1841, The Twisted Empire
As they questioned further, Shepard and the others learned more information.
In truth, after acquiring the technology for biological batteries, the Xilu people began their powerful rise and started slaughtering all around them. The reason was that this biological battery technology was simply too outrageous. Connect a living being to a biological battery, and it could generate as much energy as an entire small power plant!
Not only that, machines using biological batteries also became more intelligent and convenient. Even a simple stove for boiling water, when powered by a biological battery, would automatically cut off its power once the water boiled—despite never having possessed that function before.
No one knew exactly how this technology accomplished such things, but at the very least, it was clear that it had enormously improved the Xilu people's technological and industrial development, to the point that it could be called a leap forward!
With such technology, even building warships was not difficult for the Xilu people. As long as they had enough biological batteries, many systems aboard a warship could be automated.
At the same time, the Xilu people possessed powerful combat robots and drone swarms. With that foundation, they were utterly unmatched throughout the surrounding region!
Although the energy output of biological batteries was still inferior even to fusion reactors, they were extremely convenient and simple to manufacture. All they needed was a basic generating device and a person tied to it. If a warship needed vast amounts of energy, they simply connected large numbers of generators in parallel and stuffed them inside.
The only problem was that they consumed people.
As society continued to develop, the Xilu people needed more and more people to serve as biological batteries. So they constantly launched wars of foreign aggression, abducted more