Gao Yuanyuan had heard her cheap big brother say that once the Mechanical Revolution entered its "Third Stage," it would be able to target information species.
By imprisoning and converting certain large-scale information lifeforms, such as Brains in Vats, and using "software absorption" to indirectly stimulate the evolution of "hardware," it could stack computational power to an unimaginable level.
The Mechanical Revolution at this stage could be called the nemesis of information species. Its computational power exceeded the upper limit of a planetary mainframe, reaching the level of a "Fourth-Order Galaxy Mainframe." Through the supercomputing power of a "Galaxy Mainframe," it could capture information populations and absorb virtual civilizations, one galaxy after another.
Then, through this absorption, it would in turn give birth to planetary mainframes, stellar big-data centers, and nebular computing clusters, one after another, ultimately expanding toward other galaxies.
It could be said that without targeted forces, ninety-nine percent of Tier-3 civilizations would not be a match for the "Mechanical Cage." All intelligent species would be forcibly transformed into human-brain data storage devices. Wherever the "machine" passed, civilizations would be taken in one by one as "machine-servant civilizations."
The Mechanical Cage was also known as the "Civilization Cage"!
At this point, the so-called "Mechanical Revolution" was no longer merely a matter for mechanical civilizations. It had become a mechanical catastrophe that all civilizations had to resist.
That was also why, in many civilized societies, mechanical species were universally hated. Some civilizations even embraced ideologies such as "Extreme Mechanical Rejection" and "Machines Are the Public Enemy."
In the histories of these civilizations, most had suffered the humiliation of resisting a mechanical catastrophe, losing hundreds of billions or even trillions of citizens, and in some cases being colonized by machines.
However, this was only the power of the "Third Mechanical