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

According to human understanding, compared with the current "autonomy" where countries only manage their own planets, placing all planets under the same government will lead to more internal friction-if the relationship is not handled properly and merged rashly , not only will not enhance the strength of human beings, but will stimulate more contradictions.

As for the time required to "handle the relationship", it is not much, maybe it will start in 100 years.

After all, if xenophobia is such an easy thing to clear, they won't even be able to unify the entire earth.

Even human beings are so difficult to deal with internally, so it can be seen that they can maintain such "goodwill" towards the alien civilization headed by the Jeffreys, which is really very sincere.

You must know that the criterion for judging whether or not xenophobia does not depend on the "political correctness" or the so-called "mainstream public opinion" that people in various countries occasionally shout, but on whether their vital interests are really damaged. Still able to stick to his ideas.

In other words, as long as they are unwilling to accept benefits and jobs being taken away by "foreigners", especially those lazy foreigners, culture and history are integrated and assimilated, and a future where their own people account for less than 20% of the country, The establishment of a unified human civilization is just a slogan, just empty talk.

The current human civilization obviously does not meet this standard.

Therefore, due to mutual ignorance, after they learned that the Jeffreys are composed of four subspecies, the human beings who did not know the details naturally, as a matter of course, substituted their own situation into the Jeffreys. - Especially after knowing the history of wars between the Federation, the Empire and the Alliance, they became more convinced of their own ideas.

Humans are still of the same race, just because of the color of the eyes and skin can be beaten to death, social problems emerge in endlessly, this Jeffrey is serious, truly "different races", even There is also the existence of creatures like the Fasati, so the contradiction must be so big that there is no limit?

"Incomprehensible."

In this regard, the Jeffrey people also commented in the same way.

You know, after the national genetic modification project, the Farsatis have changed from the original independent "Fasatis" to a subspecies of the "Jeffreys", just like Ruburt who is famous for his big tail. Like the Long subspecies.

Obviously, this racial difference will not bring any so-called "discrimination" at all. On the contrary, there may be many people who like this unique style.

The history of the formation of the two civilizations and the differences in cultural background alone are enough to lead to the current weird situation of "humans can't understand, and Jeffreys can't understand", let alone material differences.

After all, there is no evolutionary homology between humans, Jeffreys, and Catus, they just look alike, with different organ structures, different brain compositions, and different types of retroviruses infected on the evolutionary path , How could their way of thinking and ideas be exactly the same?

What human beings pursue is "freedom, democracy and equality". The mainstream values ​​of the Jeffreys agree with "equality", but they don't care too much about democracy and freedom—or in other words, they only care about the "result" of freedom and democracy. But it does not pursue that this result must be based on a democratic government.

As long as they can freely express their opinions and let the government hear their voices, it is enough to ensure that the government is serving the population. As for whether the government is elected by the "process" of democratic voting.

unimportant.

This is also the biggest reason why Hong won the position of supreme leader. When the Jeffreys trust Hong enough and believe that following her orders is more beneficial than electing a government with a democratic vote, pushing Hong to this position becomes a It is a matter of course—the same goes for freedom.

The only exception is equality.

Unlike the Catus, the Jeffreys still pay more attention to equality, even though they have been using alien slaves for decades, and they have not been completely replaced by weak artificial intelligence until recently.

In other words, it is precisely because of this history that Jeffrey only cares so much about equality.

Anyway, as a country with the suffix "Republic", it still has to fit the meaning of the word a little bit, although in the definition of "Republic", it is clearly stated that government leadership should not be inherited, hereditary, or destined, but It is elected by free and fair elections, but for the Jeffreys, as long as the seat is red, it doesn't matter at all~

"So, they dare to reorganize during the most turbulent and chaotic period of war." The human ambassador expressed very, very puzzled, "Aren't you afraid of something going wrong?"

If you want to say who has the greatest impact on the establishment of the Federation, it is not others, but this diplomatic mission that is conducting diplomacy with them-after all, few people can realize that there are still three countries before going to bed, and they will become one when they wake up. The sense of wonder of the Federation.

Even those who have rich experience in the disintegration of a modern big country have never experienced that kind of novelty.

Except for the astronaut who went up to the sky from the Soviet Union and turned into the Russian Federation.

Well, maybe add to that the astronauts who were on the space station watching ballistic missiles zip through space.

