"It's natural," Hossen said.
He looked at He Xingzhou and said: "If Blue Star Civilization joins the Star Trade Group, our Star Trade Group can give you a discount on interstellar logistics costs for three hundred years and provide corresponding navigation protection."
Within the Star Trade Group, not all civilizations have the capabilities of interstellar transportation and logistics.
This business is mainly done by the three main civilizations, because they have advanced warp speed spacecraft and their military strength is strong enough.
Ordinary civilizations must pay their corresponding fees before they can trade.
"Old friend, the Blue Star Civilization is a potential civilization that even the Orion Court wants to win over. Isn't this condition a bit low?" Bai Shizao said again.
Huo Sen smiled bitterly and said: "This is the maximum authority I can give. In the final analysis, Blue Star Civilization is only a second-level civilization. Even if it grows up, it will be thousands of years later."
"Furthermore, the situation in various parts of the Star Trade Group is very tense now, and we cannot allocate more resources."
He Xingzhou thought in his mind that although the benefits provided by the Orion Royal Court were many, the price was to make Blue Star Civilization their vassal. In actual terms, it was a loss of blood!
The benefits provided by the Star Trade Group are not many, but they are more free.
He Xingzhou said: "If we want to join the Star Trade Group, the Star Trade Group must at least protect the safety of Blue Star Civilization."
"We are on the edge of the Pleiades civilization, which is the sphere of influence of the Orion Court. Once we join the Star Trade Group, we will inevitably be regarded as enemies by them." He Xingzhou said to Huo Sen, "The Star Trade Group must be able to guarantee this! "
Hossen stood up, thinking, and talking to important figures in his civilization.
After a moment, he said: "The principle of the Star Trade Group is generally that each civilization protects itself. Unless it is an affiliated civilization, we will protect it."
"But..." he changed his words, "Your situation is special. The coordinates of Blue Star Civilization are at the junction of the Star Trade Group's forces and the Orion Royal Court's forces."
"If you join the Star Trade Group, we are naturally obliged to maintain your safety."
"I can guarantee now that if you join, when a civilization one level higher than yours takes action, the Star Trade Group will send troops to support you!"
He Xingzhou was still dissatisfied. If an advanced civilization really took action, they would be wiped out before rescue could arrive.
He continued to negotiate with Hossen, but he still couldn't get much benefit.
After some discussion, the two parties agreed to discuss it again in a few days.
He Xingzhou negotiated with Bai Shizao and others.
Bai Shizao said: "The Star Trade Group will not provide any more benefits unless you are willing to become their affiliated civilization or alien colony."
"This is impossible." He Xingzhou said.
"The best case scenario is for the Star Trade Group to send a patrol fleet to the nearby star field to scare the Orion King's Court." Bai Shizao said, "This is what our Black Sea Civilization should do."
When he said this, he looked helpless, "Unfortunately now, we are too busy fighting among ourselves to take care of these things."
He Xingzhou said: "I'm worried that if we join the Star Trade Group, the Orion King's Court will take action against us."
"That's for sure." Shiraishi Zao said, "In the past hundred years, the Orion Royal Court has been fighting frequently. If it doesn't surrender, it will be destroyed."
"You have no choice."
He Xingzhou also understands this truth. It seems that both sides are now more polite to Blue Star Civilization.
Once he joins one party, he will definitely be more aggressive than the other party.
If you don't join in and sway from side to side, you will be fucked by both sides.
…
He Xingzhou consciously exited the virtual universe and kept discussing with the commanders.
"We have been fighting in the solar system for so long, with so many sacrifices and bloodshed, absolutely not to surrender to other civilizations! Otherwise, we would have directly become a subsidiary civilization of the Black Sea Civilization from the beginning!" The commanders' opinions were quite unanimous.
"It is absolutely impossible to surrender to the Orion King's Court!"
"In this case, we have to think carefully about how to protect ourselves after rejecting the Orion Court?" He Xingzhou also agreed in his heart to join the Star Trade Group.
"If the Orion Court sends a high-level civilization to take action, we may not have a chance." He Hongwei said, "To be on the safe side, we should establish a survival base far away from the solar system. Even if the solar system is destroyed, we can make a comeback."
"This is a backup measure." Cui Weimin said, "In my opinion, if the Star Trade Group can guarantee the fight against the enemy's level three and above civilizations and against the level two civilizations, we still have some confidence."
He Xingzhou nodded and said: "At least our sublight speed warships are powerful, and civilizations below level 2.5 are no match for us!"
He can now say this with confidence. Everyone is fighting in the civilization arena of the virtual universe and has roughly understood the average level of the second-level civilization in the universe.
