Happy Times Always Pass Too Quickly

Voyaging through the stars was lonely, but humanity, having come all the way from the Solar System, had long grown accustomed to that loneliness. Living aboard spaceships, warships, research ships, and biosphere spaceships, people had also grown used to life aboard ships—to this life of traveling through the Great Universe.

That was the nature of a Wandering Civilization.

There was a saying from the Earth Era: the world was one's home. It perfectly described Human Civilization today. Their home planet was gone, and no celestial body in the universe was a place humanity yearned for. Their home was now aboard their ships.

By this era, with the widespread adoption of Gravity Potential Well Technology, almost no one still wanted to find a suitable planet and live on it forever. Besides, given humanity's current shipbuilding capabilities, if they could not look out through the portholes at the pitch-black universe, people would hardly even feel that they were living aboard a spaceship.

Having long grown accustomed to journeys lasting decades or even centuries, this voyage of just over a year was nothing at all. Ordinary people simply chatted with friends and drank a few glasses of liquor, and it passed in no time.

After reaching a Level 4 Civilization, humanity's living conditions had improved even further. First was the application of Gravity Potential Well Technology, which allowed people to experience Earth's gravity again without worrying about the Coriolis Force Effect. Then, because the ships had grown ever larger, people's homes and surroundings had become far more spacious.

Residential Spaceships were naturally not built as large as Lyra, but they were not much smaller. From bow to stern, a Residential Spaceship was two hundred and twenty kilometers long, with a width and height of roughly one hundred and sixty kilometers. Of course, its