Dust Settles

Once upon a time, with 50,000 warships, the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness was so full of vigor, confidently chasing after humanity and the Nair Civilization for hundreds of years. But now, only its own warship remains.

Several hours later, one of the three Main Thruster nozzles of the warship was carefully destroyed by the close-in weapon Laser Energy Cannon of the Third Fleet, the cold Fusion Thruster nozzle was deformed, and all the Auxiliary Thruster were shot out.

Its triple-mounted main gun was also deformed by a single shot from an Electromagnetic Railgun without a hydrogen bomb warhead, and its Close-In Weapon System were also destroyed one by one.

At this moment, the warship containing the Artificial Intelligence lost its attack capability and also lost the possibility of accelerating itself to 30% of the speed of light.

Its last hope of escape was truly dashed.

The Artificial Intelligence Consciousness in its ability to control all the internal facilities of the warship, including opening and closing doors and turning on and off various screens on the original warship.

At this point, the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness originally intended to send Electromagnetic Wave to the Allied Forces Command, saying that it could surrender, but it then discovered that the high-power Electromagnetic Wave Broadcast hardware on its warship had been destroyed by the Third Fleet.

It lost the ability to speak remotely.

The Nair People are quite familiar with the layout of their own warships. They know the layout of the warship where the Artificial Intelligence is located, so entrusting this task to them is indeed a good fit for their expertise.

Through the probes of the Lyra, humans saw four warships of the Third Fleet appear very close to the Artificial Intelligence warship that had lost its ability to resist.

Immediately afterwards, high-strength cables originally intended for use as Space Elevator were released from the four warships and, with the help of end-mechanical structures, hooked onto the dents in the hulls of the Artificial Intelligence warships.

Before long, the four Lake-Class Warships of the Third Fleet slowly accelerated, spewing exhaust flames, and gently dragged the powerless Artificial Intelligence warship toward the Red Dwarf Star.

The First and Second Fleet also returned to their flight formation and slowly accelerated toward the base near the Red Dwarf Star.

The dust has settled.

In this war, humanity suffered no losses of a single warship. This seems absurd, but those who understand the differences in Materials Technology between the two sides know that it is actually not so absurd.

Even the Third Fleet, which was equipped with armor made of No. 1 Alloy Material, only lost 208 ships in this war.

Including the losses of the fourth, fifth, and Sixth Fleet, the Nair Civilization lost a total of 2,965 Lake-Class Warship and 20,755,000 Nair People in this war. They currently have 2,035 warships remaining.

Although the Artificial Intelligence was completely wiped out, it actually only lost about 50,000 warships, with no personnel losses.

From this perspective, it becomes clear that a normal technological civilization would find it very difficult to defeat an Artificial Intelligence Civilization of the same level, especially when their technological strengths are roughly equal.

If the battle is not fought in one decisive battle, but rather both sides rely on their respective defended planets to fight, then the final result will inevitably be that the technologically advanced side will be drained of its last remaining fighting force.

In space warfare, the casualties from losing a single warship are simply too great. Without a population of hundreds of billions, trillions, or even hundreds of billions, it would be impossible to sustain a prolonged war of attrition. After all, the adversary is an Artificial Intelligence Civilization, and they do not need combat personnel.

As a Wandering Civilization, if humanity encounters Artificial Intelligence with similar technological capabilities, it would be utterly humiliated. Fortunately, this Artificial Intelligence is still developing and is using the fleet of the Nair Civilization, which is why we have achieved our current victory.

It is precisely because we have seen the terror of Artificial Intelligence that humanity is determined to obtain this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness.

Because if we obtain it, and master the methods to prevent Artificial Intelligence from rebelling, humanity may be able to build its own Great Fleet using Artificial Intelligence Consciousness.

Since Artificial Intelligence Consciousness can control so many warships without the need for individual life, if humanity can master this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, it is not impossible to create a large Artificial Intelligence Great Fleet to fight for them.

After the Third Fleet successfully towed away the warship containing the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, the human command headquarters had already developed a new plan for the future composition of the human fleet.

They believe that if technology allows, or if technology reaches the point where it can create Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, then humans could equip each fleet flagship with an Artificial Intelligence Consciousness to form a new fleet group.

The computer that carries the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness can be placed on the fleet flagship, and then it can be used to control a number of Unmanned Warship.

If that day ever comes, then population will no longer be a factor limiting the size of the human fleet.

And that's not all. You should know that Artificial Intelligence Consciousness has the ability to build ships. In other words, it can produce warships in a fully automated manner, as long as it masters all the technologies for building such warships.

Therefore, if humanity truly masters this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, or creates its own Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, then it can mass-produce military forces just like Artificial Intelligence Civilization.

