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

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"Are you all here?"

In the video conference hall of the capital of the People's Autonomous Federation, the incumbent president looked at a group of cakes on the screen who were obviously pulled up by the alarm from his sleep, and the corner of his mouth unconsciously bent: "It seems that everyone's work and rest are very healthy, no Miss Shenhong's painstaking efforts these days are in vain."

"And then you messed it up."

Crimson added calmly from the side.

"There is no way, who told you that this is an unexpected situation on the other side of the earth." Mr. President spread his hands, "Compared with us, they are much more miserable, not only have to be pulled up from sleep, but also have to Immediately began to worry about negotiating with the new civilization, and the brain cells were dying in pieces."

"Wait, new civilization?" Several cakers said in surprise. Obviously, they all forgot to read the meeting summary because they talked with Duke Zhou for too long. "Are there signs of a new wormhole on the earth?"

"Yes." After the casual joke, the president also quickly got to the point, "According to the latest information from the Earth, they found a ship of unknown origin in orbit around the moon, and at the same time, the hull suffered multiple losses. The battleship, preliminarily determined that it belongs to an unknown alien civilization, was sucked into the orbit of the moon by the suction before the wormhole opened during the battle with other forces. At present, it has not responded to the communication from the earth, and cannot Determine whether it is an organic civilization or an omnipotent civilization."

If possible, they certainly hope to encounter an organic civilization—even if it is an extinct civilization, the racial cleanliness of the organism is better than the iron-hearted extinction of the omnic.

Don’t you see that the United Nations of Locke has completely defeated the extinct omnic that bordered them more than ten years ago, but until now they have only taken down those less developed planets, and for those that have been operating for a long time , The army's core planet that is full of mountains and plains is simply powerless.

As long as there is no unknown technology that exceeds expectations, at least within 100 years, it is impossible for the Rockman to occupy the planets of the opponent. In contrast, planets with cleanliness are much easier to deal with.

Although the core planets of the latter cannot be taken down, due to the high dependence of organic organisms on habitable environments, they must concentrate the vast majority of the population on a few habitable planets.

Generally speaking, each galaxy has only one such planet.

So in this way, it can be guaranteed that they will get at least most of the planets in one galaxy, and they will not have a piece of army on almost every planet like fighting omnics, and the benefits after the war will be much greater.

So, this time, what civilization will it be?

Looking at the damaged starship that didn't respond no matter how it sent a signal, it was like a mud cow falling into the sea, and people were puzzled.

At the same time, I also look forward to it.

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PS: The reason why I didn’t update yesterday is because I didn’t sleep the night before, and I couldn’t stand it until [-]:[-] last night. I wanted to set an alarm clock and start coding again.

Then, when I opened my eyes again, it was already noon the next day.

So I just gave myself a day off.

Cats cry.

Volume 240 Industry and Power: Chapter [-] Zerg

After two full days of probing and confirming that the warship did not respond at all, Pan Asia Cooperation finally decided to board the ship.

After all, after such a long time of not answering, the reactor has been operating at the lowest power in a steady state. It can basically be considered that there are no living people on board, at least no living people in a conscious state.

If it doesn't work, they can still use the banner of rescue.

In short, under the collective onlookers of the Earth Fleet, a team of heavily armed Ma Run finally opened a bottom hatch of the battleship after about two hours of hard work-the reason why it took so long is mainly because Because the armor protection of this battleship is really thick, the materials used are outrageous, and a large number of metal materials are used, which really makes them feel a little uncomfortable.

In addition, it is worth noting that according to their investigations, this battleship is not equipped with any airgel interlayer, and the outer layer does not have a thick ablative layer. There is almost no defense against lasers on the entire ship. .

That is to say, this warship, visually identified as the main battleship of this civilization, did not incorporate weapons such as "laser" into its main protection targets. At most, its protection against heat energy can cover a part of the laser field-this Such a degree of protection against the secondary guns is still enough, but for the X-ray laser main guns that are mainstream in various civilizations today, it may not be enough.

But in contrast, its targeting of "kinetic energy" has reached an insane level. Whether it is a thick high-density metal armor plate or a thick structural buffer layer, it shows that their opponent is a bunch of kinetic energy. A fanatic of weapons.

After roughly studying the characteristics of the outer armor, the marines began to explore inwards along the passage—even though there was no gravity, the auxiliary walking device on the wall was also very weird, obviously not designed for humanoid creatures like them.

