Chapter 285: A New Era

104 years of the new galactic calendar.

It has been 104 years since the fusion of the Stellar Universe and the real universe, and no one knows how the two universes merged, anyway, they only know that after the fusion, the real universe disappeared, and the Stellar Universe has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The biggest change, of course, is that the universe has become bigger.

Intuitively, the galaxy they are in has expanded, and it is not the kind of expansion that imagines the fusion of two galaxies in two universes.

The total mass of the Milky Way is there, with a diameter of about 100,000 light-years, and even if the two river systems merge, the diameter will be about 200,000 light-years at most.

But in fact, the Milky Way is now more than half a million light-years in diameter, and it is not known where the extra mass comes from, but it is the truth.

Not many people have studied this, even the two universes can be so quietly and stably merged has happened, what else can't happen.

In fact, players are more interested in these than ..... Is the universe in which I lived before real, or is the universe of the Stellar Game real?

Or is it the real universe that is integrated into the Stellar Game Universe, or is the Stellar Universe integrated into the real universe?

No one knows this for the time being, and even after hundreds of years of research, scientists have not received a positive answer.

It is worth mentioning that when the two universes are completely integrated, the physical system also undergoes earth-shaking changes.

Of course, most of them have nothing to do with the player, but there is one change that is very uncomfortable for the player, and that is the ship system.

In the past, the Stellar universe was like a game, but now the fusion universe is a real world, and the previous rules have changed dramatically, which is reflected in this aspect, that is, the ship system of the entire game has also undergone earth-shaking changes.

The biggest change is that the construction of the spaceship is not as easy as before, and it is no longer the same as before, and as soon as you get a drawing and prepare the materials and put them in the shipyard, there is a clang, and a battleship comes out.

Not now, not just that, you have to have professional naval architects, and more rare materials.

To put it simply, the number of resources has increased, and the types of resources have increased.

It's like alloy, which used to be just a general term and could build any ship.

Now there are many kinds of alloy subdivisions, what nanoalloys, plastic steel alloys, steel-resistant alloys, neutron armor alloys and so on.

Theoretically, any alloy can build any kind of ship, but there will be a huge difference in the strength of ships built with low-grade alloys and high-grade alloys, and it is also possible that frigates, built with neutron armor alloys, will have twice as much durability than ships built with nanoalloys.

There is so much difference in a single ship, let alone a whole fleet.

The above is just one of the changes, and the whole world has changed so much that many people think they have come to a different world.

Overall, the game is still a game, but more realistic.

This change has greatly affected the entire world, not only humans, but also other civilizations, and even other player civilizations, and even the battlefields between humans and bluebloods in the Tenth Sector have been truces for more than twenty years because of this change.

The warships of both sides were affected and could not fight.

In addition, due to the merging of the two worlds, the galaxy expanded, the area of the Orion spiral arm was dozens of times larger than before, and many new indigenous planets and civilizations that did not know where they came from, and the Galactic Empire collapsed.

Of course, the collapse of the Galactic Empire has nothing to do with the expansion of the universe, it has to do with the player.

As the player's strength becomes stronger and stronger, the strength of each top battle alliance is comparable to that of the empire's regular legion-level fleets, and when the strength is strong, it naturally requires higher power and status appeals, which conflicts with the original royal family of the empire.

In the first few decades of the New Galactic Calendar, there was a political wrestling between the old nobles represented by the Imperial Imperial Family and the new nobles represented by the players.

According to the player, the new nobles who represent the interests of the players and the old nobles who represent the original NPCs have various conflicts and disputes because of their interests, and finally a huge coup d'état broke out in the spring of the 74th year of the New Galactic Calendar.

The result was the defeat of the old aristocracy, the abdication of the emperor, and the change of the empire to a parliamentary federal system.

The Galactic Empire was transformed into a community with a shared future for mankind, with three councils ruling the federation.

The Upper Council is the Senate of the former Galactic Empire, with a total of eighteen seats, composed of the original eighteen top player forces, and the seats are neither increased nor decreased.

Therefore, the Senate has always been the most desirable position for the top players, and the goal of any player guild from the beginning of its creation is to become a member.

The House of Lords has a Speaker and two Vice-Presidents, both of whom serve five-year terms and can be re-elected once.

However, the Speaker shall not be allowed to hold any further office as Speaker or Vice-Speaker for a period of 50 years, including any office in the Lower and Middle Parliaments, as well as the Vice-Speaker, but only for a period of 40 years, in order to prevent the formation of a monopoly.

As the representative of the Origin Leader and the main force of the coup to suppress the old nobles of the empire, Zhao Ke became the first speaker of the House of Lords thirty years ago, and stepped down ten years later.

