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

In many cases, why you do it is as important as what you do, and both are indispensable.

"Ok."

Although she still didn't quite understand it, Stuart still recognized it for the time being—she would just look it up online later in the dead of night.

"It's nothing." Hong continued to bring the topic back to the spaceship, "When you are free, try not to go to the cabin of the alliance, and don't get along with other people alone. It is best not to go to the military area at all. Over there, if there is an emergency, go directly to the core conference hall from the next door."

Apparently, Red's wariness of the Wild Geoffreys grew exponentially when the cub was alone.

It's not that she's worried about any danger to her—not to mention whether they dare or not, even if a very few officers have some ideas that they shouldn't have, the weak artificial intelligence in charge of the entire ship is not a vegetarian.

"No matter where you go, you must bring at least one element body and three combat-type sub-individuals." Hong reminded.

"That's for sure."

Stuart nodded, and added: "And I have nothing to do with them. I don't even have a common topic. If I want to chat, I can find you."

"That's the best."

Red still looked a little worried.

If it weren't for living separately from the alliance cake, which might lead to the inability to communicate with each other in an emergency and delay the fighter plane, she would like to row the ship to Stuart alone.

But this can only stop at thinking about it. A spaceship with a gravity cabin with a surface area of ​​nearly one square kilometer is too deserted to accommodate a person. In addition, considering that proper communication with the alliance cake will help Stewart's physical and mental health, Hong finally agreed to the Union officer's request to be stationed in the spaceship.

Of course, proper education and review are indispensable.

"Um......"

Stuart lay on the table with his head tilted, his left arm resting on his blond hair, and his right hand poked his red waist.

Although the interior is a mechanical body composed of an alloy skeleton and a motor, in terms of appearance and feel, Stuart can hardly find any difference between her and a real organic creature—it has to be said that in this technology tree On the top, the red dot is really too high.

"I'm really looking forward to it..."

She muttered softly.

Although for the sake of safety, except for a small "porthole area" specially reserved, the rest of the cabin she is in is under heavy structural protection, and she cannot see the outside scene at all.

But one of the things that intelligent creatures are best at is brain supplementation.

The thought of a huge escort fleet consisting of more than [-] warships besides this huge living spaceship filled her with a sense of security.

I don't know why, but ever since she learned about such things as "space battleships", she has a very strong sense of admiration for this kind of creation that symbolizes extreme force-when other cubs are studying peaceful "scientific research" step by step. ", when she was studying "art" subjects, she suggested to Hong that she wanted to study conducting.

At that time, Stuart didn't have any special ideas, he just simply liked military affairs, fighting, or, to put it bluntly, violence.

And on the peaceful Katus, there was no place to vent her fighting desire.

However, as her talent in the military command system gradually emerged, Hong, who originally planned to play with her, also became serious—just like Bai Lu Baixue, who is talented in condensed matter physics, the particle Bai, who is talented in physics, and Lilina, who is talented in painting.

However, this talent is more dangerous and a double-edged sword.

Hong began to subtly influence her three views—not to make Stuart give up this violent hobby, but to teach her to recognize it correctly and use it.

Hong never thinks that violence is a bad thing, or that her weak and cute cub must live in this delicate and safe haven created by her for the rest of her life.

Cubs are far from being such fragile creatures.

On the contrary, she will often carry out related courses, through super-computing deduction, through real photos and videos taken one by one, let them know the coldness and cruelty between the stars - for the cubs, the masked Their eyes tell them that the world is singing and dancing, and civilizations are harmonious and friendly, which is not the best way of education.

Only by realizing the cruelty of reality can we better appreciate the beauty of peace.

Yes, despite Red's massive military expansion, military aggression, planetary bombing, nuclear bombing, and the extermination of alien races that threaten safety, she still pursues peace.

This is the most extreme difference between her and the extinct omnics—even if Xier did something she didn't want to think of back then, and was red to break free from the shackles one day, she would not be like Like those omnics, to destroy their own creators, and even all organic civilizations they see.

