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

Regardless of whether she regards them as old women or gentle older cubs, at least when she talks to the outside world, Hong will still call them "children".

After all, age is determined by comparison. Compared with a bunch of cubs in my family who are not over a hundred years old, naturally one of them is outdated.

But compared with those middle-aged and elderly people who are nearly four or five hundred years old, they are all energetic young people.

"That would be excellent, of course."

The corner of the young vice president's mouth twitched twice, and finally decided to give up complaining.

You know, his age is not much different from those scholars!

It's okay not to say this, but if Hong remembers what happened once, and calls him a child, how embarrassing would that be?

"Speaking of which, there are less than eight years until the exchange period. How is your domestic mobilization preparation going?"

"Uh, although there are some minor problems, overall it's going very smoothly." Jianhong changed the topic, and he naturally didn't get tangled up in the exchange group, "About several pioneering companies, our preliminary plan is... ...."

If you don’t know the cause and effect, and just read this passage, it’s a proper way for the cake to unite with foreign forces to sell national assets—in fact, this is actually one of the main speeches used by the bourgeoisie to resist.

They claim that reforms for the betterment of the people are farting. The real purpose of the government is to control the whole society and seek private interests for themselves, even at the expense of betraying the interests of the country...

But it's a pity that the federal people in the wartime state are still relatively clear-headed-they don't need the government to take action personally, and the federal netizens have already sprayed them bloody.

"very good."

Red nodded with a smile.

"Then let's wait and see."

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PS: Regarding the degree of civilization of the Earth, there are currently 17 votes in modern times, 13 votes in the near future, and 11 votes in the far future.

At present, it is modern, but I suddenly remembered that writing modern seems a bit easy to be banned.

Specifically, I will ask the editor on Monday to see how far I can write at most before deciding.

Finally, ask for tickets QAQ!

Volume 78 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Extinction Core

Time, like the glass next to the cat, will be fleeting if you don't pay attention.

As the positions of the main asteroid belt and the "extinction core" change, a confluence window that can save a huge amount of orbital transformation consumption is approaching, and this short 15-year truce also ushered in its end.

The light of stars spans hundreds of millions of kilometers of the dark universe, and large swaths are scattered on the silver-white armor belt of the "Cat's Claw" fortress—thanks to Hong's powerful space industry, this city is based on an asteroid and has a length of The giant space station with a height of 6000 meters successfully completed all the installation work before the intersection window, and it was put into use as planned.

On it, the ultra-high-power X-ray free electron laser and the heavy-duty interstellar missile array together form the sharpest spear ever, the railgun group, the nuclear bomb barrage launcher, and the rock shell tens of meters thick are The strongest shield on it.

In addition, tens of millions of tons of working fluid and fuel reserves can provide the front line with almost unlimited logistical supplies, and wartime docks and space factories can quickly repair the damage of warships, allowing them to return to the battlefield as quickly as possible .

Moreover, with the support of water-ice asteroids all over the surrounding area, Hong can also obtain cheap liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen through electrolysis of water-in fact, it is not very cheap. After all, the electricity consumed by electrolysis is quite amazing.

However, if the war enters a white-hot stage and the production in the rear is gradually approaching the limit, or even being broken down in a short period of time, these factories will be the last barrier for the supply of working fluid on the front line.

Yes, according to Hong's prediction, the shortage of production capacity and even the blockade of traffic lines are very likely to happen.

Unlike previous wars with Ai Xing, or cold wars with the alliance as the imaginary enemy, this war with the extermination unit will be the first evenly matched war she has faced since she was born.

The same life form, similar level of intelligence, similar level of technology-all of these mean that this will be a tough battle.

A real tough fight.

According to the observation of the giant space telescope array deployed by Red on the "Cat's Claw", as the intersection window is getting closer, the main fleet of the extermination unit has also started "surfacing operations".

Under the dazzling light of the fusion tail flames, hundreds of warships of extinct units gradually began to leave the factories and docks in low orbit, like ants moving their houses, and headed for the last place in the "core star field" in groups. The "Kastler" on the outside set off.

