In the Mage Alliance, mages have more responsibility than power.
In essence, artificial intelligence uniformly manages the residents within the jurisdiction, and artificial intelligence uses the mage tower as a carrier.
And not every mage can have a mage tower.
The mage tower is very expensive, not only the cost of building the mage tower, but also the cost of supporting ordinary people in your area, and then allocating mages who graduated from the academy.
Only mages with strong resources can have their own mage tower.
Ordinary people can rely on the free food, clothing, housing and transportation provided by the alliance, as well as entertainment in the virtual world.
For the mage, there is only the endless pursuit of truth.
From individuals cultivated by artificial womb technology to adulthood and old age, everything is handled by the Alliance.
With the Alliance's expertise in the field of biotechnology, there will be almost no pain.
They will receive general education as they grow up, and then there will be various types of assessments.
The vast majority of people are eliminated in these assessments and then become ordinary people.
The assessment is not only a knowledge level similar to the Chinese college entrance examination, but also an assessment in simulated virtual reality.
For example, core and problem-solving abilities are tested.
You are given a scenario and you are asked to use your knowledge to solve it.
Because the cost of training a mage is very high. The resources required to train a mage from entering the mage academy to graduating and actually becoming a mage can support tens of thousands of ordinary people from birth to death.
After passing the assessment, the Mage Alliance will sign a contract with them. If they don't want to be a mage, feel that being a mage is too hard, and there is no hope in life, they want to go back to live an ordinary life.
It takes hundreds of years to work for the alliance.
Life-extending resources are precious to ordinary people, but they are common resources to mages.
Basically, as long as you graduate from the Mage Academy, you can receive a potion that extends your life for twenty years. If you subsequently sign a contract with the Mage Tower, the Mage Tower will also provide you with the corresponding life-extending potion.
The Mage Alliance is not Communism in the traditional sense of Blue Star. Ordinary people only have basic resources to support them.
You can live a carefree life, but it is limited to virtual world entertainment and ordinary food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Then the alliance will issue a small amount of credits every month, which can be used to purchase some other items.
For example, a mage apprentice can get 50,000 credits per month in the academy, while ordinary people can only get 500 credits per month.
Alliance points can only be used to purchase magical artifacts and knowledge.
But when many ordinary people face the threat of death in old age, they will choose to work instead.
I hope to earn money by working and extend my life.
With the existence of artificial intelligence, most of the jobs that ordinary people can engage in are in the service industry.
Many people go to game companies to do planning when they get older. It just so happens that they have played the game all their lives and put their experience into practice when they are old.
They also participate in work such as space expansion and interstellar population filling.
It is the norm in the alliance for the elderly to work to prolong their lives, and for the young to enjoy themselves and wait for death.
Of course some people will ask, is there any life in the Mage Alliance that was born naturally?
Of course there is.
Although most young people are addicted to the virtual world, it does not mean that there are no products of natural combination.
For the naturally combined life, the alliance will take away the newborn for unified cultivation when it is three years old.
Then, only after he has received a complete basic education and completed professional diversion, can he be reunited with his parents.
The purpose is to prevent newborns from experiencing artificial differences during the test.
To put it bluntly, I won’t let you take the test. Your parents will secretly teach their children what the Mage Alliance exam is, how to pass it and become a mage, and then exchange it for them for life-extending potions.
I don't have much memory before the age of three, so it doesn't matter if I don't have a magic brain.
But if parents dare to use the magic brain to instill memories and interfere with the assessment, this is a serious crime and will be directly destroyed physically if they are discovered.
Of course, there are also privileges, and the Dharma God will have some privileges.
However, most people who can become Dharma Gods are even more indifferent to ordinary people's emotions, and it is even rarer to find a satisfactory partner.
It often happens that natural people reunite with their parents after graduation and find that their parents have separated.
For ordinary people, the virtual world is too exciting, and feelings are very precious.
Just like an otaku living in a two-dimensional world.
"Teacher, I'm curious why ordinary people live so much easier than mages?
A mage always has only work to do, and only a handful of hours for entertainment. "
This was the question Zheng Li asked when he met his direct mentor for the first time in the academy after becoming a mage apprentice.
The direct tutor of the academy will only appear on the first day of enrollment for the apprentice assigned to him, and there will be an opportunity to communicate.
The next opportunity for communication is when the apprentice graduates.
Therefore, the first opportunity to communicate is extremely valuable.
