According to Elder Hus’ mory data, the Ji Race had already developed Star Gates during the original Ji Race era. However, since the original Ji Race restricted the developnt of other races and were not keen on expansion themselves, the Star Gate technology, though developed, remained in a very primitive stage.
By the ti of the New Ji Race era, so mbers of other races had beco part of the new Ji Race. However, their origins ant they could no longer restrict the developnt of other races as the original Ji Race had done.
After being restricted for hundreds of thousands of years, the other races began to expand wildly. Coupled with the addition of new races, the territory of the Interstellar Technological Confederation also rapidly expanded.
Under these circumstances, although warp drive technology continued to advance, it could no longer et the needs of the Confederation’s mbers. As a result, Star Gate technology was revisited. After spending a considerable amount of ti mastering the technology, a wave of Star Gate construction began.
The resources required to build a Star Gate were enormous, especially in the early stages when the technology was not yet mature. The resource consumption was even greater.
Historical records show that in the early days, Star Gates of the sa level were twice as bulky and massive as they are today. For example, the mass of a large Star Gate was equivalent to the combined mass of several planets. Along with the accompanying starport and Dyson sphere, the star systems where Star Gates were located often beca significantly emptier.
Fortunately, there were so many star systems in the universe that they could easily support the Confederation’s consumption. Moreover, at that ti, to accelerate expansion, everyone was willing to contribute resources. Under this trend, while a large number of Star Gates were completed, related technologies also advanced rapidly.
The various facilities within Star Gates were continuously streamlined, causing their size to gradually shrink. However, even the smallest Star Gates had their limits. Today, building a Star Gate remains an extrely resource-intensive project, requiring the extraction of vast amounts of various tals.
Furthermore, as the expansion of other races has slowed, most civilizations have entered a phase of consolidation. As a result, the process of building a Star Gate has beco more cumberso. It typically requires multi-party deliberation, especially the approval of civilizations near the proposed construction site, as the tals needed are likely to be mined from their territories.
According to Elder Hus’ mories, when the war against the Swarm began, so races proposed building Star Gates on the front lines to allow distant civilizations to deploy their forces quickly.
However, at that ti, the situation was not as dire as it is now. The civilizations bordering the Swarm wanted the Ji Race to build Star Gates in their territories.
But these civilizations were the weakest and newest, with too little territory to spare. Providing the resources for a Star Gate would be too burdenso, potentially compressing their living space and lowering their quality of life.
So organizations protested, obstructing the approval process and demanding assistance from other mbers. However, with the attitude of “out of sight, out of mind,” even mbers of the Koya Alliance and the Locke Mutual Aid Society, which were closest to the Swarm, showed little interest in the proposal, let alone more distant civilizations.
By the ti the proposal was finally approved after much difficulty, the civilizations bordering the Swarm had already fallen, and the planned construction sites for the Star Gates had been captured by the Swarm.
As a result, the proposal had to be reconsidered. By this ti, so mbers of the Locke Mutual Aid Society and the Koya Alliance were also beginning to panic. However, there were still mbers who believed the Swarm wouldn’t reach their territories and demanded reductions in their contributions.
Thus, when the proposal was finally approved again after overcoming nurous obstacles, the Swarm’s forces were already on the horizon. The Swarm’s performance surprised and shocked all the other races.
Although the Ji Race’s Star Gate construction technology was quite mature, it was still a massive project that would take decades to complete.
And in those decades, no one could guarantee that the construction site wouldn’t fall into Swarm hands. History seed to repeat itself, as if several hidden forces were deliberately delaying progress.
Fortunately, the Confederation learned from its mistakes and chose a location nearly a hundred light-years away from the Swarm’s front lines, providing ample strategic buffer space for the Star Gate’s construction.
Although the distance was so great that even forces arriving via the Star Gate would need about twenty years to deploy to the front lines, the location was safe. Currently, the main structure of the Star Gate is complete, and the accompanying Dyson sphere is 50% finished, barely eting the requirents for activating the Star Gate. The starport, however, has not yet been built due to its low priority, and its functions are temporarily handled by nearby planets.
According to the current progress, the Star Gate will soon be operational. At that point, it will continuously transport distant forces to the front lines, and even inner-ring civilizations far from the Swarm will join the war. But these are matters for the future.
This passage through the Star Gate’s wormhole was, strictly speaking, not Luo Wen’s first experience with wormholes. When he was developing the Fold Crossing skill, an accident occurred during a dinsional jump due to miscalculating energy consumption.
However, that experint was also incredibly fortunate. At a critical mont, he accidentally fell into a small wormhole, which led him to Planet Botian.
This ti, however, the wormhole opened by the Star Gate was vastly different from that small one due to the Star Gate’s size. This large wormhole gave Luo Wen a completely different experience.
The properties of space-ti were more pronounced. The surrounding ships were stretched into endless ribbons, sucked into the deep, mirror-like surface. When the node units were pulled in, everything around them beca blurry, as if enveloped in pure light.
It was impossible to tell how much ti had passed—perhaps just a fleeting mont—before everything beca clear again. They had arrived at the other end of the wormhole.
If not for the overwhelming discomfort that filled their bodies, it would have been easy to think the entire experience was just a dream. However, Luo Wen, being a higher-dinsional being, managed to glean so insights from this experience.
The Ji Race’s Star Gates work by generating a massive gravitational point using enormous energy, then connecting it to a beacon on the other side to break through the constraints of space.
While it looks incredibly impressive and has effects similar to Luo Wen’s Fold Crossing, the two are fundantally different. The Ji Race’s wormholes are still products of this universe, operating within its rules without transcending them or involving dinsions outside this universe.
In contrast, Luo Wen’s Fold Crossing is different. It’s like opening a hole in this universe and using his body to build a bridge between two points.
Since there is no concept of distance outside of dinsions, Luo Wen can perform precise Fold Crossings as long as he has a beacon within this universe. Of course, without a beacon, Luo Wen can also open a random hole in this universe for a random Fold Crossing.
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