Carbon-based civilization's wars were, in truth, wars of evolution.
Whoever first evolved a biological weapon capable of perfectly eliminating the other side would be able to claim victory in a civilization-level war.
Thus, many times, even a highly advanced carbon-based civilization—for example, a late-stage Level Three civilization—might still lose disastrously against an early-stage Level Three civilization.
In fact, even losing disastrously would be the better outcome, because there was something even more awkward: two carbon-based civilizations might fight until, because their evolution proceeded too quickly and everything they evolved—weapons, genes, and ecosystems—was designed to counter the other side, they accidentally merged into one.
Once they became one family, possessing the same genetic lineage and species ecology, their relationship would be even closer than that between some species of the same race that shared common blood.
For this reason, the Civilization Council had even created a new civilization category: "Assimilative Civilizations," referring to civilizations that, during a civilization war, did not eliminate their opponents but instead tried to merge with them.
The Zerg civilization was a typical representative of "Assimilative Civilizations." It simply had not merged with its opponents; it had evolved every carbon-based species into Zerg.
Thus, from the perspective of certain universal morals of the cosmos, these Zerg were actually great benefactors, because they allowed every defeated species to complete the sublimation of its bloodline.
Of course, whether you were willing to undergo that sublimation was another matter.
On the system panel of the Nomad civilization, it was clear that both the number of blueprints and the number of biological technologies were rising rapidly.
They soon caught up with the accumulation of the previous two thousand years.
Several knowledge chains were even filled to capacity, and they had even unlocked "Cross-Civilization Technologies."
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