amaotonovel Chapter 113: The Great Wall Era
Chapter 113: The Great Wall Era
Two hundred and ninety-two Earth Empire fleets, all stellar-class "Halo Gardens," set sail, entering hyperspace and rapidly moving away from the central region of the Virgo Cluster. After pausing briefly in one star system and detecting the aftershocks of hyperspace oscillations, the Earth Empire increased its speed. Aside from brief stops in a few star systems, the Earth Empire fleets wasted no time, continuously traversing galaxies. Even after the hyperspace oscillations ceased detection, the Imperial fleets did not relax, continuing their hyperspace journey. What would normally take eight days for a stellar-class "Halo Garden" to reach the three major star systems was accomplished by the Imperial fleets in six days. The Imperial fleets remaining in the three major star systems had already established stellar-class "Halo Gardens," ready to traverse galaxies at any time.
Simultaneously, the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire's long-range "Twin Eyes" detection results came out: the "Eye Galaxy," the six galaxies destroyed by the Earth Empire's fleet, the Chamber VII Galaxy, the Chamber V Galaxy, and the supermassive black hole galaxy all disappeared from the sky one after another. To Earthlings, each vanished galaxy appeared as a giant meteor trailing a long tail, accelerating towards an abyss. After all ten galaxies disappeared, the Earth Empire and the Lunar Empire detected a large-scale hyperspace oscillation at the center of the Virgo Cluster. Subsequently, the hyperspace oscillation slowly dissipated, and the oscillation's dragging effect indicated that the aftershocks were fading towards the Hydra-Centaurus direction.
Subsequently, the long-range "Gemini Sky Eye" detected ten fleeting flashes in the direction of the serpent-centaur.
After the hyperspace oscillation, the next phase is the gravitational oscillation in normal space. The galaxies in the central region of the Virgo Cluster begin to adjust their gravitational forces with each other. Since the distance between adjacent galaxies is still very large, no galaxy collision events occur.
Twenty years later, the impact and panic of the series of anomalies in the Virgo Cluster on the various civilizations of the Local Group gradually subsided. Even the Earth Empire and the Pan-Interstellar Alliance quietly developed within the Local Group, without making any major external moves. All advanced civilizations, including the Earth Empire, were stunned by the mysterious force that caused the ten major star systems to suddenly disappear within a few days. The Earth Empire, naturally, had been analyzing this mysterious force, especially the detection of the "giant gravitational source" in the direction of Hydra-Centaur, but it still lacked the courage to send a fleet to that location.
In the year 340 of the Interstellar Era, fifty years after the war that annihilated the Virgo Fleet, the Earth Empire Academy of Sciences, with the assistance of more than 8500 top scientists from the Pan-Star Alliance, has made breakthroughs in various technologies.
The Academy of Sciences has made great progress in Klein space containment technology. This containment technology mainly utilizes space folding technology, combined with black hole bombs and "super energy exchangers" to break Klein space, forming a series of spatial faults. This creates a series of true vacuum space faults, causing the Klein space force field to fail.
In the field of stellar computation, scientists have also taken bold and unconventional approaches. Using a vast amount of precise star map and galactic observation data, they have incorporated factors such as galactic motion, galactic influence, galactic gravity, stellar motion, stellar influence, stellar gravity, black holes, dark matter, and dark energy. They have simulated the universe as a spherical grid, each galaxy as a grid block, each star as a grid cell within that block, black holes as damage to a grid region, and dark matter and dark energy as an invisible inflating and inhaling effect. With the assistance of a super artificial intelligence computer and extensive simulations, through continuous iteration, network recursion, death verification, and survival verification, they have been able to partially predict future events—high-probability events, of course. Because the impact of advanced galactic civilizations on these events needs to be considered, the Imperial Academy of Sciences has also carefully studied the local impact of different levels of intelligent civilization technology on spatial events. For example, the creation of a white dwarf or black hole by an intelligent civilization, the projection of a large number of stars by the Virgo Fleet, or the destruction of several galaxies—all have been extensively simulated using a super artificial intelligence computer, providing the timeframe and impact of high-probability events. Of course, if it's just calculating a few thousand galaxies, the computing power is not a problem. In fact, the Earth Empire is currently considering calculations involving only a few thousand galaxies. However, if we want to calculate distant superclusters or high-probability events that will occur in the future in this universe, the scientists of the Earth Empire still need to work much harder. At the very least, they need to ensure that the detection range is large enough and the accuracy is high enough. Only in this way can stellar computing be developed into a higher-level computing model, namely galaxy computing.
In the development of the "Starry Eyes" system, the second-generation intelligent detectors have achieved higher precision and sensitivity, as well as greater miniaturization. This miniaturization, however small, allows for mass production, meeting the deployment needs of numerous stars across multiple galaxies. Due to the improved precision and sensitivity, each intelligent detector has a much greater detection range. If deployed within stars, it can detect a range of 500,000 light-years, fifty times greater than the first generation. For example, in the Andromeda Galaxy, deploying "Starry Eyes" within stars required 40 billion intelligent detectors, while the second generation only needs approximately two million.
