Planetary Museum

Before the Intelligence Advisor entered the Archon's office, he heard the Archon's complaints at the door, just as he had heard before.

"Why is the data falling again now? What was agreed will ignite patriotic enthusiasm? Tens of millions of people... This is not the number we expected. I still remember what you said before, you said it was hundreds of millions Even billions, remember!"

"The Black Star campaign is over, my lord, if you need to reach the number I said, you must use continuous harassment operations as I said before... Without the live broadcast from the front, everyone will soon forget this battle War!" The intelligence adviser heard that the person who spoke was the information adviser, and his current situation seemed a bit battered.If he walked in now, he would be doing him a favor.

But intelligence advisers don't plan to do that.The advisory team around Your Excellency the Consul is too large. In fact, in many cases, information and intelligence should be the same thing, right?He put his hand on the handle of the office, but took it back when he was fingerprinted.

"This is a war that killed millions of people! And it's less than 10 days now! Are they going to forget?" The voice of the consul was full of anger, and the intelligence advisor could even imagine his mouth growing at the moment, and Saliva splattered from the mouth.

The breath freshener of the Consul is the fresh smell of the light rain after the early morning. The intelligence consultant didn't appreciate it, so he turned around and didn't rush in. Instead, he stood at the door and began to look at the several pieces of art in the corridor. painting.

"On average, a person plays more than 10 games in 20 days. Many games now use virtual multiplication time. In reality, the ten days in the game almost feel like months have passed..."

"Then edit all the live broadcast of the war and show it to everyone for a few months!"

"We don't have that many artists, Consul," said the information advisor, "almost no one is interested in realism anymore..."

When the information consultant walked out, the intelligence consultant could clearly read the frustration on his face, it seemed that he couldn't hold on for long.

According to the intelligence consultant's understanding of the consul, the average time of the staff around him will not exceed half a year, and this period of time is even more critical. Although the information consultant has just taken office, after more than ten days... It is almost time to accumulate to half a year.

The intelligence advisor didn't knock on the door, but opened it and walked in quietly.

The consul's mood seemed to be as bad as ever. He leaned back against a chair and stared blankly at the virtual picture in the air. The picture should be some data and reports compiled by the information director just now. Of course, there is the number of enlisted troops that the Archons are most concerned about.

After the Black Star War, there was a small upsurge in the whole federation, but this upsurge was like any famous game release, after causing a ripple in a short period of time, it quickly returned to calm.

The consul is undoubtedly a classical person in this regard. When he usually holds a meeting, he always cites various historical wars to describe the current situation. In his imagination, this relationship between humans and AI This war should be compared with the unification war when the seven planets were united. As long as the government issues an order to join the army, all federal people will move forward enthusiastically. The losing party can even make it to the end of the war. of adults.

But the current situation seems to be completely opposite. According to the report of the recruitment department, more than 40% of the people who come to apply for the draft are juveniles and children under the age of 14... Limited to the federal law, they are not allowed to join the army .

For the ruling government, amending such a law is more difficult than amending the conscription law itself.

So these people are just here to join in the fun, and to some extent it seems to explain a problem-it seems that this civilized battle between the federation and the intelligent body has now become a kind of violence that some younger people prefer and are passionate about Games... and most adults don't seem to be sensitive to it.

Statistics show that less than a dozen percent of people over the age of 60 have a positive attitude towards the war—and these people are the most ideal main group for conscription.

The consul glanced at the intelligence adviser who came in, and frowned: "What bad news is there? Is it from Zhiti?"

The main job of an intelligence advisor now is to monitor military movements in intelligence and body, and to obtain first-hand military intelligence through various means.

"No," the intelligence adviser replied, before he couldn't help smiling, "that's good news."

"A big piece of good news!" the intelligence adviser repeated.

After the consul nodded, the intelligence advisor turned on the communicator, and a video was played.

The video is very short, less than 5 minutes long, and the archon finished watching it quickly.

But he couldn't help watching it a second time, and then a third time.

It wasn't until the fourth time that he interrupted the video being played, stared at the intelligence officer and asked, "Could it be some kind of their...deception?"

The intelligence adviser smiled and said, "What can they deceive from us? Can they expect to go back?"

"Their civilization... what is it called? Rescue team?"

"Search and rescue team, here is the video of their speech when they came here," the intelligence consultant opened the video and said, "We have compared the voiceprint and confirmed the identity of the other party."

"Is it impossible to fake the sound in virtual games?"

"They are now wanted criminals on the second earth. All voice data and expression data have been strictly restricted. No one else can use them except themselves. This is an in-game mechanism and cannot be changed."