All in all, except for such rare cases, the vast majority of ordinary people should not experience this feeling of crossing the world line overnight.

"It's a big taboo for military strategists to change generals just before the battle."

He murmured to himself somewhat worriedly.

Unlike the previous "Federation", the Jeffrey Federal Republic has a very obvious and unique feature-although it bears the name of the Federation, it is actually a unitary country.

In order to achieve this, the three countries, the predecessors of the Jeffrey Federation, did not form by "joining" like ordinary federations, but chose a very special one, which can be called "leaving no way out." way to build.

"Announce the disintegration of the original country, and then establish a new government in the name of the Jeffreys scattered on the five planets?"

The diplomat subconsciously wanted to push his glasses, but when he raised his hand halfway, he realized that he had undergone corrective surgery in advance to facilitate life in space, so he showed an embarrassed but polite smile, and quietly put himself down. There is no resting hand.

"This can really be called breaking and then building."

"One thing to say, indeed."

"Coincidentally" the former Jeffrey Federation diplomat appointed as the new diplomat nodded and replied.

Yes, according to the official statement, the reason why the composition of officials of the new government is unusually similar to those of the three predecessor countries is that there is no inherent connection between them. Corrupt officials were not appointed, just a coincidence.

It's just a coincidence.

It sounds a bit sophistry, but this just represents the determination of the Jeffrey people to separate from the past. The reason why they want to do these "superfluous" behaviors is only one purpose.

That is to block your own escape route.

In their view, if the three countries choose to "form and join the Federation" with their original constitutions, it may cause the future younger generation to misunderstand this era and produce some stupid, current Jeffrey Ideas that people would never want to see—such as withdrawing from the group, disintegrating, or even playing the so-called banner of "restoring the country".

Everything is possible.

But the current form of disintegrating the country first and then allowing people to build a new country from scratch has solved this problem to a large extent.

Although those with ulterior motives can come up with a thousand or 1 different reasons as long as they think about it, but as long as they can't lift the banner of restoring the country and occupy the commanding heights of morality, they will be like the two aliens now. Same with the rebels in the colonies.

Difficult weather.

Picture: "Pointing at the moral high ground", location: "Images/1617556268-100214443-106913498.jpg"

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PS: Good news, good news, the leave slips are used up on the fourth day of the first month, this wave, this wave is to put it to death and then regenerate, break and then stand.

Volume 110: The War Against Extinction: Chapter [-]

However, no matter how big the difference in values ​​between the two parties is, it doesn't matter what they really think about each other, because these will not be expressed during the official negotiations between the two countries.

At least on the surface, it won't show.

In any case, human beings are only xenophobic, and they are not out of their minds. They will not deliberately struggle with a civilization that has no conflict of interest and has surprisingly similar aesthetics and morals.

Especially in today's universe where omnics are wiped out everywhere, and if you can't win, you have to die, not to mention their slightly xenophobic and complacent civilization, even the kind of extremely xenophobic civilization full of "alien scum" , that also has to lower its proud head in order to survive, and choose to form an alliance with other organic civilizations.

And to be honest, if the degree of xenophobia of human beings is compared in a 7+ space strategy game, even a "common xenophobia" trend of thought is not enough to point out.

After all, not to mention extreme xenophobia, even the most common xenophobia refuses to give aliens full citizenship rights. Any alien in the territory can only get a "right of residence" at most, but for human beings If there are Jeffreys or Catus willing to join human civilization, any country will agree with it.

No one can unconscionably say that a race that can say "although they don't like aliens, but they are so cute" is serious xenophobia.

One reason why the current relationship is not so good is that the physical distance is too far, the time spent together is too short, and the degree of mutual understanding is not even as good as it was before the cold war between Hong and the former Jiefa Alliance—and the other reason is also the last The main reason is nothing else.

It is red.

You must know that today's Jeffrey people love Hong far more than any leader in history, especially after electing Hong as the supreme leader, they will not have any possibility in the foreseeable future and motivation to actively break away from Hong's rule, so naturally, their diplomacy will also be affected by Hong.

And it's a pretty big impact.

According to the predictions of scholars, if on another world line, the first civilization they encounter is not red, but human civilization, the Jeffreys should be able to carry out normal diplomatic interactions with humans.

