<h4>Chapter 614: Birth</h4>


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    This historical migration would take between two to three years.


    The maximum speed achievable by cklight Biotechnology’s nuclear power engine could elerate the spaceship to one-tenth the speed of light, which was equivalent to thirty thousand kilometers per second. The distance between the two designated points was 1115 light-years, which meant close to eleven thousand years of journey.


    However, the existence of the subspace greatly cut short what would be an eleven thousand years trip to Kepler-642b from the earth by close to ten thousand times. Under the distorted time-spacew of the subspace, it would only take up to two years for the cklight spaceship to reach Kepler-642b.


    It was a terrific speed.


    The diameter of the Milky Way was roughly measured at one hundred thousand light-years. A thousand light-years would be equivalent to one percent of the diameter of the Milky Way. To travel such a distance in just two years waspletely unfathomable for mankind even several years before this. It was more than an astronomical feat.


    Furthermore, as the cklight Biotechnology research team gained a further understanding of subspace, they also discovered two peculiar coordinates in the dimension, what was known as the “Mandeville Point”.


    The coordinate was discovered by a subspace scientist named Mandeville. The tabted mass of the sr system was calcted into the rtive geographic location of the Milky Way and atst, substituted into a form known as the “Mandeville Subspace Equation”. This equation calcted the influence factor of the subspace corresponding to the real universe to obtain a specific coordinate.


    This coordinate pinpointed the safest location for entering or exiting the subspace.


    A stable and safe subspace entry and exit position were present in each gxy. When entering or jumping out of the subspace in these exact positions, the gravity of the subspace mass and concentration became nullified, thereby creating an ideal location for maneuvering in and out of the subspace with minimized risk.


    There were two such Mandeville Points located in the sr system, one of which was located near the orbit of Uranus while the other near the orbit of Pluto.


    Since it was Mandeville who formted this equation, it was thereafter named after him while the produced coordinates following this equation werebeled as the Mandeville Points.


    Upon learning of this, Chen Chen suddenly understood why Pluto was specifically chosen as the starting point for performing subspace space warp in the movie Event Horizon.


    It was because the Mandeville Point was located precisely on the orbit of Pluto.


    Having gained this knowledge, it was rtively easy to progress from here on. Without informing other parties of this exciting discovery, cklight Biotechnology conducted two trial runs secretly. All of the required preparations were made. The trial run for future gxy colonization was underway...


    “cklight departing port A...


    “Releasing porting module A...


    “Activating engines, the cklight will be reversing, please take caution...


    “The cklight is departing the port...”


    Shaw sat at the head of the spaceship’s bridge and listened to the routine notice of the artificial intelligence systems.


    Shaw’s overall presentation had undergone a drastic transformation over thest year. His entire persona had be weathered and stoic, his cheeks were sunken and the texture of his skin turned coarse and tough. It seemed as if he had aged by decades.


    The most notable transformation was that he had shaved his head bald. There were jet-ck things that looked likerge buttons fixed into the sides of his polished scalp. It was a device known as a brain-machine interface.


    This drastic transformation was required to build up his resistance against the harmful qualities of the subspace. As Chen Chen did not purge all of the subspace presence in his body a year ago, he had been gued by nightmares all year round.


    The subspace energy chipped away at his psyche gradually, but it also served to harden his mental psionic strength, beating it into tempered steel over time.


    Three months ago, with the help of a teamposed of the world’s best therapists and psychologists, Shaw managed to ovee his inner demons and finally got over the death of his wife. Seeing this, Chen Chen deemed that he was now worthy of a central role in the gxy migration project.


    Apanying Shaw were two other members, a male and a female respectively.


    The man was in his mid-twenties. Moments before the spaceshipmencedunching, he was still stricken with nerves and agitation while the woman beside him who seemed to be in her thirties was cool and collected.


    All three of them were bald and fixed to their seats. To be precise, they were practically chained to the seats.


    The seats of the trio were arranged in a triangr pattern. Shaw’s seat was positioned closest to the window and at the sharpest angle of the triangle, clearly indicating that he was the one inmand.


    “Establishing a connection to the life support system...”


