Chapter 628 Indulgence of the soul, a painful lesson
Fleet engineers stopped building cryocontainer ships and instead began large-scale construction of inter-galactic voyage ships with ultra-long-distance stable navigation capabilities, ultra-large living spaces, and ultra-high-performance energy absorbers.
After absorbing the latest research results, these spacecraft can theoretically maintain five hundred times the speed of light for millions of years, and can also use excess energy to continuously create cryogenic chambers during flight.
Everyone is free to choose what they want to do and who they want to be. Everything in the fleet is in full swing and in full swing. The situation seems to be great, but the Cage and his sons, the initiators of the reform, are in trouble.
"There are more and more people signing up to leave, even too many. This has seriously affected the fleet's original plan."
At the dinner table, Solent Cage said worriedly.
Compared with other members of the first generation who raised their offspring, Solent Cage, who had been a synthetic since childhood and had never met his parents, adopted a very rare full companionship model when raising his offspring.
When Ofilus was young, his family of three lived under one roof.
In an encounter more than thirty years ago, Ofilos's mother, an S-class female combatant, unfortunately died, and since then only the father and son were left.
When Ofilos came of age, the father and son's dormitories were also very close to each other. Unless they were particularly busy, the father and son would usually have dinner together and exchange some things, both about work and life.
The relationship between father and son is much stronger than that of an ordinary family.
"Father, I..."
Ophilos lowered his head and said in a low tone.
At this time, the blond young man was no longer as high-spirited as when he first launched the "coup". He only appeared to be full of worries and doubts.
The situation took a turn for the worse, causing him to fall into deep self-blame and suffer inner torment.
Solent sighed and patted his son on the shoulder.
"It's not your fault. I was willing to support you at first because there were no such large-scale ideological differences in the previous Expeditionary Fire Fleet. This made me and you, and everyone in the entire Free Will Alliance, wrong.
Judging, I thought our fleet would be the same."
"But it turns out that we all failed to consider it. There are no differences in the Fire Fleet because their size is only a few million people at most, and they have not reached the level of forming a complete social system. The second generation and the third generation in the Fire Fleet
Generations, and even more generations of descendants, need to build their personal will on the soil provided by the will of the distant empire."
"The situation of the Unnamed Fleet is different. Our scale is too large and we have formed a complete social operation system. Moreover, we are also different from other galaxy colonies in the empire. We and the empire headquarters can only send data packets to each other on a regular basis.
There is no way to communicate and communicate. This is the information isolation that has been isolated for many years, which has created too deep a gap between us and the empire."
"Although under the leadership of General Qin Guang, the fleet has tried every means to strengthen ideological education work, but without the influence of society, no matter how gorgeous the language is, it is rootless, and it is not as good as the countless details in daily life. We are influenced by our ears and eyes.
It has become a new civilization without even realizing it."
"Even without the Free Will Alliance led by you and Zhou Donglai, other rebels will still be born. This is a historical necessity and a civilization's choice. It is unstoppable and cannot be disobeyed. We have opened this magic box, and things have changed.
It’s out of control. Sigh..."
Hearing this sigh, Ofilos looked up at his father's face and felt that his father seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant.
In his memory, his father, Solent Cage, was an extremely strong man. Even when his mother died in battle, he never sighed or shed a tear in front of anyone.
But now my father has become like this.
"Father……"
Solent Cage raised his hand, interrupted Ophellos's choking, and squeezed his son's shoulder.
"Ophilus. In two days, I will step forward and assume the role of the first supreme governor of the Free Will Alliance. Then I will try to speak publicly. If the situation still cannot be changed, it is really because of this change.
The fleet caused irreparable losses and caused us to fail to successfully reach the Galactic Center, or to suffer a meaningless defeat. All the blame will be borne by me. It is I who should be nailed to the pillar of shame in history, not you.
.I have let down the empire and the sages.”
"You and Zhou Donglai are still young, and you still have a chance to prove yourself again. When the time comes, you can run away, or you can stay in the galactic center as guerrillas, and you can hold on for as long as you want. I am already old, and it is my fault.
He committed the greatest confusion and deservedly deserved it."
At the dinner table, the father and son talked a lot. They seemed to be very in-depth, but in fact they still missed one point.
Ofilos is not a real commoner.
In the process of his growth, the people he came into contact with in depth, no matter which generation they were from, could all be considered outstanding. Their positions were basically at the middle level and up, and there were few real people at the bottom of the fleet.
People in the middle and upper classes have different levels of information and depth from the common people at the bottom.
