There is a reason why in the interstellar era, the gap between countries and between civilizations is still so huge, and even presents a distinct sense of hierarchy.

The universe is too vast and vast, and for a civilization, the significance of faster-than-light warships can be overestimated.

For a civilization, whether there is a faster-than-light interstellar battleship or not, those are completely two concepts.

As a civilization, if you can own and control a faster-than-light interstellar battleship, then your civilization will undoubtedly have a huge space for expansion, and will undoubtedly embark on a positive cycle of rapid tracking, population reproduction, territorial expansion, and the acquisition of resources will be greatly increased, and many problems that can be encountered in the development of a civilization will be solved, which is undoubtedly the most desirable thing for a civilization trapped on the planet.

As long as you have a faster-than-light starship, many things have the potential to succeed.

Just like the earth civilization at this time, the long star road he is facing makes him only sigh and bury his head in hard work, and the interstellar travel time of hundreds of years is meaningless for a civilization that continues to develop and has a bright future.

With that time and resources, it is more realistic to preserve precious resources, a high-quality population, and do more useful work in the near space zone.

And if the earth civilization suddenly has an extra superluminal interstellar spaceship in its hands, even if it is a slightly worse performance starship, then the interstellar expansion of the earth civilization. It will also greatly speed up the process.

With faster-than-light ships in hand. The road of interstellar colonization is more than ten light-years away. It will no longer be far away, although the earth civilization cannot afford to wait for a long interstellar journey of hundreds of years, but if a one-way drive takes a year, or even ten years, then such an interstellar colonization will become much more meaningful and valuable.

Even if it takes twenty years to go back and forth. But a huge faster-than-light interstellar warship, carrying tens of thousands of people and loading a huge amount of production and living materials, is completely sufficient.

Relying on the powerful combat capabilities of starships, the new immigrants on the new planet can easily gain a foothold in the new world and ignite the fire of civilization.

And if this round-trip time can be shortened to less than a year or two. Well, an interstellar route will be established between the two planets. The incomparably large immigrant population will pour into the new planet in the shortest possible time, the huge new settlements will grow up like mushrooms after a rain, and the special products and resources between the two planets will form a cycle in the spaceship exchanges, which will not only create incomparably huge value, but also greatly reduce the population load of the earth, and provide a broad space for the birth of a new population.

For an overcrowded planet and civilization, the existence of a faster-than-light interstellar warship obviously has incomparable significance and huge imagination space.

If there is really a civilization that is willing to sell such high-end civilization technology products to the earthlings, it is obvious that money alone cannot be purchased, and a series of covenants and agreements between civilizations are the necessary conditions for the purchase of such a faster-than-light interstellar battleship.

It can be said that if you buy an interstellar battleship produced by any civilization, it is equivalent to joining an interstellar alliance, which requires countless precious resources.

But even so, as long as the requirements of the covenant are not too excessive, it is obviously quite worthwhile, and the significance of a faster-than-light starship is simply too great, and it can immediately make a huge difference in the overall strength of a civilization that has not crossed the constraints of the planet.

It is conceivable that a faster-than-light interstellar battleship with such an important value could not be regarded as a core element in the competition of civilizations by various civilizations and held to the sky?

It must be known that the demand for this kind of strategic weapon of interstellar civilization is incomparably huge, and it is of incomparable value to all indigenous civilizations or interstellar civilizations.

While indigenous civilizations certainly want a faster-than-light starship to expand their civilizational territory, parallel interstellar civilizations also need a large number of starships to maintain their rule.

Even the more developed and prosperous civilizations are, the more they need the supply of this kind of strategic resources, although the universe is large, within a certain star field centered on one point, suitable planets suitable for colonization and development are always scarce resources, whoever has a little more interstellar warships, can occupy a few more planets, as the foundation for the growth and growth of civilization.

And once the number of planets occupied by an interstellar civilization reaches a certain level, high-quality faster-than-light interstellar warships will become a necessity for this civilization system to maintain its own existence.

Within a civilization, after having more than two planets, with the increase in the number of planets and the extension of civilization territory, the difficulty of domination as the core of civilization will undoubtedly increase sharply, and the more marginal the planet, the more it has a tendency to split, which itself is an inevitable factor, unless there is convenient transportation, strong bonds, and efficient communication systems between planets, only in this way can a civilization maintain its internal centripetal force, so as not to lead to the collapse of civilization.

Once this is reached, faster-than-light interstellar ships will become an indispensable necessity for the continuation of civilization itself, and the demand will greatly increase.

As the ultimate creation of the ultra-high-tech system, the superluminal interstellar spaceship itself is not only extremely difficult to design and manufacture, but also simple maintenance, but also has extremely high difficulty and consumption, unless the scientific and technological level of the civilization has reached a certain level, coupled with years of scientific research experience accumulation, with the design structure and processing technology are extremely perfect effect matching, in order to have a relatively solid and durable interstellar spaceship, which can minimize the consumption of the cost of spacecraft.

After all, it is the product of civilization of the highest order. Faster-than-light starships. It has never been known for its durability. Within a certain service life, the performance of the faster-than-light spacecraft is of course extremely reliable, but once it reaches the service life, all kinds of overhauls, replacement parts, comprehensive maintenance or something are completely unbearable.

It can be said that the cost of using a faster-than-light spaceship is extremely high, and just maintaining the normal use of the spacecraft is a large expense.

