Chapter 606: An Unexpected Backwardness
"You... How do you carry a star? That's a star......
There was a slight tremor in the Empress's voice, both shock at the gatherer's words and fear at the technological prowess of the amoeba civilization.
Pushing a planet is not a difficult task for the people of Selene, the Empress is confident, give their new empire a hundred years, they are also capable of doing such a thing, but stars are different, those are two concepts.
Speaking of building materials, what can withstand the terrifying heat from the stars? The Empress couldn't imagine what kind of enormous work it would take to move the stars.
Amoeba gatherers, however, say they can theoretically do it......
The gatherer waved his tentacles, signaling that the Empress didn't have to make such a fuss.
"It's just a concept, to put it simply, it's to extract the material of the star and use it as a propellant, that's probably it, the details still need to be perfected, but don't worry, it will take a year at most to refine the details and start construction, and it won't make you wait too long."
"One year ......"
The corners of the empress's eyes twitched slightly, and she felt that her three views had been ravaged again, and she was still trying in vain to lead the new empire to surpass the amoeba, with such a gap between them, even if it was allowed to develop naturally, the new empire might have little hope of surpassing the amoeba civilization!
It's just beyond my means!
The old empire also chose to become a vassal of the amoeba civilization because of this situation? - The Empress felt that she could already understand a little bit about the top brass of the old empire who had made such a decision in the first place.
"Mr. Cluster Leader, I have a better plan, would you like to hear it?" The Empress asked.
"Better? Okay, let's hear about it. ”
The gatherer replied without thinking too complicated, and the empress deliberately guided the gatherer to her own thoughts.
"The commission you received was only to bring back the seeds of the empire, and the scope of the seeds was actually very small, that is, the vehicle that the original Empress was riding, and the corpse of the Empress herself."
"Although we followed the will of the first empress and cremated his body after his death and threw his ashes into the sea, the original space vehicle still exists and is well preserved, as long as you take that back, the mission will be ......the same."
"Nope."
Before she finished speaking, the conversation was rudely interrupted by the collector, and the empress chuckled in her heart, and a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, but she was the empress, and her psychological quality was far stronger than that of ordinary people, and she regained her calm in an instant and covered up her panic.
"Why?"
The Empress asked in a pretended not to know, and the gatherer asked rhetorically.
"What if the Empire doesn't agree? You probably don't understand how far you are from the starting star, do you? ”
"Three hundred and ten light years."
"This distance means that it will take us six hundred and twenty years to complete a communication with the starting star, and it will not take that long for your new empire to come into existence from nothing."
"Material is a resource, life is a resource, time is also a resource, we don't want to waste such a time cost, one step is the best choice."
The limits of the speed of light become more apparent as the territory expands, and the longer the mission is involved, the more cautious the gatherer will be to make the decision, because if it is only one wrong decision, hundreds of years of time can be wasted, as well as the material resources to accelerate to sub-light speeds.
What is the concept of hundreds of years? The gatherers in charge of colonization have the time to colonize dozens or hundreds of star systems, and the antimatter megastructure can produce tons of antimatter, and the same is true for the coercive megastructure......
"No, the old empire will agree to our request, and we can make them 100% agree with you to fulfill the commission in this way." The Empress hurriedly said.
She was secretly relieved to know that the gatherer was only because of such concerns.
"Mr. Cluster Leader, you only need to bring three full-grown Seren-quality space vehicles back to the Old Empire to complete the commission, and the cost savings are much smaller than the ones you proposed to transport stars, aren't they?"
The gatherer hesitated, if he could guarantee 100 percent, he would undoubtedly face the method proposed by the female Serene more economically.
“…… Are you sure it's 100 percent? ”
The gatherer turned his gaze back to the empress with some suspicion.
"Absolutely."
The Empress was pleasantly surprised and responded immediately.
Still uneasy, the gatherer threatened, "...... To deceive us is to pay a very heavy price, I hope you will know this, Serene. ”
"Thanks for the reminder, but I'm telling the truth."
The empress's smile became brighter and brighter, she really dared to make this kind of assurance, they were a branch of the old empire, and they told the old empire exactly what happened on the new empire's side, and the old empire had no reason to embarrass them.
"Okay, then do it your way."
The parties agreed in a frank exchange......
The Cluster Leader's side has just ended, but on the other side, things are still ongoing, and the gatherers are searching for the wreckage of warships of unknown civilizations.
The size of these battleships is not large, and the volume of the battleship class is far from the level of the mother ship.
In the process of searching, to the surprise of the reporters, if you don't consider the teleportation technology, the technical level of these aliens is very low, such as the propulsion method, they also use primitive chemical propulsion, and there are some individual weapons, but these individual weapons are either cold weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, or hot weapons with gunpowder as the core.
There are very few firearms, and there are many cold weapons, giving the collectors the feeling that these alien mainstream individual weapons are still in the cold weapon stage.
In the radio channel, the gatherers exchange information with each other.
"It's strange, their technology is so backward."
"The propulsion method they use is actually chemical energy, which is too unexpected."
The collector in the propulsion part of the spacecraft looked at the tons of propellant around him, such a situation is somewhat beyond its common sense, it is really incomprehensible that a civilization with 'teleportation' technology still uses such an inefficient propulsion method.
"Is it because of the mastery of teleportation space technology that the development of this area has been abandoned?"
Some collectors speculated that this speculation was quickly agreed by other collectors, otherwise the current situation would not be explained.
"Maybe that's the case, the essence of the propulsion method is to carry out the displacement in time and space, since there is a higher level of space-time displacement technology such as teleportation, the propulsion movement is backward......"
"That's right, that's how it should ......"
Some collectors noticed that the topic was a little off, and hurriedly brought the topic back on track.
"Don't talk about this kind of inconsequential topic now, first find the mechanism of teleportation, I didn't find anything here, I found a bunch of corpses, and all kinds of miscellaneous things."
Gatherers in the wreckage of the warship are reporting to their clans about the situation in their area
"It's the same on my side, a lot of stuff that looks like excrement, and there should be these alien toilets around here."
"Then I should have a cafeteria here, a lot of food."
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