Where are the aliens? Do they really exist? If they do, why haven't we been able to catch a glimpse of them? Could it be that they are all ninja talents who can hide in cardboard boxes and play stealth?

From a probabilistic point of view, there is a high probability that the Milky Way will give birth to an extraterrestrial civilization, and in Anduin's dimension, the Milky Way is even more noisy.

If humanity wants to rush out of the galaxy as fast as possible, the best way to do it is not to build a manned spacecraft like a sardine can, but to use an autonomous machine that can replicate itself and has independent thinking programs.

Launch this drone to a planet, it will start collecting mineral deposits according to the program, build a life base, and then make other copies, hollowing out the resources of an entire planet in a short period of time, and then build a rocket launch base on the surface of the planet, and then launch itself to other planets with the rocket, and repeat the process.

Sounds frustrating and low, right, like a bitter coal miner, reminiscent of some kind of alien bug called beta, or the flesh-and-blood proliferation of the Zerg in StarCraft.

The creation designed according to this concept, which was named the von Nonemann machine by humans, can be traced back to the global warming problem in the last century.

Of course, some people can't help but ask, if the von Neumann machine is really so good, why has the earth with a history of 4.6 billion years of evolution has not been occupied by self-regulatory machinery? Why can we still lie on the sofa every day and swipe Weibo and WeChat, read online articles and pet cats, without worrying about waking up and facing the tragic fate of being overwhelmed by alien armies and becoming slaves?

It's very simple, because we humans ourselves are von Neumann machines, and we are the sparks of civilization emitted by higher civilizations.

According to the procedure, the meteorite carrying the genetic material fell from the sky, fell into the volcanic lake, smelled the sulfur and flames, and began the earliest fetal movement of life.

As for the later controversy between green and red pigments, algae, fish, amphibians, insects, dinosaurs, and mammoths, they are all knowledge from science fiction pictorials, and I will not repeat them here.

And we human beings, because of the first ape to dance a little bit of wooden stick, began the magnificent evolutionary history of using tools and gradually developing the brain domain.

This has to be said to be very lucky, if the carbon-based seeds of life sown by higher civilization are compared to tens of millions of students of the same grade in the same grade, then apes are equivalent to the champions with the best grades (thanks to the insect repeaters and dinosaur repeaters of the previous sessions, they are in the point of back, and have not carried the harsh cycle of the earth's natural evolution), as the top ape in the college entrance examination, that is, we, it is precisely because of the inheritance of the blessings of our ancestors that we can live a comfortable life today.

So the question is, what happened to the civilizations on other planets?

According to the statistics of scholars of the Galactic Federation, 4 billion years ago, this galaxy was still a lifeless puddle of muddy waters, without any known life, until one day, a transcendent being that is now unknown descended.

He, or she, they, they, they, sowed the seeds of carbon-based and silicon-based life on all suitable planets, and overnight, the planets that were still tumbling with hot magma and blowing fierce winds began the process of life evolution.

In the past 4 billion years, how many singing and crying elegy of life have been staged in turn, how many magnificent empires have been established and collapsed, and how many races have been born and destroyed.

By some coincidence, a large part of the race for life on the planet's surface is won by humanoids, whether he is a kobold, a vampire, a troll, or a Naga, at least half of the races have heads and limbs, and also rely on the exchange of DNA between the sexes to reproduce - of course, I have to @ a certain name called "Sad Wind" It is a very daily race, they are all humanoid males, and their coldness to the appearance of their partners is simply jaw-dropping, from the giant beast to the little hamster, the Sad Wind family can be conceived through a simple piston movement, giving birth to the descendants of the Sad Wind in various shapes.

Returning to the topic, the depletion of planetary resources has led various civilizations to urgently carry out the process of landing on other planets, and because of the existence of the upper limit of the speed of scientific and technological development, they have tacitly broken through the third speed of the universe almost at the same time, and played a triumphant song of endless march to the sea of stars.

The galaxy is vast, but it's not a barren backyard, and these civilizations met on the way to expansion.

Contrary to the bucket principle, a civilization's combat power will not be bound by shortcomings, and its destructive power will always lie in the highest baffle.

For example, if a civilization with a nuclear bomb is faced with an enemy who is still stuck in the era of giant ships and cannons, even if the difference between the two civilizations may only be 20 or even 10 years, this time is enough time for the civilization to plant the flowers of the nuclear bomb on every colonized planet of the enemy.

However, then again, even if the destructive power of the nuclear bomb civilization is amazing, the giant ship cannon civilization is not without the power of a battle, and they can rely on the suicide geometer cannon to destroy the enemy's planetary surface, and also cause great damage to the opponent.

This principle is roughly equivalent to the arcane master on the magic side who travels to the cyberpunk planet and can reach the pinnacle of life by relying on extremely simple spells to charm humans, while the science and engineering dog on the technology side travels to the planet of the wand scroll and can rely on a hand of black powder to make the opposite scalp tingle.

The highest scientific achievements developed by two different civilizations are almost incomprehensible and uncontrollable mysteries to each other.

The law of the dark forest can't help but exist in Mr. Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem", and the civilizations who have lit up the talent of sociology quickly realize that once two civilizations that do not know each other come into contact, they must first kill each other, otherwise the slightest change in the other party will cause an irreparable cup to themselves.

As a result, the civilizations that had just embarked on a journey to the sea of stars began a war that lasted for hundreds of millions of years.

It is impossible to depict what it looks like with any brushstroke, and the eternal burning star is tightly wrapped in a Dyson sphere (equivalent to a layer of solar panels wrapped around the surface of the star) to draw energy;

The rapidly rotating neutron star is captured and hollowed out, and it is made into a warship that goes all the way to the core, from the surface of the planet all the way to the core, and then emerges on the other side of the planet, with the background plate of the disintegrating continental plates;

The group of warships that obscured the sky and the sun relied on the vacuum zero point to continuously move over the curvature, and the two sides competed at the speed of teleportation almost like a close dance, and if they were slightly slower by half a beat, they would be smashed into pieces by the boundless high-energy beam;

What contrasts with the war is the birth, old age, sickness, death, love and hatred of those trillions of independent individuals, and the intermingling of personal emotions is not worth mentioning in the concerto of racial civilization.

Intrigues, intrigue, allies, betrayals, deals, feuds.....

A variety of galactic civilizations have taken turns, opening up a meat grinder-like battlefield in each arm, the heavens and the earth crumbling, the stars withering, and everything shattering the dust.

At the end of the war, no race had the power to exterminate the others, and each race was completely tired of the war that had lasted for billions of years and never saw an end in sight.

So, an ancient Oriental Green Dragon was elected, he was born in the vast universe, no one knows where he came from or where he is going, only that he has been circling between civilizations, trying to end this war.

With his vast knowledge, deep wisdom, and well-known benevolence, Blue Dragon became the first president of the Galactic Federation, and he single-handedly built a vast empire that was prudent and peaceful.

The Galactic Federation has established a bill and unanimously agreed not to interfere with backward civilizations (such as Earth) that are still on the surface of the planetary system, which is naturally out of justice, after all, a few steps ahead of technology means that you can prey on others at will.

Of course, no matter how vast the universe is, there will always be one or two mavericks who don't care much about the authority of the Galactic Federation, and one of Anduin's great hobbies, as a notorious wanted businessman, is to interfere with the development of backward civilizations.

And now, sitting on the curved bridge of the Anna Cabbage Flatbread spaceship, he buttoned his toes and threw a dossier wrapped in old parchment on the table.

"Let's go straight away. ”