"As for the solution, the Fleet in Exile has been discussed on and off for thirty years, and numerous ideas have been proposed, but they have been quickly rejected. Sociologists tell leaders that this is an objective law of social development, which cannot be prevented artificially, and that unless the replacement can be stopped, everything will inevitably happen, and disintegration is inevitable. Looking at the expressions of several guests, it seems that there is a certain understanding of this, and I think there have been similar situations in your hometown. ”

"Heh, your troubles are not a law unique to this world, I am afraid that as long as you are an intelligent creature with human nature, you will not be able to escape this law. Shul sighed softly, "In Pavatiga, and even in my native land, similar things have happened. ”

Indeed, there are many, many similar examples of Parvatiga, and many of them are too lazy to recall. The most typical is the pioneering era known as the golden age of Parvatiga. At the beginning of the pioneer era, people stepped out of the settlements and ambitiously challenged the world, new cities were constantly established, and the territory of various ethnic groups continued to expand.

On the road of development, everyone worked together, including the city to which the development team belonged, to fully support the construction and development of the development territory, and the residents would rather go hungry themselves than let the development territory get the best support. However, as time goes by, after several generations have passed, everything has gone sour, various contradictions have emerged, and the rifts between each other have deepened.

Thus, a dark and cruel era of chaos descended, with wars and killings and corpses everywhere. It can be said that the advent of the chaotic era is the inevitable result of the pioneering era, and it is the prosperity and glory of the pioneering era that has created the darkness and cruelty of the chaotic era.

During this period, that is, the long-lived races were relatively better, at least there were no major disputes within the countries, and the rest of the short-lived races, without exception, were swallowed up by reason and humanity in the Dark Ages.

Sure enough, this is the inevitable result, and no one can escape it. Ryan smiled wryly and sighed, "Seeing that the situation is getting more and more out of control, someone has finally come up with a plan to sleep. ”

"Since we can't stop the situation from worsening as long as we continue to replace the generation, we should simply stop the change. It's not that it can't be done, although you said before that our cryonics technology is still in a relatively early stage, but it is still possible to freeze living organisms and keep them for thousands of years. Therefore, the original plan for Sleep was to freeze everyone and completely hand over the spaceship to a central computer control. ”

"But the central computer is not artificial intelligence after all, and many specific problems cannot be handled by themselves, and they must rely on normal people to make judgments. As a result, the position of Watchman came into being, and on a ship, at least one normal person must be awake, who is the acting captain of the ship, the so-called watchman, with a second level of authority, and can give orders except for self-harm. Whenever the physical condition of the current watchman is confirmed to be uncontrollable, the watchman designates or the central computer chooses the next successor, that is, in any case, it is necessary to ensure that there is at least one watchman on each ship to ensure the normal navigation of the ship. ”

"Very good plan. Shuer mostly understood, and nodded slightly, "However, it's not the same as the current situation." ”

"Yes, that was the original dormant plan, it was made on paper, it hadn't been tested in practice, and we certainly couldn't have put it into practice right away. "So, when Nina and I were kids, well, we were younger than Delia now, five or six years old, and Camille was probably not born at that time, and the fleet gathered a group of volunteers to start a long-term cryonics test. The tests were carried out for a full twenty years, and on the basis of determining the technical feasibility, two more fatal flaws were discovered. ”

"The first defect, staying asleep for a long time, is damaging to the human spirit, and there will be a large number of adverse reactions, such as amnesia, personality distortion, such as violent tendencies, etc., which will require months of psychiatric treatment to return to normal. This is only 20 years of cryopathy, but what if it is 200 years? No one can guarantee that this sleep symptom will become permanent and will never be cured. ”

"Amnesia in deep space, common adverse effects of dormant navigation. Shuer's ear heard Wei's explanation, "There are seven ways to heal, but there are obvious shortcomings in the technology tree of this world, and it's normal for them to not know how to deal with it." ”

"The second defect is that everyone falls asleep, and the development of civilization is completely stagnant, and it is useless to rely on the watchman alone. The meaning of our existence, on the one hand, is to inherit and continue the Brown Star civilization, as far as possible to delay the time of the demise of the civilization, on the other hand, in fact, we are also in exile, struggling to pursue a glimmer of life, for this faint hope, the development of science and technology must not stop, otherwise, we might as well simply stay in our hometown and perish with the Brown Star. ”

"Heh, I see, that's why there's a virtual space. Shuer said thoughtfully, "However, that space is too desperate, since the reality is already so cruel, why should it be so difficult in dreams." ”

"Well, the virtual space can perfectly solve the adverse reactions of long-term sleep, and can also maintain the normal development of the Brown Star civilization, the method is very simple, all the so-called memory chips, in fact, are a receiver, one-to-one connected to the brainwaves of the sleeper, for the sleeping person, it is like having another life in a dream. ”

"What about newborns and the dead?"

