Fellow Wanderers in a Distant Land
The Kun-Tai Civilization is a civilization that considers itself to have a long history. They have 10,000 years of written records, reached the Tier 1 Civilization 5,000 years ago, and spent 2,000 years pushing light fusion technology to its peak. After that, they devoted themselves to researching Level 2 Civilization technology.
Without any extraordinary encounters, they spent 1,500 years breaking through the barrier of Cold Nuclear Fusion technology. The common knowledge that the final product of Nuclear Fusion is iron told them that there was still room for improvement in Nuclear Fusion, so they devoted themselves to researching Heavy Nuclear Fusion in the following years.
However, Heavy Nuclear Fusion has not yet been achieved for various reasons.
They consider themselves ancient, but compared to ancient civilizations that are millions of years old, they are just like humans, newborns in the universe, young and curious, accompanying their exploration.
"Lord Pierce, we think we've cracked it!" A dozen hours later, a Kuntai People in 'Thai' form shouted excitedly.
"Great, less than 120 'po' (a type of currency), very good. What did they say?" Pierce immediately looked at the screen that was turned to her, where a long string of characters from the Kun-Tai Civilization was written.
The 'po' that Pierce mentioned is a unit of time, just like the human hour; one hour is roughly equal to seven po.
The script of the Kuntai People bears no resemblance to human hieroglyphics. In terms of shape, it looks somewhat like a strip of characters composed of concentric circles.
Pierce leaned forward, staring into her alluring, large eyes at the screen, muttering to himself, "Friends, from the darkness of afar, you? The Spoon Sleeping Star is Human Civilization's home? Say goodbye and leave us immediately??? We're going to kill you according to the Milky Way Galaxy Civilization First Convention."
"What does 'friend' mean?" Although the translation was a bit strange, Pierce still managed to understand it, despite having some questions about certain words.
A linguist from the Kun-Tai Civilization replied, "According to their dictionary, it should mean the closest relationship."
"The closest relationship? Isn't the closest relationship between mother and child? This is outrageous! This civilization actually acts like it's our mother right from the start!" Pierce was somewhat annoyed.
"No, Lord Pierce, it's possible it wasn't them personally. When we checked the dictionary they sent us, we found that they used a different way of referring to mother and child. That way of referring to them is very strange and strange, because there is a huge gap between the information and the dictionary, so we can't figure it out for the time being," the linguist explained.
Upon hearing this, Pierce raised his hand and touched the scales on his face with his ten boneless fingers. "Is that so? Aliens really do come in all shapes and sizes. Could it be that they are the opposite of us, undergoing metamorphosis after their lives end, transforming from female to male, and giving birth to offspring during this stage?"
Seeing Pierce being curious about alien reproduction at a time like this, Mo Tuotuo couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "That's possible, but that's not the point of this information, Lord Pierce!"
"I know, so let's analyze how to reply." Pierce glanced down at Mo Tuotuo in her 'Kun' form, then immediately said to one of the personnel.
Although the Kuntai People, being both Tier 1 Civilization, communicate using Ultrasound, their optical devices still share many similarities with those of humans.
So now, in addition to the Kuntai People inside the bridge, many experts are also participating in this discussion on contacting extraterrestrials through communication devices.
"Lord Pierce," a scholar began, "Did you notice that the alien's message mentioned a few keywords?"
"Speak!" Pierce returned to his seat, then inserted the 'tail' into the large hole in the seat and comfortably pressed his body against it.
"Homeland, the Milky Way Galaxy Civilization First Convention." The Kuntai People scholar spoke, emitting Ultrasound: "Everyone can understand the rest of the content. They want us to leave here, or else... oh, that 'I'll beat you to death' should mean declaring war on us."
"Haha, declare war? This Alien Civilization is quite interesting. They still use such formal language even in interstellar space. It seems they are a civilization with limited experience. Declare war? Heh, if we didn't still not know where your home planet is, and if the environment of this star system wasn't unfavorable for attack, we would have crushed you directly." Pierce grinned contemptuously, letting out what sounded like laughter.
"Lord Pierce, I think this civilization is not only not the kind that is ignorant, but it is also possible that, like the Quell Civilization, it has joined the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance. Otherwise, why would they talk about the 'Milky Way Galaxy Civilization First Convention'?" the scholar said worriedly.
"That's impossible! How could any civilization believe that kind of broadcast!" Pierce exclaimed incredulously. "The Quell Civilization only did that because we drove them to the brink of defeat."
"Who knows? I've never heard of any Milky Way Galaxy First Covenant. But I think that apart from something like the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance, there's probably no civilization capable of making any covenant." The scholar's Ultrasound tone revealed a sense of helplessness.
If it weren't for the Quell Civilization, they would still be living comfortably in the star system centered around their home planet, and there would be no need for them to abandon their home planet as if they were fleeing for their lives.
The reason is that when the despicable pirate -Wandering Civilization of Quell Civilization was on the verge of extinction, it suddenly claimed that it had received intelligent information from the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance. What's hateful is that the location was within the home system of the Kun-Tai Civilization.
Pierce's fleet was actually a fleet that was on a mission in another Star System. After learning that her home system had defeated the Interstellar Pirate Quell Civilization, she planned to return to her home system and take the best scientists in the fleet back to participate in the technical analysis of the Quell Civilization's ships.
But just as she was about to set off, she received devastating news from her home galaxy.
According to the last communication from the home star system, when the Quell Civilization first said that, they did not believe it. However, less than a Kuntai year later, a huge spaceship suddenly appeared in the home star system.
How big was the spaceship? According to the last communication from the home planet of the Kun-Tai Civilization, it was a spaceship that was 800 kilometers long. Moreover, the way the spaceship appeared was very strange. Pierce still remembers the last signal from the home planet describing it as follows. "All mission fleets, do not return. The home planet is no longer home. We saw that enormous spaceship appear before our fleet without warning. Our proud, Great Fleet looked as small as 'ants' in front of it. Then we were surprised to find that this enormous spaceship was moving backward—no, not backward. We saw it first, and then we saw its 'afterimage,' oh, a blurry, backward image, not an afterimage. We scientists know what that means."