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

(Pioneer event chain, information currently collected: 6/?)

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About half a month later, that is, a few days after the 25th anniversary of the cat alliance's victory in the Defender War, the human side reported the disappearance of a warship.

According to the data released by them, this is a warship belonging to the Alliance of the Outer Solar System, and it was performing the mission of transferring from the Callisto shipyard to the orbital habitat of Callisto XIII.

At that time, it was accompanied by 5 other warships, 8 engineering ships and 6 cargo ships. Together they formed a small fleet and rushed to the orbital habitat of Jupiter XIII. However, according to the disclosed data, the warship Just like that, under the eyes of 19 ships of various types, they disappeared out of thin air.

This immediately aroused the vigilance of all civilizations.

Because according to several previous experiences, once such a bizarre disappearance or appearance occurs, it will not be long before a wormhole will appear at the place where the ship disappeared.

At least so far, there have been no exceptions-the iron core wormhole that appeared suddenly without warning in their opinion before, and it was later confirmed that a ship disappeared there five months before the wormhole opened, just because At that time, the location happened to be on the back of the gas giant planet, and because of the distance, they couldn't see it.

In this way, Hong found that the frequency of wormholes on the human side has also reached the order of about once every 200 years. The frequency of appearance has been equal to that of several other civilizations.

From this point of view, except for the same family, the frequency of encountering wormholes in all other civilizations is at the level of once in more than 100 to 200 years.

Moreover, according to the information left by the ancient prophets of Jeffrey, according to the number/strength of independent consciousness of different civilizations, the frequency of wormholes will increase or decrease accordingly-this corresponds to the wormholes between several civilizations. Differences in the frequency of holes.

Although the distribution is very uneven, some appear at roughly equal intervals, and some have extremely close intervals between two wormholes. It seems that the poor programmers have not written the probability distribution, but the overall frequency is still ok. roughly determined.

So here comes the question, is the homology very special?

There is no high probability. Since all civilizations are like this, there is no reason for the same race to be special-according to the currently known information, the degree of time accumulation that determines the probability of wormholes is basically from the time of awakening to a strong AI. Counted from the beginning (weak AI period, because there is no active consciousness in the entire civilization, stop calculating the probability).

Then, it took only 60 years for me to wake up, plus about 50 years when the Catus were in power, and the total was only 110 years. On the premise that two wormholes have already appeared, and calculated from the frequency of wormholes in other civilizations, The probability of a third wormhole appearing in a short period of time should be very low.

Moreover, after combining all the known news and the time points when all wormholes appeared, combined with model analysis, Hong also calculated this "baseline frequency".

Unsurprisingly, it should be...

180 years.

Almost at the moment when she came to this answer, even though there was no actual evidence, she could somehow feel that her deduction was correct.

Every time around 180 years pass, civilizations are pulled by "them" to communicate with other civilizations in this way.

In fact, this statement is just a nice way of saying it.

comminicate?

Judging from the interstellar civilizations they are currently in contact with, most of them are either racial cleanliness, exterminating omnics, or killing bee swarms. Could it be that they want them to communicate and develop together?

Coupled with this mechanism of destroying other civilizations to obtain bonus balls, it is obvious that the two civilizations that meet are encouraged to fight each other until one of them is completely wiped out.

Obviously, there are only two reasons for doing so.

Or, this is just a Colosseum made by an advanced civilization, and they are just gladiators in charge of entertaining the audience.

Their desperate struggle for the survival of civilization is just a way for them to have fun.

Or, this is the way high-level civilizations use to screen low-level civilizations. By raising Gu, most civilizations are eliminated in these wars aimed at exterminating each other.

As for what will happen to the winner, she doesn't know yet.

No matter which one it is, it is not good news for Hong - because this represents a possible high-level civilization, and there is a high probability that it is quite unfriendly to low-level civilizations, and even directly regarded as ants.

However, it doesn't matter anymore - because Hong has long regarded the so-called mastermind behind the scenes as her potential enemy.

Although the probability is very small, Hong believes that if one day, she can develop to a higher level than the civilization behind the scenes, then she will definitely play with each other in the same way, so that they can experience the feeling of dancing on the edge of the precipice of civilization extinction feel.

Then, when they struggled to exhaustion, they bent down gently and told them, never, never, never treat an intelligent civilization as an ant that can be played with at will.

Because, when you are immersed in the feeling of seeing others as ants, don't forget that you are in front of a higher civilization.

You, why are you not an ant?

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PS1: Originally, this part of the plot should appear in a later chapter, but after thinking about it, it’s more than 60 words, and it’s too unreasonable not to show the main story, so it was brought forward—maybe a bit abrupt, But it's better than a million words that didn't even enter the main story line.

