During the time when Li Mingze and Tianyi were discussing, the fleet of the Spiral Federation jumped into hyperspace on the ark with the elites of various civilizations and all useful materials and equipment.

Their target is obvious, another river system not far from the spiral system.

At this point, the spiral river system officially became the property of the Empire, and there was no longer any existence in the entire river system that could compete with the Empire.

The reconstruction and colonization of the river system began to be in full swing, and countless citizens of the empire were transported from the empire mainland to the spiral river system on colonial ships.

Considering the sheer number of river systems that might be ruled in the future, the empire renamed the names of individual river systems.

The river system in which the empire itself is located is known as the Imperial River System I, while the Spiral River System is the Imperial River System II.

According to the time of the empire's rule, for example, the next time the empire captures it, it will become the third river system of the empire.

As the development of the river system got on track, the Empire began research on the fragments recovered from the space of the evil Sith Empire.

These fragments were different from Li Mingze's imagination, they did not possess super strength, and their strength was not even comparable to the letter crystals found in the Empire.

However, these fragments contain a large number of unknown devices that will be the stepping stone to unravel the mysteries of the evil Sith Empire's technology.

The imperial calendar is 2800 years.

More than two hundred years have passed since the Empire occupied the Second River System of the Empire.

In the past two hundred years, the empire has completely digested this new river system, and basically all the planets that can be colonized have been colonized by the empire.

The new high-speed network relying on the original Spiral Federation wormhole high-speed passage has also been built by the Empire, and the infrastructure construction within this river system is almost catching up with the Empire's native Empire No. 1 river system.

The Imperial fleet, which had suffered heavy losses in this battle, has been completely restored, and not only that, but the number of warships of all types in the Empire has doubled compared to before the war!

The number of white dwarf-class warships alone has reached an astonishing 100,000, and the number of ordinary Zeus-class warships has reached 20 million.

The number of drone swarms exposed in the first battle has also reached 20 trillion, and the dense drone formation can already cover one side of a star.

Imperial Royal Academy.

Several scientists looked at the suspended chips in front of them with joy and hugged each other excitedly, and the efforts of more than two hundred years were finally not in vain! This technology has finally been researched by them!

"Quick! Call Your Majesty! The scientist shouted loudly to his assistant.

After a while, Li Mingze followed his assistant and others to the laboratory.

"This is the end result of your research? Demonstrate it to me. Li Mingze stood beside the test bench and nodded slightly, his eyes never left the chip floating on the test bench.

He knew that this chip represented a new era, and if the empire completely mastered this technology, no one in this universe would be able to stop the empire!

With a serious face, the scientist turned on a switch on the console and reached out to place an apple on top of the chip.

As soon as the scientist let go of his hand, the apple fell into the chip less than a millimeter thin and disappeared!

That's right, this chip was made using the space folding technology that the empire had just developed!

The technology in the fragments that the Empire obtained from the Evil Sith Empire has also been cracked by the Imperial Academy.

These shards contain a whole new set of technology, the legendary Space Fold!

This technique can be used to create folded spaces that can store a large number of items, and it is also possible to fold a space over a distance, so that the distance between two points is greatly reduced.

This technology is a technological revolution!

When the space folding technology is successfully cracked, the Empire's fleet will be the first to change!

The size of the battleship is no longer the only criterion for measuring the combat effectiveness of the battleship! The size of a destroyer was enough to fit the equipment on a battleship!

Of course, from what he has learned so far, due to technical limitations, the larger the volume of the folded space, the higher the cost required.

Therefore, the folding space technology that the empire pioneered will only multiply the space by two times.

In other words, the original Zeus-class battleship can accommodate more weapons and equipment.

The crew lounge, which had been cut down to save space, reappeared inside the battleship.

A large amount of equipment and supplies that occupied space have found a new home, and all Imperial warships have been returned to the factory for reupgrades.

At the same time, because material science has entered a bottleneck, it is difficult for the armor of the Imperial warships to increase its strength, unless the volume of the battleship is constantly expanded.

But this will greatly reduce the flexibility of the battleship, and it will also cause the cost of the battleship to skyrocket!

Therefore, Li Mingze concluded that in the future, in addition to special-purpose motherships, warships must be developing towards miniaturization, and advanced space folding technology means that these warships no longer need to be too large.

Again, because material science has reached a bottleneck, the next ships will rely on increasing shields to strengthen their defenses.

With the space inside the battleship almost infinitely expandable, the Imperial warship can continuously stack shields to increase the maximum absorption of the shields.

Without thinking about it, Li Mingze refocused on the chip, which did not show any abnormality after swallowing an apple.

A scientist put on gloves and reached down to remove the chip and put it on a tray next to him, and soon the weight of the chip was calculated.

"The weight hasn't changed at all!" The scientist glanced at the digital joyous voice displayed on the screen.

The scientist then turned the chip upside down, and an apple fell from it onto the test bench, where it was dragged up by a levitating beam and floated in the air.

"Scan the readings of apples!" The scientist muttered to the brain.

"The data is scanned, and there are no anomalies!" After a while, a green light swept over the apple floating in mid-air, and a female voice came out of the speakers in the laboratory.

"Very good, very good! Put this technology into mass production as soon as possible! ”

"It doesn't matter if the performance of the space folding ground is not as good as in the laboratory!" Li Mingze applauded loudly.

Once this technology was put into use, it was time for the Empire's expeditionary fleet to set off for the second time.

Countless rivers are waiting for the Empire to come and conquer the Empire's fleets to wipe out all hostile civilizations in these rivers and turn them into Imperial territory!