Inside Uranus, Lin Fan looked at the leader of the expert team, Meng Fei, somewhat strangely.
A battleship built entirely on steam technology? Are you sure you're not kidding?
After seeing Lin Fan's expression, Meng Fei sighed.
"To be honest, even I can't believe it if I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but our scan results will not lie. Although there are many parts of the power core of the battleship that I cannot understand, it is indeed a huge steam engine system, a steam engine that has been developed to the extreme."
Meng Fei said with a sigh.
To be honest, this is really subversive, but it can be understood after thinking about it more deeply.
After all, mankind entered the steam revolution and then the electrical revolution, and did not continue on the steam journey.
But the civilization in front of us has obviously come to an end on the steam journey. From this aspect of technology alone, Auger Empire is much more advanced than Human Federation.
"Lin Fan Legion Commander, we even scanned their weapon structure and ammunition structure. Can you imagine that their naval guns actually use steam power to project projectiles? Can you imagine that their ammunition is extremely compressed steam projectiles. Once hit, the extremely compressed steam in the bomb bay explodes, and the power will probably not be weaker than the ordinary Level 3 Civilization?"
"This is really an interesting civilization. I am very interested in visiting their planet now!"
Listening to Meng Fei's words, Lin Fan's curiosity was completely aroused, and he said with a smile.
Lin Fan now quite agrees with what Meng Fei said just now.
Don't think that the path taken by mankind is the only way, and don't think that the view of science and technology you understand is the only correct view of science and technology.
As the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome. As humans see more and more civilizations, they will find that many things that humans thought were impossible will become possible.
This is so interesting. It is very similar to the world view of Steampunk in some movies and TV works he watched in his previous life. I believe this journey will be quite interesting.
Although Lin Fan is in high spirits now, the tragedy is that the speed of the spacecraft leading the way is too slow!
The navigator on the bridge told Lin Fan that at this speed, it would take a day to reach Aug Star, but out of courtesy, Lin Fan had no choice but to let the fleet follow the patrol ship and move forward slowly.
Finally, one day later, Guard Fleet followed the patrol boat to the orbit of Aug Star.
Here, Lin Fan is simply an eye-opener. In front of you is a completely Steampunk civilization of Interstellar Era. Not to mention its technology, just the star port in orbit and the various spacecrafts coming and going around it are full of Steampunk wind.
At this time, a spaceship with an obvious sense of majesty approached, and Lin Fan also received the other party's communication.
This is the exclusive spaceship of the Ogg royal family. To put it more directly, it is the car of Emperor Augustus.
At this time, Augustus was looking through the porthole in the ship at the huge fleet that could not be seen far away. Each of the ships was several times the size of his own ship. It was simply too scary.
Such a civilization must not be offended, Augustus couldn't help but think in his heart.
Lin Fan took two women, more than 20 representatives of the expert team, and dozens of commandos, and took Shuttlecraft to Augustus's car.
A few minutes later, when everyone boarded Augustus's car, Augustus himself had already greeted them at the hatch with several ministers.
"Dear lords, I am Augustus, the emperor of the Auger Empire. Welcome to the Auger Empire!"
Augustus behaved very respectfully.
Lin Fan didn't take the initiative. After all, this was not within his scope of responsibilities. He was just bringing the two girls down to play.
As for the evaluation and negotiation of the Auger Empire, it is all the responsibility of the expert team.
Soon, someone in the expert group picked up Augustus's words, but did not mention Advanced Civilization.
The first conversation between the two parties can be said to be relatively pleasant.
Speaking of which, the Og people are somewhat like the dwarves in some of Lin Fan's previous works. They are also humanoid, but their height is generally between 1.2 and 1.5 meters. Their facial features are somewhat similar to humans, except that they have hair all over their bodies, including their faces.
Of course, the negotiation expert also specifically introduced Lin Fan during the conversation with Augustus.
When Augustus learned that Lin Fan was Legion Commander of a human legion, and the fleet in front of him was just one of the many fleets under the legion, he looked at Lin Fan with even more respect.
Especially when they learned that Lin Fan and the others were not participating in the talks, but only came to Aug Star for fun, Augustus immediately patted his chest and said that he would arrange special guards and tour guides for Lin Fan after they went there, and all Lin Fan's expenses would be borne by the royal family.
Lin Fan just smiled, that's fine, otherwise the three of them would go shopping by themselves. On the one hand, they were unfamiliar with the place, and on the other hand, they didn't have the money to buy anything, right?
After all, they don't know about federal coins, so I don't necessarily want to rob them!
More than half an hour later, the spacecraft began its airborne operation towards the surface of the planet.
It has to be said that Auger Empire's technology is quite good. After all, if a spacecraft of this size wants to land directly on the planet, it is something that most Level 2 Civilizations cannot do, and even some junior Level 3 Civilizations cannot do it.
After arriving on the ground, Augustus immediately arranged a tour guide and a team of royal guards for Lin Fan. Soon Lin Fan left with the two women. After all, it was the matter of the expert group and had nothing to do with Lin Fan.
This game lasted for a whole week. It was not until Lin Fan received the notice from the expert team that he took the two women back to the Auger Empire's palace.
When Lin Fan and the others returned to the palace, they learned about the result from Meng Fei.
First of all, after the evaluation conducted by the expert group, the Potential Score of the Og civilization reached 7.2 points, meeting the basic requirements for the federation to recruit affiliated civilizations.
The so-called Potential Score is a potential assessment method developed by many experts in the Federation. The score is obtained through a comprehensive evaluation of more than 100 items such as the historical process of a civilization, technological routes, civilization systems, population proportions of various occupations, etc. The full score is ten points, and the minimum requirement for the Federation to recruit affiliated civilizations is 7 points.
Therefore, the expert group also extended an invitation to the Auger Empire to join the federation-affiliated civilization.
Of course, when Augustus first heard this invitation, his expression was not very good. He knew what a subsidiary civilization was. Becoming a subsidiary civilization meant being continuously squeezed by the main civilization, which basically meant cutting off the development potential of his own civilization.
However, when Augustus saw Subordinate Civilization Agreement from Human Federation, he was stunned.
Are you kidding me? You actually told me that this is a subsidiary civilization?