Planetary Museum

Wu Qing is now the consul of the First Federation.

At least, the atmosphere created by the game really made him feel like he was substituting.

In the first scene of the game scene, his staff team met him: "Hello, Your Excellency the Consul."

Wu Qing looked around and saw a dense group of people, at least nearly a thousand people, divided into dozens of teams.

"Congratulations on becoming the latest consul of the First Federation. The 200 billion citizens of the Federation are expecting you to lead them to new glory." ——Because they have their own character library, the words spoken by these people are also in Chinese subtitle.

Wu Qing cares more about the details in the game, because before playing the game, he has read a lot of comments on the Internet, and knows that in this game, all the details are set according to the real world.

Like the federal government affairs system, the origins of these staff -- needless to say, this is the main content of the game, and every staff can be inspected in the real world.Wu Qing can easily pause the game and check everyone's detailed information.More, such as where Wu Qing is working at the moment, every setting in his room - and a watch on his wrist.

This watch is said to have a setting similar to a nuclear button. Of course, it is not as exaggerated as on the earth. It is said that the world is over when it is pressed, but it is quite deterrent-pressing it means that all space fleets have obtained independent combat power. , Carry out the most aggressive offensive mission regardless of the battle loss ratio...

It sounds scary, but it is actually a general function.

As a game, the ultimate task is of course to lead the Federation to victory. In the game, a Consul has three goals for victory. As long as one of them is achieved, he, the Consul, is considered to be very successful. ——More successful than most real federal consuls.

These three goals are at the military level—defeating intelligence, at the domestic level—eliminating all independent forces in the country, including the second, third, and fourth Earth, and even more virtual communities in the future, and at the technological level. ——Completely prevent, or completely successfully implement, the consciousness data technology.

"The AI ​​rebels are the most dangerous and important enemy the Federation faces," probably as a novice tutorial, the military advisor began to tell Wu Qing the huge threat the Federation is now facing, "Because of technical limitations and differences, the rebels' combat The power will keep rising and it will be difficult to exhaust, but at the same time, the strength of the Federation Fleet is being diluted day by day."

Military advisers set out to list two huge problems facing the federal military.

First, and one of the most important issues, is the problem of soldiers.

The federal military system is a conscription system. Within the scope of the authorization of the law of war, the government can draw ordinary citizens into the army to participate in the war through random selection.

At the beginning of the war, the number of soldiers authorized by the law of war was completely sufficient, and the federal government even planned to recruit more than 3 million people to join the army... But after several key battles were fought, the huge casualties immediately overwhelmed this number. A sharp decline.On the one hand, it was because the Federation was not familiar with AI's fighting methods at that time, so it suffered a great loss. On the other hand, it was also because quite a few of the troops that participated in the battle at the beginning were not of high military quality.

It is said to participate in the war, but for many people, sitting in the simulation cabin of the attack ship and directing the battle seems to be the same as playing games with electronic devices at home, or simply playing games in the virtual community.

In quite a few military operations, there were even cases where fighters did not listen to each other. In the first battle between the Federation and AI, the Federation dispatched more than 1700 million attack ships, and the number of soldiers driving these attack ships exceeded 5000 million Humans, all the weapons carried on these attack ships, can almost completely destroy several planets when fired.

But the result of the battle was jaw-dropping. A surprise attack that was determined to win turned into a catastrophic failure.It is said that the soldiers of the Federation are now on the attack ship, and they can still see corpses floating in space through binoculars-in space, no matter whether it is human or steel, it is difficult to be almost unchanged.Even some space stations are occasionally attacked by "corpse meteorites"...

The specific reason for the failure sounds ridiculous now, simply because the first batch of warships to attack increased their flight speed without permission-and then led a large number of subsequent warships to do the same.

As a result, these warships collided head-on with the anti-aircraft dust strip carefully prepared by AI-spreading dust of various sizes in the space. If the warship enters the area below a certain speed, it will be the same as a car entering the speed bump. It only produces some ordinary shell heating and deceleration, which is not enough to threaten the structure of the battleship.But if the speed is higher than the prescribed limit - the warship will face the risk of disintegration due to a huge collision.

As a result, a planned tactical charge turned into a super huge serial car accident.

Since then, the federal army has become synonymous with life and death among the people. Because of the huge losses, numerous anti-war protests have been launched in the country one after another. The conscription quota has been continuously restricted by the parliament. ...

For this reason, the military department had to continuously improve the configuration of the battleship. They changed the attack ship that required 6 people to drive at first, to four people, then three people-finally changed to the current two-man crew.

It is said that the government originally planned to build a one-man crew, but repeated flight tests have proved that normal human beings have to carry out long-term military missions in an isolated environment like space. suffer from mentally debilitating diseases.

Forget it, at this time, the cruelty of war has begun to show its ferocity, a little mental weakness is not so unacceptable-but the disease speed is too fast!

How soon?

