Everyone: Are mechanics weak? I wake up and rectify the natural disaster

The extremely outrageous 'ultra-long battery life plus pro version' hyperspace storm blocked all channels in the entire star field.

The ancient Haijin civilization was instantly destroyed.

Today's modern Haijin civilization no longer remembers what happened when the hyperspace storm first appeared.

But I can figure it out with my toes,

The final disappearance of the 'Confederation of Stars' is absolutely inseparable from this hyperspace storm that lasted for thousands of years.

Without the means of FTL navigation, even a super civilization will have to shed a layer of skin.

...Besides, we still don’t know whether this is a real super civilization.

Although I have no impression of the era when the storm originated.

But today's more than fifty forces from various parties have no idea what happened more than 10,000 years ago.

The memories of those times when storms were still raging are still fresh in my mind.

Star systems one after another were completely blocked.

The terrifying hyperspace turbulence destroyed any fool who tried to jump into it.

Traffic is cut off;

Transportation terminated.

lack of resources;

All industries are in ruins.

Civilizations with extremely limited material resources,

Struggling desperately amid devastating natural disasters.

Trapped in the material universe, even the nearby Proxima Galaxy becomes out of reach.

A journey that can take several years, ten years, or even hundreds of years to arrive.

This makes any attempt to obtain resources from outside the system and supplement itself become futile.

In this dark age.

Each of the forces trapped in the galaxy of origin, or even trapped on the home planet, was eventually cut off from transportation and embarked on their own independent development path.

So much so that even during the 'Confederation of Stars' period, they all originated from the same civilization.

But it was because of this abnormal giant storm that blocked everything that they finally developed into completely different forms from each other.

It's like the Emperor Zhou enfeoffing the concubines.

Even though they come from the same source.

But after establishing feudal states in various places in Kyushu,

Due to the high mountains and long distances, and the changes over time, they eventually became 'strangers with the same ancestors'.

The evolution process of the existing civilization in the Haijin Star Region is similar to this.

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the era of the Confederation of Stars,

That highly developed unified civilization has been fully developed everywhere within the national territory.

But just like Su Wen.

A truly advanced civilization will not engage in unified development.

Different star systems often emphasize professionalism.

For example, galaxies rich in ores specialize in heavy industry;

In galaxies with living planets, that is naturally the food industry and other organic industries;

And if it is a star system with many gas giant planets, it is naturally the energy industry.

As for those in the heart of the empire,

Because it was developed early, the core galaxy has entered a period of scarce resources.

Then we can also abandon resource-oriented industries and develop industries such as shipbuilding, military industry, electronics, and even economic and trade.

Through good transportation conditions and superior resource circulation,

Integrate a large number of upstream and downstream industries to produce various complex products.

...The specialized development of different star systems will help the empire to spread out an industrial territory with orderly cooperation and uniformity.

However, professionalism often means that the local industry categories are single.

Without independent circulation ability, it cannot be self-sufficient.

It is necessary to rely on material turnover with the outside world to maintain the operation of local industries.

In the era when the Federation of Stars still existed, this was certainly not a problem.

But when the Federation of Stars suddenly collapsed and the storm hit.

This becomes the fatal weakness:

After losing external materials, many star systems became hell on earth in an instant.

——The first problem that arises is lack of food.

Mechanical intelligence, silicon-based life, metal life...

Relatively speaking, they are relatively rare in the material universe.

Most of the intelligent races in the endless sea of ​​stars are carbon-based creatures.

And for them, food needs are essential.

Exactly.

In the era of unified civilization, many specialized production galaxies were established.

There is no large-scale grain industry at all.

Whether it is the relatively cost-effective 'greenhouse intensive hydroponics' or the simplest and crudest 'mechanized plantation'.

The space occupied is not much smaller.

What's more, there are also a series of environmental needs and supporting facilities...

On two pieces of land of the same area, a greenhouse agricultural area and a heavy industrial area will be built respectively.

The food produced by the former will never be able to supply the food needs of the latter.

——Even in the interstellar age, it is difficult to solve the conflict between the needs of industry and agriculture.

Usually, we rely on specialized division of labor to maximize the production capacity of grain production balls.

Then transfer it to supply those industrial balls that produce almost no food.

And this way...

When disaster strikes, all non-agricultural systems such as industry, technology, and commerce in the Haijin Star Territory will almost immediately run out of food.

