Chapter 313: The Interstellar Food Chain
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As the helmsman of the earth's civilization, according to the countless civilization materials that the Canglan civilization has studied, Sima Mulong deeply understands that after entering the interstellar age of discovery, the nuclear terror balance between the interstellar civilizations based on nuclear weapons similar to that on the earth has long been completely broken, so what remains is a more naked, cruel and bloody civilization competition.
Civilization between civilizations is based on civilizations between strengths, and only when the strength is at the same level and the gap in comprehensive national strength between them is not too huge, can there be equality and dialogue between civilizations, otherwise, there will only be an unequal relationship between the superior civilization and the inferior civilization that exploits and is exploited, and between the perished and the perished.
The gap between the upper civilization and the lower civilization is undoubtedly incomparably huge.
A high-level civilization, sitting on hundreds of thousands of ecological planets, occupying a vast starry sky pasture, has dozens or hundreds of junior civilizations and servant civilizations under its command, and has enough combat power to overturn tens of thousands of ordinary civilizations that have just entered the threshold of interstellar civilizations.
Not to mention those arrogant higher-level civilizations, even those servant civilizations of higher-ranking civilizations, will not interact with a weak lower-level civilization on an equal footing, they will only greedily look at the newly discovered weak civilization in front of them, and vent all the tyranny and anger they have accumulated from the higher-level civilization on the weak people, tearing a civilization to shreds at every turn, and looting all the materials and materials that can be staged. In order to make up for the loss of national strength caused by his continuous blood transfusion to the upper civilization.
Technology, population, art, planet, resources, they won't spare anything.
Don't think how honest and pitiful these guys who are called servant civilizations will be, compared to the exploitation form of the superior civilization that relies on scientific and technological strength to levy a scientific and technological development tax on allies and servant civilizations, the appetite of these servant civilizations will only be more meaty and full of blood.
In addition to dispatching its own army to capture those weak and oily lower civilizations. These servant civilizations also have their own networks of influence, using their own various trade contacts to harvest scarce resources across the stars.
On the side of the meteorite star sea, why are there countless interstellar pirates, countless interstellar pirates are burning and killing and plundering between the stars, and the weapons and spaceships they use are mostly derived from the servant civilizations under the control of those superior civilizations.
The interstellar pirates are nothing more than the dogs of those servants of civilization, and these seem to be murderous. In fact, the interstellar pirates are also very vicious, not only the starhounds they raise, but also the kind of dog food (arms, spaceships, supplies, etc.) that they have to pay for themselves.
Of course, although these minion civilizations are selling all kinds of discordant war materials to the interstellar pirates, most of these military materials they sell cannot pose a threat to them.
The interstellar power system itself is a ring eating a ring, and the lower the various technological products are, the more low-end they are. The leaders of the various forces of the interstellar civilization peddled faster-than-light spaceships to their subordinate brothers. With an interstellar speed several times the speed of light, it is a super strategic product in the eyes of those servants and allied civilizations that do not have the production capacity of faster-than-light spaceships.
Every ship of this level, for the miner civilizations. It can be said that the possession of each civilization is numerous, and it is necessary to squeeze out the last bit of potential and value as much as possible. Even a steel plate and an iron nail on the hull of the ship will not be wasted at will, and once it is replaced, it will immediately be sent to the relevant scientific research institutions for destructive reverse analysis to interpret the scientific and technological mysteries contained in it as much as possible.
Obviously, this grade of strategic materials, they themselves are not enough, of course, it is impossible to sell to those wild dog-like interstellar pirates, what they sell to them is generally an ordinary spaceship produced by the star civilization itself, although it can carry out long-distance navigation in the universe for a certain distance, and can also fly into space without the shackles of planetary gravity, but it will never have the ability to fly faster than light, after all, they themselves will not build this kind of faster-than-light speed travel level spaceship, there are many interstellar pirates, and the demand for spaceships is huge, of course, it is the most cost-effective to use this inferior version of the spaceship, and it can also allow the servant civilizations to export and earn foreign exchange, maintain the existence of its own industrial capacity, and even gradually form industrial upgrading.
For those servant civilizations, the normally usable faster-than-light spaceship, in addition to being used for the transportation of various interstellar materials and maintaining the communication channels between the planets of the civilization, is the greatest use for foreign conquests。
An interstellar civilization with more than a few living planets, even if it is an entry-level parallel interstellar civilization, only has one or two old models of faster-than-light spaceships that were obtained by chance, which is also an incomparably powerful interstellar force, and was completely invaded and conquered by the servant civilization relying on one or two faster-than-light warships, although such a thing seems like a joke, but in fact it has always been staged in the universe.
For those parallel interstellar civilizations that are not included in the alliance system, they do not have the ability to manufacture faster-than-light spaceships, and they are unwilling to join other interstellar alliance systems with alliance masters, so the channels for them to buy new interstellar warships have become extremely narrow, and the cost will be extremely high.
In the same way, their so-called new warships. It's just that they are new to it, in fact, there will be no possibility of a new factory warship at all, even if it is a scrapped spaceship that has been rebuilt for thousands of years, it is not unusual, for a non-picky parallel cargo interstellar civilization, as long as it is a faster-than-light spaceship. Of course, the faster the better, but the better the performance and the more expensive the price, the greater the price they will pay.