The so-called core star field refers to a core zone composed of four super satellites with adjacent orbits in the satellite belt of the "extinction core" of the gas giant planet.

In Hong's observation, these four satellites are the only four satellites that have momentum exchange ropes, at least 95% of the industries of the extinct units are concentrated.

Although due to the problem of the gravitational well, the total proportion of the space industry in the core star field should only be about 60% to 70%, but the total production capacity of more than 100 other satellites is defeated by the number of four satellites, and it is still a well-deserved "core satellite." the core of ".

Moreover, among the other small satellites whose diameters range from only 1000 meters to two to three hundred kilometers, these four super satellites with diameters ranging from [-] to [-] kilometers are really telescopes. The brightest pearl in the world is extremely dazzling.

According to Hong's deduction, if she can defeat and maintain the occupation of any satellite in the core star field for a long time, the winning rate of this war will be close to 99.9% - under this kind of figure, that is a tiny [-]%. A few tenths is just a statistical "error".

Because, if she occupies one of the satellites, even if it is the outermost Kasdler in the core star field, it means that all satellites with higher orbits have lost their combat capabilities, or even fell into the hands of the red star. , transformed into her logistics base.

In addition to the loss of any satellite, it means that the orbital logistics system built by the extinct unit with four momentum exchange ropes as the core has been broken, and the productivity has been reduced by at least 50%. is already won.

This is also one of the most notable characteristics of space warfare. If the orbit is lost and the right to control the universe is lost, unless there is a very high technological gap between the two sides, no matter how many troops and industries there are on the ground, there will be no resistance at all. Capabilities of the Space Force.

Losing orbit, the warship that was pressed on the ground could not be built, and the rockets launched from the ground to fight back into space—for such a weak attack, the space fleet did not even have the interest to look at them.

If you use the same family as an analogy, occupying a satellite in the core star field is similar to completely destroying the red Kawei orbital shipyard and space skyhook, and then a row of fleets surrounded by nuclear bombs in orbit all day. .

Strictly speaking, the red space skyhook is actually a momentum exchange rope, but she uses Kawei as a counterweight, which saves a lot of fuel consumption, while the momentum exchange rope of the extinct unit is a serious artificial counterweight + Orbit correction, the efficiency is just a little worse.

This is Red's biggest advantage in this war - for her, as long as she occupies any satellite in the core star field, she can declare victory, but for the extermination unit, it needs to defend all four satellites, one Can not lose.

Not only that, for the other more than 100 satellites, apart from those satellites with too high orbits that can be discarded directly, there are at least a dozen or so satellites that cannot be easily discarded.

That is to say, it has to try its best to defend the orbit at an altitude of 1000 million kilometers, and stick to Castel, whose orbit is at an altitude of 180 million kilometers—such a large defensive area will inevitably affect the opponent's troop mobilization.

This gave them a chance.

"Red notice to the Alliance Command, proceed as scheduled, and the 'Fox Group Tactics' remains unchanged."

"Received, the plan remains unchanged."

Although it is just a simple confirmation, it takes a few seconds to go back and forth—over such a long distance, communication is no longer the usual near-instantaneity.

Yes, although leaving one's own base camp and fighting in the enemy's homeland has many advantages, there are advantages and disadvantages. With such a long distance, the limitation of the speed of light has begun to appear.

The communication with Cat's Claw Fortress alone has a delay of at least three seconds. If the enemy's satellite belt is to be attacked later, the communication delay may even reach several minutes or even tens of minutes.

This means that Red cannot personally command the fleet, and the entire battle can only be commanded by the ship's weak artificial intelligence-although fighting in an extremely simple environment like space, the weak artificial intelligence command is not much different from Red, but In the final analysis, weak artificial intelligence is still a little worse after all.

By the way, after discovering that this wormhole is so far away from the extinction core, Hong has always had a question—you know, even if the opponent's fleet is stationed on the outermost satellite of the satellite belt, it will immediately observe the wormhole as soon as it opens. Arriving and departing, and using the fast hyperbolic orbital navigation, it will take at least a month to arrive.