But fortunately, they are a team of well-trained Ma Run, a team of senior Ma Run who have been specially trained for combat in zero-gravity space, so after a short period of adaptation, their exploration gradually became smoother, and soon The area near the entrance will be basically ascertained soon.

"This battleship is designed to be controlled by intelligent creatures, but at present, this intelligent creature does not look like any kind of humanoid creature."

They drew preliminary conclusions.

There is a lot of evidence, from the auxiliary walking device in the passage, to the style and layout of the control console, to the very weird looking "boots" that are obviously designed for some kind of very sharp legs, all of which show that this warship The owner is a creature that is far from human.

At the very least, humans don't have pointy, arthropod-like foot structures.

In fact, when they had a sense of "arthropod" hallucinations towards this kind of creature, their hearts suddenly pulled their vigilance to the extreme - after all, once a certain alien civilization has a relationship with "bugs" , the situation may become less optimistic.

After communicating with the rear for a while, the Ma Runs stopped here until a heavy firepower team with a larger number and better equipment arrived, and then started to start again, continuing to explore along the predetermined road.

Although this wasted another 20 minutes of time, everyone thought it was worth it-after all, no one wants to become the kind of film and television drama that knows that there is danger but does not push a few times. The only purpose is to render the horror of the monster as cannon fodder.

If there are really monsters in it, then you have to invite them to taste the taste of Pan Asia's individual 12.7mm machine gun + 40mm burst grenade.

"We are currently in an inner airlock of this battleship. From the circuit diagram, after opening this door, we will enter the living area of ​​their battleship." Ma Run, a technician, worked on the panel for a long time , said, "Get ready, I'm going to open the door."

After hearing the ready from the headset, he nodded and pressed the button on the panel.

"Squeak, squeak! squeak..."

After a very high-frequency, completely incomprehensible unknown language, the airlock chamber began the pressurization process-judging from the readings of the powered exoskeleton, the creature still seemed to be breathing oxygen.

This is good news, at least you don't have to worry about encountering an amino civilization like Tukeka, and then being forced into a sealed cabin full of ammonia smell-such a scene, just thinking about it is horrifying.

"The pressurization has been completed, and the hatch has been unlocked." Looking at the hatch that was slowly opening, the captain ordered, "Enter according to the plan just now, and be more vigilant."

What came into view was a very dark cabin.

It's not the kind of dimness caused by insufficient power, but the lighting in this cabin has been designed to such an extremely dim level from the very beginning.

Obviously, this is a race that evolved from a very dim planet or environment—if you ask an expert to look at it, you may be able to see some deeper information, such as spectral analysis or something.

But for Ma Run, who was in charge of exploring the battleship, there was only one thing they were most concerned about at the moment.

"I...fuck..."

Looking at the corpse lying quietly in front of the console, everyone present felt a sense of discomfort, and it could even be said that there was a little fear.

Because this corpse is a bug.

One is more than two meters high and nearly four meters long. It has six sharp legs and two sickle-like claws. It also has a huge jaw that occupies almost one third of its body. Arthropods.

Especially when coupled with the black and orange carapace that exudes a dangerous and ominous atmosphere, even if its actual structure is quite different from the creature depicted in that classic work, such as different limb structures, an extra pair of Legs, extremely different bodies, etc., if we really want to study it on a scientific level, few scientists would think that there is any connection between these two creatures.

However, just making them have such an association is enough to prove the seriousness of the matter-a creature that can make people feel "dangerous" subconsciously, no matter how you think about it, it is difficult to be a kind of creature that can communicate peacefully and friendlyly with humans. The presence.

"Notify the rear immediately!"

While staring closely at the dead body, as if afraid of its sudden fraud, the captain ordered the messenger to report to the rear immediately.

Soon, with the announcement of the superluminal communication device, the entire solar system knew the sacred civilization that they were about to face.

This time, they encountered a special intelligent civilization that was very fond of describing in ancient science fiction, a civilization that was almost born to appear as a "villain".

Its name is Zerg.

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Soon, under Pan-Asia's full research, the mystery of this civilization tentatively named "Akachi Zerg" was quickly unveiled, and a lot of important information was revealed to humans.

According to the information obtained from the shipboard computer, this Akachi Zerg is a semi-gestalt civilization, and its characteristic is that while possessing a "group consciousness", each individual also has a certain ability to think independently, even if It is the bottom worker ant, whose intelligence is roughly equivalent to that of a 12-year-old child—and this "12-year-old child" is almost absolutely obedient to the orders from the upper layer, and at the same time can perfectly execute the orders obtained within its ability .

