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

This is true regardless of whether it is a man or a woman, old or young, an official on the diplomatic field or a fan in the live broadcast room.

This point was first discovered from the experts sent to Cartus for social experiments—especially that Asteria, whose daily behavior and work styles were simply two extremes.

Speaking of which, the 20-year exchange period is almost over.

Hong looked up at the sky - although in the centrifugal wheel, all she could see was the white bulkhead, but this did not prevent her thoughts from flying back to Katus under her feet.

However, judging from the current situation, this expert group sent to verify the social form has obviously lost its original meaning-after all, the alliance was still divided among the three countries at that time, and they were struggling with whether to "make Jeffrey great again" , to imitate the social structure of the same group.

At that time, the members of the alliance were still holding the idea of ​​"waiting for them to bring back the results before making plans". As a result, who would have thought that before they came back, the alliance would skip the N steps on the assimilation road and move towards Red leaned over.

This made it embarrassing for the experts who thought they would be excluded by the mainstream society after they went back—according to the current situation, the investigation team turned out to be the group that persisted the longest?

The ministers are about to fight to the death, why did Your Majesty surrender first?

Although they didn’t want to fight to the death—after all, they are the group that has been in contact with Hong the most, and their ability to persist in the perspective of several years or even more than ten years has proved the efforts made by the government when they were screened.

After all, they still have the moral burden of "not wanting to betray the race and the country". No matter how deeply they are assimilated, there is still such a hurdle in their psychology.

As a result, I now find that I have not betrayed at all, because the entire race and civilization have already "defected" on their own initiative - shouldn't it be reasonable for me to abide by the joint decision made by the entire civilization?

After all, Hong is so cute, how can ordinary people resist it.

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PS1: When calculating the data yesterday, I suddenly found a shocking BUG:

Katus' Hill ball is only 103 million kilometers.

However, according to the setting of "one revolution per month" of Kawei II, it can be deduced that the semi-major axis of its orbit is 58 kilometers, which is already close to two-thirds of its Hill sphere. As a prograde satellite, it is necessary to If it wants to keep stable existence for a long time, its semi-major axis must be greater than the geosynchronous orbit and less than 1/3 of the radius of the Hill sphere.

Obviously, according to the current theory, Katus should have been thrown out early in its formation, but in this article, as a moon-like (impossible to capture), it has accompanied Katus for billions of years satellites, this is illogical.

Although in my impression, the author did not explain the orbital data of Cayce II in the article, but to be on the safe side, I would like to make a statement here: the semi-major axis of Cavey’s orbit will be corrected from 58 kilometers to 35 kilometers, and its orbital period Corrected from 15 Catus days (1 Catus month, 30 Earth days, 1 Earth month) to 7 Catus days (1 Catus week, 14 Earth days, [-] Earth weeks).

In this way, its orbit will ensure that it conforms to existing theories, can exist stably for a long time on the astronomical scale, and can be used to explain the Catus calendar-one revolution of Kaweier is "one week", "April" is used to refer to climate change, similar to seasons.

It feels like a blessing in disguise, but it becomes more reasonable. After all, on earth, a week, that is, a week involves historical and religious factors.

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter [-] Gambling on National Fortune?

However, the peaceful days did not last long after all.

After all, no matter what kind of civilization it is, it is impossible for the enemy to remain indifferent after the enemy has blocked the only communication channel with its allies—not to mention, the red side has intensified the shooting of the fleet in the opponent's core star field face.

It is impossible for any commander to easily give up this kind of strategic throat, especially when there is no obvious difference in strength between the two sides.

Of course, due to various considerations, after several small-scale firefights with little success, the opponent finally did not choose to provoke a decisive battle to regain the key points, but half-actively and half-passively recognized the current "half-divided world" situation ——To put it simply, when the wormhole is close to the extermination unit, the human fleet on the other side retreats tactically and returns to the port to give way to the wormhole. And the wormhole left behind after escaping took it back.

That's right, their retreat is a tactical retreat, which is a wise move, and the opponent's withdrawal is a hasty escape, running away with their heads in their hands.

