Chapter 866: Peeping and Coveting
For interstellar civilizations, faster-than-light spaceships can be described as the foundation of a civilization's survival.
Faster-than-light spaceships are a necessity for interstellar civilizations, although a large part of interstellar civilizations are more likely to use them in war, relying on such powerful war vehicles to fight each other and compete for the living space of their own civilizations.
But this does not mean that it is useless in other aspects, on the contrary, with faster-than-light spaceships, whether they are used for business and interstellar trade, or for opening up new planets abroad, or for transportation and communication within this civilization, the value of faster-than-light spaceships is immeasurable.
It's just that for most interstellar civilizations, although they can see the many benefits of faster-than-light spaceships, they are limited by their own lack of strength, and can only use a few spaceships in the most critical and critical places.
For many weaker or declining interstellar civilizations, even if they are eager to obtain space for further development, the limited spaceship resources also force them to use the spacecraft first in the military field and in the war.
Because only after winning the war with other civilizations and winning their own right to live can they consider further problems, even if all interstellar civilizations know that using spaceships in wars will not only not return to their original costs but will consume more and more resources, but in order to survive, they still have to continue to drink to quench their thirst.
However, in the many star fields of the Meteorite Star Sea, now with the completion of the layout of the new rules of war by the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance, the situation of a large number of immigrants to the Star Fields in the entire Meteorite Star Sea has undergone a complete and thorough change.
Although the new rules of war are extremely bloody and cruel, although they are essentially only rules specially designed for ancient civilizations to obtain soul resources, in fact, they have truly loosened the bonds of various interstellar civilizations.
With the protection of the new rules of war, even if each interstellar civilization is engaged in civilization wars no matter how frequent it is, no matter how much it consumes the resource accumulation of a civilization, in fact, compared with the previous wars, which easily damaged a large number of faster-than-light ships, the new war mode really saves too much price.
Even if it is to give more pensions to those soldiers who participate in the war, no matter how many rewards are given to the soldiers who participate in the war, even if it is the spacecraft to participate in the task of transporting combat materials more times, but after all, these costs are just some currencies that can be issued by each civilization itself, and various living consumption resources that each civilization can produce by itself, plus a little depreciation, maintenance, and fuel costs of the spacecraft.
Compared with the high cost and huge cost of buying a spaceship, this price is really not known where to save, and all the interstellar civilizations that have implemented the new rules of war do not know how much they have saved just on the cost of war!
Moreover, the new rules of war are far from reducing the war consumption of various civilizations, and it also enhances the ability of various interstellar civilizations to develop their economies and boost their own strength, which is also directly related to the fact that various interstellar civilizations now no longer need to lose faster-than-light spaceships due to war.
Under the new rules of war, within the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance, various interstellar civilizations cannot fight privately with each other, let alone carry out surprise attacks on other interstellar civilizations, which makes the members of the alliance much less under the pressure of war.
Outside of the Interstellar Alliance, other civilizations dare not easily engage with the members of the Alliance.
Although the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance is not a strong military alliance, the members of the alliance do not need to be in lockstep, and none of the alliance members is attacked, and the other alliance members are dragged into the water together, but the alliance still has a certain deterrent ability in external terms after all.
Once other interstellar civilizations dare to launch an undeclared war on the members of the alliance and carry out a surprise attack, all members of the entire alliance will in principle initiate sanctions against the corresponding civilization.
Of course, this kind of sanctions is not military sanctions, but economic and trade sanctions, in all aspects of economic and trade the alliance will make severe restrictions on the corresponding civilization, high prices of high-selling goods, restrictions on the purchase of some special goods, etc., this is part of the alliance's sanctions.
You must know that the current Meteorite Star Sea Alliance is a big force with the most comprehensive spaceship technology, the most complete scale of various key parts and components, and the strongest maintenance ability of the spaceship among all the immigrant star fields in the entire Meteorite Star Sea.
Among the private rumors of some civilizations, there is even a grapevine circulating that the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance has actually initially possessed the production capacity of faster-than-light spaceships, and even some of the core civilizations of the alliance have been secretly manufacturing faster-than-light spaceships in private.
It was only because they were afraid that once the surrounding cosmic-level civilization discovered this matter, it was likely to take action immediately, and even bring ruin to the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance, so the alliance did not dare to do this in a big way, and only secretly carried out it on a small scale in private.
Although the vast majority of interstellar civilizations do not know whether this rumor is true or not, whether there is a certain degree of truth, but the strength of the meteorite star sea is amazing, but no civilization dares to question the fact that most of the interstellar civilizations in the meteorite star sea have to rely on the power of the alliance to be able to protect their interests to the greatest extent, in addition to cooperating with the alliance, the other partners they can find, whether it is importing spaceship parts or carrying out spaceship maintenance, have to spend at least dozens of times the price.
Therefore, although the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance does not require all members to be in step with the outside world and must become a military alliance, the alliance's external deterrent power is still extremely strong, even if some civilizations outside the alliance have conflicts with alliance members, and even when it is necessary to fight to the death and fight thoroughly, there are few interstellar civilizations that dare to play the trick of undeclared war against alliance members.
Because as long as there are civilizations that dare to do this, they must face the unified economic sanctions of the alliance, and in the face of the unanimous sanctions of thousands of alliance members and the constraints and restrictions of countless economic links, no civilization can withstand it, which can be said to be choking the economic lifeblood of these civilizations, so that they simply cannot afford it.
