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

If the Jeffrey people know that while they are still trying their best to persuade the parliament to add an additional 20 tons to the original 30-year fleet expansion of 50 tons, Hong Nai is also making a drastic expansion of the army, preparing to transfer 600 million tons If the fleet expands to 3000 million tons, they may simply choose to lie flat.

200 million to 3000 million, according to the size of the Federation capital ship, it is equivalent to two 500-ton warships of the same family with a length of more than 200 meters and a Federation warship of more than [-] meters and [-] tons.

It also hits a hammer.

The productivity gap between the two races is actually not that big. After all, it is an interstellar civilization. Even if it does not have artificial intelligence technology and still uses backward slavery, it will not reach this point.

The main reason why the speed of shipbuilding is so different is the difference in the industrial structure of the two sides—whether it is the Federation, the Empire, or the Fasati, their basic disk is the planet, and the billions of people on the planet, space Industry is at the service of the planet.

On the contrary, in Red, the planet is the subsidiary, responsible for providing the logistics support for the space industry with a solid foundation.

One is to use space to supply planets, and the other is to use planets to supply space. The difference between the two can be seen at a glance.

"I wish you a safe journey." Several staff members in spacesuits bowed slightly, and at the same time couldn't help sighing in their hearts—it was so similar, almost indistinguishable from real creatures, if it wasn't for her being able to move freely in a vacuum With their eyesight, they couldn't tell that the girl in front of them was a robot.

Moreover, it is very beautiful.

Although the appearance of the two races is quite different, they are generally similar. It can even be said that for two creatures that evolved independently on different planets, they are surprisingly similar.

A little more hair, a slightly worse bone structure, etc. are not a big influence, at least from the appearance, the two races are in line with the aesthetics of both sides

This is actually a prerequisite for the two races to negotiate peacefully. If the difference is too great and the looks are too ugly, Hong will not take in those Jeffrey cubs at all, and naturally he will not be against the law based on the Jeffreys. The Sati people have a good face, so technology exchange is out of the question.

Hong smiled and waved, and waited until all the Farsati spaceships and people had left the cargo hold and the hatch was completely closed before returning to the expressionless look before.

After all, it still takes electricity to maintain facial expressions, so save as much as you can.

"Returning to the Kawei orbital skyhook."

The three spaceships began to move slowly, with hot flames ejected from the huge nozzles at the tail, so as to propel their huge hulls that add up to almost 30 tons—the only thing wrong with the red fleet is that it is a small ship that is not used for combat. Ships, so that no matter what the task is, a capital ship must be dispatched.

Although the purchase itself planned to dispatch the main warships this time to deter the Federation with force, generally speaking, in order to maximize the deterrent effect, she should also be equipped with a few to a dozen small and medium-sized warships.

The escort of two battleships alone is much worse than the escort formation composed of one battleship, two or three cruisers and a few destroyers - even if the latter really fights, it can't beat the two battleships , but at least it seems that it is indeed a lot of prestige.

Space battleships have a remarkable feature. To a certain extent, large ships have higher combat power than multiple small ships of the same tonnage.

The specific extent of this is mainly based on the technology of the manufacturer, but generally speaking, as long as the shipbuilding is not intentional, this feature will basically take effect.

The reason is simple. Except for the angular velocity, most of the performance of a large ship exceeds that of many small ships of the same tonnage—the 500-ton cat-mao pusher class, which can carry a [-]-meter-long shaft gun. It can cause considerable damage at a distance of one meter, and the DV can reach more than [-] kilometers per second when carrying external working fluid.

At the same time, while the single pusher achieves the above indicators, it also has a strong structure and armor to protect itself, and multiple sets of redundant equipment are used to resist damage, which is as indestructible as a fortress on the battlefield.

With the same tonnage, if Hong designs a 200-ton warship and builds five ships, with her technology, she can only achieve a 8000-meter shaft gun with a range of about [-] kilometers, and a DV with an external working medium. There can only be seventeen [-] meters per second, and the armor structure and redundant damage resistance are far weaker than the single pusher class.

The most important point is that the combined output of five lasers with a range of [-] kilometers is not as good as that of one laser with a range of [-] kilometers—in a space where stealth does not exist, five small ships can only withstand the firepower of a large ship After crossing the distance of [-] kilometers, it was just able to fire.

Regardless of how many ships will be lost during the period, when the small ship has just reached the firing range, due to the reduction in distance, the power of the main gun of the big ship has been several times or even dozens of times stronger than at the beginning. How can this be possible?

