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

"There's a big fight going on here."

Looking at the picture on the screen, Commander Pan Asia muttered to himself.

This is indeed a great war - according to the AI's rough calculation of the wreckage, nearly a thousand large warships participated in this war, and the total mass of the fleets of both parties should be around 5 to 8 million tons, depending on How many battleships left this starship cemetery alive.

Obviously, such a large scale, even for the Cat League, whose military strength dominates the entire star field, can already be called a big battle-after all, the current total fleet quality of the Cat League has just reached 12 billion It's just a ton. This is a figure that they barely achieved after completing the target of 2.5% of the power ratio of warships ahead of schedule.

If this is the final decisive battle, this number is not too surprising. Human beings can make it out by gnashing their teeth, but no heavy fortress representing a "military important place" has been found here, and a large number of wreckage has not been recovered after the war. Judging from the current situation, there is a high probability that this is not a decisive battle location.

This is not good news-because it means that the fleets of both parties involved in the war are very strong, so strong that a non-decisive battle can leave at least 2 million tons of wreckage.

Now, voters should be able to realize how important a strong military industry is, right?

he thought so.

After all, buying a ship is only a last resort after all. It is no problem to save a fire in the short term. In the long run, you still have to develop your own military industrial chain-but this creates a problem. If you want to develop industry, the best The way is to expand, expand your own territory as much as possible, and then establish core industrial areas on several relatively wealthy planetary belts, and then pull up the industrial output value of other star domains from point to area.

So, how do they expand?

Use the fleet.

But what if the fleet is not enough?

develop industry.

What is the best way to develop industry?

expansion.

Well, the plan fell into an endless loop like this.

Of course, even if you don’t have so many territories, as long as you concentrate enough on operating the land in your hands, you can still develop good production capacity—just like human beings, even if their real territory is only one solar system, which is only equivalent to 24% of the Cat League. 1/6, but the actual industrial output value is about 1/[-] of Maomeng.

After all, the output is not determined by the number of galaxies. If humans have enough territory, the total amount of industrial equipment they currently have is enough to support them to lay out five or six galaxies according to the cat alliance's plan.

It's just that their luck is really bad. They have been in the sky for more than 200 years, and the civilizations they encountered are outrageous one by one, and the territory cannot be expanded at all. Therefore, many alien civilizations will be used to enhance the production capacity of other galaxies. They can only be forced to stay in the solar system and roll inward.

Now I have finally met a new civilization, and it is a very caring killing insect swarm, who can wipe them all out without any scruples, and bring them the vast territory they dreamed of.

As a result, just as they were gearing up to see if there was a chance to take down the opponent by borrowing money to forcefully buy the fleet, they found that the opponent was not a soft persimmon, but a powerful civilization with a strong fleet and strong strength, not to mention how depressed they were.

Although the Cat League has also said that if they are really completely defeated and they will be blasted into the planet to exterminate their species if they don’t take action, they will send a fleet to prevent the tragedy from happening, so as long as the enemy is not so strong that the Cat League can’t do anything , otherwise the safety of the human race is still guaranteed—however, doing so is not without cost.

Hong's attitude is very straightforward - if they really come to this point, it shows that they do not have the ability to independently protect human civilization, so no matter in terms of the risk of participating in the war or the perspective of human civilization, they must become A vassal of the Cat League.

Not a partner country, but a further vassal country.

Of course, people also know that the purpose of Hong’s doing this is not to really want to take them into vassal states, but to let them dispel the illusion that "the League of Nations will participate in the war unconditionally" as soon as possible, so as to avoid the situation where the military industry is rotten and the national defense is all dependent on the League of Nations. , On the one hand, he also shamelessly demanded independence and refused to accept the management of the Cat League.

It is impossible for them to take all the benefits. They can only choose one of the two sides. As for which one to choose-the decision is up to them.

However, it is obvious that the people of Pan-Asia have been daydreaming about all benefits and no responsibilities—fortunately, the intelligence of cakes is generally online, and there are many people who can see clearly , so as not to let Pan Asia go too far on the detour, and still be able to use this war to get back on track.

Militarism is indeed not advisable, and a very painful price was indeed paid to bring the deformed military-industrial economy back on track in the past few years. It is indeed reasonable for the people to fear repeating the same mistakes and refuse to expand the military again.

