A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 166 The Alien Empire's Cohesion is Too Low

On the capital planet of the Dias Empire, massive, continental-sized spaceships, comparable in size to Australia, broke free from faster-than-light travel and converged on a single star system.

These are all immigrant ships of the Diaz Empire.

However, the task these immigrant ships are now undertaken is not to build new colonies, but to transport the entire population of the Dias Empire to the mother star system.

After the immigrant ship stopped traveling faster than light, a large number of Dias people poured from the inner cabins to the stands of the immigrant ship.

Among them were some Diaz people who were still in their infancy.

"Wow—! Look, it's the capital planet! We've arrived!"

"Look, look! Those are the Imperial fleet escorting the ships! They're huge and so impressive!"

The Dias children, gathered in groups at the edge of the stands, excitedly observing their empire's mother star system through binoculars.

In addition to the immigrant ships, there were also massive imperial warships that formed an escort fleet, patrolling the mother star system along fixed routes.

The warship's imposing appearance and the subtle sense of menace it exuded in its silence filled the children of Diaz with longing.

So one of the children made up his mind and said, "I've decided, I want to be a captain someday!"

"Then...then I'll be the commander-in-chief of the entire fleet, and you'll have to listen to my commands from now on," said another child beside him.

The child who wanted to be the captain clearly disliked being subordinate to others, and immediately retorted, "Hmph, you're dreaming. I won't take your orders."

"You must listen; the fleet commander is of a higher rank than you, the captain!"

"So what? I'm not listening!"

You must listen!

"No way!"

……

The group of children were chattering and making a ruckus, which gave the two caregivers who had accompanied them to the stands a real headache.

To ensure the children's safety, they must be accompanied by caregivers when they come to the stands. However, managing such a large group of unruly children with only two caregivers is quite a challenge.

One caregiver complained with a headache, "I knew they'd argue when they got together."

Seeing that her colleague didn't respond to her, the caregiver turned her head to look at her curiously.

I saw my companion also using binoculars to look at the universe outside the spaceship.

However, unlike the children who looked around aimlessly, his companion kept changing the direction of the binoculars, as if he were looking for something.

"What are you looking at?" the caregiver asked, puzzled.

His companion muttered, "That's strange, why didn't I see any of the Babel Tower bee swarm's space creatures?"

"Is there a problem?" the caregiver asked, puzzled.

The companion explained, "Time acceleration requires the space creatures of the Babel Swarm. The Empire doesn't have the technology. If the Babel Swarm creatures don't come, then gathering the population together like this is pointless."

Time acceleration requires the participation of Babel bee swarm creatures, but the Babel bee swarm creatures have not yet arrived, which means that even if the immigrant ship gathers all the Dias people, time acceleration will not be possible.

The caretaker pondered, "Perhaps they plan to come after the Empire has finished gathering."

"As the overlord civilization of the Alliance, the Babel Beehive possesses technology and power far surpassing that of the Empire. There is no reason for them to play tricks on the Empire in such a matter."

The Babel Bee Swarm is, after all, a supreme civilization with a high status within the Star Alliance; there's no need for them to fool the Dias people in this way.

"That's true."

In fact, the two caretakers were right; the bee colony was indeed waiting, and was even getting a little impatient.

"When will everyone arrive?" the planetary creature on the other end of the communicator asked.

The Imperial senator in charge of the contact wiped the cold sweat from his body, which had been seeping out of him due to nervousness, and replied, "We still need a few more spaceships; we'll have to wait a little longer."

The planetary beings asked curiously, "Why do you insist on gathering all the population for a joint acceleration? If it's just for scientific research, wouldn't it be enough to send scholars into the time acceleration zone?"

The planetary beings couldn't understand the Dias Empire's stubborn demands.

It is clear that within a swarm of bees, simply accelerating the time of a portion of the organisms could enable a civilization as a whole to achieve a significant leap in technological advancement.

The Empire of Kerdias, however, was unwilling to do so.

Their insistence on this point is that time acceleration must be achieved by the entire Dias civilization, and no one can remain in the unaccelerated timeline.

This approach can indeed lead to greater technological advancements for the entire civilization, as it accelerates progress across the entire civilization. The scale of this process dictates that this model will inevitably result in more and faster progress than accelerating only a portion of the Diaz people.

However, there is a drawback to this approach, namely, the availability of material resources.

When an entire civilization is in a state of accelerated time, moving forward at great speed, the material needs of its vicinity will inevitably increase exponentially.

Imperial councilors explained to the planetary beings their reasons for insisting on this.

"The difference in the flow of time inside and outside will inevitably lead to a division in civilization."

"Not every race can be as united and determined as your Babel bee swarm, even if they are different in terms of genes, culture, and values, they can still gain mutual recognition."

"We Diaz people, even within one or two generations, have already lost the ability to understand each other and maintain cohesion."

"The older generation will belittle the new generation of Diaz people, calling them a lost generation or a rotten generation, while the new generation will think that the older generation of Diaz people are stubborn, conservative, and incomprehensible."

"With a time difference of 10,000 years, even if there is no reproductive isolation between populations, the Diaz people who have experienced 10,000 years more are unlikely to be willing to regard the Diaz people who have not experienced 10,000 years more as their own."

