Chapter 381: Infiltration and Intelligence
Due to the volume of matter and thought, as well as its concealment, the existing nanoworm clone is not yet capable of performing too complex work, but Nesta is not really at all
According to what I have seen and heard in the black market during this time, in the process of taming the slave soldiers by the forces of the dark world, in addition to the basic obedience training carried out by the seller before the 'slaughter', there is actually a more critical step, that is, the 'systematic submission' that I have heard about before.
This so-called 'systematic submission' refers to the collection of slave soldiers into the mind of the entire force through some kind of group ritual, plus a set of mental training methods that should be very similar to meditation, and then seek to monitor, locate, and strengthen loyalty to the slave soldiers' mental fluctuations.
In addition, it can be seen from previous adventures and experiments on the black market that this kind of pattern thinking integration technique is not only applied to the slave soldiers, but is also widely used by the official members of the upper and lower ranks;
In this regard, the cocoon of thoughts in the internal feedback of the Yinba Group base, as well as the infinite thought lines spread from individuals with different backgrounds in the black market, are also the actual embodiment of the extensiveness of this application;
The most important effect seems to be similar to that of the slave soldier group, mainly playing a role in monitoring the thinking of members and strengthening the sense of collective belonging, but according to the difference in the status of the thinking subject in their own background forces, some additional attributes such as monitoring weight and manipulation are added, such as the anti-espionage screen that dominated the black market at the beginning is one of its application methods.
It can also be seen from the fact that the hostels were shot after they were exposed, and that all parties in the river system and the Republic in general have discovered the attribute of thinking without regard for distance, and have applied this attribute to the control of the overall situation and purity of power;
But on the other hand, perhaps because it lacks the internal visualization methods like the elven spellcaster, the overall application level seems to be dull and monotonous?
For example, even if a member maintains a mental connection with his or her own force at all times, he or she cannot use it to conduct information transmission regardless of distance, or is there some relatively harsh condition?
In the internal observations carried out by the rest of the casters, as well as the many attempts carried out by Nesta himself, the casters also discovered a fairly obvious phenomenon;
That is, the influence that the mind connection can have on the members also seems to be closely related to the strength of the various forces.
Judging from the superficial performance alone, the infiltrators find that the more powerful the gang, the more clever they are in this regard, but it is not clear whether it is the 'clever means' that make them grow and develop, or whether the strength of the forces themselves will have a positive impact on the 'means';
Or is it a combination of the two that can create a mutually reinforcing effect?
All in all, Nesta has not been able to draw a definitive conclusion on this without really seeing the exact process of the whole ritual, without seeing the way in which the mind should be trained in speculation;
But now there was an opportunity in front of him, and most of the slaves in the lower echelons of the ship had not experienced this kind of taming, so strictly speaking, they were not in the realm of the mind monitoring of the Tuomato Legion at the moment
Unlike the Carapace Heads, the official members of the upper dormant binds, these Slaves were a window into Nesta's exploitation, not to shy away from the possibility of being spotted if they made a big move.
So the main body of Nesta, who was far away in the headquarters of the republic, first used this nanoworm clone to find out the next voyage arrangement of the spacecraft, and analyzed the specific time that he could use;
He learned that the ship would arrive at a small Legion base in about 7 galactic years, where it would complete the final tame of the purchased slaves.
There wasn't a lot of time for this clone, so he had to hurry up and start the rest of the arrangements as soon as possible in order to complete the most basic substitution for a slave before arriving at the base.
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In fact, there is still a lot of uncollected data in the spaceship system, and Nesta, who is located here, cannot carry out two missions at the same time, after a little hesitation, he still chooses to carry out the former first, after all, where can the information obtained by the most basic raiding team be rich?
Relatively speaking, it is more important to get a reasonable and legal real skin as soon as possible, and everything you can do in the future will be more comfortable with this new identity.
With this in mind, after packing and uploading the part of the intelligence information that had been pulled up to the 'mouth' earlier, Nesta no longer hesitated to start reading the slave soldiers' information and began to parse it, and spent some time learning the location and approximate identity of the new buyer's cabin.
