigation technology, so the process was not fast.
It took several years for the entire human fleet to emerge from space.
Once the entire human fleet emerged from within, the passage vanished, and the space created by the Awakener 'Illusion'' once again disappeared into the Great Universe.
According to the information obtained from the Intelligent System left behind by 'Illusion', this space is actually a Small Universe. It will continue to exist after humans leave until the energy system supporting it, namely the Stellar Energy inside, is exhausted. Only then will it collapse and return to the embrace of the Great Universe.
The Intelligent System left behind by 'Illusion' did not leave with humanity, because it is actually the Intelligent AI of this Small Universe. It is responsible for the maintenance of this Small Universe. According to 'Illusion', it will continue to exist with the Small Universe as Civilization Ruins, waiting for some incredibly lucky civilization to pass by.