Double standards or something, whether it is Homo sapiens, Geoffreys, or the only remaining Catus, they are all so good at things that they can no longer be good at.

It's like something engraved in their DNA-even if the DNA helix number of the two races is different, it doesn't matter.

This is the essence of intelligent creatures.

As a propaganda department that guides the public opinion of civilized subjects and lays a solid foundation for higher-level policies, their talent in this kind of matter can be said to be unprecedented. Moreover, to be honest, a propaganda/news that does not know how to engage in double standards and only seeks truth from facts The department is not worthy of being a propaganda department at all.

Of course, as high-tech talents in the interstellar era, they will definitely not fabricate some unnecessary things to criticize them like some ancient media did.

Although this can fool a small number of people without brains, for most people with normal intelligence and thinking of their own, ignorantly slandering other countries and civilizations will cause them confusion and even dissatisfaction.

Human beings in the new era will not do such stupid things.

They are only reporting selectively—after all, reality is not a game, and most things have both positive and negative sides at the same time. "Scrutiny-worthy" conclusions.

The most solid and reliable "guidance of public opinion" is to allow people to draw conclusions that are in line with the public after comprehensive and proper thinking.

Going back to the topic of tactical withdrawal...the topic of scurrying away, in fact, many people in various countries expressed that they don't understand this kind of "the enemy retreats and we advance, and the enemy advances and we retreat" - in their It seems that, compared to the current "slow bloodletting" of blunt knives cutting each other's flesh, it is a better choice to gather superior forces and use a decisive battle to directly defeat this iron-hearted exterminator.

Yes, although the total number of fleets of the human + alliance + the same species is inferior to that of the other party, war has never been a game of comparing numbers.

No matter which civilization or country it is, history has proved countless times that things like "the weak defeating the strong" that sound like the protagonist of a novel exist completely.

"However, you have to remember that there is no real and complete 'weak victory over the strong' in this world." In order to prevent some people from misunderstanding her meaning, Hong often emphasizes this point, "Any victory, In fact, it was the strong who defeated the weak - there must be a stronger side to win, there is no doubt about it."

"Maybe on the surface, the strength of the winner is relatively weak, but this is just a false illusion."

"Maybe their equipment is outdated, maybe their combat power is weak, but these are just 'hard power' on the outside. They are important indicators of war, but they are by no means the only indicator."

"So, if you want to ask me, if it is possible for the entire army to gather and raid the Iron Heart Exterminator, the answer is yes."

While highlighting the movement of all known enemy fleets on the star map, Hong explained to the audience—although it feels weird to talk about this in the live chat, but since many people want to know, then she will Let me explain.

Well, anyway, no one stipulates that vup's nonsense can't talk about national planning and military interpretation, right?

"On the human side, except for the second patrol fleet, that is, the fleet that was severely damaged by the iron heart support force, which will not be able to participate in the battle in the short term, the other main fleets are currently in relatively good condition. If a surprise attack is launched this year, it is expected to dispatch 450 troops. capital ship, which is about 900 million tons."

"As for our side, as we all know, the 500 ships of the expedition fleet, with a total mass of 6000 million tons, can be dispatched. It is about 3000 times the size of the total fleet of the Iron Heart Exterminator, and 1.7 times the size of the guardian fleet of its parent star G2-139-d."

If you only consider the question of whether they can fight or not, it is obvious that they are more than twice the number and quality of the opponent. There is no reason why they cannot defeat the opponent's home planet guard fleet, even if the opponent's home planet orbital defense platform network is included. in this way.

After all, since the Iron Heart Exterminators lost the natural satellite of their home planet, and humans have built a complete defense and interception network based on it, they cannot let other colonial planets A batch of ships can be immediately and timely mobilized to the location of the main fleet.

Under the interception of human beings, the fleets built by Tie Xin's other planets must gather enough numbers before they can leave. Although it sounds a bit like those black car drivers in ancient times who "don't leave when they are full", Tie Xin is really serious about it. Some helpless.

