Planetary Museum

Yevgeny's words made the people present sweep away their previous depression and became excited again.

Indeed, if, as Yevgeny said, only a few hundred thousand people are saved like in the second mission, it will be easy for them to complete the mission by relying on this spacecraft.

The rescue ship is a professional space navigation spacecraft, and both the internal living environment and the reliability of the ship are far beyond what they can provide in the previous missions.If we really want to follow Yevgeny's rescue standard, then they don't need to do anything. They just need to wait until the war spreads to the loser's homeland between bc and send them there with a spaceship to pick up the loser, and everything will be fine .

But the search and rescue team quickly reminded everyone that this seemingly beautiful plan actually has big loopholes.

The biggest loophole, of course, is that the crises corresponding to civilizations are different.

With the technological level of the bc civilization, not to mention the mysterious a civilization, the wars they waged against each other... obviously aimed at completely destroying or occupying each other's planets as the ultimate goal.

Then, with the plan of using a rescue boat to save people, a big problem arises-after saving them, how will these people live?

In the previous two missions, the reason why it was possible to choose to save a small number of people to replace the entire civilization was because the material basis for the survival of the entire civilization—the planet—has not changed.

Whether it is floods or volcanoes, they do not constitute a qualitative change in the ecology of the planet's surface.

Civilization faces only temporary crises, not permanent threats.There is a saying that if you don't save the poor, the previous civilizations belong to the emergency, but this time... if you still use this method, it will be the standard rescue of the poor.

Taking a step back, tens of 10 people in a spaceship can survive for a long time - the hardware of the rescue ship can fully meet this point, but is the civilization in the spaceship still the original form of that civilization?

There is no doubt that this newly saved civilization will be transformed into another form of civilization by the spaceship, which is completely contrary to their original intention of saving civilization.Others may not be able to understand it, but Wu Xiaoqing is now clear—saving civilization is not essentially humanitarian rescue. As the goal of the civilization of the search and rescue team, the greatest significance of saving civilization is to strive to maintain the diversity of civilization.

This is like saving wild birds on the earth. If you just bring all the birds back, raise them in zoos and finally cultivate them as pets-this is completely contrary to the original intention of animal protection itself.

Regarding the search and rescue team's questioning, Yevgeny proposed that they could be sent to planets without civilization and life by spaceships - because the bc civilization itself has the ability to transform planets, for them, in a new planet It shouldn't be very difficult to survive online.This is equivalent to finding a separate animal sanctuary for protected animals.

But this proposal was rejected by Wu Xiaoqing: "In fact, after the technology reaches a certain level, the reason for the crisis of many civilizations is internal factors. If the problems carried by their own civilization are not solved, even if they arrive on a new planet, sooner or later the same problem will occur. Kind of like a crisis."

"Let's not talk about whether there are more dangerous and malicious civilizations near the new planet than a and civilization. Even if it is an area that no one cares about like the earth, then on such a planet, is civilization b still alive? Will continue to produce AI?"

"C civilization, that is, AI civilization, is also our goal of salvation, so will they continue to be hostile to life formed through evolution like us? If these two points do not change, we just change their environment , that only delays the outbreak of the problem. This is obviously not the purpose of our rescue. We would rather not save... than choose this kind of rescue."

Everyone subconsciously looked at the computer screen representing the search and rescue team, but the search and rescue team remained silent.

In fact, this already represents the attitude - at the meeting, if the search and rescue team did not express any obvious objection to an opinion, it meant that it was accepted to a considerable extent.

What Wu Xiaoqing mentioned was actually a very important question about the behavioral logic of their mission actions. To put it more deeply, it is the question of value orientation.

Undoubtedly, the value orientation proposed by Wu Xiaoqing today will also become a guiding principle of behavior within the search and rescue team in the future.

Yevgeny's weak rescue plan could only be shelved temporarily, and the center of the meeting soon returned to the original topic - how to mediate this war.

Strictly speaking, it is to mediate these three wars, namely the war between b and c, b and a, and c and a.

These three wars are completely independent of each other, among which the war related to A is the most critical - the war between BC may not destroy civilization, but as long as BC's colonial spaceship enters the range of A's galaxy, they will suffer Yes, it must be a devastating blow—you can tell from a's description of bc. For a, bc civilization is two dogs fighting at the door of the house.

A's attitude towards bc's civilization is not to conquer or occupy, but to completely ignore it.

Yevgeny shook his head and smiled wryly: "This is like asking an ordinary person to hold a lion with one hand and a tiger with the other hand on the edge of a cliff. They jumped off the cliff themselves..."

What Shen Changwen is concerned about is another question: "How long will we have for this mission?"

"There is a distance of 12 light years from the galaxy where Civilization bc is located to civilization a. The search and rescue team has calculated the speed of their colony ship and it is estimated that they will reach their destination within 20 years."

