Its Form of Existence
Now, having received questions from humanity, and in order to convince them of his words, the Grand Governor of the First Star Region of the Nair Civilization has decided to truthfully inform humanity of all this information.
Oh, perhaps the Nair Civilization should no longer be divided into the First Star Region, the Second Star Region, and the Third Star Region, because the refugee fleet of the Third Star Region has been incorporated into the First Star Region, and the Nair People of the Second Star Region have also embarked on an interstellar escape because of this, and reached a consensus with the First Star Region when they were preparing to reach the White Giant Star where humans are located.
Because the First Star Region, to which the Pot Lid Vastness Star belongs, communicated with humans, its strength was enhanced. Therefore, after the conflict with the fleet controlled by the Virtual Consciousness, their strength was best preserved. Thus, the current Nair Civilization is outwardly under the command of the original First Star Region.
Of the more than 2,300 Lake-Class Warship in the escape fleet, 1,600 were originally from the First Star Region. Therefore, in a sense, the Nair Civilization had already accomplished what all three starfields had wanted to achieve: the reunification of civilizations.
I just didn't expect it to be completed under these circumstances.
Meanwhile, upon learning of the Nair Civilization's predicament, the human forces abandoned their previous tense stance and instead instructed the Nair Civilization to send a fleet to approach them more closely so they could exchange information and inquire about the specific causes and consequences of the incident.
Humanity also promised the Nair Civilization that it would provide supplies to Nair Civilization fleet in the coming period to address their immediate needs. Furthermore, it pledged that once humanity withdrew its Residential Spaceship Cluster from Great White Star, it would allow Nair Civilization's resource development ships to enter Great White Star for resource replenishment and mining.
Humanity made this decision for two reasons. Firstly, they had a favorable impression of the Nair Civilization, considering them a rare and friendly civilization. Secondly, they had seen the true state of the Nair Civilization's fleet through probes, and thus believed Nair Civilization explanations.
Many of the warships that the Nair Civilization brought here showed obvious signs of damage, with charred remains from explosions and dented armor everywhere. There were also many places with obvious signs of later welding repairs, indicating that they were likely warships that fled after a battle.
These statements alone wouldn't convince humans, but the Nair People not only brought warships, but also a bunch of Residential Spaceship. Moreover, some of these Residential Spaceship were clearly cobbled together from various sources, ranging from lake-class to lower-class ships, obviously chosen hastily without any other options.
As for the fact that the Nair Civilization had discovered that they were Wandering Civilization, humanity didn't think it was a big deal. After all, the Nair Civilization was about to become Wandering Civilization itself. Besides, so what if they discovered it? Humanity wouldn't return the 'Research Team' they had exchanged for.
Perhaps due to their circumstances, the Nair Civilization did not mention anything about the 'Research Team' to humans after arriving at the White Giant Star, as if they had tacitly agreed to it.
After an unknown amount of time, the distance between the human First Fleet and the Nair Civilization fleet finally closed to about one Astronomical Unit. Upon reaching this distance, the Nair Civilization obediently followed human instructions, severing a detachment of one hundred warships from the Great Fleet to continue approaching the human fleet. Once they reached a distance of one light-minute, they established short-delay communication with the Lyra.
The visitor was an old acquaintance, the Grand Governor of the Pot Lid Vastness Star.
Meanwhile, the other two Nair Civilization fleets that had arrived at the White Giant Star earlier also slowed down and maintained a safe distance from the human Second Fleet after merging into one fleet.
"Your Grand Governor, could you now explain in detail what this Virtual Consciousness is all about? Also, how long until its fleet arrives here?" Yue Yuan asked after the communication was established.
There's about a one-minute delay, but that's acceptable.
Given the current situation, what humanity is most concerned about is the state of that Virtual Consciousness entity. After all, having experienced the Silver Mist Consciousness in the past, hearing that it is another case of Artificial Intelligence causing harm always gives humanity a sense of unease.
About a minute later, the Nair People on the screen spoke.
"Your Excellency, leader of Human Civilization, the situation regarding that Artificial Intelligence is roughly what we have told you before. That Artificial Intelligence originally only exhibited a semblance of intelligence, but had not yet developed self-awareness."
According to the scientists who escaped from the Third Star Region, this was the reason they disregarded the agreements between our three starfields to research and utilize that Artificial Intelligence. And its transformation from having no self-awareness to possessing self-awareness was achieved through rapid iteration using the knowledge of our Nair Civilization.
However, we have no idea how its internal algorithms work, or how it evolved from having no self-awareness to possessing self-awareness. This is something only that Unknown Civilization might know. Therefore, we can be fairly certain that the highest technology possessed by that transformed Artificial Intelligence is indeed the technology of our Nair Civilization.
Nair Civilization's words stopped there.
The humans exchanged opinions, and finally Yue Yuan spoke again, addressing the Nair People on the large screen. "So, Your Grand Governor, have you seen the form of that self-aware Artificial Intelligence, or Virtual Consciousness? What is its carrier? I remember you said that the Third Star Region has Three Stars, while your First and Second Star Region each have two stars. How does it manage to control different regions, or rather, how does it coordinate fleets belonging to different Star System, considering how far apart each star is?"
Yue Yuan asked this question mainly to find out whether the Virtual Consciousness that Nair People spoke of was like what the Silver Mist Consciousness had said back then, controlling the entire Mechanical Empire by replicating itself, or something else entirely.
After speaking, we waited for about two minutes before the humans saw the Nair People speak again on the screen.
"It has no fixed form. According to a scientist from the First Star Region who participated in the research, it seems to be just a strange program, a special program with self-awareness that roams the network."
As for its physical form, I think it should be the fleet that is heading here. Since its physical form can move freely in the network, we don't know where its physical form is hiding.
As for how it controls warships in different Star System, I find it somewhat puzzling, because it doesn't do that at all. After destroying one of the Immigrant Planet in the Third Star Region, it takes more warships and heads to another Star System, and so on. Now it's snowballing, and the fleet it controls is growing larger and larger.
Therefore, all we can do now is run, run, run, and keep running after resupplying. Leaders of Human Civilization, we advise you to run too; judging by the distance, their fleet should arrive here in about thirty years.
Upon hearing the Nair People's reply, the humans understood the form of this virtual life form and realized that it did not expand its empire by constantly replicating itself like the predecessor of the Silver Mist Consciousness, but instead kept all power in its own hands.
Human experts speculate that this might not be because it is unwilling to do so, but rather because it is unable to do so for some reason. Replicating itself to control other warships would be more efficient in terms of both combat effectiveness and expanding its empire than controlling everything itself.
Following this line of thought, humans believe it is likely related to his form of existence.
As the Nair People said, perhaps it is because it is just a strange program with self-awareness, an Intelligent Program that is evolving and growing, and it is still relying on the Nair Civilization, a Level 2 Civilization network, rather than having its own swarm of Nanobots, a Level 3 Civilization creation, as a carrier, like the Silver Mist Consciousness.
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