According to human plans, about a quarter of the 2 million tons of warships they sent to the G139-8000-db satellite were given the task of intercepting—in simple terms, these warships were stationed on high orbits for a long time Not to return to Hong Kong, in order to intercept the nuclear missiles that Iron Core launches from time to time, and by the way, deter those small fleets that have just been built on other planets and have not yet assembled enough numbers to start.

After all, if the number of fleets they reinforce is too small, they will be attacked by the "wolves" cruising in high orbit, ranging from collecting tolls, losing a few brand new capital ships, or even the entire army Annihilated, the shipbuilding success of several months was completely useless.

In principle, the main battle fleet used by Tiexin to support the mother star should not be less than 1000 million tons-a fleet of this amount is no longer a persimmon. According to the ship design of the opponent, such a "small fleet" can With at least 120 capital ships, with super long-range interstellar missile reinforcements that arrive at their starting point at a fixed time, it is still possible to fight back and forth with [-] "wolf packs".

This can be regarded as the main advantage of the offensive side of the interstellar war-although it is reasonable to say that the iron-hearted destroyers guarding the mother galaxy should be the defensive side, and the humans who have captured the bridgehead in the opponent's galaxy and blocked the interstellar traffic track should be the offensive side, but here , the so-called "offensive side" refers more to the tactical level than the strategic level.

On the tactical level, the "Wolfpack" fleet spread out in a band shape with the G2-139-db satellite as the midpoint is the real defender——responsible for defending the reinforcement fleet of the Iron Heart, preventing them from breaking through the defense line and threatening its home port. Safety.

As we all know, a major feature of interstellar missiles is that the farther the launch base is from the battlefield, the stronger its defense penetration capability—after all, the engine thrust of interstellar missiles is generally lower than that of shipborne missiles used by arsenal ships that follow the fleet. If the distance is too short, it will fly to the battlefield before its speed can be increased to a high level.

In this way, although they have ultra-high specific impulse, their theoretical final speed is several times that of ordinary ship-borne missiles, but because the acceleration distance is too short, the advantage of the high specific impulse of the engine is not brought into play at all, and there may even be a relatively high specific impulse. Conventional missile speed is still low.

By the way, interstellar missiles do not refer to "missiles flying in the interstellar space". People usually call them "space missiles", or academically, "space missiles", so that they can be compared with "aviation missiles" used in the atmosphere. " and the "aerospace missiles" that may appear across the solar system in the future.

Here, this so-called interstellar missile is actually a target of an ancient weapon called "intercontinental missile".

It's just that intercontinental missiles launch attacks across different continents (of course they sometimes attack targets on the same continent), while interstellar missiles launch attacks across different planets.

Obviously, the purpose of this missile design is to make good use of this acceleration range in order to achieve unimaginable high speeds for ordinary missiles—imagine dozens of them weighing two to three thousand tons, with a terminal speed of forty to fifty kilometers Every second, the head is equipped with heavy armor, breaks through at high speed under the cover of ship-borne missiles, and releases hundreds of heavy missiles with independent nuclear warheads at the same speed at a suitable distance. can understand.

The most important thing is that at such a high speed, the interception window will become extremely short-taking the single pusher as an example, if the missile enters the field at 40 kilometers per second, then the main missile that enters 6 kilometers from it will The anti-missile range of the gun to the direct hit is only 15 minutes and [-] seconds.

6 minutes enough for what? 15 rounds of shooting only.

What's more, the enemy is not a fool. He will not let the main laser cannon shoot through the frontal armor with two or three shots, thus reimbursement for an interstellar missile and more than 100 sub-missile heads inside. It will throw off the frontal armor and release all the sub-warheads it carries like a fish roe.

Although these warheads are extremely fragile and can be easily knocked out by lower power interception lasers, it doesn't matter at all, their number and speed more than make up for their shortcomings.

In this era where the main gun can reach gigawatts of power and the offense and defense are seriously unbalanced, speed is life, and good looks are everything.

But if the acceleration distance is not enough, the situation is very different.

The slower the speed, the longer it takes to cross the intercepting fire zone, the lower the probability of penetration, and the number of missiles required to achieve the same result increases exponentially - even when their speed and number are below a lower limit , it will cause its missile group to completely fail to break through the line of defense, and the result of the battle is almost zero.

