章 257: Chapter 257: Developing the Dipper Constellation
"The spaceship we just passed by wasn't from the Federation."
At this moment, aboard the Kunlun, Ella spoke up.
The previous argument didn't have a clear dispute, or perhaps both sides had compromised.
For Yan Xia, arguments weren't something he couldn't accept. After all, he wasn't a dictator; he welcomed opinions that contradicted his own, but the prerequisite was that the other party could convince him. Clearly, Ella had not achieved this.
In Yan Xia's eyes, the reason Ella hadn't achieved this was because it had become too emotional and was unable to view matters from a truly rational third-party perspective.
This meant that the Ella before him was now completely like a living being.
Ella's emotional state didn't make it dislike Yan Xia; on the contrary, it was delighted that Yan Xia could argue with it on a topic. This indicated that Yan Xia no longer saw it as a machine but as a living being, even a person.
Although Yan Xia hadn't previously held any mechanical views about it, they both knew that subconsciously, Yan Xia considered Ella to be AI, and Ella also believed it was AI.
With the argument, the barrier between them disappeared.
So, the focus of their final debate shifted from the Olive Branch Civilization to this aspect of their disagreement.
Yan Xia wanted Ella to be more rigorous, but Ella enjoyed arguing with him, so it deliberately maintained its viewpoint to annoy Yan Xia.
When Yan Xia discovered the reason, he decisively stopped talking.
This incident had happened a few years ago, and naturally, their argument didn't continue.
At this time, the Kunlun was still sailing, but it had become a solitary battleship. The reason was that Yan Xia needed to strengthen the Federation in a short time and couldn't pin all his hopes on Chu.
Therefore, the Kunlun's main task on this journey was simple: find a high-mass star, build factories, and produce more battleships.
He also didn't want to put all his eggs in one basket. With the Taicang Five Star Region, Shuwei One Star Region, and the Cosmic Silk Road Star Region, the Federation needed a fourth star region.
As the speed of the battleships increased, space travel became simpler. Even a distance of 100 light-years would only take a few hundred years.
At this moment, the Kunlun was on its way to the Dipper Constellation.
As a super-massive blue supergiant, this journey was also related to the previous black hole plan. If they wanted to create a black hole, even if it would take a long time, they had to start preparing. It wasn't possible to wait until the future and have it happen in an instant.
Therefore, Yan Xia wanted to develop the Dipper Constellation and its surrounding star systems for the future black hole plan. This would also open up a route to the Orion Nebula.
The space routes also needed development. They had to clear asteroids from the routes and establish supply stations along the way, similar to building highways on land.
Due to the black hole plan, Yan Xia also intended to make this region a future core of the Federation.
The capital status of Shuwei One would remain unchanged, but Ella's main body would be moved there afterward.
Even with Shuwei One's abundant energy, it couldn't compare to the energy released by a blue supergiant or a future black hole.
Furthermore, this region was relatively far from other civilizations. It took over 800 light-years to reach the Dipper Constellation from the Federation, and the journey took more than 6,000 years. This made the Dipper Constellation an ideal refuge if the Federation and the Olive Branch Civilization went to war in the future.
However, Yan Xia hadn't expected to encounter a new civilization at the very beginning of their journey.
"Are you sure?"
Ella confirmed with certainty.
"This spaceship is very low-level. It's probably made by a civilization that has just entered the first or 1.1 level of interstellar development. Even the smallest and poorest spaceship company in the Federation wouldn't produce such low-grade trash."
The Qihang was not much inferior to Yan Xia's former flagship, the Xiwang, except for the size difference. The technological gap between them wasn't that significant.
However, this type of spaceship was now considered garbage in the Federation.
Even if you went to a junkyard in the Federation to pick up an engine, the lowest-end ones were dark energy-powered propulsion generators that could not only propel a spaceship to at least 20,000 km/s but also serve as the main power source for the spaceship's computer, giving it enough computational power to control all the ship's systems and provide superior unmanned driving, allowing excess energy to be used for weapons systems.
According to Yan Xia's observations in the Taicang Five Star Region, the Federation's explorer community had already started customizing their spaceships. Customized spaceships were everywhere, and every part could be fine-tuned. There were also spaceship junkies who scavenged parts from junkyards to assemble their own ships. There were even spaceship art exhibitions, and the best custom spaceship of the year would be recorded, with the winner receiving 100,000 energy coins.
"Then it seems like a civilization that has just entered the interstellar era."
"This place is actually a bit off the Federation's route to the Orion Nebula, so they're lucky not to have been affected by the war thousands of years ago."
Although the war only destroyed less than 30 stars, the total number of stars affected exceeded 200. Some of these stars were hit by stray shots from the war, and although these shots didn't significantly impact the stars, the resulting solar winds could raise the average temperature of a habitable planet by tens of degrees, causing a mass extinction.
Even if a level one civilization developed slowly, it should have reached at least level 0.5 thousands of years ago. Imagine if the ancient Hua Kingdom on Earth had its summer temperature rise from 35 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius, or even 60 degrees Celsius, and this lasted for several years.
"Let's not absorb them into the Federation for now and let them integrate with the Federation on their own."
"Perhaps we can select a life from them to execute the main character plan, give them a system, and accelerate their civilization's development."
The Federation's demand for lower-level civilizations was not significant. The Federation already had rich biodiversity, and adding more wouldn't make much difference unless the new civilization was a level two civilization, which could bring some changes.
A level one civilization like this would undoubtedly be overwhelmed by the Federation in the future, losing its unique identity.
But speaking of it, a level one civilization's identity doesn't serve much purpose anyway.
Yan Xia once wanted to integrate more civilizations to provide more possibilities for the Federation, but later discovered that lower civilizations had very few energy utilization methods, just a handful. Therefore, lower civilizations could only offer cultural differences and not technological advancements, so the Federation no longer had requirements for level one civilizations.
Civilizations generally had to reach level two before they could develop more diverse paths.
Yan Xia was just casually suggesting a plan for the Qihang civilization, and its future was already determined.
"How do you plan to develop the Dipper Constellation?" Ella asked. "Will you create a Dyson sphere?"
Yan Xia thought for a moment and shook his head.
"No, over there, I plan to harness gravitational energy and build a star city. Generating electricity from starlight is too limiting."
He had already made up his mind.
Although it wouldn't be a Dyson sphere, there would be a massive structure even more enormous than a Dyson sphere.
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