Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 602 - 598 Curvature Non-Proliferation Treaty (2 in 1)

Chapter 602: Chapter 598 Curvature Non-Proliferation Treaty (2 in 1)

After a while, Catalanpus-3 sent over some more data: "This is the price list from over the years. Since the trading market is about to dissolve, prices are constantly changing, making most of the materials inexpensive, while military resources are becoming expensive."

Zhang Yuan’s mind raced. Were various military resources becoming expensive?

"These are the conventional technologies, including the general technologies required by Fourth-level Civilizations. You can buy directly from the trading market, the prices are slightly higher, but the quality is guaranteed; you can also purchase from other civilizations through the interstellar trading market as the intermediary platform, our civilization will only charge some processing fees..."

"You can also sell technologies to other civilizations and the interstellar trading market to acquire Amoeba Points. Ji Haman Civilization is a Level 5 Civilization. If you possess technologies that this civilization has not mastered, you can earn high rewards."

People had 1500 points in their hands, not too many, nor too few, barely enough to afford some of the Fourth-level Civilization’s technologies.

"We could sell New Civilization History!" exclaimed a young scientist with a sudden inspiration.

People were prepared in this respect; originally, selling an academic knowledge worth one to two thousand points, selling it again here would also be lucrative.

After some organization, people transmitted some of the New Civilization History data, asking the other party for an assessment.

"Sorry, we already possess this information."

Zhang Yuan thought carefully and realized that the technologies of the entire Amoeba Faction were probably interconnected. Since humans had already sold these technologies in another market, it was not possible to sell them again in this market.

Of course, humans could sell the New Civilization History to other Fourth-level Civilizations who were still unaware.

However, the discipline of New Civilization History, while sometimes effective, was largely useless for most civilizations. For any civilization, actions are often more critical and challenging than theories.

Each civilization has significantly different social structures, ideologies, and cultural histories; blindly copying humans is only a dead-end. Thus, some discerning civilizations recognized its importance and thought it was a good discipline, while more ignorant civilizations considered it impractical, likening it to building castles in the air and hard to sell at a good price.

Zhang Yuan said, "After selling this knowledge, it won’t cause much harm to us, but it wouldn’t be appropriate to sell it cheaply and make it too common."

"Yes," replied the assistant.

"So let’s do it this way..."

The Foreign Minister Old Yang pondered for a while and said, "The most valuable technology we can sell is Extra Perception. Let’s try to sell that to the aliens."

A genuine Extra Perception ranged from ten thousand to seven or eight thousand Amoeba Points. For this, the Tos Civilization almost had their foundations stripped clean by humans.

Though they only paid 1500 points, they had handed over most of their core technologies to humans and were quite elated about it.

Thus, after consuming the Tos Civilization’s technological heritage accumulated over tens of thousands of years, the foundation of New Human Civilization suddenly rose, and they no longer needed technologies from other Third-level Civilizations.

And Old Yang wanted to try his old trick again, looking for more unwitting targets.

To earn ten thousand points at a time, that’s truly a Fourth-level Civilization!

With over 1800 star civilizations in this region, are there not species similar to the Tos Civilization?

Everyone looked to Zhang Yuan, as this decision still relied on his judgment.

Zhang Yuan waved his hand and said with a wry smile, "Mr. Yang, you are oversimplifying this matter; don’t be too optimistic just yet. Each civilization has a completely different brain structure. Developing Extra Perception every time is like starting from scratch; there’s no guarantee of success."

"Of course, we have trained a group of excellent talents and accumulated a lot of experience. As long as the brain is not extremely strange, it should be manageable in forty to fifty years. Oh, and one more thing, the civilization must possess strong programmable auxiliary brain technology; otherwise, we cannot do the modifications..."

"Most importantly, the civilization must completely trust us and provide enough biological samples, especially handing over their brain modification technology completely to us."

"We also have to bear the risk of using Virtual World Technology... if used too frequently, there’s also the risk of exposure."

"If you can settle all these, then we should have no problem on our side."