However, the reason why the people take the initiative to put politicians on the throne of power and transfer many rights that originally belonged to the country to the country is not to let them find a way to make the people because of insufficient information channels at this moment. , and the idea of ​​giving up food because of choking is reversed, and find a way to lead the people, the country, and even the entire civilization into a more prosperous and beautiful era?

Isn't this what they should do after gaining power?

"Commander, the probe has discovered a fleet of warships of unknown forces that are in a state of inertial navigation." The voice of the adjutant pulled his thinking back from the far side, "The orbital parameter is XXX...preliminarily determined to be from the local star Starting from the orbit of planet No. 3 in the system, the target is the synchronous orbit of planet No. 4, which is the parent celestial body of the satellite surrounded by our wormhole."

"How many ships? How long is it expected to arrive?"

"A total of 285 ships, it is estimated..."

The Pan-Asian commander threw away the distracting thoughts in his mind and began to concentrate on dealing with matters related to the alien fleet.

Although the performance of the detector's telescope is average, it is impossible to see these warships that are still far away from the Hill sphere clearly, but judging from the vague structure and shape, this should not be the fleet of the Akachi swarm—— However, they also do not belong to the civilization that fought Akachi here.

After all, the wreckage of the Akachi swarm and another civilization's warships are still scattered here and there. After a little comparison, you can find that its appearance is quite different from all the spaceships here. In addition, this unknown The shape of the faction fleet is very uniform, and the possibility of being a special type of ship can be ruled out.

In other words, so far, there are at least three civilizations in this star field, one of which is an extinct type of insect-killing swarm, and the other two are temporarily unknown.

This is good news. After all, the more power there is, the easier it is to fish in troubled waters. It is a good benefit for humans who currently want to expand their territories.

If there are only two overlord civilizations fighting each other with fists and fists, then they will really want to cry but have no tears.

For example, the Anti-Extinction War back then-don’t humans want that iron-hearted galaxy?I definitely want it, but the problem is that although the strength of the Cat League was only equal to that of humans at the time, anyone with a little intelligence can see that as long as the Cat League develops steadily for a period of time, its strength will easily suppress only one parent galaxy. , plus at most one human from the Iron Heart galaxy.

Snatching food from a mighty overlord civilization that just defeated the only opponent that could stand against her?

Sorry, they are not tired of living yet.

Coupled with the threat of the economic crisis at that time, the imminent full-scale civil war, and the lack of deep understanding of the Cat League, they finally decided to take the initiative to donate this galaxy to the Cat League in exchange for a decent departure and a peace of mind. Opportunity—Even a "hegemonic civilization" that is so well-intentioned and hopes to coexist peacefully and make progress together is so difficult, let alone those unfamiliar true hegemony civilizations that are likely to be unkind or even hostile.

If possible, they would like to turn this star field into a battle royale melee of more than a dozen civilizations. This is what is most beneficial to them-fishing in troubled waters, the muddier the water, the better.

Soon, with the help of the strategic early warning ships that entered the field, humans took clearer photos of this fleet—not surprisingly, they were indeed not any of the two civilizations that fought here before, but A whole new civilization.

Judging from the painting on the surface of the hull, this civilization should be an ordinary organic civilization. After all, except for very few cases (red: probe), there are generally only ordinary organic civilizations, and some strange things will be painted on the side of the ship. symbol.

Although they can't understand the meaning of these symbols, they can guess with their toes that these are the names and hull numbers of ships, and the scientists quickly judged that the intelligent creatures of this civilization are also The decimal system is adopted, and the law of digital writing in their language is also analyzed.

"A very concise number, not the hair country."

While analyzing, the linguist did not forget to diss a certain language with extremely strange number rules.

"really."

The commander also nodded in agreement.

毕竟，99不是99，而是4×20+10+9什么的。

It's so weird.

Volume IV Industry and Power: Chapter 242 The Great Rupert Kingdom

It wasn't long before they also detected radio signals emanating from this fleet.

At this distance, a dark wormhole and a small detector, unless a special directional detection is carried out, it is really difficult to be found in a short time, which is normal.

However, now that their strategic early warning ships have come in, once the fusion engine is turned on, the heat signal, let alone being undetectable, is pure self-deception.

However, Panya itself didn't plan to hide it for a long time - next door is a habitable planet, even if it seems to be a primitive planet that has not yet been developed, it is destined to attract the attention of all people who enter this star system. It is obviously impossible to hide in such a place where the spotlight gathers.