It’s not exactly 0. After all, intercepting lasers consumes electricity, and the waste heat generated by its operation also needs to be discharged. When the battle situation is urgent, these may become the last straw that overwhelms the cat.

What's more, when the firepower density is insufficient and high-risk targets are approaching, the warship may even give up the integrity of the enemy's capital ship and transfer the main gun to air defense, which will lead to a decrease in firepower on the frontal battlefield—but , rather than sharing the auxiliary role of firepower, most people still hope that nuclear missiles can be a little more C, and play the title of king of lethality, which is directly promoted to the opposite side.

Everyone is waiting for you to C, why did you get mixed up?

That's probably how it feels.

"Assemble the fleet, before the enemy discovers and mobilizes support fleets from other planets of the extermination unit, and destroys the home planet of the Iron Heart Exterminator in one wave, many people think so, right?"

Although due to the speed of light barrier, there will be a delay of a few seconds to more than ten seconds in the barrage, so that she cannot see the immediate feedback, but Hong is sure that the vast majority of people who call for a "decisive battle" think so.

At first glance, it seems that there is no problem. After all, wormholes also run along orbits. As long as you choose a time point that is farther away from Castel and closer to your own side, give up this temporary base and go out with all your strength. You will definitely be able to catch up with the extinct units. It rushed into the iron heart.

Even if the Extinction Unit dispatches reinforcements as soon as it observes the ignition of the fleet's engines, and uses the high-thrust and low-specific-impulse mode regardless of the cost in exchange for fast enough acceleration, but limited by the distance, the time to reach the battlefield will definitely be shorter than that of the Red Army. It will take quite a few nights—at a rough estimate, at least a week later.

A week in Catus is converted to 14 days in the human calendar, that is to say, in the first 14 days, there will be a short period of more than less.

It is said to be short, but it is actually very long. If the main forces of the two sides directly start a decisive battle on the same track, let alone 14 days, 14 hours is enough to establish a victory.

"but."

Red changed the subject.

"Have you noticed one thing - the premise of being able to win is that the enemy will take the initiative to fight us, or be forced to fight us in order to defend the home planet."

"Then, why did Tie Xin take the initiative to seek a decisive battle?"

Hearing Hong Danran's incomprehensible words, the DDs who were watching her live broadcast were taken aback.

That's right, when he knew he had enough reinforcements, why did Tie Xin give up his advantage and choose to take the initiative to fight with outnumbered enemies?

"The main reason why our fleet can't avoid battles during defense is that we can't give up our home planet." Hong explained, "Let's not say that after losing the orbit, all the orbital facilities on it will be demolished Qiqi Eighty-eight, thus greatly reducing our war potential, the most important thing is that we cannot allow aliens to bomb our home planet."

"Many people may subconsciously apply my situation to the extinct omnic, but think about it carefully, if I have no cubs to protect, what can I do if I let the aliens bomb me for a few days?"

As time goes by, Hong has become more and more open about the intimacy between herself and the cubs—of course, it is intimacy at the level of family affection, at least Hong thinks so.

"It is true that the production of the planet will be hit, and some industries will be severely damaged, but in the face of a decisive battle, these are indifferent things-as long as the iron core is not killed, when the reinforcements from the extermination unit arrive, this battle that was originally based on There is no longer a battle of bullying more than less."

"Obviously, the risk of an evenly matched decisive battle is too great. Once we fail, we have no point of turning the tables. Therefore, in summary, this kind of idea that is full of betting on the country's fortune is not feasible."

"Impossible."

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter [-] With such a big advantage, how could it be possible to lose?

A very interesting thing is that although they are fighting each other to the death, without any compromise at all, and wish to let the other party disappear from the world immediately, in terms of the specific overall situation, the two camps have shown amazing unity.

That is to avoid war.

To be precise, it is to avoid a decisive battle-although the two sides have never had any exchanges, it can be seen from the distribution of troops in various civilizations today that the two sides still have the same view on not having a decisive battle.

