Halsey: I Want to Meet Liu Cixin

"Tier 3 Civilization..."

Hearing that his wife seemed to have entered another state of excitement, William unconsciously repeated the words as he gazed at the ark, which was ten times larger than Earth.

"Catherine." He then turned to Halsey beside him and asked, "What is the definition of a Tier 4 Civilization?"

"Tier 4 Civilization?" Halsey, who had been lost in a fervor, froze at William's question before answering without hesitation:

"A Tier 3 Civilization is capable of completely utilizing all the stars and energy in its native galaxy. The Forerunners, for example, were even capable of creating stars and planets themselves.

"Although I don't understand the Ancient Humans' technology, the modifications that Athena and the other gods of Ancient Greece made to their own bodies prove that the Ancient Humans possessed extremely advanced biotechnology.

"They may have been inferior to the Forerunners in terms of energy utilization, but the Ancient Humans were still a Tier 3 Civilization.

"As I said just now, these Tier 3 Civilizations all exist within the Milky Way Galaxy. They haven't truly ventured beyond it."

As she spoke,

Halsey looked out through the window at the ark once more, as well as the Milky Way Galaxy displayed above it, and continued explaining:

"Even though the ark is located outside the Milky Way Galaxy, the Forerunners essentially still failed to leave the galaxy. Or rather, they were wiped out by the Flood before they could do so.

"And the Precursors who created the Flood were unquestionably beings above Tier 3, and at the very least were no lower than a Tier 4 Civilization.

"They were capable of creating species and transferring their own thoughts and consciousnesses. The inscriptions on Göbeklitepe also reveal that they could travel between dimensions.

"Between dimensions...

"If they could enter Four-dimensional space,