    The artificial intelligence system broadcasted another notice to the crew members again. Shortly after that, arge tube appeared overhead and quite rudely inserted itself into the mouths of the crew members. Then, a soft hose extended from inside the tube and explored the insides of their mouths before stretching all the way down their throat.


    “Hnnghh...”


    The other two members could not stop themselves from retching at this gross sensation.


    Shaw ignored them and did what he could to rx and let it pass silently. He felt the hose reaching deep into his stomach region. A simr procedure was repeated, this time, with a tube built into the seating from underneath them that prodded into their rectum region.


    This was not the end of it. It was quickly followed with several inserts into the veins in their limbs. Upon itspletion, they were fixed to their seats without any escape.


    “Establishing a connection with the brain-machine interface...”


    Several ports appeared overhead andtched themselves into ck buttons that were the brain-machine interface specially fixed into Shaw’s head. Shaw instantly felt his vision turning pitch-ck. His bionic eyes were temporarily shut off.


    Although his vision was gone, he could sense that his brain was now directly connected to the central systems of the cklight. From here on, his brain had be the interface itself and every thought he formed was issued asmands that would be performed without any dy.


    This was the specialized role that Chen Chen had created – Subspace Navigator.


    Shaw of all people was aware of the dangers subspace travel entailed. The navigator needed to be cautious at all times as the slightest distraction could yield fatal results. Therefore, the navigator had to be bound to the seat for however long the journey may take. Basic human needs such as eating, drinking, and organic excretion would be taken care of by artificial intelligence.


    Remaining seated for an extended period may cause long-term health issues such as poor blood cirction or muscle necrosis. cklight Biotechnology had factored this into their blueprints and the navigator’s seat was fitted with an borate massage system working at all times to keep blood cirction flowing. Simtion of the nerves was performed with mild electric pulses. One could remain in this seat for decades without worrying about body functions degenerating.


    Of the three subspace navigators, it was undoubtedly Shaw who assumed the central role in the operation. The other two were merely his assistants that cklight Biotechnology had assigned him. These navigators gained their abilities artificially by receiving an injection formted using an extract from Shaw’s blood. However, there was a distinct gap between their astral sight and Shaw’s naturally acquired astral sight. The range of their observation only reached up to several thousand kilometers so the best they could do was serve as assistant to the more qualified Shaw.


    “Brain-machine interface connectionplete.


    “Preparing forunch... Destination, Uranus orbit...


    “Beginning eleration...”


    The artificial intelligence system continued issuing notices into Shaw’s mind. Although Shaw’s bionic eyes had been deactivated, the connection established between the nerve center in his brain to the spaceship central system meant that his so-called “mind’s eye” was open. There were a lot of things he could do and many entertainments at his disposal. He could y games, chess, watch movies, and many more activities to spend the next millennium leisurely.


    Though the subspace dimension was a perilous world, not a single person in the world could be expected to remain vignt at all times, especially not for months, even years. This was where having two assistants came in handy. Iit was so that the navigators could take shifts and take a break whenever needed.


    This system ensured a proper bnce so that the navigators could function in a healthy state of mind without suffering from fatigue.


    As the spaceship took flight, Shawmunicated to his two assistants by directly conveying his thoughts to them through the brain-machine interface, “Gordon, Marcy, let’s work well together over the next few years. Let’s aplish our tasks dutifully. If this voyage is sessful, we’ll have achieved something grand and have a bright future ahead of us.”


    “Understood, Captain.”


    The two of them responded to Shaw’s speech enthusiastically. Just like Shaw, they were felons acquired by cklight Biotechnology from other countries through undergroundworks. Though they could not secure their freedom yet, they were lucky enough to emerge among hundreds of candidates and graced with abilities like Shaw’s.


    The current voyage was their lifeline at achieving the long-sought-after freedom. If they could see this voyage to its session, they would be offered the choice of freedom.


    Shaw was satisfied with their response. As the spaceship took off, he took a look at the deeper sections of the spaceship where two thousand upied cryogenic chambers were situated. The passengers were all put in a cryogenic state to conserve the limited supplies in the spaceship and also to protect themselves from the dangerous subspace energy.


    Granted that no idents ur, they should find themselves on Kepler-642b upon waking up.


