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- Chapter 273 Harvest (Part 2)
Kunir galaxy, space defense circle.
After the imperial fleet stationed in the Kunir system and took over the space defense of the entire Kunir system, a series of space defense construction began in full swing. During this period, Robin not only modeled the planet Othello to establish an orbital ring around the planet Hayden in outer space, but also built a large number of combined space fortresses on many key passages throughout the Queniel system, making space defense and planetary ground defense can be truly combined to form a three-dimensional all-round defense system.
In addition, because Robin captured a sample of dragon pupae on the planet Hayden, the entire Imperial Academy of Sciences was on the receiving end of the news. Under the arrangement of Emperor Hoffmann and the President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Luo Qingshan, a large number of top scientific researchers were assigned to the Kunir system to conduct this extremely important scientific research task on the spot.
Since the eggs of dragon pupae have the rare characteristic of absorbing external energy, and the energy absorbed during the process of breaking out of the cocoon is so huge that it is difficult to calculate, it will inevitably cause unpredictable and serious consequences during the experiment. Xia Zuo and An Siel unanimously rejected Robin's request to conduct this experiment in the flagship experimental cabin. The characteristics of dragon chrysalis eggs themselves are not suitable for conducting such experiments on planets. Therefore, after much consideration, everyone decided to build a special experimental site in space made of insulators as the main material to meet the requirements of the experiment. Ongoing research on dragon pupa eggs.
Once this decision was passed, it prompted the expedition fleet to gradually shift its main focus from the planetary surface to space.
At present, the Hayden planet, as the main body of the Kunir system, has basically stabilized the situation and formulated a long-term development strategy, so it will no longer be the core of the current tactical plan. The other two rocky planets are both resource planets unsuitable for human habitation. In terms of planning, they do not need to consider long-term planning like the Hayden planet. Therefore, when the hidden dangers on the Heiden planet are completely eliminated, the fleet's strategic direction should shift from land to space. After all, space is the birthplace of the Insat people. Only by completely clearing space can the safety of the planet be ensured.
To this end, Robin specifically asked Huggins, who had personally participated in several expeditions to extragalactic systems? Earl Greg asked relevant questions and learned that on the current battlefield in space, the human fleet's combat advantage is still very obvious.
Although on the surface, the Insat people have Dragon Chrysalis, a large strategic biological warship that is almost comparable to the Titan aircraft carrier, they also have a 'Stinger' biological missile with similar performance to a missile, and they even have a type of biological missile that is similar to a space shuttle. Biological warfare aircraft with very similar characteristics. However, because their social structure is similar to that of loose nomads, their invasions are often penetrating invasions, unlike humans who are not accustomed to gathering large numbers of troops at once for a short, large-scale confrontation.
And this can also be seen in the war records starting in 2076.
This characteristic of the Insat people may be difficult to understand from a human perspective, but when Leona explains this problem from a biological perspective, it becomes much easier to understand.
From the perspective of biological social habits, although the Insat are intelligent species, their social habits are still relatively simple. Since their brain structure is a single-brain structure and lacks an existence like the human right brain, the Insat people basically do not have instincts such as emotions, feelings, and creativity, and their social composition does not have as many elements as human society. Functions are divided, so its structure is much simpler. To use a more vivid description, the social structure of the Insat people is very similar to termites among earth creatures, or in other words, their social structure is simpler than termites.
In the social structure of termites, there are four clear functional divisions: king ants, queen ants, soldier ants, and worker ants. However, there is no functional division in the social structure of the Insat people at all. They are just like copies. The talents of each Insat people are almost exactly the same. As hermaphrodites, they can give birth to the next generation and reproduce the species at any time. When needed for combat, any one of them can immediately be equipped with biological armor and go into battle. In daily life, when not fighting, they can carefully cultivate countless experimental creatures with different characteristics and functions like a biological breeder. Therefore, in essence, each of them is a generalist, and unlike other social species, the social structure will completely collapse just because one of the functional species is missing.
Therefore, when the Insat people expand outward and find new habitats, they often use dragon pupae as their unit. A dragon chrysalis biological warship is used to determine an expansion area. Their territorial awareness and resource awareness make it almost impossible for them to cooperate on a large scale. Therefore, in a galaxy, there is basically only one dragon chrysalis warship. . Only when the galaxy¡¯s resourcesWhen the source of energy is exhausted and the Insat tribe entrenched in the galaxy needs to move widely to find new territories, the Insat tribe will hatch a large number of dragon pupae a hundred years in advance to meet the needs of migration.
