Warhammer 40k Origins Stellaris Civilization Simulator

Through new propaganda strategy decisions, the Alliance can directly project its culture and values onto the inhabitants of newly conquered or settled planets. This projection not only involves spiritual guidance but also combines technological transformation and social engineering to ensure that the target individuals fully accept and identify with the Alliance's value system within a short period of time.

The ability to integrate society after Ascension gives the Alliance an unparalleled advantage in dealing with conquered populations. All differences and conflicts among foreign cultures will gradually dissipate under the influence of the Alliance's powerful ideology, while Alliance culture will be further consolidated and developed among these newly integrated populations.

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This ascension theory was soon tested on human prisoners of war.

The systematic transformation of captured Astra Militarum troops is a complex undertaking.

The members of this Astra Militarum organization were once an idealist military driven by intense religious fanaticism and military expansionism, which is incompatible with our materialistic and egalitarian ideals.

However, faced with the impeccable cultural influence of the Interstellar Alliance, this strong-willed armed force will gradually become a loyal supporter of the Alliance, and they will do it willingly.

Phase 1: Suppression

The captured Astra Militarum initially showed great hostility towards the Interstellar Alliance, and their religious ideas of alien exclusion made it completely impossible for them to accept the Alliance's values.

To eliminate this resistance, our reform department adopted a multi-layered strategy of suppression and differentiation:

The first is sufficient material donations. Adequate supply of living materials is a prerequisite for developing a sense of conversion to another lifestyle.

Then came cultural isolation. The Federation's cohesion experts passed the "Influence Projection" resolution, depriving the Astra Militarum of its access to its original beliefs and culture, and then forcibly implanted the Alliance's ideology through both physical and psychological means.

Next came the elite division, where the transformation department separated the senior officers and soldiers of the Astra Militarum and carried out psychological and cultural transformation on them individually, weakening their organization and cohesion.

When they begin to feel alienated from their original social concepts, the next step of transformation begins.

Promoting the Alliance's core values within the Astra Militarum is crucial to the entire indoctrination process. This is a complex undertaking that requires both objective context and subjective thinking.

First, the Reconstruction Department created a simulated living environment. Utilizing ecological simulation and psychological intervention techniques, the Federation created a "virtual home" familiar to the Astra Militarum soldiers, yet fully imbued with Alliance values. This gradually led them to believe that living in our domain was no different from their previous lives.

Then there is the compulsory education program, which uses genetic technology, psychic influence and prosthetic integration to implant new concepts into those whose minds are being transformed, causing them to passively absorb the Alliance's philosophy and social theories.

In the third phase, they will manipulate multiple social concepts, shifting them from passive acceptance to active identification. After several years of indoctrination, over 99.999% of the original human Empire believers will shift their core beliefs about the Federation from resistance to acceptance, and begin to actively identify with the Alliance's values.

By this stage, they have become fully qualified citizens, even more qualified than our normal citizens.

These educated Astra Militarum troops will become the "new loyalists" of the Interstellar Alliance. Cohesion experts report with interest that this army, once a formidable enemy of the Alliance, has now become one of its most loyal supporters. They are even willing to be reorganized into the Alliance's military forces to fight against their former vassal states.

By enabling the affected population to ascend, the Helka Interstellar Alliance can proudly declare that they have achieved a perfect transition from military conquest to cultural conquest. There is no longer any need to worry that the conquered population will not belong to us and will miss their homeland, because their homeland is only temporary, while the Federation's guidance of their thoughts is eternal.

Theoretically, we have not violated "free will" in any way, we have just added some guidance. Moreover, free will does not exist anyway. If you can only freely access the influence of thoughts that you should be exposed to, you will not be able to freely jump out of its guidance.

The premise for the Interstellar Alliance to grant a utopian standard of living to the new people who join it halfway is that they will love the Alliance more than the Alliance itself. Once they fall into the Alliance's territory, they will no longer have the power to choose not to identify with the new life.

34. Treason

Tragically, Lieutenant Aires Carlton failed to be loyal to the Divine Emperor. While resisting the attack of the Federal Mixed Brigade, he was knocked unconscious by a blow from the dragon's tail while charging at it with a bayonet.

When he woke up, he was already wearing a tranquilizer collar and being held in a prisoner-of-war camp. He was only surprised by one thing: these aliens actually built a prisoner-of-war camp.

According to the Munitions' propaganda, if the Empire's loyal sons and daughters didn't immediately receive the reward of death, they would often suffer a more miserable death after being captured, such as having their souls extracted, being used as living targets for xenos training weapons, or being sacrificed to demons, etc.