Rather than lying to yourself as an ostrich, it is better to take the initiative to find out the situation. Therefore, for this fleet that is trying to get in touch with them, Pan Asia also cooperated with it, and began to adjust the communication protocol used by it according to past experience. and language analysis and deciphering.

Somewhat unexpectedly, they deciphered the language of this civilization very quickly. Less than 12 hours after the deciphering began, the scientists had already translated 60% of the brief dictionary they sent, and tried to We ran several tests - and it turned out that the responses we got were as expected and their translations were mostly correct.

It's not that they have made great progress in deciphering alien languages ​​over the years. According to linguists, the reason why they can push the progress so fast is largely because the other party's language is very concise. It can even be said to be concise to a degree of madness.

All scholars who participated in the deciphering believe that this is definitely not a "natural language" that this civilization has inherited from the planetary age, but a "natural language" that has been designed by a large number of scholars for a certain purpose after entering the modern era. new language".

There are many special features in this language named "Lupus" (the name of the opponent's race that Lupus deciphered for them), for example, while the vocabulary is very small, it also expresses The meaning is limited as much as possible, and in a very unnatural way, the possibility of ambiguity and ambiguity in a word is reduced to the greatest extent possible, in order to pursue the ultimate, and it can even be said to be "succinct" for the sake of simplicity.

At the same time, this language also shows strong regularity. Almost all words can be transformed with the same rules and modified through a set of fixed prefix and suffix systems. For example, adding a special suffix means past tense, Adding a special prefix means negation, and it is always used to express some meanings that cannot be covered by ordinary words by shortening and splicing two or more original words.

This is different from English, which is one of the mainstream languages ​​of mankind. Although English has similar rules, it also has a lot of vocabulary beyond the rules, and this language shows an almost fanatical attitude towards the rules. , in order to perfectly practice the transformation rules, even at the expense of a lot of accuracy.

Yes, they can be sure that this is not the language created by the other party in order to practice the ultimate "accuracy". Although that language will reduce lexical ambiguity as much as possible, in addition to this, they will create more Vocabulary, used to refer to each situation precisely, to fine-tune the vague definitions in the original language.

For example, "horse" is not used to refer to any specific horse, but "菲" is used to refer to a horse with an impure coat color, "馰" is used to refer to a horse with a white forehead, and "运" is used to refer to a horse with a white rear right hoof. ...

Obviously, although such a language does have the characteristics of "restricting meaning and reducing ambiguity", it is completely opposite to the principle of restricting vocabulary in this Lupus language.

In fact, many scholars have a feeling that the creators of this language do not seem to take the purpose of "communication" that the language should pursue seriously. They did not intend to make this language able to Accurately refers to things in the world, and does not intend to allow people who use this language to accurately express their views and opinions.

This is not a language born for "communication" - its appearance must have other more important purposes.

"Hiss... To be honest, I have a bad sense of déjà vu."

A linguist murmured softly as he looked at this language that was artificial from the inside to the outside.

"It's a coincidence, so am I."

In this regard, several other colleagues also agreed-after all, the more you know about linguistics, the more you can see what is hidden under the seemingly "accurate" coat of this language.

They hope that their déjà vu is wrong, that it's just a misunderstanding because the thinking patterns of the two parties are too different, not as bad as they subconsciously think.

Because, if the other party is really what they think.

The situation is not so good.

About 19 hours after the first communication between the two parties, finally, with the joint efforts of all technicians, the adaptation of the communication protocol and the deciphering of the language were all completed.

Finally, they can start to communicate with this civilization that has revealed a strange flavor from the beginning of the language.

"Mr. President Tong, we have received a video communication request from the other party."

"Okay, get ready to connect to the communication." He nodded and ordered, "Also notify the expert group so that they are ready to analyze the other party's communication."

"clear."

After working for about half a minute, finally, the communication signal transferred back from the strategic early warning ship was displayed on the big screen in front of him.

This self-proclaimed "Lupus" race has unveiled its own mysterious veil.

"Wow."

Seeing this scene, the experts in charge of analyzing the screen made such voices at the same time - there is no other reason, the appearance of this race looks too familiar.

