Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 608 - 604: Difficult to Integrate (Four Updates)

After having absorbed the White Dwarf Star, the group walked into the forest path, casually chatting.

"The government seems to be looking for ways to expand tourism, to allow more people to see this Dyson Sphere up close. However, managing large crowds can be difficult. Our civilization still keeps some secrets, and ordinary people aren’t allowed to interact with Aliens."

"I’ve heard that some other civilizations have already opened up these permissions. There’s a lot of cultural exchange, but it’s uncertain whether that’s good or bad."

"For safety reasons, we might never grant these permissions to the ordinary public. Unless we reach Sixth Level Civilization and no longer worry about exposing Virtual World Technology."

"Sixth Level Civilization? Are there even ’ordinary people’ at that level?"

"Haha, that’s true!"

At the front was a technology museum, which detailed the diplomatic states of recent years and technological progress.

Humans had encountered many civilizations during this period and had joined some cultural exchanges, such as the cold weapon combat competition where members from different civilizations wore their Power Armor and competed using cold weapons without the aid of Artificial Intelligence.

Thanks to the innate advantages of the Horror Upright Ape, humans actually won some medals...

It was truly bizarre that humans were considered among the fiercer fighters in the interstellar civilization.

There was also the "Star Speed Trace" event: manually piloting traditional Ion engine spaceships and racing through asteroid fields.

The New Human Civilization’s best ranking in this activity was 65th place. After all, humans’ neural reaction speeds aren’t very fast and they cannot endure very high accelerations.

Overall, civilizations near the Dyson Sphere seemed quite fond of these sports competitions. They brought civilizations closer together and fostered cultural exchange.

However, apart from these sports events, there weren’t any substantial advancements in technology...

On the one hand, humans hadn’t been there long enough to earn the complete trust of other civilizations.

Competitions are just fun and games; even if humans took stimulants to win, no one would inspect them, nor would they use competition results to determine Racial Value.

Could winning a gold medal make other civilizations respect us more? That’s just not possible!

Ultimately, Racial Value must be determined by Intelligence and the social structure. Since the New Human Government strictly regulated civilian exchanges, other civilizations didn’t know much about humans.

On the other hand, even though humans are a Fourth-level Civilization, they are just an ordinary Level 4 Civilization. Apart from Extra Perception Technology and Virtual World Technology, their other tech isn’t particularly noteworthy.

Holding 1500 AmiBa Points, if they were used to buy technology from third-level civilizations, a substantial amount could be purchased.

But to buy technology from a Fourth-level Civilization might only get a handful of items; one would have to choose wisely and try to find the cheapest options.

A female tourist, looking at various materials in the museum, seemed to have thought of something and whispered, "I did hear some other reasons... Many civilizations here use the same set of technological standards, which are somewhat xenophobic."

"If we want to exchange technology with them, we either adopt the same standards or we simply cannot interact."

She was a government worker and occasionally heard discussions among diplomats.

This interstellar trading market, compared to the previous one, did not seem so friendly. The number of civilizations here was fixed, more or less. Many unofficial powers adopted a series of xenophobic policies.

"What would happen if we adopted the same standards?" someone else asked.

Adopting the same standards involves payments because these standards themselves constitute knowledge.

That meant humans had to spend a portion of their AmiBa Points without actually doing anything.

Moreover, humans might lose the power to set standards in the future, having to continuously upgrade according to this set standard and even modify their entire industrial system...

Humans had once witnessed the pitfall of this aspect when the promising Gliese Civilization lost its ability to develop technology due to the ’Universal Factory.’

Hence, this matter was particularly taboo.

"Moreover, there are many political forces here, with overlapping confidentiality agreements. That means, once a technology is sold, it cannot be indiscriminately sold to others. If we want to acquire certain technologies, we have to negotiate not only with some civilizations but also with these kinds of organizations, which greatly complicates matters."

Everyone understood this explanation. Technology was akin to intellectual property, and some organizations, existing for hundreds of thousands of years, acted like super major corporations with significant control and influence.

Large companies buying intellectual property rights from individual entities meant that other individual entities wanting to buy them would undoubtedly be stripped of a layer of skin!

This made it significantly tougher for humans to completely integrate.

More troubling was the underlying hostile stance among the forces here. Because a Level 5 Civilization trading market was suppressing it, this hostility wasn’t apparent. Once the trading market moved, no one could predict what might happen.

However, considering the situation, it indeed should be this way. The host of the entire trading market, the Ji Haman Civilization, was fully focused on building the Dyson Sphere and ignored these trivial matters below.

Without constraints, natural conflicts of interest between civilizations would arise, resulting in exploitation and being exploited.

In short, as long as there were no wars, the trading market would not interfere too much.

As the conversation reached this point, all the tourists became somewhat anxious. Although they cared deeply about how the government’s higher-ups would solve these issues, worrying was useless; it still depended on professionals to solve these slowly.

"Maybe... we could directly purchase the necessary technology from the trading market."

"That’s the last resort because the price would be much higher."

...

Meals must be eaten one bite at a time, and things must be done one at a time. Some things couldn’t be completed until the right moment, so they had to be set aside for now.

Zhang Yuan’s mood these days was quite good.

Because the negotiations about humans wanting to purchase a Planet Fortress were finally making initial progress!

A civilization called Half-sphere Civilization, a half-mechanical civilization, was willing to sell a planet!

Currently, the military goods in the entire trading market were slowly rising in price, and the War Star, as a type of military product, was also slowly increasing, although not as much as antimatter.