Great Power Technology.

Chapter 557

Seeing Ye Zhou shaking his head, Xu Chang went straight on.

"Interstellar pirates. To be precise, they cannot be regarded as pirates, but the regular army of a certain civilization."

"The story is very simple. In a certain universe, the super-light travel technology is a technology that all civilizations can master in the early stages of development. They even discovered the jump technology before they invented gunpowder."

"You can understand it as a kind of magic or some kind of supernatural power. In short, it doesn't need to rely on strong technology accumulation, nor does it need productivity as a basis. As long as you learn it, you can always use it."

"As a result, all civilizations in the entire universe began to develop in a deformed way. They used their own leap technology to travel between galaxies, plunder the resources of other planets, and expand their power."

"However, the development of jump technology has taken up a lot of resources. These civilizations have used all the materials they looted to build new jump engines, while other basic sciences have stagnated."

"---In fact, they don't need the development of basic science. Whoever has a faster and more flexible jump engine will have a greater advantage in the war."

"Over time, the so-called 'Star Pirates' emerged."

"They use outdated weapons and equipment, even cold weapons, and they drive extremely poorly sealed spaceships made of iron and wood, but they can travel tens of thousands of light-years to another galaxy."

"Their territory continued to expand, and the enemies were wiped out one by one, because their enemies were just like them, and their war techniques were not much better."

"We call this civilization system 'jump civilization'."

"The journey of leaping civilization lasted for thousands of years, until one day, they came to the earth."

"Heavy artillery, missiles, and fighter jets. After the initial fear, the humans destroyed their fleets like they were destroyed, and got their jump engines."

"It wasn't until this time that human beings discovered that what they had embarked on was actually a wrong path."

"In other words, it is the wrong path that the leaping civilization has embarked on."

"However, in any case, with the super firepower and the leap engine, human beings have no rivals in the entire universe—at least in the territory of the leap civilization system."

"This is the story of the interstellar pirates."

Ye Zhou nodded in a daze. He vaguely remembered that this story came from a science fiction novel called Strange Star.

Or rather than saying that this is science fiction, it is better to say that this is a fable, which exposes the principle of "new technology trap" bloody and bloody in an extremely extreme and mean way.

But obviously, such a situation hardly happens in reality.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou said:
"It's a good story, but it's also just a fable, with too many loopholes."

"Think about it, after thousands of years of war, no matter what, the transition civilization will accumulate a huge amount of resources. As long as a very small part of these resources flows into basic scientific research, it will be enough to promote a qualitative change in their technology."

"What's more, the starry sky and the universe are extremely magical things for civilization. The more stars you see, the stronger your desire for development will be."

"The stars are the key to unlocking civilization and technology. No civilization will use stinky wooden boats to pollute the star sea. The most likely scenario is that the leap civilization drives a super warship, carrying the space developed by the leap technology. Weapons, just a face-to-face will destroy the human beings who are still using gunpowder."

Xu Chang nodded and replied:
"If you go with the context of this story, that may well be the case."

"But the question is, aren't we talking about adjacent dimensions?"

Ye Zhou froze for a moment, and asked with some doubts:
"What do you mean?"

"Water pump technology, will it be a leap technology? Adjacent dimension civilization, will it be a kind of leap civilization?"

"Ye Zhou, do you know the first axiom of the adjacent dimension war?"

Ye Zhou nodded and replied:
"When the civilization of any dimension develops to the point where they can control the energy exchange across dimensions, they will definitely absorb the energy of the adjacent dimension at all costs, until all the civilizations in the adjacent dimension die due to energy suffocation."

"Or more simply, unless the barriers to material exchange are broken, there is no possibility of peace between dimensions, and civilizations will only destroy each other."

"so!"

Xu Chang clapped his hands lightly, and then said:
"Think about it, what is the safest way to ensure the destruction of civilizations in another dimension?"

".Build enough water pumps."

"That's right! So now here's the problem, it's a paradox."

"In order to ensure that they can destroy another civilization in the competition, they are destined to build a large number of water pumps, and these water pumps are 'disposable items', which can do nothing except pump water."

"That is to say, the water pump itself actually reduces the energy endowment of one dimension."

"Or in other words, the number of construction of water pumps actually determines the technical upper limit of a dimension, but any civilization has to build, and finally, a relative dynamic balance is reached."

"In this case, what do you think is the most likely thing to happen? Obviously, after they master the water pump, the development of other technologies will definitely be seriously hindered!"

"It is very likely that they will not surpass us by much in other basic technology fields!"

"It also means"

"This means that our confrontation with the adjacent dimension is not actually a dead end."

Ye Zhou interrupted Xu Chang, who nodded in satisfaction and continued:
"Yes, of course it's not a dead end, but that's not what I want to tell you."

"What I want to say is that if our experiment is successful this time, we will probably destroy a large number of pumps that have already been built. At that time, it will not be them who are blocking our technology, but we are blocking they're gone"

Hearing this, Ye Zhou couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

This is indeed a very possible direction, and judging from the movement rules of adjacent dimensional channels, apart from the "water pump" itself, the technical level of the other party seems to be within the scope of human understanding.

But the question is, among the hundreds of millions of civilizations in the entire universe, is it true that no other civilization has tried to use this method to break through the oppression of adjacent dimensions?

Or, did they die before they were able to counterattack?
The answer is unknown, but at least, because of this deduction, Ye Zhou has a strong hope in his heart.

Regardless of whether human beings can achieve a counterattack to adjacent dimensions in the simulation, at least in reality, human beings definitely have greater certainty.

Because I will promote human science and technology to achieve a leap-forward and fault-like development that ignores the law, and this will win enough time for human beings.

He took a deep breath, then said:
"That's probably the most optimistic estimate."

"In reality, the most likely scenario is that we can hit them a little bit, but not nearly enough to turn things around."

"But no matter what, this operation must be successful, otherwise, all subsequent plans are empty talk."

"of course."

Xu Chang nodded in agreement, and then, the two looked at each other, parted ways in the passage, and rushed to their respective jobs.

At the same time, the 18 crew members on this huge spacecraft are all ready. After two hours, they will start to perform the re-orbit operation with the Carme retrograde planet group, and after the "Zheng He" that performs the pilot mission is in place , and began to promote the orbit change of the Carme satellite.

This is a complicated job. There are 22 asteroids in the Carme constellation, the smallest of which has a radius of only 40 meters. The movement laws of these satellites are extremely difficult to predict. If they happen to be on the collision orbit, it will cause serious damage to the spacecraft. threaten.

Therefore, they must complete the actions from orbit synchronization to docking as soon as possible. Only when they are tightly attached to this 40-kilometer-diameter satellite can they obtain temporary safety.

After completing this series of pre-operations, if you want to return safely, the 12 propulsion engines on each spacecraft become the key.

The power they can provide will determine the success or failure of the entire mission.

(End of this chapter)