Chapter 177: Two Camps
"Yes, I'm talking about the system of order and power. Maximilian was the first top-level superpowered person in five hundred years to be directly involved in secular power. ”
"The top superpowers who break the highest rules have always been above the mundane world. They can control a qiē but never need any earthly crown or scepter. It is their attendants and retinues who rule the country, hold power, and possess wealth. ”
"I know, the attendant room system," Gu Hanhan interjected, "Mr. Hong told me. ”
Anthony nodded: "This divides the world, but it also leaves the necessary buffer between us, the politicians and the common people, so that we can accept each other as a system and order." However, Maximilian was different, he did not remove himself from the post of Mars Imperial Marshal after breaking the supreme rules, but instead allowed himself to be caught up in the daily affairs of the country. He's doing what his own men, or even his men, are supposed to do. ”
"He's trying to connect the two worlds, but it's causing us a lot of trouble and untold distress for the Emperor of Mars, and for the secular powers of many other countries. He disrupted the otherwise orderly system of power and hierarchical order. He is the deity who reigns supreme over Mars and all the powers of the Earth Temple, and is the spokesperson of the Earth Goddess in the galaxy, yet his position in the secular state power is subservient to that of the Mars Emperor. He's against the universe. ”
"It's the same with the occupation of Dongdan this time, he is again the enemy of the whole universe. Directly sending troops to occupy the independent mining area, Maximilian did what all the powerful people did not dare to do for a thousand years, whether it was a secular emperor or a superpowered overlord. ”
"I would like to tell you about the root cause of the existence of independent mining areas, Hanhan, why no one has been able to interfere with the mining areas by force for a thousand years. I'm going to tell you a little bit about things that you can never retrieve from Du Niang and encyclopedia, and tell you a little bit about the truth of this universe that you don't know. ”
"Is it difficult?"
"It's not difficult at all, it's simple, you can understand it perfectly. Anthony sighed and said, "The truth is often the simplest. ”
"Then tell me, I'll listen. ”
Anthony groaned for a moment before he spoke: "You know that there are two worlds for human beings, the secular world and the world of superpowers. But what you don't know is that in addition to the division of the two worlds, there are two opposing camps in our human society. ”
"The division of the two worlds is based on genetic mutation and the same human being. The two camps, on the other hand, are divided by ideology. Or rather, the distinction between man and state, which have two attitudes towards the direction and path of humanity's future. Whether to go out or retract back. Whether to open up the territory and ignore death, or to cling to the galaxy and return to the earth. ”
"We all start with genetic diseases, which are the root of the construction of today's human society. The outbreak of widespread genetic diseases around 2,800 years ago not only contributed to the signing of the Convention on Reserved Earth Reserves and the division of the two worlds, but also directly led to the antagonism, intensification and rupture of the two camps of human society. ”
"From very early times, humanity has had two views on its future. One is optimistic, believing that humanity can go all the way to the end of the universe. The other is pessimistic, believing that human development should be self-restrained and not exceed a certain limit, otherwise it will be self-defeating. Those and countries who held the former view were grouped into the extroverted camp, while the latter view became the basis for the later inward-looking camp. ”
"When mankind first entered the universe, these two views were almost evenly matched, and the human civilization born had some romantic and pan-patriotic feelings. The first 500 years of human beings opening their eyes to the universe were truly brilliant, with ideas and civilizations colliding with each other, bursting out with sparks of wisdom to shine on human history. The two contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations, first active and then passive, prompted the explosion of human science and technology. At the same time, it also brought about an unprecedented debate on the ethics and morality of the species - at that time, the definition of alien native species was still 'alien' and 'alien civilization', and communication and coexistence were incompatible, which has been debated for 500 years. ”
"Of course, the outcome of the argument is obvious, the alien native species is ultimately defined as an 'exogenous native species', and whether it has an intelligent civilization or not, it can only be 'it' and not 'he'. Two encounters with them have allowed the young human to mature into a young cosmic hunter, and the idea that intelligent species cannot coexist equally has completely overwhelmed the other and become the mainstream of human society. The extroverted camp was absolutely dominant in human society at that time, and those who maintained a constrained view were only an absolute minority of the minority. ”
"Under the guiding ideology of opening up territory and striving for a broader living space for mankind, the era of great voyage has begun. Humanity relied on the results of the first technological explosion to sail to the end of the galaxy, and ushered in a second technological explosion in the process of sailing and opening up territory. Subspace technology, jumping technology, virtual ring technology, pure energy lanthanum crystal technology, those epoch-making technologies burst out one after another, and finally became the cornerstone to build the spaceship era. This was the heyday of the extroverted camp in history. ”