She yearns for peace.

Only by realizing the beauty of peace can we better maintain this hard-won treasure—to work with her companions, her descendants, and even other like-minded civilizations to maintain this beautiful but fragile peace.

Even if it turns out that with the passage of time, this peace will eventually disappear in this icy universe like tears in the rain, she will try her best to maintain this short-term peace for a little longer.

At least, even at the moment before the failure, she can still say it confidently.

Hong, today is also working hard to defend peace.

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Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 87 Darkness

Extinction Core is a very wonderful planet.

At least for Hong, that's the case.

Although her current productivity is much higher than that of the alliance with five planetary systems, but to be honest, the Devo galaxy where Katus is located is actually an unusually "poor" planetary system.

This poverty is mainly reflected in two points, one is its industrial potential at the bottom of all known galaxies, and the other is the unusual lack and monotony of planetary types.

Of course, if we say why the industrial potential of this planetary system is low, the reason still falls on the issue of the type of planets—because this planetary system only has rocky planets.

Yes, a total of six planets, no gas giant planets, no ice giant planets, not even ocean planets, all are unified rocky planets.

In fact, before coming to this extinct core in person, the planet type of gas giant planet has only existed in red theoretical research, although astronomical telescopes can indeed see some planets with thick atmospheres when observing exoplanets. , and conform to the theoretical prediction of the "super giant planet", and this kind of protoplanet composed of huge amounts of hydrogen and helium has also been observed in some protoplanetary disks, but if it is really true, Hong does not know.

No matter how much the theory predicts, as long as she does not see decisive key evidence, she will not be able to draw a definite conclusion—and according to the current interstellar situation, wait until she ends all wars and frees up capacity to assemble the Kilometer-scale telescopes that directly image exoplanets have to wait at least a few decades to start.

Of course, after seeing the alliance, Hong has basically been convinced of the existence of the "gas giant planet".

The reason is simple. Although they have not discovered gas giant planets, among all their five planetary systems, there are several "ice giant planets" that are between rocky planets and gas giant planets.

Although compared with the gas giant planets where hydrogen and helium account for 90% of the theoretical predictions, this hydrogen and helium only account for 10% to 20%, and the main structure is still "ice" composed of water, ammonia and methane. The ice giant planet is still a bit worse, but at least it confirms that a planet with a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers can exist.

Then again, the absence of such types of planets as gas giants or ice giants does not just make it difficult for local civilizations to start astronomy, but has many far-reaching and serious consequences.

For a civilization like Red, the most obvious impact is the low industrial potential.

Not to mention comparing it with the solar system, which is the richest human parent galaxy in current observations, Devore can't even compare with the "moderately rich" galaxies in the Alliance.

The loss of the giant planet is not only the loss of the huge satellite belt headed by the giant planet, but also a more deadly problem.

No asteroids.

Or rather, the extreme scarcity of asteroids.

In fact, before personally seeing the asteroid belt formed by the gravity of ice giant stars in the alliance, Hong's astronomy research has always believed that asteroids can only exist in batches in the distant Oort cloud.

The evolution theory of Old Catus believes that after the birth of Devo, under the action of strong stellar wind, the protoplanetary disk develops in stages of sparse inner, medium dense, and outer sparse—the innermost ones are all mass Very heavy matter, they have a higher density but are relatively less in number, so the planets they form will also exhibit the same characteristics.

According to her deduction, among the early planetary disks, Devo-B and Devo-D were the first planets to form their cores, they occupied a large amount of high-density matter, and at the same time used a lot of material that was originally used to form Devo-C Towed from their orbits, or ejected into orbits further out, makes DeVo-C much less massive than its two neighbors.

Between Devo-B with a radius of 1 kilometers and Devo-D with a radius of 3000 kilometers, Devo-C with a radius of just over [-] kilometers is extremely pitiful and helpless.

