Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 226: Just a Tool

"The primitive aliens like the Titanium have extremely subtle traces of gene editing, but it is not complete. Something is secretly controlling their reproduction and evolution."

"It's just that we don't know why, because these gene edits only exist in a few areas. If they want to create a perfect species, why not continue?"

Luo Xi crossed his fingers and leaned back in his chair. The sage's conclusion was beyond his expectations, but it made sense when he thought about it carefully.

The development of this alien race is fraught with mysteries. It has taken them 1,500 years to reach their current state, and there must have been some intervention from some entity.

But who would do this?
There is no way. Humans know too little about this group of stars located in the easternmost part of the Milky Way, and even less about its history.

"Based on the development experience of our own civilization, we can roughly deduce that the development of a civilization must be a spiral upward. It will usher in an explosive period, and after the explosion, it will also take time to digest and adapt. It may even go backwards and take the wrong path due to accidental variables of some historical events."

Sage Lawrence said that his research direction is gene editing, which cannot avoid the modifications that humans have made to their own genes over the past tens of thousands of years. While exploring the genetic maze, he also has a deeper understanding of human history.

"But the Titanium don't. The editing traces deep in their genes directly help them make their choices."

"When they were still in the primitive age, the power of genes drove them to leave the ocean and walk on land, and they also evolved a respiratory system suitable for land life."

"When they walked onto land, they quickly evolved the right physiological structures and even started using tools."

"To what extent are they dominated? Is it possible to find out?"

Luo Xi asked. He was not proficient in the knowledge in this area, and biology has always been his weak point.

"It took millions of years for the primitive ancestors of humans, fish that lived in the ocean, to come onto land. Through genetic mutation and natural selection, a group of organisms that could adapt to the environment eventually survived and passed on their genes."

"This is equivalent to using exhaustive enumeration to calculate a relatively correct answer, which is the most normal and widespread primitive evolutionary state."

Sage Lawrence expressed his own point of view that the more in-depth the research on biological genes is, the more one can feel the magic of so-called natural selection.

Life has almost unlimited potential, and this selection process makes that potential come true. The endless life forms in the vast galaxy are the result of life being selected by the universe.

"What about them? These Titaniums seem to be evolving madly, but in fact they are just racing along a pre-designed track from the beginning to the end."

“It’s like a train. It may be running fast and steadily, but it can never deviate from the track that was built for it. A derailed train is bound to capsize.”

Luo Xi sighed. After hearing the explanation from Sage Lawrence, he also understood the nature of the Titanium Clan.

They are just tools.

The titanium aliens he saw learned to use sticks to make spears and learned to use fire to cook food for better digestion, but these were not what they learned in the development of civilization.

Their edited genes will make it easier for them to come up with the idea of ​​using tools and fire. This is equivalent to answering a test question, and there is a mysterious voice providing them with references and reminders.

It says you should go onto land.

It says you should use tools.

It says that you should give birth to civilization.

"This isn't a good thing. It means this species has never been truly free or independent. They can't even distinguish whether these are their own thoughts or the will of the mysterious being that shaped them." "Yes, the genetic information I've analyzed so far supports this conclusion, but we don't understand why they chose to do this, or what their purpose is."

Sage Lawrence, who had originally spoken in a gentle tone, became serious. A buzzing sound of electricity came from his body, as if the attached thinking engine was overloaded with thinking.

"The Tau are a race that was selected, edited, and cultivated. But why would they choose to cultivate a race from scratch? Even if it is to reproduce the evolution of life, it is too incredible to start cultivating the Tau when they were still marine creatures."

Sage Lawrence also conducted similar life experiments, but neither theory nor reality could support him to conduct an experiment of such a large scale.

The Titans they saw today had been away from the ocean for 1,500 years, which meant that the cultivation process had begun at least 1,500 years ago.

And this existence hidden in the unknown spent 1,500 years to transform a group of uncivilized aquatic animals living in the ocean into intelligent animals with civilized consciousness. It could not have been just for the Titanium people who could only use the most primitive tools.

"It seems that our arrival has disrupted the process. We are uninvited guests who accidentally broke into the experimental petri dish."

"I just hope that the person behind the scenes won't get so angry that he loses his temper."

Luo Xi curled his nose and said with pursed lips.

"We broke into a remote area on the eastern frontier of the galaxy and disrupted the evolution of these Tau. Without our disturbance, there would be nothing in this silent star group that would have the audacity to find DX-114, or the place we named Tau."

Sage Lawrence nodded in agreement. When he discovered that this was actually a biological experiment, he developed a strong desire to observe.

He wanted to see what these Titans would eventually become if they were allowed to develop.

And if it was his own experiment, a biological experiment that took at least fifteen hundred years and cost a huge amount of money, and it collapsed because of the intrusion of a group of uninvited guests, in the name of Ohm Messiah, he would definitely go crazy.

"In terms of human life span, we cannot support an experiment that spans a thousand years. There is no other way. From a galactic macroscopic perspective, humans are actually a short-lived species. Mortals without genetic modification and life extension surgery are unlikely to live more than two hundred standard Terran years. Even life extension surgery cannot be used forever."

From the perspective of a biological sage, Lawrence admired the existence of those who designed this experiment. They might be some kind of highly intelligent alien race that had never been seen before, or they might be some evil beings that were simply doing it for fun.

"We arrived too early. If we had arrived five hundred or a thousand years later, we would most likely not have encountered these primitive aliens who only knew how to use wooden spears and fire."

Lawrence straightened his expression and began to imagine encountering the Titanium in a more distant timeline.

"Perhaps they have entered industrial civilization and can use steam, electricity, or even atomic energy, but it makes no difference. There is no difference between a primitive civilization and an initial industrial civilization under our warships."

"And if it's more extreme, they may even master the forbidden abomination of artificial intelligence. Think about it, Lord Roche. These weak aliens may wrap their bodies in power armor or larger mecha combat suits. Then they will be quite troublesome."

Luo Xi looked at the expression of Sage Lawrence and his eye that still retained flesh and blood.

"So you think that the people behind the Tau race essentially want them to become an outward-looking civilization that can roam the galaxy and become another player in this messed-up galaxy?"

Humans loyal to the Empire, humans who betrayed the Empire, green-skinned orcs keen on infighting, mysterious Eldar, Necrons who have not yet awakened, malicious entities in the Warp, these beings are the well-deserved protagonists in this dark galaxy.

As for those alien races, big and small, whose names cannot be told, they can only serve as a background board in most cases. They may not be weak, but they are not powerful either.

If the existence behind this really has this in mind, then Luo Xi can only wish them good luck. Not every race is qualified to sit in the player's seat.

(End of this chapter)