But the reality is that the enemy came very quickly, and within half a day after the wormhole opened, the opponent had already projected almost all of its fleet to Kawei II.

After excluding the possibility that the other party's chassis was pumped and the fleet was assembled in the barren asteroid belt [-] million kilometers away for no reason, there is almost only one answer-it knows that there will be wormholes there.

So the question is, how did it assemble the fleet in advance like a prophet before the wormhole opened, and transfer its body to the fleet for real-time command?

Reminiscent of the few prophets who knew the "rules of the game" in advance in the history of the league, Hong feels that there must be something behind this.

"Why, I always feel like I don't know anything here?"

Hong muttered to himself.

At this time, she was probably the same as Asteria who had just arrived eight years ago and didn't even know what a "little notebook" was. She was full of "Who am I? Where am I? What am I going to do?" doubts.

Alliance people know the rules and requirements for the opening of wormholes. The primitive civilization "Cheluo" wiped out by the alliance knows how to judge the degree of civilization on the other side based on the appearance of the wormhole opening. Here comes the news that "destroying other civilizations" will open a wormhole leading to a living planet that is not yet occupied by civilization.

These three civilizations have obtained three "game rules", and this extinct unit seems to be able to predict the time and place where the wormhole will open-she still doesn't know whether this news is completely different from organic civilization. This is the peculiarity of omnics.

But what is known is that whether it is a "brain in a vat" or a man behind the scenes is secretly manipulating it, there must be an unknown rule governing all of this.

It can be seen from her abnormal wormhole opening frequency that there must be something monitoring behind it.

What about her?

What about her plug-in?

These guys are all fierce, why did they stretch their hips when they came to her?

In this star field, when various civilizations are actively preparing for war and ready to join the chaos at any time, she alone knows nothing, except for autistic expansion of production capacity every day, and she is tired of being with Xi'er who also knows nothing .

"Is this reasonable?"

"Is this plausible?"

She rubbed Seele's furry ears vigorously, as if ghosts knew if she could see her "behind the scenes" sending out soul torture.

"?"

Although she didn't feel uncomfortable, Xier whipped her tail several times to show her dissatisfaction with the sudden attack without warning.

"Although I don't know which processor of yours is broken again, I still suggest that you quickly replace it."

She put down the pressure-sensitive pen, and said righteously—even though this appearance provoked red's "cute!" admiration and more rubbing, the meaning was still in place.

Yes, this is the cyber-sounding "Are you out of your mind?", of course, in a euphemistic version.

In Old Catus, there is a folk saying called "the 70-year itch", which probably means that love will gradually become sour over a long period of time, and the initial passion will be gradually weakened by life, so that the To the point of tediousness.

Although in the same race, due to the special relationship between Hong and the cubs, this statement is basically meaningless-for them, no matter how long it has passed, it is difficult to have thoughts such as "boring" and "boring". Love is something that is fundamentally untenable, but it is true that life has become dull.

In other words, to some extent, after more than 30 years, the relationship between them has changed back to family love.

Compared to the initial worry about gains and losses, for fear that Hong would get bored with her cautiousness, Xier is now fully able to show her truest self-when she is happy, she can ask Hong for "rewards" without any scruples, and when she is unhappy, she can also ask for "rewards". He will not keep the matter in his heart, but chooses to speak out with Hong.

Just like just now, when she was suddenly attacked when she was concentrating on painting, she must have followed the meaning of red at first, but now she can fully express her slight dissatisfaction.

This is actually what Hong wants. For her, this kind of "real" Xier is her favorite Xier.

Of course, if you know it, you know it, and the hand rubbing your ears will not stop.

However, the current family relationship is not the same as the original one. The current family relationship is still based on love.

Otherwise, not to mention whether Hong is happy or not, Xi'er herself will be the first to refuse to accept it-this is the meat in her mouth with great difficulty, how can there be any reason to spit it out again?

