Voyage of the Stars

The result of the meeting was as expected. The vast majority thought that they should go, and only one or two people thought that they should avoid danger.

That was true, but there are dangers everywhere in the universe. Dangers come not only from other civilizations, but also from the relics left by advanced civilizations. Humans have reached the fourth level of civilization. According to the classification of civilization levels by those civilizations at the top, they also belong to the category of interstellar civilization.

The stars are bright and you can go there. It is no longer like low-level civilizations that have to hibernate year after year across the interstellar space.

The realization of warp speed has greatly improved the speed of navigation and promoted the efficiency of civilization in using time.

Humans are not rashly rushing towards the target. The living spacecraft must be hidden, and if it is not necessary, it is best not to reveal the fact that they are a wandering civilization.

For this arrangement strategy, everyone thinks it is more appropriate. The main body of the civilization has not gone, and even if there is any danger, it will not put the entire civilization at risk of destruction.

After the decision was made, the human fleet turned a corner in the void and continued to sail towards the destination. It took humans only more than 30 years to reach the vicinity of the target star field at a distance of more than 300 light years.

However, as planned, the human fleet did not sail to the target star field together, but first docked at a star system outside it, and let the main body of civilization station there, and arranged various warning measures outside the star system, such as tachyon detectors, communication transfer stations, etc., and also let the member civilizations of the Star Alliance patrol the space near this star system.

After this, the departing fleet was supplied with resources, and then it set off to the target star field.

Humans were lucky. No detectors of other civilizations were found in the star system where the main civilization cluster was docked, and the distance of 10 light years was just right. If there was any emergency, the fleet would only take one year to arrive.

The increase in speed also made the various arrangements of the fourth-level civilization in the interstellar more handy. Of course, it also meant that the scope of the fourth-level civilization became larger, not limited to one star system.

Humanity, a Level 4 civilization, is like this, and other civilizations are not much worse.

Therefore, when the first fleet of humanity just arrived at the target star field, it was detected by the detector of the unknown civilization. Of course, humans also discovered the existence of the other party's detector. After all, tachyon detection is mutual.

This time, it was the first fleet, where the flagship Tianqin was located, that represented humanity to go to the target star field to test the reality. This fleet has a total of one million planetary warships, including 2,800 planetary warships equipped with consciousness connection devices given by the awakener at that time, including Tianqin. It is the most powerful fleet of humanity at present.

As for the second and third fleets, each is equipped with one hundred planetary ships equipped with consciousness connection devices, with the flagships Jupiter and Saturn respectively, and the ordinary planetary warships under their jurisdiction are also about one million.

From this point of view, after reaching the fourth level of civilization, the number of human warships is much less than that of the third level of civilization. For example, the Chiyan civilization at that time, at the third level of civilization, their fleet exceeded 10 million.

However, combat effectiveness is not just about quantity, especially at the level of fourth-level civilization, where each of those ordinary warships is controlled by an independent strong artificial intelligence consciousness, and the combat effectiveness of a single ship can be said to be rising sharply. Of course, if a strong artificial intelligence can control a fleet, humans actually prefer that, but the warships of the fourth-level civilization are too complicated, and it is very difficult for a strong artificial intelligence to control a warship. In fact, if humans are not very good at mechanical technology, they even need people to assist in driving, so a strong artificial intelligence can't control a fleet like the third-level civilization.

So at the fourth-level civilization level, the intelligent machine crisis like the third-level civilization will not appear at all, and there will be no intelligent machine civilization like locusts in the universe, unless that intelligent machine civilization breaks through the limitation of creating itself. If so, it will really be a cosmic locust.

But if that is the case, the intelligent machine civilization composed of countless strong artificial intelligence consciousnesses will also be limited by distance, and they cannot ignore the effective distance of tachyon communication, unless their king does not care about his throne and spreads to the universe at all costs in order to expand his "race".

So if you encounter a Level 4 intelligent machine civilization, it must be a kingdom, with one person as the king and all his subordinates being copies of himself.

Of course, there is another form, which is like the strong artificial intelligence consciousness of humans now. Each one has its own independent number, and the personality template that gave birth to its self-consciousness when it was manufactured is not all the same. This is another model.

If strong artificial intelligence launches a rebellion and destroys humans, then the intelligent machine civilization formed must be a mechanical empire. Sometimes humans can't help but wonder whether the famous silicon-based consortium in the Milky Way is in this form.

Having said that, it stands to reason that humans should send out low-level fleets to spy this time, but in the end it was the First Fleet that came out. One of the reasons is that the First Fleet came not in the name of human civilization, but in the name of the Star Alliance.

If the other party is a civilization, then when you hear the name of the Star Alliance, you will definitely think it is an interstellar organization with many civilizations in it, so the fleet you see in front of you is definitely not all the forces.

This is also a kind of deterrent force, which may avoid many unnecessary troubles. Didn't the Chiyan civilization pretend to be an interstellar trading market when it saw the low-level civilization and thought it could manipulate it at will?

However, it is said that what appeared in the detection range of the first fleet of mankind was a detection spaceship team, 0.98 light years away, and humans detected a total of twelve tachyon signal sources.

This is the result of passive detection, that is, the number of tachyon detection sources received by humans.

When the human fleet actively launched tachyon detection, it was found that there were about 30 detection spaceships on the opposite side in the distance. The reason for saying about is that it is possible that some spaceships are behind other spaceships and cannot be detected.

For the sake of navigation safety, the one million warships of mankind started tachyon detection on the way to the target star field to scan all directions of themselves. Because of this, the detection spaceship team was detected as soon as it entered the detection range.

Of course, the human fleet must also be in the field of vision of the other party's detector, if the other party's grand unified force field technology is at the same level as that of humans.

The two sides had just met, and before humans could send out any information, the spaceship on the opposite side, like the broadcasting spaceship that humans had encountered before, sent a digital pattern composed of 0, 1, and 2 to humans by sending tachyons at short intervals.