Yes, the game forum is still there, and after the merging of the two universes, the forum is still there, and it has become the only place for players to communicate over long distances.

People enjoy interacting in this place because it makes them feel different from the indigenous people.

At this time, the community of human destiny, after driving out the old nobles and being presided over by the player, the huge civilization machine was activated and burst out with great power.

In the past, the Galactic Empire was not active at all in the development of the alien region of the empire, and there was no development for so many years, and the players were already dissatisfied, and now the newborn Federation is very enthusiastic about this aspect, and in the past thirty years, the Federation has made many expeditions, launched no less than twenty declarations of war on alien civilizations, destroyed more than a dozen alien civilizations, vassalized seven, and expanded the territory of power several times.

With so much territory, there will definitely be living planets and resources, and a large number of guilds have risen in the war, greatly increasing the overall strength of the Federation.

Among them, the biggest gains are the eighteen top forces of the Upper Council, and now they can no longer be called war alliances, but lords.

As early as the coup d'état thirty years ago, they took the opportunity to divide up the territory of the old nobles and reorganize the fleet, and their strength expanded rapidly, long beyond the boundaries of the war alliance.

Now each of them has no less than 100 times the strength of the original, each of them has a few mobile fortresses, hundreds of Titans and hundreds of dreadnoughts, millions of battleships, small and small warships have tens of millions, more than 100 million, a strong horse.

However, until now, the Human Federation has not completely digested the territory within Orion's spiral arm, it can be said that it has only digested about a quarter, and there are still three-quarters of the area that has not yet been explored.

Now there are tons of players running around in spaceships every day to explore new star fields.

However, although the interior has not yet been digested, the Federation has opened a passage from the headquarters of the Galactic Empire across more than a dozen star sectors to the first star sector that is close to the Silver Heart Region, and several ultra-long-distance star gates have been established in between, and troops can be directly transferred from the hinterland of the Federation to the edge of the Silver Heart Region through only a few jumps.

The Federation is already preparing to attack the Silver Heart District, and is now making preliminary preparations.

However, this has nothing to do with the Origin Territory, it's not that the Origin Territory is not interested, but that their strategy direction is different from that of the Federation.

As early as eighty years ago, twenty years after the merger of the two universes, the Origin Territory began to expand its territory through the Super Star Gate.

But their goal is not to be in the Milky Way, but to reopen a hyperspace channel to an unknown extragalactic galaxy through a supergate in a random manner.

The so-called random method refers to the random capture of the wormhole signal escaping in the void, as we all know, each wormhole will have hyperspace fluctuations gushing out when it is used, and it seems to disappear when it spreads, in fact, the signal wave will become extremely weak when it spreads out for a distance, and normal instruments cannot observe it, so it is thought to have disappeared, but it actually still exists.

The supergate can pick up these weak signals and parse them, so that they can be connected, and if they wish, they can reopen a temporary hyperspace channel by consuming a lot of energy.

With Origin Lead's current technology, it is easy to turn temporary hyperspace passages into permanent ones, allowing for the creation of new connecting passages.

This newly connected extragalactic galaxy was built in this way, and in order to avoid possible disputes, the signal they captured at that time was extremely distant and weak, and the radiative decay amplitude was very large, that is, the signal was located very, very far away from the isolated star field, or from the Milky Way.

Zhao Ke and the others assessed the distance opposite the newly opened stargate by the distance of the hyperspace route, and came up with a distance that surprised them all, and the destination of the newly opened hyperspace channel was estimated to be hundreds of millions of light-years away from the Milky Way.

Sounds a little appalling, hundreds of millions of light-years away, how far does that have to be? I'm afraid I jumped out of the local galaxy cluster where the Milky Way is located.

But this is the case, and the guess is correct, according to the scientist's assessment, this is not only jumping out of the Andromeda Local Cluster where the Milky Way is located, but also directly jumping out of the huge Virgo Supercluster and entering another unknown Local Cluster.

Or rather, they went directly into other superclusters within the Laniakea Supercluster, but they didn't know which one it was.

It takes half a year for the scientific research ship to cross this distance to reach the opposite shore after the acceleration of the Super Star Gate.

You must know that after obtaining the technological transformation of the origin civilization, coupled with the change of the rules of the universe, its passage speed has become faster and faster, and now it only takes about a day to reach the Orion Spiral Arm Headquarters from the terminal exit to the Orion Spiral Arm Headquarters 10,000 light years away, and as the distance increases, the speed will accelerate infinitely on the empty road, so that it can cross the distance of hundreds of millions of light years in only half a year.

