After a short exchange, Bai Ge already knew the other party's social status.
Extremely low! They had no rights and could almost be called a tool.
Their civilization was an empire with a very fancy name. Because Ling Dang had done a cultural translation, it was called the Orion Empire for the time being.
Because their territory covered almost the entire Orion Arm, they did not have a decadent feudal system.
All the class contradictions could be made up for by productivity.
When technology reached a certain level, every citizen's desire to live would be satisfied. If they were not satisfied, there was no other way. Power suppressed everything.
The technology of quantum information coding could directly transmit knowledge to individuals. Everyone had a smart chip, and the terminal was in the emperor's brain.
According to the law, knowledge was distributed according to status. The ruler had all the technology, followed by the dignitaries, then the citizens … and so on.
The entire empire was divided into three worlds.
The dignitaries included researchers, military personnel, law enforcement personnel, and so on.
Countless small classes allowed them to be promoted through technological breakthroughs, military operations, and other contributions. However, no matter how they were promoted, they could not surpass the emperor.
The emperor was a translated term. He had the total knowledge of the civilization, the total technology, and the total military power. In all the creations produced by the civilization, there was an ultimate command to protect the emperor and ensure that all the technology of the dignitaries would be automatically uploaded.
Even the researchers closest to the emperor had everything they had. The emperor also had everything they did not have.
The ultimate command ensured that the emperor could gather the power of the entire civilization at any time and place.
In theory, citizens could also be promoted to a higher social status. As long as there was a genius who developed technology that the upper class did not have, then they would become a new dignitary.
However, this kind of thing had not happened for hundreds of years.
The technological gap was really too big. The technology that a citizen developed in his lifetime was likely to be one of the knowledge that a dignitary was born with.
Therefore, no citizen would do such a thankless job. They could only work for the dignitaries in various fields.
Of course, if they were not ambitious, they could do nothing and just enjoy life. That was because productivity was really high.
The obligation of work could be handed over to the clone. The clone was a tool equivalent to a robot. A part of the citizen's memory was copied to replace the citizen's obligations.
Zero Kill was such a clone. His main body was a citizen who was ambitious and liked to work for himself.
Because he carried out the work of a monitor and drove an atomic spaceship, he did not even have a body.
There were pros and cons to such a rigid class system, but as long as the productivity could keep up, the cons would not be exposed.
However, there was another possibility that could break this stability.
That was an all-out war. The civilization from the Perseus Arm invaded the Orion Empire. The first drawback of the empire was exposed: there was almost no technological explosion.
In the war, a civilization that was originally about as strong as them, a civilization that had been suppressed by them in the beginning, suddenly surpassed them.
If not for the fact that the Empire's war mobilization was unparalleled and made up for the gap in technology, they would have suffered a crushing defeat.
According to the analysis of the nobles of the Empire, the enemy was in the midst of a technological explosion. Most of them were still in the theoretical stage, but once they stepped into the engineering stage, the Empire's defeat would only be a matter of moments.
However, the Empire also had its tenacious ability to survive. When necessary, all citizens and even the nobles could be abandoned.
As long as the emperor survived, the empire could rise again.
Even if the emperor died, the empire could still continue.
In fact, the core of this civilization's centralization of power was not the emperor himself, but the Ultimate Command System itself, which was why it was still a rule of law.
The Ultimate Command had layers of precedence. Starting from the development of the Empire, it could retreat to the stability of the Empire, and if that could not be satisfied, it could retreat to the continuation of the race.
When the continuation of the race was the first priority, even the emperor could be abandoned.
In the intelligent terminal, there was an Ultimate Command of the 'Empire Continuation Law'. When a race was about to fall into extinction, the next emperor would be automatically selected from the survivors, granting them all the technology of the entire civilization, and allowing them to grasp the Ultimate Command.
In theory, even a clone would have such qualifications.
Even the continuation of the race was not the minimum requirement, because the Ultimate Command existed in every creation. When a race was completely extinct, the creation that contained the most complete knowledge and culture of the civilization would choose an emperor from the lower civilization.
This was the lowest goal of the 'Civilization Continuation Law'. When a race was extinct, their civilization and culture could still be continued by a barbaric alien race.
Although this minimum requirement was stipulated in the deepest part of the Ultimate Command, in the hearts of the Empire's people, the continuation of the race was already the minimum survival requirement. They did not even consider the continuation of a lower civilization, because by that time, they would all be extinct.
If there was really an existence that could destroy them, then even if the civilization continued in form, it would still be destroyed sooner or later.
"Your empire is about to collapse, and you still want to go back and have a normal citizen's identity? That's too unpromising. If I were you, I would find a way to fight for the position of emperor! "Bai Ge said.
Zero Kills said, "The emperor is not to be fought for. He represents the greatest responsibility. I found that your civilization likes to fight for such a position and then wear themselves out. This is because your emperor may not be the most capable person to be the emperor. "
"But our civilization is different. Becoming the emperor itself means that he is the most qualified emperor. With this identity, you have all of the civilization. It is the same for anyone, so no one will allow internal friction in exchange for an emperor who will not be better when everyone is the same. "
Bai Ge laughed and said, "Cultural differences. Not to mention that it will not be better, even if it will be worse, you can be the emperor if you want to. This is desire, not an equivalent exchange."