    Shaw was designated the highest authority level on this spaceship, second only to the artificial intelligence system. This essentially meant that he was the captain of the spaceship. As the captain, he had ess to the information of all the passengers on board. While they were still on the way to the subspace, he decided to go through the report of these two thousand passengers just as a means of killing time.


    Just to be on the safe side, cklight Biotechnology would wait for another ten days for conditions to stabilize before entering Jupiter’s orbit. From there on, the spaceship would perform a gravitational eleration and bound for Uranus. The spaceship would elerate gradually until reaching the maximum speed which was one-tenth of the speed of light until arriving at the discovered Mandeville Point located along the orbit of Uranus.


    The entire journey was estimated to take up to a month. This meant that Shaw along with his two assistants had a month to prepare themselves for the most challenging part of the journey, which was inside the subspace where their powers would be called to use...


    ...


    Just like that, the cklight had departed from the geosynchronous orbit of the earth and ventured into the vast expanse of the universe.


    This shocking maneuver rmed the Earth Federation. Tens of thousands of astronomical telescopes all over the world zoomed in on the magnificent wonder that was the departure of the cklight while the Earth Federation waspletely ignored on the sidelines. The representatives of the four major continents immediately called for a Lilith Assembly, but Chen Chen’s shadow was nowhere to be seen during the assembly.


    This tant disrespect greatly angered the four major continents. The masses began ndering cklight Biotechnology for not honoring their end of the agreement. Initially, the cklight Foundation was founded to form a global alliance but now it would seem that cklight Biotechnology hadpletely discarded its initial promises. It would appear that cklight Biotechnology was starting to exact its will whimsically now that it was powerful enough to overpower the Earth Federation!


    It hardly mattered how much they tried to ridicule and provoke Chen Chen. He already decided a long time ago that he would not entertain them any longer.


    A monthter.


    Chen Chen strolled in the Ares Science City all by himself.


    The Ares Science City was the first and also currently the only human colony built on Mars. Based on Chen Chen’s drafted ns, this would be the first industrial-focused. He nned to relocate arge portion of the manufacturing industry to Mars to alleviate the environmental pollution burden on Earth.


    This was why hundreds of thousands of factories belonging to cklight Biotechnology were erected near the borders of Ares Science City. An industrial park evenrger in scale than the Eco Science City was taking shape here on Mars.


    After two years, the initial hundred thousand people who migrated to Mars from Earth had gotten ustomed to life on Mars. Furthermore, a second and third batch had been transported to the, raising the total poption on Mars to near half a million.


    Observed from space, the surface of the once barren had been transformed into lush patches of oasis. Tardigrade moss now dominated the local ecosystem, constantly producing oxygen into the ozone, restoring the’s atmosphere organically.


    Meanwhile, the dwarf Ceres that was also the Mar’s variant of the Moon continued orbiting around Mars from thousands of kilometers away. Its presence allowed Mars’ core to restore its maic field over time until it could withstand the Sun’s sr wind.


    Chen Chen sensed the weaker gravitational force on Mars with every inch of his body. Then, he observed the masses of Mars inhabitants traveling across the city, all upied with their day-to-day tasks. Most of the crowd were Androids since the social system of Mars was designed in a way that most of its inhabitants were well-off and could afford fine luxuries. While the employment of Androids was scarce on Earth, it could be seen everywhere on Mars.


    The human residents were usually at work in their offices or staying at home, taking care of their children. Every day after office hours, the city would be filled with the hustle and bustle of real humans.


    “Excuse me, sir...”


    “Hello, sir...”


    Chen Chen walked amid the stream of Androids. They would politely file out of the way when Chen Chen stepped into their path since they were programmed to do so. These Androids were non-hostile and would never harm humans. Even if they were directly threatened by a living person, they were programmed to escape instead of defending themselves. Soon, Chen Chen arrived at the entrance of the city’s central hospital.


    Upon his arrival at the hospital, he suddenly perked up and narrowed his eyes that were beaming with concentration.


    Moments after that, he unleashed a ripple of Field that immediately enveloped the hospitalpound. It effortlessly seeped through the windows and explored every nook and cranny of the hospital.


    In one of the operation rooms, Chen Chen heard the energetic cry of a newborn baby.