Great Power Technology

Seeing Ye Zhou shaking his head, Xu Chang spoke directly.

"Interstellar pirates. In fact, to be precise, they cannot be considered pirates, but regular troops of a certain civilization."

"The story is very simple. In a certain universe, super-light navigation technology is a technology that all civilizations can master in the early stages of development. They have discovered the jump technology even before they invented gunpowder."

"You can understand it as a kind of magic or some kind of magical power. In short, it does not require strong technical accumulation or productivity as a basis. As long as you learn it, you can always use it."

"As a result, all civilizations in the entire universe began to develop in a deformed way. They used their own jump technology to conduct expeditions between galaxies to plunder the resources of other planets and expand their own power."

"However, the development of jump technology consumes a lot of resources. These civilizations use all the materials they plundered to build new jump engines, while other basic sciences have stagnated."

"--In fact, they don't need the development of basic science. Whoever's jump engine is faster and more flexible will have a greater advantage in the war."

"If things go on like this, the so-called 'interstellar pirates' will appear."

"They use outdated weapons and equipment, even cold weapons, and drive a poorly sealed spacecraft made of iron and wood, but they can travel to another galaxy across a distance of tens of thousands of light years."

"Their territory continues to expand, and their enemies are eliminated one by one, because their enemies are just like them, and their war technology is not much better."

“We call this civilization system ‘jump civilization’.”

"The journey of the jump civilization lasted for thousands of years, until one day, they came to the earth."

"After the initial fear of heavy artillery, missiles, and fighter jets, humans destroyed their fleet like a ragtag force and obtained their jump engines."

"It was only then that humans discovered that they were on the wrong path."

"In other words, the jump civilization has gone astray."

"But, no matter what, with the super firepower and the jump engine, humans no longer have any opponents in the entire universe - at least in the territory of the jump civilization system."

"This is the story of interstellar pirates."

Ye Zhou nodded in a daze. He vaguely remembered that this story came from a science fiction novel called Alien Star Misdirection.

Or rather than saying that this is science fiction, it is better to say that this is a fable, which vividly exposes the principle of "new technology trap" in an extremely extreme and mean way.

But obviously, such a situation almost never happens in reality.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou said:

"This is a good story, but it is just a fable with too many holes."

"Think about it. After thousands of years of war, no matter what, the Leap Civilization will accumulate a huge amount of resources. As long as a very small part of these resources flow into basic scientific research, it will be enough to promote a qualitative change in their technology."

"What's more, the starry sky and the universe are extremely magical things to civilization. The more stars you see, the stronger your desire for development will be."

"The stars are the key to civilization and technology. No civilization will use smelly wooden ships to pollute the sea of ​​stars. The most likely scenario is that the jump civilization drives super battleships and carries the space developed by the jump technology. Weapons can destroy humans who are still using gunpowder with just one encounter."

Xu Chang nodded and replied:

"If you follow the context of this story, that's probably what happened."

"But the question is, aren't we talking about adjacent dimensions?"

Ye Zhou was stunned and asked with some confusion:

"What's the meaning?"

"Could water pump technology be a jump technology? Could the civilization of adjacent dimensions be a jump civilization?"

"Ye Zhou, do you know the first axiom of war between adjacent dimensions?"

Ye Zhou nodded and replied:

“When a civilization in any dimension develops to the point where it can control energy exchange across dimensions, they will prioritize absorbing energy from adjacent dimensions at all costs, until all civilizations in adjacent dimensions perish due to energy suffocation.”

"Or to put it more simply, unless the barriers to material exchange are broken down, there will be no possibility of peace between dimensions, and civilizations will only destroy each other."

"so!"

Xu Chang gave a light high-five and then said:

"Think about it, what is the safest way to ensure the destruction of civilization in another dimension?"

".Build enough pumps."

"That's right! So now the problem comes, this is a paradox."

"In order to ensure that they can destroy another civilization in the competition, they are destined to build a large number of water pumps, and these water pumps are 'disposable items' that can do nothing except pump water."

"In other words, the water pump itself actually reduces the energy endowment by one dimension."

"In other words, the number of water pumps built actually determines the technical upper limit of one dimension, but any civilization has to build it, and ultimately, a relative dynamic balance is reached."

"In this case, what do you think is the most likely thing to happen? It is obvious that after they master the water pump, the development of other technologies will definitely be seriously hindered!"

"It's very possible that they won't be much ahead of us in other basic technical fields!"

"This also means"

"This means that our confrontation with the neighboring dimension is not actually a dead end."

Ye Zhou interrupted Xu Chang, who nodded with satisfaction and continued:

"Yes, of course it's not a dead end, but that's not what I want to tell you."

"What I want to say is that if our test this time is successful, then we will probably destroy a large number of already built water pumps. At that time, it will not be them blocking our technology, but us blocking it. They're gone"

Hearing this, Ye Zhou couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

This is indeed a very possible direction, and judging from the movement patterns of adjacent dimensional channels, in addition to the "water pump" itself, the other party's technical level does seem to be within the scope of human understanding.

But the question is, among the hundreds of millions of civilizations in the entire universe, is it true that no other civilization has tried to use this method to break through the oppression of adjacent dimensions?

Or did they die before they could counterattack?

The answer is unknown, but at least, because of this inference, Ye Zhou has strong hope in his heart.

Regardless of whether humans can achieve a counterattack against adjacent dimensions in the simulation, at least in reality, humans definitely have greater certainty.

Because he will promote human science and technology to achieve leap-forward and discontinuous development that ignores rules, which will buy mankind enough time.

He took a deep breath and then said:

"That's probably the most optimistic estimate."

"Realistically, the most likely scenario is that we can hit them a bit, but nowhere near enough to turn the tide."

"But no matter what, this operation must be successful, otherwise, all subsequent plans will be empty talk."

"certainly."

Xu Chang nodded in agreement, and then the two of them looked at each other, parted ways in the passage, and rushed to their respective jobs.

At the same time, the 18 crew members on this huge spacecraft are all ready. In two hours, they will begin to merge with the Carme retrograde planet group, and after the "Zheng He" carrying out the pilot mission is in place , began to promote the orbit change of the Carme satellite.

This is a complex task. There are 22 asteroids in the Carme cluster, the smallest of which has a radius of only 40 meters. The movement patterns of these satellites are extremely difficult to predict. If they happen to be in a collision orbit, it will cause significant damage to the spacecraft. threaten.

Therefore, they must complete the action from orbit synchronization to docking as soon as possible. Only by sticking closely to this 40-kilometer-diameter satellite can they gain temporary safety.

After completing this series of pre-operations, if you want to return home safely, the 12 propulsion engines on each spacecraft become the key.

The power they can provide will determine the success or failure of the entire mission.