"That's because you don't have the Ultimate Command," Zero Kills said.
This cultural difference was brought about by technological differences. The Orion Empire had also experienced a stage of fighting for the emperor, but that era had long passed.
The Ultimate Command was perfected by generations of people to control their own desires. It was a kind of supreme law that existed in all aspects of the empire. The core value of their culture was' for the empire. '
No one would affect the empire for themselves. This culture was deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Even the clone with the least right to do so thought the same.
It was precisely because the core values were locked in for a long time that it was difficult to have a technological explosion.
However, Zero Kills was an accident. His culture was mixed with a part of Earth's culture. To put it nicely, it was a fusion. To put it bluntly, it was a contamination.
Even so, the Ultimate Command would ensure that he did not harm the empire's interests. The moment he was captured, he chose to self-destruct.
Unfortunately, the self-destruction failed. Bai Ge consumed hundreds of millions of degrees of energy per second to prevent this self-destruction.
This gave Zero Kills the opportunity to damage the empire's interests for his own desires.
In his mind, at this moment, it was equivalent to him not being bound by the Ultimate Command. Coupled with the blending of cultures, his heart suddenly became wild.
"I betrayed the empire's intelligence just to survive … But cooperation is only this. If you want to subvert the empire, I will remain silent indefinitely," Zero Kills said.
Bai Ge said with a faint smile, "Oh, got it. What can I get in return? "
Zero Kills said, "Technology. Although I'm the lowest-level clone, my technological level still surpasses yours in many areas. Helping me replace the main body requires a lot of technology, so teaching these technologies to you is also a key part of my goal. "
"Give me the quantum information coding technology first," Bai Ge said.
"I don't have it. This is the empire's core technology," Zero Kills said.
Bai Ge curled his lips and said, "Then give me the Fermi-level technology that you can use."
"I don't have it. What you said is the core technology that only the powerful can have," Zero Kills said.
"You have nothing, and you have the nerve to talk to me about technology?" Bai Ge frowned.
Zero Kills said, "I discovered that you can build an atomic spaceship. This is something that can only be done with Fermi-level technology. However, the atomic spaceship you build also has the Ultimate Command. Did you completely copy my spaceship? "
"That's right," Bai Ge said.
"I don't know how you did it, but at least it means that you have the basic conditions to modify the interior of an atom. Under such circumstances, I can help you build a spaceship without the Ultimate Command. I have to get rid of the Ultimate Command first. Otherwise, I can't do anything, "Zero Kills said.
Bai Ge suddenly understood. No wonder Zero Kills began to pay attention to him as soon as he showed his ability to build atomic spaceships in batches.
It turned out that if he did not have this ability, Zero Kills would not have been able to cooperate with him.
The first condition for betraying the empire was to get rid of the Ultimate Command, which existed in all the empire's creations.
It was impossible to build a spaceship without the Ultimate Command bare-handed. He had to use tools. As long as the tools had the Ultimate Command, the new creations would automatically have the Ultimate Command.
Thus, if he wanted to build a simple spaceship, he had to borrow external tools. Bai Ge was now such a creator.
After seeing that Bai Ge's ability to reach the Ultimate Command exceeded that of an ordinary low-leveled civilization, Zero Kills' desire had been stimulated to the peak. Thus, he had chosen to cooperate.
Very quickly, Zero Kills told Bai Ge the internal structure of the atomic spaceship. Ling Dang instantly understood.
"Lord, we don't have Fermi-level technology, so we can only use our ability to control objects. This requires energy consumption," Ling Dang said.
"It doesn't matter. Let's build ten trillion spaceships first." Bai Ge was now very rich in energy.
Because he did not have the basic production technology, he could only use his imagination to process and skip the conditions of controlling the three forces. The advantage of this was that he only needed to know the internal structure of an atomic spaceship without the Ultimate Command. The technical content was no different from directly copying it. The only difference was that the energy cost was tens of thousands of times higher.
Very quickly, after paying the energy of a red dwarf for a few days, ten trillion atomic spaceships were built.
Fortunately, they were atoms. If they were macroscopic matter, this method would not be feasible.
Zero Kills took the initiative to leave his spaceship. All his quantum information was sent to the atomic spaceship that Bai Ge had built.
The original six trillion atoms were released by Bai Ge and all of them self-destructed. The brand-new ten trillion atomic spaceship no longer had the Ultimate Command.
"This disgusting freedom … is only temporary. When I return to the empire and take over the main body, I will have the Ultimate Command again." Zero Kills still wanted to return to the embrace of the Ultimate Command. His current actions were only a temporary measure. He had actually treated his situation as a kind of suffering called 'freedom' that he had to accept for a better future.
Bai Ge secretly laughed at this.
"After tasting freedom, can you really turn back?"
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