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By the time America landed on Mars, most people's perception of aliens had changed.

They seemed genuinely friendly and well-disposed towards humans.

Just look at their interactions with the Tianxia people; they're like friends.

However, while Tianxia was genuinely happy, along with those countries not involved or unable to participate in the international power rankings, and ordinary people from various countries who didn't care about international rankings, the higher-ups in several countries with aspirations for international prominence felt a bitter taste.

"Damn it, when did Tianxia start representing all of humanity? If anyone should represent, it should be me!"

But it was all useless. Any country or organization unable to go to Mars received alien information from the same source as ordinary people: Tianxia.

While national organizations had to weigh various pros and cons, the public's discussions were much livelier.

"Hey, did you guys see yesterday's news? Countries are squabbling again at the United Nations General Assembly."

"Ah, why? Wasn't everything harmonious before? I heard they just reached some new agreements on peaceful space development and cooperation the day before yesterday."

"The agreement reached the day before yesterday was also the result of many days of arguing. Once one issue is resolved, new issues naturally arise. Now, countries are arguing over the official naming of the aliens."

"Wait, didn't Tang Zhi say something about the alien names before? Why do they need to be renamed now?"

"What General Tang said before was just a translation, a direct translation based on the aliens' self-designation, called 'The Race Yearning for the Stars'. But we can't directly call them 'Star-Yearning Aliens,' can we? We definitely need an abbreviation or substitute name."

"I understand. It's like how many countries on Earth have names that translate to 'Place Covered with Flowers,' 'Land Favored by the Gods,' or 'Garden Flowing with Milk and Honey.' We certainly can't call them 'Milk-Honey Country,' so we need a name that sounds pleasing to us and has no ambiguity."

"Exactly, that's it. Except this time it's aliens, and their appearance is a little too familiar to humans. You can see some alien shadows in everything from cheap alien B-movies to super sci-fi alien blockbusters. The key is that many countries have made these kinds of movies, and some countries that can't go to Mars want to settle the naming issue within their own borders..."

Once this was said, many people understood. It was like many places vying for the title of 'Hometown of a Famous Person,' wanting to grab a tiger skin to bask in the reflected glory and increase tourism revenue.

Analogized to the alien naming issue, it wasn't about local governments anymore, but about "local" countries.

A country's development potential and development path are limited. Some countries have small populations, small land areas, and few resources, making them unsuitable for full-range, full-field upward advancement. They can only embed themselves in the international cooperation environment and take a narrow, specialized path.

With such a small stature, wanting to go to Mars and grab a large piece of the pie in alien affairs is wishful thinking. Even when the aliens truly arrive on Earth, they won't even get to drink the soup.

If Tianxia were in charge, their policies would be well-known. But there's also America, the troublemaker.

Even without America, the other deputy managers are the old colonial empires from back in the day, and everyone knows their ways of doing things.

So, seeing that it's difficult to get soup elsewhere, they can only occupy the name, develop their country's "traditional alien tourism industry" and "traditional alien film industry," and make some money to spend.

As expected, the troublemaker is a troublemaker, not only wanting to be a cake-divider but also wanting to eat a big piece of cake and drink the soup too.

Because of this, they're arguing, each side refusing to budge.

If it were a war, those small countries would definitely not be able to defeat America, but in this regard, it's really hard to say.

Currently, many small countries have formed alliances, planning to kick America out first, and then they will decide the winner among themselves.

If America holds on tight and doesn't let go, then they will all be in vain. Anyway, small countries have so little to lose, and if they don't work hard, they will really be waiting to die.

This time, Tianxia sent not only officials, but even representatives from Pathfinder sat in the United Nations conference hall. However, they are currently the only leading organization, so they basically don't speak at such meetings, and when they do, they support the small countries.

This made the small country alliance even more excited.

The arguments at this meeting were not based on "I'm weak, therefore I'm right," because alien culture has indeed developed on Earth for some time, and various countries are more or less involved in literary works.

In these literary settings, some alien settings are very similar, such as being short, having large heads, and large eyes. Coincidentally, the real aliens this time are within this general morphological framework.

Although their skin is green, there are also many green-skinned aliens in human literature. Moreover, even if the setting isn't green skin, they can still find creative ways to make it fit.

For example, some old black-and-white science fiction movies, you can't see any color anyway, so I'll just say that the alien setting inside is green, what can you do about it?

This is also why people didn't immediately assume they were Kerbals from Kerbal Space Program after the little green men showed their faces.

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One reason is that its original image was designed by a game company in America, so this will become a bargaining chip for America. Many countries know this but pretend not to know.

Anyway, its copyright now belongs to Pathfinder, and Pathfinder is not speaking at this meeting, so let's pretend it doesn't exist.

Another reason is that, as everyone knows, Kerbal Space Program is just a game for building rockets and airplanes, and without mods, its various modules are fixed, and assembled works won't be very beautiful.

The crashed spaceship on Mars is different. Although it's broken, its technical content is not comparable to that in the game, and its sci-fi appearance cannot be assembled in the game.

In addition, the aliens are always using large mechanical exoskeletons to increase their height, almost 100% matching the human environment. This makes the gap between them and the Kerbals in the Kerbal Space Program game even greater, so even some hardcore players are skeptical.

Almost everyone knows that Tang Zhi is the most hardcore player of Kerbal Space Program. He not only acquired the entire game production team, but Pathfinder also used many Kerbal Space Program elements when it first developed.

Now Tang Zhi is on Mars and in daily contact with those four aliens. If those four aliens were really Kerbals, Tang Zhi would definitely be the first to discover it.

But now that Tang Zhi, the most hardcore Kerbal Space Program player, hasn't discovered it, the probability of the aliens being Kerbals has been reduced to the minimum.

Since they are not Kerbals, the player community no longer pays special attention and views the issue from the perspective of ordinary people.

And from the perspective of ordinary people...

"This is so exciting, can humans be considered to have directly entered the interstellar era? After all, we've come into contact with aliens."

"I'm more concerned about where their home planet is. Experts say their living environment is very similar to ours, and aliens have similar diets to us, but they prefer to eat green foods. I wonder if we can travel to their planet."

"Wow, I haven't even been to Earth orbit, and you're already talking about opening interstellar tourist routes?"

Chapter Two, 11:30 PM