Not to mention, even a small ship can’t outrun a big ship—a larger hull has a more powerful reactor, longer and larger nozzles, which means that the connection speed of a large ship is faster than that of a small ship. The reactor can't catch up.

Even, it takes more man-hours to build five small boats. Although the single pusher class has a more complicated cooling system and more redundant equipment, it is still much less troublesome than five sets of reactors + engines + axle guns.

In this way, Hong, who purely pursues the decisive battle performance of the fleet, naturally did not manufacture any small battleships. They are used to do things that capital ships cannot or are not worth doing, rather than being used to fight frontal battlefields and enemy artillery. fighting.

But so far, the extremely simple social and production structure of the same clan does not require small warships. Not only that, Hong also wants to build larger and stronger warships—that is, true flagship-class warships.

"When the dock that can build kilometer-class spaceships is completed, it's time to put the first generation of flagship-class warships on the agenda."

After confirming that all the cargo is firmly fixed and will not slide due to the acceleration and deceleration of the spaceship, she puts the body in standby mode and stops paying attention.

However, the purpose of building the flagship level is completely different from the purpose of building the single-push human-level before. For the current Hong, the single-push human-level design is already a very cost-effective design, taking into account firepower, survival and economy. If it is bigger, the efficiency of the laser cannot keep up, and the firepower improvement is not obvious, so it is not cost-effective.

Therefore, the flagship class is not used as a capital ship, but is used for roll call—that is, it is used to snipe a small number of high-value targets, special targets.

They will be equipped with ultra-high-power long-range lasers, which are enough to carry out roll call and focus fire on key targets outside the range of any conventional warship, such as missile ships behind the fleet, command ships commanding the entire team, etc., before the frontal battle begins. Injure or destroy them.

As for the frontal battle, the Maomao single pusher class will take on this important task. Maybe in the future, the Red Society will develop a flagship that can join the frontal battlefield to support conventional battleships and control the field.But at least for now, this sniper flagship will be a decisive spaceship with only a few built.

Of course, she would not choose to build it now-weapon technology is not good enough, and the power of the kilometer-level free electron laser cannot form a generational advantage over the current mainstream 500-meter main gun, and it cannot achieve the effect of name calling.

The first flagship ship will be built for experimental purposes. It does not need to really consider its combat effectiveness on the battlefield, but to verify the newly researched technology in Hong's hands. After all, no matter how many checks are done in the supercomputer , It is not as intuitive as it is really made to see.

The first ship is used for experiments, and the second ship is used for verification. If there is no accident, after the completion of the 25-year plan, Hong will be able to start building a real combat flagship.

At that time, the Federation may have just completed the 200 million-ton fleet expansion plan, it has to be said, at some point.

Ignorance is a kind of happiness.

Volume 32 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Mysteries

Five years have passed since the wormhole was opened.

In the past [-] days, the entire star field seemed to have entered a cooling-off period. There were only two conflicts at the level of "border friction", and the three parties stopped all combat operations as much as possible.

Even for the Federation and Empire, which were the most difficult to deal with before, the conflict was limited to the stage of using low-power lasers as "flashlights", and its behavior was similar to flashing headlights at the same point-compared with the previous meeting and dropping nuclear bombs. It can be said that both parties are already extremely restraining themselves.

The Federation and the Empire are negotiating, Farsati is wooing the Empire, and the Imperials have a good time between the two countries. While trying to reach a limited cooperation agreement with the Federation, they are trying to take advantage of the Planetary Alliance (Fasati) Opportunity to change something over.

Only the actions of the Fasati people exceeded the expectations of the other two parties—for the first time, they tried to downplay the hatred between the two races in history, tried to make concessions, and tried to form an alliance.

The reason is simple. The three countries used to live on the same planet, and they were all races and countries developed from Jeffrey as a template—but the same race is different. They are completely foreign races, and External wariness is extremely heavy.

So far, no one has seen any real Catus, and everyone only knows what the bionic appearance of "Red" looks like.

racial identity?have no idea.

Population?have no idea.

Social Structure?have no idea.

Everything they saw was what Hong wanted them to see. The entire homogeneous society seemed to be living in the shadows, and all clues were covered up by that mechanical intelligence. Some people even doubted whether this homogeneous society was real. exist?

The diplomatic mission has been there for so long, and the spaceship has secretly observed Catus countless times, but the results are all amazingly unified—the ruins of a dilapidated city, a dead continent, no intelligent creatures, no large-scale ecological circle, the only thing on the surface that can The observed activity is only mechanical.

