Chapter 303 - Chapter 303: Entertainment Terminal
Chapter 303: Entertainment Terminal
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Faster than light speed, what a dreamy term.
This was also a problem that all civilizations had to face after entering interstellar space. When they wanted to go to other galaxies, the travel time of several years, even hundreds or thousands of years was enough to make everyone shrink back.
Perhaps some civilizations would use hibernation technology as a replacement, but this was only a temporary solution. Not every galaxy in the universe was habitable. What if the nearest habitable planet was thousands of light-years away?
Decades of hibernation were enough to make a person lose contact with civilization. After a thousand years, their civilization might have been destroyed by some drastic change.
It could be said that if one wanted to develop in space, faster than light speed was a high wall that could not be bypassed. Only by crossing this obstacle could one have the possibility of going further.
However, not every civilization was fortunate enough to reach the realm of faster-than-light speed.
Theoretically speaking, the void realm passage was the easiest way to achieve superluminal speed. As long as one had a certain level of psionic, it was possible to perform teleportation between galaxies through the void realm. Even human beings had established hyperspace through the void realm in the beginning.
However, this was also the most difficult method. Awakening psionic power required luck, and so did a stable void realm. Moreover, those lifeforms born from the void realm were not easy to deal with.
Under normal circumstances, the void realm was a place where opportunities and risks coexisted. Most people would not choose to use only the void realm to complete a galaxy movement. It was not worth it compared to the consumption and risk.
The warp drive wasn’t suitable for early space exploration. Its limitations and technological difficulty determined that it wasn’t a technology that early interstellar space civilizations should have mastered.
The start-up of the warp drive required precise interstellar space coordinates and a civilization with deep achievements in physics. It was a technology that required comprehensive technology to reach a certain level before it could be developed.
This was also what the early interstellar space civilizations lacked. They often fell into the trap of “I need resources to develop technology -1 need technology to obtain resources – then I need to research technology – how can I research technology without resources?” It was an infinite loop.
Sub-space was a place similar to the void realm, but it was more primitive. If one was not careful, they would get lost in it.
At present, the only way to go faster-than-light that was relatively free and simple was hyperspace navigation.
However, creating a hyperspace channel was still a difficult problem. The hyperspace engine was easy to study, but the hyperspace channel was not. The difficulty of these two could be said to be heaven and earth.
Without a hyperspace channel, a hyperspace engine was useless.
Li Wenyuan also knew that the technology needed to develop the hyperspace channel was most likely the Level 9 technology Creation Theory. It seemed that all technology related to space would eventually reach this point.
Currently, his Creation Theory research progress bar was already one-fifth full. Even with his ability, it was still quite difficult for him to study it. This was only because he had obtained insights from the Miniature Galaxy.
Going from Level 8 to Level 9 seemed to be a gap in technology. Other than waiting for time, only luck could speed up the research process.
At the same time, not every civilization could destroy a hyperspace channel. Although it was generally more difficult to create than to destroy, they were similar in hyperspace because the hyperspace was stable enough.
Considering the loss of this hyperspace, Li Wenyuan believed that the civilization that did this must have a high level of technology. At the very least, it would not be a problem for them to unify the galaxy. Thus, the traces left behind would not be few.
However, after understanding the history of some native civilizations and space civilizations that could not surpass the speed of light, Li Wenyuan realized that such a huge Galaxy Empire had never existed here.
He did not find any eye-catching clues from the starfield that he was currently monitoring.
To find traces of the possible Galaxy Empire and unravel the mystery of the broken hyperspace channel, Li Wenyuan followed the clues in the history of the Ancient River People and began to search for the civilization that seemed to attack any suspected civilized galaxy unconditionally.
After all, the other party’s civilization level seemed to be quite high. Logically speaking, they should know more.
With the help of the sentry formation, it was not difficult to find that civilization. Under the premise that they could not surpass the speed of light, these civilizations that attacked each other would not be too far away.
Or rather, it was just not far from Li Wenyuan.
The warp wave flashed again, and in the blink of an eye, his spaceship arrived at the target galaxy.
The celestial environment here was quite special. There was only one star, one planet, and a few satellites revolving around the planet.
However, what surprised him was that the one attacking this galaxy was not a civilization but a somewhat familiar planetary machine.
“This planet’s structure… It’s an Al Planet?”
Li Wenyuan found it unbelievable. He was surprised to see a new type of Al Planet other than the Observation Terminal and the Purification Terminal in such a place.
All the Al Planets that he knew now would perform a single function and were truly planetary machines. This Al Planet that would attack civilizations everywhere seemed similar to the Purification Terminal.
However, Li Wenyuan knew that the Purification Terminal could not be so gentle. Its name of purification was not just for show. It would be fine if it did not move, but if it moved, it would show signs of a natural disaster.
Then, what would be the function of this new type of Al Planet?
However, before his spaceship could get close, he realized that the satellite orbiting the planet suddenly stopped, as if it had discovered him, the intruder.”
A large hole visible to the naked eye quickly appeared on the surface of the satellite. Although there was no weapon, a vast energy fluctuation was gathering inside, targeting his spaceship!
“They didn’t recognize me. It seems that they haven’t been invaded by humans… But how could those guys let go of such a novel thing? Did it appear after they left?”
Li Wenyuan’s gaze focused. He was about to warp the fleet to this place, but he stopped halfway.
Because he remembered that they were in a different galaxy now, with the Curtain blocking all external communications. If he removed the protection of this Al Planet, then the mysterious civilization that left behind this planetary machine would most likely discover him.
Judging from the information on the Observation Terminal in the Milky Way and the Elliptical Galaxy Alpha, this was a civilization from at least 1.7 billion years ago.
The Al Planet here seemed to have appeared after humans left, which meant that this civilization was likely to continue to this day.
Although there was no evidence that this planet was from the same civilization as the Al Planets discovered before, they still had to be cautious.
“The ghost signal generator installed on the research spaceship might not be strong enough. We have to pull a few Titan Battleships over for the suppression field…”
Hence, the Titan Battleships in each fleet were individually dispatched and warped to this special galaxy. Only after the number of ships increased to 50 did the signal infiltration work be completed.
After setting himself as the recognition target, Li Wenyuan finally obtained basic information about this Al Planet.
[Name: Special Planetary Machine Modified Variant Terminal (Entertainment)]
[Type: Al Planet]
[Usage time: Brand new! (Less than 100 million years will automatically be regarded as this level)]
[Checking system update… This is the latest version, there’s no need to update.]
[Current strategy: Random Strike]
[Purpose: Create a visual entertainment sample]