The face is identical to theirs, the top of the head is covered with soft hair, two long ears are covered with hair on the top of the head, two short ears are not hairy on the sides of the head, and a tail extends from the back. ..

In fact, it was carved out of the same mold as the Jeffreys.

Of course, if you let the real Jeffreys come and see, you can still see some subtle differences, so as not to confuse them with your own race, but for humans, this slight difference is not professional. People are hard to see.

If we want to make a more accurate analogy, the difference between these two species is probably the difference between fox mothers and wolf mothers.

"Hello, friends from beyond the stars, I belong to the human civilization, Ji Wan, the leader of the Pan-Asian Economic Cooperation Organization, very happy to meet you in this dark starry sky."

Although he didn't know the composition of the other party, Ji Wan still showed his friendly attitude to the other party according to the previously planned plan-they did want to expand and acquire land, but this by no means meant that they would intentionally sever the relationship so that This is used as an excuse for war against alien civilizations.

If possible, peaceful coexistence is of course the best option. After all, the Akachi swarm with the option of "removing threats" is their goal this time.

"Hello."

For his opening remarks, it took the middle-aged Lupers on the opposite side a few seconds to barely understand it and give him a response.

"We are the Grand Rupert Country."

After finishing this sentence, Fang Fang didn't continue to speak, as if he had already given a complete answer and was waiting for Ji Wan to move on to the next topic.

"I think there may be some problems with the translation software." Faced with this kind of nonsensical answer, Pan Asia President Tong's first reaction was that something went wrong with the translation, "We can only translate what you said. The sentence 'We are the Great Rupert Country' may need to be checked..."

It is human nature to have such thoughts. After all, according to the normal way of thinking, even if the other party does not want to start the sentence with "I am...", the equivalent answer should be "They are the great Lu of XX civilization." "Pokuo", and then attach his specific identity as an individual so that they can call and communicate.

What is "We are the Great Rupert Country"?

No matter how you look at it, it looks like part of the words are missing, so subconsciously, he blamed the translation software for the root of the problem.

However, soon, the other party's words negated his idea,

"...The translation is correct." Obviously, due to the characteristics of Lupus language, it is really difficult for this middle-aged Lupus to understand these words translated in human language, and it often takes several seconds to barely Understand and answer, "We are the Grand Rupert Country."

If you look at this sentence alone, you may just understand it as affirmation and emphasis, to show that they are indeed the Great Rupert Country—but if you combine it with the previous words, the problem will suddenly become prominent.

The other party seems to be deliberately avoiding mentioning his own personal identity, and only hopes to appear in their overall image.

Of course, it could also be purely cultural factors, such as thinking that the best way to engage with foreign countries is to appear as an entire country-this can also be said.

But obviously, the vast majority of people will not think in this direction of "self-deception" at the moment.

Things seemed to be going in a direction they didn't expect.

...

After about an hour of difficult communication, this initial contact ended in a not so pleasant way.

Although it is impossible for the other party to describe their national system in detail to outsiders like them, and it is even more impossible for them to stand on the perspective of human beings to give their country a definition that conforms to human language, but through some indirect methods, plus the two sides In the fierce conflict of ideas on many issues, Pan-Asian scholars finally determined that their previous guesses were roughly correct.

This Great Rupert Country is a deeply totalitarian country.

This sentence may not be strong enough. After all, the term totalitarianism is too empty, and it has been used for a long time to label each other within human beings. It is easy for people who don’t know much about it to misunderstand it. Doctrine" and "authoritarianism" are confused.

Therefore, under the suggestion of scholars, the Propaganda Department of Pan Asia used a famous dystopian novel written in the 20th century to help people who eat melons understand what this so-called "Great Rupert Country" is Element--

Star Oceania.

"Simple, clear, and direct." The person in charge who pushed this metaphor into the hot search said so, "and, it is very accurate and appropriate."

Under the popular science of my buddies, the people soon understood how huge the difference between the totalitarianism of this great Rupert country and the "totalitarianism" they had heard before was.

Compared with this real totalitarian empire, those so-called "totalitarian accusations" that were used to label each other and gain the moral high ground for one another are as ridiculous as children's mud.

Of course, this "empire" does not mean that the Great Rupert Country is also a backward imperial country like Chien, this is just a metaphor - in fact, they still hope that the other party is an imperial country, after all Even if this kind of country plays tricks, it will not be able to change its huge disadvantage in the power system.