Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 598: Incorporation
Xiao Yu knew that during negotiations with him, the leader of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance had employed a few small maneuvers. But these maneuvers could not affect Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu always held to his bottom line. If the leader did not raise conditions, Xiao Yu would act this way; if he did raise conditions, Xiao Yu would still act this way. Whatever the leader did would not influence Xiao Yu’s decisions.
“This is our final request. As long as you agree to our demand, we will immediately surrender and join the Divine Ark Civilization.” At this moment, there was actually a hint of pleading in the message sent by the leader of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance.
Xiao Yu could understand what he felt in his heart at this moment. The leader of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance was without question a figure who stirred up storms. Under his hand the Pegasus Civilization reached its peak, and after the Pegasus Civilization was defeated by Xiao Yu, he led the Level 5 Civilization Alliance to its current height. He was a person of extremely strong ability. But now he was begging Xiao Yu, only hoping that Xiao Yu would agree to one small condition of his.
Xiao Yu let out a quiet sigh. Seeing his opponent, who had confronted him for so long, brought to this point, he did not know what he felt in his heart. But Xiao Yu still did not intend to accept his condition.
“You must put yourself in the correct position. You are the loser, I am the victor.” Xiao Yu said. “I have already promised to give you material treatment beyond your imagination, and after my evaluation you will also receive the same treatment as the original inhabitants of the Divine Ark Civilization. I believe I have been merciful enough, so you should not hope for anything else, and certainly do not hope to preserve the independence of your civilization while plotting a comeback later.”
“In fact, just for this thought of yours, I could kill you. But I do not wish to do that. I know you are a talented person, so I hope you can join the Divine Ark Civilization. Have you not always dreamed of entering the ranks of a Level 6 Civilization? Then, how about contributing to our Divine Ark Civilization and pushing it into the ranks of a Level 6 Civilization? Do not forget, after you join the Divine Ark Civilization, you will also be one of the Divine Ark Civilization. I believe you will come to love this great civilization.”
It was a full ten plus minutes before Xiao Yu received the reply from the leader of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance. “Very well, I accept your demand. Your fleets may enter our defensive perimeter. We will not resist and will obey your arrangements. I hope you will keep your promise. As for me, I am no longer interested in any Level 6 Civilization. If possible, after you have completed the incorporation of our alliance, I hope you can give me a quiet place to spend the rest of my life.”
The words of the leader of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance were filled with desolation.
“You may rest assured of that. My promise will not change. As for your placement.” Xiao Yu did not intend to set the leader aside to retire, that would be too great a waste. After all, he was an outstanding figure not inferior to Luka Two and in some respects even surpassing him. In reading hearts and studying psychology he might not compare to Luka Two, but he possessed exceptional leadership, an excellent long-term vision, and a broad strategic sense. In this respect, Luka Two could not match him, and even Xiao Yu himself was a bit inferior.
So Xiao Yu answered as follows. “Your placement, we will discuss later, but I will respect your personal wishes. For now, I will first copy all the scientific and technological data and materials into our civilization, then concentrate and properly settle all scientists, artists, politicians, and other high-value talents. Next, I will contact your architects, health scholars, biologists, and others to formulate an overall urban plan and build Continent-Class residential spaceships for you to live in. During this process, you can temporarily reside on your existing ships. I will carry out preliminary transformations for your populace to prepare you for integration into the Divine Ark Civilization.”
After centuries of warfare and the Specter companion’s wanton slaughter, the population of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance had suffered a severe decline. Compared with the alliance’s peak, the population had fallen by nearly half. By now the alliance’s total population was roughly a bit over five hundred eighty billion. Although the population had decreased significantly, this figure still far exceeded the number of the original inhabitants of the Divine Ark Civilization.
Therefore Xiao Yu naturally could not rashly supplement so many people directly into the current social system of the Divine Ark Civilization. If he did that, it would not be the Divine Ark Civilization assimilating the Level 5 Civilization Alliance, but the Level 5 Civilization Alliance assimilating the Divine Ark Civilization.
