Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Request the entry of alien civilization troops.

Both humans and Rockman are very interested in this. After all, now can be said to be the weakest moment of the Chien Empire. When will we not fight now?

However, just because they want to do this does not mean that they will really respond to the committee's request and just send troops to attack the Chien Empire in a daze - even if they want to do this, they will not express it publicly .

After all, the act of sending a fleet to fight against it has a lot to do in itself.

After the first wave of power struggle within the committee was over and the structure was basically stabilized, they began to negotiate conditions—you see, we have exhausted all the power of our civilization to fight such a war to liberate you from far away, even if It's because of our values, we can't make me work for nothing, right?

You see, the battle damage is so large, don't you have to... think about it?

Under the subtle control of relevant people, they managed to win a lot of benefits for their country without arousing too much resentment from the other party. Of course, the Chien Committee is not stupid, and they have also made a lot of efforts in it .

After all, the agreement or something can only be discussed after you take down the Kion Empire first, right?

After a lot of interest competition between the two sides, finally, the matter has been negotiated, and at the same time, all the preliminary arrangements have been made. The people of Chien are looking forward to it, waiting for the violent bombardment of the two multinational countries that are more free and democratic than them in the propaganda. Qi En mother star.

Blast into the lair that has been completely occupied by alien creatures.

The war has begun.

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(Chien gain Species Trait: Neural Symbiote Host

Description: This species discovers that it is being parasitized in the brain by a neurosymbiont that, when activated, takes over the host's consciousness - without even realizing it.

Changing this trait requires technology: ? ? ? )

Volume 237 The Road to the Cat League: Chapter [-] Who is the original owner?

The war machine is already in motion.

In less than two months, the foreign alliance's fleet has already ridden on the face of the Chien Empire, and cooperated with the Rockman's fleet to complete several battles, driving straight in, and fighting all the way until it is only the last jump away from its home planet. In the place where, except for its parent star and the Kion galaxy blocked by the Kion mother galaxy, the other territories have all fallen into their hands.

In fact, after the outbreak of a large-scale civil war, the strength of Kion's fleet was only about 60% of what it was before. It was almost impossible to defend the attack of the coalition forces outside the parent star fortress group.

Each time, they only cooperate with the local defense network to consume to a certain extent, and then evacuate before the close-range firefights. Their intention is very obvious, that is, to use these outer planets to consume their combat power, and to pull as much as possible for the decisive battle of the mother star. Back to disadvantage.

As for the response between humans and Locke, it is also very simple-since you want a decisive battle on the home planet, why don't I go in?

Anyway, their purpose was to take down those colonial planets, so that those ordinary Kion people and the other two races enslaved by Kion would be freed from the rule of alien creatures.

As for the mother star?

Anyway, they have already blocked them inside. Based on the production capacity of the two galaxies alone, one of them is still a galaxy that has already broken out an armed rebellion. It is obviously unrealistic to want to fight them for a long time.

However, due to the fact that there are still many controversies within the Kion Joint National Salvation Committee, those who want to imitate alien civilizations and take the path of democratic elections, those who want to continue to implement Kion’s own authoritarian system, and those who try to sew the two together Power cannot be underestimated, and no matter which side's demands are suppressed, it is likely to cause this newly born civilization with very contradictory internal opinions to split again.

Therefore, before a consensus was reached within them, this civilization, which inherited 35% of the population of the original Chien Empire, did not yet have a unified country name to call it—this was impossible, and the victory came too easily, except for one Apart from the consensus on overthrowing the rule of heterogeneous creatures, the various factions actually have nothing in common with each other, and many viewpoints are directly and sharply opposed.

If you look at the political spectrum, the entire committee is a proper palette, ranging from the extreme left to the extreme right. It can bring together such a big pot of potpourri, so that they can at least sit down and have a good time without fighting each other. Talking about things and advancing the consensus little by little, it can be said that the committee members are talented.

No matter how much, it is really beyond the expectation of their civilization at this stage.

There are currently two major issues before the committee, one is to change the direction of the committee towards the unification of the country, and try to avoid this hard-won civilization from splitting again; the other is about the dormant state in their minds. symbiont.

You must know that although they have raised the banner of resistance and drew a clear line with those "queen people" who they consider to be alien creatures, in fact, everyone understands that physically, they are actually almost the same as those "alien creatures". There's no difference—they've got that dreaded symbiote in their heads, just temporarily on unconscious standby.