In addition, there is evidence that there are higher-level units above the worker ants, which have stronger independent thinking capabilities, including commanding operations and conducting scientific research.

In fact, apart from the ability to connect with "group consciousness", the other performances of this Akachi Zerg are not much different from normal organic civilizations. Their individuals can think independently, and there are also differences between individuals. Many social behaviors are not the complete honeycomb structure imagined in many works of "the dominant brain controls the brain worms, and the brain worms control the bottom layer". The connection is just pure electromagnetic waves and pheromones, not strange Weird psionic connection.

In other words, this structure actually takes part of the advantages of both Gestalt and ordinary organics, that is, it obtains a super cohesive force and management system compared with ordinary organics, and obtains a much better than Gestalt swarm. With a lot of subjective initiative, it completely solved the classic problem of "one master dies and all die suddenly".

Of course, wanting the advantages of both sides naturally means that they also have to eat the disadvantages of both sides-because if you think about it from another angle, you can also think that the social efficiency of this Akachi Zerg is much worse than that of the serious Gestalt , independent thinking and subjective initiative are much worse than ordinary organics.

至于对方究竟是哪种，是融合双方的优点从而1+1＞2，还是两边优点没占到缺点全吃的1+1＜2，目前的情报还不足以支撑他们做出判断。

In all fairness, they hope it is the latter.

Because according to their research, this Akachi Zerg is actually a person who regards all other races as slaves, and even as food—

Kill the swarm.

When the people on the earth, which account for more than half of the population of human civilization, know that this civilization that will soon be connected to the earth is a kind of killing bee colony that looks a bit like a warrior class, in just a few days, request The government immediately vigorously expanded the army, and at the same time, the number of people looking for cats to buy a fleet increased exponentially, and soon turned into a parade that affected the entire society.

After all, anyone who has watched a sci-fi movie about the Zerg would find it hard not to be afraid of such a terrifying creature that would tear them apart and devour them. A weak fleet of less than [-] million tons cannot provide the people with the slightest sense of security at all.

What's more, when only one-third of this weak fleet belongs to Pan-Asia and is stationed on the earth, the sense of lack of security it brings is even stronger.

At this moment, many people finally understood why the People's Autonomy Federation wanted to let Crimson take over the alliance's economic system and create an automated accounting system at such a high price, risking the complete collapse of the entire alliance's economy if it failed. .

The risks they took were indeed so great that it was almost impossible for their "shoes" people to accept, but at the same time, those "barefoot" people also got a person who had disappeared from their lives. long time stuff.

power.

Those who have always been mud legs in the eyes of the people on earth, who can only serve as low-level labor mining in the gray asteroid belt, have already climbed to a higher level than them without knowing it. Location.

When those backward city-states that were once divided by various countries and did not even have a main battleship, under the various efforts of the former Belt Contractors and Crimson, a unified alliance was formed, a quasi-planned economy was implemented, and in that area When the poor land developed a military system and fleet stronger than the earth, they once laughed at each other, thinking that they were just re-enacting the disintegration activities of a certain big country in the 20th century.

After all, the unified alliance, poor land, planned economy, low GDP, militarism, almost full of buffs, even made some people wonder if this is some kind of special cosplay - otherwise, it is really difficult to explain this kind of cosplay It seems that the feeling of never giving up until the elements are full.

If you add a little rumor about the so-called Crimson "Shadow President" and diverge some authoritarian elements, my boy, this is really unbreakable.

However, when they really had to face the threat from aliens again, when they faced those killing bee swarms who could not communicate and simply regarded them as food, they discovered that the real clown was actually they themselves.

This world has never been a peaceful and beautiful fantasy country—it's just that they were blinded by the long-term peace that lasted for decades, and mistakenly thought that this was what the world looked like.

When the United Nations and the Cat League fought to wipe out omnics, they only regarded it as a distant "background story" that had little to do with them; "International politics" that have nothing to do with themselves; even when the Cat League and Tukeka fought each other, and the warships dozens of times their size confronted each other, they still didn't raise the vigilance they should have, and just wanted to continue here A corner of peace.

It's not stupid - they just haven't felt threatened in too long.

And now, they feel it.

It has to be said that Pan-Asia is the strongest economic entity in the entire solar system after all. Even though the poor performance of these years has made them vaguely replaced by the Republic of Mars and the IAF, the huge foundation cannot be defeated overnight after all. light.

