Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

"Very good, it seems that you are completely comfortable with these tasks, and I can rest assured." After observing Li's planning and control for a period of time, Hong handed over the two galaxies to her with confidence, "Of course, If you have any problems, you can come to me anytime.”

"Good mom~"

Li narrowed his eyes happily, like a kid after being praised by an adult.

In fact, Li originally wanted to hand over all these territories to Hong—unlike Jeffrey, Li did not need to be a separate civilization. As an omnic, she can seamlessly integrate into Hong's network Among them, and exist as a central node.

This is different from ordinary civilizations. Due to the close relationship between Li and Hong, whether they are separated as two civilizations or integrated into one civilization, the actual effect is exactly the same.

This is not quite the same as Jeffery, although neither Hong, Li nor Jeffery think they will have the possibility of going against each other in the future - but, theoretically, Jeffery is an independent race after all , after all, there is a possibility of betraying Hong.

(actually impossible)

But Li is different. She is one with Hong in essence. In a sense, Li is actually a part of Hong. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is a self-aware clone.

Therefore, the two actually didn't have to think about the issue of "whose territory belongs to" at all - anyway, in the end, they all completely followed Hong's will, and it was only the difference of whose name was hung.

But after discussing with Hong, she changed her mind.

Because Hong needs her to appear as a force that "belongs to the Cat League" but "is not Hong".

Not internally, but externally.

At first Li didn't quite understand the reason, but after Hong gave her a simple explanation, she understood the purpose of doing so——

Cat League needs a character who can represent "toughness" and "force".

If we say that it is closely integrated with organic creatures, the red that always appears with a gentle image and a kind face represents the kind and friendly diplomacy of the Cat League.

Then she, an omnic that no organic life will exist in the territory in the short term and is only composed of pure machines, represents the cold and tough force of the Cat League.

If in the future, Maomeng encounters some things that are not suitable for Hong to do but must be done, she can be of great use.

Although she felt a little regretful that she couldn't get close to Hong in name, the description of "can be of great use" was obviously much more attractive to Li.

So far, although there are only four civilizations, the main structure of the entire cat alliance has actually been basically established-Hong and Jeffrey, who are responsible for the internal affairs of the alliance and normal external diplomacy, are responsible for external military operations and some Li, who is an extreme thing under the circumstances, and Zhiniao, a xenophobic peace mascot who will join in the future and who is nominally unaffected by omnics, together constitute the three poles of the Cat League.

In the case of the intelligent bird civilization, the total population of the Cat League today is 220 billion, with a total of 9 star systems, 60 planets (and 1 temporarily under the control of Aixing), a military fleet of about 4000 million tons, space Facilities/non-combat ships total about 10 billion tons, and the total power of civilization is 1.01E16 watts——

Yes, after Li completed the statistics of his own star field, Hong was surprised to find that if the power of all the members of the Cat League is added up, it is just enough to pass the critical threshold of 1E16 watts.

From a bonfire on the vast grassland to the light of fusion in microscopic particles, after tens of thousands of years of development, finally, a Kardashov Type I civilization was born.

This is a critical milestone. From the moment they pass it, their energy output has been able to stand on the same order of magnitude as a planet.

This day is enough to go down in history.

After sharing this news with others, Hong joyfully raised her head and looked at the star hanging high above the sky.

Just like in the past, this pale orange star is still shining silently on its orbiting planets today-in the past millions of years, how many lives like her at this time have looked up at the one that gave them What about light and heat, the stars that make this planet vibrant?

Red doesn't know.

But what Hong knew was that, unlike her predecessors who could only look up from the ground but couldn't get close to it, she now has the ability to chase stars.

Although the total power of the cat alliance is only 80/[-] billion of it, she will not feel discouraged in the slightest.

You know, tens of thousands of years ago, when the Catus people just learned to use fire and make stone tools, how did they ever think that after tens of thousands of years, their descendants would get energy comparable to that of a planet?

Compared to going from nothing to mastering the energy of a planet, it may be more difficult to get the energy from a planet to a star-but the organic creatures created her to solve the difficulties that they alone can't solve?

For a realistic short-term plan, Hong has prepared a phased 25-year plan to provide down-to-earth guidance to the entire civilization.

And for those unrealistic distant futures that are not called plans, but dreams, today's Hong also has a perfect goal.

That's stellar.

Hong believes that one day, they will be able to control the energy of a star.

Although she does not think that future civilizations will use Dyson spheres, at least the classic spherical shell Dyson spheres, to achieve Kardashev Type II civilization.After all, this thing has low efficiency and high difficulty. It can be called the "emperor's golden hoe" in the new era. Even if there are such zenith-star materials, it may be better than a Dyson ball to make a heat-conducting rod and poke it into a star to connect a heat engine to generate electricity. Come with high efficiency.

