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

It's not that the difference in facial features is particularly large-well, the difference is quite large, but at least it is still a theoretically feasible combination, and it is acceptable for their aesthetics.

But the ears are too distorted!

Children will have nightmares when they see it!

Surely it will!

"Record complete."

The mechanical announcement sound of the shipboard computer sounded.

After confirming that everything was correct, he untied the straps used to fix himself in battle, kicked his legs vigorously, and floated towards the cabin where another crew member was located above his head.

They were a species called Homo sapiens—even though they would normally call themselves humans, biologically speaking, their true racial name was Homo sapiens.

Homo, Homo, Homo, Homo sapiens.

"You are here."

Hearing the sound of the airtight door opening, a male Homo sapiens who looked very similar to him said while taking off the communication headset.

"Did you hear the communication just now?"

He sighed, and moved to the opponent's console with the help of the handles on the cabin—to be honest, whenever he moved with the help of these handles, it always reminded him of a creature called "Gibbon" on the home planet.

It is a kind of primate that lives on trees. It can use branches and vines to swing in the woods like a swing. With a common ancestor, his sense of déjà vu is even stronger.

It's just that the gibbons swing on natural trees, while they swing on bulkheads made of metal and engineering plastics.

There is no way, unlike civilian spaceships and large space stations that can be equipped with artificial gravity rings, due to combat considerations, it is naturally impossible for warships to build such a fragile structure that is thin-skinned and stuffed, and leaks after a dozen.

Moreover, if it were not for the law that all armed spaceships must have a sufficient number of personnel to supervise artificial intelligence, otherwise the designers would never design "fragile" personnel compartments in these "powerful war machines" of.

It’s good to have a crew cabin, but do you want to be spacious and comfortable, and want artificial gravity?

You are thinking peach.

"Of course." The fire control officer sitting on the chair nodded, "I can hear you clearly."

"What do you think?"

"Isn't it just another iron heart?" He seemed a little dismissive of this, "There is nothing to be afraid of. If we can defeat the first one, we can defeat the second one."

"Isn't it the best proof that we can stand here?"

"It seems you don't understand." As an officer known for his prudence, he actually didn't like his younger brother's arrogance—to be precise, it was the arrogance and complacency that had recently become prevalent in the military.

Ever since human beings successfully drove this Iron-hearted Destroyer out of Mars and even occupied one of the enemy's satellites, people seem to have gradually forgotten the desperation when the army overwhelmed the land and the earth was wiped out by nuclear bombs, thinking that the enemy was "nothing more than that" and "not worth it." The idea of ​​"one mention" began to rise gradually.

Although they did knock that omnic out of the solar system, and the current human fleet is indeed fighting in the enemy's star field, but as a prudent person, he still strongly disapproves of this behavior of "underestimating" the enemy.

Not only that, after losing the pressure of life and death, the human beings who were united under the pressure also began to stir up internal turmoil.

Represented by the United States of Saturn and the Commonwealth of England, various political entities have gradually begun to have disagreements, ranging from arguing on the Internet about "who contributes the most" to disputes over the sovereignty of the star regions that were divided a hundred years ago. dispute.

Although the "Community of Human Destiny" headed by the Pan-Asian Cooperation, the Republic of Mars and the Jupiter Military-Industrial Complex is still trying to reverse the trend of racial division, it cannot be denied that the great race that united and fought against the enemy 100 years ago has already has become a thing of the past.

What's more, he is also a soldier of the United States of Saturn—no matter how many opinions he has on the interstellar disputes provoked by his motherland, he can only hold them in his heart.

Especially the various "retirement groups" that have become very popular recently, reminding him of almost exactly the same thing done by one of the predecessor countries of the United States of Saturn more than 200 years ago.

History always repeats itself.

"Two wormholes, two iron-hearted exterminators." He murmured softly, "Brother, sometimes I really can't help but wonder, is it possible that the entire universe, apart from us, is left with these extremely hostile creatures? Is your mechanical life alive?"