Most people will ask for academic guidance, such as which direction is good and which sub-field has promising results.
But Zheng Li didn't care about this. He had his own thoughts on what kind of research he wanted to engage in.
What he wants to clarify more is his determination and will to pursue the truth.
"Yes, in the alliance, ordinary people and mages are almost always two ways to advance but not to retreat. There is no way out.
Moreover, the two almost live in parallel worlds, and ordinary people live in wonderful virtual worlds most of the time.
The virtual world provides instant feedback. Every time you make a decision or take an action, there will be feedback.
There are rewards for doing things right and punishments for doing things wrong. Instant feedback is very satisfying, because there will always be times when you do things right.
If you don't go right in this game, you will have the opportunity to do it again in the next game.
But mages have a long history of feedback. You can spend decades working on a problem and you may not see the results yet.
It's even possible that someone else can achieve this result before you do.
After becoming a mage, you can only advance but not retreat. If you want to retreat, you will have to work for the Alliance for hundreds of years.
No matter from which point of view, apart from living longer, a mage seems to have no advantages.
When I first became a mage apprentice, I had the same idea as you, why can ordinary people live so easily while we live so tiringly?
My thoughts at that time were even more extreme. We shouldn't give ordinary people such good benefits, and we should use various means to force them to live a hard life. Isn't it a joke that mages work harder than ordinary people?
But when my research progressed, when the spell model I reconstructed increased its power by fifty percent, when I analyzed the effects of new magical creature gene fragments.
It is as if the light of wisdom of the sages has completed the relay in my hands, and civilization has taken another small step forward in the pursuit of truth.
The touch and satisfaction this brings to me are unmatched by any number of virtual worlds. "
Young Zheng Li seemed to understand:
"I hope I can feel this touch in my own pursuit of truth."
"I generally understand that mages have responsibilities and obligations. Mages need to guide and lead civilization forward."
The mentor in the virtual world nodded and said: "Yes, from ancient times to medieval times to modern times, to modern times, mages have made our civilization more brilliant through their own efforts.
We need to do more to advance civilization.
Moreover, the resources that mages can enjoy far exceed those of ordinary people. "
Zheng Li asked: "Then this doesn't affect our ability to support ordinary people, right?
In fact, there is no need to spend resources to support ordinary people.
For example, virtual world charges, everyone needs a way to work. "
"With artificial intelligence, what kind of work do they need to do? In addition to art and writing work, in which field can ordinary people be better than artificial intelligence?
I have also thought about why we need to support so many ordinary people?
It should be written in the history books that it is for genetic diversity. "
For a highly developed magical civilization, its attainments in biology are extremely profound.
Genes can indeed mutate, and it is entirely possible to select excellent gene segments.
But the next generation cultivated in this way has good genes, which does not mean that he can become an excellent mage.
Even the offspring of gene editing, in addition to being physically better, have a far lower success rate than those of naturally formed offspring.
As for the principle, mages have many different opinions, but currently there is no final statement.
Ordinary people need to provide their genetic samples, and the genes are stored in the alliance's gene bank to provide raw materials for cultivating the next generation through technical means.
“Although no one has said clearly why ordinary people should be treated preferentially, the predecessors who originally formulated this system had very high-level reasons.
But I guess it's because most mages don't get married, and their genes have to be unified through alliances to cultivate the next generation.
You also don’t know who the next generation will be. How can you ensure that your next generation will also be a mage and not an ordinary person?
And when productivity is sufficient, why not give preferential treatment to ordinary people? "
The alliance's preferential treatment of ordinary people is not only reflected in free support for ordinary people, they also have the right to vote.
They can raise issues and then have the right to vote.
It’s just that the proportion of voting rights in the final result is different.
Due to the presence of advanced artificial intelligence, everyone's voting ratio is different.
Artificial intelligence has a complex algorithm mechanism to calculate the value of your vote.
For example, the vote value of an ordinary person who has never worked is 1, the vote value of an ordinary person who has worked and created value is 5, and the vote value of a mage apprentice is 10.
Of course, the algorithm is not that simple, and the vote value of the vote will be calculated based on your contribution.
The same mages have different contributions to the alliance, and their vote values are also different.
However, the number of mages is small and the number of ordinary people is large. The votes of ordinary people also have weight.
In the past, ordinary people were not given credit points every month, and this was a right they fought for.