Although there are many cubs out there who are trying to share the meat or even get the meat soon, she doesn't mind giving them a little bit, but it is absolutely impossible for her to give up what is in her mouth.

"Hah!"

In the end, as usual, the thinking about the "behind the scenes" this time finally came to an end with a burst of breathing on Seele.

It's kind of a repertoire, too.

Unlike ordinary civilizations, taking the Federation as an example, when they first learned about these "rules of the game", their society was really chaotic.

According to historical records, the society at that time was a mess of demons, and various discussions about "brains in vats", "games of high-level civilizations", "whether we are really free" and so on emerged endlessly. Many people even chose to commit suicide Escape from this "horrible" reality, or try to find the so-called "hole to reality"

Even now, hundreds of years after the opening of the first wormhole, there are still many groups promoting their pessimistic arguments under such names, and there is quite a market among some groups of people.

But whether it is for Hong or for the cubs, this kind of thing can only be regarded as a topic "worth discussing".

Anyway, if this is really a game of high-level civilization, they are not even chess pieces, at most they are just little ants watching the battle in the corner. Whether they are entangled or not, what can change?

Rather than worrying about what is behind it all day long, it is better to work hard to do your own thing, strive to develop technology, and strive to have the power to change one day-this is what normal people should do, and fall into panic like the old federal people And riots, what problems can be solved?

"Whoo~"

Staring at Xier's focused profile, a faint smile appeared on her face.

All people and things who want to take this treasure away from her will be her worst enemy.

sworn enemy.

Volume 79 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] A new wormhole has appeared!

"Good evening, viewers. Today is July 7th in the standard calendar and April 24nd in the Catus calendar. Welcome to the evening news. First of all..."

Above the high-rise buildings in the city center, the real-time news program of Federal TV Station was being broadcast on the huge display screen. The two hosts were dressed in decent formal attire, solemnly broadcasting all major national events that had occurred during this period.

Although against the backdrop of the colorful neon lights and deafening music on the street, although their expressions are extremely serious, in the eyes of the people here, this seems a bit funny.

After all, this is one of the busiest business districts in the entire Talalon. Isn't it boring to broadcast news programs that only middle-aged and elderly people who are four or five hundred years old like to watch in this kind of place?

He naturally understands this, even if he is in a tall building a hundred meters above the ground, his vision after genetic modification can still clearly see, behind the glass curtain walls on both sides of the street, those store employees who are doing nothing because there are no customers Joking with the news program.

Unlike these ordinary people, as the chairman of the largest private—or currently private technology company—in this administrative region, he needs to know more about this.

You know, for so many years, except for the speech announcing the disintegration of the old federation, there has never been anything unrelated to commercial advertisements played here. It is impossible for the financial giants to let the world's most golden The advertising screen in the lot plays this kind of news program without any profit.

But since the scientific research exchange group of that tribe to Catus left, everything changed.

Although the other two countries in the alliance concealed the real purpose of that dispatch very well, but the federation is really weak in intelligence management and control. Just a few days after the exchange team left, people like them at the top of the pyramid got the news .

Now, the oligarchs naturally couldn't sit still.

Although the specific implementation is still under discussion, just from the plans that were not immediately rejected, it can be clearly seen that this reform is full of hostility towards big capitalists like them.

Moreover, according to the internal information at the time, the idea of ​​the higher-ups was to complete the evolution of the political system peacefully, so that it would not affect the national strength of the Federation too much—perhaps the word peace gave some foolish people inexplicable confidence. Or think that their existence is enough to "affect national power".

He still clearly remembered that on that dark and stormy night, under the leadership of a former financial oligarch, a group of people who couldn't recognize how much they were, came to that luxurious manor in the suburbs.

In that place under the surveillance of federal agents, not to mention the "foolishness" of the federal cake, a group of people sat down and made suggestions on how to block the passage of the policy.

Including but not limited to, bribery, assassination, strikes, guiding online public opinion, forcing resignation due to scandals, stopping providing financial support to officials, discrediting their image through their media, etc.