Earth Calendar, year 3621.
9.16 light-years from the Kepler-452 Stellar System, a vast fleet suddenly appeared in the dark, silent universe amid violent fluctuations in spacetime.
Level two curvature technology, capable of thirty times the speed of light, had shortened the entire journey to less than four months.
The gamma rays expelled by the Antimatter Engines and the various rays emitted by active scanning radar brought this region of space to life again-just as they had three months earlier.
The fleet hovered silently in empty space and sent a tachyon transmission toward the Kepler-452 Stellar System.
"Beep!"
A crisp notification sounded in Lü Yongchang's office.
A message flashing yellow appeared within the azure Holographic Projection.
Yet Lü Yongchang, seated behind his desk, did not react at all.
He remained leaning back in his office chair, his eyes closed, as though asleep.
After a brief wait, the Awakening Program activated, and Zero's distinctive electronic synthesized voice sounded from the speakers.
"Professor, Professor!"
Inside the technology tree space.
Lü Yongchang "sat" suspended before the luminous white technology tree, staring blankly at the mottled background in the distance.
Before him was a node whose brightness had exceeded fifty percent.
[Tachyon Radar]
After they mastered curvature technology, a new problem had emerged.
Once a Starship entered curvature navigation, its ability to observe its surroundings diminished drastically.
The reason was simple.
Existing observation methods had all been developed for a universe governed by the speed of light.
Thus, once their speed exceeded that of light, their previous methods of external observation failed on a massive scale.
For example, when someone traveled faster than light, the naked eye could only see the starlight ahead rushing toward them at an accelerated rate, while the starlight behind could never catch up.
The same applied to Starships.