Toward the End of the Orion Arm
It is often said that the more advanced the technology, the greater its impact on the natural environment.
The impact of human technology in the Earth Era was limited to things like climate change. Tier 1 Civilization might at most dig up the moon or build a few bases in outer space. Level 2 Civilization could at most clean up the surface of a planet. Level 3 Civilization had the ability to hollow out a star system, but that would require exhausting all the civilization's resources and spending a very long time. Level 4 Civilization, on the other hand, could easily and directly cause earth-shattering changes to the environment of an entire Star System.
After thousands of years of exploitation by humankind, the once peaceful and tranquil Binary Star System has now been transformed into a series of Space Mine. The entire space is filled with dust particles from planets destroyed by humankind, making the Binary Star System a chaotic mess.
It's estimated that it would take the Main Sequence Star of the Binary Star System and the Gaseous Planet in the galaxy tens of thousands of years to restore the environment to its pristine state.
The Milky Way Galaxy is vast. Even if there were thousands upon thousands of civilizations like humans engaging in destructive mining activities, they would only be a drop in the ocean. The damage they would cause to the Milky Way Galaxy's original environment would be less than that caused by a single war Level Six Civilization.
After completing their creation upgrade, humanity will soon leave this place and once again set foot in the starry sky.
This time, humanity has no definite goal, only a general direction of navigation: to get away from the direction that the Awakener 'Illusion'' told humanity to go. Getting away from that direction means getting away from the battlefield of the Level Six Civilization.
Humans are very concerned about the situation of the Awakener 'Illusion'', but they also understand that the war between the Awakeners and the Harvesters is something they cannot participate in at present, and they cannot even get close to it.
Even though the Earth region where humanity is now located has been carried more than a thousand light-years by the Awakeners and has traveled around on its own, it has not been too far from the Solar System. According to astronomical observations, the straight-line distance from here to the Solar System is actually less than two thousand light-years.
If humanity were to return to the Solar System, including resupply along the way, it would take about two hundred to three hundred years at most to reach it by rushing along. But humanity cannot go that way now, because that direction is the direction of the Galactic Center, and also the direction of the battlefield of Level Six Civilization.
Humans need to go in the opposite direction, towards the end of the Orion Arm.
Go as far away as you can, try to get as far away from the battlefield of Level Six Civilization as possible. The farther away you are, the weaker you will be from the aftershocks of the supernova. Humanity doesn't really know what a Level Six Civilization's war is like, but judging from the bombing of the Solar System and the Centaurus Trinary Star System, and the situation with the Planet Destroyer Cannon they possess, the battlefield of Level Six Civilization will definitely involve the destruction of various stars.
After all, humanity now clearly knows that Level 5 Civilization has the Stellar Energy, so the upheaval caused by Level Six Civilization war will inevitably result in the explosion of stars of all sizes.
Of course, although the voyage was without a specific purpose, humanity still had things to do, such as continuing to search for the star map information obtained from the Precursor's crystal Drift Bottle, finding the marked locations on the star map, and finding the Small Universe that the Precursor had left behind.
The key to that Small Universe is now in the storage room on the Lyra. It is also in the shape of Rhomboid Crystal, and looks like a miniature version of the large Rhomboid Crystal Drift Bottle from back then.
Perhaps due to a particular preference, the two Level Six Civilization creations Awakeners and the Precursor, which humans have witnessed, each have their own characteristics. One prefers to create Golden Ratio Rectangular Prism, while the other is in the shape of Rhomboid Crystal.
The starry sky is vast, and the Milky Way is boundless.
Before long, the human fleet once again embarked on the Star Path.
After the upgrades to their creation, the Human Civilization's fleet has actually shrunk, now consisting of only three million Planet-Class Warship plus less than one million Residential Spaceship and Biosphere Spaceship Planetary-Class Spaceship. However, if the fleets of vassal races are included, the number increases significantly, as most of their ships and warships are still based on Level 3 Civilization designs, only now equipped with Warp Engine by humanity.
Currently, only humans possess Planet-Class Warship. It's not that humans are stingy and won't build Planet-Class Warship for their vassal races; it's just that it's too time-consuming, and they can't afford to worry about that.
Moreover, the Dog-Headed People Cannon Fodder Plan that humanity implemented back then doesn't seem to be very effective now. After all, if they encounter other Level 4 Civilization, those Level 3 Civilization warships equipped only with Warp Engine are of little use.
As for letting the Dog-Headed People pilot Planet-Class Warship, it's not impossible, but that's something to do after more warships have been built. Right now, humanity's three million ordinary Planet-Class Warship are basically operated by Strong Artificial Intelligence, but it's not a Strong Artificial Intelligence controlling a whole bunch of them, but rather one Strong Artificial Intelligence controlling one warship.
The reason is that Planet-Class Warship too complex. Human Artificial Intelligence technology cannot enable a Strong Artificial Intelligence to control a group of warships, as that would cause the mainframe to crash.
In other words, technology itself facilitated the emergence of large-scale Strong Artificial Intelligence fleets during the Level 3 Civilization period, but by the Level 4 Civilization, it had also become a limiting factor for the emergence of large-scale Strong Artificial Intelligence fleets.
Although both are machines building machines, the design and manufacturing of the mainframes supporting Strong Artificial Intelligence are still carried out by humans. This is primarily out of concern that these Strong Artificial Intelligence might malfunction. Indeed, after discovering that Mind Imprint technology seemed beyond the capabilities of Level 3 Civilization, humanity worried about the potential failure of its methods to prevent Strong Artificial Intelligence rebellion.
Therefore, in the creation of Strong Artificial Intelligence, humans have always been the ones to take the lead and do it themselves, and have never allowed other Strong Artificial Intelligence to automatically create another version of themselves.
That said, this voyage marked humanity's first Great Fleet Warp Speed Travel after truly reaching Level 4 Civilization. Therefore, the destination was not chosen to be too far away, but rather a nearby Star System only eighteen light-years away from the Starting Point.
In the era of Level 3 Civilization, this distance would have taken humans at least 36 years of travel, but now it only takes one year, nine months, and eighteen days to reach.
With the development of technology, the Milky Way Galaxy has become smaller to humankind, interstellar travel no longer requires long periods of time, and Interstellar Civilization are now truly deserving of the name.
After the launch command was issued, each ship in the human fleet enveloped itself in a Warp Bubble. Then, just like in scenes from movies and TV shows, the ships inside the Warp Bubble were stretched and disappeared into the depths of space. This wasn't because the warships and Warp Bubble were actually stretched, but rather a visual illusion caused by Warp of 10.079 times the speed of light. It was like a spaceship traveling faster than light from the depths of space; an optical Observer first saw the spaceship appear briefly, and then saw its afterimage as it moved backward.
To see the true situation during the fleet's movement, we need to use Tachyon Detection.