Other than that, nothing else.

Reminiscent of the "Ai Xing" that had been neutralized by the same race, and then recalled the strange scene on the surface of Catus, they even had a guess—maybe, the Catus people were exterminated by this red ?

That Hong just used it as a cover to lower their vigilance.After all, a civilization with a few organic individuals sounds more harmonious and...safer than a purely mechanical civilization.

From the joy at the beginning of the contact, to the doubts later, and to the fear now, the more they analyze, the more they find that they don't know anything.

The more they study the weak artificial intelligence technology traded by the same race, the more they realize that the production capacity of a civilization ruled by a real machine intelligence is crushing compared to them, which is an unimaginable height for them.

"Sorry, for safety's sake, we can't arrange for you to meet with any organic citizens of the same race."

Whenever they tried to tell themselves that this was just a boring conspiracy theory, Hong's flat refusal would push them into the abyss of fear again.

The photos are useless, the videos are useless, all of these can be faked, among other things, the standing Hong in front of her, if she hadn't demonstrated it herself, no one would have been able to tell that she is a robot.

This alone was not enough to prompt them to give up their alliance with the same clan. In the end, it was a stunned young man who played a decisive role-he violated the confidentiality policy and accidentally connected a computer with confidential documents to network.

And inside, there is a very special document, that is, the intelligence report of the diplomatic mission trying to search the living area of ​​the Catus people.

It wasn't even the network of the same clan, but accidentally connected to their own encrypted network. In less than five seconds, Hong issued a notice, announcing that they threatened the personal safety of the organic citizens of the same clan, and asked the relevant personnel to leave immediately. territory.

Only then did they realize that there might actually be something wrong with the homology.

As required, they withdrew all diplomatic missions involved in this matter, and almost two-thirds of them were expelled from the country by the Reds. From then on, they began to share information with the Federation and the Empire, trying to reach a collective defense treaty.

Fasati hopes to know the details of neighboring countries and confirm their safety, which is no problem.

Hong monitors the "official spies" they call in, and kills all factors that may threaten the cubs in the cradle, no problem.

Rather, for the very special civilization of the same race, the aliens are inherently untrustworthy, and Hong never expected them to form an alliance from the very beginning; while for other civilizations, the creators "imprisoned" by ice-cold machines The civilization that came from here is also absolutely untrustworthy.

After discovering that Fasati's attitude towards her was suddenly indifferent, and thinking of the confidential documents that had been monitored before, Hong also quickly understood what they were thinking.

However, she couldn't make it up, and didn't intend to.

Because, even if Hong can predict the foresight and explain the ins and outs of this matter to Fasati clearly, it will not be able to avoid the continuous decline in the relationship between the two races—not to mention, it will expose one of its few fatal weaknesses. It is absolutely impossible to do so.

The short honeymoon period is over.

In the face of all kinds of evidence presented by Farsati, and the performance of a small number of warships of the same race obtained during the honeymoon period shared by them, the Jeffreys accepted this fact after the initial disbelief.

Compared with the ruthless mechanical civilization, the Farsati have become the choice for alliance.

Even, Fasati also threw out the weak artificial intelligence technology he exchanged for - after the rapid deterioration of diplomatic relations, they did not dare to use this technology that they had not learned yet, so they simply threw a brick to attract jade and used this incomplete technology to In exchange for the trust of the other two parties.

After all, they are all serious interstellar civilizations. With ideas, it is no problem to start developing the most basic artificial intelligence technology. It is also driven by this technology that the three parties finally reached a preliminary agreement.

armistice.

Yes, even with so much ironclad evidence proving that the Three Kingdoms are not enemies of the same clan if they are not united, they still cannot form a true alliance.

Hundreds of years of hatred, how can it be said to dissipate?

What's more, even if the high-level people can reach a consensus, the people below will have to go through a long period of subtle influence and continuous propaganda before they can agree with each other-otherwise, according to the current propaganda, who would want to have a relationship with the vulgar and brutal imperial barbarians, and What about Fasati, who eats people but does not spit out bones, form an alliance?

Because of this, five years have passed, and Hongdu has completed [-] warships. Here, they are still trying to get the people to accept "the imperial people are not so barbaric" and "Fasati can stop eating people".

However, it is precisely because the wormhole blocks all communication between the two sides that they are ignorant of the crazy military expansion of the same race on the other side, and they still have the patience to "step by step".

