Although this grade of faster-than-light spacecraft, to be honest, still does not have any practical value, in real practical applications, it is difficult to rank any great use.

After all, whether it is interstellar warfare across star fields or trade and transportation between planets, what you need to face is often a long distance of several light-years and tens of light-years.

In the actual sense, the fastest speed interstellar spacecraft, the minimum performance indicators must reach a single flight range of more than one light year to be qualified, in this way, even if it is a long-distance flight distance of a few light years or even dozens of light years, it is just a few more trimming in the middle, allowing the space engine to rest and cool down a few times, so that it has huge practical application value.

For example, the three major civilization alliance masters on the other side of the meteorite star sea, the standard interstellar battleship they produced, the product with the lowest performance, its single situation range is as much as five light years, and the faster-than-light flight speed has a basic flight efficiency of three times the speed of light, it is with the performance of such a powerful faster-than-light spaceship that they can build their own huge interstellar civilization system, with the supreme overlord-level authority in the region.

To be honest, the so-called eight major overlord civilizations, compared with these old overlord-level interstellar civilizations, are simply not worthy of shoes, and their comprehensive strength is far from being good, the reason why they can survive tenaciously is not only because they themselves have a certain connection with the three overlord-level civilizations, they are part of their supporting industrial chain, and some high-level suppliers of special parts for faster-than-light spaceships, but also because the three major overlord civilizations check and balance each other, and after these so-called overlord-level civilizations, there are also countless weak interstellar civilizations that support each other and increase their momentum and influence for them。

It is also in this complex landscape. These eight second-tier civilizations will be able to survive and actively research the production and manufacturing technology of faster-than-light ships without being wiped out.

So much so that now, there are civilizations that can really develop a verification faster-than-light spaceship in addition to the three hegemon-level civilizations, although realistically speaking, the performance of this spacecraft is far from the standard of a true faster-than-light spaceship.

But the event itself. Undoubtedly, it is already of extremely great significance, enough to shake the sea of stars.

For the investors behind this verification spacecraft, after thousands of years of investment, and hundreds of years, they finally ushered in the opportunity to make a profit, and they can't wait to put it into practice and replenish their own blood.

Too many civilizations are on the verge of being able to survive, from top to bottom, for every investor, and even some investors. In the marathon of investment competitions for many years, it has been completely dragged to death, and civilization has collapsed, and such examples are definitely not one or two.

The technical difficulty of faster-than-light spacecraft is too high, not only is the research threshold high and the investment is extremely huge, but more importantly, not just any civilization can conduct such research. Because this is clearly the corner of the hegemon-level civilization, if the roots are not hard enough. It was packed up in minutes.

Some civilizations have the impulse to research and development, but they have neither corresponding scientific and technological reserves nor massive resources to invest, while some civilizations have scientific and technological reserves and a certain degree of technological development experience, understand some relevant details, and have been understanding and running in with each other for many years. When civilizations collide with each other, the idea of joint research, investment and sponsorship arises, and eventually, a large number of interests converge. The integration of political assets has led to the emergence of eight second-tier super civilizations, and it can be said that this rise itself is definitely not without reason.

However, whether it is the investment in the betting civilization or the civilization overlord as the main body of research, it is all in the years of research and development work, it is exhausted, waiting for the verification spacecraft to be officially finalized, put into production, and finally obtain a huge amount of commercial benefits.

Although this kind of engineering verification superluminal spaceship, even after a lot of trimming and transformation, to form a stable working state, but only such a little faster-than-light sailing ability, adding up to only ten light-hours of superluminal sailing distance, in essence, is useless, and those sub-light speed flying spacecraft are not much different, but the price is hundreds of times more expensive, if purely from the point of view of cost performance, obviously the cost performance is simply low.

However, many civilizations are still extremely optimistic about its commercial value, and believe that as long as it has a certain type of production, it will definitely be able to produce huge commercial value and produce an incomparably huge sensation.

The reason why all civilizations have such a unanimous opinion is of course not because they are blind and confident, but because they are based on their in-depth understanding of the civilization ecosystem of the star domain in this article, so they are more aware of the needs of the market.

They know very well that although this new faster-than-light spaceship is extremely powerful, and it is not a faster-than-light spaceship in the true sense of the word, it really has the ability to fly faster-than-light, and no matter how short it flies, you can't deny that it can indeed fly faster-than-light.

Once that's all right, it's all about that.

In short, a new faster-than-light flying battleship was born, although its performance is cheating and its price is cheating down, but it is really a faster-than-light spaceship!

Moreover, compared to the spaceship of the three hegemon-level civilizations, although it has huge performance flaws, it also has a series of advantages.

At least it's much cheaper, and there are no qualification restrictions on purchase and sales, and no political conditions are added, and anyone can sell it if they pay for it!

Such a faster-than-light spaceship is undoubtedly the most extremely scarce resource on the market, as long as it appears, it is destined to be sold, and what needs to be more concerned is whether its production is enough and whether it can cope with the huge demand in the market.

After all, although the performance of this spaceship is clever, it is still the crystallization of the highest technology of a civilization after all, and its production difficulty is quite high, and the production efficiency cannot be very fast.

The reason why this new spacecraft has to go through many test flights and experiments. After having a certain superluminal flight ability, it will go through hundreds of years of continuous transformation and improvement, which is not only because the manufacturer needs to continuously improve the performance, but also because it is necessary to carry out the preparation and construction of the corresponding large-scale industrial assembly line.

As long as the production line construction is mature. After having the ability to mass produce the spacecraft, no matter how far the performance of the spacecraft is, it will be sold commercially on a large scale.