Although so far, all the evidence shows that as long as they don't get close to the Kion mother star and stay conservative and don't enter the Kion mother galaxy, these symbionts will not be activated and their consciousness will not be captured.

However, this is just an "experience" after all, not a solution that can be done once and for all, and you don't need to worry about it anymore.

Although after multi-party cooperative research, scientists believe that the assimilation time of this symbiont and the Chien people is quite long, at least one to two orders of magnitude longer than the history of the Chien people's civilization. From this point of view, in fact, this symbiont It can already be called a part of Kion.

Just like a virus, many segments of your genome actually come from viruses, and the proportion is at least on the order of a few percent, but this does not make you feel that you are not human—from a purely biological From a scientific analysis, this symbiont should actually be classified into this category.

After all, although it seems unnecessary to process the information again and again, judging from its actual effect, this process has actually increased the brain function of the Chien people in some ways, making them smarter and more intelligent to a certain extent. Docile and more united.

Yes, although in the eyes of the outsiders, these Kion people whose consciousness has been invaded by the symbiote are very violent and extremely oppressive to the outsiders. At the same time, they also implement class rule internally. Stupid creatures like the Crown Prince Kion can wantonly bully other " Chien," let them bow down and serve him.

However, the "Qian" empire that did this is still completely impenetrable, and there is no possibility of instigating rebellion at all. Those slaves who are oppressed to the extreme in the eyes of humans are still actively maintaining this system without any complaints .

Can you say they are "not united"?

From the biological point of view, this brain nucleus is really a beneficial existence. After all, it doesn't matter which brain or which consciousness functions. , your consciousness, and even everything you own as a living body can be taken away by other "creatures" in your brain at will, even if it is really just a part of the Qien people, it is already irrelevant .

For their group of consciousness, completely eradicating these parasites is their greatest expectation.

"So, is this technically feasible?" Seele wondered, "To completely remove the important structures in the brain while retaining the original consciousness, with them... no, even with our technology, it can really be done." Are you there?"

"Unfortunately, no."

Hong shook his head, denying this guess: "According to my research, this brain nucleus has actually become a part of their brain, if it is removed, it will cause them to become a group of IQs that are not much higher than those of wild animals. creatures, not to mention interstellar civilization, stone civilization is enough."

"It means that they not only have to find a way to remove this brain nucleus, but also have to develop artificial components that can completely replace its function?"

"Yes."

Hong spread his hands: "From the current point of view, their ideas are futile-even our technological level is far from the minimum requirements for achieving this goal, let alone them."

"Is that so..."

Xier patted her tail, expressing her sympathy for these strange people—although they were ugly and had a bad temper, the impression they left on the Cat League was even worse, if it wasn't for the fact that there was a solar system in the middle , I am afraid that the cat alliance has already assembled the fleet to teach them how to make lizards.

However, after all, they are still a civilization that can communicate, and they are a serious and intelligent population. In addition, they now understand that the irascibility of the Qien Empire is mainly due to the "alien creatures" whose consciousness has been captured by the symbiote. Although the benefactor was not very good, he was also not as bad as before.

If possible, she still hopes that the other party can get rid of the influence of the symbiont and return to the path of normal civilization.

"Actually, there is another question that is worth pondering." Hong added.

Seele responded to her with a "meow?"

"According to the research results jointly obtained by us and them, these symbionts have been in the brains of the Chien people for at least tens of thousands of years, which is far beyond the history of their civilization-and we can know that all the symbionts in the Chien people The consciousness of the Chien people on Enmother Planet belongs to those symbiotes, not their 'noumenon', and after leaving this symbiote, their own thinking ability will drop to be no different from that of wild animals."

"Ok?"

Xi'er hugged Maomao's head as a pillow, while tilting her head, looking a little puzzled.

"So." Hong held up an index finger, "If a creature, their entire civilization, and even all the time after the evolution of advanced intelligence, are created and experienced by these symbionts.

"From the first bonfire on the primitive grassland to the rockets in the pre-space age, the entire glorious civilization is completely made by symbionts, and everything is created by that race. Until entering the interstellar age, these 'odd Because the benefactors are far away from the parent star, the symbiote gradually fell into a dormant state, and these "chic benefactors" who are now resisting the symbiote were born.

"Then, we have to think about one thing—who is the real 'Kion Civilization'?"

Red said softly.

"Did the symbiote take their bodies, and the doves took the magpie's nest?"

"Or...

