Everyone: Are mechanics weak? I wake up and rectify the natural disaster

——Are external threats a good thing or a bad thing for civilization?

Different civilizations have different answers to this question.

These different answers are strongly related to their different living environments.

Even Su Wen today cannot provide a unified answer with the help of the empire's large database.

But according to his own thoughts...

External threats may not be a good thing.

But if a civilization wants to develop healthily, it is undoubtedly a necessity:

'What it is' doesn't matter;

'Having it' is what matters.

Suffering is the thorny road to growth.

For individuals, it may be possible to avoid suffering.

Because a single individual is just an individual in a civilization.

He can't change anything.

Even if it is a great person with a surname in history.

The great achievements they once made cannot escape the demise of the people and the government.

But for 'civilization' as a whole...

Without suffering to accompany it, it will perish.

It is painful to be leaden for hundreds of years.

But its experience ultimately brought endless wealth to Chinese civilization.

It is like a whip with ferocious thorns.

Constantly beating on Hua Xia’s back:

——'If you dare to stop the pace of development, you will die! '

It is precisely because from the beginning of the founding of the country, we have been whipped by this whip all the time.

China has become the only country of human civilization that can successfully defeat the catastrophe and survive the end of the world.

...Although in this process, some insignificant help provided by some people is indispensable.

But it is undeniable that external threats are indeed the key driving force for China's rapid development.

It is precisely based on this logic that Su Wencai secretly supported the bandits.

Maintain the existence of alien bases in the asteroid belt and do not carry out complete eradication.

Not to hold the country of China hostage for its own sake, but to keep the Sword of Damocles hanging over the latter's head at all times.

To prevent certain people and factions within China from reverting to their old ways after regaining lost territory.

Go back to the decadent era of luxury and wealth before the catastrophe.

...In fact, his plan to raise bandits seems to be very effective.

Based on the information.

Within the Presbytery, an 'expulsion plan' has been secretly formulated.

It is planned to complete the recovery of all the territory and basically complete the "infrastructure reconstruction".

Restart the manned spaceflight project.

After building a new space station, using the technology obtained from the 'Afterglow Civilization', we began to build a dock and design and build a real starship.

...Of course, the first step will not be to create a starship.

After all, if you take too big a step, your balls will definitely be pulled.

In the beginning, it was mainly transport ships.

The first phase of the project plans to build a '10,000-ton short-distance transport ship' for transportation within the Earth-Moon system.

It can carry out orbital airdrops around the world, and can also directly sail to the moon and conduct trade and transportation with the Afterglow Civilization.

The subsequent second and third phases of the project were also transport ships.

But it is a manned transport ship.

The range of voyages has expanded from 'direct to Mars', to 'round trip to Mars', and even 'round trip to Jupiter, Earth and other planets'.

The next four phases of the project will be the real interstellar battleship.

And it can be achieved in one step, with a 10,000-ton destroyer capable of 'traveling to and from the asteroid belt' as the standard.

The entire project is expected to take fifty to one hundred years to complete, spanning two to three generations.

The ultimate goal is to remove the alien strongholds in the asteroid belt and completely eliminate the forces of the six ethnic coalitions from the solar system.

After this 'Expulsion Plan', there is a simultaneous 'New Great Wall Plan'.

It aims to build fortifications, star ports, docks, and station fleets near migratory planets in the solar system.

In order to deal with the possible "counterattack situation of the civilization behind the six ethnic coalition forces".

...In short, it is the same as China's usual style.

He is particularly capable of holding back and hiding, and his vision is extremely far-sighted.

In the two plans, three sets of advanced plans were also made.

There are three situations respectively: 'Sunset Civilization is willing to provide further help', 'Sunset Civilization needs to trade certain resources before it is willing to provide further help', and 'Sunset Civilization does not provide any further help to humans'.

During the specific implementation, the third set shall prevail to maximize the fault tolerance rate.

have to say...

I have to say that this really touched Su Wen.

It's clear that his efforts are rewarded.

Although it can be seen from these huge packages, China has never truly trusted him, or this Afterglow Civilization.

They are still willing to maintain this alliance, but they are also ready to walk upright without the help of alien civilization when their allies abandon them.

But this is something Su Wen expected. As for the reason, I have said before that trust between civilizations is not that simple...

...and that's not the point either.

The Chinese leadership and government agencies have meticulous planning and strong action capabilities.

This was the most gratifying thing Su Wen saw from this information.