"Therefore, if we want to accelerate time, we can only do so if everyone experiences the accelerated time together."

"Only in this way can we guarantee the integrity of our Dias civilization."

In order to prevent a major fragmentation of civilization, an empire must never adopt a method of advanced civilization driving backward civilization to achieve the innovation and change of the entire civilization.

We must make progress as a whole, leaving no Diaz person behind.

Only in this way can the stable progress of the entire civilization be guaranteed.

The planetary creature listened with little interest, and finally gave its assessment: "You guys are really troublesome."

Indeed, from the perspective of the bee colony, this matter was clearly something that could be solved very simply, but the Diaz people made it so complicated.

A divide between civilizations?

Why not just let the advanced group wipe out the backward group?

Once the backward group is wiped out, and the entire civilization is left with only the advanced Dias people who have experienced ten thousand years, how could there be a civilizational breakup?

Therefore, in this matter, the planetary beings felt that the Dias people's intelligence was not very high, at least not as high as theirs.

"Hmm... Regarding material matters, you expect our swarm to provide an unlimited supply, right?" the planetary creature asked uncertainly.

"Yes, please make sure to ensure a sufficient supply of materials, otherwise, with the time acceleration, we may face destruction due to the drastic reduction in available resources," the Imperial Councilor hurriedly replied.

Different time flow rates present significant problems. For example, in a time-accelerated state, the Empire requests material resources from the Babel bees, but the Babel bees, which are not in a time-accelerated state, will only react after a hundred years due to the different time flow rates, and will only begin transporting material resources two hundred years later. How can the Dias Empire withstand this?

The development of civilization requires material resources. Once these resources are exhausted, no matter how much time is accelerated, it will be impossible for civilization to achieve technological progress.

Sensing the concern in the Imperial senator's words, the planetary being reassured him, "It's not that serious, we'll keep an eye on it."

"Since you have made this request, the swarm will send the observation individuals into the time acceleration zone to experience ten thousand years with you. If there are any problems, the swarm will know immediately."

In fact, it is somewhat similar to the Civilization Farm. Even without the concerns of the Imperial Councilors, the swarm will send out a large number of microorganisms to monitor the actions of the Dias Empire in the Time Acceleration Zone.

Besides using the Dias Empire as a technological battery, the purpose was also to ensure the survival of the Dias race.

After all, this time acceleration is the reward that the swarm is giving to the satellite civilization. If the satellite civilization that accepts the reward perishes in the time acceleration zone, wouldn't the swarm be in a very awkward position in the future?

For example, if a swarm of bees asks satellite civilizations to do certain things, these satellite civilizations will still be anxiously worried that the rewards given to them by the swarm might lead to the destruction of their civilization.

Therefore, for this reason, the swarm will never allow the Dias Empire to self-destruct under accelerated time.

If the Dias civilization is destined to perish, it can only do so after the time acceleration ends, not during the time acceleration itself.

After waiting for about an hour, all the immigrant ships of the Dias Empire finally gathered in their home star system. At the same time, a large number of active combat fleets were converted into temporary escort fleets to patrol the home star system.

One after another, phantom images of planetary creatures appeared outside the mother star system of the Dias Empire, at a distance of about one light-year from the star.

They were extremely large, forming an array of spheres with a radius of one light-year, which enveloped the entire mother star system of the Dias Empire.

The sheer number and dense arrangement of these stars caused a sudden decrease in the electromagnetic waves they emitted to other star systems.

The entire sphere, with a diameter of two light-years, looks like a gigantic Dyson sphere when viewed from a distance.

Finally, Lu Shang issued the order: "Initiate time acceleration!"

……

The vast and boundless ocean of the universe is mostly nothingness, nothingness in the absolute sense, and secondly, the universe, a universe of all kinds with different physical rules.

The destruction and birth of the universe are not very common.

A large group of cosmic beings, whose bodies are made of microcosmic spacetime, crossed meaningless distances beyond the universe and arrived at their destination.

Through a series of coordinate shifts, these cosmic beings eventually achieved barrier alignment with the larger universe they were destined for.

However, this is still not enough to achieve a fixed effect.

Cosmic beings flattened their spacetime, and this flattened structure continued to extend until it came into contact with their kind in other parts of the larger universe.

When the outer membranes of the barriers of two cosmic beings come into contact, the planetary beings inside them use psionic energy to change the shape of the barriers, causing them to interlock, thus allowing the cosmic beings to rely on each other and firmly attach themselves to the outside of the greater universe.

To put it simply, it's a bunch of perfectly smooth pieces of cloth connected to each other, and then a perfectly smooth sphere is wrapped inside them.

Even without friction, the cloth can adhere to the outside of the sphere.

"Attachment complete."

Lu Shang received a report from extraterrestrial beings.

Lu Shang nodded and then said, "According to the original plan, we will first test the physical rules. After the physical rules are determined, we will begin to dominate this universe from the outside in."

This is a cosmic invasion, and also an experiment in a new swarm strategy.

According to the swarm's plan, the cosmic beings will cover a large universe, and then use their natural advantage of being outside the universe to directly interfere with matter inside the universe from outside.

In this way, the swarm will not need to worry about situations where the physical rules of the universe are too extreme, and its combat mode can be more free and more diversified.

"Okay," the cosmic beings responded.

(End of this chapter)