I Am the Swarm

Eloquently discuss the present through the past.

Speaker Delrin first gave a brief summary of the development history of the Riken people, and then said that they faced a serious test this time.

It's different than ever.

The previous wars were all civil wars of the Liken tribe, and even if they failed, there was still a way out.

But this time it is a war with a foreign race, and if it fails, it is likely to face the extinction of the race.

Under the whole nest, there are no eggs.

So, don't take any chances. This war against alien races must be fought, and it must be fought beautifully. It is best to annihilate each other at once

After mobilizing the people's emotions of fighting against each other, Delrin gradually turned the topic to the crux of the problem.

money!

Wars cost money.

To launch an ordinary war requires a huge amount of start-up funds.

Not to mention this time, what was launched was a war between civilizations, an expedition across the galaxy.

And this will require an astronomical figure.

The federal government alone cannot afford such a huge military expenditure.

But this war concerns everyone, no matter who they are, whether it is for themselves, family members or race, they are obliged to support this expedition.

At the end of his speech, the speaker called on all the people to participate in this big event and donate some military expenses within their ability.

Of course, self-consciousness alone is definitely not enough.

The Federal Parliament took the opportunity to introduce a war tax, which was collected by the whole people.

If this kind of thing is impossible to pass in normal times, even if it is passed, the building of the parliament will be trampled down by angry people. But now this node is stuck just right, and in the midst of the anger of the whole people, even if a small number of people disagree, it will not help. Under the guidance of public opinion, whoever disagrees is like betraying the race.

Therefore, this tax was so logically started to be collected.

At the same time, major companies and families, as long as they have a reputation, have made large donations.

A number of figures were released, which shocked the Riken tribe who still complained about the war tax. They don't understand why these groups, which are usually like iron roosters, are so active now, and are they really so enlightened?

However, driven by this, the Liken tribe still set off a round of donations. Under the secret guidance of many forces, it developed to the end, and those who donated less were embarrassed to go out to say hello.

A huge collection of funds, any individual or team that reached out in the middle, was eliminated by thunder. All funds are guaranteed to go to the building of the army.

All accounts are made public, and the use of funds is more transparent than any previous project. The Ricken people were delighted to find that the council was really doing practical things this time. Apart from giving high praise to this session of the council, they secretly speculated that the crisis this time might be even more serious than imagined.

As a result, also triggered a new round of donations upsurge.

The Rickon galaxy, also known as the M37 galaxy marked by the swarm, has ten planets in total, and the parent star of the Rickon family is the fourth one, which has two satellites. As early as a hundred years ago, when the cat's eye spacecraft had not yet set off, the Riken tribe had established an initial space city on the No. 1 satellite of the parent star.

In the following years, the number of space cities increased, and the No. 1 satellite gradually developed into the No. 1 colony.

Soon, shortly after the cat's eye spacecraft set off, the second satellite also began to build a space city.

When the third space city was being built on the second moon, the Rickon people made some shocking discoveries.

They dug out a spaceship!

This spaceship is more than 500 meters long and is made of unknown metal. By analyzing the geology around where it was buried, the Rickon deduced that the spaceship had been buried here for tens of thousands of years.

Although I don't know how it appeared here, but no one has come to recover it for tens of thousands of years, it seems that this spaceship is an unowned object.

After several years, the Rickon tribe finally opened the door of the spaceship, and the defense facilities inside had stopped working due to exhaustion of energy.

This is simply the beginning of Tianhu in the novel.

The scientific and technological content contained in the equipment in the spaceship is several levels ahead of the Rickon tribe. Through the reverse deduction of the technology of these devices, the technological level of the Riken people is simply changing with each passing day.

In just a few decades, their technological level has doubled several times.

The simplest example is a spaceship that can only be pulled by a light sail and continuously accelerated over a long distance to reach one-tenth of the speed of light. Now, with the newly developed propulsion engine, it can be easily achieved, and its fastest speed can even reach one-fifth of the speed of light.

In other words, a spacecraft equipped with a new type of engine will only take more than twenty years to reach the Proxima Galaxy.

It is also by virtue of this rapid advancement of technology that the Rickon tribe successfully transformed the third planet in the galaxy named Guiyunxing into the No. 3 colony, and has always brought it under control.

But now, on the outer orbit of the fifth planet named Riven Star, space shipyards have been built.

The construction of these shipyards started more than ten years ago. Calculating the time, it should be around the time when the cat ear spacecraft detected Godzilla's thermonuclear breath when it approached the Proxima Galaxy.

It seems that the plan for this time has already started a long time ago, and the previous speaker may have participated in it. Even if there were no aliens attacking the cat-eared spaceship, those people might be able to invent some reason to achieve a similar effect.

If Rowan would comment here, he would definitely say "that's right". After all, the swarm meteorite had only traveled about a light-year away from the Proxima Galaxy a few years ago. It will take decades to reach the Rickon galaxy, and the other party is pretending to be a meteorite impact, which is simply a swarm of "porcelain" bugs.

However, the other party's manipulations turned out to be wrong, but they didn't know that when they actually arrived in the neighboring galaxy, they found that there was a biological civilization hidden there, and it really had biological weapons similar to Godzilla, or even stronger, and would be able to act. What do you think.

Presumably, it must be very sour.

Guiyunxing, which was originally a bit deserted, gradually became lively. Countless companies, teams, and personal spaceships came here one after another, and sold the asteroids dragged back from other places to the shipyard.

In the eyes of these capital forces, the huge military expenditure raised is a gluttonous feast. No one will miss this opportunity to get a share of it.

The asteroids are directly heated by a magnetic field in the space melting furnace of the shipyard, smelted into various metal solutions, and then combined and cast into various metal modules and parts, and then sent to the assembly center of the shipyard for splicing.

With the joint efforts of more than 10 billion members of the Ricken people, warships of various specifications were quickly assembled, and then were taken over by the military, and personnel were stationed to conduct operational drills.

Time passed day by day, during which Delrin defeated all opponents with an overwhelming advantage, and started his career as the second Speaker of the House of Representatives.