The Heavenly Galaxy.

It has been three days since Jiang Xingchen returned from Canberra with the loot.

At this moment, Liu Feng is carrying out the final debugging work.

And Jiang Xingchen also took advantage of his free time to make up for the knowledge of hyperspace technology from the information on Liu Feng's side.

To put it simply, hyperspace refers to a space of four dimensions or higher, also known as multidimensional space.

The essence of the hyperspace engine is to create a strong enough magnetic field to forcibly break through the dimensional barrier, so that the spacecraft can enter the multidimensional space.

In addition, through the barrier formed by this powerful magnetic field, the spacecraft entering the multidimensional space still maintains its three-dimensional form.

In three-dimensional space, the speed of light is about 300,000 kilometers per second, and if it exceeds this speed, it will cause various paradoxes of the speed of light, so it is not advisable to rely solely on continuous acceleration and eventually break the speed of light for interstellar travel.

So, you don't necessarily have to use sub-light speed for interstellar travel, right?

It's okay to be closer, maybe you can get to it in decades or hundreds of years, but what to do if it's a little farther away, I'm afraid that it will take tens of thousands of years to fly from one end of the Orion arm to the other, let alone go farther.

Since it is not advisable to exceed the speed of light in the normal way, let it be tricky.

Thus, the jump engine appeared.

Of course, while the Jump Engine allows ships to travel long-range interstellar in a way that ignores the speed of light, this technology also has its drawbacks.

And the biggest drawback is...

Jump Distance!

Yes, even in theory, the maximum distance of a single jump is only 38 light-years.

In other words, even if you take the leap technique to the extreme, that's it.

While that's good enough for the interior of a galaxy, you can't go to any other galaxy.

Because...

Even if the two galaxies are closer, they are at least hundreds of thousands of light-years away, and even if they are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, the Big Magellanic Galaxy is 160,000 light-years away.

And most importantly, the region between galaxies is basically full of spatial turbulence, just like the Death Nebula, and even more violent.

In other words, you can't go to another galaxy step by step by jumping multiple times, but you can only do it in one step.

Directly crossing more than 100,000 or even hundreds of millions of light years at a time, it is clear that the transition technology simply cannot do it.

Otherwise, the four major civilizations will come from the main spiral arm to the Orion arm, and they won't have to go through any wormholes, and they will be done if they jump over directly, but the fact is that they can't do it.

Hyperspace technology is a different story.

In multidimensional space, there will be no such restriction as in three-dimensional space, where you will be surprised to learn that the speed of light can even reach thousands of times that of three-dimensional space, if not faster.

If you want to describe it, hyperspace technology is like switching from a slow lane to a fast lane, and then switching back to the slow lane when you reach your destination.

This is also one of the iconic technologies that have crossed from a fourth-level civilization to a fifth-level civilization.

It's faster and there's no limit to the distance.

Only when a civilization has mastered this technology can it truly step out of its home galaxy and travel in the vast and boundless universe.

Otherwise, you will be stuck in your home galaxy and will not be able to get out.

This is very similar to the era of the home planet.

Therefore, the history of the development of a civilization can actually be seen as constantly breaking through the cage, like a nesting doll.

As for when it will be the end...

Nobody knows!

Taking his eyes off the information in front of him, Jiang Xingchen couldn't help but sigh.

Even if it is as strong as the Star Sea Federation, if you look at it from the perspective of the entire universe, it is still just a galaxy that can't even get out of the parent galaxy...

Primitive civilization!

The development of civilization is like a road with no end, and on this road, you can only move forward, you can't stop, you can't go back.

Otherwise, the only result is the destruction of civilization.

As for the all-new energy technology, Jiang Xingchen also took a general look.

By connecting the multiverse, zero energy is extracted directly from the subspace, compressed and stored with a special device.

The coffin board of the conservation of energy is almost impossible to cover, okay?

First, the hyperspace engine was completed using the multidimensional space, and then the multiverse was used to obtain forever free and unlimited energy.

Your mom is a monster, right?

As Liu Feng said, the technology of the hyperspace engine, he can still slowly break through it with some time, but the extraction technology of this zero-point energy is really superb.

And then again, the multiverse actually exists?

Well, even Jiang Xingchen has a little pain in his head at the moment...

Tick Tick Tick...

At this moment, the portable terminal suddenly rang.

"What's the matter?"

"Captain, the fleet command has transmitted a command document."

"Transfer the file to my terminal."

"Yes, Captain!"

Fu Wanting's movements were very fast, and almost the next moment, the document was transmitted.

After cutting off the communication, Jiang Xingchen also turned it on and looked at it carefully.

"This plan..."

"It's not like Admiral Mu Zhengfeng's style..."

After seeing the contents of the document clearly, Jiang Xingchen muttered in a low voice.

However, whether it was Mu Zhengfeng or someone else, he didn't care, as long as he knew that this document was from the fleet headquarters.

Moreover, in Jiang Xingchen's opinion, this plan is still very feasible.

