"Is the galaxy so big, with only 108 intelligent life races?" After digesting a lot of information, the old man was puzzled and mentioned another question.

"Of course, there are no less than 108 intelligent lifeforms, but not ordinary intelligent life forms can join the alliance. But there is an important prerequisite for joining the Alliance, that is, this race must always master the technology of traveling at the speed of light, and only when it has mastered the speed of light travel, the Alliance will send someone to invite the planet to join the alliance and provide high-end technology that far exceeds the existing knowledge of the planet. Earth mastered the speed of light in 2888 A.D., and accepted the invitation that year, and then joined. Until you sail at the speed of light, you won't be invited, no matter how high your other skills are. Not to mention being accepted, mastering the technology of traveling at the speed of light is a key to joining the alliance. ”

"Oh!" The old man realized a little, and then asked, "So the alliance often sends spaceships to learn about the scientific and technological status of various intelligent planets?" ”

"yes, we didn't know until we joined the alliance. Ever since the Earth entered the Bronze Age, it has been known every once in a while or so every few hundred years. As technology accelerates, the time to explore will accelerate, usually once every fifty years after a planet enters the industrial civilization. ”

"That means that the UFO incident that appeared on the earth in the past was the alliance's exploration of the earth!" The old man suddenly became excited.

"I've seen a few of them, most of them natural. Where is the reconnaissance ship of the Soyuz so easy to see. These spacecraft, which are responsible for detecting interstellar energy, have been specially processed to be light-stealthy, and will only be seen by our human ancestors when they malfunction. ”

"Something is out of order? So are there any aliens who have malfunctioned and stayed on Earth? The old man seemed to have discovered a new continent, and his tone rose an octave.

"Once or twice! I remember a time when a man had been living on Earth for too long, and when he came back, he was caught by the Alliance and convicted of disturbing natural development, and he was punished quite severely. ”

"Oh!" As soon as I heard me say this, the old man became energetic again, "So, many ancient miracles on the earth have aliens involved!" ”

"Not much! According to the records, that person admitted to helping design a stone tower, and he didn't dare to do anything else, knowing that the alliance strictly forbids anything that affects the independent innovation and development of life on the native planet. Article 3 of the Alliance's Planet Development Code stipulates that it is strictly forbidden to disclose the information of the Alliance, stay for a long time, and interfere with the laws of planetary development for the three types of planets that have produced intelligent life (civilization). “

"Why?" The old man was a little puzzled.

"Because the Alliance believes that every planet has his strengths, his creativity, and should not interfere with his own direction until the conditions for admission are met. And with each planet potentially developing one or more technologies or ideas that are not currently available in the Coalition itself, creativity is too important. And if it affects the way of thinking of the people of the native planet, or makes them develop in the way of the Alliance, then they will never be able to jump out of the current framework, and for the Alliance, absorbing such a planet is just a more population, and there is no point in it. ”

"In that respect, the alliance is doing the right thing." The old man praised it greatly, nodded again and again, and asked, "Then there are not so many restrictions on planets without intelligent creatures!" ”

"How is that possible!" I shook my head and said, "The first rule of the development code is that only a class of planets that are sure of no possibility of life can be exploited for destructive resources. Larger asteroids fall into this category. Article 2 of the Development Code: For the second-class planets that do not produce intelligent life but produce life, limited resource mining can be carried out, limited hunting of living organisms can be carried out, and small bases can be established or large bases can be built in special areas. The construction of the base should minimize the damage to the natural environment and strictly prohibit the destruction of biodiversity. Celta is a second-class planet, where people mostly live in areas where the environment was not ideal but has been transformed. There are many animals and plants in the area with a superior environment, but they are basically included in the cautious area, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter except for the scientific research team, and most of the inhabited immigrant planets in the alliance except for the origin star are basically second-class planets. ”

"You mentioned three development rules, and there are a few more rules, let's talk about them."

"There is only the fourth rule left: focus on the protection of the origin star, and restore the natural environment as much as possible according to its original appearance."

The old man was deep in thought, obviously many of the Alliance's practices surprised him, because human nature is always selfish, and he definitely didn't expect to be able to take into account the autonomy of the native planet and the diversity of biological development in this way.

"It is precisely because of the many similar regulations of the alliance that our earth ancestors decided to join the alliance, otherwise an alliance that only focuses on the interests of its own nation and cares about the interests of other races will not join." I very much appreciated the provisions of the Alliance's development code, and the old man nodded his head repeatedly.

