Extreme Xenophobia
The message of unconditional surrender was quickly sent to the Lyra. It was very sincere, and Yue Yuan and a group of high-ranking officials read it.
After a thorough analysis, everyone left the final decision to Yue Yuan.
At this moment, a staff officer voiced everyone's thoughts. "Commander Yue, should we accept their surrender?"
"They surrendered before even fighting; there's definitely something fishy going on." Yue Yuan looked at his staff officer and shook his head. "But since we can take down their last strength without bloodshed, it's definitely better than continuing to fight. And since they're surrendering, we can't let their good intentions go to waste, can we? Since they're surrendering unconditionally, they have to do what we say. The first step is to disarm them."
Once a smile slowly spread across his face, Yue Yuan continued, "We can reply to the Kun-Tai Civilization now. Tell them they must disarm. As for how to disarm, just have all the personnel on their warships move to their Residential Spaceship."
"Commander Yue, should we continue to approach?" the communications officer asked.
"Why not? Tell them we'll only give them three hours. After three hours, we'll sink all the enemy warships," Yue Yuan replied.
"Yes!"
Once the matter was settled, the information was quickly sent to the Kun-Tai Civilization.
[Kun-Tai Civilization, we, the Human Civilization, accept your surrender and agree to allow your people to continue to live. However, to ensure the absolute purity of the surrender, we will completely disarm you.]
From this moment forward, please adjust the attitude of your remaining twenty-one warships so that their sterns are facing our direction.
After that, we will give you three hours to evacuate the personnel from your warships to your Residential Spaceship. After three hours, we will sink all your warships.
During this period, any action taken by your warships other than those requested by us will be considered futile resistance, and we will therefore have no choice but to annihilate you all.
Behind the information are detailed terms and conditions.
The content mainly concerns the treatment of the Kuntai People after their surrender, such as how humans would manage them, how the Kun-Tai Civilization became a vassal state of humans, and how Kuntai People scientists would serve humanity.
It looks quite serious.
Upon seeing the message sent out, the Science Officer on the Lyra looked at Yue Yuan, seemingly hesitant to speak.
"What's the problem?" Yue Yuan looked over.
"Commander Yue, are we really going to accept their surrender?" The Science Officer asked, his face showing concern.
"Of course, we won't accept their surrender. How can we destroy their warships without bloodshed?" Yue Yuan replied immediately.
"But aliens... I still feel uneasy about that." The Science Officer frowned.
"Of course not."
Yue Yuan smiled. He seemed to know what the Science Officer was worried about. He looked around at the group of people before continuing, "I know what you mean. Actually, writing so many detailed terms for settling their residents was just for the Kun-Tai Civilization to see. Only in this way can they believe that we have accepted their surrender."
After we sink all their warships, their next target will naturally be their Residential Spaceship. But before that, we must first thoroughly plunder their scientific achievements and technological accumulation.
Yue Yuan was aware of the danger, so he never intended to let the Kun-Tai Civilization's Residential Spaceship go. He planned to first sink the Kun-Tai Civilization's warships to render them incapable of fighting, then plunder their scientific achievements and technological accumulation, and finally target the Residential Spaceship.
There is no concept of benevolence or morality among Cosmic Civilizations, not even the idea that killing surrendered people brings bad luck. Moreover, as far as Yue Yuan knows, the vast majority of humanity supports the complete annihilation of the Kun-Tai Civilization.
The military once proposed accepting some of the Kuntai People, who could then be used as cannon fodder in future wars. This was very tempting, but it was far too dangerous.
Especially after the Kun-Tai Civilization threatened the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance with its broadcasts.
Among the elite of humanity are many intelligent individuals who, after being threatened in this way, realized that they might encounter similar threats in the future, and therefore, aliens should not be allowed to live.
Because this thing is so hard to defend against, and humans don't understand the mechanism of that kind of broadcast, if we really keep the Kuntai People, it's hard to guarantee that there won't be any extraordinary geniuses.
However, if we really want to keep the Kuntai People, humans could build some Residential Spaceship and then move them onto the spaceships they build themselves.
In this way, the risk will be greatly reduced.
However, as long as the Kuntai People can still access electronic devices, their safety cannot be guaranteed to be 100%, so Yue Yuan doesn't want a single Kuntai People to live. Humans are too weak; there's no need for them to take such risks.
Listing out detailed terms and not actively mentioning the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance's Intelligent Broadcast was also intended to lower the Kun-Tai Civilization and make them believe that humanity had truly accepted surrender.
That's all.
Therefore, Yue Yuan felt no guilt whatsoever, nor did he feel any pity for the Kuntai People who were about to be killed.
Of course, if one day humanity truly becomes powerful enough to pursue its ideals, perhaps it will no longer be so ruthless in its extermination of aliens.
In fact, Yue Yuan knew very well that human scientists wanted to leave behind a portion of the Kuntai People, because both research and the exchange of ideas were valuable assets for humanity.
Unfortunately, our strength doesn't allow it.
Humanity's primary task now is still survival.
Only by surviving can we talk about the ideal of exploring the universe and pursue the unknown mysteries.
Ultimately, humans are not inherently bloodthirsty; it's just that the cosmic environment dictates that, before they become powerful enough, they must kill when necessary.
Furthermore, Yue Yuan was aware of the scientists' ideals: exploring the mysteries of the universe and pursuing the infinite unknown—something every civilization should strive for. Yue Yuan also intended to guide Human Civilization down that path, but the prerequisite for everything was survival.
In Yue Yuan's heart, he understood that he was a dictator, but not for the sake of being a dictator. Rather, he was a dictator to unite humanity and to have the ability to react quickly in important matters.
He had thought that perhaps one day he would relinquish power, but certainly not now.
Of course, he also deeply understood the ideological drawbacks that arose in human society after the emergence of extreme xenophobic ideologies. Coupled with authoritarian military and political systems, humanity seemed to have transformed from that moment on into a war-mongering civilization focused solely on military might.
This situation is certainly unhealthy for a civilization, so Yue Yuan intends to change it. He plans to begin working on this matter after dealing with the Kun-Tai Civilization.
As for how to make changes, Yue Yuan already had a plan in mind: to further improve the treatment of scientists and technicians, and then guide humanity toward a path of governing the country through technology.