Of course, limited to decisive battles, some small and medium-scale conflicts are not uncommon, such as the harvesting and anti-harvesting battles on asteroid belts in remote star fields, such as the blockade and interception battles of the human "wolves" on the iron-core mother planet Hill Sphere ——However, this is the upper limit.

120 human warships, to intercept no more than 100 Iron Heart warships, is the bottom line for the "conflict" between the two sides, or tacit understanding.

Humans can of course choose to send out the remaining three-quarters of the fleet, completely blocking any assistance from other planets to the Iron Heart home planet, forcing the fleet of the Iron Heart home star to come out to fight; The units dispatched their fleets, locked in time to merge with the fleets of other planets rushing to help, and then cooperated with the guardian fleet of the home planet to attack the human bridgehead.

These are completely feasible tactics, but they don't want to do it - when both sides think that their development potential is stronger than the other's, dull development will naturally become their first choice.

After all, the existence of wormholes will lead to a natural weakness in the connection between the two camps. Humans can choose to take advantage of the time when the wormhole is close to the red, and stud the iron core together. The main human fleet on the G2-139-db satellite is up.

The wormhole will not be unilaterally beneficial or detrimental to any party. The advantage of relative distance will be manifested in both the red body and the extinct omnic. This is a mutual matter, and itself, it is There is no tendency.

It is just strictly following the physical laws of reality, without any metaphysics orbiting its own gravitational dominant celestial body, it is simply there.

Hmm... there may be some elements of metaphysics, but it is not reflected in its orbit, but reflected in the fact that neither the mass nor the gravitational waves can be measured - there is a point that cannot be understood now In fact, it is a good piece of good news.

The reason is very simple. This proves that their current speculation on the wormhole theory is wrong and incorrect, and there must be some unknown law affecting it.

And since the whole theory is wrong, its original conditions will naturally be invalid-this is not a bad thing, but a great good thing. On the contrary, if the wormholes discovered so far perfectly match the previous theoretical predictions, That's the real disaster.

Not to mention anything else, just in the previous theory, wormholes are either smaller than atoms, and if they want to expand to the point where macroscopic ships can pass through, they need to be so strict that they will not be able to meet the requirements in the foreseeable future. For example, there is no negative matter at all, and it is not known whether it exists or not, or even the "strange matter" of pure imagination, or it will only appear together with black holes.

Even if you don’t consider these complex problems, there is no way to solve the problem now, just the best solution, the problem that the wormhole will make the radiation passing through the wormhole blueshift, there is no solution in the foreseeable future — from Stellar radiation, and even the cosmic background radiation, would be blueshifted by the wormhole to the level of gamma rays, enough to scorch any spacecraft.

Anyway, they are all remarks that are impossible to verify at present, let alone used. In this way, it is the most beneficial situation for Hong and the entire scientific community to directly veto the original theory.

Human beings once said well that the building of physics has been completed, and there are only two dark clouds on it. The foundation has been knocked down, but the idea behind it has some merit.

"The road to scientific research is long."

After cutting off the live broadcast and confirming that it has been completely downloaded, Hong no longer maintained her original serious image, but raised her legs and put it on the desk in front of her, while playing with her hair .

Although it is a mechanical intelligence rooted in a computer, in fact, she still has quite a few hobbies and habits that only organic creatures have. Besides, would a normal mechanical intelligence like to pamper cubs?Will a normal machine intelligence spend every day dressing up the machine below it?

No matter how human-like her body is, it can’t conceal the fact that she’s just a robot—it’s not even the main body. It's the "suspected soul" thing in the supercomputer in the underground base where Xier is.

As for the body, in the final analysis, there is no essential difference between Hong's engineering robot used to carry goods in the factory, or the sweeping robot responsible for cleaning.

Will someone dress up their sweeping robot carefully?

Although Hong didn't think so, she instinctively searched the Internet.

So, looking at the sweeping robots dressed in lace and even wearing weird cat shells in the search engine, Hong fell into deep thought.

Is there any salvation in this world? How can I convince myself that they are worth saving?Very anxious to wait online.

"This is too weird, why would someone really do such a thing?"