Epoch of Twilight

Are double-brained people useful to humans?

From a set of data, we can see one or two.

In terms of annual energy consumption alone, the annual energy consumption of double-brained people is only about one ten billionth of that of human beings. The energy consumed by a warship with curvature exceeds the sum of the entire civilization.

Not to mention the huge technology gap in it.

It takes no more effort for human beings to destroy a double-brained civilization than to crush an ant.

The strength gap between civilizations is often beyond imagination. In the idea of ​​double-brain civilization, since human beings have not destroyed them, they feel that they are useful. In fact, for human civilization, it is just a self-image orientation and self-identification in the cosmic jungle. behavior constraints.

In a famous science fiction novel, the law of the black forest is specifically proposed. It is said that the universe is like a dark forest. Every civilization is a hunter with a gun. He sneaks in the forest like a ghost. He must be careful and hide himself. If you find another life, the first thing you do is to shoot and destroy it, because you can't judge whether the other party is good or bad, the only thing you can do is to eliminate the danger in advance and save yourself.

But for civilizations like human beings, the law of the Black Forest does not apply, the universe is not dark, at least within the scope of human detection (within a diameter of 1,500 light-years), all civilizations have nothing to hide, It cannot be hidden, and the information is transparent.

If the universe is compared to a map full of fog and darkness, human beings already have the ability to dispel the fog in a small area.

But no matter how arrogant a lunatic is, no one thinks that human beings have already stood on the top of the universe. This three-dimensional universe is too huge. Even now, human beings have never stepped out of the Milky Way.

There are twelve extraterrestrial civilizations that can break through the parent star within the detection range of human beings alone. The entire galaxy with a diameter of 100,000 light years, according to scientists, may have more than 1,000 civilizations inside. If the civilizations that have broken through the parent star are added, the number may be multiplied by ten or even one hundred.

Moreover, the Milky Way is just an ordinary member of the local galaxy cluster, and the local galaxy cluster is a member of the Virgo supercluster of galaxies, and the Virgo supercluster of galaxies is only an insignificant part of the universe.

The civilizations here are vast. Among these civilizations, there are those who are weaker than humans, and there are definitely those that are stronger than humans.

You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, and the people watching the scenery are also looking at you upstairs. When human beings observe other civilizations, human beings are also being observed.

In this universe that follows the law of the jungle, a civilization that is brutal, evil, aggressive, and destroys races when it moves will often attract the attention and resentment of more powerful civilizations nearby. This is not because of universal values ​​such as justice and kindness. Rather, the existence of this type of civilization often brings discomfort to other civilizations, and heightens vigilance. Even if it is easily killed, no civilization will care.

Because of this, human beings have been cautious all these years, only going around in the nearby star field, not to mention the hard work and expedition like the Boxing people, and even the basic exchanges between several nearby civilizations have never occurred.

If it weren't for the double-brained people being closer to the solar system and roughly in a straight line with the unknown civilization that is in the arms race, which is the best location for advancing bases, humans might not pay attention to them at all.

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A few months later, a small unmanned scouting curvature spacecraft gradually approached this powerful civilization nearly 1,200 light-years away from Earth after flying for nearly 20 years.

The opponent's reaction was extremely quick. Before entering the range of five light years, this small curvature spaceship was intercepted by a huge fleet.

Humanity's unmanned spaceship quickly self-destructs after firing a giant electromagnetic cannon.

The hundreds of thousands of tons of antimatter placed inside instantly annihilated each other with the unmanned spacecraft. After the explosion, the fleet searched the starry sky exhaustively, but except for a few pieces of metal scraps and the electromagnetic gun, nothing was found. trace.

The electromagnetic gun is a metal ball with a hollow interior, which is not dangerous. Inside is a half-meter-thick paper language graphic material and the coded data of Unicom human quantum communication. As long as you have basic wisdom, you can This material, learn human language.

Once these things were discovered, they were immediately sent to the administrative star of this civilization for analysis. A day later, the two civilizations began their first communication.

This civilization is called the Bayan civilization. It has been tens of thousands of years since the development of civilization broke through the parent star, with a population of more than 100 billion, living on twelve planets, and its influence spreads over five surrounding star systems. During these tens of thousands of years, He has always been the overlord of the nearby star field, and there is no civilization that can challenge it. Even the former Boxing is just an inconspicuous ant in its eyes.

Until the rapid rise of mankind!

In the beginning, the Bayan civilization did not pay much attention to Boxing or human beings. In fact, civilizations with the strength of human beings and Boxing could not attract his attention. Even if the two conquered each other, in the eyes of this civilization It's also like chickens pecking at each other, which doesn't attract much interest at all. Even if one of the civilizations eventually falls, it's just a dead ant.

It wasn't until both of them developed curvature technology that one of the civilizations was destroyed that it attracted a little attention.

Curvature technology can be developed, even if the technology is only low-level, it has developed from a small ant to a large one, but it is limited to this. According to the law of civilization development, within thousands of years, this civilization cannot A threat to the Bayan civilization, as thousands of years later, he has become stronger.

However, to the surprise of the Baya civilization, the speed of human development is too fast, unbelievably fast, and frighteningly fast. If the development speed of ordinary civilization is only gradual, then human beings are completely leaps and bounds.

When he paid attention again, this civilization was already able to threaten him.

No overlord will tolerate the challenge of a new overlord that is about to rise. Since the threat to human beings was confirmed, the Bayan civilization has begun to prepare for war. On the one hand, it has built large-scale warships, and on the other hand, it has increased antimatter reserves to prepare for a big war. .

After all, the distance between the two is 1,200 light-years, which is quite a long distance for the Bayan civilization. The expedition of tens of thousands of warships consumes more energy, even if Bayan already has three Dyson balls. Civilization is also completely astronomical.

It's a pity that a few years before the preparation, the Bayan civilization found out that human beings have also entered a state of arms.

This discovery shocked the upper echelons of the Bayan civilization. They knew their own affairs. They could detect humans, but it wasn’t that they could detect humans at such a distance. Hundreds of years ago, the Bayan civilization carried out a survey on the nearby starry sky. The "eye insertion" project, through hundreds of space wave detectors arranged in various starry skies, can expand the field of vision to the vicinity of two thousand light-years. If we only talk about the maximum distance detected by a space wave, it is only seven or eight hundred light years. Year.

This time, the discovery made the Bayan civilization have a deeper feeling for the technological level of human beings, and also felt a stronger threat.

Soldiers, the great affairs of the country, the place of death and life, the way of survival, must be observed.

Wars are never trivial or child's play, especially in interstellar wars where genocide is at stake. Once the war fails, civilization will fall into hell forever. Any mature civilization will be cautious when facing a threatening civilization to launch a war.

Under the taboo, the Bayan civilization's original war plan has been delayed again and again, and with the rapid expansion of human military power, it has gradually evolved into a massive arms race.