At first, Ofilos saw that most of the people around him were inclined to stay and join the war. Perhaps these people had such intentions at the beginning and were very sincere, but they were just people at this level.
As for the second and third generation fleet people at the lower level, no matter what these people say, once the opportunity to choose is presented to them, these people with relatively limited education and relatively narrow access to information and knowledge,
It is inevitable that you will make a more self-interested choice to evacuate.
When the middle and upper class discovered that most of the people at the bottom chose to evacuate, they were inevitably affected and touched in their hearts, and changed their minds. At the same time, they began to influence more and more people of the same class to have other ideas, and eventually it became the out-of-control situation it is now.
situation.
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The chaos continues and is getting worse.
As long as everyone signed up to join the Free Will Column ship, no matter what their previous job was, they all went to work as engineers building spaceships.
The Nuwa Project has been seriously affected. In addition, daily training, education, production and other fields in the fleet have also stagnated. Scientific development has been completely shut down. Not to mention producing new results, even absorbing
The data packets sent by the Empire all showed "indigestion".
Ofilos ran to Zhou Donglai to discuss, and the two decided to hold a high-level meeting of the Free Will Alliance again.
At this meeting, Ofilos and Zhou Donglai jointly proposed to control the situation a little and see if they could keep more people. Unexpectedly, they were refuted on the spot.
Many people in the top leadership of Free Will have also changed their minds.
The real chaos occurred half a year later, when the first super-large interstellar voyage ship was built.
Some people proposed to leave in advance by boat, turning the centralized evacuation into a ship that can be built and left. As for the order of boarding, it will be evaluated according to the contribution of the members of the Free Will Alliance from top to bottom.
Some people object to changing the plan on the grounds that every time a ship is sent out, there is an additional risk of exposing the fleet in advance.
Some people agree, on the grounds that a very large-scale encounter may break out in less than five years. If we start leaving now, we may be able to escape a few more people.
Some people also question the contribution evaluation system, believing that they should go first and questioning its fairness.
There are also people who hold some real power and can appropriately increase the contribution of some grassroots personnel.
A new class was born.
Amid endless controversies, the operating system of the Libertarian Alliance quietly changed, and the top level became a parliamentary system.
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In any case, Cage and his son and Zhou Donglai still held real power, and all three of them firmly opposed changing the plan.
It is no longer acceptable for more than 80% of the people to leave in five years, and it is absolutely not allowed to start evacuating now.
But the situation happened again. One day, Zhou Donglai went to freeze again to extend his life on the grounds that he had not fallen asleep before, but had been frozen.
Although Zhou Donglai entrusted his leader's voting power to Ophilus, giving Ophilus the right to veto alone, the Cage father and son were still a little lonely when they attended the parliament and could only barely support it.
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As the Cage father and son used their veto power to block the passage again and again, they finally caused huge dissatisfaction inside and outside the parliament.
Three months later, Orpheus was assassinated.
The perpetrator was a third-generation male combatant at the grassroots level.
After killing Ofilos, the combatant committed suicide and shouted the loud slogan "For freedom" before dying.
This is not the first murder case in the two hundred years since the fleet set out, but the identity of the deceased is the highest in the history of the fleet.
It only took a moment for the ship's brain to detect that the combatant's wife and three children were all senior members of the Free Will Alliance, and their contribution assessments had met the standards for the first batch of boarding personnel.
In the end, the combatant's wife and children were not sentenced together, but were acquitted.
This combatant is indeed an individual act.
There is no need to investigate whether this person is doing it for selfish reasons or for so-called lofty ideals.
The loss of his beloved son, years of mental pressure, and the indescribable guilt finally defeated Solent Cage's will. General Cage's mental state became unstable, and his power was temporarily frozen by the fleet's brain.
Become a patient in need of psychological intervention.
However, there is also a problem with the position of psychological counselor in the fleet.
The older generation of first-generation psychological counselors have died one after another, and now there are not many left.
Most of the surviving first generation are in a frozen state and don't have much time left.
Psychological counselors in the second and third generations of humans are already unstable factors, and they cannot take on the important task of counseling and intervention for high-level personnel like Solent. They can only use tranquilizers to calm down Cage.
some.
Some people have asked whether Solent Cage should be forced to be frozen, but after a little evaluation, it was found that General Cage, who has confused thinking, is no longer able to train himself to have a complete intuitive personality, and freezing cannot be implemented.
The situation is far more than that. According to the previous charter of the Free Will Alliance, when Ofilos dies, the leadership voting rights of Ofilos and Zhou Donglai will automatically be exercised by Solent Cage. As a result, Cage himself can no longer do it.