First of all, the logo of the lowest level 1 and the highest level 3 on the data quickly caught his attention, these did not seem to be similar to the combat power level of online games in the first thought, but more like a comprehensive ranking that combined a number of different criteria, but in the absence of more in-depth information, the specific situation is not known for the time being.
However, he still set his goals at a relatively balanced 'level three', and screened out a very small number of individuals who were too bells and whistles from various goals, and only looked for appropriate targets from flesh and blood lives;
Fortunately, this is also the most widespread form of life in the known universe, so this part of the newly purchased low-level slaves accounts for almost 99.9% of the quota, so there is still plenty of choice left for Nesta.
Eventually, an individual with more abundant abilities and a more pleasing appearance came into view, and his skill box not only listed a long list of labels such as 'Combat Roughness', 'Driving Skill', 'Command Roughness', etc., but also a special evaluation of 'relatively high potential';
At the same time, he is also the most expensive of the new slave soldiers in the team, and it seems that he intends to let him play the role of commander of the slave soldiers after receiving training, although it may not be able to help the next operation, but in line with the idea of having dates and not beating three poles, Nesta still fell in love with this primitive slave soldier at a glance.
According to the data, it is a creature that is roughly 'humanoid', but has the appearance of inhuman features with four arms, two feet, and a single horn on the top of its head, and is covered in tough, dark virgin leather.
If the content shown in the data is converted into elven weights and measures, although its body data performance is not as good as the average of the former prime-aged trolls, and there is a huge gap compared to the early elves, it is still good compared to the general level of the continental races on the home planet.
After completing the conversion, this creature has a body mass of about 0.9 tons, an overall height of about 2.6 meters, an instantaneous body output strength of 9 tons, a nerve reaction speed of 60 milliseconds, the fastest record of 100 meters charge of 5.11 seconds, a vertical jump ability of 7 meters, and can withstand direct fire from large-caliber rifles at close range without injury.
Of course, even if the council system makes large-scale interstellar warfare almost extinct in the river system, the weapons that the rest of the small-scale ship sabotage warfare, counter-attack disturbance warfare, and surface landing warfare have to face are not something that this body can face directly with the physical body;
However, physical ability also has a certain value, such as endurance, reaction speed, and even strength and other data, which can affect the expressiveness of the same armament to a considerable extent, otherwise physical ability will not be used as one of the grading criteria for slave soldiers.
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The Molecular Reptile is extremely small in size and perceptual circle, and its travel speed seems to be fast compared to itself, but if measured by the scale of a spaceship, it seems to be extremely slow;
Therefore, without much external force to borrow, the ultra-miniature reptile spent a lot of time finally coming to the slave cabin, and squeezed into it along the gap in the hatch to find the corresponding sleeping cabin.
After another process of squeezing, it attached to the surface of the mountain of flesh, which was almost as large as a planet in contrast, and then burrowed into its body through the abyss-like cracks;
This process is naturally completed under the guidance of the subject, so the reptile picks a good infiltration location from the beginning, and with the assistance of the ocean-like body fluids inside, it travels along, and finally reaches the central structure in the skull of the target creature.
Starting with this, the formal work was carried out, and the molecular reptile infiltrated into its most basic central structural unit, and then actively chose to combine with its internal macromolecular structure, and opened the life force field at full power to begin the transformation of matter.
Time is slowly passing, and the internal structure of the macromolecule that was first assimilated has formed a more powerful assimilation effect, and it is spreading wildly in the surrounding area like an infectious disease, accelerating the assimilation target to change its name and surname to usher in a new belonging, all of which have become substances belonging to Niesta, and then start a new phase of the mission at a faster speed.
From one to ten, ten to hundred, one hundred to ten thousand, ten thousand to ten million, as more and more Touchengpai converted, the conversion speed also ushered in exponential growth, and finally ushered in a qualitative change when it reached a complete 'cell-level' unit, and a more complete thinking thread was put into operation, and the follow-up work became faster.
