The Nair People's Plan
Thirteen light-years is roughly forty-four years for Level 2 Civilization to travel that distance. It's just a matter of taking a nap; humans are already used to it.
No accident occurred. As time went by, humanity safely accelerated its departure from the White Giant Star. After humanity left, the Nair Civilization sent various spaceships to develop resources on the Great White Star.
However, since the Nair Civilization did not design all its facilities for nomadic life like humans, their mining progress was very slow after arriving on the Great White Star.
The first challenge facing the Nair Civilization is infrastructure. They must construct all the necessary functional buildings for resource extraction on the planet, as well as build Space Elevator or Orbital Mass Accelerator from scratch.
This is a situation that the Nair Civilization must face.
In fact, some scientists from the Nair Civilization had already thought of this problem during their retreat and escape, but while they could think of it, they could not change it in a short period of time.
Therefore, the Nair People felt that completing the resupply of their fleet within those thirty years was already quite an achievement. If it weren't for some clever Nair People demanding a map of the Great White Star's resource distribution from humanity, it's estimated that even thirty years would have been too long.
So after the humans left, several Nair People scientists approached their Grand Governor: "Your Grand Governor, have you noticed the differences in the human mining facilities?"
"Of course." The Grand Governor cracked his claws, shaking his belly, and said in a rather emotional tone, "Although Human Civilization did not allow our probes to approach at the time, judging from the time they agreed to evacuate to the time they completed the evacuation, their resource extraction facilities should have some kind of rapid release and recovery function. Before, I had some doubts about whether they were truly Wandering Civilization, but now I can be sure that if they were not Wandering Civilization, they would definitely not have such a fast speed."
"Yes, Your Grand Governor." The scientist who had just spoken first agreed with the Grand Governor, and then said, "Human Civilization not only reacted quickly in its evacuation, but after we mined the Great White Star, we also found no remnants of Human Civilization's buildings on the planet. At first, we were also shocked, until we learned that Human Civilization might be Wandering Civilization, and then we were relieved."
The scientist who spoke was originally from the Third Star Region, and therefore unaware of the First Star Region's speculations about Human Civilization. So when he discovered that there wasn't even a trace of infrastructure left on Great White Star, he was quite shocked. It wasn't until he learned from the vocal organs of the Nair People from the First Star Region Human Civilization was most likely Wandering Civilization that he finally understood.
Then he found the Grand Governor, which led to the conversation we just had.
At this moment, the scientist continued to say to the Grand Governor: "Your Grand Governor, this situation undoubtedly indicates that Human Civilization has mastered some kind of technology. It is this technology that allows them to rapidly develop planetary resources and deploy various facilities at will."
Although they previously forbade our probes from getting close enough to observe, we could still 'see' some large structures. I heard that His Grand Governor made a deal with Human Civilization, selling them Human Civilization Space Elevator technology in the process.
"That's true," the Grand Governor admitted directly. Now that the Nair Civilization was unified, he wasn't worried about what the other Nair People would say, even though this method of unification was a mess.
"That makes sense." The scientist snapped his fingers a few times. "But we haven't even found the base of Space Elevator on Great White Star yet, which means that Human Civilization has modified the Space Elevator into some kind of convenient Space Elevator."
"Hmm, I know that, but so what?" The Grand Governor looked at the scientist who had spoken.
But the one who answered him was not the scientist, but another smaller Nair People Grand Governor, of course we should buy this technology from Human Civilization. Think about it, we have now become Wandering Civilization, and there is a Virtual Consciousness chasing us. Without the rapid deployment and regrouping technology of Human Civilization, we will eventually be overtaken by the Virtual Consciousness."
Upon hearing this, the Grand Governor fell silent. If he hadn't understood Virtual Consciousness, he would have scoffed at such a statement, but not now. He knew very well that the Virtual Consciousness's fleet only needed refueling, while the fuel of Level 2 Civilization, apart from Cold Nuclear Fusion fuel which required manufacturing, was practically everywhere from Heavy Nuclear Fusion. Under the same conditions, the speed of collection was much faster than that of the Nair Civilization, which needed to reproduce various resources into life-sustaining materials.
If this continues, they will inevitably be caught up.
He understood this, but the Grand Governor was still somewhat worried. So he hesitated and said, "But Human Civilization has never used such technology before. Even if we catch up after we finish resupplying, they may not sell it to us. There is even a possibility of conflict. Besides, we don't have anything of value to exchange with them."
Upon hearing the Grand Governor's words, the smaller Nair People first snapped his pincers twice, then a strange sound came from Abdominal Generator, which seemed to be the Nair People's unique chuckle. After that, the Nair People said, "Your Grand Governor, I think we should follow in the footsteps of humans and tell them directly that we want to buy their technology."
As for the possibility of conflict, well... if there are still intelligent beings in Human Civilization, I think they would absolutely not want to clash with us, because we have Great Fleet of Virtual Consciousness entities behind us!
Upon hearing this, the Grand Governor perked up, as if it were indeed true.
If a conflict breaks out between the two sides, it won't just be the Nair Civilization that suffers; Human Civilization will also waste evacuation time due to the conflict and eventually be overtaken by the Virtual Consciousness's Great Fleet.
"Good idea, let's do it this way! Pass on my order to take some Large-Caliber Telescope and point them in the direction where the human fleet disappeared. Make sure we don't lose them!" The Grand Governor of the Nair People gave the order decisively.
Although he felt it was somewhat shameless, it was the only way for the Nair Civilization to survive.
The reason for pointing the Large-Caliber Telescope at the direction in which the human fleet disappeared was mainly to prevent the human fleet from changing course midway, which would leave the Nair Civilization empty-handed.
If that were the case, the Nair Civilization would truly be doomed.
"The Grand Governor is wise!" Seeing the Grand Governor's decisiveness, the Nair People came up with the idea immediately flattered him, clearly showing a significant increase in his satisfaction with the former Grand Governor of the First Star Region.
The Grand Governor accepted the compliment with satisfaction, for he understood the underlying meaning behind it.
Putting everything else aside, as long as the Nair Civilization continues to follow humanity, whether humanity likes it or not, the fates of the two civilizations will be intertwined.
Humanity will have no choice but to comply, because only by giving the technology to the Nair Civilization can the two civilizations escape together through rapid resupply; otherwise, they will be destroyed together by the Virtual Consciousness.
As for whether humans would abandon their civilization and run away without a care, the Grand Governor was not worried at all, because the Nair Civilization would not let the Human Civilization leave in peace, and he believed that the humans would think of this.