Before we know it, the year is 2943, and 23 years have passed since the split.

During these 20 years, each squad strictly implemented the core policy of "rapid reproduction, expansion of forces, and dispersed advancement", and the situation has undergone tremendous changes.

Since 2920, the fourth generation of nameless people who have rapidly reproduced in each squad have gradually grown up and taken up various jobs.

Some have begun to receive intensive advanced military training, some have become backbone members of various productivity sectors, and some have entered core research institutions, perfectly combining learning and work.

Zhou Donglai's requirement at the beginning was that by 2960, at least 8,000 squads must arrive at Yunding Star Region, and the number of personnel in each squad must not be less than 2 million.

But it is obvious that Zhou Donglai's consideration is too conservative. So far, the number of existing squads of the Nameless Fleet is 9,801. Excluding the core fleet, the average population size of the remaining squads is 1.957 million, and the average number of ships per squad is , including manned ships and unmanned ships.

The total population of the Nameless Fleet has increased from less than 300 million at the beginning to 19.221 billion.

The overall ship size of the entire unmanned fleet has reached 41.35 million ships.

Compared to the 120,000 ships when they were forced to disperse, the fleet has expanded 344.58 times.

This data comparison is very intuitive.

The core reason for such an intuitive change is that the fleet has changed its focus from concealment to development.

After being broken down into smaller units, the small units have given up most of their concealment needs, and whenever they have the opportunity, they will efficiently collect energy and supplies, and then convert resources into population and comprehensive strength with extremely high efficiency.

The new route has brought a new situation.

Although small units continue to be pursued and destroyed because of their whereabouts, the overall expansion speed of the fleet is still far faster than the speed at which it is being worn down by the enemy.

The change is obvious, but it does not mean that the previous strategy of advancing in stealth was wrong, and the past route cannot be denied because of the current development.

The technological background of different times determines different policies and routes.

Before the three core technologies of human body cryogenic technology, energy refining technology in curvature space, and the latest ultra-high efficiency and complex polycrystalline structure material synthesizer that can be used in curvature space were formed, the fleet could not quickly form a combat force scale after being divided into small pieces, and there was no room for development. The result of exposing the whereabouts was likely to be that the enemy would quickly devour them.

At the same time, this also slightly reversed the internal turmoil caused by the Free Will Alliance.

Judging from the final result, although the Free Will Alliance caused internal strife, it also improved the fleet's combat effectiveness in the short term and provided basic ideological enlightenment for the dispersed advance.

In a sense, if the idea of ​​the Free Will Alliance after leaving the fleet was not to escape but to disperse, then the idea of ​​the free will represented by Ophiroth Cage to leave the fleet and start a new business was correct.

Objective conditions must be considered. At that time, the "Destiny Pact" had not yet been formed, and the will could not be unified. The result of the fleet's sudden dispersion was bound to lead to a completely out-of-control situation.

The limitations of the times force humans to pay a stage-by-stage price on the road to progress.

Merits and demerits are two different things. Cage and his son and the Free Will Alliance no longer need to be engraved on the pillar of shame in history.

These people, in their own way, have also made great contributions to the Nameless Fleet and humanity.

At this time, some squads have undergone particularly earth-shaking changes.

These squads have developed particularly well, their comprehensive strength has been steadily improved, and the size of the fleet is no longer what it used to be.

For example, the 6322 squadron now has as many as 19,000 ships and nearly 8 million people.

So the original squadron organization is no longer applicable. A new fleet organization should be established separately in the system? At least it should be changed to a squadron or brigade.

But after comprehensive consideration and learning from history, Zhou Donglai decided to let 6322 continue to use the name of the squad.

This is a disguise.

Because it is possible that the compound eyes are also quietly infiltrating the human quantum network and intercepting some information from it.

Keeping the name of the squad has the opportunity to make the compound eyes make mistakes in the deployment of troops, so that it will have the upper hand in intelligence.

The title of big or small is not important, what is important is strength.

In January 2943, a new turn of events appeared.

6322 "Squad" discovered a special galaxy on its route.

The straight-line physical distance between this galaxy and the event horizon of the galactic center black hole is 2160 light years.

This is basically the central zone of the Milky Way.

If the Milky Way is likened to a city, and the stars are the residents of the city, the location of the solar system is a sparsely populated suburb, with only 0.004 residents per cubic light year.

The area near the center of the galaxy is the prosperous downtown area.