Not only can we mass produce troops, but we can also achieve complete automation in industrial production. In short, whatever Artificial Intelligence Consciousness can do, humans who control Artificial Intelligence Consciousness can also do.

That would be a completely automated society.

All development, production, transportation, and manufacturing can be completed by Artificial Intelligence Consciousness —how tempting! Of course, the complete loyalty of the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness must be guaranteed.

It is conceivable how powerful a Level 3 Civilization would be to create Artificial Intelligence Consciousness and ensure its loyalty. Such a civilization is equivalent to a combination of a normal technological civilization and Artificial Intelligence Civilization.

The reason why Artificial Intelligence Consciousness is so powerful and Artificial Intelligence Civilization is so terrifying, yet it has not spread further, may lie in the technology of Level 3 Civilization.

Perhaps for Level 3 Civilization, Artificial Intelligence Civilization is not so frightening, because a Level 3 Civilization itself contains everything that Artificial Intelligence Civilization has.

Of course, this applies to situations like the current Artificial Intelligence Consciousness. If it's an Artificial Intelligence Consciousness Silver Mist Consciousness, which can self-replicate and then enslave countless others, then that's a different story.

Perhaps that kind of existence is the real catastrophe, an opponent that a civilization of the same level cannot defeat, a cosmic catastrophe.

Yue Yuan still remembers the time when the Silver Mist Consciousness said that its countless clones were slaughtered by an unknown warship. Perhaps only advanced civilizations could easily eliminate such an Artificial Intelligence disaster.

Thinking of this, the name 'Silicon-Based Collective' couldn't help but come to Yue Yuan's mind. His intuition told him that the Silicon-Based Collective must be related to the existence of Artificial Intelligence Consciousness.

It's unclear whether the main body of the Silicon-Based Collective is Artificial Intelligence or normal Silicon-based life.

It must be related, because the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance broadcast it back then. However, regardless of the reason, the meaning of "Union" shows that Artificial Intelligence Consciousness cannot be truly invincible among its peers, otherwise they wouldn't have formed an alliance.

As the thoughts in his mind dissipated, Yue Yuan's Lyra, along with the main force, returned to the Space Base on the Third Planet Red Dwarf Star.

The Fifth and Sixth Fleet, which had previously suffered defeats, came here to regroup. Now that they see the Allied forces returning in triumph, they naturally know what to do.

No, they didn't need to do anything; the Grand Governor of the Nair People Third Fleet had already made the decision for them.

On the day they arrived at the space base, Governor-General Niel announced that the Fourth Fleet would be retained and reorganized once they returned to the core of their civilization. At the same time, the damaged warships would be replenished.

Besides that, there were the Nair People's own summary of the war and some mourning ceremonies.

Of course, the Grand Governor of the Nielrens did not forget about the artificial intelligence consciousness. While handling these post-war matters, they also allocated some resources to board and capture the warship where the artificial intelligence consciousness was located.

Three months later.

Yue Yuan looked at a Central Computer and muttered, "So this is the computer where the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness resides?"

The computer was as big as a small house, and its appearance and blueprints revealed a strong Nair Civilization's technological information.

The Artificial Intelligence Consciousness initially considered this place its home, but now it has become a prison that confines it.

The Central Computer was not taken aboard the Lyra, but was instead sent to a designated warship in the First Fleet for security reasons.

At this stage, the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness has no room for resistance. It will be imprisoned in this standby computer until it is transported to a human Research Spaceship for the scientists who have been waiting to study it.

"Yes, Commander Yue, we've struck gold this time! Haha, this is Artificial Intelligence Consciousness! We never thought we'd actually catch it." A staff officer who seemed to have overheard Yue Yuan's mutterings also said happily.

"Yes, it's a pity it's not Silver Mist Consciousness," Yue Yuan remarked.

Seeing the once invincible Artificial Intelligence Consciousness in its current state, he couldn't help but recall the Silver Mist from back then, the Silver Mist that killed a human landing squad.

The others were also overjoyed, as if they had captured the Silver Mist Consciousness. It seemed that some of them were venting the frustration they had suffered at the hands of the Silver Mist Consciousness onto this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness.

With a long sigh of relief, Yue Yuan looked at the communications post on the Lyra and said, "Send a message to Governor-General Nair that the fleet will set sail in three months and tell them to prepare."

"Receive."

When the Main Civilization left this place, many scientists followed them, which is why the research capabilities of the First and Second Fleet are currently very weak, and they also lack the corresponding research equipment.

Therefore, what Yue Yuan needs to do now is to lead the fleet back to the embrace of the Main Civilization as soon as possible, so that scientists can seize the time to conduct research on Artificial Intelligence Consciousness.

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