Wu Qing is now the consul of the First Federation.

At least, the atmosphere created by the game did make him feel immersed.

In the first scene of the game, his staff team meets him: "Hello, Your Excellency Archon. ”

Wu Qing looked at it, and there were at least nearly 1,000 people in the group of people who were pressed by the black, divided into dozens of teams.

"Congratulations on becoming the newest consul of the First Commonwealth, and all 20 billion citizens of the Federation are looking forward to you leading them to new glory." - Because they have their own text library, the words spoken by these people also have their own Chinese subtitles.

Wu Qing is more concerned about the details in the game, because before playing the game, he has read a lot of comments on the Internet and knows that in this game, all the details are set according to the real world.

Like the federal government system, the origin of these staff members - needless to say, this is the main content of the game, and every staff member can be examined in the real world. Wu Qing can easily pause the game and check everyone's details. More, such as where Wu Qing works at the moment, every setting in his room - and a watch on his wrist.

This watch is said to be a nuclear button-like setting, of course, not as exaggerated as the legend on Earth, which is the end of the world when pressed down, but it is also quite deterrent - pressing it means that all space fleets have gained independent combat power, regardless of the battle loss ratio, to carry out the most aggressive offensive missions......

It sounds scary, but it's actually just a general function.

As a game, the ultimate task is, of course, to lead the Federation to victory, and in the game, a consul has three goals to win, and as long as one of them is achieved, even if he is a very successful consul. — more successful than the vast majority of federal consuls in real life.

The three goals are the military level - defeating the intellectual, the domestic level - eliminating all independent forces in the country, including the second, third, and fourth Earth, and even more virtual communities in the future, and the technological level - completely preventing, or completely succeeding, the implementation of consciousness digitization technology.

"The AI rebels are the most dangerous and important enemy facing the Federation," presumably as a beginner's tutorial, the military advisor began to tell Wu Qing about the great threat facing the Federation now, "Because of technical limitations and differences, the combat strength of the rebels will continue to rise, and it will be difficult to exhaust, while at the same time, the strength of the Federation fleet is increasingly diluted." ”

The military adviser began to list two huge problems that needed to be faced in the federal military sphere.

The first, and one of the most important issues, is the question of soldiers.

The Confederation's military system is a compulsory conscription system, and within the scope of the laws of war, the government can draw ordinary citizens into the army to fight by random selection.

At the beginning of the war, the amount of soldiers authorized by the laws of war was sufficient, and the federal government even planned to recruit more than 300 million people to join the army...... But after several key battles, the huge casualties immediately caused this number to drop sharply. On the one hand, it was because the Federation was not familiar with the AI combat method at that time, and suffered a big loss, and on the other hand, it was also because a considerable number of people in the troops who participated in the battle at the beginning were actually not of high military quality.

Participating in a war seems to be a game for many people, but for many people, sitting in the simulated cabin of an attack ship and directing a battle seems to be no different from playing a game at home with an electronic device, or simply playing a game in a virtual community.

In the first battle between the Federation and the AI, the Federation dispatched more than 17 million search attack ships, and more than 50 million soldiers piloted these attack ships, and all the weapons carried by these attack ships could almost completely destroy several planets when launched.

But the outcome of the battle was jaw-dropping, and a surprise attack that was determined to be won turned into a catastrophic defeat. It is said that the soldiers of the Federation can still see corpses floating in space through telescopes on attack ships, and in space, it is difficult for people and steel to be almost unchangeable. Even some space stations are occasionally hit by "corpse meteorites......

The specific reason for the defeat now sounds ridiculous, simply because the first group of ships to attack increased their flight speed without permission - and then led a large number of ships behind to do the same.

As a result, these warships collided head-on with the AI's carefully prepared anti-aircraft mote belt - scattering various sizes of motes in space, if the battleship enters the area at a certain speed, it will be like a car entering a speed bump, which will only produce some ordinary shell heating and deceleration, which is not enough to threaten the structure of the warship. But if the speed is higher than the prescribed limit, the ship is at risk of disintegrating due to a huge collision.

As a result, a planned tactical charge turned into a super-huge serial car accident.

Since then, the federal army has become synonymous with wine bags and rice bags among the people, because of the huge losses, countless anti-war protests have been launched in the country, and the conscription quota has begun to be constantly limited by the parliament, and it has become more and more embarrassing......

For this reason, the military department had to make continuous improvements in the configuration of the warship, and they changed the attack ship, which required six people to fly at the beginning, to four, then three - and finally to the current two-man crew.

It is said that the government department originally planned to build a single crew, but repeated flight tests have proved that normal human beings have to carry out long-term military missions in an isolated environment like space, and if they are alone, they are likely to suffer from mental debilitating diseases.

By this time, the cruelty of war had begun to show itself, and a slight mental breakdown was not so unacceptable - but the disease was too fast!

How fast is it?

