After the Human Fleet left, the Gliese 555 Stellar System returned to its former tranquility.
Only the warship wreckage drifting throughout the stellar system and the artificial structures on Dawn Star and Light Satellite One bore witness to everything that had happened in this corner of the universe.
At the outskirts of the Gliese 555 Stellar System.
The stellar wind from the primary star, Gliese 555, drifted slowly past. Exhausted by its long journey, it finally reached a delicate equilibrium with the interstellar medium in this meeting zone.
This was the edge of the Gliese 555 Stellar System.
The stellar wind interacted with the interstellar medium, forming a bow shock-a hydrogen wall-in the direction the stellar system traveled as it orbited the Milky Way Galaxy.
Within the hydrogen wall, particles moved at high speeds, giving it an extremely high temperature on a microscopic scale.
Yet it was so tenuous that there were only a handful of particles per unit area. Combined with its immense distance from the primary star, this made it extremely "cold" on a macroscopic scale.
Beyond this scorching yet "cold" hydrogen wall lay the vast emptiness of interstellar space.
Ordinary civilizations could not detect dark matter, and even if they did, they could scarcely make use of it.
Thus, interstellar space, filled with dark matter, had always been stable.
On this day, ripples appeared across that normally stable interstellar space, like creases in a crumpled sheet of paper.
Those ripples gradually converged, eventually forming a sphere without a physical substance.
A wormhole.
Like a black hole, a wormhole was surrounded by an immensely powerful gravitational lensing effect.
Yet it was utterly different from a black hole.
From any direction, countless tiny points of light could be seen scattered densely across the wormhole's surface.
They were starlight.
Starlight