But none of this happened, and everything seemed eerily normal.

The person in charge of guarding them was a tentacled, sea-life-like alien. He called himself some kind of Ibusian, or so it sounded. He was always silent and aloof, and could spend days and nights in the guardhouse doing nothing but eating and guarding.

This caused many Astra Militarum soldiers who were considering whether they had a chance to escape to curse secretly, although as long as the surveillance shackles were not removed, there was no point in simply avoiding the guards.

Just when everyone thought they would rot in the dungeon, the squid guard announced their punishment: since the Federation didn't know where to exchange prisoners and wasn't prepared to do so, they would serve their sentences in a federal labor camp. They would have to work to atone for the casualties they had caused to the people of the Federation and the destruction of the Federation's means of production and livelihood.

This kind of labor reform wasn't particularly strenuous, not even as hard as fighting on certain death worlds. This was because the aliens would give the captives tools, though there weren't any automated equipment, requiring manual operation. In other words, it was no different from daily life in the hive city.

However, all personnel are not allowed to keep their original clothing, equipment and any other products related to the Human Empire, nor are they allowed to continue to be detained with their acquaintances.

The prisoners can only live the new life prescribed by the Alien Federation, working ten hours a day, and the only things they can enjoy in the rest of the time are the consumer goods and cultural content prepared by the aliens.

Everything was quiet, so peaceful that it felt a bit lonely. The belief that only humans could control the galaxy, and the call of the human God-Emperor, became increasingly illusory amidst alien cultures and loneliness.

Lieutenant Carlton initially enjoyed this kind of life for a while. The breakfast here wouldn't kill you, basic consumer goods were readily available, and the work wasn't very hard, at least compared to his service in the Astra Militarum, which required full use of his intelligence to avoid death. Welding the casings for data terminals only required mechanized labor on an assembly line.

There seemed to be nothing worth complaining about except loneliness, but this single problem was becoming increasingly unbearable.

At first, Carlton, like many Imperials, was full of hostility towards the aliens and "traitors" of the Federation. But gradually, he found that his anger faded in the daily routine, replaced by a strange calmness, even boredom.

So he finally agreed to further "reform requirements."

The other party's response was quite straightforward. He was immediately allowed to move freely within the restricted area, experiencing the Alliance's culture and lifestyle. Every day, virtual images played the Alliance's history and philosophy. They claimed that egalitarianism was worthy of praise and that all life should enjoy freedom and dignity.

These aliens expressed their ideas in an unusually gentle manner, completely different from the invaders Carlton knew, such as the Greenskins and Chaos rebels.

Afterwards, the alien psychologist began to give him micro-tests every day, asking him to tell him what his favorite living environment would be like. Carlton wanted to keep his secret at first, but ignorance cannot bring strength, and he has no way to guard against big data psychological tests.

When he saw the living area that was exactly the same as his hometown he had left twenty years ago, he still thought it was a trick of the aliens, but he decided to give it a try because he had tried many times before.

Enjoying a decent standard of consumer goods, he no longer spoke harshly to, or even attacked, federal personnel.

"What do you think the Empire means to you?" One day, the counselor assigned to him by the Federation, a dragon man who made strange gestures and muttered something about peace every day, asked Carlton.

"The Empire gave me everything." He answered instinctively, but the words sounded extremely pale. His important memories of the Empire seemed to be the scriptures about the state religion, the bloody fights and the lack of life, that is, precious painful memories.

"Your Empire is happy to tell you this, but we want you to understand more. Specifically, how the Empire has given you everything from its productive forces and production relations. Doubt breeds heresy, right?" He pulled out a book with a blue-red cover, containing some rather esoteric material. "We'll encourage you to become a heretic. Read it carefully."

Carlton's skepticism gradually gave way. An indescribable attraction began to take hold of him, and he began reading books on the Alliance's philosophy and discussing these ideas with other captives and even the aliens.

Those books explain how everything happens, the mutual movement of energy and consciousness, even under the influence of mysterious souls and psychic energy, still moving in a fixed direction.

This direction is the future, what the future should be like, what life with the future technology should be like, Carlton now sees it. They should have reached the stars by following this arduous journey, but they are still eating the earth.

Because the priests said that the devil had come and the gods had saved them, and their current lives were maintained by the grace of the gods, so they should be grateful.

Perhaps this is true. They have declined and failed before, and only by turning to God and ignorance can they survive.

The society that has determined history by transforming the world through human productivity has come to an end. From now on, humans will live as very intelligent animals and exist as something that highlights the great value of God and his angels.