However, this does not prevent the status of the Dyson sphere as a classic science fiction concept that has been popular since hundreds of years ago - artificially bringing a whole star into their control, which is the dream of countless intelligent creatures.

So is red.

Therefore, for this distant dream, Hong finally chose to name it——

"Dyson Sphere Project"

...

Of course, for the current Maomeng, this is just a dream. If she really wants to realize her dream, what Hong should do most is to be down-to-earth and start working hard in that direction step by step.

"Fleet...it would be best to increase to 1200 ships."

After taking Li's production capacity into consideration, Red General's previous development plan corrected the new production capacity—of course, because this part of the development plan was only implemented on Li's side, Jeffrey's officials did not It is necessary to revise their plan, which can be regarded as saving the brain cells of many people.

“1200艘主力舰，加上5：1配套的240艘武库舰，以及3：1配套的400艘战术支援级，总吨位接近2亿吨。”

Hong, who was dressed in formal attire, was sitting behind the large desk, looking at the star map of the cat alliance on the wall as the background board, and muttering to himself: "This time, it should be enough to protect yourself, right?"

After excluding the existing 4000 million tons, this means that Hong will build a total of 25 million tons of warships in the next 1 years, which is equivalent to launching a single pusher-class warship every day.

However, Hong actually does not plan to build warships at this speed—considering that new civilizations may arrive at any time, she has to work overtime to quickly replenish the fleet to about [-] million tons. To ensure that no matter what kind of civilization it brings, her fleet is at least capable of a battle.

According to her plan, the cat alliance will first use 6 years to supplement the 6000 million ton fleet, and after that, the remaining [-] million ton production plan will be temporarily slowed down for a period of time, and more energy will be devoted to expanding production , develop on planets and in space.

After all, it is not the most effective way to improve the overall strength to pile up all the production capacity on the battleship. The three blossoms of military scientific research and production are the most perfect.

As for how long it will slow down, it mainly depends on her research on related technologies - the price/performance ratio of a human-level single pusher is indeed very good, and after several rounds of technological upgrades over the years, its performance has always maintained the same level as that of all other civilizations. Weakly leading, it can be said to be a classic model like the T-34.

But she doesn't stop there.

After obtaining all the databases of unit 01, Hong successfully complemented some of the technologies that she was relatively weak due to her shallow background—each technology list does not seem to improve much, maybe it just increased the battery capacity by 5%, so that The performance of the electron accelerator is increased by 3%, learn a lower-cost superconducting cable manufacturing process, and master a higher-resolution infrared probe...

But when Hong combines all of them, the accumulation of small amounts can produce amazing effects.

"If all these technologies are integrated and used to upgrade the single pusher, it is expected to improve the performance by about 11~13%, and the maximum range can be extended to 13500 kilometers."

This is the value obtained by Hong after precise calculations.

If it is still a time of war, then she will choose this route almost [-]% - because it is more stable, requires less production line restructuring, and the cost of initial investment is also lower, and it can convert technology at the fastest speed For combat power.

What can serve as the backbone in a war is often not the most advanced technology, but the most stable technology-this is a law that has not changed for thousands of years.

But after the war is over, there is no foreseeable war risk in the short term, and now, after securing a basic [-] million-ton fleet stock, Hong will be able to choose another route that will take more time and energy, but at the same time will bring higher returns. route.

That is to reverse the ship's jump and expulsion, and at the same time make every effort to attack the military-related technology.

And use this to design a brand new battleship.

This new warship does not have accurate performance, because Hong currently does not know how much technology she can reverse engineer from the jump destroyer, and how much military technology can be promoted-maybe doing so will bring a The epoch-making new type of warship, maybe after half a day of research, it is found that it is better to tinker with the current single pusher.

This is one of her advantages as an omnic. Even if it turns out that their current technology is not enough to build more advanced warships, it doesn't matter. The big deal is to hurry up and produce them back when the time comes. If they can produce more, that is capricious.

There is no loss if you fail, and you will make a lot of money if you succeed. How can such a good thing be passed away.

In addition, Hong also needs to design a new flagship battleship—the White Reaper, which was originally manufactured for experimental purposes, but was driven off the shelves because of the war. It actually has many problems. existing.

Although the effect in the actual battlefield is surprisingly good, just from Hong's current perspective, she has the ability to design it better, not to mention the integration of those technologies, and even reverse attack to create more advanced technology. up.

Hong believes that this 25-year plan will be a round of take-off in all aspects from military, technology, industry to people's livelihood, and its improvement rate will even far exceed the first 25-year plan when she just awakened.