The Origin Leader didn't know where this unknown galaxy was, but it didn't prevent them from spending half a year exploring and assessing, and decided to start attacking the distant and unknown starry sky.

After nearly a hundred years of exploration and strategy, no less than ten alien civilizations have been destroyed, and they have conquered a territory that is not inferior to half of Orion's spiral arm, and they have not yet encountered opponents and other player civilizations.

However, judging from the current exploration, it is only a matter of time before you run into other player civilizations in that unknown galaxy.

After all, it is a river system that may be even larger than the current galaxy, and it is impossible to have a civilization without players.

Maybe it's a little far away, or maybe it's too far away.

Anyway, according to the information from the current research ship exploring around, they have occupied the tail end of one of the spiral arms of the unknown galaxy, and then it is covered by a nebula, and across the nebula, you will enter a wide star field, where there is a high probability that you will encounter the player civilization.

For this reason, the Origin Leader is intensively mobilizing the fleet to gather at the edge of the nebula, and only wait for the reconnaissance ships sent to confirm the information on the other side of the nebula, and then start the attack.

Although it is not clear what the player civilization in this unknown extra-river galaxy is, whether it is strong or not, the Origin Territory from the top level of the territory to the territory players are not worried about this, and the super large fleet has given them a huge amount of information.

Before the two universes merged, the Origin Leader had already built ten fleets with a total capacity of more than 100 million ships.

Now that the two universes have merged, it has been a hundred years, and the fleet of the Origin Lingtun is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Let's put it this way, excluding the fleet in Zhongtun in the starting point galaxy, the fleet in Zhongtun in the material universe alone is more than thirty times that of a hundred years ago.

This is also limited shipbuilding in the later stages, and does not include affiliated alliances and fleets sold to players.

Now the three affiliated guilds of the territory have already been promoted to the five-star battle alliance, reaching the apex of the war alliance, and they cannot be promoted again.

In addition to the three affiliated guilds, there are more than a dozen war alliance-level forces in the territory, all of which are mixed behind the territory.

Each of these three affiliated guilds has a strength that is not inferior to the elders of the upper house of the Human Federation, and they also have territories, but they are subordinate to the Origin Domain, so they cannot be independent, and they do not have the courage to be independent.

A dozen war alliances are much worse, but they are also war alliances, and they can definitely add up to more than one Lords elder.

The isolated star field, I don't know if it is isolated outside the Milky Way, has not been affected by the fusion of the two universes, and the mass is still the same as before, without a little increase or a little decrease.

The entire isolated starfield is still exactly the same as it was a hundred years ago, but more prosperous.

Although the territory is so big, it used to be a small point compared to the Orion Spiral Arm, let alone now, but the location of the isolated star field is too important, and the terminal exit galaxy with the super star gate is too critical.

Every day, hundreds of millions of people pass through the terminal exit, either from the Galactic Empire through the Super Star Gate to the interior of the Silver Heart, or from the inner area of the Silver Heart.

The Silver Heart Zone, which leads to this hyperspace passageway, has been explored more than eighty years ago, and five powerful civilizations have been discovered, as well as a lost civilization with an extreme xenophobic ideology, called Fikad Military Isolators, or Army Orphans for short.

Any lost empire has had a glorious history, and many have ruled an entire river system for an era.

But with the passage of time, civilization will decline after reaching its peak, either the civilization will suffer some major setbacks and collapse, or for some reason lose its enterprising spirit, or simply degenerate after glory, and finally seal up the battleships and arsenals, slowly abandon the territory and retreat to the birthplace of civilization, and withdraw from the stage of history.

This powerful lost civilization has a strong latent strength, and its own strength is far beyond that of any regular civilization, once it is stimulated to reawaken, it can regain its once glorious fleet in a short period of time, and thus rise again.

The main reason why Zhao Ke reopened a hyperspace passage to an extragalactic galaxy was because of the existence of this Fikad military isolator.

With the strength of the Origin Lord, once it expands from there, it will inevitably stimulate the Fikad military isolationists, making them feel a strong threat, and there is a high probability that they will awaken to a revival civilization.

When a lost civilization awakens, its effects can radiate across the entire river system.

The Origin Territory may not be afraid, but at that time, the Origin Territory did not have much advantage, and once the battle is stalemate, it will definitely make several other player civilizations feel a strong threat and cooperate.

Come to think of it, the Origin Territory can now confront an awakened revived civilization head-on, and if the human civilization unites to defeat this revival civilization and free up its hands, there will be other player civilizations alive in the future?

Therefore, now this area of the Silver Heart is only being developed by the forces that have been handed over to the Origin Territory, and the Origin Territory itself is developed in another place.