Were the Dicerebral Beings of any use to humanity?
From a set of data, one could tell a thing or two.
In terms of annual energy consumption, the energy consumed by the Dicerebral Beings was only about one billionth of that of humanity. The energy consumed by a Reactionless Drive warship was more than the total energy consumed by the entire civilization.
Not to mention the huge gap in technology.
For humanity to destroy a Dicerebral Civilization, it was no more than squashing an ant.
The gap in strength between civilizations was often unimaginable. In the minds of the Dicerebral Civilization, since humanity did not destroy them, they felt that they were of some use. In reality, to humanity, they were just a form of self-image and behavior restriction in the jungle of the universe.
In a famous science fiction novel, the Law of the Dark Forest was specifically mentioned. It stated that the universe was like a dark forest, and every civilization was a hunter with a gun. They moved stealthily in the forest like ghosts. They had to be cautious and conceal themselves. If they discovered another life form, the first thing they would do was to shoot and eliminate it. This was because they could not determine if the other party was good or bad. The only thing they could do was to eliminate the danger in advance and preserve themselves.
However, to a civilization like humanity, the Law of the Dark Forest was not applicable. The universe was not dark. At least within the range of human detection (a diameter of 1500 light years), all civilizations had nowhere to hide. They could not hide, and information was transparent.
If the universe was a map filled with fog and darkness, then humanity already possessed the ability to disperse the fog in a small area.
However, even the most arrogant of lunatics would not believe that humanity was already standing at the peak of the universe. This three-dimensional universe was too vast. Even now, humanity had not stepped out of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Just within the range of human detection, there were already twelve extraterrestrial civilizations that had broken through the mother star. According to scientists, the entire Milky Way Galaxy, which had a diameter of 100,000 light years, had more than a thousand civilizations. This was just the civilizations that had broken through the mother star. If the civilizations that had yet to break through were included, the number could be multiplied by ten or even a hundred.
Furthermore, the Milky Way Galaxy was just an ordinary member of the local galaxy cluster. The local galaxy cluster was a member of the Virgo supercluster, and the Virgo supercluster was just an insignificant part of the universe.
The civilizations within were as vast as the clouds. Among these civilizations, there were those that were weaker than humanity, but there were definitely those that were stronger than humanity.
If you stood on the bridge and looked at the scenery, the people who were looking at the scenery would also look at you from above. While humans were observing other civilizations, humans were also being observed.
In this universe that followed the law of the jungle, a civilization that was cruel, evil, and destructive would often attract the attention and disgust of nearby stronger civilizations. This was not because of universal values such as justice and kindness, but because the existence of such a civilization would often bring discomfort to other civilizations and raise their vigilance. Even if they killed them in passing, no civilization would probably care.
Therefore, humans had been cautious all these years. They only traveled around the star field nearby. Not to mention going on an expedition like the Glassians, they did not even have basic communication with the nearby civilizations.
If it were not for the fact that the Dicerebral Humans were relatively close to the Solar System and that they were roughly in a straight line with the unknown civilization that was currently engaged in an arms race, making them the best geographical location for a forward base, the humans would probably not even pay attention to them.
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A few months later, a small unmanned Reactionless Spaceship, after flying for nearly twenty years, gradually approached the powerful civilization that was nearly 1200 light years away from Earth.
The other party's reaction was extremely fast. Before they could even enter the five light years range, the small-sized Reactionless Drive Ship was intercepted by a huge fleet.
After the human's unmanned spaceship fired a giant electromagnetic gun, it quickly self-destructed.
The hundreds of thousands of tons of antimatter that were arranged inside the spaceship was instantly annihilated with the unmanned spaceship. After the explosion, the fleet did their utmost to search the starry sky. However, other than finding a few pieces of metal fragments and the electromagnetic gun, they did not find any other traces.
The electromagnetic gun was a hollow metal ball that was not dangerous. Inside it was a paper book that was half a meter thick. It contained information about human language and encoded data for quantum communication. As long as one had basic intelligence, they would be able to learn the human language from this information.
Once these things were discovered, they were immediately sent to the administrative planet of this civilization for analysis. A day later, the two civilizations began their first communication.
This civilization was called the Baja civilization. Since the civilization's development started from the mother planet, it had been tens of thousands of years. Their population exceeded 100 billion and they lived on 12 planets. Their influence spread across the five star systems. In these tens of thousands of years, they had always been the overlord of the nearby star fields. No civilization could challenge them. Even the Glassian of the past was just an insignificant ant in their eyes.
Until the rapid rise of the human race!
In the beginning, the Baja civilization did not pay much attention to the Glassian or the human race. In fact, the human race and the Glassian were not able to attract their attention. Even if they were to fight each other, in the eyes of the Baja civilization, it was like chickens pecking at each other. It did not attract much interest. Even if one of the civilizations were to fall, it would just be the death of an ant.
It was not until both civilizations had developed the Reactionless Drive technology that the destruction of one of the civilizations attracted the attention of the Baja civilization.
To be able to develop the Reactionless Drive technology, even if it was still a low-level technology, it had already developed from a small ant to a large one. However, that was the extent of it. According to the rules of civilization development, within a few thousand years, this civilization would not be able to pose a threat to the Baja civilization. After a few thousand years, they would have become much stronger.
However, the Baja civilization did not expect that the human race would develop too quickly. It was so fast that it was unbelievable. It was so fast that it made them tremble with fear. If the normal civilization's speed of development was considered to be gradual, then the human race's speed could be said to be leaps and bounds.
When they paid attention to it again, this civilization was already able to pose a threat to them.
No overlord would tolerate the challenge of a rising new overlord. After confirming the threat of the human race, the Baja civilization began to prepare for war. On one hand, they built battleships on a large scale. On the other hand, they increased their antimatter reserves in preparation for war.
After all, there was a distance of 1,200 light years between the two civilizations. To the Baja civilization, it was quite a distance. The energy consumed by tens of thousands of battleships was an astronomical figure, even for the Baja civilization that had three Dyson Spheres.
Unfortunately, after a few years of preparation, the Baja civilization discovered that the human race had also entered a state of military readiness.
This discovery shocked the upper echelons of the Baja civilization. They knew themselves well. They could detect the human race, but it was not because they could detect the human race from such a far distance. Hundreds of years ago, the Baja civilization had carried out a project of "inserting eyes" in the nearby starry sky. Through hundreds of space wave detectors that were placed in various parts of the starry sky, their field of vision had been expanded to a distance of 2,000 light years. If one were to talk about the maximum range of a space wave detector, it would only be 700 to 800 light years.
This discovery allowed the Baja civilization to have a deeper understanding of the human race's technological level. They also felt a stronger threat.
The military was a matter of great importance to a nation. It was a place of life and death, a path of survival.
War was never a trivial matter or child's play, especially in an interstellar war that could lead to the extinction of an entire race. Once the war was lost, the civilization would forever be in hell. Any mature civilization would be extremely cautious when waging war against a threatening civilization.
Due to the fear of harming the innocent, the Baja civilization's original war plan was delayed. With the rapid expansion of the human race's military power, it gradually evolved into a massive arms race.
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