PS2: In addition, the end of the month is coming soon. If you have leftover monthly passes and don’t know how to use them, why not vote for Maomao?

The red cat shows its belly and asks for a ticket QAQ

Volume 180 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] Five Encounters of the Third Kind

After learning that a new alien civilization will appear in the next few months, there was a short period of chaos in the human territory. After all, the current human race is still in the transition period, and it is difficult to hold a real interstellar war.

It’s the same even if they didn’t transform before—the extreme military economy is doomed to be short-lived. If they want to become a serious interstellar civilization, rather than the kind of partial scientific civilization that blows up on the spot if they can’t win a battle, they have to convert their industries Structural normalization, coupled with the Population Expansion Act, will lead to a bright future.

After all, increasing the strength of the fleet does not necessarily have to rely on militarism to increase the proportion of military expenditure, but can also be achieved by increasing basic production capacity.

For example, the total industrial value of the extreme military economy is 100. After 30 years of development, it has been raised to 200. During this period, the military accounted for 90%, and the final military strength will be 180.

In normal economic conditions, although the military may only account for 50%, due to the healthier structure and faster development, the total value of the industry will reach 20% in 300 years, and the final calculation will have 150% military power, and military power. The difference between the former is not large.

However, in times of crisis, as long as the latter transfer to the military economy, not to mention reaching the exact same proportion in a short period of time, 75% must be no problem, right?

Then in this way, the absolute value of strength will reach 225, which is obviously much stronger than the former, and at the same time, the potential of the latter is also higher than the former as time goes by.

For human beings who are not willing to learn from Maomeng, who give artificial intelligence leadership and unlimited power in exchange for strong development capabilities, and who are reluctant to revolutionize their own lives, this is already the best choice.

It's just that this wormhole came by a coincidence.

If it came more than ten years earlier, human beings who are still in the war period can easily deal with it with extreme military economy; if it comes more than ten years later, human beings who have balanced and healthy industries through reform and trade can also have enough production capacity to deal with it. .

But it was a coincidence that the wormhole appeared at this time that caused them the most headache.

Fortunately, the control power of the foreign alliance countries that had just cleaned up the interior was quite strong, and it was not too weak during the militaristic xenophobic period. Therefore, after a short period of chaos, they still resisted all opinions and announced that the entire alliance had entered a state of readiness for war.

At present, about two-thirds of Saturn's fleet has set off to Jupiter for support, and has mounted more than twice as many external working medium tanks as in the normal state regardless of cost, in order to be able to compress the arrival time to about 6 months .

If you don't do this, due to the bad current position of the two planets, the fleet with the conventional voyage configuration will not be able to reach Jupiter before the wormhole opens.

They can't use the future of the alliance to gamble on the probability that the opposite is a friendly civilization.

As the saying goes, as a member of an alliance with common interests, Saturn still has this responsibility.

As for Jupiter, their fleet has all been transferred to the orbit of Callisto, and they are prepared for the worst case.

In any case, Callisto must be defended—whether it is for nearly half of the total population there, or for the shipbuilding industry on it that accounts for 60% of Jupiter's warship production capacity, they will never retreat.

Behind him is Callisto!

If you count Saturn’s reinforcement fleet, when the wormhole opens, there should be about 210 capital ships defending the entire sky over Callisto, of which 150 are old-fashioned warships from the Anti-Extinction War-Civil War period, and 60 use new technology The new warships manufactured have a total mass of about 3500 million tons.

Considering that the range of the new warships is about 4000 kilometers longer than that of the old ones, and the comprehensive combat power is about twice that of the former, the total combat power can be roughly converted to an old fleet of 4600 million tons.

Compared with the Maomeng, it must be incomparable. Their latest 30-ton warships over there, one of them can beat their three new 1-ton warships.

But from a human point of view, this is already a very powerful force-if this fleet is not an enemy of the opponent with the assistance of the defense platform, then the internal alliance does not need to struggle, and simply Go be a vassal of the Cat League in exchange for the right to survive.

Anyway, for the Inner League, being a cat's dog...shouldn't be too bad a thing?

At least they look very cute, and they don't seem to be xenophobic.

"How many fleets does the Cat Alliance have on the border of the Inner Alliance?"

After receiving information on the deployment of troops from the foreign alliance through faster-than-light communication, President Belt put down the tablet in his hand and asked Crimson beside him.

"According to the data disclosed by the Cat Alliance a few days ago, they have deployed one-fifth of the entire alliance's fleet on the orbit of G2-139-d (the planet connected to the Mars wormhole), with a total of 100 capital ships and 20 missile ships. , 30 tactical support ships with a total mass of about 4000 million tons."

"What about the rest?"

