Galaxy Technology Empire

Galaxy April 4, 30.

It has been 15 years since the foundation plan was launched.

Huang Haojie and the Alliance Council once again adjusted the foundation building plan and increased investment in basic science.

The total population of the alliance also successfully exceeded 67.4 billion this year.

The control range of the Orion cantilever area reaches a radius of 1,800 light years, with 167 administrative star systems and 5,763 natural star systems.

Possess affiliated civilizations: Blue Star Native Civilization (First Class), Soth Civilization (First Class), Hein Civilization (Second Class), Shura Civilization (Second Class), Triangular Civilization (Third Class), Anluo Civilization (Third Class) , Iceman Civilization (third level).

The Anluo civilization is the group of Anluo people wandering in the cantilever of the constellation Senying. They were discovered by the Alliance in the year 22 of the Galaxy, and then accepted as a subsidiary civilization.

The Iceman civilization is the only one among the 14 life planets discovered in the Orion cantilever area that has entered the second level civilization. It joined the Alliance in the year 24 of the Galaxy.

The Iceman's life form is very strange. They are silicon-based variants, and their entire bodies seem to be made of crystal. They are the first non-humanoid intelligent creatures accepted by the Alliance.

Of course, there is actually another civilization that is not included in this list - the Silicon Civilization.

It is the ancient silicon star where Zhong is located, but it is not yet recognized by the alliance because Zhong has not reproduced a second intelligent life (Silicon Man). In this way, Zhong alone cannot be said to be a civilization.

Because civilization needs to be passed on, and if there is only a single mutated creature, if there is no way to complete reproduction, in this universe that cannot live forever, the consequence will be the complete extinction of this race.

Therefore, a civilized race must be plural and reproducible, while the singular non-reproducible type obviously cannot be said to be civilized.

Ancient silicon star.

Zhong's body is a silicon-based life form transformed from a stand-in robot. In appearance, he is 40-50% similar to Huang Junjie.

He has always regarded Huang Junjie as his father, so in terms of appearance, after Zhongji determined his identity, he permanently fixed it to his current appearance.

Above the synchronous orbit of the silicon star.

That Shadow Leopard-class space cruiser was transformed into a research institute and residence by Zhong.

"Um?"

The battleship's quantum teleporter actually sent a transmission request, and Zhong flipped through the transmission request.

"Is it from Yongyexing? It's strange. Didn't they just send supplies a few days ago?" Zhongbai was puzzled.

Yongye Star is the alliance stronghold near the ancient Silicon Star, with a quantum teleportation station on it.

Zhong turned on the quantum communication system and searched the alliance's internal network. After a while, he finally knew the cause and effect.

It turns out that the master transferred a group of icemen from the Iceman Civilization to come here to serve as his assistants.

In fact, silicon-based organisms only account for about 16% of the biological species in the Milky Way, while carbon-based organisms account for about 57%, sulfur-based organisms account for about 12%, germanium-based organisms account for about 5%, and the rest The next 10% is combined basic life and heavy element life.

Among these organisms, carbon-based organisms are the easiest to give birth to intelligent life, and silicon-based organisms are second only to carbon-based organisms. The three overlords in the core area of ​​the Milky Way and human civilization are all typical carbon-based organisms.

For example, the Shura people where Boros lives are lead-based life forms among heavy element life forms.

The Shura people's home planet is a planet rich in uranium and lead, and full of ionizing radiation. There is a life form that lives at the end of the periodic table of elements (for comparison, the carbon-based organisms on the blue star live at the front of the periodic table of elements) ).

The main component of their bodies is metallic lead. It is precisely because of lead's excellent radiation protection properties that the environment in their bodies can be protected from interference from the ionizing radiation environment outside the body.

Due to the presence of a large amount of uranium and its decay products in the planet, the atmosphere contains a large amount of radon gas.

The nuclear energy contained in these radon gas is the source of energy for lead-based organisms. The Shuras breathe radon just as the carbon-based creatures on Blue Star breathe oxygen.

They can convert the rays emitted by radon-222 into the energy required for physical activity.

Radon-222 decays into various radon progeny: radioactive isotopes of polonium, bismuth and lead in their bodies and is used by their bodies, and eventually decays into stable lead-206 and becomes the basic material of their bodies, lead-based organisms be able to grow.

This type of planet is quite common in the inner layer of the core region of the Milky Way. Only if it is common there is a probability of life being born.

Otherwise, if the environment of a planet is very unique and unique in the universe, the possibility of life appearing on this planet will be greatly reduced.

While Zhong was thinking, the ten icemen had already arrived on the Zhongzhong through the quantum teleporter.

[Hello, Mr. Zhong! I am Bai Guangming, a researcher at the Iceman Academy of Biological Sciences. This is Bai...] An electromagnetic wave is emitted towards Zhong.

[Hello! Welcome to Ancient Silicon Star. ] Zhong knew that these icemen could not speak, and they communicated directly using electromagnetic waves.

After some exchanges, Tadashi placed these Iceman Research Institutes on the Loyalty, where there were also 11 people from two other silicon-based intelligent biological races (original pirate group members from the Shura civilization).

Although the advantages of silicon-based organisms are very obvious, that is, they can quickly enter the era of industrialization and electrification, their shortcomings are also very obvious, and their ability to reproduce is very weak.

Take the Iceman civilization as an example. It has developed for 34,000 Blue Star years, but its population still has not exceeded 10 million.

If it were Blue Star people, with sufficient resources, the population could increase by hundreds of thousands or even millions of times in 34,000 years.

Zhong is now very distressed. No matter what he does, he cannot give birth to a second Silicon Man. Without the ability to reproduce, Silicon Man cannot be called a civilization at all.

Even if he copies the energy core and soul core, what he creates can only be regarded as his own clone, or a remote-controlled robot that cannot think independently at all. A robot that cannot think independently will always be a robot, not a life. .

He helplessly looked through some papers on silicon-based organisms.

However, although it is said to be silicon-based organisms, there are actually many types of silicon-based organisms. Just like silicon-based organisms, there are many smaller types under the major categories.

According to the classification of silicon-based organisms, Zhong belongs to the silicon-based organisms-sapient class-dinucleus race-silicon human beings.

The Iceman belongs to the silicon-based creatures - the Electricity Class - the Review Tribe - the Iceman.

The most obvious difference between the two is that Tadashi's two cores can be separated, while Iceman only has one review (the energy core and soul core are integrated), and Iceman's review cannot be separated.

Tadashi also tried to fuse the two cores together, but after the fusion, they can still be separated at any time, unlike Iceman who is inseparable.

As for the two silicon-based creatures of the Shura civilization, they are also from the review clan, so there is little significance in learning from them.

"How can reproduction be completed? Do we have to try our luck and wait for the birth of another binuclear silicon-based creature?" Zhong thought hard.

In the Milky Way, among the silicon-based organisms that have been discovered so far, they are all of the dual-core family, and Zhong is the only dual-core family.

This directly eliminated the possibility of him finding a female silicon-based creature and having sex with her to have a child. Asexual reproduction was not feasible, and bisexual reproduction had no target.

It's so hard for me! Zhong seems to feel that the FFF team is calling him. Am I destined to be a single person forever?

"Ah! (ó﹏ò)Why is this happening?"

The dozen or so silicon-based creatures working as assistants here suddenly tightened their anus, knowing that Boss Zhong was crazy again.