Coincidence

Yue Yuan could understand the military's request, because if only one hundred manned warships were built, the original crew members and captains might have to be laid off.

The reason is that New Warship will use more automated facilities, equipment and operating methods, so compared to the Lake-Class Warship, the larger New Warship will actually require fewer crew members.

This is an inevitable result of the emergence of Strong Artificial Intelligence. Of course, it cannot be completely eliminated, because if all human intervention is eliminated, there will be nothing left for humans to do.

Based on the need to protect human skills, the Command Department would not, and could not, require the warship Design Department to do so. The New Government has always understood that the fleet flagship must be firmly in human control to ensure absolute safety.

As military personnel, especially those on warships who are front-line combatants, they enjoy very good benefits, so naturally they are unwilling to give up their profession.

Of course, most military personnel are not thinking about the preferential treatment they enjoy, but genuinely want to continue fighting for humanity.

From this perspective, Yue Yuan, as the leader, also supports the growth of the human fleet, because the stronger the fleet, the safer humanity will be.

Therefore, at the conference, Yue Yuan publicly expressed his support for this idea, but he did not aim too high and directly impose the realization of this idea on the three stages of the Great Fleet Plan.

Therefore, this plan to further expand the Great Fleet will be placed after the Great Fleet Plan. The fleet will only be expanded again after humanity meets the plan's requirements, all ordinary residents have moved into the new Residential Spaceship, and all other types of ships have been upgraded.

Everything should be done step by step.

Time flies, and eight years have passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, a larger Space Dock was completed, and the first prototype spacecraft equipped with Magnetic Propulsion device was also successfully completed.

In just eight years, they built a new shipyard and new types of spaceships—something unbelievable in the past. But with the advent of Strong Artificial Intelligence, it all became commonplace, even somewhat slow.

It would have been even faster if human designers and engineers hadn't made countless optimizations and improvements during the manufacturing of the prototype spacecraft and prototype Magnetic Propulsion device, to the point that many manufacturing environments had to be redone.

It can be said that Human Civilization now possesses the productivity of the 'mechanical civilization' depicted in novels. Releasing a Strong Artificial Intelligence would be a Cosmic Disaster for Low-level Civilization.

If humanity encounters the Silver Mist Consciousness after completing the Great Fleet Plan and the New Fleet Expansion Project, humanity is not afraid at all. Although there is still a gap between humanity's current technology and the ability to create tiny Nanobots like the Silver Mist Consciousness, it is not far off.

It means that you're just one step away, that you already know the way and are just one step away from taking that step with all your might, rather than the kind of situation where you can only see the mountain but can't keep up the pace.

Human Civilization is no longer what it used to be.

If the upgraded Human Civilization were to fight the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness that plagued the Nair Civilization again, there would be no need for hundreds of years of pursuit and planning, nor for any strategic tactics. The Flagship Lyra could be deployed directly, and a single warship could annihilate the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness with only Level 2 Civilization technology.

The technological gap can be so large that it can completely overwhelm the opponent, even making it impossible for them to escape, because the speed difference is also overwhelming.

This is why Yue Yuan agreed to the human fleet's second expansion plan. He knew that even after completing its upgrade, Human Civilization would not be able to gain an advantage over more advanced civilizations, but at least it should be able to maintain a dominant position among civilizations at the same level.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan couldn't help but feel proud of the history of Human Civilization. After experiencing various events and encountering different civilizations, especially after learning about the Kun-Tai Civilization and Nair Civilization, he also realized that Human Civilization was special in that it seemed to be very good at war.

Take the Nair Civilization for example. Unlike humans, their entire history of development was filled with war and conflict, so they did not develop any ideas such as being fearless in the face of death or that the brave would win in a narrow encounter.

The Nair Civilization, a supposedly great Cosmic Civilizations with at least tens of thousands of years of history, surprisingly failed to develop this kind of culture.

This puzzled Yue Yuan and many other members of the Command Department.

Given such a long history, anything could happen, even with low probability events. The fact that the Nair Civilization didn't develop a culture like that of humans is simply a testament to the wonders of the universe.

To this day, Yue Yuan still remembers the few words the Awakeners said, "The human race is very talented."

Yue Yuan remembered that he, along with the Command Department and scientists from various disciplines, believed that the so-called Racial Talent likely referred to cultural and spiritual aspects.

After all, the Awakeners are a respectable Level Six Civilization, an existence capable of traversing galaxies. They would not possibly make such a remark based on human technological achievements, so it must be related to spiritual civilization.

In fact, not only do they remember, but every word that humans said to the Awakeners is also recorded in the Central Computer, as are the Awakeners's acts of kindness towards humans.

Whether by coincidence or not, as the Awakeners and Awakeners words appeared in Yue Yuan's mind, the Awakener Civilization was also having a conversation about humanity.

"You said that civilization is called Human Civilization, and their home planet has been destroyed by Unknown Civilization?"

The question was asked by a cuboid flying object, which is currently hovering steadily near a black hole.

If an ordinary object were so close to a black hole, it would surely be spinning rapidly around the black hole in the direction of its angular momentum. But this cuboid flying object did not. It seemed to be fixed in this space, quietly resting there, as if it were completely unaffected by the black hole nearby.

If humans saw it, they would definitely recognize that this type of flying object is the Awakeners.

"Yes, they are called the Human Civilization, and their home planet is Earth, located at the end of the Orion Arm. Their home star was destroyed by an attack from an unknown civilization. I didn't have time to investigate the cause of the attack, but this Human Civilization seems to have a talent that is even stronger than ours, so when I encountered them, I took them from that extremely dangerous star system to another Safe Star Region."

The answer came from another rectangular flying machine, which looked exactly the same as the other one. However, from the content of his answer, it could be seen that the being inside this flying machine was the same being that had encountered humans before.

The being continued, "According to the timeline, Human Civilization should still be in the star system I took there. If the civilization needs us, we can bring them over at any time."

Another voice, independent of both Electromagnetic Wave and Gravitational Wave, resounded directly within the speaking cube, "No, you did well. We don't need to take over Human Civilization; letting them develop on their own is sufficient. Although only we know the true reason we are called the Awakeners, this Human Civilization is different from those Fallen Civilization. If what you say is true, they don't need to be awakened at all."

If we were still in the Triangulum Galaxy and encountered such a civilization, they would definitely become one of us. But now we don't need to do that anymore, which is why I said your approach is good. We need to see more possibilities for humanity!

The universe is so vast, it can accommodate two civilizations with similar talents. But the road ahead is long, and even we cannot guarantee we will reach that distant place. If we do stumble along the way, perhaps Human Civilization will be the one to lift us up.

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