The fleet had left, naturally, to pick people up.
After exploring the star map and confirming several of the most suitable routes, the fleet could pick up people in bulk, with efficiency at least ten times greater than before.
Previously, it had taken more than half a year just to explore three planets. Now, going back and forth, it probably wouldn't take a month.
This was also how most interstellar exploration worked—
First, faster-than-light ships explored the star map. Once the map had been illuminated, subsequent fleets could lay out interstellar express routes in advance, or take shortcuts through interstellar passages that had already been built.
After all, most civilizations' ships were merely light-speed vessels. Whether it was faster-than-light travel or teleportation through stargates, neither was something ordinary civilizations could afford.
This was ascension-level technology!
That was also why most civilizations could spend their entire lives trapped within a single star system.
After sending the fleet out and letting the players act freely, Gao Gong regained his freedom. He had just taken a stroll around the Mechanical Serpent Constellation's black market when he heard two explosive pieces of news!
More than a hundred famous pirate groups had united some time ago, forming a pirate coalition in an attempt to attack the Horned Whale Alpha Constellation. In the end, the entire force had been wiped out.
That was the first explosive piece of news.
"No wonder this black market has been so deserted lately. It turns out a huge batch of its customers died, and there aren't enough new ones in the short term."
Gao Gong muttered to himself.
But compared to the second explosive piece of news, that was nothing.
The Horned Whale Alpha Constellation was gone!!
This resource planet in the border region of the Milta Federation had suddenly