Friction and contradiction with a member of the alliance is nothing, but once this contradiction is expanded to the level of the entire alliance, it is equivalent to having no way to live at all for many interstellar civilizations, so no civilization would be so unwise as to launch a surprise attack on the alliance members, and the cost is so great that it is not something that any interstellar civilization in the newly developed star field of the meteorite star sea can afford.
Of course, the rules of the alliance are not unilateral, and in order to maintain the image of the entire alliance, the corresponding alliance members must also abide by the corresponding terms in foreign wars, and cannot carry out surprise attacks on other civilizations without declaring war.
It is precisely for these reasons that the actual combat pressure of the various member civilizations of the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance has been reduced much compared to before.
In the past, in order to ensure their own safety, some interstellar civilizations had to deploy ten spaceships within their own defense range to deal with various accidents at any time, but now the alliance member civilizations only need to maintain one or two spaceships to patrol the border, which is enough to deal with all accidents.
Under the influence of the alliance, those other civilization forces who huddle together to keep warm also have similar measures, although the effect is not as good as that enjoyed by the alliance members, but their defense pressure has also been greatly reduced, originally there were ten ships to patrol back and forth, now most of them only need to have four or five ships.
The demand and consumption of faster-than-light spaceships in the field of warfare have been reduced, and naturally various interstellar civilizations will be able to draw out some spaceships for other applications.
These additional ships may occasionally need to be used for resupply in the event of war, but most of the time, they can be used in other areas.
According to the different positions and situations of each interstellar civilization, each civilization has formed a fixed interstellar caravan for foreign trade, transporting back and forth between various interstellar civilizations, exchanging the specialties of various interstellar civilizations, buying low and selling high to earn huge profits, and at the same time selling some of the specialties of their own civilizations as much as possible in exchange for various resources they need.
Don't look at these interstellar civilizations, they often can't take out many spaceships to do business, but even if they are just three or two small spaceships, once they are really in operation, the returns they can get are extremely huge.
Among interstellar civilizations, the goods that are qualified to be valued and purchased by other civilizations are extremely scarce and cherished, and they are all the specialties that each interstellar civilization can take the most hands on, and the civilization that operates the interstellar caravan is even a little bit of a handover, and the resources earned are immeasurable, and may even be huge than the annual output of several planets of its own, which is not counting the direct benefits of various scarce properties obtained by its own civilization.
In addition to sending ships to form interstellar caravans, opening up new ecological planets and exchanging various resources within the civilization is also an excellent way to develop its own strength.
Since most of the newly developed star fields in the Meteorite Star Sea have begun to implement new rules of war, I don't know how many interstellar civilizations have benefited from it, and their strength has expanded considerably.
You must know that this is not the growth of the strength of a single interstellar civilization, almost all the migratory civilizations of the Meteorite Star Sea are growing simultaneously, coupled with the addition of new civilizations that continue to pour into the Meteorite Star Sea, the overall strength of these civilizations in the Meteorite Star Sea is increasing at a staggering speed.
And the increase in the strength of these interstellar civilizations has relatively affected the purchasing power of these interstellar civilizations, as the largest large-scale trade demand project in the meteorite star sea today, the demand for slave trade is naturally rising, and the market share has swelled to an extremely alarming point.
However, the slave trade is a different commercial project than the ship trade.
The trade of faster-than-light spaceships is a real high-end market, whether it is the production, manufacturing, sales and maintenance of faster-than-light spaceships, the high entry threshold is not enough for ordinary interstellar civilizations, and this benefit is not something that anyone can touch casually.
Among the several large galaxies around the meteorite star sea, one of the civilizations that are qualified to touch this huge profit is inextricably linked with the cosmic-level civilization.
Cosmic civilizations are the rule-makers of the spaceship trade, they get the most benefits, and at the same time provide the corresponding technology and qualifications for the manufacturers, and the civilizations responsible for the sale and maintenance of the spaceships are directly designated and controlled by the higher level, but they are all ultimately part of the power network of the cosmic civilizations.
But the slave trade was a different story, it was a mixed business with a very low barrier to entry. As long as there is a supply, even a small interstellar civilization the size of a projectile is qualified to set foot in this industry. At the same time, even the most powerful cosmic-level civilization has people who are handling such a business.
However, both trades are equally staggeringly profitable, and the demand is enormous.
And since the meteorite star sea has continued to grow and develop over the years, the various interstellar civilizations in this large galaxy, their huge demand for slave resources has provided a huge stimulus to the surrounding slave trade market, and the price of slaves has risen a lot in many star fields around the meteorite star sea.
Many civilizations see the benefits of this, and even those who were not originally in the slave trade have now begun to enter the market in a big way.
Those slave suppliers also have their own ways of playing, and those who lack strength are looking for those weak planetary civilizations, and while getting a group of slaves, they can also obtain the coordinates of an ecological planet, and they sell it for money, but this largely depends on luck.
However, the powerful interstellar civilizations are much more ruthless, and some civilizations even directly start to attack the weak civilizations around them, destroying civilizations at every turn to collect the population, and selling them is a huge profit.
It's just that the slave trade of the Meteorite Star Sea is booming, but it can't help but attract a lot of covetous peeping eyes, and many civilizations with strong strength are eyeing the big fat of the Meteorite Star Sea.
The development of the meteorite star sea itself has attracted more and more attention, and the rapid improvement of the overall strength of the meteorite star sea over the years is even more amazing, and such a development momentum will inevitably arouse the coveting and attention of the cross-river raptors.