In the unknown star field
, one and a half light years away from the life star of the Federation survivors, there is a spaceship that is perfectly hidden. The satellites of the Federation survivors have passed by it dozens of times, but they have never found it.
In the command console of the spaceship, a humanoid creature is watching dozens of screens, which show the scene of Sheers crying in the temple, the scene of several elders scolding each other, and the scene of the daily activities of the people of that life star.
Watching these videos every day, recording them, and summarizing them is the work and mission of this humanoid creature, because he is the civilization observer numbered 0583.
The civilization behind observer 0583 is very powerful, so powerful that it had already gone to the interstellar 300,000 years ago (the time of their own home planet). In the next 100,000 years, they established an empire spanning hundreds of thousands of light years, ruled many life planets, and had an extremely brilliant civilization.
They have also walked the road that all civilizations must take, and have experienced division, civil war, strong enemies, etc., but they still have not been defeated. Instead, their civilization has become more and more new and more vibrant.
Fifteen thousand years ago, their civilization broke through another level in terms of powerful scientific and technological strength, reaching an unprecedented level, which completely freed the members of this civilization from many constraints, such as life span. After that, the members of the civilization had almost endless life span.
It is not immortality, but it is almost immortal. After all, the flesh and blood can live for about 100,000 years. Even if 100,000 years are up, their consciousness can be transmitted to the virtual world and become digital life, which is equivalent to immortality, because computers can be continuously iterated, and they can be replaced when they are broken.
For example, they also solved the problem of eating. This problem of eating is not the problem of whether there is enough food. The problem of whether there is enough food was solved when they went to the interstellar.
The level they solved this time is higher. Before these technologies appeared, they developed super high-energy food. After eating a meal, they can go without eating for several years. This time, they don’t need to eat. After their genes are modified, they can absorb multiple energies independently. The word hunger has become history. Similarly, they have almost eliminated the ancient industry of catering, and the catering industry has become a very niche hobby.
However, as science and technology developed explosively again, they also faced many new challenges, such as the plummeting fertility rate. When there was no pressure to survive, no material pressure, and enough time, the members of the civilization liked to pursue their own happiness, reproduce offspring, and the meaning of inheriting civilization had been lost.
At first, their officials did not care about such things, because their population base was large, and even with an extremely low fertility rate, they could maintain population growth.
But no one expected that three thousand years after their technological breakthroughs, their civilization ushered in the darkest period in history, which was a 10,000-year-long suicide wave.
Yes, it was a suicide wave.
At that time, civilization had eliminated poverty, hunger, and class. They did not need to go to work. All work was done by robots, whether in industry, agriculture or service industry. Even if the robot broke down, it was repaired by other robots. The entire civilization only needed a very small amount of work to operate.
And what most people were doing was pursuing themselves. They could do whatever they wanted, as long as they did not hurt others. The officials would support your dreams, because material and wealth were just numbers to the officials.
They spent three thousand years without worries, and then the suicide wave began.
Why do they commit suicide? Because they feel that life has no meaning. They want to use work to fill their empty lives, but they find that 90% of the jobs in society have disappeared.
They pursued art, but found that art had reached its end. For example, in poetry and novels, artificial intelligence can arrange all the words. The most wonderful and greatest poetry and novels are created by robots.
Playing games?
When they can play games for hundreds and thousands of years without sleep, any game is boring to them.
When the art they are proud of has come to an end, many people feel that life has no meaning, so they try to get rid of it, that is, suicide.
Like a plague, suicide is also contagious. In ten thousand years, the members of civilization have decreased by more than 80%.
The authorities have tried every possible way in the past ten thousand years. Psychologists, social psychologists and the like have tried every possible way to intervene, but they all failed.
However, in the end, the authorities still thought of a solution, which is to find the meaning of life for the people. For example, if you want to be a gourmet, then support you to be a gourmet, let artificial intelligence synthesize new species, and use new species to match various materials to make food. As long as there are enough new species, you will never finish the types of food, and you will not think about suicide.
Do you like machinery?
Okay, you can replace some robots. There are countless machines for you to repair and create.
When more and more professions returned to people's vision, this wave of suicides stopped.
Similarly, civilization observers were born in this context.
After more than 80% of the members of the civilization committed suicide, their fertility rate did not increase. Although they had hundreds of ways to increase the population, they refused to do so because it was meaningless. If the population recovered, the official would not have so many positions to increase them. So
, they took the initiative to give up many life planets, erased all their traces, and let them develop on their own. The civilization was only responsible for observing these young civilizations.
They no longer conquered the new life planets they explored and discovered, and they would not even intervene in them. They also observed the development of civilization on these life planets and broadcast them live to other civilization members. Not to mention, many civilization members like to watch these things and think it is very interesting to watch the development process of a civilization in its entirety, which is much more interesting than learning their own history.
That's how Observer 0583 came to be. His name is 0583. In their place, names don't have much meaning. Many people like to name themselves randomly. He likes numbers, so he uses numbers as his name. As for the numbers 0583, they were rolled out by his face on the ancient holographic numeric keyboard at that time. Naming is so simple.
Observer 0583 was sent to this star field more than 500 years ago because they received a lot of signals in this star field, electromagnetic waves, light waves, gravitational waves and so on. It was very chaotic, but obviously not formed naturally. They knew that there were living beings in this area.
So Observer 0583 came and he discovered the existence of the federal survivors such as Schells. He observed them for a long time and learned that their civilization was destroyed by a powerful enemy. They were a group of refugees. Observer 0583 was full of pity for them, so he gave these people some technology that had been eliminated for many years to give them a little more pitiful sense of security.
"The 30th era of the Hill civilization calendar, 05120 years..."
"The observer's judgment on civilization number 76..."
Observer number 0583 recorded his observations and judgments and sent the message to their superiors. He was very interested in the enemy mentioned by the remnants of the Glory Federation. He thought it was a very powerful civilization and he wanted to apply to go and observe it.