Chapter 240: Comprador and Self-Development
"These include spacecraft, advanced material processing technology, mechanical technology, and even space technology and gravitational wave technology, which we humans currently have no idea about.
These are all sold at a very clear price.
Therefore, another concept is brought about, namely star coins, which is currency! "
Fan Ren knocked his fist lightly on the table. The sound was a bit dull, which attracted everyone to listen more attentively.
“First, I want to talk about how to obtain star coins.
In fact, it is very simple. The tri-titanium alloy and silver-like supermetal that we humans are currently mining on Mars, Ganymede, and four satellites are all hard currencies with very stable prices in the star market.
And obviously, this kind of hard currency is also a means for us low-level civilizations to earn star coins.
Why am I saying this?
Now I will talk about the development methods of most low-level civilizations in the Galactic Alliance based on the information I have received. "
Fan Ren's tone was relaxed, and yet it had some of the style he used to have at press conferences.
“That’s what I call good news.
Among the vast majority of low-level civilizations, perhaps due to reasons of resources, survival, and compradorism, these civilizations all slowed down or even gave up their technological development after coming into contact with the star market.
They exchange the collected minerals and other basic resources for star coins.
These star coins are then used to expand military equipment and other aspects.
Don't laugh at these civilizations that are so focused that they forget their true behavior.
Let’s take a simple example.
When the countdown to the crisis 50 years ago came, the alien civilization dispatched an ultra-small frigate that was 20 meters long and 10 meters wide.
The interstellar navigation speed of this frigate reaches a terrifying speed of 10 kilometers per second, which is % of the speed of light!
At that time, this was an extremely terrifying gap compared to our Peregrine, whose maximum speed was only 3000 kilometers per second.
According to our analysis at the time, this spacecraft possesses silver-like supermetal processing technology at the molecular level, which enables it to maintain the stability of its hull structure at a speed of 10% of the speed of light.
At the same time, it also has a propulsion power system called afterburner in the star market.
This power system uses liquid metallic hydrogen collected from the interior of gaseous planets at pressures of up to millions of atmospheres as fuel.
It allows the spacecraft to accelerate from relative zero speed to 15% of the speed of light in 10 minutes.
This extremely terrifying afterburner is sold at a price in the star market where a system used by a frigate costs only tens of thousands of star coins.
According to our human mining and collection statistics at the time, the ore we collected in one year could be sold for 300,000 star coins.
In short, we only need to collect ore and we can buy a spaceship of this kind within three years.
Besides its speed, what else does it have? "
When Fan Ren said this, he couldn't help but think of the helpless scene of Corps Commander Wang Wei.
“It can even completely and utterly destroy our original fleet of 5000 battleships by itself!
That's the horror of it.
This is also what makes the Star Domain Market so charming.
In total, it will only take three years for us humans to have an advanced frigate that can defeat five thousand battleships.
This is the change in strength brought about by top technology. But don't worry, these are just examples I've given.
I am honored to tell you that we humans now have a new thrust engine solution that we have independently developed and is easy to use with this afterburner technology.
Our spacecraft can also accelerate from a relative speed of zero to 10% of the speed of light in just tens of minutes. Thanks to the efforts of scientists, this speed has even reached 15% of the speed of light."
After Fan Ren finished speaking, he clearly saw that everyone in the audience was emotional at first, but then after his final words, they seemed to be relieved and smiled excitedly.
I don't know who started it, but Fan Ren heard sparse applause.
But then, deafening applause broke out in the entire venue.
At this moment, the former engine power scientists who were sitting in front of the screen watching this conference all showed pride on their faces.
These applause are for them!
After dozens of seconds, Fan Ren raised his hand to suppress the applause, and the solemn applause reluctantly stopped.
He calmed down his somewhat excited mood and picked up the topic that was interrupted by the applause:
“This is just one example, there are many similar ones, which I will not introduce here one by one.
What I want to say is that in the face of this huge technological gap, we must still maintain independent scientific research investment, and absolutely must not abandon our own R&D plans in this regard because of "relatively cheap" technology that can be purchased.
The development of Daxia can serve as a warning.
Any technology only truly belongs to you if you have the ability to make it yourself.
What we bought is ultimately just a dream. In times of crisis, the only one we can trust is ourselves.
To this end, on behalf of this committee team, I make a commitment to all my fellow human beings:
During my term of office, human civilization will always allocate a research and development budget of no less than 30% of our total annual income to the Ministry of Science and Technology.
This is our foundation, and we will never allow anyone to do anything that is detrimental to the development of science!"
When Fan Ren said this, his whole demeanor changed drastically. There was a hint of ruthlessness on his face, and his fists were clenched tightly.
Through his understanding during this period, he sensitively discovered that most crises of civilization come from the lack of technological reserves.
As powerful as the Fox Civilization was, which had once fought the Sirius Civilization for many years, it was ridiculous that it relied entirely on selling resources in exchange for war supplies.
In his understanding, this was a very absurd thing.
But as he said, when faced with those top technologies in the star market, the path of self-research and development by low-level civilizations seems ridiculously childish.
Of course, this is indeed the case.
If there were no Conqueror to collect liquid metallic hydrogen at will, it would take who knows how many years for humans to use this top-level fuel.
By that time, after coming into contact with the afterburners on the star market, they had long abandoned the propulsion plan of nuclear fusion engines with extremely low conversion rates.
As for today, human hybrid engine sets still take up a lot of space on spacecraft.
Of course, these are minor issues.
After all, human civilization has obtained more advanced material processing technology from foxes, and when designing the spacecraft hull, it is entirely possible to consider designing it to be larger.
(End of this chapter)