Old Yang furrowed his brows; these were big problems.

Eventually, he clapped his hands and said, "Don’t worry about it; we’ll keep it measured and won’t make too much noise. If it really doesn’t work out, we can also sell some of the academic papers on this technology. Just the papers on forming extra colors in the brain are already quite good."

"Anything related to intelligence is extremely expensive; we won’t have trouble finding buyers..."

"My biggest concern is that the trading market will relocate in 20 years. Do we have enough time?"

"No, no, you need to worry about something else!" an expert in the security field voiced a significant disagreement: "The frequent selling of such papers could impact the safety of human civilization itself. You must understand, Extra Perception counts as our unique technology, even some old Fourth-level Civilizations can’t compare to us."

"Even aside from the Virtual World, it will also provoke the desire of other civilizations."

"We are already a Fourth-level Civilization ourselves; what is there to fear?!"

During this conversation, the territory belonging to New Human Civilization arrived, just a bare metallic plain without any buildings.

The spaceship that humans were on could only serve as a temporary embassy.

Zhang Yuan couldn’t help but remark, "Later, we’ll need to transport some construction machines from our main base in the rear and establish a truly grand embassy."

"I’ll notify them right away."

However, just within the first hour of establishing the New Human Civilization embassy, an Alien Civilization came knocking directly!

It was an organization called "Milky Way Curvature Technology Standardization Organization," whose main goal was to sign a Curvature Technology Non-Proliferation Treaty with New Human Civilization.

"Hello, young New Human Civilization, welcome to the hall of Fourth-level Civilizations. Let me first introduce ourselves; we come from the Quadrilateral Civilization, a member of the main research organization for Curvature Technology in the Milky Way, a civilization with a history of two hundred thousand years."

"This organization’s main research focus is on Curvature Technology and various Space Technologies, and it’s about signing a Curvature Technology Non-Proliferation Treaty among each other."

The alien from the quadrilateral civilization looked like a dark rock, about four to five meters tall.

It didn’t enter the human embassy; instead, it stayed in its own spaceship and communicated with humans through electromagnetic waves.

"Non-proliferation treaty?" Zhang Yuan’s expression changed as he recalled some incidents from when he was at the Huantai Civilization Trading Market.

Seeing the confusion of the humans, the rock creature continued, "As you know, the biggest difference between a Fourth-level Civilization and a Third-level Civilization is the Curvature Technology, which brings a revolutionary qualitative change in both military and transportation."

"Our covenant organization was established millions of years ago by a Level 5 Civilization. Its purpose is not to prevent Third-level Civilizations from acquiring Curvature Technology; rather, it aims to promote the peaceful development of the Milky Way. We just hope that Fourth-level Civilizations will not simply hand the technology directly to them."

"Directly giving away Curvature Technology makes little sense and can lead to chaos in the Milky Way, sparking various conflicts."

The reasons behind this are very complex; firstly, it’s important to ensure the superiority of Fourth-level Civilizations, and secondly, to ensure the stability of the situation in the Milky Way.

For Fourth-level Civilizations, escaping is too easy. If this technology became commonplace, the situation in the Milky Way would become extremely unstable.

"Only a Level 5 Civilization has targeted Superluminal Communication and enough strength to blockade a space. Even Fourth-level Civilizations struggle with warp pursuit."

"Think about it. Once technology is widely disseminated, what would Level 1 Civilizations and Second-level Civilizations think if they could also possess it?"

"Their other technologies are poor, but possessing warp speed, would they risk plundering other civilizations to rapidly advance? Attacking is always simpler than defending; Level 1 Civilization nuclear weapons can still damage our spaceships, which I think you are aware of."

"If the state of the Milky Way becomes highly chaotic, how can the interstellar trading market continue?"

"Exchanges between civilizations will also become more difficult, not simpler. Any true Fourth-level Civilization, with tens of thousands of years of development and long historical experience, understands its challenges, but does a Level 1 Civilization? They wouldn’t know it, nor would they likely have such history."