In civilization competitions below level 2.5, Blue Star Civilization has never failed so far!
The power of Dyson rays is comparable to stellar-level destruction weapons!
The reason why we can't beat civilizations above level 2.5 is because there are two important thresholds for a civilization to reach level 2.5!
That is the application of antimatter energy and the development of warp speed battleships.
When antimatter and matter meet and annihilate, all the mass of antimatter and antimatter will be converted into energy, and its energy conversion efficiency is higher than that of nuclear fusion!
The annihilation energy of antimatter is 10 billion times that of the hydrogen oxidation chemical reaction, and 300 times that of the thermonuclear reaction in the core of the sun!
This kind of energy utilization efficiency will make a qualitative leap for the entire civilization!
The warp engine allows the warship to enter subspace and reach a speed "beyond" the speed of light. Once it exceeds the speed of light, its strike capability far exceeds that of a sub-light speed warship.
Two factors have led to the huge gap between level 2.4 civilization and level 2.5 civilization!
"In any case, we still have a buffer time of one hundred years." He Xingzhou said, "No matter what decision is finally made, within this hundred years, we must seize the time to expand our territory!"
"Strive for breakthroughs in antimatter extraction and utilization technology, as well as warp engine technology!"
"As long as we have these two points, our confidence will be much stronger and our choices will be wider!"
"The commander-in-chief is right. In the final analysis, we have to be strong enough. It is better to rely on ourselves than to rely on the sky and the earth. We will drag them for a hundred years and wait for another hundred years to talk about everything!" Everyone agreed.
As a result, Blue Star Civilization was in discussions with the Star Trade Group and the Orion Royal Court, but nothing was confirmed.
Because it was the wooing period, neither party made any moves.
The Blue Star Civilization sent warships to explore and mine resources in nearby star systems, and neither the Pleiades Society nor the Star Trade Group civilization turned a blind eye.
Taking advantage of this time, Blue Star Civilization rapidly expanded its sphere of influence.
In the Ministry of Science, He Xingzhou personally participated in the research and development of antimatter extraction and utilization technology.
On the quantum optical brain, He Xingzhou unlocked multiple antimatter technologies at once.
"Consume one hundred thousand energy points to unlock the antimatter particle magnetic trap technology."
"Consume 150,000 energy points to unlock the anti-particle reducer and anti-matter capture technology."
"Consume 200,000 energy points to unlock antimatter reaction control technology."
"Consume 250,000 energy points to unlock the annihilation reaction energy converter technology."
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"We have been conducting research on antimatter for nearly two hundred years." On the super ring, He Xingzhou was communicating with Xu Tengbin and others.
One of the major research projects of the Ring Planet Collider is the study of antimatter.
In particle collisions, antimatter is produced. The antimatter mass produced by the Ring Planet Particle Collider during particle collisions is still quite large.
"Antiparticles have weak magnetism. Using this characteristic, we can use magnetic traps to capture small masses in a short time. But capturing large masses in a long time is still a problem." Xu Tengbin said.
"Try the combination of anti-particle reducer and magnetic trap."
Particle accelerators are for particle collisions. This antiparticle reducer uses a magnetic field to cool, decelerate and accumulate high-energy antiprotons and positrons, eventually forming a large number of antihydrogen atoms under the constraints of the electromagnetic field. The temperature of these "cold" antihydrogen atoms is only a few degrees higher than absolute zero. Easier to "catch".
The research team began to design and manufacture anti-particle reducers and anti-particle magnetic traps, and installed them on the orbiting planet particle collider.
A few months later, they began a formal capture experiment of "antimatter".
"Particle collider, start!" Xu Tengbin started the collider. Two beams of particles passed through the accelerator orbiting the planet and approached the speed of light infinitely, and then collided together.
They have conducted this experiment many times, previously to study the God Particle.
This time, antimatter produced when particles collide has become their main target.
Antiparticles appear in collisions and begin to escape quickly. Once they encounter the corresponding positive particles, an annihilation reaction occurs, converting all mass into energy and bursting out.
The anti-particle reducer comes into play. The magnetic field cools and gathers the particles, and the anti-particle escape speed is greatly slowed down. At the same time, the magnetic trap gathers them together and uses the vacuum magnetic field to bind them.
"Over a kilogram of antiparticles have been captured."
"There are actually so many. It seems that our initial plan was successful!" Xu Tengbin said happily. The energy that antiparticles of this mass can explode has exceeded their space hydrogen bombs and other weapons!
Even releasing the purgatory ray cannon is completely enough!
