Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 7 The Underground Caveman Incident

Two colony ships, fully loaded with personnel, followed the Dawn and made a hyperspace jump.

One moment he was in the solar system, and now he was at the exit of the hyperspace channel of the Centauri galaxy.

After a period of acceleration and deceleration, they reached the outer space of Alpha Star and submerged into the clouds. The two colony ships each fell into the designated location.

The colonial ships never thought about rising again after landing. Their huge size made it difficult for them to escape the gravity of the earth, so the colonists dismantled the colonial ships into materials on the spot and used them to build the initial colonial base.

Everything was progressing in an orderly manner until a shield machine drilled a huge cavity area underground...

A huge shield machine was digging subways for the future city. Suddenly the machine stopped. When he jumped off the shield machine and took a look, the construction worker was dumbfounded.

This is not a cavity area, it is clearly a huge underground city!

"Mom, there are bugs coming!"

A young mammalian intelligent creature ran behind a standing humanoid creature covered in black fur, with a fox-like nose and rabbit-like drooping ears.

"It's okay, the baby is okay. Bugs don't like dry land. They won't come here."

Although she said this, the mother still held her child and faced the construction workers, slowly retreating little by little.

The construction workers could not understand the other party's language, but they could tell that the other party was an intelligent creature. After all, this place looked like an underground city with complete supporting facilities.

Electricity has begun to be used to illuminate cities.

The construction workers all had guns, but they didn't draw their guns right away. First, they felt that the other party's level of civilization was lower than ours, so there was no need to be too nervous.Second, the current mainstream ideological trends in the Earth United Nations are still extreme egalitarianism and xenophobia.

They are both pro-foreign and egalitarian, so most citizens of the United Nations on Earth believe that aliens and Earthlings are equal and friendly.

Of course, the premise is to treat the other person as a human being.If you don't treat the other person as a human being, even extreme egalitarianism will not treat the other person as an equal.

The other party was very scared, but the construction workers had no way to communicate with each other. They could only communicate with each other in sign language back and forth.

The funny look made the child smile. Although there were some twists and turns, the other party finally understood that there was no malicious intention on the part of the Earth United Nations.

Not long after, Su Lixuan and his team, who had just gotten off the Dawn and were about to return to their research ship to restart their exploration work, received a new mission.

"There is actually an indigenous civilization here?"

Qin Xu was shocked, as were Chen Xiaomeng, Liu Wenhan and others, because the research ship had scanned it several times, and there were such dangerous bugs on the ground, so they thought it must be uncivilized.

"They are underground... Judging from the current information, they should have been driven underground by the terrifying bugs on the ground. And it was them first, and then the bugs. I don't know how many generations passed, and finally they were built underground. A giant city.”

Su Lixuan briefly explained the situation to everyone.

It was obvious that Su Lixuan was not in a good mood, because this was a mistake that should not have occurred.

Now that the colonial ship has landed and 200 million people are living on the ground, it is too late to evacuate.If the other party is hostile, or the technological level is not too different, these 200 million people will be in danger.

"At present, the Earth United Nations has convened an emergency meeting to deal with this matter. Of course, this actually has little to do with us. No matter what the outcome of the meeting is, we have to go to the underground city."

It was obviously a very dangerous thing, but all the scientists seemed extremely excited.

At the Earth United Nations General Assembly, 550A once again hosted the meeting, and representatives from various countries finally began voting after a fierce quarrel.

19% of the votes were preemptive strikes and completely obliterated the opponent with thunderous means.

Live in peace with the other side and share the world, but you must build a fortress and send a large army to garrison the votes accounted for 30%.

The votes for the two sides to communicate on an equal footing, comprehensively open up trade, do a good job in cultural publicity, and promote the integration of civilizations accounted for 51% of the votes.

This result is not surprising. Judging from past resolutions, the current mainstream trend of the Earth United Nations is still extreme egalitarianism and xenophobia.

In this regard, people who currently belong to the xenophobic minority are both angry and sad about the current Earth United Nations.

A representative of extreme xenophobia rushed to the rostrum, grabbed the microphone and said: "You traitors, executioners, sinners of human civilization! Have you all forgotten the Battle of Barnard Space Station! What is the price of underestimating the enemy, weak What is the result! Tell me! It is concession, it is... destruction, it is..."

Not long after, the guards came up and carried the representatives down, and calm returned to the conference hall.

The representatives of the xenophilic trend are naturally not unaware of the Battle of Barnard Space Station. It was a battle that should not have been lost, and the reason for the defeat was precisely because of their naivety.

Aliens are friendly and friendly, and communication can solve all problems.

But there are always those who don’t want to talk to you, but want to destroy your civilization.