It seems to confirm an old proverb that the moon waxes and wanes. At a time when the outward-looking policy was at its peak, and the facts seemed to confirm this, the situation suddenly reversed. No sooner had humanity's feet stepped out of the galaxy than widespread genetic disease erupted. Under the ravages of genetic diseases that threaten the survival of mankind, all kinds of anti-expansionism have begun to resurge, religious, philosophical. ”
"The idea that 'the Milky Way is the natural territory of the universe for mankind, and once the boundaries of the galaxy are exclaimed, mankind will be damned' began to prevail and was supported by some pathostatistical, historical, chronological theories and facts. It became the core idea of the introverted camp. The banner of the inward-looking camp was raised, and for the next three hundred years, the outward-looking and enterprising concept was completely overwhelmed. ”
"The center of humanity has shifted from Trajan, which is closer to the Great Galaxy of Andromeda, to the Lighthouse Star in the heart of the Milky Way. 'Our life is to create history, and our future is to open up territory', an oath that inspired countless pioneers in the era of the Great Voyage, and finally became a line of small words on the base of the sculpture at the entrance of the Superpower Association, which was gradually forgotten. ”
"However, the matter is not over, because any territory and border is cut down with a knife and a gun, not with a pen, and if you don't go out, it doesn't mean that others won't walk in. Just because you don't attack doesn't mean you don't defend. In the context of the overall contraction of human society, the responsibility of defending all mankind falls on the heads of those countries and peoples on the periphery of the galaxy. The result of defense is to attack, not only strategically offensive is the best defense, but a country must consume more resources if it wants to maintain a high level of combat effectiveness, and if this resource does not reach in, it has to go out and find it from the outside. ”
"As the center's transfusions to the frontier become less and less reluctant, the outer countries will have to continue to expand outwards to absorb resources and energy from beyond the galaxy if they want to maintain an overall level consistent with the central countries. In this way, the idea of opening up territory was revived in the outer lands, or it was never dead. ”
"The inner and outer regions are divided, and human society is officially divided into two camps: introverts and extroverts. At the same time, it was divided into both secular states and temples. Each generation happens to be represented by nations and temples, leading their respective factions against each other. As a result of the confrontation, no one can subdue anyone, and the introverted camp cannot stop the outward camp's various large-scale extragalactic development plans, while the extroverted camp is subject to genetic diseases and the opposition and containment of the introverted camp, and can only make a small fight around the surrounding small galaxies after all. As a result, they had to find themselves in a situation of stalemate and mutual compromise. This stalemate is a thousand years, and by this generation, the Temple of the Earth has represented the extroverted camp, and the military powers such as Mars, Ogra, and Justin are all biased towards the extroverted camp. The introverted faction is represented by the traditional powers of the central regions of Elam and Tang, and the Dark Temple supports the introverted faction. ”
"The Independent Mining Area is the product of this millennia of stalemate and compromise. Both the extroverted and inward-looking camps want to allocate more energy for themselves and less for the other side. In the inward-looking camp, energy is the cut-off valve that prevents the outward-looking camp from exaggerating outwardly. In the outward-looking camp, energy is a powerful weapon against the evolution and interference of the inward-looking camp. As a result of the compromise between the two camps, the energy distribution was just so evenly matched that they could stalemate and contain each other for a long time, and the Lanthanum Crystal Exporting Organization and a whole set of energy distribution systems around the independent mining areas and lanthanum crystal exporting countries were established. ”
"Once established, this ultimate system of complete compromise and containment between each other will be firm and unshakable, and will become an unshakable order for thousands of years. As soon as either side of the two camps wants to touch it, the other side will immediately intervene to stop it. ”
"However, times have changed, the Earth Temple and the Dark Temple have been holding each other back for more than ten years, and humanity has divided into two camps around whether to open up territory or stick to the galaxy, facing each other and reaching a stalemate for a thousand years. All people are tired of this situation, societies are losing their vitality because of this millennia of stalemate, humanity is dividing, and our universe is decaying and rotting. Whether it is to open up territory or stay in the galaxy, humanity needs to unify its understanding and re-establish its direction. Not only Mars and the extroverted camp, but also the countries of the introverted camp can't wait, they can't wait to make a decision. ”
"So, you see, Hanhan, what a great and courageous thing Maximilian did, he pierced the window paper of the times. ”
"Maximilian could have succeeded, as long as he preemptively occupied Dongdan with lightning speed, creating an established fact, no one in the universe could help him. ”
Maximilian did exactly that, but unfortunately, god-like opponents always had pig-like partners, and the pig partners who dragged Maximilian back were not one, but a group. ”