A week later.
An experimental ship slowly departed Kepler-452b's synchronous orbit.
Inside its high-purity vacuum laboratory were more than a dozen nested Grand Unified Field Generators.
There was no other way.
The gravitational sources inside the Imperial Fortress's central computer were too numerous, and their arrangement too complex. To produce a reasonably complete replica, Human Civilization could only resort to this "brute-force approach."
The academicians present had poured considerable effort into ensuring that these Grand Unified Field Generators would not interfere with one another.
Even so, perfectly replicating the gravitational sources inside the Imperial Fortress's central computer remained impossible for Human Civilization.
This was a gap in the civilizations' raw capabilities.
Since there was no need to manufacture Optical Components or an Optical Computer, generating a scale model of the gravitational sources did not take very long.
Kepler-452b's south polar region.
The central research institute of the Human Federation Academy of Sciences.
As the experimental ship departed Kepler-452b, an enormous Holographic Projection quietly activated inside the institute.
Vast quantities of data flashed across the Holographic Projection, while virtual red markers appeared one after another in the central area of the vacuum laboratory.
Each red marker represented a tiny gravitational source.
Under the influence of these gravitational sources, that seemingly tranquil region of space had already become a tangled mess.
To uncover its secrets, the spatial arrangement of these gravitational sources precisely matched that inside the Imperial Fortress's central computer.
"Begin increasing the strength of the gravitational sources."
Lü Yongchang steadied himself and gave the order to begin the experiment.
Under Zero's control, the dozen or so Grand Unified Field Generators slowly adjusted the strength of those gravitational sources in extremely fine increments.
To make the effects of the changing gravitational sources easier to observe, a bright beam of light,