A pre-interstellar civilization, after encountering an alien invasion, successfully survived the ordeal and was ready to leave the cradle and head towards the stars alone.

This is what he wants to see.

However...

In contrast to Chinese civilization.

It is also the civilization of the pre-interstellar era, or the 'quasi-interstellar era'...

——The accurate 'Interstellar Era Civilization' is based on 'whether it has the ability to independently escape from the star system of origin'. Therefore, neither China nor Gaelin are currently interstellar civilizations in the true sense, so an 'accuracy' must be added. ' word prefix.

The civilization of the quasi-interstellar era also encountered a disaster that could be called apocalyptic for its own civilization.

There is even a "quasi-ally" whose "technical level and combat effectiveness are higher than his own".

The development trajectories of the two sides after the disaster were completely different.

China has prepared two plans, ready to continue to develop on its own without the intervention of the 'Afterglow Civilization' which is 'basically neutral and provides limited help';

However, after Gaerlin began to worship the Aspect Dragon, he readily accepted the Aether Dragon, which was also 'basically neutral and provided limited help'.

Start enjoying life peacefully and contentedly, protected by the guardian dragon and isolated from all external enemies.

It is true that at the beginning they insisted on developing interstellar era technology and considered going outside the system.

But after realizing that 'the dragon will drive away all enemies', the external threat disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, the aggressive will and desire for military development within the civilization began to decline rapidly.

'Time' has the terrifying ability to change everything.

And second only to time, there is 'people's hearts'.

..

The Gaellings living under the wings of the dragon have actually experienced a lot.

When they first started worshiping the dragon, they also seriously thought about developing outside the star system based on their own abilities.

Defeat all the extrasolar civilizations that covet their home planet, and truly enter the forest of star sea civilization.

However, due to their background in the idealistic field, their starship technology advanced extremely slowly from the beginning.

Psychic civilization does have a development path that is completely different from technological civilization.

But that also requires exploration and trial and error.

It requires countless costs to cross a river of unknown depth without even a stone that can be touched.

no doubt.

Like Blue Star, those costly preliminary projects caused great resistance within the United Kingdom.

The voices of doubt have never subsided from beginning to end, but have intensified.

..

——Why should we pursue the development of a great country?

——Isn’t it enough to ensure the happiness of ordinary people?

..

——Why produce it yourself?

——Isn’t it okay to buy it with Americans?

..

Even...

'Motherland, can't you stop and wait for your people? '

Similar classic quotes have not appeared here before.

But that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the common people...

People start from an individual perspective.

In any carbon-based biological civilization, individual life spans are often limited.

But the lifespan of civilization itself is infinite;

Individual development will come to an end, and individual needs will have an upper limit...

The development of civilization is never-ending, and the demand for it is also never-ending.

But the latter is composed of the former, and everything that promotes the development of the latter comes from the dedication of the former.

In this case, it is not surprising that the former will have countless selfish thoughts:

The thing about human nature and morality that can withstand the test most is that they will never be able to withstand the test.

——Self-desire for oneself and dedication to the collective are themselves irreconcilable conflicts.

In short, just like the above conflicts, they cannot be completely eliminated.

The resistance caused by these conflicts cannot be eradicated.

and...

After the first generation of leaders who experienced the attack of the Ether Dragon and the glorious 'Discovery Period' before the attack basically all passed away.

The powerful people who could forcibly push forward the expansion plan outside the system despite resistance have also completely disappeared.

Just like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.

After passing the high point at noon.

In the end, it slipped slowly and inexorably...

——This is how the interstellar era of the Gaerlings ended.

Most of the city-states and most of the citizens finally recognized the 'permanent peace' that could be easily achieved under the protection of the ether dragon.

Because their past foundation is really too strong.

It is true that psychic civilization is not good at technological development, but there are several inexhaustible energy sources in low-Earth orbit, so what development is needed?

In this way, they enjoyed themselves comfortably under the wings of the giant dragon for tens of thousands of years.

This is the most enjoyable and happiest pastoral era for the elves.

For tens of thousands of years, the elves of Gaelin have developed numerous arts that reach the pinnacle.

Wonderful dramas, ingenious utensils, beautiful costumes, masterpieces with profound meanings...

Tens of thousands of years of enjoyment.

Let their aesthetics, their skills, and their philosophies be astonishingly sophisticated.

Even if the greatest philosophers, artists, writers, sculptors, and dramatists on Blue Star were put together, they couldn't compare with it.

Then...

Overnight, the sky fell.