Guide to Galactic Dominance

Kolidal gently touched the payment window of the fast food restaurant with her smart bracelet, and the electronic system's voice came out: "The payment has been completed, you paid 2.25 yuan."

"It's really convenient." Kolidal entered the state of daily admiration again.

In fact, on Iridium, various forms of fast payment have existed for thousands of years. Even in the old era of Earth before entering the interstellar era, the prototype of fast payment had already appeared by scanning QR codes. But in many civilizations, the use of physical currency payment is still a method that is difficult to abandon.

The situation of Iridium Star is quite special. There are no commercial banks in Iridium Star. Since the economic system itself has communist characteristics, the "money" owned by Iridium Star people is directly tied to their personal citizenship status. The credit currency itself is the credit currency issued by Iridium to citizens, mainly to meet people's daily needs.

On the other hand, in the First Galaxy, due to the adoption of the United Dollar, various resources and products are more easily exchanged for currency. Citizens of the New United Empire of various civilizations who work and live here can earn wages in United Dollars through their work. Therefore, on the First Galaxy, commercial attributes are actually more intense.

What Coridal bought was a burger known as the "Iridium Specialty Food". Although the Talofi civilization was a lower civilization, it never tired of food, so she did not eat the hamburgers from the Earth people and felt that this kind of food should only be found in the sky. However, Trying new foods still makes her feel happy.

Her assistant Ransendahl said: "The prices on the First Galaxy are not high."

"After all, it is an advanced civilization, and it may even be the most technologically advanced Iridium star in the galaxy. Producing food and various other consumer goods should be a very simple matter for them. From this perspective, in fact, the prices of these things cannot be It is considered low, at least it cannot truly reflect its true consumption." Kolidal is a scholar after all. Although she comes from a lower civilization, she can still see the problems clearly.

Lansendaal pursed his lips and said: "If the technology of the Iridium people is really so advanced, why don't they openly supply everyone with all the items they need?"

"Because that would be an excessive waste of resources in the universe. I heard that the Iridium people have a very careful resource and energy consumption plan to recycle and reuse various resources to the maximum extent. An advanced civilization may have a negative impact on the entropy of the universe. The contribution of growth is huge, and they are not as fast as consuming the universe, not to mention that the new universe we are in now has only one galaxy, the Milky Way, and is far less vast and rich in matter than the previous universe."

After wandering around like tourists for most of the day, Kelidal and Ransendahl returned to their apartment. Even though the First Galaxy has a vast area and there are still many unused areas, the frugal nature of the Iridium people is still well reflected. In this city used for the Civilization Congress, not a single residence is an independent residence, all are skyscrapers and apartments hundreds of meters high.

The Iridium people renovated many buildings originally built by the Jingu people, and even dug out many underground facilities. This allows Iridium to create a lot of functional space in the smallest unit area. Even representatives or civil servants with high positions do not live in particularly luxurious and spacious houses. For example, Kolidal's apartment only has an area of ​​180 square meters.

A few extremely large races also have homes tailor-made for them. However, if they want to go to work, the Iridium people choose to let them work through the android bodies that operate the consciousness transmission. Otherwise, the Iridium people have to use various institutions to work. And the venue was built to be particularly huge.

Kolidal, who had just returned home, received a new document from the United Empire Department of Transportation. This document was more than two thousand pages long, but just the title shocked Kolidal.

"Recommendations and Preliminary Plan Discussion on Building a Network of Civilized Administrative Star Gates for Each Member of the United Empire"

Although the name of this file is simple and straightforward, the amount of information inside and the ambition and courage displayed in it completely shocked Kolidal.

As we all know, the Galactic High Governance Council used the stargate system established by an unknown previous civilization to create a stargate network that facilitated the navigation of higher civilizations across star regions. However, the scale of this star gate network is relatively limited. Basically, there are only two or three in a large star region. It is mainly used for advanced civilizations to travel from one large star region to another. But the broader middle and lower civilizations are not allowed to use this facility at all.

The Iridium version of the stargate network is even more ambitious. All participating civilizations participating in the Iridium United Empire will participate in the construction of this stargate network. The gravity well edge orbits of all United Empire's administrative stars will be established. A stargate. If this stargate is successfully built, any administrative star of the United Empire can be easily reached from a planet.

Lansendaal was so surprised when he saw this document that his jaw almost dropped to the ground, "This... this is impossible. The cost of building a star gate is high and the technology is complicated. Even the top ten companies in the past have not done anything in every Administrative stars build star gates. Many planets do not have much population at all, and it is unlikely that any exchange activities will occur. Building star gates will be a waste."

Corydar's eyes ignited with enthusiasm. She shook her head and said: "This is not a question of waste or not. The Führer's meaning is very clear. He wants to use the Stargate Network to completely connect all the planets of the Iridium United Empire. , making communication between civilizations closer. In terms of defense, the Stargate Network also has major advantages. Once a planet is attacked, the unified imperial forces stationed elsewhere can rush to the rescue as quickly as possible. Like now When we face the natural disaster of insect swarms, the Star Whale Beast does not need to maintain such a large scale. Wherever there is harm, help can be found."

Ransendahl took a more negative view: "Similarly, if the Stargate network is really built, I am afraid that the independence and autonomy promised to each civilization will be nothing more than empty words. The Iridium people deliberately use this method to completely control all civilizations, and all civilizations will be independent." Civilized fleet military power has been handed over to the United Empire, and now there is a stargate network. Basically, the Iridium people can do whatever they want with us, and we have no room for resistance."

Corydar sighed: "Having said that, if we didn't accept it before, we would be destroyed by the swarm. At least the current situation is satisfactory. The leader of Iridium is a benevolent leader, and he also hopes that the galaxy will change. Things are going in a good direction, let's hope he stays like this."