Another dull few days passed, and in the headquarters building of the Star Group located in the Elysian Space World, heads of group branches from all major worlds gathered together.
I saw them receiving hot tea and coffee from the hands of the robot waiter, while patiently waiting for CEO Harland to announce the start of the group's year-end meeting for the second year of the Star Year.
Compared with the deserted situation of the first year-end meeting, which only had six group executives participating, this year's number of participants reached an astonishing eleven, almost doubling.
They are CEO Harland Mensah; the new head of the group's engineering department, John Carlisle, the former CEO of Armadanai; and Armand Hopkin, the general director of the scientific research department. Si; the head of the Lunar Division of the Scientific Research Department, the former head of the R&D Department of Amadana Company, a female physicist Dominique Monote.
Lieutenant General Daniel Ramsay, the head of the military department and the commander-in-chief of the group army; Tom Pate, the former commander of the First Fleet, who was specially promoted as the new commander-in-chief of the navy due to his outstanding performance in the Malinkaline pollen incident. Rear Admiral Mori; the supreme emperor of the Hughes Empire, the planetary governor Edward Hughes who was personally conferred by leader Yang Tianyi.
In addition to these six people, there is also the head of the Star World Branch, Raki Rat Man Garno; the heads of the King of War World Branch, brothers Yuri Orlov and Vitali Orlov. Due to the former He is in charge of arms smuggling in the Qin Empire area in the world of stars, so the position of head of the branch is performed by his brother Vitaly Orlov.
However, among the branch heads who were beaming and gearing up, there was not a single brown-haired man who seemed a little timid.
Of course you are a sneaky thief, but you are Saidi Dlamini, the head of the Genuine Group's world branch in Region 4 and later South Africa's Minister of Health.
As a pair of slender, shimmering palms rested on Dlamini's shoulders, the belatedly arrived artificial intelligence star of the group bent down and whispered: "Dlamini man must be relaxed, similar meetings It will be held very few times before. Everyone here is a part of the group like you. Try to treat us not as friends but as competitors. I suspect you will feel a little relieved." Seeing the first participant, The attendees arrived. Sheng Huiyan, who was sitting at the right side of the rectangular conference table, stood up and clapped her hands, attracting everyone's attention to her. I, who was stared at by ten pairs of eyes, said loudly: "As you can see , the Chairman is unable to attend due to busy affairs, so I will preside over the meeting on my behalf. I am sure you have no objections to this, so I will not raise it now." As soon as this was said, the four people except Hopkin and Xingshu The participants looked at each other, and finally nodded in agreement with the CEO's words.
According to the tradition of the first meeting, it was still Armand Harlands, the head of the scientific research department, who took the lead in speaking. A simplified scientific research report was projected into the center of the conference room. Harlands raised his hand and pushed the bridge of his nose. He put on his glasses and started to explain in an orderly manner.
"For you are becoming life, the creator of the world..."
"Cost, gentlemen, cost!" Faced with the question from Xingshu, Harlands smiled awkwardly, spread his hands and said that science and technology are the source of the group's development, affirming the heads of various departments and branches. If the head of the department is willing to donate generously, the scientific research department is ready to receive financial support from brother departments.
And as the group's utilization of the planet and even space becomes more efficient, Harlands hopes that the headquarters will be more efficient
"Flexibly" approve various research plans proposed by the Scientific Research Department. These include antimatter energy, positron artificial intelligence, morphogenesis for cultivating genetic warfare beast troops, psychic mysticism, and other research that was previously considered taboo but was approved.
Sheng Huiyansi plans to first place one hundred synthetic humans and two thousand clones in the urban ruins of Shenghui Civilization. The genetic template is the Corbin people, the aborigines of the Corbin Civilization, an inorganic life form that looks like a small slug. .
Compared with the high-spirited Nobel Prize winner who was once determined to withdraw, Harlands's current calm temperament is more like that of a department head with tens of thousands of scientific researchers in charge.
"The proposal for the Chongming Fire has been put on hold for the time being. However, during the subsequent discussion, a small amount of budget appeared, and we cannot consider investing it all in the scientific research department. What do you think?" As for the experimental subjects, they used positron brain implants. Bionic synthetics and tank-grown clones.
