The Comparison

According to Humins's memories, Star Gate were already developed during the time of the Original Epoch Clan. However, because the Original Epoch Clan restricted the development of other races at that time, and they themselves were not willing to expand, the technology of Star Gate, although developed, was only at a very rudimentary stage.

However, during the New Epoch Clan period, some outsiders became the new Epoch Clan, but their origins meant that they could no longer restrict the development of other tribes in the same way that the Epoch Clan did.

Having been confined for hundreds of thousands of years, the foreign races began a frenzied expansion, and with the addition of new races, the territory of the Star Sea Alliance also expanded rapidly.

In this situation, although warp drive technology continued to advance, it could no longer meet the needs of the Alliance members. As a result, Star Gate technology was rediscovered, and after spending a long time mastering the technology, a wave of Star Gate construction began.

Building a Star Gate requires an enormous amount of resources, especially in the early days when Star Gate technology was not yet very mature, which consumed even more resources.

According to records, in the early days, Star Gate of the same level were more than twice as bulky and large as they are today, with the mass of a large Star Gate or even the combined mass of several planets. In addition to the accompanying Star Port and Dyson Sphere, the star systems in which the Star Gate were located were usually much more spacious.

Fortunately, there were so many star systems in the universe that they could sustain the Star Sea Alliance's needs. Moreover, everyone was willing to contribute resources to accelerate expansion, and as a result, a large number of Star Gate were built, and related technologies advanced by leaps and bounds.

The various facilities within the Star Gate have been continuously simplified, causing its size to gradually shrink. However, even the smallest Star Gate has its limits. Nowadays, building a Star Gate is still an extremely costly project, requiring the collection of large quantities of various metals.

Moreover, the expansion of other races has slowed down, and most civilizations have entered a stage of consolidation. Therefore, the process of building a Star Gate has become complicated, usually requiring multi-party deliberation, especially the consent of the civilizations surrounding the Star Gate's construction site. This is because the metals will most likely need to be mined from their territory.

According to Humins' original memories, at the beginning of the war against the insects, some alien races proposed building Star Gate on the front lines to allow the armies of civilizations that were too far away to deploy quickly.

However, the situation back then wasn't as dire as it is now. Several civilizations bordering the Zerg actually wanted the Epoch Clan to build Star Gate on their territories.

However, these civilizations are the weakest of the newly emerging civilizations, with too little territory. Providing them with a Star Gate would be far too costly and would likely shrink their living space and lower their quality of life.

Some organizations protested, obstructing the passage of the deliberation and demanding assistance from other members. However, they remained indifferent, even members of the Koya Alliance and the Locke Mutual Aid Society, which were closest to the Zerg, showed little interest in the proposal, let alone civilizations further away.

After the proposal was finally passed with great difficulty, several civilizations bordering the Zerg had fallen one after another, and the target site for building the Star Gate had fallen into the hands of the Zerg.

There was no other way but to reconsider the proposal. At this time, some civilizations in the Locke Mutual Aid Society and the Koya Alliance also began to get anxious, but some members still believed that the Zerg could not reach their territory and demanded a reduction in their contribution percentage.

Thus, when the proposal was passed again after overcoming numerous difficulties, the Zerg army was already in sight. The Zerg's performance surprised and astonished all the other races.

Although the Epoch Clan's technology for building Star Gate is quite advanced, it is still a massive Major Worker that cannot be completed in less than several decades.

Over several decades, no one could guarantee that the construction site wouldn't fall into the hands of the Zerg. Thus, history repeated itself, as if several forces behind the scenes were happy to see this happen and were deliberately delaying the process.

Fortunately, the Third Star Sea Alliance learned from its mistakes and chose a location nearly a hundred light-years away from the Zerg battlefield, leaving ample strategic buffer space for the construction of the Star Gate.

Although the distance is so great that even troops arriving via the Star Gate would take about twenty years to deploy to the battlefield, the advantage lies in safety. The main structure of the Star Gate is now complete, and the accompanying Dyson Sphere is about 50% complete, barely meeting the requirements for opening the Star Gate. However, the accompanying Star Port has not yet begun construction due to its low priority, Star Port function is being handled by nearby planets.

At the current pace, it won't be long before it's operational. At that time, this Star Gate will continuously transport troops from afar, and even the Inner-Ring Civilizations, which are too far from the Zerg, will soon join the war. But that's all for later.

Strictly speaking, this wasn't Rowan's first time traversing a wormhole via Star Gate. Previously, when he was developing his Warp Skill, an accident occurred during dimensional travel, resulting in insufficient energy due to miscalculation of energy loss.

However, that experiment was also quite lucky; at a crucial moment, they accidentally fell into a small wormhole and thus found Porter Star.

However, this time, due to the size of the Star Gate, the wormhole that opened was incomparable to that small wormhole. This large wormhole gave Rowan a completely different experience.

The spatial and temporal properties became even more pronounced, and the surrounding ships were stretched into endless strips, sucked into the deep mirror. When the Node Unit were sucked in, everything around them became blurred, seemingly enveloped in a light of a single color.

They didn't know how much time had passed, or perhaps it was just a momentary daze, but their surroundings became clear again, and they had reached the other end of the wormhole.

If it weren't for the overwhelming discomfort that filled his entire body, one would have thought it was all just a dream. However, Rowan was, after all, a being from a higher dimension, and he still managed to glean something from this experience.

The Epoch Clan's Star Gate is created by using immense energy to generate a massive gravitational point, which then breaks the shackles of space by connecting to a beacon on the other side.

Although it looks incredibly cool and the effect is similar to Rowan's warp, the two are fundamentally different things. The Epoch Clan's wormhole is essentially a product of this universe; it still operates within the rules of this universe, without escaping or involving dimensions outside of it.

Rowan's warp was different; he essentially opened a portal in his own universe and used his body to build a bridge between the two locations.

Because there is no concept of distance outside of dimensions, Rowan can use precise warp as long as there is a beacon within this universe. Of course, without a beacon to guide him, Rowan can also randomly warp by opening a hole in this universe.

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