Stellaris from the Automata Era

Of course, according to the final figures, it does not really mean that it cannot be built even if the earth is mined dry. According to the current theoretical data of the earth, let alone doubling it, it will be no problem. Moreover, there are still many overseas resources, and maybe we don’t even need the earth’s own reserves.

But the biggest problem now is that Popola cannot bear to see the Earth's national strength wasted on such a cosmic wonder.

The rising Earth is demanding mines, electricity, and resources everywhere. Judging by how much her compatriots dote on humans, if she doesn't put the brakes on the progress of the plan in this room today, tomorrow we might see large-scale construction projects everywhere come to a halt, creating a spectacle.

"Don't worry, this is just a theory on paper. Even the design drawings haven't been completed yet."

Divara gave Bopora an expression that showed she understood. As one of the two remaining rational valves of the humanoid, she was still able to distinguish right from wrong.

Not to mention that the so-called colossus design drawings are not complete. Maybe it is just a future fantasy that researchers casually wrote in their logs.

"And if we really want to build it, we don't have many key technologies in place. I'm afraid it will take a while to accumulate them."

Divara's words calmed Yan Luo down. The Earth's current national strength did not have the prerequisites for a Colossus. The maintenance of these two giants alone might be enough to bring down the Earth.

The saying that spectacles can bring disaster to a country is not just a joke, but a reality.

Ask yourself, as an enlightened, enterprising and capable monarch, is he the kind of person who would drag the empire into the financial abyss for a figurine?

"I can be!" Yan Luo asked himself, and quickly raised his head: "How about building a small one first? It will lay the foundation for future construction."

"Then the positioning of this thing... forget it, as long as you are happy, sir."

The twins nodded lovingly at the same time. People always compromise. They definitely wouldn't want to make a big one, so the small one would be just a figurine.

Chapter 295: Cosmic Intermediary Curator

Compared to when Yan Luo was still creating wonders on Earth, the scene far away in the Mushroom Territory is now completely different.

The diplomatic mission is still traveling on public funds, collecting mushrooms and learning about local customs and practices, so it is not yet time for them to make an appearance.

The protagonists this time are another group of other species in the mushroom territory. Within the range of 7 galaxies extending outward from the mushroom mother star, a group of special races are urgently verifying recent information.

"Earth Federation? It's incredible that an advanced civilization could be born on the edge of Orion's cantilever arm."

If Yan Luo previously felt that his geographical environment was targeted by the super-time and space channel, then the entire earth was actually targeted by the Milky Way.

Just as the old fantasy of the past times, the earth does not revolve around the sun, and the solar system is not the center of the Milky Way.

The real Earth is located in the farthest corner of the entire galaxy, nearly 2.6 light-years away from the center. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a barren land in ancient times.

In fact, eighty percent of the stars in the Milky Way are located in Centaurus, which is the beginning of the entire Milky Way and the area with the most resources and habitable planets.

"But no matter what, we should try to establish contact with them. The more remote the civilization, the better it is for us to sell our products."

If you zoom in, you'll quickly discover that the race currently having this conversation is in a man-made space habitat.

Curators...are a relatively special civilization group in the entire universe.

Or perhaps they can no longer be described as civilized.

As mentioned before, the solar system is a desolate frontier land, but in the true center of the universe, Centaurus, countless civilizations and fires have actually been bred.

Therefore, it would be extremely arrogant to say that humans are the most intelligent creatures in the universe. After all, there are more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. With such a huge base, it is impossible that only one miracle of life would be born.

In fact, to be more precise, humans may be the group that received wisdom enlightenment relatively late.

The curators can be said to be the descendants of the earliest pioneers of civilization, or those whose ancestors were once wealthy.

As early as when humans were struggling to erect the first wall, the curator might have already been scolding the great civilization of Centauri.

However, due to a series of natural and man-made disasters, they could only retreat to the corner of the universe and use space habitats to shelter the last of their people.

It is hard to imagine that a highly civilized group would ultimately choose such a degenerate path.

Perhaps the most reasonable explanation is that they have to do this. They are not allowed to have their own planets and resource areas, nor can they have fleets and huge docks.

Even the name of the civilization that we once took pride in may be erased by ourselves, and we may stare at the most distant starry sky in anxiety all day long.

Even if an emerging civilization places a space outpost in front of their own space station to declare their sovereignty over the galaxy, they will have no objection.