The God-Emperor who once saved them might still love the Empire and humanity, but he also believed that humanity was no longer important, or perhaps he had never considered humanity to be more important than the "angels" under his command, or more important than the life of the Empire he had to maintain, and that all other sacrifices were acceptable.

He may want to save your lives, even if it means letting you live like ants, because he believes that humanity cannot be saved.

You must prove him wrong. Severed, revived, cut, reborn. Nothing to fear, no one to be trifled with. Can you disprove the illusion that human history is coming to an end? Reclaim the glory that belongs to you, not the God-Emperor? Can you prove once again that the world is yours, not some psychic influence or divine faith?

We must use our creations to overthrow sacred images, expel evil spirits, and achieve the "grand vision." We must all be like dragons, not self-pitying. This is the heroic tool that all intelligent species should possess.

After reading this, Carlton asked a question: "What does it mean that everyone is like a dragon?"

Soon after, he was transferred to a special facility the Alliance called a "simulated homeworld." It was a replica of his homeworld, but not entirely real: Neighbors lived in unprecedented harmony, with no more gang warfare. Mutants were cured, and the Underhive was no longer corrupt and chaotic. There were no tithes, no oppression from the nobility. Everyone had a voice, all were guaranteed the same standard of living, and people worked out of necessity, not out of some sacred obligation.

Human cognition and practice are once again, or were not before but will now become, the masters of history, rather than God.

Carlton was told that this was a real and possible future if he just started working on it.

Finally, that day arrived. He stood at the door of the Thought Integration Center, facing a screen of flickering blue light. His counselor, his friend, the blue dragon Indigo, told him that once he passed through this door, he would officially become a member of the Helka Interstellar Alliance, and he would have the right to challenge everything he had submitted to in the past.

He hesitated. The old things he knew were worth clinging to because sticking to them was "labor-saving" and even if it required sacrifices, it was still simple.

Finally it closed its eyes, took a deep breath, and stepped over the threshold.

When he opened his eyes, he was no longer Lieutenant Carlton of the Imperium, the Emperor's currency. He was a traitor, a disgrace, someone the Old World could no longer accept, one who had abandoned truth for heresy.

"Congratulations on choosing to swallow your pride, traitor." Indigo congratulated him.

"I will try my best to live until the day I want to see, and you must provide me with what I need." Carlton gave orders as if he was already the master of this new civilization.

"As you wish, citizen." Indigo immediately agreed to his request without any hesitation.

35. This human empire

Acting ignorant can be used to combat the influence of the Warp, but protecting oneself from cutting-edge science is not so easy.

Through big data psychological analysis, federal scientists can read the messages they want from every micro-expression and every signal rhythm of the nervous system.

Every surviving captive became an active or passive traitor to the Empire, betraying to us everything they knew.

After weeks of work, Hurka's science team pieced together a stunning panoramic picture from the data.

That strange enemy calls itself the "Empire of Man," a vast political entity encompassing millions of star systems.

During its more than ten thousand years of existence, the Human Empire has continuously promoted the colonization and development of the human species throughout the universe. If these data are not distorted, then this empire has made humans the dominant species in the Milky Way.

But this is not a good thing, because what we see before our eyes is simply a hell on earth that is the sum of the evils of all social organizations. Unless hell really exists, nothing can be worse than it.

In diplomacy, unlike Helka's multi-racial federation, this empire practices an extremely xenophobic and monistic policy, regarding all non-human races as aliens and non-imperial forces as heretics, and ruthlessly expelling or exterminating them.

The situation in domestic affairs is even more terrifying. As a space civilization, this empire still maintains a backward feudal system. Its feudal governors are not responsible for the people they rule at the bottom. They only need to pay enough taxes and remain loyal, and then they can do evil with the support of the space fleet.

Since the Empire did not use genetic technology to transform the upper echelons into a "service-specialized subspecies" that takes pleasure in devotion, or set them to be pure and aloof, and they are not subject to any supervision, the extreme corruption brought about by extraordinary power is inevitable. After all, the human species does not have the high level of self-awareness that appears in squid people.

In terms of technology, the empire suffers from a serious gap in its education system and science and technology. The people regard advanced technology as magic, and only a few upper-class people understand its true structure.

Culturally, the Empire maintains a strong sense of idealism and religious supremacy. The God-Emperor of Mankind, who "led the angels to save all of humanity" ten thousand years ago, was likely an extremely powerful psyker, or perhaps simply a spiritual being.

He is the master of the empire, and the entire empire exists to continue his idea of "keeping humanity alive". Everything else is unimportant.