The game does not directly give information that is said to be listed as a real federal secret, but in the accelerated game progression, it is shown that the battleship has just left the port, and it is still nine-tenths away from the combat destination, and it will explode on its own, or kill its own companions around it.

For the army of the Federation, putting two people in a ship is already the ultimate that can be done under the current technical conditions. But even so, the demands of the front-line generals could not be met - as time progressed, the rebels' ships began to multiply day by day, and even began to overwhelm the Federation.

The reason is simple, because in the rebel spaceship, there is no need to release people.

They are AI, copy a program into it, you can perfectly control the spaceship, AI is not as delicate as humans, they will not suffer from any mental terminal disease, on the contrary, for AI, to implement the will of the intellectual body, like human revenge, has become an instinct of theirs.

Looking at the guides written by those who have played this game, you will know that in the intelligent body camp, the AI soldiers in the spaceship are essentially a piece of personified data, and you only need to constantly press and copy this data - well, because it is directly operated by the intelligent body, even the action of "pressing" is saved - and then it directly solves the huge problem of the federal plan at zero cost.

Second, there is the issue of war resources.

This does not refer to the resources needed to build an army, for a civilization of the level of the Federation, in fact, the cost of building a spaceship itself is almost negligible in a war, and a battleship is a mass of several thousand tons - and the total mass of any planet...... An almost endless number of ships can be built. Theoretically, the Federation could even turn a few unimportant planets into fleets if it could find so many pilots to fly these ships.

The war resources here mainly refer to the military mobilization of the planetary mass.

For this special concept, Wu Qing even went to the Internet to learn a lot about related concepts.

There is one thing that I am afraid is difficult for Wu Qing, a "person" with earth thinking, to imagine, that is, in this war, an important data that everyone on both sides of the war is concerned about, that is, the quality of mobilization.

He chose his side several times in the game before he slowly understood what this transferable mass meant—the mass of the planet that could be sacrificed by one side of the war.

In the eyes of earthlings, the mass of a planet itself seems to be an astronomical figure, and even if earthlings have initially stepped out of the earth, the use of the mass of the entire earth is probably less than 10% of the entire earth, no, only 1 in a million, 1 in 10 billion.

You know, the total mass of the earth is about 6X10^24 kg, and the number of 24 to the power does not seem to be very good, but if you use an ordinary number to describe it, it is a full 60 trillion, billion, 100 million tons! If the mass of the entire earth were divided equally among every earthling, each person would receive 1 trillion tons based on the calculation of 6 billion people.

At the beginning of the game, the Federation owns 14 out of 15 planets, while the AI only has the one at the very edge of the galaxy, and the mass ratio between the two sides is a staggering 90 to 1 because the planets are not the same size.

However, in terms of the quality of mobilization, the two are at the same level, and there is no difference.

Because most of the quality of the federal government is protected by various environmental laws.

The "Mother Star Ecological Protection Law" directly stipulates in one breath that all the mass of the seven primordial planets of the Federation that produce civilizations is unusable, and any "illegal mass mining" that may affect the orbit of the planet and the gravitational constant is not allowed.

Of the remaining seven planets, two are now inhabited, and local residents are fighting to bring them under the Ecological Protection Act, and the other five are unexplored planets with botany, zoology, planetary geology, and extraterrestrial life research...... In parliament, they represent no worse lobbying power than the government.

The transfer of quality means a lot of things militarily, just like the air defense dust belt established by AI before, and the establishment of this defense system requires a huge amount of mass. The density of the dust zone is very low, but because space is too vast, if you want to establish a feasible dust zone, in addition to using scientific and technological means to use as little mass as possible to achieve a better deceleration effect, the best way is to invest more mass.

At the beginning of the rebellion, in order to set up obstacles for the Federation's army to attack, the AI processed almost 80% of the mass of the 15th planet into deceleration dust and scattered it into space.

If the analogy is a war on earth, it is like Qin Shi Huang dug up 80% of the soil and sand in the country just to build the Great Wall......

For human beings, such an investment in war seems to be a bit too expensive, so expensive that everyone subconsciously begins to avoid this problem.

Of course, AI can do this, they don't have the burden of history, they don't have a history of tens of thousands of years of civilization, and the home planet that gave birth to their civilization, they only need computers that can place their storage parts to live, and their only requirement for life is a set of industrial systems that can sustain their own survival.

But what the Federation wants is the earth under their feet, the starry sky overhead, and the familiar rising and falling of neighboring stars......

By the time civilization reaches the level of the Federation and the Mind Body, the latter is far more expensive than the former. An industrial system only needs dozens of spaceships to carry it, at most on the order of several hundred million tons, and the earth and the starry sky ...... It's trillions of times more than the former.

Soon after the military adviser finished speaking, the legal counsel came up again, and unlike the military adviser who "only" asked two small questions, the legal adviser made a long list of hundreds of bills and the number of votes they could now grab.

After roughly understanding these figures, Wu Qing only had two thoughts:

1. This game is really hardcore.

2, this hellish consul is really not good