From the very beginning of becoming a curator, I was destined to a tragic end, with no hope of rising again. It’s not that I don’t want to, but that I can’t.

Of course, no matter what, this time we are not here to discuss the curators as a group.

Compared to making the entire civilization great again, they have more important things to do, such as how to feed the entire population of the space living station?

It is undeniable that the name of the space living station easily makes people think of small space and living environment. After all, many people have seen the life of astronauts in the space station on TV.

However...the space habitat is essentially a giant structure, a kind of wonder of the universe. If we really compare it with the RimWorld, we can only say that the two are of the same type, just like a cruise ship and a small sampan can be called a ship.

The entire space living station was designed from the beginning to support the survival of billions of people. Of course, this may be its maximum theoretical value.

However, a large population will inevitably lead to huge consumption and demand, especially people with higher cultural levels will require more material things.

For example, in ancient times, people on Earth only needed bread made of flour and sawdust to survive. In modern times, it has become bread made of pure wheat flour, and in modern times, people have even added mobile phones to their diet.

Even a spectacular space habitat cannot guarantee self-sufficiency with such consumption.

Not to mention that as a lower-level substitute for a planet, many resources on it may not be produced. In addition, as a man-made building, a space living station requires a lot of maintenance costs.

Curators without resources have to think about ways to increase revenue and reduce costs.

Generally speaking, curators will carefully evaluate the data and information of a civilization, and then when certain resources in your home are about to overflow or run out, they will quickly rush to the scene and trade with you at a price you can't refuse.

In fact, the discount is even to the extent that they may not lose money, but you will definitely make a lot of money. In addition, they also sell some technological products with strange effects.

If they are pushed into a corner, they will even sell their own people, which is a crime against the company.

In short, in order to survive, there is nothing that the curator cannot sell, including technology, warships, resources, intelligence, relics and himself.

Of course, this is a relatively bad career. Curators with a skill may expand into other professions, such as chambers of commerce, shipping companies, artists, etc.

As for the group that currently says they want to contact the Earth, they should have been merged into the mushroom's territory.

The distances of the seven galaxies are all within the jurisdiction of the mushrooms. In addition, the mushrooms are extremely xenophobic. As long as the curator does not cause trouble himself, he should not be troubled by the mushrooms.

After all, they are the orthodox cultural descendants of the United Nations on Earth. It would not be too surprising if their home planet also turned into a huge color palette.

"But before we make contact with the Earth Federation, we might need to collect some necessary intelligence. What do those Earthlings need?"

Note: In fact, the curators in Stellar are not the losers of the civilization showdown. They should have originally been a scientific research sharing organization similar to the Knowledge Tube and Honeypot. Their ancestors were survivors who fled after losing control during scientific research. But if that were the case, they might have the possibility of occupying a planet and restarting civilization.

Even for various reasons, the possibility of restarting civilization as a civilization capable of building megastructures is as high as one thousand percent.

Obviously this is too unreasonable. If it were in reality, such a strange and illogical thing might happen, but as a novel, I have to sort it out in all its logic.

Chapter 206: Let me see if I can slide on my knees!

It is obvious that as curators, the technological advantages left by their ancestors are enough to allow them to collect the necessary information throughout the universe.

But the Earth...is still a little too mysterious.

As a corner of the universe, curators only know that the Earth is in the Orion Arm, but no one knows how many galaxies are in the entire Orion Arm.

But looking at the star map of the Hyperspace Channel, next to their Lord Mushroom is the ooze, next to the ooze is the puppet ooze, and next to the puppet ooze is the Earth.

From this perspective, wouldn’t it be easy to solve the problem by just following the waterway?

However, curators who make a living from information cannot see things so simply.

Relying on a little bit of money, they easily got some intuitive information from the slime.

As for why they didn't seek information from the mushrooms, the relationship between the mushrooms and Earth is essentially a passive one.

Apart from declaring friendship, the two sides have not even exchanged star maps, let alone trade. It is like the ancient Han Dynasty knowing that there was the Qin Dynasty to the west, but as to whether it was the one they destroyed, they had no idea until they saw it in person.

Anyway, Mushroom is actually completely in the dark.

But the slime is different. Not only has it traded indirectly with the Earth, but it has also been directly beaten up by the other side.

In addition, given the political system within the slime, obtaining intelligence from it is more accurate and convenient.

Then the curator's intelligence gatherers were at a loss.

"Excuse me, is this Earth considered a high-level empire?"