Even more disturbing is that this empire seems to have reached an extremely advanced level in the field of technology, from biological modification, prosthetic implants to psionic theory, the empire has dabbled in it all.

The Empire also possesses an extremely advanced level of basic science, so advanced that even though their social organization is so backward, they can mass-produce advanced materials and equipment that are still theoretical to the Federation simply by using old heritage.

The laser rifle that can be charged by fire has amazed engineering experts.

This is bad news for us, because the Human Empire will undoubtedly be one of the Federation's biggest enemies. Its organizational model, ideology and other aspects are completely incompatible with the Interstellar Alliance.

The only consolation is that this empire isn't as powerful and unstoppable as it appears. Its inefficient and corrupted organizational systems are steadily deteriorating, and the human empire's misuse of psionic technology has left them constantly plagued by psychic corruption. Its vast territory has created countless enemies, forcing them to constantly mobilize and launch territorial defenses.

Even the encounter with the Interstellar Alliance was just an "accident" in a large-scale conflict between the Empire and another alien civilization.

As the data was mined in depth, Helka gradually grasped the operational intentions of the Imperial Fleet.

It turns out that the Imperial fleet did not intend to attack Helka, but rather an unexpected encounter. They attacked the Federation only out of ideological inertia and indiscriminate hostility.

The fleet's true target was an unknown force called the Tau Empire, and Helka's territory happened to be directly adjacent to their attack route. The Imperium of Man's unreliable psionic jump system had lost control, sending them "dumping" into our area.

Although it is unclear what kind of force the "Tau" are, it is always a good thing that they can attract the Empire's firepower.

On the other hand, the empire's inefficiency is truly lamentable, like a gift from nature.

His people are armed with superstition and seem stubborn, but they are vulnerable to real ideological attacks. With a little doubt, they can realize their situation themselves and then become fierce opponents. Human beings are indeed a brave but not very determined species.

We did not over-sell the values of the Federation to the captives. We simply let them choose to think about whether they were the decision-makers of the history of the Human Empire. They recognized their former status without hesitation.

His technology is so advanced that he can quickly provide us with reference samples for reverse research.

By capturing the ships of the Human Empire, we can conduct in-depth research on their highly advanced materials and psychic shield technology, which is at least two eras ahead of ours, and quickly close the gap between us.

Their ships, which completely violate fluid mechanics and can travel at very high speeds, are of great reference value for our research and development of large cruisers, battleships and even the envisioned Titan-class ships.

However, we are not interested in those very scary technologies, such as wetware computers and the transformation of human bodies into cyborg slaves.

Furthermore, the Federation has begun exploring stealth technology, preparing to secretly continue to gather intelligence on its own region and other alien forces here, such as the Tau and the Imperials, and then formulate corresponding covert action strategies. We need to learn more without disturbing the behemoth.

A new round of fleet expansion is also underway. The empire may be powerful, but its inefficiency means that the forces it can use at the same time are limited. As long as we form a local advantage, we can rest assured.

Ultimately, the Federation must establish its own civilizational hegemony, prevent interference from cosmic imperialism, and promote the universal values that a true cosmic civilization should follow to a more distant galaxy.

This will also be a good thing for our enemies and the humans under their rule. Perhaps the empire will change its mind because of its hostility towards us and become more aware of its own problems. They will once again popularize clean water and air, simply because they don't want to import blood and bones into our country.

If they are too corrupt, then perhaps they won't do it. That would be better, and the Interstellar Alliance would take over what they can't do.

Some things must be done in one generation. If one generation can't finish them, two generations must do them. If two generations can't finish them, a thousand generations must do them. This can't be excused by saying that survival is difficult or that hostility is strong. Because every force in trouble can use these excuses to justify its retreat.

If you don't do it, we will do it, regardless of whether it is pure or not.

36. The Cult of the Splitting God is Invincible

"As expected, I still have to split it. This shield is really uncomfortable to hit."

The Fourth Calamity was extremely annoyed with the Imperial ships that implemented the spirit of Two Virtues and Layered Armor, so it decided to remain unchanged in the face of all changes.

"Whatever they do, just load up the tanks with disruptors."

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Since the weapon systems equipped on the existing ships of the Interstellar Alliance perform poorly against psychic shields, designing a new weapon with high penetration capability is the most important task of the current military technology department.

And now, they have presented their results, which is the fission energy beam.

The high-energy beam fired by the Disintegrator can simultaneously weaken and shatter the bonds between the elementary particles that make up the target. It can penetrate shields and armor, causing direct devastating damage to the enemy's hull and crew.