Of course, the "normal diplomacy" here includes, but is not limited to, the economic and cultural colonization of a weaker party by a stronger party, possible territorial disputes in adjacent galaxies, vassal states, puppet regimes, and so on.

These are all in the normal category. After all, if there is no red, the military strength of Jeffrey civilization itself is really weak. The five star systems add up to a fleet of less than 1000 million tons. Over 8000 million, and now there is a fleet of [-] million tons that is completely unmatched.

But with Hong's turning out, everything is different.

It's not just the problem of fleets that can compete with humans, but more importantly, as an omnic, her existence inherently planted a thorn in the hearts of humans.

Could her friendliness be feigned?

Does she really understand what we say?

Could she one day become an Extinction omnic too?

Even if they learned from the Federation and the commander of the same clan named Stuart that this omnic was an "old mother" who had an unusual attitude towards certain cubs, their attitudes did not change much.

If you want to add a crime, there is no reason to worry about it. When an omnic is dangerous and cannot communicate with the preconceived impression, no matter what she does, it will look like a disguise to confuse the prey in the eyes of humans.

Of course, there are thorns and there are thorns, and the relationship still needs to be fought well.

Although both the Jeffreys and the Catus are extremely similar to humans, and it looks as if the entire galaxy is full of beast-eared girls, they understand that this is probably just a coincidence.

This coincidence refers to "just happened to encounter a civilization like the Jeffreys", not to "the Jeffreys just happened to look very similar to humans".

After all, from the perspective of materialist dialectics, three completely different biospheres on three planets that should have had no meaningful material exchange before "just happened" to evolve three extremely similar in appearance but completely genomed at almost the same time. The probability of different intelligent species is infinitely close to zero.

If it's just a simple human form, it can be explained by convergent evolution, but this kind of similarity that can easily be mixed into the human social level by covering the ears and tail is a coincidence, and basically no one can believe it.

However, whether it's a coincidence or not, it doesn't make much sense to today's human beings - life has to go on, and there are some things that don't need to be pursued too much.

But the reality is, whether it is the primitive civilization that was exterminated by the Jeffreys, who somehow entered it randomly, or the former space civilization that was assimilated by Fasati when the old federation disintegrated, its appearance is very different from that of human beings. Far away, even a little bit of human-like characteristics can't be seen, and the difference in the three perspectives is so large that it is completely unacceptable.

In this way, an alien civilization with similar three views, similar appearance, and gentle attitude has become an exceptionally rare high-quality ally. Not bad.

Even if the gap between where people go and their genes is greater than the gap with morning glory, it doesn't matter, everyone is a good-looking animal, so there is no need to hide it.

What's more, the fighting power of these beast-eared girls is not weak. If the red is counted, their fleet has nearly 6000 million tons, which is enough to rival human beings. They are by no means a force that can be underestimated at any time.

Especially in the current situation where we need to fight against the extinction of civilization, these [-] warships are the targets that human beings absolutely want to win over. In their eyes, sincere diplomacy is still full of xenophobia.

But at least, the relationship between the two is improving—even if the magnitude is small and the speed is very slow, but compared to the series of crazy operations when the two civilizations first met, it can already be called a huge change. .

This is the limit of what this diplomatic mission of a dozen people can do.

After all, the diplomatic corps cannot do everything. If they want more, they cannot do it alone-that needs to be improved from the concept of cake, what is needed is a change in the mainstream trend of thought, and what is needed is a stronger , Stronger support.

They need to let the public realize that today's human beings do not have the capital to be arrogant and arrogant in the universe, and these cannot be done in a short period of time.

They have done their best.

"It's up to you."

On the way back, looking at the little tail flames scattered in the dark universe outside the porthole, the ambassador gently brushed the cold bulkhead and muttered to himself.

No matter how bad the previous relationship was handled, and no matter whether they repaired it during this period of time, it doesn't matter after the extinct civilization provoked this regional decisive battle.

The diplomatic link has been announced to be over, and the next stage will be the head-to-head link between the fleets.

“现在是卡图斯标准时6413年4月1日17时，距离增援舰队抵达虫洞还有278个小时，距离攻击舰队抵达盖基米德卫星还有130个小时，距离灭绝舰队抵达直布罗陀要塞还有预计不到1个小时。”

As if hearing him talking to himself, a red and sweet announcement sounded from above the corridor—but to the ears of the people involved, the last "estimated to be less than an hour" sounded audible.