Therefore, generally speaking, these interstellar civilizations that do not join, the faster-than-light interstellar warships they have, their performance in all aspects is weaker than that of conventional faster-than-light warships, and maintenance and repair are also very problematic.
In fact, such a situation itself is also part of the alliance system that the superior civilization has deliberately constructed.
After all. Not all civilizations are willing to join the alliance, and similarly, not all interstellar civilizations have the qualifications to join the interstellar civilization, so product stratification is an important starting point for controlling the civilization order within the scope of the alliance. It is possible to keep and form some trading channels for second-hand faster-than-light ships.
For the same price, the most exploitative and ruthless servant civilization can buy a ship. Highest quality. Alliance allies who are equivalent to ordinary customers, whose spaceships can be purchased are of slightly inferior quality, and are not allies, and are not even qualified to buy spaceships from alliance leaders.
These wild interstellar civilizations, they are usually located at the junction of several civilizations. They are reluctant to join any alliance system, so the channels they can buy spaceships are naturally only the eliminated goods in those alliances, and they have to spend a lot of money to buy them. Exploited enormously.
However, in this way, the speed and combat power of the wild parallel goods civilization and their spaceships will obviously form a large gap with the spaceships of the slave civilization, and once such a gap is formed, it will obviously give the slave civilizations a certain opportunity to take advantage of.
As long as the tactics are used, it is undoubtedly not inconceivable that the servant civilization can successfully disintegrate an interstellar civilization with the help of the huge difference in the combat power of the ships possessed by civilizations.
After all, the gap between the various performance and efficiency of the spacecraft is sometimes even a line worse, and the gap in combat power in actual combat is extremely huge, and veterans of war will be able to use this difference in combat power to maximize their war advantage and suppress the opponent's combat ability as much as possible.
It can be said that under the suppression of those interstellar alliances that have been formed, once a new civilization rises, it will face extremely cruel competition, if the starting point of civilization is high to a certain extent, it is just that, there is still the possibility of growing and growing in the gaps, if it does not reach a certain standard, let alone growing and becoming the leader of an interstellar alliance, the first time after the rise, it has long been swallowed up by the hunting dogs raised by those civilization overlords.
Demographics are reduced to slaves and sold all over the world, sent to the most dangerous mines, the hardest jobs, and crushed for the rise of the enemy, to the point that even the last drop of bone marrow will be drained and exhausted.
The planet was plundered, annexed, sold, and studied by other civilizations without hesitation, and became a paradise for other civilizations, and such things can be said to be happening every moment and every day on the territory of interstellar civilizations.
The essence of the competition between civilizations in the universe at this level is still based on the most simple law of the jungle, whoever is strong and who is powerful can do whatever he wants and do whatever his civilization wants. Whether it is the younger brother civilization that pulls up a vote, establishes the power system to which its own civilization belongs, or beats the hostile civilization to the point that there are no bones and scum left, it is completely natural, and it is the interstellar civilization code that the overlord civilization follows.
Such an interstellar living environment is undoubtedly quite stressful, weakness is the original sin, and sensible civilizations will hold their guns tightly and dare not relax in the slightest, and the same is true for Sima Mulong.
Before the cultivation system of the earth's civilization takes root and grows and becomes the most powerful and powerful pillar of the earth's civilization, Sima Mulong will always unswervingly promote the forward course of the earth's civilization's scientific and technological development.
And making the earth a powerful interstellar civilization is obviously the direction that the earth civilization should make unremitting efforts to at this stage.
In essence, this is not a bad thing for the cultivation of the Earth civilization.
While the earth civilization continues to work hard in the scientific and technological civilization system and continuously expands the civilization technology tree, the tentacles of the earth civilization will only embrace deep space more and more, occupy more and more interstellar territories in space, constantly expand the actual living space of the earth civilization, and greatly increase the number of people possessed by the earth civilization.
And such a development route is obviously very beneficial to the development of cultivation civilization, after all, the cultivation civilization system inherited by Sima Mulong, its most basic civilization foundation, is also rooted in the incomparably large population.
The greater the number of people that the civilization itself contains, the more it can produce a large number of cultivators, as long as these cultivators can be properly controlled, it is also a very powerful boost for the competitiveness of the civilization as a whole.
Realistically speaking, although the conditions that the earth civilization now has are not as good as the interstellar civilization group on the other side of the meteorite star sea, because the living planet is rich in resources, and the distance between galaxies is relatively close, it can easily accumulate strength and smoothly enter the step of interstellar civilization.
However, the hole cards that the earth civilization now has are enough to be called full of weight.
For most civilizations, the biggest difficulty in advanced interstellar civilizations is to build a technical feasibility design scheme for manufacturing faster-than-light interstellar warships, as well as to establish a complete production and manufacturing system for faster-than-light interstellar ships.
In terms of actual difficulty, the difficulty coefficient of these two major projects is to break through the skyline, the evolution is not thorough enough, the brain development is not complete enough, and the development of the scientific and technological system is not outstanding and perfect civilization.
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