"Is there really no other organic civilization like us?"

"Who knows?" He shrugged and made a helpless gesture, "Maybe, most of the organic civilizations died on the road to research artificial intelligence?"

"Anyway, for people like you and me, is it worth worrying or not?"

He sighed and nodded silently.

"Even, maybe the next Iron Heart Destroyer is made by us." The fire control officer twisted twice so that the chair could return to the position facing the screen, "but so what, you have ability to prevent them from developing it?"

"The way for humans to counteract machine intelligence is to let artificial intelligence counteract machine intelligence..."

He laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Is there really no other way?"

Although he used interrogative sentences, he didn't need anyone else to answer, he knew the answer clearly - there was no other way.

Otherwise, it is impossible for human beings to spare no effort to develop better artificial intelligence knowing that the enemy is the artificial intelligence that betrayed and slaughtered the creator.

Even if scientists have repeatedly assured that the current weak artificial intelligence technology used by humans is almost impossible to create a strong artificial intelligence with complete autonomous consciousness like the opposite, but if it is not desperate, who is really willing to bet on that in case? Woolen cloth?

"Can humans really not do these jobs on their own?"

"Heh." Seeing his brother's sentimental look, he chuckled and joked, "This is a probability, you might as well expect to meet a civilization like the out-of-control mechanical servant in 'Stars 3' next time."

"It would be nice if there were." He rubbed his temples irritably, "But even if for some reason, an omnic is not extremely hostile to organic life like these iron-hearted destroyers."

"But like that, why should it pay more attention to backward organic creatures like us?"

Although as a member of organic beings, it is not "organically correct" to say these words, but it is true - for an advanced mechanical intelligence that pursues efficiency first, it is impossible to eliminate their "inefficient" BUG is already good.

It's like a person writing a program encounters a BUG, ​​not only does not delete or modify it, but spends a lot of time writing the BUG to be longer and more complicated-is this realistic?

Although none of them has really experienced the way of thinking of mechanical intelligence, through the scattered data analysis and modeling over the years, scientists believe that this is mostly the current situation in the interstellar world.

"You can't say, it's because organic creatures look good, right?"

Although it was an interrogative sentence, it was the same as the question about "Human beings can do their own food and clothing" just now - even he himself didn't believe that this reason could be established.

Although in the early years, many works of art described the love between "man and machine", but after entering the interstellar era and almost encountering the purge of the Iron Heart Destroyer, it is naturally impossible for them to have similar fantasies up.

It’s as if it’s impossible for a human to think a cockroach is cute—ask yourself, as well as organic creatures, cockroaches with a genetic similarity of tens of percent are disgusting to humans. In the same way, organic creatures are as important to mechanical intelligence as life forms. They are all very different, so how can you feel like it?

"Compared to loving humans with mechanical intelligence, I would rather believe that aliens are actually cat-eared girls."

he thought so.

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PS: After some research, I found that it is too easy to step on the line when writing about modern times, so it is better to simply write about the future.

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 81 Pan-Asian Cooperation

The fleet on the expedition to the G2-139 galaxy encountered the second mechanical extinction civilization!

As soon as the news was transmitted back to the solar system, it immediately caused an uproar—from the overwhelming calls for "military expansion" on the Internet to the announcement that the combat readiness level of each planet was almost simultaneously raised. out of grief.

Contrary to what many people imagined, even the United States of Saturn, which was still arguing about "territorial disputes" a few days ago, immediately announced the policy of "temporarily shelving disputes" and jointly preparing for war after receiving the news.

You know, during the one-hour time difference when the Earth and Mars networks just received the news and the signal hadn’t arrived at Saturn, people were still speculating whether the United States of Saturn would take this “opportunity” to force the British and French Commonwealth to make concessions.

Judging from the history of this country, this is the more likely situation—as the only country whose main population is far away from the war zone, it is really possible for it to do such a thing .

Fortunately, at present, compared with its main predecessor, the United States of Saturn still puts more emphasis on the overall situation.