"What about the administrative system of the Alliance! Something particularly important if decided? The old man changed the subject and talked about the more important internal affairs of the Union.

"The highest authority of the Union is the Parliament under the leadership of the Central Committee, which has 108 seats. In addition to the Supreme Central Committee, each district has a district Central Committee, and the planet has also set up a planetary committee. In addition to the 108 members of the Central Committee and the Planet Committee, there are also 7 members of the leadership level, and if there are major matters that need to be voted on by the parliament, 60% of the votes, that is, 65 votes, can be passed. However, if the seven members of the Committee believe that the proposal that did not receive 65 votes should be implemented in the correct way, then they can exercise special enforcement powers. Of course, the exercise of special enforcement power is not unlimited, first of all, all seven members agree to it, and no one of them can be absent or abstain. The second limit is the number of implementations, which can only be implemented three times per decade. ”

"Why is there a special executive power, isn't it quite reasonable to let the parliament vote!" The old man asked puzzled.

"What do you say?" I scratched my head, "Don't we earthlings have a famous saying?" The truth is often in the hands of a few, and what is vetoed by parliament is not necessarily wrong, and there is always a selfish side to people. Parliamentarians of different races tend to approve in favour of their own race and oppose those who are unfavourable to their own ethnicity. After all, only a tiny fraction of parliamentarians are completely disregarded for racial differences. ”

You're right, the truth is often in the hands of a few. Absolute democracy does not exist at any time, and it still requires some decisions from the leaders! I think the league is doing the right thing. The old man should have figured it out, and nodded again and again.

"Then there are 5 races in the outer eight districts, and the 108 seats in the Central Committee are evenly divided!"

"No, the Ice Prism Star has 28 votes, and the other 80 votes are divided equally among the four clans."

"What about the seven seats of the Central Committee?"

"This is like this, in the election of the Central Committee every 50 years, the chairman and vice chairman are elected first, and the chairman and vice chairman cannot be of the same race, and the remaining five are selected from the three races that have not been elected as the chairman, and each race has a maximum of 2, so that the power of the chairman and vice chairman of the committee is limited and a certain balance has been reached."

"Am I too curious to ask so many questions at once? Take a break and eat some fruit. "I said too much, and my lips, which had just been moistened by the fruit, began to dry again, but fortunately, Grandpa Kong found out about the problem and gave me some time to rest. I nodded a little embarrassedly, and then took a red cherry fruit and put it in my mouth, this fruit is a little sour, but it has a lot of water, and it is very thirst-quenching.

Everyone picked different fruits and tasted them, and when we ate, the old man looked at us happily and seemed to enjoy our food. After eating a few more, the old man continued to ask questions.

"Speaking of the chairman and vice chairman just now, do the chairman and vice chairman have any special powers?"

"Yes, the chairman and vice chairman can have one veto power, of course, there are restrictions, and there are only three chances in each 50-year term." This time it was Luo Hao's turn, who had not spoken, to reply.

Grandpa Kong nodded, and after a while, he asked again: "By the way, after talking for a long time, I don't know how you came here, I heard the children say that you came to this planet because you got lost." ”

"Yes!" Speaking of this heavy topic, we all restrained our smiles. I looked at Hongjian and Luo Hao, and in the end, it was up to me to answer this question.

"We had a problem with the timing system when we were sailing, and we sailed nine times as long and farther. We don't know exactly where we are in the universe right now. At that time, we were almost out of food, so we wanted to find a living planet to find something to eat. In this way, seven turns and eight turns of yin and yang have found here. ”

"Don't you know where you are now? Where are we in the Outer Eighth District? "The old man showed his sorrow for the first time, he should be mainly worried about us, for he is afraid that this is his home, and it is not unacceptable that he must not return to the earth.

"Strictly speaking, we are no longer within the scope of the Outer Eight Regions, and the area we are currently in is not within the scope of the Star Domain Map of the Outer Eight Regions." I've given you an idea of where we're at the moment. Hongyin and Luo Hao also interjected from time to time to solve a few words.

Hongjian also talked in detail about the process of our coming here this time, which made the old man stunned for a while. When she said that we were lost and couldn't find our way, the old man was obviously a lot lost. But when we found a way back, the old man was happy again, and told us that they also had a photometer on board for us to use. That's great news for us to speed up our searches. The two sides talked happily, like friends who had been separated for a long time.