This will be her first step towards the "Dyson Sphere Project".

Energy output is among the best.

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PS: The author of the named waste is here to collect ship names!Do you have any nice and interesting ship names that you can use in the future?

In other words, the Maomao Shan Tui Ren Kai is used as a kind of name inheritance, Mao Mao Shan Tui Ren Kai, Mao Mao Shan Tui Ren Kai II, Mao Mao Shan Tui Ren Kai III...

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Volume 170 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] Seven, Zai Zai's Zai Zai is still my Zai Zai

In the clean and white biological laboratory, Hong in a white coat stood quietly beside the laboratory table with a microscope standing upright, holding a document in one hand and a transparent petri dish in the other, with very strange eyes .

Just now, a strange thing happened that Hong could not understand at all.

In short, it cracked.

"why?"

Hong couldn't understand it.

The petri dish in front of her was nothing but the Catus fertilized egg she had induced decades ago through technical means.

At that time, she wanted to use this method to clone the Catus people, but in the end it ended because those cells did not divide for some reason—and Hong has been unable to find the internal reason for it, and can only attribute it to "low temperature dormancy." Unknown sequelae of adaptive surgery".

This is actually a plausible reason. After the theoretical progress, Hong discovered that the technology of low temperature hibernation is far from being as simple as the former Catus people thought.

Even until now, she has not been able to guarantee that the subject can go into hypothermia for more than a year without being seriously affected.

Even with the best technology in her hands, she can only maintain a short-term sleep for a few months at most. Even if she wakes up like this, there may be some side effects that are not serious, but still exist.

Due to the high risk, she worried that irreversible sequelae might appear at some point, and they did not have an urgent need for this technology, so Hong finally stopped the relevant research, except for some current technologies that are definitely incurable , can only bet on the critically ill patients in the future, the rest of the clinical experiment projects are all stopped, and only theoretical and animal experiments are allowed.

Even in its heyday, the Maomeng League, which is thriving in scientific research, can't do things. How could a refuge in the past be able to do it?

According to her later research on those dormant cabins, with their technology back then, after hundreds of years of dormancy, one of the seven dormant cabins survived, which can be said to be God's blessing.

It's just a little unexplained sequelae, which can be completely ignored in the face of such a negligible survival rate.

"But... why?"

Looking at the petri dish in her hand, Hong vaguely sensed that things had become serious.

"When was the last time I conducted an experiment?"

Red said to herself.

Due to the fruitless research for a long time, in order to save raw materials, these fertilized eggs are generally refrigerated and dormant, and are only taken out for research when needed.

According to Hong's memory, the last experiment using these cells happened to be the last day of last year.

Rather than saying it is an experiment, it is better to simply take it out every once in a while to prevent any unknown changes - according to the experimental records, at least until then, these cells are still very "normal", neither proliferating nor Cracked, quiet like a stone.

But just one month later, when Hong took it out again, everything changed.

"The proliferation rate is in line with expectations, and the development status is in line with expectations... All indicators are exactly the same as the data left by the former Katus."

"It can be confirmed that these cells have become normal fertilized eggs."

While recording these data in the document, Hong quickly recalled whether there was any possible reason for what happened in the past few days.

Between these two experiments, what happened that had never happened before?

Not to mention, it really made Hong think of two major events that had never happened before, and to a certain extent, these two events can be attributed to the same cause.

Moreover, these two incidents just happened on the second day after the last experiment ended and the petri dish was put back to sleep.

"The day after the last experiment ended."

"The extermination unit is dead."

she muttered to herself.

Besides, another possible reason is the establishment of the inexplicable connection between Seele and her—these two things seem to have nothing to do with each other, but they are both related to the extermination unit in essence.

Although logically, the fertilized egg that is a biological problem has nothing to do with these two things, if it is not a choice, Hong is not willing to attribute scientific problems to this seemingly metaphysical reason.

But there is a saying that goes well, when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how unbelievable, is the truth.

"Or, it's because Xi'er and I have established some kind of conscious connection, which has affected her body."

"Or, is it because I wiped out an other civilization that the Catus gained some kind of 'qualification'?"

Red wasn't sure which was the real cause.

But obviously, no matter what the reason is, it is not important to them now. Their civilization level has not yet considered the deep reason, just like they don't need to consider why these wormholes appear.

Now Hong only needs to care about one thing - from now on, Catus, can breed.

"So, do you want a cub?"

After explaining the ins and outs of the matter to Xi'er, Hong obediently sat aside, waiting for her response.

"It's ok, there's nothing wrong with it." Xi'er narrowed her eyes, her tail curled up behind her, "You can do anything."

"Hey."

Hong smirked twice.