Chapter 616: Sigma Beach
Endoclas, also known as Enceladus, is one of the benchmark planets for human colonization and planetary transformation of the solar system since the establishment of the Star Alliance.
Although it is not suitable for large-scale immigration like Titan, Titan, because of its small size, Enceladus's location, which is located on the E ring of Saturn, has an excellent geographical location to see the breathtaking beauty of Saturn's rings up close, so it has become one of the most fascinating tourist destinations in the entire solar system, and tens of millions of people have traveled here every year since the opening of the relevant tourist routes.
Don't look at this number is not large, many tourist attractions on the earth in the old era were far higher than this number, but if you combine it with the high consumption of Enceladus...... Just the round-trip ferry ticket is as high as 50,000 Star Alliance credits, which is equivalent to more than 500,000 US dollars in the old Earth era according to spending power, plus the accommodation and catering expenses of tens of thousands of credits per day, which is not something that ordinary people can afford at all.
Sigma Beach, built from the best vantage point to see the beauty of Saturn's rings, is the brightest jewel on Titan.
It is said to be a beach, but in fact it is just a man-made water area of more than 10,000 square kilometers, and the land construction area that is included in the scope is less than 20,000 square kilometers.
The entire Sigma Beach is distributed in a three-ring structure, the outermost layer, that is, the beach that wraps the entire artificial waters, and the surrounding area are all open public areas, tourists, ordinary residents, colonial governments, etc. are all in this area, although the housing prices in this area are also extremely high, more expensive than the most expensive residential areas on the earth, but at least no matter whether they are expensive or cheap, as long as there is enough money, they can still be bought.
But the islands in the middle are different, this is an area where only the high-level of the Star Alliance are qualified to live, this so-called high-level is at least the lieutenant general or above of the Star Alliance army, that is, it is almost the commander-in-chief of the detachment or the senior staff officer-level figure, if it is placed in the government [Tian book.biz tian] government organization, it is at least the governor of the planet colony, or the level of a senior official of the department.
Among them, representative figures, such as Tony Stark, a senior military staff officer and governor of the Martian colony, and Victor, who is also a senior military staff officer and the governor of Europa.
Or the presidents of the original member groups of the early Star Alliance, such as John Carlyle, the former president of Israel's Amadhana Group and the current governor of the Io colony. Anna Crawford, former president of the Crawford Group and now Governor of the Titan Colony, is the local parent official. Former president of MNU in the Boer Republic, and now the colonial governor of Titan, Axisella. Former president of Sipotin, a senior Blackclaw executive, and the current senior officer of the Covenant Ghost Force, Emily Rakva.
In addition, there are also high-ranking generals such as the former Overwatch general, the current fleet commander of the Star Alliance, Admiral Sheffield, and the commander of the First Fleet, Vice Admiral Zemo.
Of course, there are also high-level tech workers like Stettman.
Except for the high-level Star Alliance leaders of their level, even if ordinary people have money, let alone buy a house to live here, even if they want to enter this area, it is impossible to do without an invitation.
As for the core island of the innermost ring, which is located in the center of the man-made waters, there is no doubt that it is the reservation that Chris has left for himself, a very luxurious palace-like building standing here, and only those who are very close to Chris are allowed to enter and exit this place.
The difference between the outer, middle, and inner rings of small Sigma Beach has exposed the class hierarchy of the Star Alliance today.
As for this obvious class distinction, will it cause discontent among the people? Don't be funny, this class difference was everywhere even in the Old Earth era...... Don't you see that kind of rich residential area, high-ranking officials' compound, is it something that ordinary people can live in? Not to mention staying, even getting in is not easy.
What's more, in today's Star Alliance, it doesn't matter at all whether ordinary people have opinions or not.
Although since the official declaration of independence, the Covenant government has set basic benefits and social security that were unimaginable for ordinary people in the Old Earth era...... Under the condition of the high development of artificial intelligence and the high emancipation of social labor, all kinds of very important basic means of production in the past in the earth era are actually very worthless, so in the Star Alliance, many of the low-level human beings in the earth era appear in various science fiction movies in the earth era have no fixed residence, lack of food, and lack of clothing.
On the contrary, any person, after becoming an official member of the Star Alliance, all kinds of social benefits and guarantees such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical care, education, etc., will be covered by the government, even if you don't work all your life, you can eat well, dress well, play well, live a comfortable life, and even do all kinds of housework...... At least take a little time to set up the basic program, and the free robot butler provided by the government can make proper arrangements for your life, including your children and future generations...... Of course, if you don't want to fall in love and get married, but just want to solve personal physiological problems, it's not impossible to buy a T series bionic robot.
