Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1252 - 478: The Fifth Race (Part 2)

The social atmosphere on Source Star today is completely different from any star system in the Mechanical Empire.

People here are united, resilient, tenacious, brave, and industrious.

There’s no unscrupulous scheming or cruel plundering; everyone knows who their enemy is, everyone has clear objectives, and almost no one is slacking off. Everyone is contributing their power and potential without reservation.

In a sense, the current Source Star civilization is highly similar to Ren Zhong’s former homeland facing life and death, united as one in a collective effort.

Reality also proves that humanity indeed needs such an environment to unleash greater potential.

A set of educational and propaganda systems combining Marxist-Leninist ideologies and leadership thought, cultural concepts independent of the human branches of the Ancient Disk Galaxy, a more open information system, hatred for the Empire’s cruel system, fear of extinction that could come at any moment, comprehensive education systems, relaxed advancement environments, fair distribution systems, a completely open knowledge system from the Empire, terrifying enemies that are suffocating, an absolute authority management system revolved around Ren Zhong, and unshakable personal beliefs in Ren Zhong as the leader who changes the destiny of humanity on Source Star, all these objective conditions intertwine to form a small society of fervent admiration for Ren Zhong, yet full of creativity.

Humans on Source Star are much like those in the twentieth century, continually experiencing a sustained advancement akin to an electrified industrial revolution.

Population on Source Star originates from the Empire, is most authentically human among the four systems of the Ancient Disk Galaxy, yet hasn’t been distorted or controlled by the Empire’s system, gradually evolving from the Empire’s human traits to become the fifth race within the Ancient Disk Galaxy.

Perhaps the current humans on Source Star are still small and fragile, highly similar to the humans of the Empire, but Ren Zhong believes that with enough time, Source Star’s humans will undoubtedly follow a path vastly different from the Empire’s humans, yet with infinitely greater potential.

As seen now, Sun Ai has split the space exploration device project into two identical detailed plans, one given to the research facilities in the Fleet Headquarters, and the other simultaneously distributed to the numerous universities, scientific research departments, public and private research institutes on Source Star.

Both sides acted almost simultaneously, conducting parallel research, but the progress on Source Star was much faster.

It’s not that the people in Fleet Headquarters were slacking off, but after ten years of proliferation and widespread education, the number of scientific personnel on Source Star related to the project is already nearly forty times that of Fleet Headquarters, with average academic standards far surpassing those at Fleet Headquarters.

Although the average genetic talents of people remaining on Source Star aren’t as high as those in the fleet, ten years were sufficient to proliferate half a generation, enough for many children who initially didn’t show talent to grow and thrive.

When Ren Zhong toured the world with Xiao Xingyue, they casually brought back numerous orphans from Starfire Town, most of whom have now become prominent old scholars on Source Star.

The people on Source Star hardly slept, always advancing.

If graded like the Professional System, there are roughly five thousand advanced scientists at Fleet Headquarters, but over two hundred thousand advanced scientists on Source Star.

To the Empire, populations without noble status are merely human wheat fields, as is the concept in Fleet Headquarters.

But to Source Star, population means productivity and creativity, vastly different.

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In the center of Fleet Headquarters, a small experimental space station is quietly suspended in space.

The space station floats outside the Tracer, nearly one million kilometers away from the Tracker Spaceship.

Inside the station’s experimental hall, a group of researchers are hugging each other in ecstatic celebration.

"It worked!"

"Fold Jump... Subspace... Energy State oscillations... The universe’s spectrum... Unbelievable, the universe is truly unbelievable."

"I never thought in my lifetime that what was supposed to be the absolute value of time could become the fourth force in folding three-dimensional space. Truly unbelievable."

"It might not be time; it could be the fourth dimension on the spatial plane."

"Anyway, that’s not important; the main thing is we succeeded!"

"It’s all thanks to Viscount’s efforts."

"Indeed, Viscount... Truly unbelievable."

"Yes, the foundational thinking for energy level conversion, the basis for energy state studies, the assembly and design concepts for the entire conversion equipment, these crucial core research works are all thanks to him."