Chapter 718: The Origin of Greed
The catastrophe of the destruction of the Bodu civilization began with the discovery and application of the spiritual realm, in which greed played a catalyst and exacerbated the speed of destruction of the civilization.
In the society of the Pardus, there is a special elite class, who are born no different from ordinary people, but at a certain opportunity, they will spontaneously grasp a special power.
In the name of the earth, these people are superpowers.
For a long period of time in the history of the Bodu civilization, these superpowers played the roles of emperors, gods, and wise men.
As the times progressed, science awakened, and ignorance faded, ordinary Pardou people began to understand these superpowers and no longer saw them as rulers from above.
This shift in thinking is accompanied by a meat grinder-like war, a competition between ordinary Berdous and superpowers.
Superpowers have always been mortals, and it is difficult for them to continue as individuals after being regarded as dangerous outliers and completely abandoned by the general population, so they are suppressed and in a vulnerable position for a long time.
Ordinary superpowers can only hide themselves, exposure means being imprisoned and contained, and ordinary civilians will immediately report to the government after knowing about it, just because in their eyes, the superpowers who are walking around are like beasts in a zoo that have escaped out, and in society superpowers have been demonized.
However, the ideas of the upper class are different from those of the lower classes, they yearn for superpowers and firmly believe that this is the future of their entire race, so the government formed by ordinary Berdus has been secretly studying the mysteries of superpowers, striving to awaken the superpowers of the entire Berdu race.
In the research and development of superpowers, superpowers are very cooperative, it's not that they give in, but they have their own plans, in terms of superpowers, the interests of ordinary berdous and superpowers are the same, and many superpowers also want to figure out what their superpowers are.
With the joint efforts of both parties, the spiritual realm was naturally discovered.
Due to the discovery of the spiritual realm, the physical system of the Bodu people faced a direct challenge, and many physical laws did not apply within the spiritual realm.
But the problem is that that place actually exists, and the contents can also be brought out, so it is untenable to say that the spiritual realm is just an illusory dream.
Based on the contradictions between the two sides and the objective facts as the starting point, the 'Plane Physics Theory' came into being, which reinterprets the universe in a 'multifaceted' way, reasonably pulls the spiritual realm into the existing physical framework, and smoothly integrates the previously unexplained 'superpowers' into the scope of science.
After that, the plane jump engine was developed according to the spiritual plane, which realizes cross-star displacement by going back and forth between the spiritual plane and the original plane, and does not conflict with the 'unsurpassable mass of the original plane'.
The Plane Jumping Engine is an epoch-making technology that frees the Bodu civilization from its low-speed cage, but there is a problem with this, and that is that the use of this engine comes at a cost.
The price is the flesh and blood of the Paldu, and every round trip is accompanied by the consumption of the flesh and blood of the Paldu. Pythagorean Library
The developers of the Plane Jumping Engine have tried all sorts of domestic animal flesh, but the Spirit Realm has not responded, and only the flesh of the Bodu can achieve this effect.
In order not to violate their own morals, and to avoid an uproar if such a thing leaked into the Paldou society, the flesh of the clones was defined as the fuel that fueled the plane-hopping engine.
Since then, clones have been efficiently slaughtered from the moment they were created, and then introduced into meat grinders to become lumps of 'fuel', just like other domestic animals.
With the help of the Plane Jumping Engine, the Berdous colonized four star systems and became a transstellar civilization.
The consumption of transstellar civilizations is not the same as that of a single star civilization, for example, the information fragmentation brought by the speed of light barrier, the Berdou civilization can not be as loyal to the civilization as a whole like the gatherers, in order to ensure the exchange of information and maintain the civilization as a whole without fragmentation, the use of faster-than-light must be very frequent, which means that the demand for cloned flesh and blood will increase.
Then there are the ships that travel back and forth to and from the star systems, and the plane jump engine brings the stars closer to each other, so that merchants can choose more distant markets to trade, and the increasing volume of trade can also be a huge expense.
Combined with the expenses of the Berdoux regime to maintain a large fleet, the demand for cloned human flesh and blood of the Berdoux civilization has increased exponentially every year.
However, most Pardous do not take this situation seriously, and cloning humans is very low-cost, and compared to the technology of crossing long distances between stars in a short period of time, it can be said that there is almost no cost, after all, it is impossible for a mass to accelerate to the speed of light.
Aside from those humanitarians, not even the low-level Pardou people are opposed to the use of human clones as fuel, and what is a handful of clones compared to the progress of civilization as a whole? Anyway, they are not the ones who suffer.
New technology has brought about changes, and the industrial level of the main star of the Bodu civilization is changing day by day, they send industrial ships to distant star systems to mine matter, and bring this material back to the main star, and the Bodu civilization uses these materials to build a ring star accelerator, and after completing the physics experiments they want to understand, transform it into a habitable ring world.
The principle is similar to the stellar ring of the gatherer, but the energy supply is not antimatter, but a nuclear fusion furnace, the Berdoux civilization is not without the discovery of antimatter, but in their opinion, antimatter is too dangerous, once the position of the package is unbalanced, there will be annihilation of positive and antimatter immediately, although nuclear fusion is not as good as antimatter, but relatively speaking, it is very safe and stable, and in the cost of reaction raw materials, nuclear fusion throws off a large section of antimatter, and the hydrogen of nuclear fusion reaction is the most atomic matter in the universe, However, the production of antimatter is very troublesome and dangerous, and the production is very scarce.
After the star ring of the main star was built and moved to it, the Berdou people of the main star began to rest on their laurels.
The universe is too big, the big ones make them feel powerless, and they don't even have the desire to explore, rather than venturing to explore the universe and no one will collect the corpse if they die, it is better to stay in the ring and spend their lives peacefully.
And the federal government of the Paldu people is also sinking deeper and deeper into the political quagmire of suppressing the colonization star beyond itself, and is unable to explore the universe outward.
According to the trajectory of history, the discourse power of civilization will eventually change hands from the federal government to the various colonial governments, and the Bodu civilization will regain its desire to explore and continue to move towards the boundless and vast sea of stars.
A variable has appeared, and this variable has come to the main planet with hatred.