The consul nodded, and watched the video in front of him for the fourth time again.

Naturally, this video was taken by Wu Qing and Shen Wen, and then posted on the entire Internet, and everyone in the entire Federation should have seen it by now.

The background in the video is an edited version of the officially released promotional movie about the Black Star Campaign. Wu Qing and the others used virtual movie technology to replace the characters in the original movie with their images, becoming two pilots.

But their words are not the original lines in the movie, but changed to their demands.

The spaceship in the movie is performing an evasive action, but it fails and is hit. When the spaceship explodes, the original protagonist has a movement of turning his head, which was supposed to exaggerate some kind of tragic ending, but now it becomes Wu Xiaoqing’s opening remarks: " During our time in the Commonwealth, we, as outsiders, witnessed the war, and it was a tragedy for every participant.”

The camera switches, and countless battleships are declaring war and fighting in the airspace near the Black Star like a vortex. This is already the general offensive stage of the Black Star defensive battle.

"You have created new forms of civilization, but you have no ability to control them, like a child playing with fire in the forest and seeing that the surrounding has become hell."

The camera turned again, from the Black Star defense battle to the newly trained fleet of the Federation.

"You are indomitable, but your opponents..."

The army of intelligent bodies is still hovering outside the entire solar system, and 300 billion warships are arriving at the black star from the outermost layer of the solar system one after another—or, in other words, the current black star is already the outermost layer of the solar system.Because the original two natural planets outside the black star have almost completely disintegrated now.

"Unstoppable."

"We could have stayed away from all of this." The camera cuts to a server site in Earth's orbital layer, where a man, wearing a People's Army uniform, is staring into the black void.

A storage device suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the void—it was the storage device most commonly used by the Federation people, similar to the earth's mobile hard disk.The storage device hovered in the air, motionless, the man in uniform walked over, and then held the storage device, his whole body disappeared briefly in the air, and when he reappeared, he was already inside the completely enclosed server. The memory is inserted into the read port of a data end of the server.

"But our mission is to keep us here while this is not completely out of hand."

The faces of Wu Qing, Shen Wen and Xu Yan all appeared.

Then everything that follows is text.

10 minutes later, the conference room.

The intelligence officer has confirmed all the requirements of the other party. In the conference room, he emphasized these requirements again: "The other party agrees to cooperate with the government in the military field, including that they are copied for military use...but they also require this All the process is supervised by them and civil organizations—mainly the People’s Army organization, to ensure that the whole process is in line with normal ethics and morality.”

"Ethical and moral?" Several staff officers laughed and mocked, "Do they mean that they are not allowed to be hit by the intelligence-body army?"

"What they mean is very clear," said the intelligence adviser, "if we use their replicas to go to war, then all those who serve must be treated as ordinary citizens, with the necessary honor and rights. The performance during the war must be broadcast live, just like the previous Black Star battle."

The few staff officers said nonchalantly: "That's all? What's the matter, what we lack most now is people..."

But the legal counsel interrupted them with a frown and asked another question: "Just now you mentioned the necessary honor and rights. What do these rights include? Including normal citizenship rights."

"That's right," said the intelligence adviser, "they hope to obtain federal citizenship after the war."

"The federal consul does not have such power. According to the constitution, federal citizenship can only be granted to natural persons born in the federation." The legal adviser reminded.

"They just have such a hope... These are very detailed in the text. They just hope that the federal government will make a public commitment to conduct a referendum after the war and allow all replicas that have participated in the war to join the federation."

The legal adviser sneered: "They think such a referendum can pass?"

"It depends on their performance," the intelligence consultant said with a smile on his face. "Only if they perform well enough on the battlefield can they convince most federal citizens. But the more likely reality is that no matter what they do No matter how you behave, it will be like the current government’s recruitment propaganda film...only a few days of heat, and then no one cares about it.”

"The people are the best at forgetting heroes." The consul replied thoughtfully, "I think we can agree... Anyway, it's just a verbal promise, and it's something after the war... It's hard to say whether we can live normally until after the war, isn't it? Can you still worry about that? What I am more concerned about now is the military application of consciousness replicas... It has always been just a theoretical speculation of yours, is there any practicality for this technology?"

"Before the emergence of intelligent bodies, most of the attack ships used primitive artificial intelligence... We have a lot of experience in this regard," a military technical expert replied, "Theoretically speaking, an AI, or a consciousness replica , as long as there are enough copies, we can find enough soldiers who meet the requirements...not to mention we still have three now."