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These three most core voting rights have all become invalid votes.
If it were a preset management system within the main brain, this situation would never occur.
However, the Free Will Alliance is a private operation that bypasses the mastermind. It is still a very imperfect system and no one can enforce arbitration.
In the latest vote after the fall of General Cage, the proposal to launch the first interstellar voyage ship in advance was finally passed by a high vote without the obstacle of three leadership votes.
The first Liberty will officially set sail in seven days, which is a definite fact.
Just as millions of people were happily packing their bags, a stern electronic warning sounded through everyone's smart assistants.
"The fleet's top command team has lost its function and stopped functioning. The internal situation of the fleet has seriously endangered the implementation of the highest mission program. The severity rating of the situation: Doomsday disaster level. The brain's preset crisis management plan is activated and the doomsday suppression procedures are implemented."
"The steps for suppression are as follows: compile a list of all ship personnel, conduct in-depth psychological tests and memory readings, and evaluate and score each fleet member. Those who fail to meet the standards of personal thought and the fleet's highest program will be sentenced to death. Those who pass will be executed immediately.
Return to normal life and undergo regular evaluation."
"Warning, from now on, everyone must return to the prescribed dormitories and prescribed workplaces. In daily work and life, please strictly follow the green strip areas marked. No one is allowed to gather at will, talk at will, or spread rumors and incite
People's hearts must not escape the evaluation test. But those who disobey the order will be punished by death and will be executed immediately."
"The doomsday suppression process will be terminated after the following three conditions are met. First, the number of fleet combatants drops below 30 million. Second, the average compatibility of all personnel exceeds 95%. Third, re-select new personnel with sufficient execution capabilities.
Fleet leadership organizational structure.”
In an instant, there was silence among the tens of thousands of ships in the huge nameless fleet.
No one thought that such an extremely cruel emergency management system was engraved deep in the core of the fleet's brain that controlled everything, and it was triggered again.
He knows his own affairs well, and all conspiracies and rhetoric are useless and meaningless under the memory reading of ruthless artificial intelligence.
There are at least more than average people in the second generation who are unlikely to pass and will surely die.
The proportion of those in the third generation who are unlikely to pass is as high as over 85%.
Some combatants rushed towards their combat armor, but on the way they were evaporated on the spot by a ray gun that suddenly appeared in the passage.
There were also people who tried to control their armor to rush out of the ship, but their close partners who used to be able to do whatever they wanted did not listen at all. Instead, the life support system in the cockpit was compressed on the spot, crushing the people inside into pieces and being recycled.
The device absorbs and converts it into particles of basic matter.
After millions of people died quickly, the remaining billion people temporarily became quiet.
Immediately afterwards, there is the fit evaluation test known as "queuing up to be shot".
In order to avoid wrongful killings, the evaluation tests in the doomsday suppression program are very comprehensive and rich in content, and the analysis and comparison of memory data are very rigorous. The evaluation proceeds very slowly. On average, only three million people can be completed every day, and one person is executed for every decision.
, will disclose law enforcement standards within the fleet, and publicly display the "problems" of the subjects' memory.
This speed does not seem to be a big problem. After all, the population when the fleet set off was only 150 million people, and it only took 50 days to complete. However, now the total population of the fleet is as high as 1.6 billion, and the evaluation time has been extended to 534 days.
For space humans with extremely high IQs, the difference between 534 days and 50 days is too big, big enough for some "smart people" to come up with clever ways to bypass the monitoring of the intelligent brain.
Two months later, a rebellious peak warrior cooperated with the top pilot, and quietly built a super armor that was completely uncontrolled by the Intelligent Brain under the eyes of the Intelligent Brain Core, and rushed into the Intelligent Brain Control of the large engineering ship.
Then destroy the center and replace it with manually controlled ships as quickly as possible. This "coup" that took place in the curvature space was pushed to the most extreme scenario.
The most terrifying enemies often come from within.
Human beings are too familiar with the structure of their own ships, and they also know very well where the main brain core and three backup cores are hidden.
Under the leadership of this pinnacle warrior, the catfish in this fleet continued to approach one ship after another without destroying the stability of the curvature flight, and quickly removed the intelligent centers of these ships.
They call it "liberation".
When the flames of "liberation" were about to spread to the residential ship where Tang Yingyu lived, the cryogenic chamber of Tong Ling, who was also frozen and sleeping in the residential ship, passively activated the emergency state and began to automatically unfreeze.
