People's Union Parliament.
Time is the most powerful weapon. Due to his age, Speaker Hung Chi-ming had already resigned from his position as Speaker.
The current parliament is chaired by Lin Shuguang.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has long been one of the most important parts of the UN Parliament.
Therefore, it is only natural that the Speaker of Parliament was succeeded by the first Foreign Minister of the SUPP.
[Draft of the UN's First Trans-River Expedition Plan]
[A Call to Arms for the Expedition of Human Civilization]
Inside the Speaker's office, Lin Shuguang stared into thought as he looked at the two documents projected onto the holographic screen.
To be honest, he was initially reluctant.
But after reading the series of thought-provoking words written by Lü Yongchang, his mind was greatly shaken.
Leaving aside the potential threats posed by the Cleaners' Civilization and the Pastoral Civilization, Lin Shuguang completely switched sides simply because of that one sentence: "For the sake of the stars and the sea."
Agreed, absolutely!
How could a tiny galaxy like the Milky Way possibly contain human civilization!
Expedition! Follow the expedition route of the Tenth Empire and launch expeditions to the Andromeda Galaxy, the Local Group, and the Virgo Supercluster!
Level 6 civilization is by no means the end of human civilization!
The future of human civilization belongs only to the stars and the sea!
Lin Shuguang was neither the first member of parliament to be persuaded nor the only one to defect at the last minute.
As for the Academy of Sciences, there's no need to elaborate.
No scientist can resist the allure of more advanced technology!
The Academy of Sciences of the People's Federation unanimously approved the expedition proposal!
The SUPP Parliament unanimously passed the expedition proposal!
On that day, the "Human Civilization Expedition Mobilization Notice" was distributed to the personal terminals of every citizen of the Human Union!
Seeing those inspiring lines of text, the People's Federation, which had been calm for a long time, finally erupted in excitement!
Unlike the Proxima Centauri era.
This time, it is a spontaneous expedition undertaken by human civilization, not a forced escape!
Furthermore, it is no exaggeration to say that 99.99% of the 30 billion citizens of the People's Republic of China grew up listening to the legendary stories of Lü Yongchang.
The legendary stories spanning over two thousand years have forged Lü Yongchang into an unprecedented force of power.
His raised arm and shout were as sacred as a divine decree to the People's Alliance at that moment!
The referendum on human civilization, eagerly anticipated by everyone, has finally arrived.
Apart from the elderly who were nearing the end of their lives, almost all the citizens of the People's Union solemnly cast their votes.
The referendum results were announced that day.
Over 99% of the United People's Army citizens chose the expedition plan!
In the year 4055 of the Earth calendar, the first trans-galactic expedition of the Human Alliance was officially launched!
...
A trans-galactic expedition is no small matter.
Even a powerful nation like the Tenth Empire spent tens of thousands of years preparing for its expedition.
But human civilizations are different.
Zero, who has mastered the incomplete version of the [Four-Dimensional Optical Brain], has, to some extent, even surpassed the main brain of the Tenth Empire's fortress.
Even with unparalleled productivity compared to other civilizations, and with thousands of affiliated civilizations helping to gather resources, such a feat as a transgalactic expedition cannot be accomplished overnight.
According to the plan formulated by the Academy of Sciences.
It would take at least five hundred years to complete the construction of all the expeditionary fleets.
The collection of materials will also take four to five hundred years.
As for the other tedious preparatory work, it would also take hundreds of years to complete.
For zero, all of these tasks can be performed simultaneously.
Taking into account the various unforeseen circumstances that might arise during the preparations, the Academy of Sciences set the start date for the expedition six hundred years later.
This is a time that almost all citizens of the United Nations can accept.
After all, the basic lifespan of humans had reached the millennium level by this time.
The contribution value required for the first tier of life extension technology is not high, and almost all citizens can enjoy it.
This means that almost everyone can experience the feeling of the Andromeda Galaxy's starlight brushing against their face up close.
For this reason, every citizen of the United Nations spontaneously contributes to the expedition plan to the best of their ability.
...
The collection of basic supplies was relatively simple.
The most troublesome part is actually the collection of antimatter, an energy resource.
To solve this problem, the megastructure engineering department launched the Phase III [Dyson Sphere] project with great fanfare.
Unlike Phase I [Dyson Cloud] and Phase II [Dyson Ring], Phase III [Dyson Sphere] can envelop an entire star.
It can easily absorb the energy released by an entire star and convert it into antimatter for storage.
Of course, this move definitely has its drawbacks.
After the use of the Phase III Dyson sphere, the star system will become a cold and lifeless "graveyard"—losing the energy of the star, those planets will completely lose any hope of nurturing life.
Therefore, when selecting target stars, the Chinese Academy of Sciences generally conducts a simple search and assessment to avoid unnecessary "collateral damage".
As for the civilization exposure crisis caused by the use of Dyson Sphere technology...
There's absolutely no need to worry about that.
A civilization capable of using Dyson Cloud, Dyson Ring, or Dyson Sphere technology is at least a Level 4 civilization.
The Dark Forest Theory does not apply.
Furthermore, countless stars have mysteriously disappeared throughout the universe.
No advanced civilization would care about such a trivial matter.
At best, it's just a minor note in an insignificant corner of the log.
Ten years, twenty years, thirty years...
As more and more stars are enveloped by the Dyson sphere, this star field gradually dims when viewed from a distance.
In order to gather more resources, the territory of human civilization began to expand outwards.
During this time, they encountered many primitive civilizations.
Without exception, these less advanced civilizations, after offering only token resistance, joined the large army that was gathering resources for human civilization.
1200 light years, 1500 light years, 1800 light years...
Finally, the frontiers of human civilization touched upon a star system marked with a danger symbol.
It was a completely empty area.
Within a radius of tens of light-years, apart from vast nebulae, there are almost no stars or planets.
The aftershocks of the supernova explosion still linger in this region of the star.
This is a wreckage.
No civilization has appeared in this area for a long time.
To this day, accompanied by a strong spacetime fluctuation, a starship of not particularly large size appeared at the edge of this star field.
It paused for a moment, and after confirming the command, it slowly entered this desolate star field.
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