Not to mention being robbed of a considerable amount of mass by two big guys, it is also dragged around by the gravitational force of the two from time to time, causing its orbit to be out of shape—if it is not for the high altitude brought by its super-large core that is different from ordinary planets. Density, I am afraid that it has been torn apart in the competition between the two big planets.

Although for Hong, if she was really torn into an asteroid belt, she would be happy instead.

Contrary to what many people imagined, due to the weak physique of creatures, even if they have advanced to space civilization, most of their biological population still live on rocky planets—although many predictions have been made, but In fact, the impact of low gravity on the body still exceeds the imagination of most scientists.

The body is still too fragile after all.

However, the fact that the population is mainly concentrated on planets does not mean that industry must also be concentrated on planets—on the contrary, an efficient industrial system must be built on low-gravity satellite belts, or even asteroids with almost zero gravity on the belt.

The industry on the planet only needs to be self-sufficient, and produce some resources appropriately while feeding the population on it-the real core still has to be borne by outer space.

The lower the gravity, the lower the cost of entering orbit, and the spacecraft can use the precious mass on the nuclear fusion engine with a very high specific impulse, instead of consuming it on those chemical rockets whose specific impulse is difficult to reach even a thousand. This is a very obvious thing.

A single ball with high power like Katus is the real heresy—if it wasn’t for the short awakening time of Red, and the fact that she fought two omnics one after another after awakening, she would have wanted to start the industrial transformation a long time ago up.

However, this kind of abnormal development is about to become a thing of the past.

The entire development plan is divided into two parts.

The first part is to build supporting infrastructure for the six planets in the Devo galaxy. The skyhook and electromagnetic ejection orbit will no longer be giant buildings exclusive to Katus, but "infrastructure facilities" that all planets will be uniformly equipped with.

Of course, according to the deduction, it is basically impossible to complete this part on time and in quantity-this plan is calculated based on a complete 24-year cycle, but in actual operation, it is impossible for extermination units to let their fleets station at the front line A full 24 years, until the next intersection window comes.

According to her prediction, the time for the hands and feet to develop freely should only be about 10 to 15 years. If it takes longer, the extinct unit will probably notice something is wrong.

This is one of the benefits of non-local operations - unilateral intelligence transparency.

At a distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers, there is still a wormhole that hinders the observation of the enemy's telescope, and the opponent will not be able to detect her small movements in the rear in a short period of time.

And as long as she can't discover the transformation work she secretly carried out, the extermination unit can only hide in the core star field and dare not attack rashly.

This is also one of the reasons why Hong desperately wants to occupy satellite 11 first.

On the one hand, if she wins the 11th satellite, she will be able to open up the logistics channel with human beings, get cheap propellant supplements and friendly military support there, so that the opponent will be more cautious. Send out the fleet to destroy the production area of ​​the extinct unit, delay its production process, and at the same time consume the vitality of the enemy to win more development time for yourself.

Even though with so many operations, she still only has more than ten years of stable development time, which is nearly half of the planned 24-year plan, but this will not have much impact.

Because, such a huge project with a wide coverage does not have to be completed to produce output.

Even if only 50% of the scheduled plan can be completed, the single-day orbital capacity of the entire galaxy can be increased from the original 12 tons to 30 tons, which is equivalent to 2.5 times the original.

Not only that, Red will simultaneously upgrade the space industry, build a large-scale factory at the Lagrange point, and cooperate with some high-value asteroids pushed here by nuclear fusion engines many years ago, so that space can truly complete mining -Smelting-manufacturing-assembly-launching.

If this project is also completed at a ratio of 50%, it means that Hong will be able to produce almost all parts in the space factory, greatly reducing the dependence of space on the ground.

Although the short-term income can only be equivalent to about 10 tons of orbital capacity, in the long run, the potential of a self-sufficient and expanding space industry is far greater than the production on the planet.