"20 years?" Shen Changwen was surprised, "We have such a long time?"

"No," Wu Xiaoqing said, "after the colony ship set off, because of its super high speed, it was difficult to stop halfway, or turn around to receive the signal to stop. In fact, in order to prevent the other party from disrupting their colonization plan, both sides At the time of manufacture, disciplinary instructions for silent sailing were added to the interior of the colony ship."

"Silent sailing?"

"Just like a nuclear submarine in combat readiness," Yevgeny added, "does not send any messages."

"In the sky, there is one more message, not accepting any news, even if it is from the home country."

"Why?" Shen Changwen questioned, "Doesn't it mean that if you shoot the bow, you won't have the arrow back?"

"For bc civilization, this is really the effect they need to achieve." Wu Xiaoqing is led by a and has seen bc civilization. He can probably understand the basis of bc civilization's approach. "In their view, a The galaxy where civilization is located is just the habitat of a group of primitive civilizations. From the perspective of a telescope, all the galaxies of civilization a are still there, which is equivalent to before the earth entered modern times. Not to mention space navigation, even basic astronomy, I'm afraid it's just half-knowledge."

"For them, launching a colony ship to Civilization A is just a casual move in a fierce war. In fact, they may not expect this move to play any key role. It is just an additional retreat or a choice. The main battlefield in their minds It is still in this galaxy. But they would not have thought that these two moves are really idle moves, and they are dead moves for the end of their two civilizations."

"In that case, wouldn't they be dead?" Xu Yan, who was dumbfounded, interjected.

"No, not yet," Yevgeny reflected, "How long before their ship leaves?"

"Less than half a year."

"Half a year? Didn't you say that they just started this colonial ship plan?"

"Yes, Civilization C has already started," Wu Xiaoqing said, "Civilization B is also starting. Within half a year at the earliest, the colony ships of Civilization C will be able to set off... We need to do our best to prevent everything from happening before that. "

"Half a year..." Shen Changwen and Yevgeny looked at each other in blank dismay, "I'm afraid we won't even have a basic understanding of these two civilizations in half a year."

"I will keep in touch with civilization a," Wu Xiaoqing said. "For civilization a, civilization bc is completely transparent...We can learn most of their information through a."

"Then... what about our name this time?"

"Passing by," Wu Xiaoqing said, "The name of rescue...is really not suitable. I once heard the search and rescue team talk about the status of some civilizations. We can pretend to be an exiled ship civilization."

"Ship civilization?"

"Professor Shen, it's the civilization I told you about before..." Wu Xiaoqing said, "In the universe, the number of ship civilizations far exceeds that of planetary civilizations. In the name of supplies, we dock near their galaxies .”

"But as soon as we meet, won't you reveal your secrets?" Shen Changwen has participated in the deciphering of bc civilization texts, and he now knows that the connotation and capacity of a civilization itself cannot be pretended at all.It's like letting a primitive civilization pretend to be a modern civilization. If primitive people can't even understand the basic Newton's laws, then they will naturally have no way to create a powerful industrial world like the modern one.

"Do you still remember the Ascension Realm before?" Wu Xiaoqing was prepared for this point, "The people living in the Ascension Realm are actually primitive people, but the appearance of their civilization far exceeds the limitations of their own civilization. When the time comes, the rescue ship will be our Ascension Realm, and we will be the flying people living in it. We can even make up a reason, saying that we are an Earth-like civilization rescued by the search and rescue team, and we are temporarily placed in this spaceship.”

"If they feel that we are too far behind...they may have the idea of ​​seizing the ship," Yevgeny was even more worried about this. "Once the relationship fails, there will be no way to contact them later."

"So, we still need to show our strength at the first contact," Wu Xiaoqing said, "Imagine us as those flying people who have ascended to heaven, and what we need to face are people on earth. The best strategy is What? When we first met, we used all our means to strive for a peace agreement that was as superior as possible. The luckier thing about us than the flying people is that we already knew the strength comparison between the two sides in advance, and the other side always treated us I don’t know. This asymmetrical advantage in information is the only place we can take advantage of it.”

Shen Changwen and Yevgeny glanced at each other, then nodded slightly.

"So, that's the deal?" Wu Xiaoqing said, "Let's raise your hands and vote."

Five people, five hands, unanimous vote.

"The following is the specific division of labor," the search and rescue team arranged the next detailed work, "First of all, the rhetoric about our civilization must be fully and perfectly covered, we will need a professional team of history experts and fiction experts, Help our virtual civilization to fabricate a convincing enough history - you can intercept a part of the history of a certain civilization on the earth, so that it is more real, this work must be fast, and then we all have to learn this virtual history; and then , and the other party's weapon system research... We need to do a big project around this this time."