Delami did not know why the mechanical civilization had severed its information-sharing link. As a researcher, he did not need to know. He had not even paid attention to the news. He was a scientist in the purest sense, seeking only the highest knowledge in the halls of learning.
Perhaps that was why he still had the chance to stand here a thousand years after his death. Delami's heart and aspirations were simply too pure.
"My compatriots! From this moment on, we fight until death!"
"Science is eternal!"
"Science..."
Luo Qi was coordinating all the information in the Long Lantern Nebula Constellation from higher-dimensional space. His spatial tendrils took root throughout the entire constellation, reaching deep into the movement of every particle.
The resources within the constellation did not matter, whether they were rare metals of every kind or natural energy blocks. Its trillions upon trillions of inhabitants did not matter either. To Luo Qi, the only thing that mattered was the knowledge these civilizations had accumulated over millions of years, at the cost of countless generations and untold resources.
This vast wealth of knowledge deserved Luo Qi's undivided attention as he browsed it, and he entered all of it into his Technology Tree without reservation.
From the evolutionary history of silicon-based life to complete cellular and genetic enhancement technologies developed by carbon-based civilizations, to Photon Lifeform technology created by ascended carbon-based races-Photon Lifeforms could effortlessly control everything carbon-based lifeforms saw and perceived. There were also super-conceptual lifeforms that existed only within the subconscious minds of all living beings, and technologies for merging magnetic-field lifeforms with planetary magnetic fields...
From basic history to hypothetical concepts of ultratechnology, from individuals to collectives, from planetary surfaces to the depths of space, this immense body of knowledge unfolded journey after journey of