In the research on the "light speed barrier" on a galactic scale, a super-large "intelligent super energy exchanger" has been successfully developed. This super-large "intelligent super energy exchanger" can create a "light speed barrier" on a galactic scale.
In the study of driving galaxies, it is still difficult to drive a galaxy with a single super-large Klein force field generator. Scientists have begun to adopt a compromise approach, which involves deploying a large number of Klein force field generators in different interstellar spaces within a galaxy. These Klein force field generators are interconnected and then uniformly and coordinated by a giant Klein force field generator.
In terms of scaling technology, a scale of 1:14500 has been achieved so far, meaning the 160-kilometer-long Tian Shen sniper ship can be reduced to 11 meters! Since the 1:24000 scale of warships is a limit, based on Zhou Yuan's previous ideas on folding space, scientists believe through calculation and simulation that this limit can be broken. By using folding space technology, the scale can be further reduced to 1:2400000.
Imperial scientists have been tirelessly researching the mysterious disappearance of ten galaxies fifty years ago. Some scientists have even unearthed a speech by the leader of Country C in March 2021 (Earth Era). The leader's original words were: "Our 'Sky Eye' scanning outer space has discovered a strange phenomenon. In the direction of Hydra and Centaurus, about 150 to 250 million light-years away, a galaxy, equivalent to 1.5 times the size of our Milky Way, suddenly disappeared within three days." At that time, Academician Guo Baoguo believed there were four possibilities for the disappearance of this galaxy. The third possibility was that a "giant gravitational source" attracted the galaxy into the "giant gravitational source," somewhat similar to the "two-dimensional foil" that destroyed the solar system. The fourth possibility was that this galaxy was directly destroyed by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.
Based on the results of long-range detection fifty years ago, Imperial scientists believe that the sudden disappearance of the ten star systems could be due to two possibilities: either the ten star systems were "teleported away" or "taken away in a package," and this "departure" would naturally be through hyperspace.
Inspired by the "Giant Gravitational Source," the "Two-Dimensional Foil," and the disappearance of ten galaxies, Imperial scientists began developing another powerful weapon for the Earth Empire: the "Heavenly Bowl." The idea was to use numerous black hole bombs and a super-large "super energy exchanger" to extract energy, creating a gravitational potential difference and generating a powerful gravitational surge similar to the "Giant Gravitational Source." This surge would pull galaxies into the system, trapping them within a giant spherical container using a space-folding technique. Of course, this technology required handling certain special celestial bodies within the galaxies, such as black holes. However, the fanatical Imperial and Alliance scientists believed anything was possible. The disappearance of the ten galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, initially considered an impossible "miracle" by the Earth Empire, continued to fuel these scientists' fervor. If the problems with black holes were solved, and if the "Heavenly Bowl" was successfully developed, it could be combined with the "Heaven-Slaying Arrow" technology, allowing humanity to carry a miniaturized version of the "Heaven-Slaying Arrow."
From the perspective of the forty-three alliance members, the Earth Empire's technology was increasingly approaching "miracles," and they naturally reaped considerable benefits. Besides retaining its leading-edge advanced technology, the Earth Empire generously shared its other technologies, leading to rapid advancements in the technology of these alliance members.
In Interstellar Era 356, the Earth Empire's super-range "Gemini Eyes" detected the sudden disappearance of four galaxies in the Boötes Supercluster. In Interstellar Era 379, five galaxies in the Sculptor Supercluster suddenly disappeared. These nine suddenly disappeared galaxies were similar to the ten galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, and the result pointed to the "Giant Gravitational Source" in the direction of Hydra-Centaurus.
In the year 407 of the Interstellar Era, the Earth Empire achieved a Klein hyperspace blockade of a star system.
In the year 415 of the Interstellar Era, a galaxy in the Coma Supercluster suddenly disappeared.
In the year 463 of the Interstellar Era, the Earth Empire Academy of Sciences successfully developed the "Shengtian Bowl".
In the year 465 of the Interstellar Era, the Earth Empire taught forty-three members of the Pan-Interstellar Alliance the technology of intergalactic long-distance communication and the Klein hyperspace intergalactic travel technology.
In the year 478 of the Interstellar Era, a galaxy in the Crane Supercluster suddenly disappeared.
In the year 505 of the Interstellar Era, three galaxies in the Pisces Supercluster suddenly disappeared.
In the year 567 of the Interstellar Era, a galaxy in the Ursa Major Supercluster suddenly disappeared.
In the year 577 of the Interstellar Era, the Earth Empire developed a super-large Klein force field generator, capable of driving a star system for hyperspace travel!
In the year 632 of the Interstellar Era, a galaxy in the Virgo Supercluster (this supercluster) suddenly disappeared; this galaxy was the Milky Way. After bidding farewell to the members of the Pan-Interstellar Alliance, the Earth Empire propelled the Milky Way on a hyperspace journey, beginning its advance towards the Great Wall of Space.
A new chapter in human history began, ushering in the Great Wall Era.