Chapter 592: Chapter 384: Past Events of the Milky Way Galaxy (6100 words combined into 1)_2

They immersed the core metal material used in the manufacture of engines in a special force field for decades, modifying it constantly, resulting in a drastic improvement in engine performance.

Barnard’s Star Fleet’s propulsion system is slightly inferior, roughly on par with the Solar Fleet, but its energy weapons are more powerful.

Distinct from the phase particles and high-energy rays of the Solar Fleet, Barnard’s Star battleships’ main guns emit a special energy called Austrian Rays, which have much greater penetration and destructive power than high-energy rays and phase particles and can travel at 1.5 times the speed of light.

The Barnard’s Star scientists’ ability to develop the Austrian Cannon relied on a large meteorite in the Barnard’s Star System.

A natural ore in the meteorite can be mined to extract Austrian Isotope 305.

When ordinary high-energy rays are used to irradiate Austrian Isotope 305, Austrian Rays are stimulated.

Earthlings, who lived in isolation, could never have imagined that stable substances with a relative atomic mass of 305 could exist in the universe at normal temperatures, much less have envisioned an asteroid that could spin at a speed similar to a black hole without disintegrating. However, they saw it and put it to use.

The vastness of the universe is filled with infinite possibilities.

The stellar blockade dome not only seals off space but also blocks the opportunity for civilizations to venture out and see new things – it blocks their vision.

Under the conditions of lacking a super-genius, the technological progress of the two colonies can keep pace with that of the Solar System. In addition to everyone starting on the same technological baseline, contact with new planets and witnessing new physical rules are also important factors.

Harrison Clark noted the progress of the Proxima Centauri Colony and Barnard’s Star and was deeply moved.

He had previously only thought about how the Solar System Barrier locked people in by sealing off space, but he didn’t consider the technological blockade. Now he understood that it truly was a deadly strategy.

Theoretically, once a civilization above Type I is sealed off, its technological level is unlikely to develop explosively.

Apart from technological matters, Harrison Clark also briefly reviewed the exploration reports of the two colonies within the Milky Way, primarily in the Orion Arm.

After venturing out and taking root, these two groups never ceased exploring their external environment.

Moreover, the two colonies not only cut off contact with the Solar System but also maintained independence from each other.

Initially, they held fast to the advice “go far and never look back.” Since they could not make contact with their homeworld, they naturally wouldn’t attempt to contact other successful colonies.

The two parties each chose completely different directions, advancing forward and constantly establishing scientific research stations and dispatching increasingly advanced research vessels.

Although they haven’t gone too far even now – barely a few hundred light-years, with the furthest-reaching research vessel progressing less than 200 light-years, less than one percent of the Orion Arm – their sight is cast increasingly farther away thanks to more advanced detection equipment.

In addition, they can also see events happening in the Solar System from a relatively clear distance of several light-years away.

Although they have not personally experienced the horror of the Great Extinction Catastrophe, they can see it very clearly.

The people of the two colonies began to feel a sense of urgency, accelerating the pace of exploration, successively drawing definitive conclusions, and within the billions of stars that make up the Orion Arm, no other civilizations meet the Kardashev Type 1 Classification.

They discovered some alien civilizations, but none had the ability to travel across stellar systems.

They have had brief and superficial contact with these civilizations, but they are entirely unaware of the existence of Compound-Eyed Observers.

Later, each colony independently discovered some ruins of destroyed civilizations – wrecked spaceships, torn cities, and even large planets that had been shattered into asteroid belts.

These destroyed fallen civilizations had one thing in common.

No matter which developmental path these lost civilizations took, they were generally on the borderline of a Type I Civilization at the time of their demise, maybe slightly behind or a little over that threshold.

Just as they were about to, or had just, mastered interstellar travel capabilities, they suddenly perished.

The game, movie and novel titled “Lover” left behind by the ancient sage Harrison Clark, along with the Great Extinction Catastrophe that occurred in the Solar System and the intelligence collected by the two increasingly large colonies, combined to form a saddening conclusion.

The Compound Eye Civilization certainly exists.

It’s just that every civilization that has come into contact with the Compound Eye Civilization has perished.

The other low-level civilizations that are completely unaware of this fact are simply not worth slaughtering.

Around the beginning of the 30th century, a research vessel from the Proxima Centauri Colony made a significant discovery.

They found a small escape vessel.

This escape vessel does not belong to humans, nor to any confirmed lower-level civilizations, and does not match the estimated characteristics of the Compound Eye Civilization.

The technological level of this civilization is extremely high, almost reaching the theoretical value of a Tier 3 Civilization.

There is no one on the escape vessel, not even the remains of the dead, and no data or information.

Scientists tentatively named it the Egyptian tribe.

After careful discussions, scientists believed that the Egyptian tribe was very likely a major civilization in the Milky Way that was destroyed by the Compound Eye Civilization.