Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 754: The Age of Nations

In the pitch-black, unfathomable universe, a Town-Class spaceship was quietly traveling.

Back when Xiao Yu was still within the Divine Ark Civilization, he had always been pondering a question, namely, what he should do to rebuild a civilization when he was in the worst possible situation, just like now.

Xiao Yu’s conclusion was that as long as he had a sufficient industrial foundation, it would not be difficult for him to restore a civilization. After all, he was not a pure Technological Civilization that needed such a vast population to maintain the development of civilization.

And Xiao Yu had indeed acted accordingly. This Town-Class small spaceship was Xiao Yu’s last hope, the spark with which he would rebuild civilization. Naturally, it was stocked with a great many industrial facilities. Industrial facilities were everything.

Xiao Yu had indeed done this, but unfortunately, during the explosion of the Solar spaceship, because the Hope spaceship had taken damage, most of these industrial facilities were lost. In fact, aboard the Hope spaceship, there was only a single multi-functional robot left, as well as nanobots whose numbers reached several hundred million, but which could not function on a macroscopic level.

This meant that unless he obtained an industrial base, Xiao Yu would lose the ability to rebuild a civilization.

Only at this point did Xiao Yu realize how much of a mistake it had been not to have sealed away a few industrial bases within the Milky Way Galaxy during his long journeys in the past. Xiao Yu had indeed experienced many eras of great development and had left many traces throughout the galaxy, but those bases had all self-destructed after he departed. The reason was that if those industrial bases were discovered by other alien civilizations, it might lead to technological leakage.

“I must go back to the Solar System.” Xiao Yu’s resolve grew stronger. At this moment, his decision was no longer only because the Solar System was his homeland. There was another reason, namely that on Saturn’s moon Titan, Xiao Yu had a fully preserved industrial base. Although it only consisted of industrial facilities of a Level 2 Civilization, with the support of Xiao Yu’s vast scientific data, it could transform into a massive Level 6 Civilization factory in an extremely short time.

Xiao Yu still remembered that when he left the Solar System, he had preserved all the industrial facilities on Titan intact, and had left behind some robots controlled by Intelligent Programs. These robots would regularly maintain all the facilities in the base. If no accidents had occurred and everything had been running smoothly, then given Titan’s special environment, the probability that those facilities would still be usable even now was very high.

“The Solar System nurtured my life. Now, after being away from it for one hundred thousand years, I will return there once more and gain new life again in my homeland.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “I hope there are no more accidents. I hope the Hope spaceship can hold out until it reaches the Solar System.”

“My kin, I will take you home.” Looking at Zhang Shengya lying in front of him in a specially made coffin, her body still intact, as though merely asleep, Xiao Yu thought somewhat dimly, “If this journey goes smoothly, once I return to being a Level 6 Civilization, I will resurrect you. I will let you see how your kin annihilates the strongest civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy and spread the name of human civilization throughout the entire galaxy.”

Inside the Hope spaceship, the lone robot was busy at work. Everything within the Hope spaceship had been built using the most reliable manufacturing technologies available, including this robot itself. So Xiao Yu was not worried that this robot would fail again. It was multi-functional. It could perform a great many tasks, including manufacturing other robots or repairing the spaceship. However, Xiao Yu did not currently have enough materials to do these things.

“We will talk after I get back to the Solar System.” Xiao Yu thought silently.

But Xiao Yu’s misfortune did not seem to have ended yet. After the unexpected encounter with the Neutron War Star that resulted in the destruction of the Solar spaceship and the damaged Hope spaceship’s escape, Xiao Yu once again met with an accident. This happened about ten years after the Hope spaceship had begun its long voyage.

By now, Xiao Yu had crossed roughly one thousand light years. Although the Hope spaceship was heavily damaged, with the robot’s maintenance and repairs it had just barely managed to maintain its capacity for flight. But now, it had broken down.

The Hope spaceship had no choice but to exit curvature flight and reenter the visible universe. Before Xiao Yu now stretched the boundless sea of stars. The deep universe was dotted with countless starlights, incomparably beautiful, like a tranquil ocean.