The star density in the core area near the center of the galaxy is as high as 289,000 stars per cubic light year, which is 72 million times that near the solar system.

In the night sky of the planets in that area, there will be millions of stars brighter than Sirius.

The night is like day, and the stars are in the sky.

Stars are the source of energy.

For humans who have surpassed the fourth-level civilization and mastered the technology of rapid star development, the area near the center of the galaxy is both a dangerous wasteland and an inexhaustible mine.

Although the 6322 team had not yet reached the center of the Milky Way, they had managed to leave the suburbs and enter the urban-rural junction.

In this area, the star density is 330 stars per cubic light year, which is 82,500 times that of the solar system.

The intelligence sent back by the reconnaissance aircraft that patrolled in advance in the original three-dimensional space was dropped into the 6322 command ship.

6322 commander Andre Vrechek unfolded the information, and a beautiful star map came into view.

It was an extremely large olive-shaped light blue star.

The absolute brightness is 11.2 times that of the Sun, and the volume is 1.9 billion times that of the Sun.

Near this star, there are tens of millions of huge nebulae that are far away in the shape of rays.

The size of the nebulae varies, with the largest reaching hundreds of millions of times the size of the light blue star and the smallest being only the size of Jupiter.

The experts in the 6322 Third Astronomical Science Ship quickly provided a more detailed analysis report.

"This area was once a small globular cluster of about 3,000 stars. The stars orbited each other. 600,000 years ago, two of the supermassive stars were deviated from their orbits by external forces and collided, triggering a supernova explosion, leaving behind an unstable black hole. The black hole completely disrupted the stability of the cluster's motion, and it continued to collide with other stars, eventually leading to an amazing explosion. After many years of evolution, this special star and radiation nebula that we see today was formed."

"The total mass of the star is only 13 times that of the sun, which is not commensurate with its huge size. The reason is that its interior is a hollow structure. It is not an olive-shaped star, but a nebula. The light blue light is not the energy released by the nuclear fusion reaction caused by the quantum tunneling effect in ordinary stars, but a plasma magnetic storm composed of electrical energy and magnetic fields."

"This storm only exists on the surface. There is almost no high-energy reaction inside it, which is illuminated by the light around it. At the very center of its interior, there is a super-small black hole with a mass of only 2.1 times that of the sun. The small black hole provides gravity, fixing the outer plasma magnetic storm nearby and rotating it at high speed, forming the olive body we see."

"There are even more amazing structures inside,"

the astrophysicist said as he zoomed in on the 3D image.

The simulation in front of Andre began to move inward.

"As we can see, there are dozens of planets orbiting the black hole along different orbits. The largest of these dozens of planets is only 4.2 times that of the Earth, the smallest is 0.7 times that of the Earth, and the average mass of all planets is 1.1 times that of the Earth. The orbits of all planets are in the 'habitable zone of the Earth', and each planet has an atmosphere, forming a different ecological environment."

"Yes, in just tens of thousands of years, early life was born on all the planets here. The planetary orbits are very stable and will not collide with the large number of dark energy clusters and small dark matter blocks in the vicinity. This is simply a galaxy full of vitality and a cosmic wonder! Before the energy of the plasma magnetic storm was exhausted, the structure of this galaxy was very stable."

"Comprehensive calculations show that the plasmamagnetic storm can remain stable for at least 2 billion years! If this galaxy is given enough time, a remarkable emerging civilization will surely develop here. Of course, this civilization has no future, because before they achieve the same level of technology as us, they cannot break through the blockade of the plasmamagnetic storm. However, the relatively closed and narrow space means that the technological level here can only develop to a level infinitely close to the third-level civilization. Assuming there is a civilization here, it will inevitably be destroyed in the extremely chaotic external environment when the plasmamagnetic storm collapses." "

This is the analysis parameter of the plasmamagnetic storm..."

Andre quickly scanned the parameters and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

The alternation of electric current and magnetic field alone can achieve such a high-level energy reaction.

This plasma-magnetic storm completely cuts off the internal and external folding channels and curvature channels, making it impossible to circumvent them.

At the same time, the storm's ultra-high energy reaction can even tear apart most of the ordinary ships in the current 6322 fleet.

Today's ships are not the tin foil when humans first entered space.

Putting aside the energy and force field shields, just talking about the ship's hull material, scientists have used the triple unified force in these materials to perfection, and the performance has surpassed the prism ship in the previous timeline. It has extremely strong stability, toughness, and self-repairing properties, and can be called the pinnacle masterpiece of the fourth-level civilization in the universe in materials science.