"There are no real newborns, those are artificially bred biochemical people, there is no thinking function, no reproductive function, the so-called newborn, is just to put the embryo of a biochemical person into the mother's body. Ryan smiled bitterly, "These are actually very easy to solve, we control all the machinery, even control everything in the virtual space, the central computer calculates, decides who should give birth, and injects the embryo into the mother to let her conceive, after the birth of the newborn, immediately install the brainwave receiver, which is the so-called memory chip, and all the problems are solved." ”

"And who controls the newborn individuals?"

"Of course, the passengers who have had a bye and are waiting for a chance to be born, such as those who have passed away. Ryan shrugged, "We deliberately controlled the number of people so that the number of passengers on the ship was higher than the number of people in the virtual space, so that the space could be kept functioning properly. ”

"Oh, an alternative reincarnation. Shuer thought of the legend about the reincarnation of life in his hometown, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, "Reincarnation and reincarnation, which sounded extremely mysterious before, may be as simple and rude as it is. But, Mr. Ryan, if this was planned, why didn't anyone inside know about it?"

"This is a unified decision of all the ships in the fleet, and at the beginning, some people proposed that everyone should keep their memories and live in it, but it would induce many other contradictions. For example, a human mental power is limited, in the virtual world, generation after generation of reincarnation, the accumulated memory and pressure is a very terrible burden, no one can easily bear, and there are also a large number of unexplained contradictions in ethics and morality, so in order to avoid trouble, the final choice is in the form of dreams, after the dream everyone is a person in the virtual world, once the dream wakes up, the memory is quickly forgotten, not affected in any way, this is the most perfect result. ”

"The rest of the matter is logical, with the assistance of self-discipline machinery, it is not difficult to build that virtual space, and everyone controls the body, all need to be carried out through the network of the central computer of the spaceship, the central computer can affect the memory of the virtual biochemical body to a certain extent, so it is easy to make the society of the virtual world run normally by influencing their memory to make up a history that does not exist. ”

"Hmm? Shul raised an eyebrow, "According to the human and mechanical bodies below, it was only sixty years since the mechanical apocalypse, and everything was normal sixty years ago." ”

"Heh, that's because this dream started at that point in time sixty years ago, and it happened to be a dream of mechanical apocalypse. Ryan looked up at the ceiling of the cabin and said with recollection, "I've read the records of the various generations of watchmen, and for more than a thousand years, most eras have chosen the Pioneer Planet as the background, and there are fewer people like this generation who have chosen the mechanical apocalypse. Well, the basic plot is similar, it's all a conflict between humans and machines, and then humans are trapped in an area where they can't leave, there's no way, because the spaceship is only so big, and the brainwave controller will only work in the lower area of the spaceship, of course, they can't be allowed to move freely. After setting, the dream develops on its own, and the watcher cannot easily interfere, and can only intervene when the dream develops to the point where it is beyond control, at which point the central computer forcibly resets the dream, compiles a new backstory, and everything starts again. ”

"As for why they should live so hard in their dreams, this was also a common decision at the beginning. On the one hand, it is necessary to limit the activity space in the dream world without creating a sense of disobedience, and on the other hand, ......"

"It's only when you're under pressure that you can be motivated. Shure nodded, "The automates have told us why, and it seems that you set this view for them." ”

"No, once the background is set successfully, without encountering special circumstances, the central computer will not interfere with the memory of the person in the virtual dream, the mechanical body is actually the human in the dream, and their memory is also included in the scope of not being interfered with, so we just disguise ourselves as the mastermind, and give them some instructions and guidance through the central computer, but we can't do anything with their memory, most of the people in it will think so, in fact, their ontology itself has this awareness, such as Di ...... Kemir. ”

"Dad, my name is Delia. ”

"Kemir, she's ......"

"My name is Delia. ”

"Alas, Delia has now remembered everything from the past, and you can ask her, she also holds the same consciousness, preferring to live under threats and pressure, but also to contribute to the continuation of civilization in dreams. Those people in the dream may have their own private messages, but this awareness is universal. ”

"Well, I probably understand the so-called dream plan, but it's actually nothing more than a hilarious farce. Shuer frowned and said, "The problem is, the problem of time still can't be explained, your so-called virtual space is actually still built in the real world, with your technology, it is impossible to touch the law of time, there is no doubt that you left Delia sixty years ago, what happened?"

"Because...... Our selfishness has made a mistake. The two old men looked at each other and smiled bitterly, "We conditionally reset the internal environment once, and we paid a lot of price for it. ”