Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 740 Gene Trap
For civilizations that set foot in the starry sky, a few years really pass in the blink of an eye, and it is only enough time for them to transport goods located in other star systems to another star system.

Just like humans and Orange Star civilization.

It took the two civilizations less than two years to transport their biosphere resources to this star system, but humans were a few months faster.

From this we can infer that the main body of Orange Star civilization is farther away than humans, but this is calculated based on humans' own speed, and it is not accurate to apply it to Orange Star civilization.

It was precisely because of their curiosity about the Orange Star Civilization that humans accidentally heard an unexpected news from the dynamic picture civilization, that is, the Orange Star Civilization's navigation technology is very backward, and their warp spacecraft is only 1 times the speed of light.

The reason why they could go back to get the goods so quickly this time was because the dynamic map civilization modified several warships for them and agreed to sell them a thousand warp engines. The dynamic map called these warp engines 2nd level warp engines, and they called the warp engines of the Orange Star civilization 1st level warp engines.

It was this news that gave humans a clear understanding of the navigation technology of the fourth-level civilization, and they realized that they had actually skipped the primary stage and directly jumped to the intermediate level. According to the normal technological process, a civilization that reaches the fourth-level civilization can only master the warp technology of 1 times the speed of light.

The level of civilization is not like some fantasy martial arts, which have a fixed number of levels. It is just the result of advanced civilizations dividing the difficulty of developing technology to a certain level, appearing a certain technology, and developing a certain technology. This statement is just recognized by the vast majority of civilizations in the Milky Way.

It is normal for humans not to know.

As for the news that the Orange Star Civilization's navigation technology was backward, it was not really heard accidentally, but some words were captured during the exchange with the dynamic picture civilization, and finally humans took the initiative to ask. And this kind of information was not free, and humans paid for it with ten species of biological samples.

Through the behavior of the dynamic picture civilization selling out information about other civilizations, the human leaders believe that they should also sell the information they know about humans to the Orange Star civilization, making money on both ends.

He has the potential to be a dishonest businessman.

Through the exchanges and contacts during this period, humans and the dynamic picture civilization have a general understanding of each other's technological level. In terms of speed, both are at the level of 10.079 times the speed of light, but the dynamic picture civilization has a flagship with a warp speed of 39.941 times the speed of light.

Humans also know that the GIF civilization has agreed to sell 10.079 times the warp speed technology to the Orange Star civilization, but they don't know what price the Orange Star civilization paid for it. It is believed that in the near future, the Orange Star civilization will be able to fully upgrade and increase its speed to the same level as humans and GIF civilization.

This news also greatly improved the human perception of the dynamic picture civilization. They didn't take this opportunity to destroy the Orange Star civilization and then plunder it. They could have done so. After all, the overall speed difference of the warships was so large that they would have been completely suppressed if they really wanted to fight. This behavior is almost the opposite of their practice of directly treating the Booker class as a commodity, which cannot be understood by conventional thinking.

However, it can be seen from here that this dynamic picture civilization is really serious about interstellar trade, and it also proves that they really have a backstage.

Their behavior made humans feel at ease doing business with them, but they were also very worried that they would know that they were here to look for relics of civilization.

There was no immediate solution, so humans could only do what was beneficial to them. This time, humans brought a hundred ships of biosphere resources from the main civilization, all of which were planetary-class ships, and each ship was fully loaded.

Of course, they are not the resources of the Earth's biosphere, but what humans got from the Gnoll Planet. After countless generations of cultivation, these things have become a part of human life and the main product of human foreign trade. Each planetary biosphere spacecraft is a small biosphere with a rich variety of plants and animals.

The number of one hundred biosphere spacecraft is large enough, and humans believe that it can fully meet the needs of this transaction. You must know that a planetary spacecraft has only one layer as big as a treasure island, and a planetary spacecraft has more than one layer.

Compared to humans, the Orange Star Civilization brought more biological resources this time, reaching 2 planetary-class ships. I think they need to buy more things. The reason why these planetary-class biosphere ships can arrive so quickly is that they installed those level warp engines.

Since none of the three parties had any bad intentions towards the transaction with each other, the transaction went extremely smoothly.

However, it takes a very long time, because this kind of interstellar transaction cannot be traded by simply transporting the goods over, but requires both parties to evaluate their respective goods, and such an evaluation requires the participation of countless experts from both sides.

They need to extract the original samples of each other's biosphere to conduct some experiments, and make sure that the other party's biosphere samples are something they have never had and that the species meet the non-repetitive requirements. At the same time, they also need to prevent the other party from making small moves at the genetic level of the biosphere resources.

For example, resources that have been transformed using a certain gene trap technology are sold to the other party, causing problems to arise after the other party buys them and cultivates them for dozens or hundreds of generations.

This is just a basic trap technology. There are also some misleading genetic modifications. Biologists can use genes to cultivate certain animals and plants to produce seemingly real animals and plants. When these animals and plants are bought by the other party and used for research, they may lead the other party into a certain technical dead end in biotechnology.

Humans call this method a technological trap.

Humans had some ideas about this kind of technology at the third level of civilization, and after reaching the fourth level of civilization, it was realized under the guidance of the Academy of Life Sciences.

In other words, humans can create a batch of artificially adjusted genomes based on native biological samples, and make them reproduce and develop into a seemingly natural biosphere. Obviously, this kind of biosphere resource that has been artificially modified by humans is worthless, because the civilization that bought it cannot find the reference materials for the longevity potion they want from it.

What’s worse, it will cause civilizations with underdeveloped life science and technology to fall into a research dead end, which is very serious.

After developing this technology, humans realized that there would be counterfeit goods in interstellar trade, so they were very cautious when trading in biosphere resources.

(End of this chapter)