Chapter 709 Fatal Distance
Galaxy 23325.
More than a thousand years have passed since the attack of human civilization arrived at the Perseus Arm.
The Perseus Silicon Clan not only failed to successfully fight back against human civilization, but was instead caught up in an endless war.
In the joint command center of the humans in Perseus, officers from various groups who came through synchronous communications were looking at the huge holographic projection star map.
This star map is exactly the power distribution map of the Ceres Arm at this time.
Although the Perseus Arm is the home base of the Silicon Clan, a large piece of it was still bitten off by human civilization.
Judging from the distribution of forces on the star map.
The side of the Perseus Arm close to the Orion Arm looks like it has been eaten by insects with 11 large holes in it.
Each hole is like a huge bowl , with a radius of about 600 to 700 light years.
Three of the occupied areas have now been connected together to form a whole.
At this time, the Silicon tribes of the Perseus close to the front line finally learned that human civilization was invading the Perseus Arm, but unfortunately they found out too late.
Now humans in Perseus have established a firm foothold there. Once the Silicon Clan's planetary system is occupied by human civilization, it will be basically impossible to take it back.
The more serious problem is that due to the silicon family's communication technology, light-speed communication is too slow within the star system. Communication delays of hundreds or thousands of light years make a lot of information lose its timeliness.
Now, only some tribes close to the front line of the Perseus Silicon Clan know about the enemy invasion, while other tribes that are farther away only know that they were ambushed by an unknown enemy.
Even some Silicon tribes in the outer area of the Perseus Arm have not been hit by human neutron shells.
This is the huge limitation of light-speed communication in the era of the star system.
Human civilization is undoubtedly lucky.
Just after entering the first-level civilization stage, the synchronous communication technology was developed by accident. This communication technology allows human civilization to avoid many dangers and obtain real-time intelligence over long distances.
Even a civilization as powerful as the Silicon Clan has no way to avoid communication delays, which is the fundamental reason why the Silicon Clan civilization developed into isolated tribes.
Even though human civilization has separated out a large number of subsidiaries, these subsidiaries are still not completely independent.
Synchronous communication has ensured a certain degree of solidarity within human civilization, especially the science and culture exchange conference held every 10 years, which has prevented the technological development of human civilization from declining as quickly as other first-level civilizations.
This is another problem that human civilization discovered after a series of observations and studies.
In the process of civilization development, it is actually a very difficult thing to maintain the internal speed of scientific and technological development.
There are many "wrong paths" and "traps" hidden in this. In the absence of other civilizations to refer to, maintaining rapid technological development is as difficult as achieving immortality.
In the view of scholars in think tanks of human civilization, there are many factors that restrict the technological development of a civilization.
These include: the way races learn, cultural habits, individual personalities, social operating models, and the recently discovered speed of transportation and communication.
In other aspects, the silicon civilization is actually very similar to human civilization.
Even though they are information creatures, they have long realized that the superindividual model is a dead end, and they abandoned the superindividual model a long time ago, forming independent individuals with various personalities.
However, the technological development speed of the silicon civilization is not much faster than that of the intelligent machine civilization. The silicon civilization, which has developed for 7.66 million Earth years, is still not as technologically advanced as human civilization. What's the problem?
Ultimately, it comes down to limitations in communications and transportation.
This is also the reason why human civilization previously separated out a large number of subsidiaries.
Due to transportation constraints, the maximum resource utilization radius of a first-level civilization that is unable to travel faster than the speed of light will not exceed 10 light years.
In this case, without setting up subsidiaries or splitting off semi-independent tribes, a first-level civilization would not be able to manage colonies more than 10 light years away.
It is difficult to even manage, let alone utilize the colonies' minerals, energy, and talents.
After all, as the distance increases, the time interval between communication between the two sides becomes longer and longer.
Taking the case of the Silicon Civilization in the Perseus Arm as an example, their tribes on the inner and outer sides of the arm are about 17,000 light-years away.
Even with the speed of light, a round trip would take 34,000 years.
Moreover, it is difficult for light-speed communication to maintain information density over long distances.
The information technology of the Silicon Clan civilization is certainly unique, but it can only guarantee the integrity of high-density communications within 5,000 light years.
A single communication takes a long time.
Even if the various tribes of the Silicon Clan united, there was no way to achieve talent sharing and rapid technological exchange.
This restriction further resulted in each tribe having to rely on its own scientific research and being unable to work together.
Human civilization uses synchronous communication technology to allow each subsidiary to focus on only a few scientific research fields, and other fields are left to sister companies to complete. When the time comes, everyone can communicate at the exchange conference and quickly make up for other shortcomings.
In this way, the talent and technology within human civilization can work together.
The various tribes of the Silicon Civilization are limited by communication technology and certainly have no way of competing with human civilization in terms of scientific research speed.
Even though the current territory of human civilization is less than 30% of that of the silicon civilization, in fact, the total strength that both sides can mobilize in the war zone is at least a hundred times that of the silicon civilization.
The differences between communication technology and transportation technology have led to a reversal of advantages between the two in local areas and specific time periods.
It's like the Silicon Civilization has 10,000 soldiers, while the Human Civilization has only 3,000 soldiers.
During the war, the human side was composed entirely of heavily armored cavalry, and was equipped with walkie-talkies and telescopes; the silicon tribe were all infantry, and communication depended entirely on shouting.
When the war broke out, the Silicon Clan was still stationed in various small towns. Even if the human cavalry did not attack in full force, during local battles, hundreds of cavalrymen would fight against dozens of infantrymen.
In this case, how can the Silicon Clan arrive?
This is simply an unsolvable dead end.
Unless the silicon civilization suddenly explodes and acquires superluminal communication or superluminal navigation technology in a short period of time, its fate will be to be swallowed up bit by bit by human civilization.
The war has reached this stage . Unless there are any accidents, it is basically a foregone conclusion that human civilization will annihilate the Perseus Silicon Clan.
However, human civilization has not taken it lightly and is still preparing various backup plans.