Of course, it will be formed that it could be more radical...

Anyway, the order says that you can adjust it according to the actual situation, then it's no problem, isn't it?

Half an hour later.

Hou Yi's conference room.

This time, in addition to the captains of each ship, there is one more person involved, and over there is...

The leader of the scorpion pirate group, Liu Tao.

"According to what I just said, the subsequent return journey will be commanded by Colonel Liang Guodong, and each battleship will only leave the minimum staffing to control the navigation, and the rest of the personnel and the carrier-based mecha troops will all be temporarily transferred to the Xingchen."

"Any questions about that?"

After looking around at the crowd, Jiang Xingchen asked.

Naturally, no one will object to it, this is an order from the fleet command, and it is only a temporary transfer.

Seeing this, Jiang Xingchen also nodded, and then looked at Liu Tao.

"The rest of the manpower is short, so I'll trouble you!"

"No problem, you give me the missing positions and the number of personnel, and you can arrange people within an hour."

Liu Tao said with a proud face.

Speaking of which, he really has no shortage of people.

After all, the Scorpion Pirate Regiment has more than 100 warships and more than 30,000 crew members, so it is really not a matter to gather some people to use for Jiang Xingchen.

"Okay, but what do you arrange over there, go back with our fleet, or?"

"No, the old man has too many things, just pack them all, I'm afraid it will take a month, anyway, the location is already known, but we can just come by ourselves."

Waving his hand, Liu Tao said.

"Alright then, if you get into any trouble, contact me directly."

"I find that you are sometimes as verbose as my old man, don't worry, I'm the scorpion leader of one of the three pirate groups!"

Looking at Liu Tao, who was full of gangsterism, Jiang Xingchen also smiled bitterly.

After that, after some further deliberations, the meeting was dismissed.

On the same day, the Houyi and eleven other warships embarked on the return journey.

And Jiang Xingchen took nearly 3,000 people to board the Xingchen...

Begin to get acquainted with this Battlestar.

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The Milky Way, the first main spiral arm.

Planet Egil.

In an empty hall of the Imperial Palace, four figures were located in it.

One of them is an entity, and the other three are phantoms.

They are Albert, Emperor of the Carey Empire, Curtis, the Supreme Archon of the Prol Community, Gedot, the Grand Elder of the Philna Union, and Angus, the leader of the Republic of Lane.

"What do you think about the matter on Orion's arm?"

"What do you think, it's good for now, I wish those bugs were better."

"That's right, if Orion can't carry it, we can still use this as an excuse to ask the affiliated civilizations to gather an army to support."

"Hmph, the Star Sea Federation has all been destroyed, and these civilizations still think that they can live in peace as before, if it weren't for the fact that we haven't recovered so far, we would have wiped them all out."

From the conversation between the four of them, it can be seen that they are not ready to send reinforcements at all.

Even if the garrison on Orion's arm can't bear it, it's just preparing to make the subordinate civilization up.

And if the reason for this...

After a war with the Star Sea Federation, even after 400 years, they still haven't been able to catch their breath.

Originally, according to their plan, after killing the Star Sea Federation, they would attack those low-level civilizations, and after cleaning up all the civilizations above, they would have a main spiral arm for themselves.

But it has also been said before that after the ten years of war, there are only more than 30,000 warships left of the four major civilizations, and nearly half of them are trapped in the time bubble of the solar system.

In other words, on average, there are only a few thousand warships left in each family.

That's right, they are the most powerful fourth-level civilization in the galaxy, and without the Star Sea Federation, no one is their opponent.

But the question is, how many second- and third-level civilizations are there in the entire galaxy?

Once they are really forced to rush and all of them are united, the number of warships of these civilizations can even reach tens of thousands of times that of the four major civilizations.

In the face of this amount, the four major civilizations, which were almost crippled at that time, could not do it.

As a result, they opted for a relatively moderate strategy, taking all of the lower civilizations as their own vassal ones.

In the process of recovering his own strength, he constantly sucked the blood of these subsidiary civilizations.

Now, the four major civilizations, which have recovered a lot of strength, are not ready to continue to use this slow strategy.

Take the Carey Empire, for example.

Its territory occupies only 3% of the area of the first main spiral arm, and the remaining 97% is occupied by tens of thousands of second- and third-level civilizations.

Albert has been hungry for these areas for a long time.

And what about the other three civilizations?

Therefore, they hope that the mounds will be more powerful, so that they can justifiably gather all the affiliated civilizations to form an alliance, and then send them into the arms of Orion to fight those bugs.

As for the safety of the four main spiral arms...

Sorry, they're really not worried.

After all, there are wormholes, even if the development on the Orion arm is out of control, they can rely on the wormhole to completely seal those bugs on the arm.

"Then let's do it, let's leave it to the garrison on Orion's arm to deal with first, command those affiliated civilization fleets to consume a wave first, and then depending on the situation, what will we do after we decide!"

After a slight mutter, the Emperor of the Carey Empire, Albert said.

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"