The game did not directly provide the information that is said to be included in the real federal secrets, but in the accelerated game process, the situation shown is that the battleship has just left the port, and it is still nine-tenths away from the combat destination, and it will explode by itself , or kill your own companions around you.

For the federal army, putting two people in a boat is already the ultimate that can be achieved under the current technical conditions.But even so, the demands of the frontline generals still could not be met—as time progressed, the rebel spaceships began to increase day by day, and even began to overwhelm the Federation.

The reason is simple, because in the spaceship of the rebels, there is no need to release people.

They are AI, copy a program into it, and they can perfectly control the spaceship. AI is not as delicate as human beings, and they will not suffer from terminal mental illness. On the contrary, for AI, it implements the will of the intelligence body, like human revenge , has become a kind of instinct of them.

Looking at the guides written by those who have played this game, you know that in the intelligence camp, the AI ​​soldiers in the spaceship are essentially a piece of personified data, and you only need to keep clicking on this piece of data to copy—well, Because it is directly operated by the intelligence body, even the action of "pressing" is saved-then it directly solves the huge problem of the federal plan at zero cost.

Second, there is the issue of war resources.

This does not refer to the resources needed to build an army. For a civilization at the level of the Federation, the cost of building a spaceship itself is almost negligible in a war. The total mass of a planet... can create an almost infinite number of spaceships.Theoretically speaking, the Federation can even turn several unimportant planets into fleets—if the Federation can find so many pilots to drive these spacecraft.

The war resource here mainly refers to the military mobilization of planetary mass.

For this special concept, Wu Qing even went to the Internet to learn about a large number of related concepts.

One thing that is hard for Wu Qing, a "person" with earth thinking, is that in this war, an important statistic that everyone on both sides of the war pays attention to is the mobilizable quality.

He repeatedly chose the camp several times in the game, and then he gradually understood what this adjustable mass means—it refers to the mass of a planet that can be sacrificed by one side of the war.

From the perspective of people on earth, the mass of a planet itself seems to be an astronomical figure. Even if people on earth have initially stepped out of the earth, the use of the mass of the entire earth is probably less than one percent of the entire earth, no, only a millionth , one ten-billionth.

You must know that the total mass of the earth is about 6x10^24 kg. The number to the 24th power may not seem very good, but if you use a more ordinary number to describe it, it is a full 60 tons!If the mass of the entire earth is equally distributed to every earthling, calculated on the basis of 60 billion people, each person can get one trillion tons.

At the beginning of the game, the Federation owns 15 of the 14 planets, while AI only has one at the edge of the galaxy. Because the planets are of different sizes, the mass ratio of the two sides is astonishingly 90 to 1.

But in terms of adjustable quality, the two are at the same level, and there is no difference.

Because most of the quality of the Federation is protected by various environmental laws and regulations.

The "Paternal Star Ecological Protection Law" directly stipulates that all the mass of the seven primitive planets that produced civilization in the Federation cannot be used. Any "illegal mass mining" that may affect the planet's orbit and gravitational constant is not allowed.

Among the remaining 7 planets, two have now become habitable planets, and the local residents are trying their best to bring these two planets into the protection category of the Ecological Protection Law, and the other five are undeveloped planets ——There are a large number of botany, zoology, planetary geology, and extraterrestrial life research institutions... In the parliament, the lobbying power of their representatives is no worse than that of the government.

The mobilization of quality means a lot of things in the military, just like the air defense dust belt established by AI before, the establishment of this defense system requires a huge investment of quality.Although the density of the dust belt is very low, but because the space is too vast, in order to establish a feasible dust belt, in addition to using technological means, using as little mass as possible to achieve a better deceleration effect, it is best to The solution is to put more quality into it.

At the beginning of the rebellion, in order to set up obstacles for the federal army to attack, almost 15% of the mass of the 8th planet was processed into deceleration dust and scattered into space.

If the analogy is a war on earth, it would be like Qin Shihuang digging up 8% of the soil and gravel in the country just to build the Great Wall...

For human beings, this kind of war investment seems a bit too expensive, so expensive that everyone subconsciously began to avoid this problem.

Of course ai can do this, they have no historical burden, they don’t have tens of thousands of years of civilization history, and the home planet where their civilization was born, they only need a computer that can place their storage components to survive, their only requirement for life , is nothing more than an industrial system that can sustain itself.

But what the federal people want is the earth under their feet, the starry sky above their heads, and the familiar rising and setting of neighboring stars...

When civilization reaches the level of federation and intelligence, the latter is far more expensive than the former.A set of industrial systems only needs dozens of spaceships to carry them, at most on the order of hundreds of millions of tons, while the earth and the starry sky... are trillions of times that of the former.

After the military advisor finished speaking, the legal advisor soon came up again. Unlike the military advisor who "only" asked two small questions, what the legal advisor listed was a long list, including hundreds of bills, and their current status. The number of votes that can be won.

After understanding these figures, Wu Qing has only two thoughts:

1. This game is really hardcore.

2. This goddamn consul is not easy to be