How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 493 Light Year Communication (Part 2)

"You know the ring-shaped space station when the Serenes just boarded the universe, right?"

Hearing the mention of the same race, the collector searched for the memory, and quickly recalled this from the memory. When the Serin people were still in the era of great powers, when there were many countries, all countries competed to explore the universe, and then slowly evolved into a common Raise funds to build a large space station.

This space station has a ring-shaped structure, like a tire. It has many technical immaturities, because it is still in the early stages of space technology development.

However, there is one thing that can be obtained, and that is the ecological self-sustainment system inside the space station. As long as there is sunlight, this space station is another small Celine.

It's just that such a large space station is an insoluble problem in maintenance. It's like constantly repairing a ship in the ocean, which is very troublesome.

At the same time, this kind of space station cannot produce resources, so it was put aside by the empire, and useful technologies such as ecological self-sustainment systems were applied to ships.

"I know this. It's the space station that uses centrifugal force instead of gravity. What are you talking about?"

"Put this ring-shaped space station upright, it will be a large wheel, and a large number of reversible light shields will be laid. There will be 10,000 wheeled space stations like this, and the orbits will be designed so that they are arranged in a two-dimensional square array. , can affect the brightness of the stellar flare."

The same family explained the method and steps of the light-year communication method mentioned earlier.

The collectors began to calculate how feasible it was based on the descriptions of their own clansmen, and soon, it rejected the statement of the same clansmen.

"It's not enough. In front of the stars, even if there are 10,000 such ring-shaped space stations, they are just dust."

The stars are very large, outrageously large. So far, the collectors have dismantled all the planets to build antimatter giant structures, and none of the stars in the star system has been completely obscured, even the red dwarfs with the smallest mass.

The same family does not deny that the covered area is small, but it has other plans to make up for this shortcoming.

"It's indeed dust, but it's a blinding leaf. Although the area of ​​the leaf is small, it can cover a mountain. These ring-shaped space stations don't necessarily need to be very close to the stars. Although they are arranged in a square array, the distance can be shortened." Wide open, this will also cause the star's luminosity to drop."

After thinking about it, the same clan felt that the examples were not enough, and added another sentence.

"Some time ago, didn't a group of pioneers discover a suspected stellar building?"

"That's a false alarm. The Kuiper belt in that star system has a very dense amount of meteorites. These meteorites cover the stars and make the brightness of the stars flicker during their orbital motion... You mean to use this principle?"

It’s almost the same as the solar and lunar eclipses. As long as the distance is enough, a grain of sand can achieve the effect of blocking the light source. In this vast universe, the most indispensable thing is the large-scale spatial distance.

Although the collector wasn't smart, he wasn't stupid either. He quickly understood the meaning of his kin, and his kin continued to explain.

"That's right, the technical requirements here are not high. Space ecological self-circulation and orbital elevators are all that are needed to achieve information transmission across light years."

"However, such stellar occlusion is still not obvious, and observations with sufficient precision are required to read the information in the changes in the brightness of stars... Well, you are right, if you do not discuss information reception, this is indeed a light-year-spanning The level of information transmission is not high in technology, and it does not consume much energy."

At the end of the speech, I have to admit that the light-year-level communication method mentioned by the same family is really very feasible, and the energy required for communication is not high, just turning the reflectors laid on the large space station That's all, how much energy is needed to rotate some reflectors, not to mention the natural energy source of stars, if energy is needed, can it be directly connected to the solar panels?

"By the way, what did you want to say just now?"

Only then did the family members remember that the collector seemed to have something to say just now, the two continued the topic just now, and the collector replied.

"I want to say that the results of our current observation of the universe are inconsistent with the theory, and it should not be so quiet."

"Theory? What theory?"

The same race was puzzled, it didn't understand what the theory put forward by the collector was.

The collector explained.

"The age of the river system we live in is estimated to be between 13.5 billion and 13.8 billion years. Such a long time span will naturally give birth to civilization, and civilization will continue to develop and expand. , which is what we are doing now.”

"And this leads to a demand, that is, communication across light years. Civilizations with high technology can be ignored, but as long as civilizations that exceed the speed of light are not developed technically, they must use light speed communication, and light speed communication is decreasing. The greater the demand for distant energy, the greater the possibility that the natural energy source of stars will be used as a means of communication."

