Chapter 83: The Holy Grail Project Initiated

Civilization Federation,

Capital Star System of Tian Cang.

"The military will be fully equipped with tachyon communication capabilities within ten years?"

This official message spreads throughout the Civilization Federation.

"Has our Civilization Federation reached such an advanced level? They have even mastered tachyon communication."

"I remember that tachyons are a branch of string theory, and our Civilization Federation mainly focuses on string theory. Discovering tachyons was only a matter of time."

"You don't understand. Tachyons do not exist in our 3+1-dimensional universe, and they violate the physical laws of our universe. To control tachyons, we must first transcend dimensions."

"The fundamental strings, which are the basis of the world's matter and energy, cannot cross the universe's membrane. To truly transcend dimensions, the required energy would be greater than infinity."

"..."

The discussion shocks both the academic community and the general public.

The Civilization Federation has already reached Level 2, and its citizens learn 26 subjects, including geometry, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, mechanics, aerodynamics, and biological genetics, in elementary school. Only those who pass these subjects can graduate.

A 21st-century graduate student from Earth would likely fail even the elementary school exams in the Civilization Federation.

Because these subjects are taught in elementary school, 99% of the citizens in the Civilization Federation are aware of the challenges of tachyon communication, which indirectly increases the spread of this news.

Within 50 years, it spreads throughout the entire Civilization Federation.

People are skeptical and find it hard to believe.

After all, such a technological advancement is like humans in the steam age mastering nuclear fusion, and the gap is even more significant.

The Civilization Federation has developed for nearly 500 years and has just reached Level 2.1.

Dimensional technology is still beyond their reach.

At this time, the military conducts an exercise, transmitting information from a large tachyon communication device in Tian Cang to the edge of the star domain, 22 light-years away, in front of everyone's eyes.

After another 23 years, the successful transmission of complex information is confirmed.

This news shocks the entire Civilization Federation.

The discovery of tachyon communication allows the Civilization Federation to advance to Level 2.2, even though their energy level has not yet reached the required standard.

Tachyon communication is especially crucial in warfare, making it nearly impossible for a 2.3-level civilization to defeat the Civilization Federation.

The main war faction within the Civilization Federation, which had been overshadowed by the discovery of the Olive Branch Civilization, now feels more confident. With tachyon communication, even a 2.3-level civilization would need to think twice before attacking.

However, warfare in the universe is not just about direct conflict; it also involves multi-layered information warfare, psychological warfare, and external ideological struggles.

This seemingly muscle-flexing "tachyon communication" is part of Yan Xia's ideological warfare against the Olive Branch Civilization.

After another 45 years, a Civilization Federation official "accidentally" leaks even more shocking news.

- The Holy Grail Project

This project describes a higher-level Galactic Core Civilization that, after fully controlling the Milky Way, intends to develop some followers.

However, these followers must compete, and only the winner will have the chance to become a follower civilization.

The Civilization Federation has been chosen as one of the participants in this competition.

Tachyon communication is a "gift" from the Galactic Core Civilization, and only by using tachyon communication to defeat other participant civilizations can they have a chance to win the "Holy Grail."

This news is quickly debunked, and the official who leaked it disappears from the public eye.

However, because of this, citizens believe it even more. Especially after 150 years, when the Civilization Federation's military undergoes significant changes.

The 7th and 8th fleets are dispatched to the edge of the Civilization Federation, and the two fleets combine to form a fleet that sails towards uncharted space.

The destination of these two fleets is kept strictly confidential, and even some high-ranking officials are unaware of their whereabouts, making the Holy Grail Project even more mysterious.

Six years after this time point, around the year 9406 AD, a small probe, less than a meter long, is activated approximately 1.1 light-years away from the outer edge of the star system where the embassy of the Olive Branch Civilization is located. The probe travels at 13% of the speed of light towards deep space, in the direction where the two fleets departed.

In the shadows, a monitoring satellite detects the faint energy fluctuations and records the message, transmitting it to Ella, who is currently in Tian Cang.

The Ella that received this message is not the main Ella but an attachment.

The real Ella has created a massive main unit for her calculations, located within a Dyson cloud. This main unit consists of approximately 1% of the Dyson cloud devices, or 940,000 Dyson cloud devices, forming Ella's main unit array. This gives Ella a computing power of over 170,000 quetta/s, or 1.7 x 10^44 calculations per second.

These calculations use floating-point and fixed-point fusion methods, combined with two-to-nine-bit arithmetic, for extremely complex calculations.

Although this significantly reduces computing power, it allows for extremely precise calculations, down to the 84,212th decimal place.

Upon receiving the message, Ella immediately analyzes it.

"As Yan Xia said, the Olive Branch Civilization will not be able to resist investigating."

"They can tolerate many things, but they cannot tolerate the absence of information. In the interaction between two civilizations, the absence of information is fatal."

"Whether the Olive Branch Civilization cooperates with or opposes the Civilization Federation, they cannot passively receive critical information like the Holy Grail Project."

Ordinary citizens are no longer able to access this information, so the Olive Branch Civilization will undoubtedly send a probe.

However, Ella will not stop or destroy the probe.

This action is intended to let the Olive Branch Civilization know their purpose.

"I wonder what kind of civilization the Olive Branch Civilization is."

"Will we be attacked by both civilizations at the same time and perish?"

Ella has already calculated the worst-case scenario.

The outcome of this situation depends on Yan Xia's plan and the Civilization Federation's technological exploration.

Both aspects are crucial.

Yan Xia has been gone for nearly 4,000 years, and Ella will continue to accelerate the expansion of the Civilization Federation. In 3,000 years, she will ensure that the Civilization Federation reaches Level 2.2 in terms of energy.

At that time, Ella and Yan Xia will also discuss the development of another technology, which will be implemented within these 3,000 years.

This technology, or virtual reality technology, is called the Simulated Universe.