"After these symbionts have created a brilliant civilization, what about a group of new consciousness born from them, trying to seize their civilization?"

...

In the eyes of the Chien Empire, this was a complete betrayal.

They have also heard the accusations against them by the committee, and the scholars of the empire have also confirmed that there is indeed a brain nucleus in their brains, and this structure has been activated. Nest, the civilization that tries to capture Kion in general.

It is believed that the purpose of the committee to spread this information in their territory is to make them civil strife, to make them believe that they have been captured by a parasite.

But it's a pity that, in the eyes of these strange benefactors, this is completely unreasonable behavior-even if they know, what can they do?

Now that the brain nucleus is already working, it means that their self-awareness is already the so-called "parasite" - since I am already the consciousness of this "parasite", what else do I need to do? ?

against yourself?Or do you kill yourself so that others can get your body?

Sure enough, biological brains without brain nuclei just don't work well.

This is the unified cognition of the entire Chien mother planet.

To put it bluntly, no matter which side it is, the fear is that the consciousness of "self" will die and be replaced by foreign creatures-for those "Kien people" on the committee, the brain nucleus they fear is activated, and the symbiont Their consciousness kills and replaces their original consciousness.

But for the "true Chien people" of the empire, they are now the consciousness of the symbiosis, and it can even be said that this is not a symbiosis, this is themselves - for this group, the consciousness of the brain nucleus is the real itself, and all those committees want to do is kill themselves and let another consciousness take charge.

Both sides think that they are the genuine Kion civilization, while the other is an idiot whose consciousness has been invaded by other races without knowing it—and, if viewed from a neutral point of view, it is the civilization of the symbiont, that is, the Kion Empire argument is more convincing.

After all, from the development of advanced intelligence to the establishment of the entire civilization, everything was done by the "Kion Civilization" of the symbiosis. The current "Kion Civilization" that is resisting is actually only after the interstellar era, because it has never returned to Passing through the parent star, which caused these symbiotes to fall into an unconscious dormant state, and only then did the consciousness of these "Qianren" come into being.

Now, these new consciousnesses born due to the dormancy of the "original owner" are trying to completely kill the original owner of this body and make them the new owner of the body-if it is placed in a novel, I am afraid most people will think that the latter regards the body as the new owner. For the villains?

Especially in novels like fantasy or cultivating immortals, a person's original consciousness fell asleep for some reason, but his body awakened a new consciousness during the deep sleep, trying to kill the original owner and replace him.

Isn't this a proper villain!

However, this is just a purely scientific analysis, and the social behavior of intelligent creatures obviously cannot be explained by simple biology-people don't care whose body "should" be, for society For animals, what they care most is whether this person is still the person they are familiar with and have been with for many years.

Since this person has been a "new consciousness" occupied by doves and magpies since he was born, all the memories and behaviors related to him are also related to this "new consciousness", while that "old consciousness" has been No one knew from the beginning.

Obviously, for them, this "new consciousness" is the real person, the individual they are familiar with.

Therefore, there was no room for negotiation between the two sides from the very beginning. Either the Chien Empire, that is, the civilization of the original owner, would kill all those traitors, and then use strong force to subdue all alien civilizations. Don't dare to come and get involved; either the Kion Committee will achieve a complete victory, wipe out the Kion Empire, and then find a way to truly and completely remove the symbiont from their minds and officially become a new civilization.

There are no intermediate terms.

Judging from the current situation, anyone with a little common sense can understand that although the strength of the fleet of the Chien Empire is still not to be underestimated, with the military strength of humans and Locke, at least half of the battle losses must be paid to defeat them. It is obviously impossible to do this for an unfamiliar alien civilization.

But in reality, they have failed.

No matter who is the original owner, when they wantonly enslave other races to practice tyranny, torture and kill the members of civilization they first came into contact with, and do their best to die in the entire interstellar society, the ending is actually doomed.

Because there is no room for them here.

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PS: My friend asked me to play Civilization 6 at noon, thinking that I would get off the plane after dinner.

Then, uh...

You understand.

Volume 238 The Road to the Cat League: Chapter [-] The Space Elevator Project

Because the distance between the Kion star field and the Cat League is too far, just from the Mars wormhole in the solar system to the Jupiter wormhole, it has to span a distance of 5.5 million kilometers at the closest time and 10 billion kilometers at the farthest time.