"Considering the delay of the speed of light, even if these civilizations that do not exceed the speed of light suddenly disappear collectively one day, the information of their civilization will remain for a period of time before disappearing, at least 70,000 to 80,000 years."

The collector's estimate is not unfounded, it's a predicted time given the radius of an entire river system.

"Too much, seventy to eighty thousand years of light-year communication, it needs to cover the entire star, to the extent that the poor vision of the Serin people can get the information, can do this kind of thing, that civilization's The level of technology is at least similar to that of the ethnic group, able to dismantle planets and build individuals to wrap stars..."

Gradually fell into contemplation during the information error correction, the question raised by the collector gradually attracted the thinking of the same race, and the same race began to speculate.

"Wrapping the entire star, if this method is used for information exchange across tens of thousands of light years, it is not too resource-intensive..."

"Well, that's definitely a problem."

By oneself, the goal of the ethnic group is the entire river system, so other civilizations must think so, at least the Serenes are right, and if the speed of light has been unable to break through, then the ethnic group has established such a light-year communication in each star That's what's bound to happen.

Therefore, civilizations that expanded their power to the universe earlier than amoebas must have thought of this. The most important thing is that this kind of communication method is very cheap, so there is no reason not to build it.

"So what's the answer to your question?"

The same race who couldn't figure it out asked the collector, it wanted to know the answer.

However, the collectors themselves have no answer to this question, only speculation.

"Since the reality is so illogical, there should be some reason that has caused such a 'dead' cosmic environment."

"There are many speculations about this reason. For example, there are no other civilizations in the entire river system except us and the Selenes."

"How is this possible, a whole river system is so big..."

The same race directly refuted the collectors without even thinking about it. In terms of probability, there are only two civilizations in the river system with billions of stars, and these two civilizations happened to be born in the same star system. The probability is too small up.

"Don't jump to conclusions, just listen to me," the collector said.

"You also know that during this period of exploration activities, the biggest achievement is to find a livable planet with a complex ecological circle. At the same time, according to the book of formation left by Hui civilization, some things happened in this river system. , so this inference is tenable."

The collector explained his reason for making this conjecture. If it was before, when he had not stepped out of the starting star, the collector also believed that the existence of civilization was very common. At least fifty or sixty light-years away, there might be a civilization. kind of degree.

However, the actual situation is completely contrary to what they guessed. They are in the same star system as the Serenes. It is really a very, very small probability, and then it happened.

It's like asking a lottery winner why he won the lottery-who knows this question? It's whoever's turn it is.

After this reason was recognized by the same race, the same race then became curious about other guesses. It wanted to know what else the collectors could deduce based on the "death" of the universe, so it asked.

"What about other guesses?"

The collector paused for a moment before replying to the questions of his fellow clan.

"For another example, some unknown external force wiped out these civilizations without a trace."

"..."

There was a long silence on the side of the same clan. To be honest, the answer was quite terrifying. It is definitely not the ability of the clan to counteract this level of external force.

At least it knows that even if it triggers a supernova explosion and further collapses the neutron star into a black hole, it is absolutely impossible to wipe out many civilizations in the entire river system without leaving a trace.

This kind of mighty power is extremely terrifying, just thinking about it is enough to send chills down the spine.

The most frightening thing is that this possibility still seems to be very high. In the time span of tens of billions of years, the river system is absolutely capable of giving birth to civilizations, and these civilizations will inevitably develop in the natural law of survival of the fittest, and eventually become the overlord of the river system level civilization.

Will a civilization like this allow other nascent civilizations to overtake it and be deprived of its supremacy? Obviously impossible.

And as time goes by, the technological level of the overlord civilization will steadily improve, and the overlord civilization that rules the river system will only become stronger and stronger, and its control over the river system will also continue to strengthen.

Under such circumstances, it is not impossible for the overlord civilization to use an incomprehensible and unimaginable attack method to erase the erased civilization.

"Don't be nervous, this possibility is not high. If such an unknown external force really exists, then we shouldn't be able to run so far now. We are hundreds of light-years away from the original star."

The gatherer had already guessed what the kin was thinking, and it didn't think the possibility was high enough.

Hearing the reasons of the collectors, the fellow clan also felt a little relieved.

"To be honest, you managed to scare me."

"whee……"

"I'm not complimenting you."

While chatting, the sublight speed creatures finally arrived in the Kuiper belt, and this new star system is waiting for them to develop.