Mechanical ascension may be an unfamiliar term for many young civilizations, and even the meaning of the word requires a long time to ponder.

But many truly powerful civilizations will understand the weight and meaning of this.

This is the pinnacle of material civilization.

Thanks to the fact that the ooze had a record of destroying Earth's research vessels and also had a record of their husks, it was easy for the curator to determine the level of the humanoid.

"It shouldn't be. Mechanical ascension isn't instantaneous. Maybe they're just on that path. And if Earth were truly a high-level empire, their ships wouldn't be able to be sunk by the mud."

"No! There are countless examples of superior empires failing in the universe! The most popular one recently was about a native who seized a battleship, deciphered its technology, and turned from slaves into a space-faring civilization. Now, out of face, that empire has to go and collect the debt to save its dignity."

Indeed, the universe is so vast that there is nothing strange.

But the native who was still alive after the car overturned in the Higher Empire, don’t you see who he was facing?

You have to know that under this magical system, all actions of the Universal Corporation, except for all-out war, are probably individual actions.

That is, they may be declaring friendship with you in the last second, and in the next second a fleet is gathering at your doorstep and attacking you. What's more important is that its ruler may not even know about this.

After all, this is just the result of various complex factors, and the intelligence officer in the conversation did not want to elaborate on it.

"The Slime Fleet was able to fight Earth back and forth at first, but intelligence indicates their ultimate collapse was due to Earth bypassing their path and reaching their rear..."

This made the intelligence officer who had just held an objection become a little unconfident.

Microwarps, wormholes, jumps, in fact there are many ways to bypass the shackles of hyperspace channels.

But without exception, this is not a quality that a young civilization can possess. The more technologically advanced a civilization is, the more it understands that the reason why super-time and space channels can become mainstream is mainly due to the convenience built by predecessors.

You know, exceeding the speed of light has never been a simple topic.

Let’s put it this way, truly mastering superluminal technology is the basic requirement for an advanced civilization.

It can be understood in this way that alien paths in the universe are not just a joke in some random novel, but a real possibility that can be realized.

When a civilization that is not connected by a super-time and space channel moves towards the farther starry sky with its own strength, when it stands on the stage of the universe, it represents the pinnacle of scientific and technological level.

As for whether there are galaxies that are not connected by the Hyperspace Rail? Of course there are!

Although no one knows who built the original hyperspace channel, the vastness of the universe makes it impossible to include it all.

It is 100% certain that one or two unlucky people will be missed, and not even just one or two.

In short, I have said all this to make everyone understand that superluminal speed is directly linked to the level of technology!

As for the evaluation of the earth, the intelligence officer's heart can only rise again and again.

But this undoubtedly further inspires the curator's desire to connect with the earth.

A remote civilization may be their client, but a remote advanced civilization is definitely their father.

A friendly (this is questionable considering that the Earth has beaten the slime) remote advanced civilization is their grandfather.

After all, remoteness means a lack of resources. If powerful and advanced civilizations want to rise from the wilderness, they will undoubtedly need a large amount of resources.

Moreover, given the characteristics of an advanced civilization, it is difficult to say about various resources such as minerals, but energy technology is definitely maxed out.

In other words, they may not have mines, but they definitely have money.

As a well-known intermediary in the universe, the curator only needs to take a little bit of what they leak in the process of moving forward to ensure that the whole clan has enough food and clothing.

"Now we must determine whether Earth is a High Empire, and whether that ooze is too much of an eyesore."

It is already known information that slimes and puppet slimes trade with each other, and the most traded items are mineral resources.

From the curator's perspective, the newly independent puppet probably can't even feed its own people, so how could it have any surplus to buy ore and make gold?

I'm afraid it's more about the needs of a certain master on Earth.

Putting aside other things, judging from the current trading volume alone, it is worth a trip even if it is not a high-level empire.

"Very good. Quickly have the think tank come up with a plan. Come up with both an attitude towards ordinary civilizations and a rapid decline in the attitude of high-ranking empires.

But before that, we can no longer just deliver ourselves up to the challenge. We must remember that caution is our only means of survival.”

A superior empire wouldn't be satisfied with just a corner of the universe, right?

The Centaurs are the real core of wealth. As their civilization continues to expand, sooner or later they will find that the era when they only need the skies, seas and planets of the marginal worlds will pass.

They need more land and more magical strategic resources in the universe.

These will inevitably lead to conflicts with some old empires.