In the absence of superluminal speed, the commuting time between the two places must start at least 5 or 6 months, and it must be a high-speed spacecraft with a good thrust-to-weight ratio and specific impulse. It is impossible for Hong to do such a thing. The Glory was transferred there. Therefore, although the Chien Civil War has become the largest interstellar war in history, with the largest number of participating fleets and the most far-reaching influence, except for the Tukeka Purge War.

But the impact on the Cat League is almost zero.

Although the Cat League has always had the highest industrial output value and the most powerful combat power in the entire star field, they are not interested in expanding their hegemony—so far, all the cat alliance wars have been aimed at the extinct civilization Stepping on cleanliness, do everything possible to wipe out all these idiot forces that will seriously threaten the Cat League.

But for other civilizations that can communicate normally, the Cat League has never used force.

Hong actually doesn’t like to fight and kill, she is a very peace-loving cat-although my fleet is the best in the world, the proportion of military industry in peacetime is double digits, and the nuclear bomb reserves are more than all other civilizations combined .

But she is still a good child who loves peace.

Of course, if you are not separated by human beings in the middle, but if you become the Qien Empire directly posted your face, Red will probably send the fleet to make it fat -red hobbies and peace. It will only appear when her cubs and the people pose a clear threat.

But if you make a threat, try to harm her cubs and citizens.

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However, in this round of interstellar pattern changes, the one who feels the most idle is not the Cat League, but the Inner Alliance—although in the inner solar system, the left hand side is the Cat League and the right hand side is the Human Autonomy Federation and the Outer League. It's very safe, and you don't have to worry about being hit in the face by an alien civilization.

But likewise, this also makes it difficult for them to participate in this round of war and make a profit. Although with the help of some means, the inner alliance managed to get some sweetness from the outer alliance, and they would not return empty-handed, but the big part was eaten by the outer alliance after all. down.

No way, who said that human beings only have one solar system? For human civilization itself, a huge solar system is actually enough for them. Even if it is the most conservative estimate, one solar system is enough to accommodate a population of hundreds of billions, plus In the interstellar era, they already understood that the "population explosion" in ancient science fiction novels that was simply multiplied by percentages was completely unrealistic. Therefore, if only considering the interior of civilization, one solar system is completely sufficient.

But if we expand our field of vision to interstellar politics, a solar system is a bit stretched after all—even ignoring the super giant cat alliance that occupies 24 star systems, Locke and Kion also have 7 and 5 star systems respectively. The potential is much better than that of human beings, let alone any individual political system that is subdivided into human beings.

Therefore, although officially they will not say that they expect war, in fact, both the cake and the people hope to open another wormhole—no matter what civilization, in short, they need a wormhole to break the status quo. Tool of.

Whether it is directly obtaining a new territory for human development, or obtaining a friendly neighboring country so that they can open up more foreign trade markets and obtain stronger productivity through commercial means, it doesn't matter.

I don't expect to become like the Cat League, that's too ambitious, and the current human beings have no possibility of competing with the Cat League for the first place-as long as they can reach the same level as Locke, they will be satisfied.

According to the results of their latest research on the mechanism of wormholes, human beings are most likely to become the next civilization to open wormholes in this star field. As far as they know, the "revelations" about wormholes are summed up. They are no longer the civilization that was confused about wormholes and could only resign themselves to fate.

Today, they can roughly calculate the probability of their own civilization opening a wormhole within a certain period of time, and quantify the influence of various factors to a certain extent, and incorporate it into the calculation model.

They have reason to believe that within the next ten years, there is a 50% probability that a wormhole leading to other civilizations will appear.

Although it is impossible for them to start preparing for war so early and transform their military economy, no normal person would do this, but it is still necessary to make some preliminary preparations for a possible war-the current human fleet is only more than 2 million tons, of which The other half are foreign trade fleets purchased by foreign alliances, and the payment has just been settled some time ago.

Moreover, when it comes to the various alliances, the foreign alliance occupies about 1.7 million tons, while the internal alliance and the People's Autonomous Federation only have 0.6 and 0.4 million tons respectively. This makes it difficult to believe that no matter where the wormhole is opened, the opposite side will have fewer fleets than any of their alliances.

Therefore, under expediency, after many rounds of negotiations, the alliances finally gathered on Ceres in the asteroid belt and signed a mutual defense treaty for mankind.

This marks that after the civil war in the solar system and the disintegration of the United Nations system for the second time, all countries have finally established a cooperative organization that includes all human beings.

How long can they last this time?

Red wait and see.