Such materials can still be easily torn apart by plasma-magnetic storms.

So the astrophysicist's judgment was very correct.

The civilization born inside can only touch the boundary of the third-level civilization at most, but in order to break out before everything is destroyed, it must have at least the material science and technology level of the fourth-level civilization.

This is an unsolvable vicious circle.

The above questions are the level considered by scientists.

But Andre Frichek, as the head of the military and political integration of the 6322 fleet, is indeed considering the bigger picture.

He made a judgment in an instant.

This special star is simply a front-line fortress tailor-made for the human expeditionary force.

Combining the vast amount of high-quality energy at hand and the storm layer that can block folding and curvature flight, it is entirely possible to build a space fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, integrating military, scientific research, population reproduction, rapid production and other functions.

Andre immediately contacted Zhou Donglai through the highest-level top-secret channel, and used the traditional but most secure manual code encoding communication to communicate with Zhou Donglai at a speed of one message every five minutes.

Twenty minutes later, Zhou Donglai expanded the scale of the meeting to allow the fleet near 6322 and the five highest military staff currently scattered in other fleets to participate.

Three hours later, the meeting made the following decision.

First: Name the unnamed special galaxy the Oasis Galaxy, implying a life-saving oasis that desert travelers stumble upon when they are struggling to move forward.

Second: Approve Andre's proposal to temporarily stop moving forward, build a fortress base here, and further expand the fleet's strength, and formulate a complete strategic plan around the above plan.

The Unknown Fleet once again changed part of the plan, but it was not a denial of the past. Instead, it was more in line with Zhou Donglai's own more flexible and changeable strategic thinking than Qin Guang.

In the vast universe and long voyages, there is no universal and unchanging idea, and it is natural to adapt to circumstances.

Three days later, the 6322 fleet arrived at the edge of the Oasis Star first, and docked only 50 million kilometers from the edge of the huge olive-shaped shallow blue star, and stationed on the spot.

Subsequently, a large number of reconnaissance teams were dispatched in all directions to guard the perimeter.

At the same time, military warships began to slowly spread out to the surroundings to form a defensive formation.

Research ships, production ships, and scientific research ships separated from the main force and moved closer to the surface of the Oasis Star.

As for the population reproduction ship, it was located in the center of the military ships and other functional ships.

Half an hour later, the first generation of unmanned research airships, which were specifically improved based on the remote sensing data obtained by researchers, flew out of a production ship and headed straight for the plasma magnetic storm layer of Oasis Star.

Thirty-five minutes later, the research airship first lost contact outside the plasma magnetic storm layer, then lost control, and finally exploded with a bang.

However, before the explosion, the airship transmitted a large amount of analysis data to the rear.

Fifteen minutes later, the second batch of a total of one hundred improved research airships flew out.

All the second batch of airships still exploded, but more information was obtained.

At the same time, Andre began to receive alarms indicating that the nearest compound eye slave fleet would arrive in four days.

In the past, Fleet 6322 would have immediately retreated, but this time, Andre started a comprehensive assessment and conducted a war simulation.

"The nearest Fleet 8119 will also arrive on the same day. We can fight and win this battle. But we will lose about 1,000 to 2,000 warships. We need to speed up the scientific research work. Ask the scientific research team what's going on and why they keep bombing." As

Andre was talking, all 500 scientific research airships in the third batch were bombed, but no new data was obtained this time.

Lu Guangda, the head of the scientific research team of the 6322 fleet, a 22-year-old young genius and the recognized successor of Emerson Colbert, said: "The energy of the plasma magnetic storm is too violent, causing huge interference to all our communication methods such as quantum communication, electromagnetic communication, and gravitational wave communication. The unmanned spacecraft will lose contact when it approaches. We decided to modify the manned spacecraft with a black box system based on the existing data. Switch to manual control, and fly as close as possible. It will take at least half an hour to improve the technology. At the same time, our research vessel pilot and field analyst selection... too many people have signed up, and a fight is about to break out."

Andre was silent for a moment after hearing this, and stopped blaming him. He only said, "Well, Dr. Lu, keep up the good work. By the way, thank those young people for me."

Once you go, you can't turn back.

But the fourth generation fought hard for this chance to die.

Andre turned his head to look at the huge pale blue star outside the see-through porthole, and muttered to himself, "It's different now."