However, having such a high social welfare security system does not mean that the Star Alliance is a laissez-faire government, on the contrary, the Star Alliance is actually a powerful dictatorship with extremely clear strata.
Throughout the establishment of the Star Alliance, all the high-level leaders are either Chris's descendants, or they were invited by him to enter the Star Alliance, except for the cowboy president who was used as a target at the beginning, every high-level member of the Star Alliance is the top genius and elite in human society, and these elites will be invited by Chris, either recognized by Chris, or screened by Athena through big data capture, none of them are selected.
In the future, the Star Alliance will basically continue this "elite invitation" policy, only special talents with unique talents in a certain aspect, such as high-level psionics, special superpowers, high-tech talents, etc., or people who have made special contributions, such as military personnel with outstanding military achievements, and personnel who have discovered special resources and special species in the universe, will be eligible to enter the high-level ranks of the Star Alliance, and in order to prevent corruption at the top level in the future, in addition to Chris, the founder of the Star Alliance, The rest of the Covenant hierarchy has only one right to recommend new members, even if the recommender is Chris's father, and the current Covenant President Norman Osborne.
And it is not human beings who review and judge whether the recommended person can really become a member of the high-level of the Star Alliance, but Diana, a super artificial intelligence life who has mastered the information lifeblood of the entire Star Alliance, only after she confirms that the recommended person meets various conditions through data research, the recommended person can become one of the real high-level people, otherwise even if the parents are high-level, if their children are not good enough, they may only be a civilian......
As for wanting to influence Diana's judgment or change Diana's data? This difficulty is too great, not to mention that with Chris, the owner who has absolute control, Diana can't hide any abnormalities from Chris.
Even if Chris leaves the Star Alliance one day, in the Star Alliance, there is still Cortana, a military mastermind on the same level as Diana, who shares and monitors each other's information, and above them, there is also the mastermind of the data dimension, Bobby.
Of course, unlike ordinary high-level people, as the founder of the Star Alliance and the owner of Diana, Chris actually secretly opened a back door for the people of the Osborne family, and basically the actual conditions for the people of the Osborne family to become the high-level of the Star Alliance will be secretly relaxed tenfold...... This means that as long as the descendants of the Osborne family do not break the dynasty or are all stupid, otherwise even if Chris is not there one day, the Osborne family will exist in the power center of the Star Alliance for a long time.
Even if it is after Chris leaves the Star Alliance in the future, if his good enough descendants appear, get Diana's approval, and even get Diana's highest authority, thus changing the structure of the entire Star Alliance.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, there are really people who can ignore Diana's monitoring and succeed in the rebellion, or there is a more powerful civilization, such as a super civilization of the level of Xia, who has wiped out the Star Alliance...... Even Chris can only mean that you are awesome!
Therefore, under the current system of the Star Alliance, it is not impossible for ordinary civilians to become the top of the Star Alliance, but the difficulty is conceivable.
In fact, not to mention becoming a high-level, it is not easy for ordinary civilians to become ordinary government administrators of the Star Alliance, because except for the early days of the Star Alliance's independence, the personnel of government agencies are basically composed of the staff of the original Osborne Group, and the minimum condition for becoming a government administrator in the future is that they must become citizens, not just civilians.
There are only two ways to become a citizen of the Star Alliance, one is that people who have made enough contributions to society can be granted citizenship directly. And the other, is military service.
The basic military service period of the Star Alliance is ten years, because after the popularization of genetic medicine, the minimum life expectancy of human beings has exceeded 200 years old, and the basic military service period of ten years is not long, and even in the army, there are many opportunities to obtain more powerful genetic medicine and have a longer lifespan.
After completing the basic 10 years of military service, civilians are automatically granted citizenship and choose to retire or continue their career in the military.
Only after having citizenship can she be eligible to serve in government agencies, and at the same time have the right to make recommendations on the policies of the Star Alliance government, Diana will screen the policy suggestions of citizens every year, and then submit them to the high-level meeting, and finally the high-level vote will decide whether to adopt them.
As for civilians who don't want to contribute to the Covenant? Eat and drink early, wash and hold the bionic robot and go to bed early, there is everything in your dreams. If you have any complaints, complaining privately or on the Internet is not a big problem, but if you really want to do something, the mechanical police will come to your door every minute to teach you how to behave.
Of course, in the face of such a strict system, there are naturally many people who are dissatisfied and resistant, after all, in the old earth era in the past, there were too many countries that overtly touted "free dishes", which caused the vast majority of people on the earth to get used to that kind of loose freedom.
