Star Empire

"Why do we need to unite civilizations? Why do we need to protect many civilizations in the void?" Weisruifan repeated the question.

"Is this the question you most want answered?"

"Yes, Emperor of the Star Empire, the information we have disclosed before has exposed the weaknesses that we can bear. This is the limit of sincerity that we can express. We hope that our questions I can also get your most sincere and true answer.”

"Can you tell us why you are so skeptical of our plan?" Weisrifan asked.

"Because in our opinion, it is completely unnecessary for you to do this." The top memetic beings on λ quickly gave a reply. At the same time, Weisrifan and Vidoville noticed that the carrier life in the picture, which was obviously a puppet, began to become excited, and the information being transmitted began to become more "sharp" - this is λ Civilization's supreme memetic life expresses its eagerness.

"There is absolutely no need for you to unite with other civilizations, and there is no need for you to ensure the safety of those civilizations with varying degrees of development. In our opinion, your actions are completely unnecessary - the diversity of civilizations is not what you want to protect these lives. Reason, you can create new lives on your own. With so many samples, you only need to mix some attributes and adjust some parameters at will, and you can create many new races. These new races will inherit your perfection. Inherit your level."

"As for the civilizations you protect and unite, I am afraid that even if they try their best, the maximum limit of most of them may not be able to touch the minimum limit of the race you have created. Even if you need more Information samples to create a more perfect life, you do not need to take the initiative to pay the price to maintain these civilizations - in our opinion, your approach is almost pure dedication. In our understanding, such dedication if Without tangible benefits and just adhering to a certain idea, it would be impossible for it to last for such a long time.”

".Sure enough, do we still need some more substantial reasons as a basis?"

Weisrifan pondered for a while and said, "So, what if our answer is that protecting these civilizations will help the empire fight the death tide?"

"Fighting the death tide? Do you want to say that you cultivate those civilizations and then eventually let them fight for you? This statement does not convince us." Faced with Weisrifan's explanation, the highest memetic life forms of λ quickly gave a negative attitude.

"Our troops have fought against you before. Your ships are very powerful and can carry out various forms of firepower output. The powerful energy you use to drive your equipment has strange properties, and it is impossible for ordinary beings to directly control it. sex."

"If your answer is that you want to rely on cultivating a servant army strong enough to help you fight, then we think this is extremely unacceptable."

"Before the formal talks with your diplomatic representatives, we conducted war games based on our situation, and after the formal communication with you, we consolidated some of our guesses based on the results obtained from the communication."

"You have powerful force and powerful productivity. You can make most of your combat ships fill a huge universe from scratch in a very short time. You control powerful extraordinary power, such extraordinary power. Strength requires a very long time and a very deep technical foundation to be used efficiently. On this basis, we believe that the cost of forming your own troops to go to war is much lower than the cost of selecting a servant civilization to participate in the war on your behalf. .”

"For you, spending time transforming and upgrading the fragile bodies of the individuals in your servant civilization and tailoring suitable weapons for them will probably take more time and energy than running your production line to print blueprints. At the same time, , if you will force these races that are far weaker than yours and force them to undergo huge transformations to adapt to your combat requirements, then we can directly think that you are lying, and doing so violates the statement you gave."

"Of course, our guess may not be correct, and the premise for our guess to be incorrect is that you have indeed sacrificed the near for the long in this aspect. But judging from the information we have so far, I am afraid that you have not done anything Live these “extra” things that can be harmful.”

"As for why we should conduct deductions based on the information we have speculated on, I don't need to make it too clear. In the process of negotiation and mutual testing, there is always a way to develop a civilization like you and me. Can get a little extra information."

"The final result of our war game is that if a full-scale war breaks out between our two sides, λ may be able to gain a temporary advantage or maintain an even match for a period of time by relying on its existing foundation and part of the information gap between the two sides. But as long as the war If this continues, we will inevitably fail. Our words have ended, so the two emperors of the Star Empire, we hope that your answers can make us feel sincerity."

"We are not joking." Weisrifan's expression suddenly became serious. At the same time, the expression of the "puppet" she controlled also became serious when showing it to the memetic beings of λ. "What we are doing is indeed fighting against the death tide, but the method is different from what you think."

As he spoke, Vesrivan showed the other parties present at the meeting the Death Tide Stability Shadow model currently used by the Empire.

"You have resistance to the death tide. You have faced the death tide head-on. You have organized forces to fight against the void moment. The pollution and patterns released by the void moment did not destroy your world, nor did it destroy you. This is the best example. . In that long-term struggle, you must have also memorized the ways to fight against the pollution of the death tide. But the empire needs to make a statement here, the death tide is far more complicated than you think."

"Here, we only cover the simplest parts."

"In short, order civilization can exert a suppressive force on the death tide pollution. Within a certain range, as the power of civilization continues to become stronger and the territory of civilization becomes wider, the suppression force of civilization on the death tide will also increase. It will rise and spread."

"But after exceeding this range, the spread and increase speed of a single civilization's suppression force against the death tide will slow down - in other words, after exceeding this range, no matter how fast a single civilization expands its power, its strength will increase. No matter how fast it goes, the increase in this civilization's suppression of the death tide will become smaller and smaller until it reaches stagnation."

"However, if at such a time, this civilization can truly unite with other different civilizations, then even if this newly added civilization is very weak, the entire coalition's suppression power against the death tide will be greatly enhanced. For example, , for example - if the strengths of two civilizations are 1 and 0.0000001 respectively, and if these two civilizations can truly cooperate and unite to coexist harmoniously, then the strength of the suppression force of this civilized union against the death tide will not be theirs. The sum is 1.0000001, but 1.05 or even 1.1."