During the hundreds of millions of years of evolution and development of the Insat people, this expansion model has always been unfavorable and has never encountered any obstacles. However, when they expanded beyond the Andromeda Galaxy and collided with another intelligent species, human civilization, this expansion model and invasion method became somewhat unsatisfactory.
It is true that in the history of biological evolution, the mere five million years of human evolution cannot be compared with the hundreds of millions of years of evolution of the Insat people. In the eyes of the Insat people, the mere ten thousand years of human civilization may be as short as a blink of an eye. However, unlike the Insat people who have never encountered natural enemies on their evolutionary path, have a simple social structure, and have never had infighting within their race, humans have faced natural enemies almost all the time in their five million years of evolutionary history. threaten.
Not to mention the sinister living environment in the ape man era, it is said that in the history of 10,000 years of civilization in modern times, when the species of human beings completely eliminated all natural enemies to become the master of the earth, the interior of the human beings has never really been peaceful.
The developed right brain gives humans creativity and the ability to distinguish between good and evil, beauty and ugliness, but it also brings humans different views on things and conflicts of ideas. For these inexplicable reasons, almost all of the history of civilization over the past ten thousand years has been written by the internal wars of mankind. Therefore, compared with the Insat people who go smoothly and only regard the natural environment as their main opponent, humans are more accustomed to facing enemies that are stronger than themselves, and are more accustomed to relying on collective strength to win.
This makes human beings, when faced with war, always assemble large-scale corps as quickly as possible and rely on local numerical superiority to win the war. Fighting a large-scale battle is commonplace for humans, but the Insat people may not be able to understand why they have to send a huge army to fight for a small land that is far beyond the resources of the land.
You can say that this is the difference between two modes of thinking, or you can say that this is the cultural difference between two civilizations. After all, in terms of civilization characteristics, human civilization is an agricultural civilization with very obvious characteristics, while the Insat people are similar to a nomadic civilization.
The most significant difference between these two civilization models is the efficiency of resource utilization.
For example, if a human and an Insat are given five acres of land. Then the Insat who lack creativity will only see the grass growing on the land and the minerals hidden in the soil. According to the natural production capacity of the land, they will think that the amount of pasture grown on a mere five acres of land cannot support large creatures such as horses and cattle. So, they might just raise some rabbits, and then spend hundreds of years transforming the rabbits into larger creatures that can digest anything. But this completely natural productivity is limited after all, so they will never give birth to offspring on a mere five acres of land because they believe that this land cannot support more people.
But if humans obtain five acres of land, the situation will be completely different. Human creativity has led humans to choose to plant high-yielding crops such as corn and sweet potatoes on these five acres of land. These harvested crops and accompanying land products such as weeds are enough for humans to raise one or two cows or If you raise a few pigs and chickens to eat insects in the field, you can not only harvest more, but also rely on the excrement of the creatures to fertilize the land, making the next year's crops more abundant. Therefore, it can be seen from this point that humans are far better than the Insat in terms of resource utilization efficiency. A mere five acres of land can allow humans to breed a family, but the Insat people can barely support themselves.
It is this difference in thinking and concepts that causes the Insat people to often not have many solutions when facing galaxies guarded by humans. In space battles, the imperial fleet often assembled an entire mixed fleet to besiege an Insat Dragon Chrysalis battleship and kill it with ease.
Since there was no way to win on the frontal battlefield, the Insat space forces also began to use the same methods as the ground forces.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a galaxy that has not yet fully evolved. Therefore, compared with the Milky Way, its gas reserves and cosmic dust are much higher than that of the Milky Way. The resulting current situation is that every star system basically has a large asteroid belt composed of gas, dust and celestial bodies. The complex terrain formed by these asteroid belts provides natural shelter for the Insat people, so that the Insat space forces often hide in them. On the one hand, they feed on the space resources in the asteroid belts and gradually strengthen their troops. On the one hand, they can use the steep waterways to avoid being attacked by human fleets.
So, if Robin wants to completely wipe out the Kunir Galaxy and build this galaxy into an impregnable offensive bridgehead, then the asteroid belt located in the southern part of Planet Hayden has become a difficulty that must be overcome in Robin's eyes.
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