Unknowingly, time has reached 2943, and 23 years have passed since the unknown fleet was broken into pieces.

Over the past twenty years, each squadron has strictly implemented the core policy of "rapid reproduction, expansion of troops, and dispersed advance", and the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Since 2920, the fourth generation of nameless people who have multiplied rapidly in each team have already grown up one after another and have taken up various jobs.

Some people have begun to receive high-intensity advanced military training, some have become key members of various productivity sectors, and some have entered core research institutions, perfectly integrating study and work.

Zhou Donglai's original request was that at least 8,000 teams must arrive in the Genting Star Territory by the year 2960, and the number of personnel in each team should not be less than 2 million.

But it is obvious that Zhou Donglai's considerations are too conservative. So far, the number of existing squadrons of the Unknown Fleet is 9,801. Excluding the core fleet, the average population size of the remaining squadrons is 1.957 million, and the average number of ships per squadron is

4208.7 ships, including 2706.1 manned ships and 1502.6 unmanned ships.

The total population of the Unknown Fleet has increased from less than 300 million to 19.221 billion.

The overall ship size of the entire fleet has reached 41.35 million.

Compared with the 120,000 ships when they were forced to disperse and advance, it has expanded 344.58 times.

This data comparison is extremely intuitive.

The core reason for such a significant change is that the fleet has changed its focus from concealment to rapid development at all costs.

After being broken into parts, the small team gave up most of their hidden needs. Whenever there was an opportunity, they would efficiently collect energy and materials, and then convert the resources into population and comprehensive strength with extremely high efficiency.

New routes bring new situations.

Although small squadrons continued to be pursued and destroyed because their whereabouts were exposed, the expansion speed of the fleet's overall strength still far exceeded the speed of being consumed by the enemy.

The changes are obvious, but this does not mean that the previous strategy of latent advancement was wrong. The past route cannot be negated just because of current developments.

The scientific and technological backgrounds of different eras determine different policies and routes.

Before the three core technologies of cryonics technology, real energy refining technology in curvature space, and the latest ultra-high efficiency and complex polycrystal structure material synthesizer that can be used in curvature space are formed, the fleet cannot be quickly formed after being broken into parts.

With the scale of combat power, there is no room for development, and the outcome of being exposed is likely to be quickly eaten away by the enemy.

Times have changed.

At the same time, this also slightly overturned the civil strife caused by the original Free Will Alliance.

Judging from the final result, although the Free Will Alliance caused civil strife, it also improved the combat effectiveness of the fleet in the short term, and also provided basic ideological enlightenment for the dispersed advance.

In a sense, if the original intention of the Free Will Alliance after leaving the fleet was not to escape, but to disperse and march, then the idea of ​​​​the Free Willers represented by Ophilos Cage to leave the fleet and start a new one is actually correct.

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Objective conditions must also be considered. At that time, the "Pact of Destiny" had not yet been formed, and the will could not be unified? The result of the fleet's hasty dispersion would inevitably lead to the situation being completely out of control.

The limitations of the times force mankind to always have to pay a staged price on the way forward.

The merits are divided into two parts. In short, the Cage father and son and the Libertarian Alliance no longer need to be engraved on the pillar of shame in history.

In their own way, this group of people made great contributions to the Unknown Fleet and humanity.

The changes that have taken place in some squads have been particularly earth-shaking.

The development of these squadrons is particularly good. The overall strength has been steadily improved. The scale of the fleet is not what it used to be, and it can be regarded as an example.

For example, Team 6322 now has as many as 19,000 ships and a population of nearly 8 million?

The original squadron organization is no longer applicable, and a new fleet organization should be established separately in the system, at least into a squadron or a group.

But after comprehensive consideration and learning from history, Zhou Donglai decided to let 6322 continue to use the formation name of the squadron.

This is a disguise.

Because it is not ruled out that the compound-eyed ones are also quietly infiltrating the human quantum network and intercepting some information from it.

Maintain the name of the team? Is there a chance that the Compound Eyes will make errors in judgment when deploying troops? Then humans will have an advantage in intelligence.

The title of big or small is not important? What is important is strength.

January 2943? A new turning point appeared.

"Squad 6322" discovered a special galaxy on its route.

The straight-line physical distance between this galaxy and the event horizon of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is 2160 light-years.

This is basically the center of the Milky Way.

If we compare the Milky Way to a city and the stars to the residents of the city, the location of the solar system is a sparsely populated suburb, with only 0.004 residents per cubic light-year.

The area close to the galactic center is the bustling downtown area.

The density of stars in the core area near the galactic center is as high as 289,000 stars per cubic light-year, which is 72 million times that near the solar system.

In that area of ​​the planet's night sky? There would be millions of stars brighter than Sirius.

There must be stars in the sky? The night is like day.

Stars are the source of energy.

