May 18, Earth calendar year 3300.
Twenty-four years had passed since the completion of the grand unified theory and humanity's advancement to a level five civilization.
Throughout those twenty-four years, the starship factories had never stopped working. Under Zero's control, they worked around the clock to complete all manner of upgrades.
It was just as Cao Liangcai had said.
Before heading to a new stellar system, the fleet needed not only curvature navigation technology, but also technologies that would allow it to "protect itself."
These included, but were not limited to, gravity shields and various weapons.
There were few resources near the black hole that humanity could currently use. Lost Star was already the richest area nearby.
Thus, in those brief twenty-four years, after [Nus] had died completely, the resources on Lost Star had been mined to the fullest extent possible.
Of course, the curvature experiments had continued throughout the fleet's refit.
After various plants and animals had successfully undergone curvature navigation, the first crewed curvature voyage had also been declared a success!
The successful establishment of the grand unified theory and the breakthrough in fundamental theory had once again ushered human civilization into an era of technological explosion!
In just twenty-four years, under Lü Yongchang's guidance, the Academy of Sciences had achieved several major scientific breakthroughs.
A successful breakthrough in gravitational field control technology had greatly increased the strength of the starships' gravity shields.
At the same time, magnetic field shield technology had also made further advances.
Naturally, weapons systems were no exception.
The miniaturization of the Gravitational Field Generation Device had also made warp weapons a reality.
But resource constraints meant that few of these powerful weapons had been manufactured.
As for energy,
the introduction of gravitational field technology had increased the power output of antimatter engines severalfold.