The Intranet
Because of the Gene Encryption, the outside world does not know the specific internal structure of the Swarm Biological Weapon, and therefore does not know that the Atomic Furnace is the main factor in creating the growth environment for the Life-Extending Plant.
Therefore, it's reasonable for the Swarm to say they don't have enough Godzilla to cultivate them on a large scale. After all, the Swarm don't produce nuclear waste, which is easily observed and analyzed. Secondly, the Life-Extending Plant were discovered in Godzilla nests, which is well-documented. Finally, Godzilla, being such large and clumsy land units, don't really need to be produced in large numbers.
Moreover, this response officially acknowledges that Godzilla is a product of the Swarm, plugging some loopholes. Although it still has some flaws, it is much better than before.
After receiving the Swarm's reply, the Epoch Clan expressed their hope that the Swarm would increase the number of Godzilla in order to increase the production of Life-Extending Plant, but they also knew that this was not a mandatory request and would be difficult to meet.
After all, the resources required to produce a Godzilla are staggering, and when spread across production costs, the value of Life-Extending Plant will increase significantly. Although the Epoch Clan, as the issuer of points, doesn't lack even a small amount, it's foreseeable that the demand for Life-Extending Plant will be very high in the future. Once the price is driven up, it will take a lot of effort to bring it down, and it will also disrupt the market.
Therefore, they didn't make too many demands on the Swarm, but instead placed orders with the Koya Alliance, a neighbor of the Riken Race located a little further away.
The Life-Extending Plant was carefully cultivated by Rowan. It is drought-resistant, flood-resistant, corrosion-resistant, insect-resistant, disease-resistant, and pesticide-resistant. As long as the environment is set up properly, you can just wait for the harvest. There is absolutely no difficulty in planting it.
The Koya Alliance civilizations, which primarily follow a mechanical approach, generate a considerable amount of nuclear waste. Unlike the Swarm, they cannot reuse it and must simply pack it up and dump it into their stars. Choosing a path that allows for waste recycling, the creation of new value, and legitimate involvement in Life-Extending Plant would likely make them very willing to accept these orders.
Everything began to fall into place. After completing their construction tasks on the Riken Race Epoch Clan's several functional ships moved to the Proxima Swarm. They split into two groups: one began constructing quantum communication facilities on Proxima Centauri, while the other headed to the Sandstorm Star System to oversee the construction of the Trade City.
The Swarm's trading cities are perhaps the only faction among all the alien races that placed the entire main structure underground from the outset. It's not that other trading cities don't have underground structures; on the contrary, many established trading cities, after years of development, have underground structures that are much larger than their upper structures.
However, in the early stages of their construction, the surface structure is generally much larger than the underground structure. Swarm, which have almost no surface structure, have never appeared before.
Although Proxima Star System was the second star system the Swarm ventured into, Swarm development was not destructive. Not only does Proxima Centauri maintain a remarkably healthy ecosystem, but they have even planted trees on other geological planets. Several purplish-blue planets are quite a sight to behold.
This place has been chosen as the Swarm's official Royal Court, so the level of surveillance has naturally increased several notches. This is because the Swarm's current Overseer are extremely protective of their privacy and are not easily detected.
To prevent outsiders from mistaking the Swarm's surveillance for weakness and committing crimes impulsively, Rowan specifically developed many Overseer lacking Optical Stealth System, electromagnetic shielding systems, noise reduction systems, and other related technologies, making them a visible deterrent.
Under this comprehensive surveillance, both overt and covert, the Epoch Clan who came were very well-behaved and did not overstep any boundaries, but some intelligence was still inevitably leaked.
"Has our application to access the Zerg's internal network been approved yet?" a Ji Epoch Clan official asked aboard the Epoch Clan ship.
"No," the crew member replied succinctly.
"Damn it, this is the third time they've applied. What's their reason?" The internal network of a civilization, built and developed from scratch, is inevitably filled with a vast amount of information about that civilization. Because this information is accumulated little by little, it possesses a meticulous continuity and is very difficult to modify.
Therefore, once you access a civilization's internal network, a great deal of information about that civilization, such as its history, culture, customs, beliefs, and even its population size, density, and structure, will be exposed. Perhaps the people of that civilization themselves don't think these things are anything special, but other forces can deduce a great deal from them, and even find the civilization's weaknesses and target them.
For example, the Epoch Clan accessed the Riken Race's internal network, and in addition to what was mentioned above, they also obtained other information such as the number, location, and size of their colonies, general data on their active warships, troop combinations and their approximate numbers, distributions, and locations. It can be said that they were thoroughly exposed. They even discovered something as valuable as Life-Extending Serum.
This was also a method used by the Epoch Clan to understand emerging forces, but this approach failed against the Swarm.
"Still the same old story, they say the Swarm doesn't have an internal network." The crew member scoffed.
"Who are they trying to fool? A civilization that has developed to this level couldn't possibly be without one!" The Epoch Clan official roared in fury.
Actually, Rowan can't be blamed for this. The Swarm does have an internal network, but it's at a very high level, and only "one of their own" can access it. Rowan would welcome these Epoch Clan to join his ranks, but the conditions aren't right yet; these guys can't just disappear for too long without a reason.
Fortunately, Rowan's time here wasn't entirely fruitless, because on the Ecological Star, the Epoch Clan didn't need to wear thick spacesuits; a filter mask was sufficient. Therefore, their skin was sometimes exposed, giving the Swarm the opportunity to collect genetic samples from them.
Moreover, Proxima Centauri is just the tip of the iceberg; the main problem lies with the Riken Race. There are too many researchers there, representing at least fifty or sixty different races. Rowan has already created a small insect specifically for collecting their hair, dander, and other such items.
Besides the Swarm Network, the Swarm also has a visible internal network. However, as mentioned earlier, a civilization's internal network carries too much information. The Swarm did not have a normal development process from scratch, so it is simply impossible to create a flawless and loophole-free history.
Its initial purpose, while Rowan did indeed want to create a virtual Swarm society to cope with the current situation, was later found to be too massive and virtually impossible to complete, so it was abandoned. Later, it became Rowan's game storage center; after all, the Swarm Network doesn't provide game functionality, so it's more of a large gaming website than an intranet...
Therefore, we can't let the Epoch Clan get involved in this kind of thing, otherwise who knows what kind of jokes would be made. It's better to just say there's nothing there and be done with it.
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