The word famine, even in the interstellar age, is very scary.

Massive fleeing and widespread famine led to the demise of those forces that had inherited the precious scientific research power and industrial production capacity of the Federation of Stars.

Only a few survived.

The agricultural galaxy with its food-producing spheres did not run out of food.

But they have no conditions to develop industry, no foundation, and have lost external transportation.

It is inevitable that in the long storm, it will slowly evolve into a 'pre-interstellar civilization' with almost no deep space navigation capabilities...

This is,

The most terrifying memory in the history of all civilizations in the Haijin Star Region.

That is what is called...

'The Age of Collapse'.

..

Resources.

The demand for resources will always be an eternal noose around the necks of all civilizations.

When civilization continues to expand externally, leading to internal prosperity and prosperity.

It has almost no presence.

But once the pace of external expansion stopped.

It will show terrifying power.

These unlucky guys were choked until they were breathless and almost suffocated.

Most civilizations

The reason is that as soon as they entered the star field and became an interstellar civilization, they rushed to expand and colonize the world.

Those are all real needs.

Not every civilization is like Blue Star.

With the solar system as its extremely fertile origin galaxy.

Four solid states, four gas states, and an asteroid belt.

There are also a large number of countless small celestial bodies, including various asteroids, satellites, dwarf planets, comets and the like.

Although many of them are highly dangerous, the level of rich ore is also not low.

By the standards of the interstellar era, this kind of origin galaxy can be called Tianhu's start.

Even Su Wen.

His 'origin galaxy', the central galaxy of the Suzheng Alliance Empire, actually only has three balls.

Even only Planet No. 2, the Reach Star, has a relatively high value.

Other molten volcanic planets and low-temperature gas giant planets are almost the same as waste balls.

However...

From the overall proportion,

Such a start, in all interstellar civilizations in the universe,

Just being able to do so would be considered 'lower than average'.

This shows how rare it is to have an origin galaxy with "rich reserves of various resources and a complete range of categories".

usually.

It's either a lack of minerals or a lack of food.

There is no shortage of minerals or grain, but there will be a shortage of construction land.

...In fact, if there is no shortage of planet land, it is impossible that there is no shortage of strategic resources, right?

If you want to develop civilization levels in all aspects, you will definitely fall into the vicious circle of "the more you use it, the poorer it becomes, and the more you expand it, the more you lack it" like Su Wen did.

Every day when I open my eyes and come to the head of state's office, after finishing a round of daily briefings, my first thought is that there are only two things missing - 'this is missing, and that is missing'.

There's no way around it, that's the objective fact.

Anyway, it can’t be smooth sailing, and you can’t really get everything you want.

If it really means 'having everything you want and lacking nothing', it probably means that this civilization has entered a detour and a dead end.

After all, only players who develop lamely will feel that they have no needs.

Just like those funny Gaelin elves in Tianyuan Star Territory.

He had been lying in his infancy for thirty thousand years, but he had not built even a single spaceship or a single starship main gun.

All the time was spent on renovating literary and artistic works and building spiritual civilization.

The Gaerlings also felt very wealthy.

But what about the actual situation?

——If the development is wrong, or there is no development at all, then of course there will be no demand.

Therefore, "objectively having abundant resources" is a good thing. At the very least, it is the result of the courage of all civilizations to fight and work hard. Only investment will reward you.

But without daring to do anything, just "subjectively feeling rich" is often a fatal illusion and can lead to disaster.

...Anyway.

For interstellar civilization.

As long as development is ongoing, resource requirements will never be enough.

In this case, even if you don’t want to expand, that won’t work.

The problem is, how can we expand when the storm is standing in front of us?

The inability to expand is equivalent to slow death for them.

..

It's time for the storm to pass.

In the entire star field, those star systems that were developed by the Federation of Stars in the past,

Basically, most of them were suffocated to death.

It’s not that they were imprisoned until the population plummeted, and they fled and became homeless.

It is because of the lack of foundations in industry, technology, etc. that it slowly declined and became a pre-interstellar civilization.

Tens of thousands of years of lost time are enough for civilization to fall into decline and become primitive.

Not to mention, let every technological field that was once mastered extremely purely,

Completely disappeared from their knowledge system.

...However.

Even if the storm ends.

The suffering of the Haijin people is far from over:

Just when they were struggling out of their misery and trying to rebuild their country...

——The omnic crisis broke out.