"How should I put it? Mages and ordinary people have two different paths. Mages can see more brilliance in the path of life than ordinary people."
Even in the virtual world, Zheng Li could clearly see the stunning look in his mentor's eyes.
Zheng Li nodded and said: "I understand. Also, I would like to ask what happens when a mage chooses not to be a mage and becomes an ordinary person again?"
After thinking for a while, the instructor said: "There is a research report in the library dedicated to analyzing the mage who gave up the pursuit of truth and just wanted to eat and die. You can go look for it.
Judging from the situation around me, the price of giving up being a mage is too heavy, and few people will choose this path.
Because being able to become a mage has gone through a lot of tests.
There is only one person who usually gives up. The reason is that the results he spent hundreds of years researching were published by others first, and others became Dharma gods based on this results. He could not accept this blow and chose to give up.
He also applied for an appeal at the time, but the problem was that it was a coincidence that the person who published the review results before him did do his own research, just two days earlier than him.
Then I heard that some people chose to give up becoming a mage because they fell in love with an ordinary person in the virtual world, and just wanted to spend the rest of their lives with that ordinary person.
Of course, I have only heard of the latter, but never seen it. "
The combination of a mage and an ordinary person is almost impossible to succeed if the mage does not give up his career.
Because mages don't have time to fall in love, while ordinary people have all the time.
This is a fatal contradiction.
Of course, the goal can be achieved through spells or potions, but ordinary people also have magic brains.
Once you do this, it will be a serious crime to be detected by the alliance's artificial intelligence.
It is almost impossible to hide from a strong artificial intelligence.
Zheng Li couldn't understand it at the time: "Because you want to spend the rest of your life with ordinary people?"
Even now Zheng Li still can't understand.
The instructor nodded and said: "Yes, this is something I heard about, but I have never actually seen it. But this kind of thing should have indeed happened."
Later, after Zheng Li became a mage, his mentor at the Mage Academy no longer wanted to be a mage, so he was sent by the Alliance to open up wasteland in distant galaxies.
Going to distant galaxies to open up wasteland for hundreds of years as punishment.
Zheng Li felt nervous when he found out. He still remembered his mentor's enthusiasm for pursuing the truth, and wanted to wait until his mentor came back to ask him why he made this decision.
But before the instructor came back, Zheng Li had already taken the first step.
Coming to Blue Star is not bad. Whether it is the environment or the quality of the personnel, it is not considered land reclamation.
If we come to the time of the Javanese 800,000 years ago, it would be called land reclamation.
Zheng Li would really want to die if he didn't even think about the success of land reclamation.
Today's Blue Star Technology has merits for Zheng Li in some aspects.
This environment is much better than opening up wasteland.
The Alliance has two ways of governing the intelligent life planet. In-depth intervention, after the arrival of the mage, it will be directly transformed into the same social form as the Alliance.
Because this requires high productivity, if the civilization is relatively backward, it will take a longer time.
First, the colonization of the planetary system must be completed, and then the entire society must be taken over through artificial intelligence.
Not only is productivity required, but the integration between civilizations also takes time.
Another way is the alliance, which only trades knowledge and does not interfere in the internal affairs of the other planet.
In addition, some basic requirements will be mentioned.
Judging from Zheng Li's experience in Blue Star, the current Blue Star is more suitable for the second method.
More is not necessary, the solar system is not a resource-rich galaxy.
There are no magical artifacts here, and their value to the Alliance is too low.
The only valuable thing is the intelligent life here, but intelligent resources can be obtained through cooperation, so there is no need to spend great efforts to take over Blue Star.
If the Mage Alliance wants to take over Blue Star, it will inevitably have to break the current situation first.
Zheng Li didn't think the alliance would do a thankless business.
Blue Star is too far away from the alliance.
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There are a lot of things in it that are difficult to write about in detail, so I’ll just sketch them out for everyone to take a look at.
If you have any questions you can ask, I will answer them later after I compile them.
I roughly envision the social structure of the Mage Alliance in this way. Didn’t I mention in my speech that Zheng Li and Clark would swap bodies.
In my imagination, Zheng Li became Clark, and then he couldn't stand such days, so he chose to give up and become an ordinary person, and then was assigned by the alliance to the front line against the empire to experience the days of controlling a magic ship.
The first magic god in the history of the alliance to give up his identity as a mage.
Of course, that is another story, and it belongs to my lifetime, hahaha.
