After giving birth to pregnant eggs, the Arakans would put the eggs into a special nutrient solution. In ancient times, this nutrient solution needed to be secreted by the female Arakans themselves, which required a lot of energy and even led to the birth of some ethnic groups. In order to eliminate the bad habit of eating males to replenish energy, after entering the technological era, this nutrient solution became artificially synthesized, but it required a lot of food.
After 2 years of incubation, the young Arakans will be born. At that time, they all look the same, with soft-bodied worm appearances. They must live in a moist environment and need to eat a lot of food every day - - During the three years they grow, they need to eat nearly 60 times their initial body weight in food until they grow to almost the same size as their mother. During this period, the female Arakon takes care of the young.
Three years after hatching, the young Arakans will undergo the most important transformation in their lives. They will transform into a giant cocoon that lasts for a full year until they break out of the shell and become semi-adults. At that time, they will have sexual differences. .
Semi-adult Arakans are slightly smaller than adults and do not have carapace protection. They need to learn under the protection of the group for 5-6 years to master the skills and knowledge they need to live independently, and eat a lot of nutrients, and eventually grow a carapace and become An adult Arrakhan.
In other words, it takes about 10-12 years for an Arakan to grow from conception to adulthood, even faster than humans. Compared with its relatively long lifespan, this reproductive efficiency is very high. The only thing that restricts their population is Mainly food.
It can be seen from the entire breeding process that the Arakans need to consume a huge amount of food to grow. Although they strive to develop their own agriculture and livestock industry, after the population reaches a certain number, "eating" is still the largest and most difficult problem in the entire society. Even technological progress has failed to alleviate the problems that have been solved. Even because the Arrakans have higher requirements for their offspring, they have formulated a set of very high standards for "growth recipes."
Since the Arakans are sterol-heterotrophic organisms, the most critical elements for their growth and development are selenium and sterols. This is the key to the rapid development of the Arakan females’ intelligence, and is also the reason why the males have super explosive muscles. This high The standard diet structure has greatly improved the population quality of the Arrakans, and has also brought about explosive growth in science and technology. Many outstanding female scientists have emerged. However, it has also brought a huge burden to their home planet. Huge automated farms organized as cooperatives cover every corner of the planet, but demand always exceeds supply.
Before the Tau invasion, if a female Arrakhan wanted to give birth to a batch of offspring, it required the entire cooperative to devote all its efforts. All the females worked to the limit to barely meet the requirements. Even if they reached the technological capabilities of space navigation, due to the relatively small space in the galaxy, Barren, the food problem of Arakan society has not been solved by entering the space age. The Holy Trinity Council has to invest limited resources in technology and space to seek new colonies, but this in turn has aggravated the bottom cooperatives of Arakan. The heavy breeding tasks have even caused some young female Arakans to give up living in groups and giving birth to offspring and choose to live alone in the nest city. In addition, the cost of raising males is higher than that of females and they do not participate in production activities. Many cooperatives have gradually reduced the number of males. Basically, only one male is maintained per birth. This leads to the fact that when the population of this race expands to more than 3 billion, the number of males is less than 4 million - which also includes one-fifth of the half-adults.
A big reason why the Tau invasion was successful was that the Arakans themselves had problems in their own society - cooperatives were disbanded one after another, the population declined instead of increasing, many females chose to live alone until they died, and the males stayed in the sect for a long time. They honed their martial arts skills regardless of worldly affairs. In the end, when foreign enemies came, the Arrakans, with a population of more than three billion, only had more than three million soldiers to fight. After eight years of struggle, they could only abandon their homes and flee.
But the matter of food is almost not a problem for Ada. In the initial stage of the Arakans' resettlement, the Royal Court will provide them with high-quality food and nutrient solution for hatching. They only need to concentrate on Restore the number of their own population. After their numbers reach a certain scale, they can be granted more efficient agricultural technology and food synthesis technology. In fact, the Arrakans themselves also have some unique technologies, and their environmental requirements are not high. It can develop in extremely cold or high temperature environments, but it is very sensitive to oxygen, that is, the atmosphere.
The demand is relatively high, and modifying the planet's atmosphere is just a piece of cake for Ark Ada, let alone the Royal Court.
Therefore, Soshyan is very confident that he can "use" all three galaxies.
"Ammon" Ke said slowly after a moment of silence:
"This condition is difficult for us to accept. Both Sha'dragg and Hou'Sain once had our colonies. Although they were destroyed by the Zerg, the great Fire Caste commander Shas'i'Vorka was in Sha'dragg. 'Drag led the nuclear-hunting guerrillas for sixty days, and the last defenders of Hou'Saan stood in an abandoned mine for a hundred days. They have become a symbol of Ke'shan's unyielding. If they are handed over to you, Ke'shan will "The people of Shan cannot accept it emotionally."
"So, you're going to refuse?"
"You... can change the conditions. Those two galaxies have been severely damaged by the Zerg, and they will bring you little meaning."
Soshiyang looked at the other person, and after a while, nodded slightly.
"No matter, if you really want it, the Arrakans will get it themselves, so I won't take it for them myself, but as a price... you will provide the Arrakans with the food they need as compensation for a period of 30 years. , the amount in the first year is 4 billion tons, and will increase by 5% every year thereafter.”
No matter how good-tempered Rao Shi'un was, he subconsciously clenched the Blade of Honor in his hand.
This is to ask the people of Keshan to feed their future enemies with their own sweat!
Ammon"ke calmed down his anger and nodded.
"good."
"Then, the remaining issue is about compensation. I have written the numbers on it. Do you have any other ideas?"
It's not that Amun'ke has no ideas, but he feels like fainting. This is almost an astronomical figure. Even though the Ke'shan family has a good industrial foundation, such a huge number is enough to drain all their strategic reserves.
"Your Highness the Phoenix King, I don't understand. Your weapons are obviously more advanced than ours, why do you need these?"
"They are for use by vassal races. Ada's weapons are not very useful to ordinary races, but your weapons are... just okay, mainly because they are very versatile."
"The quantity is too huge, please be more lenient."
Soshyan thought for a while and agreed to the other party's request.
"Then pay it in ten years."