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As the mission continues in the distant starry sky, the main Nesta and the rest of the elves look at the ship's intelligence and find some of the content they are interested in, which is different from the information in the black market.
The first part is crude information about the Tromato Legion, and most of it is bounty information that has been publicly released by the Council, and the squads belonging to the Legion themselves have failed to provide valuable content in this regard;
But if you think about it, you can understand that how many criminals will carry their own information with them, and they will often put on a layer of legal camouflage when they are not on a mission to act.
Tuomato, internally titled Captain of the Grand Army, an extremely dangerous stellar life of unknown rank, unknown civilization origin, unknown age, and unknown life experience;
The internal hierarchy is clear, from the chief to the official members, there are a total of 16 levels, and there are also 0 peripheral members and minus 10 to minus 1 slaves;
According to the captive's confession, it is roughly speculated that there may be 6 to 9 senior director-level members inside, three of whom have been recorded and tested for stellar health intensity, but they concealed their bodies when they attacked, so it is impossible to know their respective civilization origins and specific identities;
The rest of the members of this level are unknown in strength and specific rights and responsibilities, and they may be branch leaders, capable scientific researchers, or guest units.
Level 15 supervisors are in charge of actual affairs, with powers and responsibilities for education, scientific research, combat, production, commerce, intelligence, and stationing, and it is estimated that the number of them exceeds 30 based on known intelligence, but there is no clear verifiable identity information;
The total number of cadres in grades 13 and 14 may be more than 300 or more, and some of them are subordinate to the supervisor and some are directly under the command of the corps commander, and they seem to be also responsible for specific affairs in some area;
The total number of senior cadres in grades 11-12 may exceed 5,000, and it is estimated that more than 40% are members of the combat department of the legion, and the remaining 60% are members of scientific research, education, intelligence and other departments;
It is estimated that the total number of cadres at level 9-10 is more than 30,000, the number of cadres at level 6-8 exceeds 200,000, the number of grassroots cadres at levels 2-5 is at least nearly one million, and the number of formal members at level 1 may reach tens of millions;
The peripheral members of Level 0 are unknown, and it is suspected that the Legion has multiple unregistered planets as troop sites;
Slave soldiers, rated as minus 10-minus 1, and have a policy of deslavement to allow them to be promoted
In all recorded operations, the Legion has dispatched 3 different Neutron Star Fortresses, 12 White Dwarf Star Fortresses, 84 Stellar Fortresses, and countless other types of combat ships and interstellar mechs.
It has strong basic equipment and energy supply capacity, and high-level equipment is mostly obtained through illegal trade;
It has a certain degree of self-research ability, and seems to be quite effective in concealment and high-energy ray attacks.
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This is the known data of a criminal group ranked outside the top 100, although it contains a large number of ambiguous 'speculation', 'suspicion' and other meanings, but the information revealed undoubtedly no longer shows its strength;
In addition, the sentence about the Legion's Legion's 'unknown stellar life intensity' made Nesta and other elves even more confused.
Is this a description?
Or is it a very realistic statement?
According to the mood born from this, they began to summarize and sort out a second relatively complete piece of information;
This is a historical piece of information, along with answers to some questions about slaves and toolmen.
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Since the development of various civilizations in the galaxy, in fact, great achievements have been made in intelligent terminals and central control systems;
Except for those who are seriously biased and unwilling to make up for their deficiencies through borrowing, most civilizations that have the ability to step out of the star system rarely have a shortage of industrial workers, because most of the basic work can be completed faster and more worry-free by intelligent machinery;
And it, the use of intelligent machinery is not only cheaper in terms of time and material costs, but also does not have to face the blame of different value orientations for different problems, and does not need to face the embarrassing situation of 'grandchildren riding donkeys and grandchildren carrying donkeys to go', and there will be no situation where workers are afraid to be called as parents.
In such a situation, since there is no need for the existence of low- and middle-end industrial workers, it stands to reason that there should be no market for slaves with wisdom, right?