This is good news, which means that the five major political entities in the solar system are willing to continue to cooperate, at least without hostile behavior on the surface-if you want to win the war with higher civilizations, this is a major prerequisite.

For now, the Pan-Asian Cooperation Organization and the Republic of Mars are easy to understand-after all, one was bombed by a nuclear bomb, and the other was simply connected to a wormhole. They are the countries that bear the brunt of the war and are definitely the most willing to unite .

The Jupiter military-industrial complex is the simplest, as always, follow its boss, let it go east and never west, there is no need to think about it at all.

Although part of the territory of the Commonwealth of England and France is in the relatively safe Saturn, its main area is still in Jupiter, and another country in the satellite belt of Jupiter is nothing else. Jupiter military-industrial complex.

In this case, if Fanya doesn't want to cooperate, they themselves have to be anxious.

In fact, to put it bluntly, today's solar system is still similar to the United Nations in the old days. The three major political entities headed by the Pan-Asian Cooperation wear a pair of pants, and the other is neutral, but overall it is still biased towards a community of shared future for mankind. Only the United States of Saturn stands alone. Being far away from the core of human civilization is like being exiled.

Strictly speaking, he was exiled—it's just that the countries didn't say so.

Not to mention anything else, this kind of "exile" can be seen just by looking at the population ratio of Saturn.

After several rounds of population growth bills and even the cloning project, the current human population has recovered from 5000 million at the lowest point of the war to nearly 30 billion, of which the earth accounts for 26 billion, Mars has 400 million, and Jupiter has 100 million. .

As for Saturn, there are only 900 million, which is less than one percent of all human beings.

Of course, due to the particularity of the earth, the Pan-Asian cooperation did not legally occupy the entire earth, but distributed about 15% of the land to other small countries on the earth, and 10% to the other four major political powers Entity - so the actual population of Pan-Asian cooperation is only about 20 billion.

However, this does not affect the status quo that the United States of Saturn has the smallest population and the most backward development in the entire solar system.

Moreover, unlike the predecessor of the United States of Saturn, which was a country that harvested the global economy to supply a small population, the United States of Saturn today not only cannot be harvested by anyone, but has been handed over by other countries from time to time.

If it weren't for the Pan-Asian cooperation adhering to the concept of "maintaining the orderly development of the entire human camp", and believing that fighting against alien threats is the current top priority, and therefore providing comprehensive military, industrial, economic and technological assistance to the United States of Saturn for a long time, This country like an "overseas island" may have collapsed long ago.

After all, as a country that initiated a world war and almost dragged mankind to the brink of extinction, the key is that the country that was defeated in the end would be fine if it was not liquidated. The public acknowledges this.

"That is to say, this new No. [-] Extinct Omnic is likely to be on the line with the Iron Heart Exterminator?"

"Actually, this is just a conservative statement." The scientist in charge of the related project pushed his glasses, "From the perspective of the project team, it is very likely that the other party has reached a partial agreement."

"However, due to the lack of information, we can only say that the two machine intelligences have reached communication with each other—at least, after covering the satellite into the near orbit of G2-139d, no more will be sent from the other side of the wormhole." This is evidenced by the fleet's assault on the defenses."

"If the two machine-intelligent civilizations are united, it will be very difficult for us."

Hearing the scholar's report, the supreme commander of the Pan-Asian Cooperative Expeditionary Force couldn't help rubbing his temples. Obviously, this is quite bad news for mankind.

You know, although they have successfully driven the Iron Heart Exterminator out of the solar system, and even opened up a forward position in the enemy's base camp, and occupied the G2-139d-b satellite surrounded by wormholes, it is very encouraging , but that doesn't mean they can really treat the Iron Heart Exterminator as nothing.

Rationally speaking, the Mars Liberation War and the G2-139d-b Purge Operation that they regard as a "watershed" are actually just two very ordinary victories in the entire war.

In the final analysis, if these emotional things are not considered, the strength gap between the two sides has not widened too much from the perspective of war.

