Deep Space Fleet

The Apollo civilization, a fourth-level civilization with a long history, originated from a hot and humid ocean planet.

The ocean planet is recognized by the Milky Way as the most difficult starting point for developing technology.

Although the notorious fifth-level civilization "Green Star Civilization" was once born in this type of ocean planet, there is only one Green Star Civilization with a race value against the sky in the long history of the Milky Way. Among the 10,000 ocean planets, 9,999 are indigenous creatures or lower creatures similar to fish.

These biological communities have a very small probability of being born with intelligence, just like the dolphins on the earth have a certain amount of intelligence. If they are given more time, they may not be able to become more intelligent.

However, it is difficult for these intelligent creatures to develop serious science and technology in the ocean, and naturally they cannot leave their own planet.

Because planets of this type usually have oceans at depths of hundreds of kilometers!

Without any land, ocean planets are starved of metals, and don't have an environment dry enough to light a fire. It is even more impossible for these lives to dive to a depth of hundreds of kilometers and go to the seabed to mine.

In this case, it is really difficult to build a regular technology tree.

Only the naturally powerful species of the Green Star Civilization, relying on their own biological smelting methods, can extract the elements in seawater and develop a complete set of biological technology trees, which can leave their own planet.

But looking at the entire galaxy, there is only one green star civilization. More ocean races cannot evolve this kind of ability. The path of evolution often has no return. If you choose the wrong path at the beginning, you will never be able to overturn it and start over. The purpose of evolution is to survive, not to develop technology.

The reason why the Apollo civilization has developed to the present level is because they were inspired by other interstellar civilizations in a very distant age!

This kind of inspiration and even hand-in-hand education and guidance continued until the interstellar era, and then the Apollo civilization successfully became a subsidiary civilization of the suzerain civilization.

There are many interstellar alliances that were created in this way.

Some level 4 civilizations have such a unique preference. When they choose the "big goal of civilization", they will use curvature technology to traverse planet after planet to obtain more social knowledge, and then try to cultivate some indigenous people with particularly high racial values civilization to help itself.

Including the three major forces surrounding the Dyson sphere, the Rambler, Eredar, etc., many of them have cultivated their own affiliated forces, and then gradually developed into a multi-ethnic alliance.

Humans have never experienced these things, so it is difficult to understand them.

After all, human beings do not have the leisure and elegance to do such things. The time for new human beings to enter the starry sky is still short, and it is too late for their own development.

The Apollo civilization can be regarded as a species with a very high race value.

First of all, this species is very smart. Without a good education, the average intelligence is around 120. This is indeed a very smart species.

Secondly, they are born with a long lifespan. Even without the blessing of technology, they can easily survive for five hundred years. With life extension technology, two or three thousand years is no problem.

They have flexible tentacles that can easily pick up filaments thinner than a hair, making them excellent workers.

In addition, these guys are born with high patience and are good at some meticulous and boring jobs.

Such a race value, among intelligent life, can be regarded as one in a thousand or even one in a thousand!

Individuals of the Apollo civilization look very strange, looking a bit like squid, but there is a spine inside the body, which can support the complex movements of the body, and can also adapt to life on land to a certain extent.

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The interior of this battle star is full of water resources, and there are many big squid taking a bath in the room. For them, taking a bath is the best way of entertainment. There are also working cuttlefish, wearing power armor that is soaked in liquid so that the entire skin does not dry out too much.

And in a large conference room in the planetary fortress, several squids were taking a bath while discussing...

"Sir! Our 'Anubis Planetary Fortress' is expected to arrive at the target area for the seventeenth time at the astronomical time JHKLKH**, please instruct!"

"Now that we've arrived, let's continue the mission."

"It doesn't seem to make any sense to go on like this, Al, what do you think?"

"Our soldiers have already started to complain, and over there... also began to urge us to withdraw if we can't do it, before we cause any damage..."

Several big squids are discussing the current form, the damn new human civilization has not yet submitted, this situation has exceeded their expectations!

Because in their impression, the new human civilization is a "talkative civilization", even if the Dyson sphere's territory is robbed by a third-level civilization, it is just a few words of talk.

That's why they came up with the idea of ​​fighting for the stars.

Yes, so what if you snatch a battle star, why don't you submit obediently!

But now it's a bit difficult to ride a tiger, neither to fight nor to retreat.

"Once we withdraw, although the entire civilization will not suffer any loss, our status will be ruined! We will be reviled by the people and step down!"

"Then just...kill them!" A fierce light flashed in the dark eyes of a big squid.

"no!"

"Even if we can annihilate each other, what can we gain? Except for a broken and broken battle star... Then what? If we lose too much, we will still step down..."

"Yes, now is not the time for the final battle..."

They have all observed the flashes of the antimatter weapon "Planet Buster", and have conducted a series of evaluations on the power of this super weapon.

One of the experts said: "It's just a bluff weapon... How many of these super bombs can they produce? Do you really think that antimatter is a cheap consumable?"

"But as long as this weapon exceeds our expectations, then our losses will become unbearable."

"If the loss is too great, we will lose our current position!"

Several big squids are arguing about it.

Very annoying, really annoying, the current situation is like a thick fog, it is difficult to find the way forward.

Since the Apollo civilization was completely forcibly supported by foreign interstellar civilizations, it did not have much of its own ideology and culture. Their political system even remained in the quite primitive feudal era, with nobles and commoners.

These giant squid are the highest nobles of the Apollo civilization, equivalent to the consuls of the Athens era.

The social system is completely simple capitalism, and then it is covered up under the banner of "free politics". Such a political system naturally does not have too high cohesion.

Their positions are not secure, and the huge productivity conceals some class contradictions, which does not mean that there are no contradictions. There are a lot of squids staring at them, expecting them to make mistakes!

The development of pulling seedlings to encourage growth has made the foundation of the entire civilization unstable, and all technology and culture are foreign. The suzerain civilization controls the culture of the entire civilization and also controls the hearts of the people.

The most important thing is that the Apollo civilization is still in a state of division!

Since ancient times, this civilization has had several different political forces, which are hostile to each other and full of hatred.