Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 530 - 528: spaceship faction and Planet Faction

Chapter 530: Chapter 528: spaceship faction and Planet Faction

Although humanity, to this date, still does not understand why these damned religious civilizations would do such things, they still felt a deep sense of crisis.

Some civilizations just like to expand their boundaries, even if such boundaries can never be maintained; these civilizations still carry out such actions. Much like India on Earth, since its independence, it has continuously expanded through aggression, enlarging its territory, annexing the sovereign state of Sikkim, occupying Silver-controlled Kashmir, invading Xia Country’s territory in Southern Tibet, and covertly stealing land from Bhutan and Nepal...

In summary, there are indeed interstellar civilizations like this; they want to directly govern any wisdom civilization they encounter, and desire to occupy any habitable planets they find, regardless of the possibility of there being hundreds of billions of habitable planets in the Milky Way...

Let’s not talk much about that for now; the "Leviathan" fleet encountered a real War Star during its interstellar wanderings!

This was a third-level civilization War Star, wandering near a Cosmic String, with a relative speed about 0.09% of the speed of light, which was not fast. However, with this War Star at its core, a densely packed deep space fleet swarmed like a hive of bees, forming a vast military system.

When encountering what is imagined to be the strongest war weapon of a third or even fourth-level civilization right before their eyes.

This human fleet still felt a profound shock.

This was a true shock, like a mouse facing an elephant, which could be stomped to death with a single foot. Even though they were both third-level civilizations, the difference was earth-shattering.

Fortunately, this third-level civilization had no reason to attack them, and some simple contacts and exchanges took place. The third-level civilization owning this planet fortress believed that the relocation of the trading market would inevitably cause immense geopolitical chaos, and military strength could never be too great to grow.

Therefore, after experiencing so many events, this branch of humans believed that establishing a strong Alliance had become more necessary, even if it took thousands of years, it was worth the effort, otherwise, a single branch of humanity was simply too weak... and could hardly develop such a powerful military system for ages.

Discussing up to this point, Captain Xu Guangxiao frowned and said solemnly, "Regarding the current status of Earth civilization in the Solar System, the news we know is also more than a thousand years old, but most likely it has regressed rather than progressed..."

"Many people from Earth civilization, discontent with their lives, have cryogenically frozen themselves, hibernating while hoping that future technological advancements can provide them with longer lives and better living conditions."

"These people are too difficult to handle. They only know how to avoid reality, and it is impossible to simply kill them during hibernation as this would only lead to a humanitarian disaster, causing public dissatisfaction and social chaos. But thawing them would only create bigger troubles; without social connections, sufficient knowledge, or the ability to keep up with the times, what can they do?"

"Alas, I still do not know how to solve this century-old problem."

"The only advantage is that there are no Cosmic Strings near the Solar System, making it relatively safer. The religious civilizations we encounter are just second-level or third-level civilizations, which are not worth the effort to fly over and conflict with."

Due to its proximity to Earth, the Captain Star branch had more frequent communications and thus vaguely knew some things.

Talking about the current situation of Earth civilization, another military expert shook his head and said, "Captain, let’s not worry about Earth for now."

"If we want to form a functioning alliance, communication between each other is most important. Until we truly possess curvature technology, the Solar System can only be temporarily set aside."

"The best partners for the alliance are the much more distant Gliese 581, with a distance of 16.3 light years. The human branch there is more active and ambitious; both sides can more effectively complement each other."

Actually, if we want to avoid danger, staying away from Cosmic Strings is also a good option; finding a planet without Cosmic Strings and squatting there would make it difficult for other civilizations to find us.

But this method is akin to closing off one’s country and cutting off one’s own civilization’s future prospects.

Would the outside world not change just because one acts like an ostrich?

Of course, that’s impossible!

The captain looked at the documents in hand and nodded, "Gliese 581 is even farther from us; the last time we communicated with our rear, the humans at Gliese 581 were developing planet fortresses and we at Captain Star were building a large number of spaceships. Who knows, after so many years, whether there has been any progress..."

"Progress is definitely there," he said, "but one or two thousand years, that’s simply not enough to develop a War Star. Perhaps we could buy some related technologies from the interstellar trading market and then relocate everyone to Gliese 581.... The civilizations of both sides have the potential to merge; if they can’t merge, an alliance will definitely be no problem."

"16 light years, using gravitational navigation at 10% of the speed of light, it would take less than two hundred years to arrive, which is acceptable."

When technology was in a great stagnation, developing a planet-level fortress became the best way to absorb productive forces.

Developing a War Star could stimulate the citizens’ work enthusiasm over the long term, preventing most people from idling away their time.

It was very important for a civilization to ensure that most of its citizens had jobs, even in the interstellar era.

The main reason was not to expand productivity but to maintain a positive and upward ideology.

Just like a billionaire who continues to work, if people do not work and have no goals, only thinking about entertainment all day long, they will soon waste away.

The same goes for a civilization: if most people in a civilization do not work and listlessly rely on robot technology to sustain themselves, that civilization would quickly degenerate and stop progressing.

Therefore, both Captain Star and the human branch at Gliese 581 independently chose to manufacture in large quantities due to different ideologies, resulting in the spaceship faction and the planet faction.

A planet fortress was akin to a mass of new technology requiring many components to be developed. In the long-term practice of work, as long as a positive and upward ideology was maintained, one or two geniuses would eventually emerge, slowly advancing the entire civilization.

This was also a major advantage of a strong administrative system; otherwise, such large projects could not be undertaken.

However, a third-level civilization’s War Star, even once developed, would not be highly maneuverable; it could only rely on cosmic strings for navigation. A remote place like Earth would naturally then be strategically abandoned.

Just as everyone was passionately discussing, an urgent communication from the observatory suddenly arrived in the conference room.

It was the outer patrol spaceship of the Huantai Civilization Interstellar Trading Market that had discovered this fleet coming from afar, sending out a series of greetings.

The reception screen showed: "Unknown fleet, hello, this is the Huantai Civilization Trading Market. Our market is part of the Amoeba Faction, Galaxy Star Domain, Branch 19."

"First, we need to inform you that our market will be relocating after 1467. We welcome your civilization to participate in our final clearance event!"

"Within 802 astronomical units from the Central Constant Star, please do not cause any conflicts or conduct any unauthorized experiments with high-energy weapons, including but not limited to nuclear bomb experiments and large-scale antimatter experiments, otherwise, it will be deemed an act of war provocation..."

The Captain and others let out a sigh of relief.

These were all normal requests and were acceptable.

"It’s moving after more than 1400 years... the news is indeed true."

Those present nodded slightly, contemplating the implications, including risks, and opportunities.

According to subsequent texts, entering this trading market required a series of information registration, including the name of the civilization, the appearance of the race, the specific living environment, and so forth, with a multitude of forms needing to be filled out.

This series of registrations, which involved human privacy, slightly troubled everyone.

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