Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 798 Returning like an arrow
Just know it, the universe is so vast, maybe after this war, humans will have nothing to do with the Orange Star civilization.

So after charging at the last remnants of the defeated army that attacked Orange Star, the First Fleet of Humanity turned and headed for a star system less than one light year away from the starry sky battlefield.

No one cleaned up the battlefield, and humans paid no attention to the wreckage of the Orange Star Civilization's warships.

After this battle, humans gained a deep understanding of the third-person perspective battleship mode, and also built up strong confidence in it.

As long as this fleet exists, humans will be the strongest civilization at the same level.

And what makes humans most excited is that these 3,000 sets of equipment of the Awakener can be used not only for warships of level 4 civilization, but also for warships of level 5 and level 6 civilization.

As long as the new warships built by humans after reaching that technological level are modified with access equipment according to the installation instructions, this fleet will definitely be the trump card of mankind in the future.

The flagship Lyra has become the real leader in combat power because it has both the consciousness connection main equipment given by the Awakener and the warp space enhancement device left by the Pioneers.

Of course, when it comes to level six civilization, perhaps humans will be able to manufacture relevant consciousness connection equipment themselves. After all, humans naturally have the talent for third-person dreams. The reason why the awakeners have this set of equipment is that they also have such a talent and then obtained this special technology through research on their own talents.

This is exactly why the Awakeners are very optimistic about humans, so humans are still very confident in developing their own unique technologies in terms of their talents.

As for the Orange Star Civilization Fleet, it became the whetstone for the human fleet's first battle, and it was their own fault.

Having said that, the Lyra, which had returned from the starry sky, took the lead and headed into the star system at the fastest warp speed. Its target was a dwarf planet on the second-to-last orbit in this star system.

The purpose is naturally to blast it into mines.

The reason why it is not the planet in the penultimate orbit is that the planet in the penultimate orbit is just below the other side of the star.

Well, you can also say above, after all, there is no up or down in the universe.

Why not on the other side of the star? The reason is that the orbit of the penultimate dwarf planet in this star system is very different. Other planets orbit near the ecliptic plane of the star, but its orbit crosses the ecliptic plane almost vertically.

I really don't know what kind of star formation environment created this strange phenomenon. Because of this, it seems out of tune with other planets.

Looking at the overview of this star system, the main sequence star of this star system is a white star with a surface temperature of about 1.84 degrees Celsius, a diameter 1.72 times that of the sun, a mass 11 times that of the sun, and a brightness times that of the sun.

According to the apparent magnitude of the Earth's position, it should be 0.78.

It is an ordinary star with a rotation period of 9.3 hours, which can be said to be very fast. Because of this, its equatorial diameter is larger than its polar diameter, with a ratio of 1.12.

It has many similarities with Sirius and Altair, all of which are very young stars, probably formed only hundreds of millions of years ago, and their cores are composed of helium produced by nuclear fusion reactions of hydrogen.

When such a star reaches a lifespan of about 35 billion years, it will shrink inward due to the exhaustion of its hydrogen materials, forming a red giant and eventually evolving into a white dwarf.

Before coming here, humans had not done much exploration of this star system. Now that they want to develop resources, they naturally have to explore it and collect accurate data about this star. So after the Tianqin exited the warp speed, many small exploration spacecraft headed into the star system.

As for the dwarf planet in front of Tianqin, humans have not conducted detailed geological exploration, but from the perspective of low-orbit space, we can roughly know that it is a planet with a cooled core.

This kind of planet is the best for mining, as one blast would break it into pieces, unlike those planets whose cores are still hot, where one blast would cause molten iron to splash into space and then rely on radiation to cool down.

In fact, the scientists on Tianqin are very interested in this planet with an unusual orbit, especially those in the field of astronomy. They would like to study its origin and the evolutionary history of this star system here, but humans do not have so much time now, otherwise Tianqin would not have directly selected the mining planet based on the principle of proximity.

It’s a pity to lose the opportunity to study a planet with a special orbit, but it’s not to the point of being heartbroken, and humans will definitely not return here in the future, so let it disappear!
Not long after, it exploded in the starry sky under the star destroyer cannon of the Lyra, as if a mountain was split and a rock was split. Then the Lyra and other warships that were in contact opened their hatches and released smaller ships one by one, biting at the planet fragments like hungry tigers.

Xiao Hui played a great role at this time. Her body turned into a locust miner, trying her best to split every metal bond she could, and then these materials were transported to the Tianqin by small ships, and after being processed again and again in various smelters and manufacturing plants inside the Tianqin, they were turned into various things needed by humans.

After a round of replenishment, several months had passed, including food, drink, and supplies for humans, as well as the antimatter fuel that warships needed most.

The human fleet once again set foot in the starry sky, heading straight for the main human civilization which is about 117 light years away.

After setting out on the star journey, the 2,994 warships all maintained a speed of thirty-eight times the speed of light, gradually bidding farewell to this star system whose periphery was dotted with the wreckage of countless Orange Star Civilization warships.

One hundred and seventeen light years, a distance that was once beyond the reach of mankind, a distance that once required the use of stars as a springboard, but now it can be reached in a straight line.

An interstellar civilization is worthy of being an interstellar civilization!
Stellar travel is already easy for a civilization at this level.

Especially for a human fleet like this one, which has reached the top speed level of a Level 4 civilization, this distance can be reached in just three years.

It would be even faster if the Lyra activated its warp space enhancement device.

And more than one hundred light years is far from the range limit of a Level Four civilization. As far as human warship design is concerned, if it is fully filled with antimatter fuel, the warship can probably travel five hundred light years.

In terms of the size of planetary battleships, they are actually not much different, because warp navigation also has thrust-to-weight ratio problems similar to conventional navigation, except that it is a problem of warp navigation energy consumption and the weight of the battleship.

Hundreds of years have passed since it separated from the main body of human civilization.

If it were in ancient times on Earth, it would be equivalent to the rise and fall cycle of a dynasty, but in the interstellar age, it is only the time it takes for a fleet to go out on a mission.

But hundreds of years is not a short time after all, and now everyone in the First Fleet is eager to return home. They all want to see their own tribes as soon as possible, and then share their gains to make their own tribes stronger together!
As they set out on their return journey, they were all wondering, after hundreds of years, whether our civilization had made any progress in technology, and whether they had also broken through the third-generation warp technology...

At the same time, they also wanted to share the experiences of the First Fleet with their friends in the main body of the civilization as soon as possible. They especially wanted to tell their friends how they had worked together to break through the third-generation warp technology under desperate circumstances... and the various encounters in the Pioneer microcosm... too many.

(End of this chapter)