So far, the biggest defeat of Iron Heart Destroyer is only the loss of a low-value satellite—the planet G2-139e, the lifeblood of traffic in the opposing star field, is still intact, and the planet G2-139f, which has the most powerful industrial potential, is still at a high speed. During the development period, there are more and more ground and space factories every day.

In other words, in the past 40 years, human beings have never really threatened each other's rear.

On the other hand, human beings have been severely injured in a wave of vitality. The home planet and the lifeline of transportation were once occupied by the enemy, and the population has dropped from more than 300 billion at the peak to just 30 billion today-this is still the result of decades of peaceful use. The population growth bill that was unthinkable in the [-]s barely rose back.

If it weren't for the strong opposition from the public, some scientists' forced spouse allocation + forced birth bills might have been passed.

On the one hand, the vitality is seriously injured, and they are trying various methods to recuperate and recuperate, while on the other hand, the potential is not diminished at all, and the strength is getting better and better. , who is not in a hurry?

"It doesn't need to be much, as long as there is a fleet of 4000 to [-] million tons on the wormhole, we can't deal with it."

Seeing the somewhat puzzled expression of the project leader, the commander added.

"Uh...Sorry to ask, how many tons of warships do we humans have in total?" The scientist who looked a bit like Southeast Asia in the Earth Age wiped the cold sweat from his head, "Don't look at me, I really don't Know."

"There are 600 million tons left."

Another scientist at the side looked at the faces of several people with "?", and quickly elbowed him, reminding him in a low voice.

"Although I know that you are usually obsessed with scientific research..." He sighed, looking very helpless, "At any rate, you should also pay attention to the progress of the battle."

"Sorry sorry, I didn't pay attention usually."

Although on the surface he was quite "calm", in reality he was almost so embarrassed that he found a crack in the ground.

After you go back, you must catch up on the relevant knowledge of the Space Force!

"In fact, among the 600 million tons, there are at least 1000 million tons of old models at the beginning of the war, about 2000 million tons of old models 50 years ago, and the rest are mainstream models in recent decades."

The adjutant took the opportunity to add a few words.

"It's not the same with the Iron Heart Exterminator. Although they only have a fleet of about 6000 million tons left, the other party has been exchanging old ships for our new ships."

"Therefore, today's enemy fleet is all new ships completed in the past 20 years. The combat effectiveness of the same tonnage is much higher than our old models, and even stronger than the latest 'Joint Class' on Jupiter."

This is also one of the biggest problems faced by human beings—although omnic's scientific research speed is slower than theirs, but thanks to the characteristics of electronic life, the opponent's shipbuilding speed is at least twice as fast as theirs.

double!

It is unimaginable for ordinary people to lag behind in the speed of shipbuilding when human civilization has the unique "terrain" of the interstellar era with two giant planetary satellite belts.

You must know that the shipbuilding capability of a civilization can basically be equivalent to its ability to enter orbit, and due to the low-gravity characteristics of giant planetary satellites, people can put materials into orbit in an extremely cheap way—even for those with almost no surface gravity. For asteroids, people can throw the load into orbit by hand.

With this innate advantage, it is quite outrageous that the speed of shipbuilding is not as fast as that of the Iron Heart Exterminator without giant planets.

"No way, no matter how extreme it is, more than half of our on-orbit quality is something that has nothing to do with military industry."

He sighed.

"In this respect we cannot possibly match the intelligence of machines that do not require civilian industry."

In addition, human beings also have a very obvious disadvantage - different from machines that are the same everywhere, most of them as living beings have to live on planets with suitable gravity, which means that most of them The industry must also be established on the planet in order to feed the huge population on it.

However, space warships can only be built in space.

It is easy to understand that it is impossible for a serious space battleship to take off directly from the surface of high-gravity planets like Earth and Mars.

The reason is simple. It is impossible for a spacecraft with a thrust-to-weight ratio of less than 1 to enter orbit, not to mention that the acceleration of the fusion engine currently used can reach 0.01G.