If it had been in the past, Xiao Yu would have enjoyed admiring this beautiful scene. But he had neither the mood nor the capacity to do so now. At this moment, Xiao Yu was like a castaway drifting in a tiny skiff upon a boundless sea, struggling to survive. The beauty of the ocean was meaningless; it could not provide anything that would help him live.

On this vast ocean, Xiao Yu wanted to cry but had no tears.

A malfunction in the curvature engine had made curvature flight impossible. The robot was repairing the curvature engine, but judging from the current situation, the chances of a successful repair were slim. The main reason was still the lack of sufficient materials. The conventional engine could still function, but at most it could accelerate the Hope spaceship to a speed of one hundred and seventy thousand kilometers per second. To rely on this speed to reach the Solar System was impossible. A journey of over ten thousand years would force Xiao Yu to perish helplessly before he ever reached his destination.

At this moment, the nearest star to Xiao Yu was one light year away. Xiao Yu’s current position was roughly within the Oort cloud of this star, which was similar to the sun.

There was indeed some matter in the Oort cloud, and quite a lot of it, but its distribution range was far too vast. This made it completely unworthy of Xiao Yu’s effort to collect. Moreover, the mechanical processing capability of his one robot was far too feeble. To rely on it to gather enough material here to repair the Hope spaceship would require several thousand years.

Cruel reality had pushed Xiao Yu to the brink of destruction. Once again, Xiao Yu experienced that feeling from long ago, when he had struggled to survive in the Solar System with only a broken little spaceship.

“This star system has several planets, some gaseous and some rocky. All right, for me, the only way is to travel using conventional propulsion to reach the inner stellar system and then slowly develop on a planet.” after thinking for a while, Xiao Yu made up his mind.

Xiao Yu carried out a detailed scan of this star system, and after a moment, his heart suddenly tightened.

Because Xiao Yu discovered that this star system seemed strangely familiar, as though he had been here before. He had no choice but to expend energy searching his enormous database. After a while, Xiao Yu let out a quiet sigh.

A tidal wave of memories surged up from the depths of Xiao Yu’s mind.

“Are you all well? How far have you developed? Have you entered an industrial society?” Xiao Yu murmured, piloting the Hope spaceship on a conventional flight path toward the inner stellar system.

He truly had been here before. Back when Xiao Yu was still a Level 5 Civilization, frantically searching the Milky Way Galaxy for traces of lower civilizations, he had come to this place and made some very interesting discoveries. Here, Xiao Yu had found a life-bearing planet. A great abundance of life thrived on that world, and there was even a species similar to the apes on Earth that had already evolved an extremely simple and extremely primitive intelligence.

On a whim, Xiao Yu had captured a number of individuals of this species, carried out genetic modifications on them, and implanted some chips in their brains. Xiao Yu believed that his modifications would rapidly raise their level of intelligence and set them on an evolutionary path similar to that of humanity.

By his calculations, it had now been ten thousand years since he modified them.

“Ten thousand years have flashed by in a rush, and to think our reunion would come under circumstances like these.” Xiao Yu murmured. “I hope you have at least entered a civilized society. Even the tribal era is acceptable. If you have already entered the Age of Nations, that would be even better, and if you have reached the level of your first Industrial Revolution, that would be best of all. Whether I can repair the Hope spaceship will depend on your help.”

A distance of about one light year had once been utterly trivial for Xiao Yu, but now it required a huge amount of time to cross. The Hope spaceship was slowly accelerating, drawing nearer to the dim star in the distance. Time flowed by slowly in this seemingly motionless voyage. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Nearly two years later, Xiao Yu reached the heliopause of this star, truly entering the inner stellar system. One day after that, Xiao Yu passed the orbit of the outermost giant planet in this system.

Three hours later came the orbit of the second planet. Xiao Yu did not stop at either. From this point on, his spaceship began to decelerate slowly in preparation for entering orbit.

Fifteen hours later, the optical telescope opened, and Xiao Yu began observing the surface of the planet. The first thing to enter his field of view was a three-story wooden building about ten meters tall. Xiao Yu carefully examined the building’s construction techniques, its materials, and so on, and came to a conclusion.

“The technological level on this planet is roughly equivalent to that of the Song Dynasty in ancient China on Earth. Not bad, not bad, they have already been in the Age of Nations for some time. They are already usable to me…”