Robert Stringbinder Civilization
Gao Gong had heard its name more than once. After all, this galaxy was called the Robert Galaxy.
According to interstellar legends, this Stringbinder civilization had not passively waited for the Purple Giant Star to destroy it. Instead, it had taken the initiative to challenge its opponent, only to be suppressed by the Mechanical Overmind.
If this legend was true, then based on Gao Gong's understanding, there were two possibilities.
The first was that this civilization's ideology had been extremely militaristic, focused on fighting to the death without retreating and charging forward recklessly.
The second was that this spatial civilization, supposedly a peak level-three civilization, had already reached the threshold of ascension and had taken the initiative to anchor its "tribulation" to the Purple Giant Star.
If it won, everyone would be happy. No matter how powerful the Purple Giant Star's backer was, it would still be impossible to attack an ascended civilization.
If it lost, everything would end, with the species going extinct.
Gao Gong felt that the latter possibility was more likely.
Civilizational ascension was accompanied by a civilizational tribulation.
This kind of "tribulation" was not lightning crashing down from the sky. That belonged to the xianxia genre, not science fiction.
Such tribulations were often silent and imperceptible. Even the millions of top scientists within a civilization, along with all kinds of supercomputing equipment, would have great difficulty deducing them.
If they could truly be deduced, the probability of ascension would not be so low.
And since there was a "tribulation," there were naturally "means of resisting it."
One relatively typical method was "tribulation transfer": transforming an intangible tribulation into a tangible enemy, then discovering and solving problems through a civilizational war with that enemy.
In nature, it was somewhat like a black bear rubbing