“That is settled, then. Your fleets may come at any time to receive our people and our wealth. Our governmental institutions will cooperate with you to complete the entire handover process. I am tired now and need to rest. My apologies, I will take my leave.” Regarding Xiao Yu’s arrangements, the leader of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance gave his reply and then cut off the communications link.
From his message, Xiao Yu detected a very obvious sense of disheartenment.
“Alright, thank you for your cooperation.” Xiao Yu replied with some emotion, and then began to operate his fleets to carry out the busy process of receiving.
First, of course, came disarming the Level 5 Civilization Alliance. Although the leader had resolved to surrender and the combined strength of Xiao Yu and the Specter Race was strong enough to completely suppress the alliance’s ships, there was still no guaranteeing that some diehards of the alliance would not try some act of martyrdom. Therefore Xiao Yu naturally could no longer allow the Level 5 Civilization Alliance to hold armed force. So Xiao Yu issued an order. In this order he required all soldiers to leave their warships and hand all warships over to his control.
Under this order and carried out by nearly tens of billions of combat robots, nearly one hundred billion soldiers left their respective warships with downcast expressions and returned to those residential ships that had little combat power. There they would await Xiao Yu’s subsequent arrangements together with the populace of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance. As for those warships, Xiao Yu uniformly installed his own chips on them, allowing him to operate them in simple ways to a certain extent.
This was easy to accomplish. The technology of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance was developed on the basis of the former Pegasus Civilization’s technology, and Xiao Yu had fully mastered the Pegasus Civilization’s technology hundreds of years earlier. One could say the two were part of the same lineage.
Since he only needed to operate the power modules on these ships and did not need to control them in battle, and did not need to operate their defensive modules, computational modules, or offensive modules, these ships did not consume much of Xiao Yu’s computing power. Under Xiao Yu’s control, these warships, numbering in the tens of millions, were all gathered together and set aside.
Xiao Yu planned to dismantle these ships later and recover the usable materials within them. After all, in Xiao Yu’s view their technology was still too backward. The only fate of these ships was to be melted down and remade.
The process of disarming lasted one year, because the number of soldiers and warships was truly too large. During this year, Xiao Yu repatriated all the soldiers and took control permissions for all warships and planetary war stars. Those warships were manageable, but the planetary war stars were a bit tasteless to Xiao Yu because although they could conduct curvature flight, their speed was still too slow. Taking these planetary war stars around was simply too troublesome.
Xiao Yu had no choice but to strip the useful supplies and instruments from these planetary war stars, move them to a place relatively far from here, and then use antimatter bombs to blow them up directly.
By this point, the Level 5 Civilization Alliance no longer had any capability to wage war in space.
During the process of disarming the Level 5 Civilization Alliance, Xiao Yu encountered more than one incident of resistance. The most serious occurred when, during the incorporation process, a Nation-Class spaceship led tens of thousands of other warships of various models in a suicide attack against Xiao Yu. But it was obvious that such an attack was of no use. Xiao Yu, without hesitation, had the Specter Race deploy and destroyed all tens of thousands of those ships, devouring all life aboard.
Things went much more smoothly thereafter. Although many soldiers who were forcibly driven off their warships by robots were full of anger and resentment, and some soldiers even collapsed weeping on the ground when leaving the warships on which they had served for hundreds of years, overcome with emotion, the robots’ death ray weapons brimming with energy were not mere decorations. After Xiao Yu executed tens of thousands of soldiers who dared resist, no one dared defy him any longer.
The Level 5 Civilization Alliance’s armed forces were smoothly disarmed by Xiao Yu. After taking the central computer control permissions of those residential ships as well and concentrating under control all personnel with a certain level of scientific literacy, Xiao Yu began to lead his spoils in a great migration.
Xiao Yu’s destination this time was a middle-aged star more than one thousand light-years from here. In that stellar system there were three planets with stable orbits, and the stellar activity was also quite stable. It was a fine place conducive to steady development.
Xiao Yu had a premonition that this period of recuperation and development of technology would be his last before entering a Level 6 Civilization. In this grand wave of technological development, he would glimpse the mysteries of a Level 6 Civilization, and ultimately cross the threshold to become a Level 6 Civilization.