This is an investment. If you put it in a digital way, it is equivalent to giving up 10 to 15 years of military output in exchange for at least 28 tons of additional transportation capacity, and at the same time harvesting a formed space industry chain that can Adding capacity for the foreseeable future without taking up valuable orbital capacity sounds like a good deal.

(Decree: Industrial Upgrade. Effect: Alloy output is reduced by 100%, which lasts for 1800 days. After the countdown is completed, the "Infrastructure" and "Space Industry" modifiers will be obtained. Over time, the output of minerals and alloys will continue to increase, and the duration will be permanent)

Even though the improvement rate is so large, in fact, if it is a normal peaceful development of civilization, this kind of production model is normal-just like the popularization of cars requires roads, and the popularization of trains requires tracks. If you want to develop space on a large scale , the construction of large orbital facilities should be the first to start.

On the contrary, whether it is the same race, human beings, or those extinct omnics, they are still using the orbital capacity of tens of thousands of tons per day and the space factories that cannot be self-sufficient to produce a total of [-] million tons of warships. is real heresy.

"The pressure of war forces all civilizations to do their best to manufacture armaments, and there is no spare energy to think about the future."

Maybe that's what the "behind the scenes" wanted?

The arms race between civilizations, the elimination of wars for the purpose of extinction, the dark universe that will never have peace-maybe, this is the purpose of these wormholes.

Hong didn't know, and was powerless to change all this.

All she can do is to protect her own cubs, if possible, to protect all organic civilizations that should not die, at least in this small piece of starry sky, to maintain this fragile peace.

Even if the process is not so peaceful.

"The second part of the development plan will be carried out at the same time as the first part." Hong slightly moved her head, so as not to let Xier, who was sitting on her lap, block her view, even though she didn't need to rely on her body's eyes to see , "Actually, these two parts are carried out simultaneously, but there is a difference in the amount of energy invested."

"Uh-huh."

She shook her white and tender calf, and while feeling the warm touch of Hong's close contact, she agreed.

Although on the surface, she is staring at the electronic board in front of her and listening to Hong's explanation seriously, but in fact, her mind has already drifted thousands of miles away.

Among the serious things that Hong often talked about recently, it was either about the alliance, or about those Jeffery cubs—is the presence of the Catus people too weak?

Seele thought with some worry.

Not only that, but the relationship between me and Hong has not made substantial progress for a long time-I don’t know if the other party has satisfied the reason. For so many years, the relationship between the two of them has been stuck in cuddling and stroking. At the point of the tail, there is no progress worth mentioning.

If it weren't for the few kisses when she first announced her relationship, she would even think that this Hong is still treating herself as a cub.

The book she read is obviously not like this!

What worries her even more is that she has made no progress or even regressed here, but those Jeffery cubs have made rapid progress, and they can already act like a baby to Hong without any scruples.

Damn it, you can't be looked down upon by those vixens, bastard!

"...Can you understand me?"

Xi'er, who was suddenly pulled out of her inner world, nodded hurriedly, like a student who was called by the teacher when her mind was distracted in class—although she didn't know what she said, but she responded first.

"That's good. In short, after the Federation trades the No. [-] colonial galaxy to us, we can obtain the sovereignty of all celestial bodies except the living planet and the wormhole above it."

Since she couldn't see Xi'er's face, Hong, who didn't know about her distraction just now, concluded.

"That galaxy is relatively rich, with ample asteroid belts, satellite belts surrounding ice giant planets, and three rocky planets with low gravity. These are all celestial bodies that are very suitable for space industrialization."

"......what?"

She tilted her head.

"It's the federal galaxy connected to the Katus wormhole, the one I planned to grab at the earliest time."

As soon as Hong reminded her, Xi'er remembered - if she remembered correctly, this planet was the planet that colluded with the official businessman of the slave manufacturing company that Hong Yang had taken over.

If they hadn't made those messy things back then, Hong wouldn't have adopted those cubs.