"Among the remaining fleet, about 5000 million tons are distributed on various colonial planets as local defense forces, and the remaining [-] million tons are all concentrated on the capital Katus, to cooperate with the Glory-class ship equipped with a warp speed engine The flagship is used as a quick reaction force."

Crimson showed the tablet computer in her arms, which listed the information she had integrated.

"According to the performance of that warp drive, it will take about one month to deliver a 1 million-ton fleet to Mars, and about two and a half months to deliver it here. The star civilization rushed here immediately after defeating the foreign alliance, and it is impossible to come here faster than the cat alliance."

Although he heard good news, Mr. President's complexion did not show any signs of getting better.

"Your Excellency the President?" Crimson tilted her head, "Are you okay?"

The other party hummed without explaining anything.

"Then, did Crimson leave first?" Thinking that he most likely wanted to be alone, Crimson tentatively asked, "If you need something, you can always find me."

"Go."

Crimson nodded, and left with the file in her arms.

Hearing the sound of the door being gently closed, and the sound of Crimson's footsteps going further and further away, Mr. President suddenly sighed deeply.

"It still...needs strength."

If human beings could be as powerful as the Cat League, they would not be like they are now, who have not even seen the shadow of alien civilization, and are already thinking about "Calistour behind them".

However, reality has no ifs.

Without strength, they can only pray that the Cat League can help them when they are in danger-now they cannot rely on their own strength to tide over the difficulties. Once they encounter a crisis, they can only survive by relying on other powerful countries .

Although he also knows that if there is a crisis of life and death, with the style of the Cat League, he will definitely send a fleet to rescue them.

However, he was still... very unwilling.

He wants power.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to introduce Crimson, a powerful creature that both the internal and external alliances wanted but was afraid of, into his country, and gave the other party such great power at a very risky pace.

Even if he knows that doing so will cause the other party to gradually gain control of the country in a subtle way like that red in the future, and eventually ascend to the position of leader.

Then he will do the same.

"If you want to survive in this dangerous universe, you always have to sacrifice something."

Looking at the photo at the desk, he whispered to himself softly.

"Don't let me down."

"Crimson."

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After waiting anxiously for about 7 months, finally, under the watchful eyes of countless observation instruments, a wormhole quietly appeared at the place where the battleship disappeared.

Immediately, all fleets stationed in Callisto's orbit were mobilized, ready to deal with a possible attack.

According to the observation data of Callisto, the wormhole is about 110 million kilometers away from Callisto, the semi-major axis of the orbit is about 300 million kilometers, and the orbital eccentricity is less than 0.003, which is approximately a circular orbit.

Obviously, this is a wormhole orbiting Jupiter, and it happens to form a 1:2 orbital resonance with Callisto.

In order to enhance its own strength as much as possible, the foreign alliance did not choose to let the fleet go to the vicinity of the wormhole, but stayed behind Callisto in order to use the local defense platform.

However, in order to facilitate the detection of intelligence on the other side, humans also left an engineering ship more than 3 kilometers away from the wormhole, carrying a group of engineering and technical personnel who volunteered.

"The probe has entered the wormhole, start timing."

Propelled by the chemical engine, the probe that had been prepared nearby entered the wormhole first.

According to past experience, the process of traveling through the wormhole takes about 10 minutes to an hour, and the specific time is basically positively related to the relative distance between the two ends of the wormhole in the universe.

The currently known pair of wormholes with the shortest distance is the pair of wormholes connecting the third star and the fourth star in the Jeffrey Federation. The distance between the two ends is only 90 light years, and it takes 11 minutes and 06 seconds to pass through it.

The farthest pair of wormholes is the wormhole connecting Li's Castel and Mars. The two ends are 600 light-years apart, and it takes about 50 minutes to pass through it.

Therefore, through the time it takes for the probe to travel through the wormhole, they can roughly estimate the distance between the other civilization and them—if they are lucky, they may even be able to find the other side's star system in their own star map.

Like Catus's counterpart, Kepler 62e.

"Judging from the parameters, the probe is already close to the exit of the wormhole, and the estimated total time is about 21 minutes."

Scientists reported so.

Judging from this time, the opponent’s star system should be about 300 light-years away from them—for a reason they don’t know yet, when the two ends of the wormhole approach this distance, the distance/time ratio of passing through it is obviously higher , that is, the time it takes the ship to travel each light-year is relatively short.

Deviations from this number, whether larger or smaller, will reduce its distance/time ratio.

"3...2...1..."

"Okay, confirm that the probe has passed through the surface of the wormhole."

Scientists sit nervously in front of the computer, hoping to get the first-hand data as quickly as possible when the data arrives.

"Very well, the first wave of data has returned, let's see...see..."

"fk."

The shortest vocabulary, the most information.

"What happened?"

Hearing the 'heartfelt words' from the headset, the adjutant asked immediately.