Homo sapiens.

Chapter 709 Deadly Distance

Galaxy for 23325 years.

More than 1000 years have passed since the strike of human civilization reached the Andromeda cantilever.

And the Andromeda silicon family not only failed to counterattack human civilization, but fell into continuous wars.

In the joint command center of the humans in the Andromeda constellation, the officers of various groups who communicated synchronously looked at the huge holographic projection star map.

This star map is exactly the distribution map of the forces of the Xianying Constellation Cantilever at this time.

Although the Andromeda cantilever is the old nest of the silicon family, it is still gnawed down by human civilization.

Judging from the power distribution on the star map.

The side of Andromeda's cantilever close to Orion's cantilever seems to have been eaten by worms with 11 big holes.

Each hole is like a huge bowl, with a radius of about 600-700 light-years.

Three of the occupied areas have now been connected together to form a whole.

At this time, the silicon tribes of the Andromeda Silicon tribe who are close to the front line finally know that human civilization is invading the Andromeda cantilever, but it is a pity that they know it too late.

Now that the humans in Andromeda have gained a firm foothold there, once the planetary system of the Silicon Race is occupied by human civilization, it is almost impossible to regain it again.

The more serious problem is because of the communication technology of the Silicon family, the speed of light communication is too slow inside the star system, and the communication delay of hundreds or thousands of light years makes a lot of information lose its timeliness.

Now, only some of the tribes near the front line of the Silicon Clan in Andromeda know that the enemy is invading, while other tribes that are farther away only know that they have been attacked by an unknown enemy.

Even a part of the tribes of the silicon race in the outer area of ​​the cantilever of Andromeda has not been hit by the neutron shells of human beings.

This is the huge limitation of light-speed communication in the era of stellar systems.

Human civilization is undoubtedly fortunate.

Just entering the stage of first-level civilization, synchronous communication technology was developed by mistake. This communication technology allows human civilization to avoid many dangers and obtain long-distance real-time information.

Even if they are as strong as the silicon civilization, they have no way to avoid communication delays, which is the fundamental reason why the silicon civilization has developed into isolated tribes.

Even if human civilization separates a large number of subsidiaries, these subsidiaries are still not completely independent.

Synchronous communication has guaranteed the unity of human civilization to a certain extent, especially the technology and cultural exchange conference held every 10 years, which has made the technological development speed of human civilization not decline as fast as other first-level civilizations.

This is another problem discovered by human civilization after a series of observations and researches.

In the process of civilization development, it is actually very difficult to maintain the speed of internal technological development.

There are a lot of "forked roads" and "traps" hidden in it. Without other civilizations to refer to, it is as difficult as eternal life to maintain the rapid development of science and technology.

From the perspective of think tank scholars of human civilization, there are many factors that restrict the development of a civilization's science and technology.

These include: the way race is learned, cultural habits, individual identities, patterns of social functioning, and more recently, the speed of transportation and communication.

Compared with human civilization in other respects, silicon civilization is actually similar.

Even if they are information creatures, they have already realized that the superorganism mode is a dead end, and abandoned the superorganism mode very early, forming independent individuals with various personalities.

However, the scientific and technological development speed of the silicon civilization is not much faster than that of the omnic civilization. The silicon civilization that has developed for 766 million earth years is still inferior to human civilization. What is the problem?
In the final analysis, it is the limitation of communication and transportation.

This is also the reason why human civilization separated a large number of subsidiaries.

Under the limitation of traffic, the maximum utilization radius of resources of a first-level civilization that cannot travel faster than light will not exceed 10 light-years.

In this case, without setting up subsidiaries or separating semi-independent tribes, there is no way for a first-level civilization to manage colonies more than 10 light-years away.

Even management is difficult, let alone utilizing the colony's minerals and energy, as well as the colony's talents.

After all, as the distance increases, the time interval for communication between the two parties becomes longer and longer.

Take the situation of the silicon civilization in the Andromeda cantilever as an example. Their tribes on the inner and outer layers of the cantilever reach a distance of about 1.7 light-years.

Even at the speed of light, it takes 3.4 years to go back and forth.

Moreover, light-speed communication is difficult to maintain information density over long distances.

The information technology of the silicon civilization is definitely unique, but it can only guarantee the integrity of high-density communication within 5000 light-years.

It takes a long time for a communication.

Even if the various tribes of the Silicon family are united, there is no way to achieve talent sharing and rapid technical exchange.

This limitation has further led to the fact that each tribe can only fight alone in terms of scientific research, and there is no way to work together.

Human civilization uses synchronous communication technology to allow each subsidiary to focus on only a few scientific research fields, and other fields to be completed by brother companies. At that time, everyone will communicate at the exchange conference and quickly make up for other shortcomings.

In this way, talents and technology within human civilization can join forces.

However, the various tribes of the silicon civilization are limited by communication technology, so there is definitely no way to compete with human civilization in scientific research speed.

Regardless of the current territory of human civilization, it is still less than 30% of the silicon civilization, but in fact, the total strength that the two sides can use in the warring area, human civilization is at least a hundred times that of the silicon civilization.

The difference between communication technology and transportation technology has led to a reversal of the advantages of the two in local areas and within a specific period of time.

This is like, silicon civilization has [-] soldiers, but human civilization has only [-] soldiers.

The two sides are at war, and the human side is all heavy armored cavalry equipped with walkie-talkies and binoculars; the silicon clan is all infantry, and communication depends entirely on roaring.

When the war broke out, the Silicon tribe was still stationed in various small towns. Even if all the human cavalry did not attack, there were hundreds of cavalry fighting dozens of infantry during local battles.

In this case, how did the silicon family arrive?

This is simply an unsolvable deadlock.

Unless the silicon civilization suddenly explodes and obtains faster-than-light communication or faster-than-light navigation technology in a short period of time, it will end up being swallowed up by human civilization bit by bit.

At this stage of the war, as long as there are no accidents, it is basically a certainty that human civilization will annihilate the Si Heringus.

But human civilization has not taken it lightly, and is still preparing various countermeasures.

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