"Therefore, we must ensure that we can coexist harmoniously with other civilizations in the void. Only in this way can the empire's resistance to the death tide be maximized. If the empire does not do this, the empire's losses due to the death tide will be greater than now. Much higher - much higher than the "loss" suffered by maintaining and helping these civilizations. In addition, we have conducted rigorous tests through experiments, and "other civilizations" cannot use technical means to impersonate them."

"This is why the empire wants to unite and protect many civilizations in the void from the perspective of interests." After the demonstration was completed, Vesrifan solemnly said to the λ supreme rulers on the other side of the screen.

"If you want to hear that the empire has decided to continue doing these things for a long time out of profit, then this is it."

"We can feel the sincerity in this answer, and this answer can convince us - please allow us to pay tribute to you, His Majesty the Emperor of the Star Empire." After a long silence, the two of them once again received the message from Lambda Civilization Information from the Federation.

In a world located at the end of a world branch on the frontier of the empire, there is a ship anchored in the port that has completed all the inspections required before setting sail. Now, it is quietly moored in the port, waiting for the final permission order to set sail.

This ship is quite large, with its long axis length exceeding 140 million kilometers, which is comparable to many core flagships. Its main body is a pair of huge right-angled trapezoidal wings that are put together. There is an auxiliary warehouse above and below the wing surface that has the same shape as the main structure but is smaller in size. This makes the ship look less like a sandwich pancake. , but its heart is much bigger and thicker than the bread added on both sides.

Compared to other ships in the empire, the pattern on the exterior of this ship is much simpler. In addition to the imperial national emblem in the center, the main part of the pattern only has a few sharp and slender wedges extending to both sides. texture. Apart from these necessary parts written in the Imperial Code, there are almost no other derivatives or traces of decoration on the appearance of this ship.

As simple as its appearance is its control room and maintenance corridor. But beyond this relatively simple part, the interior of this ship has the most redundant and backup power supply system among the imperial warships. It has three power systems, both crystal energy and arcane energy can provide energy for this special ship. In addition, there are eight super multi-variable engines equipped with huge coaxial anti-propeller propellers at the rear of the ship - they can use variables to provide energy to the ship in any environment.

This ship has the most complete power system in the empire, but among the many engines, the most core part is the virtual point jump engine - this is a virtual point jump ship, a "Great Journey" class virtual point jump engine Boat.

This boat is by far the newest of the latest models. The design of this type of ship took a long time. Many departments of the empire and countless researchers finalized the entire design of this class of ship on a time scale of hundreds of billions of years.

The cabins owned by the "Great Journey" class have many special attributes - compared to those cabins that can be activated and support unlimited consciousness interaction without delay and can be seen everywhere in the empire, the cabins here cannot be activated at all. Here are all Constructed from solid materials. At the same time, except for all the medical and rest rooms, any other cabins and corridors on the ship seemed very cramped.

As for the flight control room, the flight control room here is circular, and its internal space can only provide relatively ample seats for these three people. The positions where the three pilots sit are closely connected to the wall behind them, without any gaps, and the operating terminals are placed in front of the operating positions, but these terminals are not independent devices, they are embedded in a There are no holes or gaps in the column that occupies the center of the entire circular room.

The same is generally true for other functional cabins juxtaposed with the flight control room. However, due to different functions, the operation terminals on the core pillars of other functional cabins also have different functions.

In other functional cabins, the terminals faced by the stoves can monitor and operate the energy flow and power system of the entire ship. The terminals faced by the operators can monitor and call all functional equipment of the entire ship, and the supervision The terminal faced by the operators can monitor and clarify the current status and safety situation of each cabin, system and all crew members of the ship.

If we must say that the interior of this ship has something in common with other creations of the empire, it would probably be that everything here is bright and simple. All cabins and corridors are brightly lit, and there are no dark corners. No messy pipes.

There is no doubt that this is a unique boat. With the most functionality and performance, this ship simplifies almost everything that can be simplified to the extreme. Such a huge ship only requires twelve people to operate and perform a full set of maintenance - three pilots, three stokers, three operators and three supervisors to keep the ship sailing almost forever. , this is the ultimate that the empire can currently achieve.

When such a ship, built with the efforts of countless people, is finally launched, it is only natural that it will be surrounded by cheers. However, amidst the cheers, people soon discovered that a sense of loneliness also came quietly - this ship absorbed almost all the essence of the empire's technology. For a long time, such a ship is likely to be the highest point on the development tree of this group of ships.

"The "Great Journey" class virtual point jump ship No. 06 has completed its pre-set sail inspection and is waiting for the sailing order!"

"The environment in the world is stable, and the surrounding void environment is stable. It is confirmed that the conditions for setting sail are met, and the "Great Journey" class virtual point jump ship No. 06 is allowed to set sail!"

After obtaining the permission to set sail, many of the equipment restraining the ship in the port berth slowly opened, and the huge ship started quietly. It began to gradually accelerate and drive to the end of space and the end of the world. The light gradually faded from around the ship. After leaving the world barrier, there was only a layer of dim light surrounding the ship. That was the boundary of the ship's order field, and beyond the boundary, there was darkness.

"The ship's power system is operating normally!"

"The ship's control system is operating normally!"

"All working equipment on the ship is online, all calls can be fed back, and the response time required for all equipment to provide feedback meets regulatory standards."

"The ship is in good condition and will begin its first virtual point jump!"