Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 690 Return to the Universe

It turned out that the big rectangular block was just a container, and what we saw now was the main body of the equipment. The awakener used nanotechnology to pack 3,000 sets of equipment into the big rectangular block, and Yue Yuan's operation just now was to open the container and connect the main unit of the equipment to the new flagship of mankind.

After completing the operation, Yue Yuan also withdrew from the consciousness connection. He was as curious as everyone else, so after getting up from the chair, he kept looking at the floor.

This place was previously an empty space specially cleared out to accommodate consciousness synchronization equipment. Now the 'container' of the consciousness equipment has been opened, and the components inside have been connected to the equipment preset by humans through the flow of nanotechnology, so this place is now considered empty.

However, it's not that there is nothing, because this area is also where the cockpits are specially built by humans for many pilots. The main cockpit is of course also here. Now these cockpits have been connected to the "consciousness synchronization" device standing in the center of the empty space by criss-crossing cables.

The appearance of the 'Consciousness Synchronization' device is the same as the awakener's usual style, also a golden section rectangle. Now its bottom and top are stuck to the floor and ceiling of this empty space, and many cables extend from both ends like tree roots.

All cables were wrapped in a layer of amber-like material, then extended outward and connected to equipment built by humans according to the instructions, thereby establishing a physical connection with the new flagship Lyra.

On this very empty floor there are layers of compartments, each of which contains a separate cockpit, a total of 10,000. It is indeed not 8,000, because humans are always used to making more as backup.

As for why the space used to accommodate the 'consciousness synchronization' equipment can still create so many compartmentalized cockpits, it is because the Tianqin has not yet turned on the switch of the 'gravity potential well' to simulate artificial gravity, so it is still in a state of weightlessness, which avoids the problem of large 'containers' pressing down on the cockpits.

Similarly, it is precisely because of the "consciousness synchronization" equipment that the command center of this new flagship of mankind is very different from the original one. It no longer has a traditional command center like the previous Tianqin. The previous group of people working together, a bunch of computer monitors, a bunch of workbenches, and a large central screen have been cancelled.

Instead, each person has a separate space with a separate driving position connected to the consciousness synchronization device. Each person also has a large screen, which is made of holographic projection technology. Not only that, each cockpit is not just a driving position, but also has many supporting facilities and living and rest facilities.

It can be said that each cockpit is equivalent to a luxury suite. If the equipment inside were placed in the Earth era, it would be a fully functional underground base.

Here, after the consciousness synchronization device is connected, it is equivalent to a town, and the town is full of cockpits. There are roads between the cockpits just like in a city. The roads are also three-dimensional roads, with two types of ground roads and air passages.

If we want to say where the command center of this new flagship is, then it should be said that everywhere is the command center, or in other words, this time the area within a radius of several kilometers is the command center of the entire battleship and also its core area.

From then on, the pilots of the Tianqin would basically live here. Similarly, the scientific officers of the battleship and various staff members such as communicators would also work here, but each of them had his own independent cabin.

Connected to this area are other departments on the warship, such as the scientific research institute, engine room, staff residence, intelligence department, staff group, etc., all scattered around this core area. Further out, up and down are the warship's various functional equipment rooms, ammunition depots, resource storage rooms, fuel tanks, and various factories such as nanorobot production workshops. As the new flagship of human civilization, it is very large and has various functions. It is a comprehensive warship. It carries many small spacecraft, including transportation ships for traveling between large warships and spacecraft, as well as transport ships used to transport supplies in previous warships. There are also special parking platforms for personal outbound ships.

The new flagship, the Lyra, is a battleship in wartime and the political and military center of humanity in normal times. Basically, no less than 100,000 people live on it for a long time.

After the pilot selection was completed, all the personnel on the old flagship were moved here, and the starry sky cut out by the awakener also opened a channel at this moment.

Human probes soon detected the channel at the boundary of space, where they could even see starlight coming in from the universe. Humans didn't know how this channel appeared, but they knew it was a space technology.

According to the information Yue Yuan obtained after connecting to the consciousness synchronization device, humans only need to drive the large fleet there to leave this space created by the Awakener.

The resources here are not enough for the entire human civilization to upgrade its creations, so there is no reluctance or nostalgia. After the passage appeared, the human fleet began to pack up the various deployed work platforms and slowly headed towards the passage leading to the universe.

The Lyra, which still used its previous name, took the lead, directly started warp travel in space to the entrance of the channel, and then was the first to return to the universe.

The first thing the Tianqin had to do when it arrived in the universe was to check whether the surrounding environment was safe. After confirming that there was no danger, it quietly waited for the human fleet cluster at the exit. Because other human ships had not yet completed their upgrades, they were still using the third-level civilization navigation technology at this stage, so the process was not fast.

It took several years of waiting before the human fleet cluster finally emerged from the entire space.

When all the human fleets came out, the passage disappeared, and the space created by the awakener was hidden in the universe again.

According to the information obtained from the intelligent system left behind by "Huan", this space is actually a small universe. It will continue to exist after humans leave until the energy system that supports it, that is, the energy of the eight stars inside is exhausted. It will then collapse and return to the embrace of the big universe.

The intelligent system left behind by 'Huan' did not leave with humans, because it is actually the intelligent AI of this small universe. All the maintenance work of this small universe is done by it. According to 'Huan', it will continue to exist with the small universe as a civilization relic, and then wait for a civilization with great luck to pass by here.

(End of this chapter)