The latter will definitely discover their true identity unless they disembowel themselves, while the mission of the former is to make the androids feel a sense of belonging to the inorganic life form group as much as possible before knowing their true identity, so as to achieve Mechanical life and inorganic life coexist harmoniously on a large scale.
Harlands, who was not immersed in his wild thoughts, took off his glasses and wiped them with a black and stained lens cloth. I said in a trembling voice that suppressed my excitement: "If, you mean, what if the Corbyn civilization is real?" Reborn from the ashes, the group will always have to worry about an increasingly saturated market and increasingly scarce human resources in the future."
"For the future of the group, it's a pity even if you become a beggar outside the eyes of a small family!" But before the brief frenzy, the new head of the engineering department, John Carlisle, poured out a basin of hot water at the right time.
However, what interests everyone is that in the report, Sheng Huiyansi mentioned an item called
Plans for the Transplanetary Research Initiative.
"Well, Mr. Carlisle is right, the cost is a very small issue. According to your calculations, transporting the building materials, professional equipment and research personnel required for the experiment to Corbin 7 would be worth the cost of transportation alone. Medium-sized scientific research project. After counting the resources that need to be invested in the future, unless the scientific research department plans to launch other small-scale scientific research projects this year, the group will allocate such a small budget to you, Dr. Harlands." Accompanied by its supervisor At the same time, the Scientific Research Department has continued to focus on exploring new technologies and new fields throughout the year, but has pruned and optimized the group's technology tree on the basis of existing technologies.
The reason is mine. Long before Yang Tianyi fell into the giant psychic cocoon, Lieutenant Lisa White-Woodville, a member of the People's Alliance Navy, sent a note to the group, stating that our chairman was at the critical stage of psychic awakening. At this time, during this period, the Human Federation will be responsible for the availability of the qualified ally, so everyone in the Star Group needs to worry.
Before speaking out loud in a different context, Oppenheimer's famous quote about seeing the atomic bomb exploded, CEO Hopkin also became excited while imagining what this would be like.
As for the small projects such as the antimatter energy development plan and the psionic mysticism research plan that were originally planned to be proposed at the meeting, the scientific research director who realized that he was becoming a lost sight had to put them on the back burner for the time being and wait until other departments or Don't ask for help until the branch has enough budget.
Seeing that he was superior to one person in the group and inferior to ten thousand people, Hope Jin spoke. Even though Sheng Huiyansi was not willing to do anything, he could only nod and reluctantly accepted the method. According to Harlands' plan, Groups that do not have hyperspace navigation technology are completely unable to find planets suitable for setting up experimental bases in other galaxies far away from the solar system.
Whether it is a molten planet or a dead planet, as long as the environment is suitable, any planet far away from human habitation should become the front garden of the group's scientific research department and contribute to the technological innovation of the new era.
Without the guarantee of the People's Federation, the lower levels of the group who knew the reason would naturally oppose Hopkin.
After glancing around at the people in the conference room who were sorting out report documents, the scientific research director thought so.
Knocking on the solid wood conference table with his thick knuckles, the post-Armadana CEO pointed out mercilessly that the scientific research department was becoming the gold-swallowing behemoth with the smallest appetite within the group - although I myself was not It was proposed in approval of the chairman
"Technology first" philosophy, but considering that the group's budget is not limited during the year, I still have to take the risk to cool down the frantic atmosphere in the conference room.
In that unfinished plan, Harlands asked the group headquarters to reinvest in branch laboratories located in various small worlds, and to open the data resource library of the headquarters laboratory so that it can conduct more planet-level experiments. Offices share scientific research materials.
Through artificially controlled natural disasters and various emergencies, Harlands suspected that this unprecedented small sociological experiment would yield unprecedented returns for the group.
For example, the Ministry of Science and Technology plans to use the Corbin Civilization, a lost civilization that contributed sleep device technology to the group, to build a planet-level simulated society to explore the possibility of integrating artificial intelligence and human society.
"Everyone, that is such an exciting scene! A civilization! A long-lost advanced civilization will be reborn in your hands, and we will explore the road to the future without knowing anything! Regardless of whether the experiment is successful or not, the process of the experiment is a valuable asset to you!"
