Dari Civilization

The information broadcast devices left behind in space by the Collectors had, to a certain extent, solved the star map problem for the various faster-than-light clusters.

But through those star maps, the Collectors also discovered that the stars across the entire galaxy were dwindling exponentially over time.

The reason for all this was the growing number of Collector clusters. Like living organisms, the clusters multiplied exponentially: one became two, two became four, four became eight...

Coupled with faster-than-light technology, space and time could no longer hinder the Amoeba.

Over a thousand years, the Great Destruction's strike range had expanded from a relatively tiny region on one of the galaxy's spiral arms to the entire galaxy.

Everywhere in the galaxy were planetary plasma nebulae cast out by supernova explosions. The multicolored bands of light formed by those nebulae stretched for dozens of light-years through space.

At the current rate, it was only a matter of time before the Great Destruction blew up every star in the galaxy, and the rising number of clusters would directly accelerate the rate at which stars were destroyed.

The Collectors were not worried that they would eventually run out of stars to use. The scattered nebulae would slowly gather again under gravity, forming embryonic stellar bodies that spiraled as they drew in nebular matter during the early stages of star formation.

However, limited by the speed of light, the nebulae did not move quickly, so the process of forming stars would take quite a long time. Even by optimistic estimates, it would take roughly ten thousand years before stellar reassembly could be completed.

Therefore, in the face of the Great Destruction's constant high-energy strikes, the entire Amoeba remained extremely calm and was in no hurry at all.

Clusters searched throughout the galaxy for regions with high