Anyway, few buyers of this type of faster-than-light spaceship really value its performance.

Its main purchaser needs nothing more than its name.

As long as it is a faster-than-light spaceship, it makes no difference whether it can fly for an hour or a minute, for customers of this model. The reason why they want to buy this kind of spaceship is just to meet their own standards for upgrading to interstellar civilization, and they don't really like its performance.

In terms of the richness of this star region outside the meteorite star sea, it can be said that there are various civilizations everywhere, in addition to a large number of native indigenous civilizations, there are also a large number of civilizations that have split from the main civilization, and under those interstellar civilizations, some occupy several planets. But because there is no faster-than-light spaceship and it is stuck on the threshold, it is not considered an unlucky civilization of interstellar civilization.

Ascend to an interstellar civilization. The demand is too great, and the production capacity of the hegemon-level civilization is far from enough to meet the market demand, and a large number of indigenous civilizations are in a hurry, because there are no faster-than-light spaceships in hand, and they are not recognized by most interstellar civilizations. It is difficult to obtain the corresponding civilization reciprocal authority, which is undoubtedly unbearable for many indigenous civilizations.

And once the new faster-than-light spacecraft is put into production in large quantities and sold on a large scale with no qualifications, it is conceivable that many indigenous civilizations will choose to buy it as soon as possible. That demand is going to be huge.

Don't look in this starry sky, interstellar civilizations seem to be completely worthless, there are more than a thousand more than a thousand in a slight count, the vast majority of interstellar civilizations are marginal civilizations, and they can't be on the stage of civilization competition in the region at all, they can only serve as the background wall of the power competition of the leaders of the three major alliances, and from time to time they play the role of cannon fodder and pond fish, which looks quite tragic at first glance, but in fact it is indeed quite tragic.

However, as long as it is on the table of interstellar civilization, at least it has a certain strategic self-protection ability, and it belongs to the existence of a name and surname, and it still has a certain civilization influence to a certain extent.

Although this status is relatively low, but, as long as you hang up the signboard of interstellar civilization, you can still enjoy the treatment of various interstellar civilizations, whether it is to carry out exchanges at the level of commerce or technology, at least other civilizations will accept and recognize your qualifications, if you really want to talk about it, the benefits are still very small, at least every interstellar civilization, by default, is able to form a small circle of influence, not the kind of existence that can be bullied at will.

Although once you bump into the alliance leader civilization of the three major civilization alliances, as well as the servant civilizations of these alliance master civilizations, it is still inevitable that they will be bullied, suppressed, exploited or something, but after all, they will not fall to the extent that they will be destroyed at every turn.

Moreover, between the marginal interstellar civilizations that have not joined the three major alliance systems, although there is no clear alliance organization, in order to resist the oppression and bullying of the three major civilization alliances, a loose alliance system has been formed with the eight major and minor overlord civilizations as the core, and they have common positions and propositions with each other to maintain the sovereignty and security of the marginal interstellar civilizations.

This semi-alliance attitude, coupled with the factors of mutual checks and balances between the three alliance systems, has led to the fact that as long as it is generally recognized as an interstellar civilization within the star region, it has a certain degree of security, although it is inevitable to be oppressed and suppressed, but there is still a certain guarantee in security.

It's just that with this kind of good treatment, only the recognized interstellar civilization can enjoy it, and if you are not recognized, even if your actual strength is stronger than that of ordinary interstellar civilization, it is useless.

It can be said that most of the indigenous civilizations have been stuck in the hurdle of faster-than-light spaceships, and have been depressed for countless years.

As long as the new faster-than-light spaceship does appear, even if it can fly for a minute at a time, they will be eager to buy it.

It's not because they are stupid and have a lot of money, and they have nowhere to spend it, but for many low-level interstellar civilizations, they still value the business card attributes of its faster-than-light spaceship.

This name alone has a huge effect, it can sell for a large price, can attract countless customers to break through the threshold, its production civilization, even if it is to rely on such a model toy more than like military products, it can make a lot of money, countless years of hard work to develop the process, so far the initial beginning to produce returns.

This is obviously of incomparably positive significance to that little overlord civilization.

In the same way, for the entire civilization circle of the Meteorite Star Sea, this incident itself also has an incomparably positive and huge significance.

Because, this means that the number of interstellar civilizations will rise in a large number of times in a short period of time, and a large number of low-level classes will flood the stage of interstellar competition, which will greatly enhance the comprehensive strength of the power groups of the eight major overlord civilizations, further restrict and restrain the three major overlord-level civilizations, and protect the birth of new overlord-level civilizations from the side.

Without this kind of protection, it is difficult to say whether these second-tier interstellar civilizations that are about to enter the breakthrough period will be able to maintain their own safety under the pressure of the three hegemon-level civilizations.

After all, as vested interests, it is undoubtedly difficult for them to sit idly by and watch the birth of new power groups and remain indifferent.

The reason why the eight little overlord-level civilizations were able to stabilize their positions before was just to take advantage of the contradictions between the three major civilizations and survive in the cracks of hard work, and now seeing that they are fattened up little by little, will they be killed and eat meat, this is undoubtedly a difficult thing to say.

As game-breakers, they can only try to win over more allies and create a more complicated situation in an attempt to protect themselves.

The seemingly intricate interstellar pattern has countless conflicts of interest, countless branches of science and technology, and countless breakthrough directions, but the most influential among them is undoubtedly the faster-than-light spacecraft technology, at least at the level of civilization, which will never go out of style.

What countless civilizations have pursued, desired, and dreamed of is nothing more than a complete set of design drawings for faster-than-light spaceships and a set of production lines. (To be continued.) )