Krydal gently touched the payment window of the fast food restaurant with her smart bracelet, and the voice of the electronic system came out: "The payment has been completed, you have paid 2.25 yuan." ”

"It's really convenient." Krydal has entered a state of daily admiration again.

In fact, on Iridium, various forms of quick payment have existed for thousands of years, and even in the old era of the earth before entering the interstellar age, the prototype of fast payment has appeared in the form of scanning QR codes. But in many civilizations, the use of physical money is still a difficult way to abandon it.

Iridium's situation is special, Iridium does not have a commercial bank, because its own economic system has communist characteristics, so the "money" owned by Iridium people is directly bound to their personal citizenship, and holding credit currency itself is Iridium to issue credit currency to citizens, but also mainly to meet people's daily needs.

However, in the first galaxy star, because of the adoption of the joint yuan, various resources and products are more easily exchanged for currency. Citizens of the New United Empire of all civilizations who work and live here can earn a union dollar count salary through their work. Therefore, in fact, on the First Galactic Star, the commercial attribute is even stronger.

Krydal bought a burger known as "Iridium Specialty Food", although the Tarotfi civilization is a low-level civilization, but she does not get tired of eating, so she does not eat the burger of the earthlings and feels that this thing should only be in the sky, but it still makes her feel happy to try new foods.

Her assistant Lansendahl said, "Prices on the First Galactic Star aren't very high. ”

"After all, it is an advanced civilization, and it may even be the most technologically advanced Iridium in the galaxy right now, and the production of food and various other consumer goods should be very simple for them. From this point of view, in fact, the prices of these things cannot be considered low, at least they cannot truly reflect their real consumption. "Krydal is a scholar after all, and although she comes from a low-level civilization, she can still see the problems clearly.

Lansendal flattened his lips and said, "If the Iridium people's technology is really so advanced, why don't they open up and supply all the items they need?" ”

"Because that would be an excessive waste of resources in the universe. I've heard that Iridium people have a very careful plan for the consumption of resources and energy to maximize the recovery and reuse of various resources. A higher civilization may contribute a huge amount to the increase in entropy of the universe, and they are not as fast as they consume the universe, not to mention that the new universe we are in now has only one galaxy, the Milky Way, which is far less vast and material-rich than the previous universe. ”

After a long day of wandering around like tourists, Krydal and Lansendal returned to their apartment. Even though the First Galactic Star has a large area and there are still many places that have not been used, the frugal characteristics of the Iridium people are still well reflected. None of the dwellings in this city used for the Civilization Congress are detached houses, all of them are skyscraper apartments hundreds of meters high.

The Iridians have renovated many of the buildings that were originally built by the Jinxiren, and even dug up a lot of underground facilities. This allows the Iridium to create a lot of functional space in the smallest unit area. Even high-ranking delegates or civil servants do not live in particularly luxurious and spacious houses, such as the apartment in Kolidar, which is only 180 square meters.

A small number of races with particularly large sizes also have homes tailored for them, but if they are going to work, the Iridians choose to let them work through the android bodies transmitted by their consciousness, otherwise the Iridians have to build various institutions and venues to be particularly large.

Newly home, Krydal received a new document from the United Empire's Ministry of Communications, which was more than 2,000 pages long, but Krydal was shocked by the title alone.

Discussion on the Proposal and Preliminary Plan for the Construction of the Membership Civilization Administrative Star Gate Network of the United Empire

Although the name of this document is simple and straightforward, the amount of information contained and the ambition and boldness displayed in it completely shocked Krydal.

As we all know, the Galactic High Governance Council used the stargate system established by an unknown previous civilization to create a stargate network that facilitates the cross-star navigation of the higher civilization. However, the scale of this stargate network is relatively limited, basically there are only two or three in a large star region, which is mainly used for advanced civilizations to travel from one large star region to another. However, the wider middle and low-class civilizations are not allowed to use this facility at all.

The Iridium version of the stargate network is even more generous, all the participating civilizations participating in the United Empire of Iridium will participate in the construction of this stargate network, and the edge orbit of the gravity well of all the administrative stars of the United Empire will establish a stargate, if this stargate is successfully built, it can easily reach any administrative star of the United Empire from a planet.

Ransendale was so surprised that his jaw fell to the ground when he saw this document, "This...... This is impossible, the cost of building a stargate is high, the technology is complicated, and even the former Big Ten have not built a stargate in every administrative star at all. Many planets don't have many people at all, and it's unlikely that there will be any exchange activities, so wouldn't it be a waste to build a stargate? ”

However, Kelidar's eyes lit up with enthusiasm, and she shook her head and said: "This is not a question of waste or not at all, the Führer's meaning is very clear, he wants to use the stargate network to completely connect all the planets of the Iridium United Empire, so that the communication between civilizations will be closer." In terms of defense, the stargate network also has a major advantage, once a planet is attacked, then the unified imperial army stationed elsewhere can rush to the aid as quickly as possible. For example, the natural disaster of the insect swarm that we are facing now, the Star Whale Beast does not need to maintain such a large scale, where there is harm, where to help. ”

Lansendale saw it even more negatively: "Similarly, if the stargate network is really built, I am afraid that the promise of independence and autonomy to various civilizations will be nothing more than empty words." The Iridians deliberately use this method to completely control all civilizations, the military power of the fleets of each civilization has been handed over to the United Empire, and now there is a stargate network, basically the Iridians can fiddle with us as much as they want, and we have no room for resistance. ”

Krydal sighed, "That being said, if we didn't accept it before, we would be wiped out by the swarm. At least the situation is satisfactory for now, the Iridium Führer is a benevolent leader and wants the galaxy to move in a better direction, so let's pray that he will always be like this. ”