Plus a civilization. Relying on a faster-than-light spaceship, or relying on a faster-than-light spaceship at a certain limit speed, its expansion momentum in the universe has its limit anyway, and this limit is not a fixed value, but a limit value that is comprehensively judged by relying on the various hard powers of the civilization, population, scientific and technological strength, civilization centripetal force, and the most critical spacecraft speed.

This limit value is the theoretical limit of an interstellar civilization, and it is not impossible to break through. But once it breaks through, it will inevitably have to pay various costs. And this price is usually extremely expensive.

In order to maintain the existence and normal operation of the mining site, it is necessary to consume hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times the cost under normal circumstances, so that the civilization will continue to lose blood, and over time, it may even cause the overall situation of the civilization to be weakened.

Either colonize outside the extreme territory, because the colonization star is too far away from the mainland, the transportation is inconvenient, and the communication is poor, and over time, it will create a self-cycle in a closed environment, which will undoubtedly lead to the birth of the planetary separatist forces, intensify the spread of civilization splitting forces, and in serious cases, it will even directly lead to the division and collapse of civilization, and the loss will be indescribable.

In the face of such a dilemma in the development of civilizations, the vast majority of mature interstellar civilizations will choose to establish their own alliance system in the sea of civilizations, and establish their own interstellar protection system and their own interstellar order pattern and industrial division of labor system by exporting faster-than-light interstellar spacecraft to the outside world.

As a civilization, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for its population and territory to undergo large-scale changes within a certain period of time, and at this time, exporting faster-than-light interstellar spacecraft to the outside world is undoubtedly the best way to maximize its own sphere of influence.

The benefits of this are undoubtedly huge, and if well controlled, the negative effects are relatively small, and in general, it is a pretty good feasible solution.

After all, an interstellar civilization is limited by its technological strength, and the flight speed of the faster-than-light spaceship it can produce is a certain one, and it is impossible to make large-scale changes in a short period of time, so the territory it can rule is only so large, and if it is too big, it will only be worse.

In this way, it is better to choose to establish an agent system among the surrounding civilizations, and support the Xiaodi civilization to expand its sphere of influence through the method of selling faster-than-light spaceships to the outside world, and at the same time, according to its own plan, carry out industrial division planning among many Xiaodi civilizations.

In this way, it can not only expand its own sphere of influence and sphere of influence through the hands of the younger brothers, but also continuously import all kinds of cheap and complete industrialized consumer goods from the hands of each younger brother and draw blood from them.

The production and supply of faster-than-light spaceships and after-sales repairs, maintenance, parts and other services, as well as the industrial division of labor and solidification of the younger brother civilization, these two killer features add up to form a strong control over the younger brother civilization, and only need to limit the number of its spaceships and maintain a certain number and order of the little brother civilization, and the control of the alliance leader civilization will obviously be difficult to shake.

Not only will the control of the younger brother civilization not waver, but with the help of the industrial division of labor and blood drawing of the younger brother civilization, the alliance leader civilization can obviously leave behind some trivial and unimportant non-core industries, concentrate the population resources of the main civilization, and concentrate on climbing to a higher level of science and technology system.

A more detailed branch of the core industry, a more high-quality national population, concentrated in the core production links, and abandoning a large number of unnecessary trivial affairs, the comprehensive strength of civilization will obviously gain greater room for improvement.

The public relations of life engineering can maximize the quantity and quality of the population, and the vigorous investment in elite education and core industries will undoubtedly produce fruitful results to the greatest extent.

Once the speed of the faster-than-light interstellar ship breaks through, and once the comprehensive performance of the spacecraft improves, it will obviously be fed back to the core interests of the entire civilization.

In this way, the comprehensive national strength of those authentic interstellar civilizations will only rise steadily, forming an unstoppable positive cycle, and eventually forming a vast behemoth.

And those civilizations and countries that do not have the production capacity of faster-than-light spaceships are counting on the support and charity of the higher-level civilization, and forming a catch-up with the higher-level civilization in this way, which is obviously impossible.

Among the scientific and technological civilizations that do not have super individual abilities, the power of the system is undoubtedly the only source of power, and the possibility of interstellar civilizations achieving corner overtaking is simply pitiful.

Since the beginning of modern industrial production society, a strong social productive force is an iron-like combat force, and this criterion is also effective in the interstellar era, and even more unbreakable criterion.

Of course, the so-called productivity of the interstellar era refers more to the productivity of the fist product of the faster-than-light interstellar battleship, and only the productivity level of this product is the most representative productivity and the most daunting productivity in the interstellar era.

Because, in the interstellar civilization system, the low-level productive forces, those that produce small commodities such as shoes and socks, have completely reached a point of flooding, there are too many homogeneous competitors competing with each other, and the competitiveness in the market is infinitely close to zero, and the superior alliance leader civilization can find a replacement object at any time.

Although the number of cosmic Chinese is extremely scarce from a relative point of view, from an absolute point of view, it has never been lacking, and the real interstellar civilization can pull out a large number of little brother civilizations at any time as long as they want, and slowly play and cultivate, and can even form an echelon of little brother civilizations to supplement at any time.

It is precisely for this reason that whether or not a civilization can truly independently produce faster-than-light interstellar warships has become an important indicator of whether a civilization can be regarded as an interstellar civilization.

In this field, what can is can't, and what can't is can't, without the slightest ambiguity. (To be continued.) )