If the universe were an ocean, wormholes would be its whirlpools.
No one knew what lay at the other end of a wormhole. You might stumble upon an incredibly rich planet and make a fortune overnight, or you might collide with an extreme celestial object and be reduced to dust.
In the early days of the great age of cosmic exploration, traveling through wormholes was an adventure filled with endless danger and romantic allure.
For the Gemini Civilization, whose ships had yet to exceed the speed of light, discovering wormholes, exploring them, and then developing new worlds was the cycle of expansion they had repeated for hundreds of years.
Reading between the lines of the many literary works kept aboard the warship for entertainment, Nie Yun could roughly imagine how many sacrifices the Gemini Civilization had made to chart new routes during its era of cosmic exploration.
Pioneers might sail endlessly in one direction until their fuel ran out, leaving their ships as drifting steel coffins that served as navigational beacons for those who followed.
Even the lucky ones who found a wormhole faced an unknown fate after passing through it-such as tragically discovering that the wormhole behind them had suddenly vanished...
According to the Gemini Civilization's classification, the wormholes they had discovered so far fell into two categories: permanent and intermittent.
Permanent wormholes generally referred to stable wormholes that remained open throughout the observation period, while intermittent wormholes were unstable ones that opened at intervals, either regularly or irregularly.
The Solar System wormhole where Nie Yun currently was, for instance, was a permanent wormhole that had never closed since the Gemini Civilization discovered it.
The Gemini Civilization had left the Solar System undeveloped for years after discovering it partly because it was remote, resource-poor, and extremely low on their