With one order, he directly ordered 300 foreign trade warships from Maomeng, paying 50% in advance, and settled the remaining balance within half a year after the fleet was delivered. ", while waving the banknotes in their hands, successfully persuaded them to send their fleet to the earth to assist in the defense.

Normally, even if they know that the other party is an extinct civilization, it is impossible for the IFCF and the Foreign Alliance to send most of their own fleets to help defend. After all, the earth, as the real home planet, has a very strong army defense capability, almost There is no risk of being landed——By contrast, if they send the entire fleet there for the sake of a good reputation, but lose most of it, how should they explain to their own people?

But there is no way, Fanya has given too much - they not only promised to fully compensate for the war damage, but are even willing to pay part of the compensation with cat currency foreign exchange!

In this regard, everyone can only use one word to describe Fanya's actions.

Big dog!

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PS: I recommend a book "Empire of Roses"

It's a Western fantasy novel written by a carnivorous heroine, and if you like more meaty post-post novels, you can read it.

Volume 241 Industry and Power: Chapter [-] Starship Cemetery

For these rich and powerful dogs, Hong of course accepted it with a smile.

After years of development, the Cat League’s shipbuilding level has nearly doubled compared to that before the Tukeka War. There are a total of 12 large shipyards in the territory, and the maximum number of ships in a single batch is 360. In theory, one batch per year can Order dumplings at the same speed.

Although this limit speed cannot be reached for the time being, after all, the number of docks in Cat League has increased by 1.4 times compared with before the war, but the industrial output value has only increased by 50%. Don't think about it.

However, under the state of expedited construction with the industrial system operating at full power, it is no problem to complete the order of 6 ships within 300 months-this time is enough for human beings to get this batch of warships before the war begins.

Within a few months, a considerable number of coalition forces gathered in the sky above the moon, including warships from the three major human alliances, foreign trade warships that had just arrived from the Cat League, and a group sent by the Rockmen to join in the fun because they were greedy for foreign exchange. The fleets add up to a total of nearly 5 million tons.

Cooperating with the Pan-Asian fortresses and defense platforms deployed in lunar orbit, self-protection should not be a big problem. After all, there is no sky eye on the opposite side, and thousands of main battleships + two heavy fortresses will be encountered when passing through the hole. Normal people would not choose Continue to attack rashly—what if the real main fleet is hidden in the rear galaxy?

Didn’t you see that when the Cat League and Tukeka were at war, it took two or three years just to find out the territories and fleets of both sides. It was not until the intelligence was fully opened that they began to consider active offensive matters.

Therefore, as long as they can block the first wave of attacks and make them retreat, most of the problems will be solved.

Looking at the wormhole that appeared in the orbit of the moon, the Pan-Asian thought so.

"The detector still hasn't reached the exit of the wormhole." Looking at the data uploaded back on the screen, the technical officer said, "As of now, the detector has been in the wormhole for a full 54 minutes, farther than the farthest wormhole we know so far." The hole will last longer.

"It seems that the territory of this Akachi Zerg is really far away from us."

Such a long time proves that the exit galaxy of this wormhole is at least 600 light-years away from the solar system-if there were no inexplicable wormholes, the two civilizations would not have the possibility of meeting each other within three to five hundred earth years , let alone being ready for battle like now, ready to fight the opponent's fleet at any time.

So, what is the purpose of the black hand behind the scenes who took so much trouble to pull their low-level civilizations together to fight?

They don't know.

The only thing they can do is to work hard to live.

After waiting anxiously for nearly 10 minutes, finally, under the expectant eyes of everyone, the probe slowly drove out of the exit and began to transmit back the scene on the other side of the wormhole.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the other side of the wormhole did not have the huge fleet that they expected to be in full battle, as if the Akachi swarm did not know that the wormhole would open here.

This is actually not completely unexplainable. After all, judging from the devastated appearance of the battleship when it appeared, it was obvious that they were fighting another unknown alien civilization before they were teleported, and the fight was very fierce.

In the fierce melee, it seems that it can barely make sense to not find a warship of one's own side disappearing suddenly.

Although they don't know why such negligence occurred, after all, even the Chien Empire, which has the most backward military structure, will not lose a warship for no reason without discovering it, let alone Akachi with such a strict command. The half-gestalt civilization of the system is gone.

However, it's not that there is no "fleet" waiting for them on the opposite side - the wreckage that is slowly orbiting the planet is the messenger to welcome them.