Homo sapiens - Chapter 709 The fatal distance

Galaxy 23325.

More than a thousand years have passed since the impact of human civilization reached the Cepheus cantilever.

The Cepheus Silicon Race not only failed to successfully fight back against human civilization, but instead fell into continuous wars.

In the human joint command center of Cepheus, the officers of each group who came through synchronous communication looked at the huge holographic projection star map.

This star map is exactly the power distribution map of the Cepheus cantilever at this time.

Although the Andei Cantilever is the home base of the Silicon tribe, a large piece of it has still been chewed away by human civilization.

Judging from the distribution of forces on the star map.

The side of the Andromeda cantilever close to the Orion cantilever seems to have been eaten by insects with 11 large holes.

Each opening is like a huge bowl, with a radius of about 600 to 700 light years.

Three of the occupied areas have been connected together to form a whole area.

At this time, the Silicon Tribes close to the front lines of the Andromeda Silicon Tribe finally knew that human civilization was invading the Andromeda Cantilever, but it was a pity that they knew it too late.

Now that the Cepheus humans have established a foothold in the local area, once the Silicon family’s planetary system is occupied by human civilization, it is basically impossible to take it back again.

The more serious problem is still due to the communication technology of the silicon family. Light-speed communication is too slow inside the star system. Communication delays of hundreds to thousands of light-years often make a lot of information lose its timeliness.

Now, only some tribes close to the front line of the Cepheus Silicon Tribe know about the enemy invasion, while other tribes farther away only know that they were attacked by unknown enemies.

Even some of the Silicon tribes in the outer areas of the Cepheus cantilever have not been hit by human neutron bombs.

This is the huge limitation of light speed communication in the star system era.

Human civilization is undoubtedly lucky.

Just after entering the first-level civilization stage, synchronous communication technology was developed by accident. This communication technology allows human civilization to avoid many dangers and obtain long-distance real-time intelligence.

Even if they are as powerful as the Silicon civilization, they have no way to avoid communication delays. This is the fundamental reason why the Silicon civilization has developed into isolated tribes.

Even if human civilization separates a large number of subsidiaries, these subsidiaries are still not completely independent.

Synchronous communication has ensured a certain degree of unity within human civilization. In particular, the science and technology and cultural exchange conference held every 10 years has prevented the technological development of human civilization from declining as quickly as other first-level civilizations.

This is also another problem discovered by human civilization after a series of observations and research.

During the development of civilization, it is actually very difficult to maintain the speed of internal technological development.

There are many “wrong paths” and “traps” hidden in this. In the absence of other civilizations to refer to, maintaining the rapid development of science and technology is as difficult as eternal life.

According to think tank scholars of human civilization, there are many factors that restrict the development of science and technology in a civilization.

These include: racial learning styles, cultural habits, individual independent personalities, social operating modes, and the recently discovered transportation and communication speeds.

Compared with human civilization in other aspects, the Silicon civilization is actually very similar.

Even though they are information creatures, they have long realized that the super-individual model is a dead end, and have abandoned the super-individual model very early, forming independent individuals with all kinds of strange personalities.

However, the technological development speed of the Silicon civilization is not much faster than that of the omnic civilization. The technological level of the Silicon civilization, which has developed for 7.66 million Earth years, is still not as high as that of human civilization. What is the problem?

It boils down to communication and transportation limitations.

This is also the reason why previous human civilizations separated out a large number of subsidiaries.

Under traffic restrictions, the maximum utilization radius of resources for a first-level civilization that cannot travel faster than light will not exceed 10 light years.

In this case, a first-level civilization cannot manage a colony more than 10 light years away without setting up a subsidiary or forming a semi-independent tribe.

Even management is difficult, let alone utilizing the minerals and energy resources of the colony, as well as the talents of the colony.

After all, as the distance increases, the time interval between communication between the two parties becomes longer and longer.

Take the Silician civilization in the Cepheus cantilever as an example. The distance between their inner and outer tribes is about 17,000 light-years.

Even with light speed communication, one round trip would take 34,000 years.

Moreover, light speed communication is difficult to maintain information density over long distances.

The information technology of the Silicon civilization is certainly unique, but it can only guarantee the integrity of high-density communication within 5,000 light-years.

A single communication takes a long time.

Even if the various tribes of the Silicon Tribe unite, there is no way to achieve talent sharing and rapid technology exchange.

This restriction further resulted in each tribe having to work alone in scientific research without any way to work together.

Human civilization uses synchronous communication technology so that each subsidiary only needs to focus on a few scientific research fields, leaving other fields to brother companies. When the time comes, everyone will communicate at the exchange conference and quickly make up for other shortcomings.

In this way, the talents and technologies within human civilization can achieve synergy.

The various tribes of the Silicon civilization are limited by communication technology, and there is definitely no way to compete with human civilization in scientific research speed.

Regardless of the current territory of human civilization, which is less than 30% of the Silicon civilization, in fact, the total strength that both sides can use in the war zone is at least a hundred times that of the Silicon civilization.

The difference between communication technology and transportation technology has caused a reversal of advantages between the two in local areas and specific time periods.

This is like the Silicon civilization has 10,000 soldiers, but the human civilization only has 3,000 soldiers.

The two sides are at war. The human side is all heavily armored cavalry, and they are also equipped with walkie-talkies and telescopes; the Silicon tribe is all infantry, and communication relies entirely on roaring.

When the war broke out, the Silicon tribe was still stationed in various small towns. Even if all the human cavalry did not attack, hundreds of cavalry fought against dozens of infantry during local battles.

In this case, how did the Silicon family arrive?

This is simply a dead end with no solution.

Unless the Silicon civilization suddenly explodes and acquires super-light communication or super-light navigation technology in a short period of time, it will end up being swallowed up bit by bit by human civilization.

At this stage of the war, as long as there are no accidents, it is basically a certainty that human civilization will annihilate the Cepheus Silicon Tribe.

However, human civilization has not taken it lightly and is still preparing various back-ups.

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