But not so sweet.

"The enemy fleet is currently 24000 kilometers away from the main fortress. An orbit change operation has been observed, and the estimated orbit has been confirmed."

"The extinct unit fleet transition activity has been observed... The target has appeared, the current distance is 25500 kilometers, and the estimated orbit has been confirmed."

The two messages were reported one after the other, with less than 30 seconds between them—this is not surprising, after all, when the Iron Heart Fleet set off, they had already made the decision that the two fleets would arrive at the same time Judgment of the same position.

After all, it is difficult to use "flank attack" in space, which is a very useful tactic on the ground-as we all know, in the boundless space, all objects are bound by gravity and follow strict orbits.

Therefore, this will lead to a very embarrassing thing, that is, if the fleet is divided into two and "flanked" along different tracks, the opponent can easily meet the enemy with one of the fleets by adjusting the track slightly. Thus turning the pincer situation into a gourd baby saving grandpa.

Moreover, if they do not assemble into a unified orbit before the war, and let them drift freely, after a few cycles, the opponent's fleet will become broken pearls scattered on the entire orbit due to the small speed difference. If you want to correct the orbit, the consumption of dv will not be as small as it is now.

Consuming a little more dv may not have any effect in the short term. After all, when a war has just started, it is often more powerful firepower or more solid armor that decides the outcome, not the invisible and intangible things like dv.

But from a long-term perspective, in an evenly matched space battle, whoever can save more DVs and who can make the same DVs play a greater role will have a greater advantage.

After all, the total DV that both sides can carry is limited, and the working fluid that the supply ship can increase is also limited, and as long as the DV returns to 0, all the armaments on that battleship will lose their meaning—a spacecraft that has lost its maneuverability, It can only become a carefree piece of space junk in orbit.

Victory will always favor the side with more precise calculations, this is the greatest experience humans have gained from fighting space battles for hundreds of years.

and lessons.

"Data synchronization with orbital simulator...synchronization complete."

After storing the newly acquired data from the telescope, the large screen in front of the headquarters also simultaneously displayed the newly-appeared extermination unit fleet.

Theoretically, this kind of real-time data should be automatically entered and displayed, but there is no way, the programmers who designed the orbit simulation module never considered that one day their programs will have to face an object that can pass through superluminal speed. Enemies that make the jump.

This is not the same as the orbital discontinuity caused by the interruption of the data link. Although the interruption of the data link will also cause the spacecraft to disappear, during this period, the local time of the computer is still flowing normally. If the interruption lasts for 10 minutes , then when the spacecraft resumes communication after 10 minutes, the system will find that this "new" spacecraft appears where the previously disconnected spacecraft should have appeared.

Relying on the current weak artificial intelligence level of human beings, it is relatively easy to connect them and determine that this spacecraft is the one that was just disconnected. Of course, it is generally not so troublesome in actual operation. It is enough to require the newly connected spacecraft to report the serial number, so this method is mainly used to judge the enemy fleet temporarily obscured by the celestial body.

After all, the enemy will not take the initiative to report the serial number to you.

But the jump is different. The interval between the disappearance of the extinct unit fleet and its reappearance is only a few seconds. If it is judged according to the method of data interruption, it will fly tens of kilometers away after this period of time. Driven by it, the distance difference between the two tracks can reach millions of kilometers.

In this way, the computer must and can only judge that a new fleet has appeared on the face, rather than the fleet that was a million kilometers away before teleporting to the face.

This will seriously interfere with the judgment of the commanding artificial intelligence, and lead it to make all kinds of unimaginable tactical decisions. Logically speaking, after learning that the extermination unit has a "jump" maneuver, they should patch the relevant programs in advance of.

However, for well-known reasons, humans have not done this, and when the enemy does come, it is impossible for them to find programmers to write patches on the spot.

Not to mention whether it is too late, if there is a bug in the new patch that has not been rigorously tested, causing the entire command system to collapse, then something really big will happen.

Therefore, the engineers at the Gibraltar Fortress had no choice but to curse their mothers in their hearts, while praying that the other party would not jump during the battle.

After all, even with the help of a program, manual input is a rather complicated and time-consuming task. If the opponent suddenly performs a jump maneuver when the two armies are exchanging fire, it will lead to all that can only be guided by the data link before new data is entered. Allied warships that cannot aim autonomously lose track of their opponents.