For this kind of people, the Star Alliance will not be accustomed to it, and will generally directly suppress it, and then classify and dispose of it...... In general, there are three kinds, one is heinous, needless to say, a trip to the electric chair, but relatively speaking, this number of people is actually the least.
The other is the simple-minded, undetermined, and easily agitated people, this kind of number is the largest, and they will basically be sent to the "Star Alliance Transformation Base" for ideological transformation, basically except for those who have extremely poor physical fitness and can't even be saved by genetic drugs, they will become the favorite of the Star Alliance officers, worth fifty yuan.
As for the last one, the extremely determined pan-liberals, please refer to the more than 30,000 people who were sent to the giant starship "Mayflower" with the American team, well, that was only the first batch.
There is no doubt that the way of governance adopted by the Star Alliance is, to some extent, extremely unfair, but on the other hand, it is the way to promote the most in the short term for Earth, a civilization that has just entered the interstellar age.
The most intuitive manifestation is that the number of people who are willing to join the army for military service is rising, and the Star Alliance's requirements for ordinary soldiers are not high, after all, there are genetic drugs as the foundation, per capita physical fitness, the difference in physical fitness between men and women has narrowed sharply, and the average life expectancy has risen sharply, resulting in a greatly lengthened age for service.
The combination of these factors led to a very high proportion of the number of people eligible for service, coupled with the hard and fast rules that if you want to have citizenship, you must join the army, which led to a surge in enthusiasm for joining the army, so in the next ten years after the Star Alliance officially unified the earth, the peak period of military service exceeded 2 billion, compared with the 15 billion population at the peak of the population ten years after the Star Alliance officially unified the earth, the military-civilian ratio reached a terrifying 1:7.5.
This kind of terrifying ratio is unimaginable in the old earth era, especially in modern times, and only in the pre-Qin period, when all the people were soldiers, could there be such a terrifying proportion.
However, it is obvious that this high military-civilian ratio is of great benefit to the earth civilization in the interstellar age today, not to mention anything else, just like the dozen or so colonial planets that originally belonged to Asgard controlled by Chris, if the earth does not have enough soldiers to control, it is a cooked duck that may fly away at any time.
After talking to Norman, Chris left the Osborne family's old mansion and went directly to Sigma through the space door, which belonged to his own unique central island, in his bedroom.
Knowing that his two younger brothers were getting married, he naturally couldn't be indifferent as an elder brother, and the news he got from Diana was that Harry and Pietro, two boys and their fiancées, were all in Sigma at this time...... As a member of the Osborne family, and at the same time a powerful high-level psionic ability, even Harry and Fisilia, who are not officially serving in the Star Alliance, are qualified to live in Sigmar's Central, not to mention the older Pietro, who is now a rear admiral of the Star Alliance Fleet Marines, and even Pietro's fiancée, the former head of the Osborne Group's space department, Carla Sofin, has now also become a senior official of the Star Alliance's civil space department, and has the qualification to buy property in Sigma Central.
When he arrived in Sigma, Chris was not in a hurry to find his two younger brothers, although the central island of Sigma belonged to his private territory, but in fact he rarely lived here, no way, who let his "home" is a bit unusual, so the central island of Sigma is just a "palace" for his leisure vacation.
But this is cheaper Laura, after returning from interstellar travel, after coming to Sigma once, she fell in love with the unique beauty here, so she took her alien harem group to live here.
And now that Chris is here, he naturally has to have a small reunion with his fiancée.
"Diana, is Laura on the island?" Coming out of his room, Chris asked.
"Yes, Lady Laura and her 'maids' and the other ladies are now at Beach One." Diana's holographic projection appeared next to Chris out of thin air.
"Ah, that's great!" Chris raised his eyebrows when he heard this, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then with a teleportation, he appeared directly on the choppy celestial beach, and the position where he appeared happened to be next to Wanda, who was also resting on the beach while enjoying the beautiful scenery of Saturn's rings, which caused a burst of exclamations from the other party.
Chris didn't expect that his position was so coincidental, it happened to be Wanda's side, but it didn't matter, what happened to his sister, it wasn't a kiss anyway, so in the next second, Wanda's exclamation was even louder.
Wanda's exclamation also attracts the attention of the others on the beach, but most of them take care of themselves when they see that it is Chris, and of course there are people like Axella who like to do things, and will choose to come to Chris and help him bully his sister together.
And Laura, who is the hostess of this place, only glanced at Chris, and then hugged the blue-hoofed alien girl beside her without any waves in her heart, and then squinted and continued to enjoy the ear cleaning service of the little maid Shanmansha...... This little girl's tongue is so long, so soft and flexible~~~