All the truth is hidden behind the barrier woven by Hong. What's inside?No one can know.

"It's like a mystery."

Looking at the deep and dark wormhole on the federal colony No. [-], they commented so.

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PS: Some people may think that ordinary civilizations are not so afraid of civilizations ruled by artificial intelligence—think about how many people have died in human history just because the two sides look different. The life form of artificial intelligence and carbon The gap between the basic organisms is unprecedented. According to normal thinking, the two sides can hardly understand each other.

Hong is an exception, and this exception is only for her own cubs. For foreigners, isn't she a cold-blooded and cruel machine?

To be more practical, you can find the Russian President’s answer to questions about artificial intelligence during the 2020 artificial intelligence journey some time ago. This is the impression that many people have about artificial intelligence.

A ruthless machine without empathy or guilt.

Volume 33 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Double Standards

Hostility is hostility, but neither side has the idea of ​​starting a war.

The main purpose of the formation of the three-party alliance is to protect itself, and rashly sending troops to attack a mechanical civilization whose details are unknown may not be worth the loss. Not to mention, the alliance itself also has its own ghosts, and good things are hidden. The idea of ​​letting someone else go up first.

If one of the fleets is wiped out, and the other two take the opportunity to annex it, how can they justify it?

With such a loose alliance, naturally no one dares to push it to the front line, so the anti-homogenism can only stay on the slogan after all, and in essence, each country plays its own game.

The reason why Hong doesn't want to go to war is even simpler-the benefits are too small and the troubles are too much.

She didn't have the slightest interest in annexing their population, and she worked so hard to win the war. Could it be that her final goal was just to snatch the other party's population for a sacrifice?

In terms of labor force, red crushes them ten streets, and the participation of most of the work by organic organisms is actually reducing efficiency.

In terms of trust, how can those adults whose thoughts have been finalized compare with the cubs they raised with their own hands.

As for the total extinction, these are not Ai Xing people, and there is no deep hatred between them, and Hong is not going to go to war for such a small "threat".

The only thing that can be called interesting is the large number of undeveloped planets in their territory-these civilizations encountered several wormholes shortly after entering space, and colonized several planets with ease.

However, on the one hand, wormholes provide them with a fast transportation network, on the other hand, they also limit their ability to develop other planets in the planetary system.

Red can invest a large amount of resources regardless of cost, and bring the entire planetary system under its own industrial network, but it is different for these civilizations that use wormholes as their main means of transportation.

One is a colony planet that is close at hand and can be reached through a wormhole, and the other is a remote planet that has a voyage of several months and cannot give back to the parent star at all, producing economic effects. It is already clear at a glance which one will be developed.

After all, the purpose of their planet development is ultimately to make money.

There is no profit, only astronomical initial investment, and it will take decades or even a hundred years to see the return—no, this is not a matter of long return period, but for the people on the planet, these There is no return on investment at all.

The super-long voyage makes interstellar freight a loss-making business, and the weak control makes the colonial star inevitably independent. At most, the mother civilization becomes the suzerain in name and completely delegates autonomy to the local government. This has nothing to do with de facto independence. What a difference.

That is to say, the merchants and the government have spent huge sums of investment to develop these planets, and nothing can be gained except to increase the overall strength of the "Jeffreys" group.

Even if the mother star can't get anything, it's fine. The colony turns its head and becomes independent after sucking the mother star's blood. How weak is it.

If you want to develop other planets in the system on a large scale, you must either have a unified and extremely cohesive population, enough to have a strong sense of belonging to a mother civilization that you have never seen in your life.

Or, the cheap faster-than-light technology has been conquered, which is enough to connect the two planets closely together, making them two provinces under the management of one civilization, rather than a parent civilization ruling a vassal state.

It's a pity that they can't do both of these things, so this kind of strange scene is formed where the wormhole is extremely developed, other planets are desolate, and there is not even an automatic mining station.

"Bastard."

This is what Hong said about their development strategy.

Although she is interested in those undeveloped planets, as long as the other party does not take the initiative to make trouble, she is too lazy to take the initiative to snatch them. Squat in the Devo planetary system and play your own.

If this is a game, if the alliance clicks on the diplomatic interface of the same clan, the column of attitude must show "contempt".

"One hundred and four Maomao single pusher-class laser ships, 32 Queen Bee-class missile ships." She counted all the fleets in her hand, "There is a ship in hand, so don't panic."