Therefore, the current trend of extreme xenophobia in the Earth United Nations is no longer there, and is replaced by general xenophobia.

"The battle of Barnard was because it was originally a hostile civilization. And this time the indigenous civilization? They have a similar form and society to us. The Quillaks are reptilian creatures. I can understand some of them. The xenophobes have been chasing us, but the Alphas are not. They stand and walk, and they have furry bodies. Although they are strange, they are also a little cute inside. And the latest news shows that they have reached multiple deals with us. , and behaved very friendly and peace-loving. Let me tell you, extreme xenophobes like you are the scum of the United Nations on Earth and the sinners of human civilization!"

It was not the time to speak. The guards came up and wanted to take him away, but the man just calmly finished speaking and left on his own.There was a round of warm applause.

"Is there really no need to send troops?"

There are non-extreme xenophobe representatives who still try to stop everyone's crazy behavior.

"Send troops? Then how about parking the fleet above Alpha Star and preparing for orbital bombing at any time? Peaceful exchanges must look like peaceful exchanges, and trade between us has been established, and a large number of company groups are operating there. They also set up a welcome team for the branch, and the leaders personally welcomed them."

"But……"

"There is nothing wrong with it. Most of the two million people carry guns. Why should we be afraid of an indigenous civilization if we have guns? Do they have tanks or planes?"

The representative who spoke out was speechless and chose to remain silent.

But in reality, true xenophobes would only sneer at this rhetoric.

A person who is preparing to kill will also not let others see the gun in his hand first.Not to mention civilization.

The information about the Alpha Planet people at the United Nations Conference on Earth is indeed true. Now the people on the colonial ship have established a deep friendship with the locals. The M country's behavior of exchanging a gem for a large piece of land did not happen here, but the other way around.

The Earth United Nations throws out all kinds of good things, but all it needs are some ordinary industrial products from the Alpha Planet.

In fact, it's just a symbolic thing to get. After all, the Alpha people really don't have anything valuable, but they want to create the appearance of endless trade and friendship, so this is the only way.

However, this situation changed after Liu Wenhan and others went deep into the underground city to investigate for a period of time.

"Is this a rare crystal mine?"

Liu Wenhan led a team to find the place where the Alpha Stars said there were strange gems.

"do you know?"

Chen Xiaomeng was a little surprised, because this thing was not introduced in the book, but the other party seemed to have heard of it.

"I have explored many places with the Yinxu scientific research ship before. By chance, I heard the Quillak people mention this thing."

"What is this thing for?"

"A rare strategic resource. Our technological level is not yet high enough to use it, but it is indispensable for the manufacture of large battleships. For example, space cruisers and battleships cannot be built without this thing."

"Can't it be synthesized?"

Chen Xiaomeng asked.

"Yes, but the cost will be very high. 10 units of minerals can only be combined into one, and the process required is very complicated. Therefore, every natural rare crystal mine is very precious."

As Liu Wenhan said, Liu Shaomei went up to record with the instrument on her own, and went deeper and deeper inside alone.

"Hey, Liu Shaomei, we don't know what's going on inside yet. If we want to go in, we have to act together, not alone!"

But obviously Liu Shaomei ignored Liu Wenhan.

Liu Wenhan had no choice but to let everyone go in together so that someone could take care of him if something happened.

"Actually, I have wanted to ask a long time ago, what is the relationship between Liu Shaomei and you. You seem to be very familiar, but not familiar..."

Chen Xiaomeng used euphemism.

"Oh, that's a long story."

While Liu Wenhan was recording the situation, he spoke in a low voice, as if he was speaking only to Chen Xiaomeng and Qin Xu, or as if he was mumbling to himself.

"More than 20 years ago, I was admitted to the deep space fleet behind my back with my wife and daughter. At that time, the Yinxu was the first true scientific research ship. I was surrounded by like-minded people. I knew that my wife would definitely disagree. Because she has been preventing me from taking part in the astronaut test."

"You wouldn't just leave them and go to heaven, would you?"

"Actually, it's even worse than that... I didn't tell them and just disappeared. Because I knew that no matter what she said, I had to go to the universe. This has been my dream since I was a child."

"Ah, you. But even if you go to heaven, you still have time to go back."

Chen Xiaomeng actually thinks it's okay. Although his father is not an astronaut, he has been to space several times. He comes back probably every one or two years and stays at home for a long time.

"I'm too obsessed with the unknown, too obsessed with the universe..."

"You shouldn't have gone back even once in 20 years, right? What about your daughter? Don't you want to go back and take a look?"

"Anyway, I'm really sorry for them. I really forgot about this... and I was really busy working on the research ship at that time, and I couldn't stop at all. When I stopped, I was obsessed with all kinds of anomalies. Phenomenon. In fact..."

(End of this chapter)