"Some civilizations haven’t even unified the nations within their own planets and are still in a state of dictatorship."

"There was a galaxy where warp speed was widely disseminated, leading to large-scale wars, creating masses of enslavement and enslaved beings. Those remote, planet-bound native civilizations could never develop."

"This is yet another form of injustice."

Zhang Yuan had to admit that the rock creature had a point... But it felt odd, are higher-level civilizations inherently more moral, and lower-level ones not?

In a nutshell, it’s all about maintaining one’s own advantage.

The rock creature added, "Our treaty specifies... any clue about Curvature Technology is worth ten thousand AmiBa Points, and complete Curvature Technology is worth one hundred thousand points, which is the standard price set by our organization. You just need to avoid undervaluing it, disturbing the market price."

After signing the relevant treaties, the organization would offer some knowledge about curvature for free, though it would not be anything particularly profound—just the common basics. However, for humans just reaching Fourth-level Civilization, it would still be considered valuable knowledge.

On the other hand, if humans wanted to access higher levels of Space Technology, buying within this organization would also be cheaper.

"We still have one more question..."

A human diplomat seemed to have thought of something and asked, "What kind of punishment will we face if we break this agreement and teach this technology to other civilizations?"

The rock creature said meaningfully, "If you secretly violate it without any other civilization knowing, there would be no punishment..."

"But if other civilizations find out about it, you might lose other civilizations’ friendship... and all trading markets of the Amoeba Faction would deduct points from your civilization’s commercial reputation."

"However, even if you broke the relevant treaty, we don’t have the coercive power to threaten your life, so rest assured."

So that was it, Zhang Yuan nodded. This treaty might just be something created by the Amoeba Faction.

After discussing for a while, it was generally agreed that since Curvature Technology was the core technology of New Human Civilization, it couldn’t be recklessly handed over to Low-level Civilizations. Since most Fourth-level Civilizations signed the treaty without many side effects, there was nothing much to avoid.

The other side said, "Please inform us of the exact reasons for obtaining Curvature Technology, just state it simply once. We need to track and understand any civilization’s approximate source of warp speed."

People described the collision of two neutron stars, about four hundred light years away. To avoid trouble, they also mentioned having an ally although they didn’t name the Tos Civilization.

The other side seemed to suddenly understand, "I see, we observed that neutron star collision. According to previous data, it was indeed triggered prematurely! Now I can complete my task."

As the alien spaceship was about to slowly leave, people quickly stopped him. Since this creature seemed rather lively, unlike the cold Ji Haman Civilization’s big bugs, it might be good to ask more questions.

"This... Your Excellency, we have a few more questions to ask. Do you have time?"

After pondering for a while, the rock creature responded, "Oh, my time is very limited... What else does your civilization want to inquire about?"

"About the owner of the Dyson Sphere, the Tabi Civilization. It must be a very powerful civilization. We are interested in the spaceship of the Dyson Sphere’s owner... What do you know?"

The other side immediately replied, "We don’t know much about the Tabi Civilization, as it has been long missing. The last affiliated civilization of the Tabi vanished a hundred and fifty thousand years ago. In the A-1 area, there’s an artificial intelligence ’Omega’ left by the Tabi Civilization, overseeing the entire construction of the Dyson Sphere."

"If interested, you can consult as your assistant helper, go to the A1 area, and find more information. I’m sorry, but I must report to my superiors as soon as possible..."

With that, the creature quickly activated its spaceship and sped away.

"What a hasty civilization!" Zhang Yuan shook his head.

If consulted through "Catalanpus-3," you’d find that the self-introduction of the quadrilateral civilization is "hasty" and "single threaded."

"Single threaded" means they complete one task before starting another.

Humans are also single-threaded creatures, but they have a not-so-good habit of trying to multitask, often getting distracted.

Zhang Yuan could slightly envision the internal conditions of this civilization—under normal circumstances, the quadrilateral civilization was orderly and rule-bound.

"A Fourth-level Civilization, indeed has its inherent superiority."