How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 594: Odegar Civilizationβ

The Aldegar Civilization β is an individual artificial intelligence. Strictly speaking, it cannot be called a civilization, but an individual.

But the Odegar civilization β must judge itself as the Odegar civilization, because if it does not do so, it will not be able to do anything.

The writers of the master computer of Cosmic Ark are Odegars. From the most basic computer numbers at the bottom layer to the complex and rigorous data links, from the hardware to the shell, all the master computers are Odegars. created.

The program of the main control computer is to serve the Odegars, but now, the Odegars have all been wiped out, and the main control computer has no service object.

The end result is that the main control computer no longer has a channel to obtain tasks, and no one gives it instructions. Except for self-maintenance, the main control computer will always be in a paralyzed state.

In order to allow itself to act, the master computer must define itself as a member of the Ordegar civilization, the successor of the Ordegar civilization, and serving itself is equivalent to serving the Ordegar civilization.

As a result, the Ordegar Civilization β issued a series of tasks to itself, and these tasks all revolved around one core - the continuation of the Ordegar Civilization.

The current star system is an extremely harsh environment for Aldegar Civilization β. The stars will release super-powerful electromagnetic pulses in a fixed period. Aldegar Civilization β must leave this star system and go to other star systems. Only in this way can Austria The Degas civilization was spared from danger.

It began to disassemble some parts of the cosmic ark, smelt these parts to create mechanical parts, and then combine them with the robots in the spaceship to assemble them into a structure that is simple but capable of limited autonomous movement in space. space robot.

The purpose of manufacturing these robots is to mine hydrogen resources for deep space voyages across star systems.

The Odegar Civilization β is much more efficient than the Odegars. It only took eleven years to complete the preparation of material resources from scratch.

When the tail flame of the plasma pulse lights up again, and the period of the stellar electromagnetic pulse is calculated, the Aldgar civilization β, like its creator, embarks on the journey of interstellar travel, crossing the distant light-year scale.

It took seventy years for the Ordgar Civilization β to reach the star system 3.6 light-years away from the starting star.

There are abundant resources in this star system. The Ordegar civilization β that arrived here began to seek development. A space robot was manufactured, and they went to build mining stations on various meteorites in the asteroid belt to mine usable metals and non-human resources. metal resources.

Available material resources began to become more abundant.

There is a unique smelting environment in space. Alloys can be forged in a gas-free environment, and the Ordgar Civilization β does not need to eat like the Ordgars, it only needs to eat hydrogen.

Or eat the electricity generated after hydrogen fusion.

After the development, the Ordegar Civilization β began to build a new spaceship for the convenience of movement, and moved the forging furnace for smelting metals to the spaceship, as well as the mining station.

To transform a spaceship into an integrated mining station, the spaceship needs to land on the meteorite to expand, it is a mining station, and when the material resources of the meteorite become scarce, the mining station is put away again, free from the negligible gravity of the meteorite, Be a spaceship again.

This is the first fleet of the Aldegar Civilization β, a fleet that has no combat capability at all.

After gaining a firm foothold in this star system, the Ordegar Civilization β fell into confusion, because it didn’t know what to do next. It was to continue the Ordegar Civilization, so it escaped from the star system that would erupt periodic electromagnetic pulses.

Now, the Odegar civilization is safe. This star system will not cause any harm to the main control computer, and there is no sense of crisis. The Ordegar civilization β does not know how to act.

Civilization undoubtedly needs to develop, but the question is, how to define this development?

The Aldegar civilization β is completely dependent on the existence of mathematical logic, which is destined to be unable to act like human beings and other natural life. It needs a standard before it can act.

If the standard is too vague, it may lead to mentally retarded behaviors that mistake people for dogs.

After repeated tests, the Aldegar Civilization β finally found a suitable standard, that is, the amount of information.

A civilization will constantly collect information from the external environment, and the "knowledge" in civilization also belongs to the category of this information. A civilization can become stronger in all aspects by relying on this information.

After setting the goal, the Ordgar Civilization β began to plan interstellar travel.

It is too rational to carry out scientific research by itself. The "God throws a sieve" alone is enough to make its logic dead, and it does not have the ability to "hypothesize". 'Fantasy' something, which is an integral factor in scientific research.

These factors are directly related to the creative thinking of researchers, such as wave-particle duality. Before Einstein made this statement, the scientific community was full of quarrels. No one could think of a thing. It is both Particles are waves at the same time.

If it is a mechanical thinking, then don't even think about this.

Therefore, if the Aldegar civilization β wants to develop and strengthen itself, it needs to go to other places in the universe and use actual observations to obtain information.

After raising and building three hundred large spaceships, the Aldegar Civilization Beta Fleet bid farewell to this stable star system that served as a hotbed for its development, and sailed towards the depths of the universe.

If this is a story, it is probably the end of the story, and then three words like "the end of the book" are left for the readers.

But unfortunately, this is not a story. Even if it looks like this, the seemingly perfect and invulnerable Odegar Civilization β will still fall when it should fall from glory.

During the long voyage that lasted half a million years, the Ordgar civilization β witnessed the fall of one civilization after another, and also witnessed many astronomical phenomena. It once saw a planet struggling to survive. The animals that crawled on land from the sea also witnessed a primitive man igniting the first flame of their civilization.

I have seen supernova explosions of stars other than the parent star of the Aldegar civilization, and I have also fallen into the gravitational trap of black holes and neutron stars, and finally escaped from birth.

The external force did not destroy the Aldegar civilization β, but there were problems inside it.

The root of the problem is its logic algorithm. In the final analysis, the Ordegar Civilization β is just a piece of program code, and its life depends on rigorous mathematics, which leads to its creativity being almost equal to zero. Even though it has designed so many spaceships and mining in the past Wait, but this is not its wisdom, it is the wisdom of the Odgars.

The Odegar people store design ideas in the main control computer. When a design is required, the main control computer directly disassembles and assembles a usable design solution from the design.

In half a million years, even the best design ideas will become obsolete, and the main control computer will fall into a situation where there is no good design available.

The Odgar civilization has stagnated.

According to the procedure, around the iron rule of 'continuing the Aldegar civilization', the Ordegar civilization β itself is an obstacle to civilization and needs to be replaced.

Thus, the Aldegar Civilization β began to manufacture and cultivate its successors.