"It's still too little." He Xingzhou is still not satisfied. Although capturing antimatter is of great significance, the mass is too small to allow Blue Star Civilization to complete the large-scale application of antimatter.
"The Ring Planet Particle Collider should collide particles day and night, collect antimatter, and become an antimatter manufacturing machine!"
"Then we need to build a special antimatter space magnetic warehouse for storage and a special antimatter transport ship for transportation, so that it can be used on a large scale."
A week later, He Xingzhou ordered the construction of a larger ring-shaped antimatter production factory in the outer space of Jupiter.
Its mass and volume will be more than a thousand times larger than the super ring!
Only in this way can antimatter be more fully utilized in human society.
"After reaching level 2.5 civilization, various antimatter reactors, warp engines, large space structures, and space weapons will consume astronomical amounts of antimatter every moment." He Xingzhou planned the future.
Blue Star civilization also faces the risk of war. If a war breaks out, the demand for antimatter will increase hundreds of times!
Expanding the antimatter factory is necessary, not enough.
This problem not only troubles them, but also troubles countless civilizations. In the trading area of Galaxy City, antimatter is the most popular trade, and it can even be used as star currency to purchase resources from other civilizations.
Powerful civilizations often control their affiliated civilizations through control of antimatter.
"Without a stellar furnace, there will never be enough antimatter!" He Xingzhou really wanted to start designing and manufacturing a stellar furnace immediately, but they didn't have this technology yet.
"Anyway, let's occupy a few more star systems first."
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The external expansion of Blue Star civilization and interstellar trade began to accelerate.
Five years later, in the star system closest to the solar system, the Proxima Centauri star system, a human interstellar pioneering fleet arrived here.
Captain Huang Sheng looked at the light on the screen, which was the light from Proxima Centauri. After several years of sailing, this was their close approach to the star again.
Compared with the sun, its light is much dimmer. It is a red dwarf star and does not have much stellar energy.
He looked forward to it: "I don't know if there are aliens!"
"Don't think about it, there is a high probability that there is no such thing. The Tianhe Civilization has already detected this star system, and there is no life there." Xiong Manni said.
"Maybe they didn't find it!" Huang Sheng was very excited and ordered: "The reconnaissance ships are dispatched in full force, and together with the scientific research ships, they will detect all the large celestial bodies in the entire star system!"
"Roger!" In the fleet, ships spread out one by one, searching the star system.
Like the intelligence of the Sirius civilization, there are no aliens in this star system, but there are planets that can be exploited for resources.
"Proxima Centauri b has a mass about 1.3 times that of Blue Star. It is seven million kilometers away from Proxima Centauri. The ecological environment is harsh and no life has been found. It can be transformed." This is the news sent back by the pioneering fleet.
"Transform Proxima Centauri b into a habitable planet and serve as the first colony in our outer star system." He Xingzhou ordered.
Although Proxima Centauri is relatively lacking in resources, it is still a star system.
With the current strength of Blue Star Civilization, it is easy to transform a planet!
The exploration of the Proxima Centauri star system is just the beginning. The former commanders of the major planetary fleets of the Blue Star Civilization are now embarking on the journey of interstellar development.
Another year later, the exploration fleet led by Meng Hai arrived at the Nanmen star system 4.4 light-years away from the solar system. There are two stars here, Nanmen A and Nanmen B. Similarly, it has also become a Blue Star civilization colony.
Next is the Wolf star system 7.8 light years away from the solar system, the Rutan star system 8.7 light years away from the solar system, the Lakai star system 10.7 light years away from the solar system...
The expansion speed of Blue Star Civilization has made the surrounding neighbors restless.
In the Procyon star system, the Procyon civilization has been in a state of decline since the expedition to the solar system failed. The new leader Kedel has been supervising the actions of Blue Star Civilization. Seeing the rapid expansion of Blue Star Civilization, Kedel was completely panicked.
Their "scientific research" fleet has encountered the fleet of Blue Star Civilization several times, and the performance of the other party's ships has far exceeded theirs.
They don't even have a Star Destroyer, and the opponent already has a lot of sublight speed warships.
For this reason, he was worried, and the entire civilization was worried about which day the Blue Star civilization would come over. After all, they had a grudge.
Kedel teamed up with the new leader of Sirius civilization and members of other civilizations of the Pleiades society to report to the main civilization, hoping that the Pleiades civilization would respond to this.
In the virtual universe, all members of the Pleiades Society gather here. A total of one hundred and thirty-two star systems and a total of thirty-eight civilization leaders are discussing the behavior of the Blue Star civilization.