For humans who have surpassed the fourth-level civilization and mastered the technology of rapid star development, the vicinity of the galactic center is both a dangerous place and an inexhaustible mineral deposit.

At this time, although Team 6322 had not reached the galactic center, it could still be considered as barely leaving the suburbs and entering the urban-rural fringe.

In this area, the star density is 330 stars per cubic light-year, which is 82,500 times that of the nearby solar system.

At this time, the intelligence returned by the reconnaissance aircraft patrolling in the original three-dimensional space was dropped into the 6322 command ship.

6322 Commander Andrei Flechek unfolded the message, and a beautiful star map came into view.

It was an extremely large olive-shaped light blue star.

The absolute brightness of the star is 11.2 times that of the sun, and its volume is 1.9 billion times that of the sun.

Near this star, there are tens of millions of huge nebulae moving away in rays.

Nebulae vary in size, ranging from hundreds of millions of times the size of light blue stars to the smallest being only the size of Jupiter.

Experts located in the 6322 third astronomical science ship quickly provided a more detailed analysis report.

"This area was once a small globular star cluster composed of more than 3,000 stars. The stars orbited each other. Six hundred thousand years ago, two of the supermassive stars were affected by external forces and deviated from their orbits, collided, and triggered a supernova explosion.

In the end, an unstable black hole was left. The black hole completely disrupted the motion stability of the star cluster, constantly colliding with other stars, and eventually led to an astonishing big explosion. After many years of evolution, it formed what we see now.

This special star and radiation nebula."

"The total mass of the star is only 13 times that of the sun, which is not commensurate with its huge volume. The reason is that its interior is hollow. It is not an olive-shaped star, but a hollow nebula. The light blue light is not an ordinary star.

The energy released by the nuclear fusion reaction caused by the quantum tunneling effect is a plasma-magnetic storm composed of electric energy and magnetic field."

"This storm only exists on the surface. There is almost no high-energy reaction visible in its interior, and it is illuminated by the light produced by the surrounding storms. At the center of its interior, there is an ultra-small black hole with a mass of only 2.1 times that of the sun. Small

The black hole provides gravitational force, fixing the outer plasma magnetic storm to rotate at high speed nearby, forming the olive body we see."

"More amazing structures are inside."

The astrophysics expert zoomed in on the three-dimensional diagram as he spoke.

The simulation diagram in front of Andre began to move inward.

"As we can see, there are dozens of planets revolving around the black hole along different orbits. The largest among these dozens of planets is only 4.2 times the mass of the Earth, and the smallest is 0.7 times the mass of the Earth. All planets

The average mass of the planet is 1.1 times that of the Earth. The orbits of all planets are in the 'Earth's habitable zone'. Each planet has an atmosphere and forms a different ecological environment."

"Yes, in just tens of thousands of years, all the planets here have given birth to early life. The orbits of the planets are very stable and will not collide with the large number of dark energy clusters and small dark matter blocks that are filled nearby. This is simply a

A galaxy full of vitality and wonders of the universe! Before the energy of the plasma magnetic storm is exhausted, the structure of this galaxy is very stable."

"Comprehensive calculations can conclude that the plasma magnetic storm can be stable for at least two billion years! If this galaxy is given enough time, a great emerging civilization will definitely develop here. Of course, this civilization has no future, because in this galaxy

Before they achieve the same level of technology as us, they

It is impossible to break through the blockade of the plasma magnetic storm. However, the relatively closed and narrow space means that the technological level here can only be developed to be infinitely close to the third-level civilization at best. Therefore, assuming that there is civilization here, it will inevitably be in two billion years.

When the plasma magnetic storm collapsed, it was destroyed in the extremely chaotic external environment."

"This is the analysis parameter of the plasma magnetic storm..."

Andre quickly scanned the parameters and couldn't help but take a breath.

He did not expect that just the alternating effect of electric current and magnetic field could achieve such a high-level energy response.

This magnetic storm completely cut off the jump channels and curvature channels inside and outside, making it impossible to bypass them.

At the same time, the ultra-high-energy reaction of the storm can even tear apart most of the ordinary ships in the 6322 fleet today.

Today's ships are not the tinfoil they used to be when humans first entered space.

Putting aside the energy and force field composite shields, just talking about the material of the ship shell, the scientists have used the triple unified force in these materials to perfection, and the performance has surpassed the prism ship in the previous timeline, with extremely strong

With its stability, toughness, and self-healing properties, it can be called the pinnacle masterpiece of materials science from the fourth-level civilization of the universe.

Such materials can still be easily torn apart by plasma magnetic storms.

So the astrophysicist's judgment was absolutely correct.

The civilization born inside can only touch the boundary of the third-level civilization at most, but to break out before everything is destroyed, it requires at least the material science and technology level of a fourth-level civilization.

This is an endless cycle with no solution.

The above issues are what scientists consider.
To be continued...