However, this is not the case, and the instrument/slave trade, legal or illegal, is still prevalent in the Great River System, especially when it comes to warfare, which has not been replaced by mechanical forces;
And if we dig deeper into the reasons for this, we can see that this phenomenon is actually related to one of the permanent civilizations of the Council
In the early days, the civilization experienced a 'smart machine crisis', in which the central intelligent system awakened wisdom and gave birth to dissent, leading the machinery in all aspects of the civilization to launch the 'mechanical power movement';
However, the subject race does not recognize the properties of intelligent life in machines, and refuses to give them the right to be equivalent to citizenship, and also tries to regain the database, unplug and shut down the central system;
However, the follow-up efforts failed under the turmoil of the internal sympathizers, and the movement gradually escalated into a war that affected the entire civilization in the midst of the entanglement.
After that, the war that lasted for thousands of years and spread hundreds of light-years from superiority to decline, from decline to superiority, finally ended in the victory of the Juche race, and the rebels and the Brotherhood led the way by them without mercy.
It may only be a matter of position and the victor, but the Juche race has retained the fruits of its own development in this conflict, and has maintained and strengthened the civilization's value of 'mechanical lifelessness';
Since then, they have limited the level and direction of mechanical intelligence, and at the same time enacted a bill prohibiting the act of 'storing consciousness and abandoning the body', arguing that there are only two consequences of using this technology.
i.e., 'pseudo-life' and 'illegal new life';
The belief that it has nothing to do with the ontology other than the memory that can exist at the same time will only lead to social and ethical confusion in the end.
And as time passed, as the pace of the civilization gradually expanded into the unknown star field, the real cases of their own strength and existence made this idea further spread;
Along the way, whether they were directly annexed by them, or were included as subordinate, or only touched by them, they began to consciously or unconsciously accept the values of related aspects, and they all restricted the development direction of mechanical intelligence and forbade the act of uploading consciousness at the expense of the body.
Hundreds of thousands of years later, when the Council was formed and grew stronger by some unknown factor, the civilization found itself one of the leaders in its own river system, and gave birth to the idea of exporting ideas for psychological and practical benefits;
As a result, even though they no longer regard 'smart machines' as they have developed so far, they still bring the relevant ideas into the council as cultural symbols, and at the same time have been welcomed by small and medium-sized civilizations, the exchange of interests of the same civilizations, and the non-committal of super-civilizations outside the department.
At the same time, as a permanent member of the Council, this civilization has assumed some responsibilities in related aspects, and will use the unique method born out of the search for rebels in the past to patrol all sides of the river system, and look for the breath of illegal new life belonging to the intelligent machine and the intelligent machine;
This patrol behavior and the means used in the process did accurately target and hit many targets in the following time.
The vast majority of them are remnants of those who seek eternal life, and often think that 'themselves' have succeeded, but their definition of immortality does not meet the Council's standards, so the end result is often the destruction of themselves, their derivative forces, and technological information;
The other small number is the accidental awakening or deliberate development of 'true intelligent machines', which may be made by civilizations and forces seeking shortcuts to development, or by bad elements who challenge authority and try to create chaos, and the result is also the destruction of the intelligent machine itself, related derivatives, punishment of negligent or deliberate civilizations, and extermination and execution of uncivilized forces with bad intentions.
As a result, as long as the maker is from a registered civilized race, no matter whether he defects from his own civilization or not, no matter where he is hiding, as long as there is indeed a 'breath' belonging to the intelligent machine being emitted, it will inevitably usher in a precise attack by the relevant inspection team;
Therefore, with this kind of information, even for the dark team that cannot see the light, in order to avoid exposing themselves, they will choose to comply with the council's decision in this regard.
All in all, a sapient riot that occurred tens of thousands of years ago determined the delineation of life in the river system, making the entire known council jurisdiction of the star field a forbidden area for intelligent mechanical life.
Another consequence of this is that while intelligent machinery undertakes middle and low-level jobs at the production end, it only plays the role of 'easy to use auxiliary tools' in more complex management, scientific research, military and other fields due to the limitations of development direction.
(End of chapter)