Chapter 618: Bugs and Fire
Mars orbit.
A huge space station is operating in this void.
The space station was deployed by the Homo Sapiens company at the end of last year. It is called the Space Observatory. Currently, there are 12 of them deployed in the orbit around Mars.
Since the flight direction and speed of this space observatory are basically consistent with Mars, they do not need to worry about encountering Mars.
These observatories are similar to the Space Reconnaissance Department that was established just last year and use the most advanced technology currently available to Sapiens.
The observation targets of these observatories are the planetary systems within a radius of 100 light years near the solar system, as well as the void within a radius of 10 light years of the solar system.
Targets beyond 100 light years are not within the observation range.
As the temporary head of the Space Reconnaissance Department, Hill determined a reconnaissance scope when the department was first established.
The only civilization that poses a threat to the Homo sapiens company is a level one civilization.
The weaklings below level one can’t even leave their home planet, and have no way to threaten the Homo Sapiens company;
The second-level civilization must master the technology of faster-than-light travel or space jump. They disdain to attack the first-level civilization. If Homo sapiens really encounters the second-level civilization and the other party still has malicious intentions towards Homo sapiens, then Homo sapiens will most likely be unable to fight back.
Of course, this does not mean that Homo sapiens will definitely be destroyed by the second-level civilization.
Because Li Qingye has been organizing professionals to secretly study how to use the smallest carrier to preserve the spark of human civilization.
Level 2 civilizations also have their limits. At least they have no way to lock onto and monitor the entire solar system in an instant. This is a technological level that only level 3 civilizations can possess.
Superluminal navigation, superluminal communication, space jumps, and mastering cosmic genetic runes are the iconic technologies of the second-level civilization.
However, a Level II civilization cannot use superluminal technology to scan the entire solar system, especially ultra-small celestial bodies and cellular-level individuals. It is difficult to lock them all in a short period of time .
To a level-two civilization, Homo sapiens is nothing but a bug, but a bug is difficult to be completely eradicated.
Unless the entire solar system is completely wrapped up and then directly compressed, allowing all the matter in the solar system to fall into the sun, human civilization in the solar system can be completely destroyed.
Although a second-level civilization would not be so boring, human hearts are unpredictable, and no one knows whether they will encounter a second-level civilization with malicious intent.
Therefore, Li Qingye plans to make more preparations, such as spreading the seeds of human civilization to other planetary systems.
As long as the Homo Sapiens Company can spread the seeds of human civilization, the security of human civilization will be higher.
It's like a colony of insects. If their habitat is a small isolated island, and human civilization tests nuclear weapons on this island one day, their entire colony will be completely destroyed in the nuclear explosion.
This destruction was not because the second-level civilization maliciously wanted to destroy the first-level civilization, but because the other party was just testing weapons, or mining or construction.
The first-level civilization is to the second-level civilization as ordinary animals are to humans. In the process of development, humans have inadvertently exterminated many animals and plants.
But what if these bugs were all over the Earth? Or even all over the solar system, all over the Milky Way?
It is impossible for a second-level civilization to completely destroy the entire galaxy in order to kill insects.
In order to survive, humans must learn from insects.
Among the research topics organized by Li Qingye is one on how to spread the seeds of civilization.
For example, use a basketball-sized spacecraft and disguise it as an asteroid wandering in interstellar space. As long as this spacecraft can enter a planetary system, the spark of civilization will soon take root in that planetary system.
As for whether the spark of civilization will be captured by other civilizations, there is no need to worry about this issue.
Because the spark of civilization itself has an intelligent assistance system, which contains special programs to deal with this aspect.
Unless an alien civilization has a way to analyze the information contained in the spark of civilization in an instant when it discovers the spark of civilization, there is no way they can obtain the information contained therein.
The spark of civilization itself has various means of detection. Once it detects that the technological level of an alien civilization has reached the level of human civilization in the early 21st century, the spark of civilization will automatically start the genetic disintegration program, completely turning the spark of civilization into a pile of useless waste.
In fact, this kind of program also exists in the secondary brain.
Therefore, there is no possibility that the new humans will be captured by alien civilizations, or that after being abducted, intelligence and genetic information can be obtained from the captives.
Even if a person is knocked unconscious for a moment and a large dose of anesthetic is used, there is no way to stop the self-destruction program of the secondary brain.
As long as this happens, the captured new humans will self-destruct, and this destruction will be at the genetic level.
Even if the captives are cut into pieces, the cells will self-destruct. The symbiotic organelles hidden in human cells have this function in the current third-generation version.
Secretly drawing blood or secretly collecting body cells is also useless.
After Sapiens successfully mastered the technology of artificial blood, the new generation of symbiotic organelles were programmed to self-disintegrate in vitro.
In other words, the new human's blood and body tissues will disintegrate at the genetic level once they leave the body.
Since they plan to load all the technical data into the genetic information database, Sapiens will definitely take precautionary measures.
Currently, the Civilization Spark Project is being tested in secret.
The testing site is several satellites of Saturn.
With the destruction of human civilization as the backdrop, Sapiens will launch the spark of civilization to three selected satellites of Saturn, and try to use the spark of civilization to establish a sub-civilization on the satellites of Saturn.
Of course, this is just a simulation experiment, and it does not mean that humans will be created using the fire of civilization .
Although the spark of civilization can indeed create humans.
But this kind of experimental creation of humans violates scientific ethics.
The spark of civilization can create humans by itself because it is itself a cell aggregate containing various functional cells.
For example, production cells such as photosynthetic cells, geothermal temperature difference cells, mining cells, and material synthesis cells;
Fighter cells such as toxin cells, electric shock cells, and corrosion cells;
Reconnaissance cells such as pheromone cells, magnetic field cells, gravity sensing cells, and electromagnetic sensing cells;
There are also the most core accessory brain cells, reproduction cells, and nanny cells.
Even if the spark of civilization is only the size of a basketball, as long as it can take root safely and there is no alien civilization around, the spark of civilization can quickly recreate human civilization.
Test experiments on Saturn's satellites are carried out in secret.
The Space Reconnaissance Department's monitoring of the planetary systems around the solar system has also become increasingly strict.
Especially the six-clawed giant star closest to the solar system, and the Proxima Centauri system.
Judging from the current reconnaissance data, no obvious signs of civilization activity have been found in the Proxima Centauri planetary system.
Therefore, the Sapiens company plans to launch a civilization spark into the Proxima system as soon as the testing of the civilization spark is completed, allowing the civilization spark to develop secretly in the Proxima system.
This is equivalent to making a backup.
In the future, there will be more and more such backups, until human civilization spreads throughout the Milky Way and even the entire universe.
As long as it can cover the entire universe, even a level three civilization will not be able to exterminate human civilization.
