At this critical moment, the senior director of the sector management center, Director Li in front of Lin Hai, proposed a new plan:
Directly digitize the entire planet's indigenous population and store it on the hard drive of the sector management center. Then, like a normal sector, assign an inspector to access the hard drive and manage it. After the war is over and the lost territory is recovered, recreate bodies for these indigenous people, download the data, and resume production...
This was a perfect plan. This technology was not unfamiliar to the Imperial Sector Management Center. In fact, it had long been used for remote relocation work in space...
The only problem is that the space battleship storing the hard drive was hit by enemy fire during its retreat, damaging the hard drive in the blast. After a quick inspection and finding it still usable, Director Li digitized Lin Hai, his only outstanding inspector and his right-hand man, and uploaded the data to the hard drive...
This explains why, as an inspector, Lin Hai was not at the sector management center from the beginning...
"Because there are only 100 million natives on that planet, and the hard drive can't handle redundant data when it's damaged, the sector management center defaults to a population of around 100 million. Over the years, the natives on the hard drive appear to be dying and being reborn, but they're actually still these same people. Their data is constantly being extracted as newborns, and after death, the data enters another cycle."
Director Li explained.
"Then why does that LKN93 keep attacking me?"
"Oh, it's simple. Some of his programs were damaged. We suspect it was the Taiqin Empire's doing. They allowed him to bypass the security program and develop a little self-awareness. He probably wants to survive for a long time. After all, as soon as the Empire finds a resettlement place, we will cancel this virtual sector, and he, as the sector manager, will naturally be deleted."
Director Li clicked a few times on the operating screen, and all the logs of the entire sector appeared in the projection behind him. Well, the logs have been successfully uploaded.
"But why doesn't the Empire take the initiative to contact the sectors? With the authority of the Imperial Management Center, it would be easy to restore the sectors to normal."
Lin Hai was a little puzzled, but since it was as Director Li said, the data of everyone in the sector should still be there. As long as it takes a little time, the Empire will be able to restore everyone. This made Lin Hai, who had just experienced large-scale casualties, feel much more relieved.
"The hard drive is damaged. The download channel is destroyed, leaving only the upload channel. This means that if you don't contact us, we won't be able to contact the sectors inside the hard drive. For years, the Empire has been barely keeping the hard drive running. You have to know that such an old model hard drive is hard to repair now... After carefully examining the hard drive, the Engineering and Data Departments concluded that if we can't contact the hard drive within two weeks, all the data will be frozen, which means..."
"In half a month, we will live in the hard drive forever."
Lin Hai took over the conversation.
"Not only that, you will also be forever ruled by LKN93. After all, each life on the hard drive is essentially a cycle. Due to permission issues, the natives' memories of their previous lives are locked every time they cycle. Your memory permissions should be open, but due to hardware damage and wear, your memories are lost in the endless cycles..."
Hearing this, Lin Hai asked the last question in his mind, the one he had never asked anyone before:
"Director Li, everything makes sense, but there's one thing you might not know. I'm not a subject of the Empire. I'm from Earth, a..."
"He's a 35-year-old, unsuccessful middle-aged man who got laid off, right? Your introduction sounds like the author of Tomato's flop..."
"What?"
"Oh, please ignore the second half."
Director Li said.
"Lin Hai, do you know how the inspector came here?"
"Isn't he appointed by the Empire?"
"Oh no, that's not what I meant."
Director Li waved his hand and continued, "You've been to work before. Think about it carefully. There are no sectors in the Empire's direct jurisdiction. Sectors are like the Empire's vassal territories. They are extremely remote. Even with the most advanced wormhole technology, it takes a long time to reach them. The civilizations there are also very low-level and slow to develop. The best civilizations have only developed to the information age...
In other words, working as an inspector might seem glamorous on the surface, but for a direct citizen of the empire, it means being away from family and hometown. The annual vacations aren't enough to cover the commuting time. In fact, even if you go on a blind date, people will stay away from you once they hear you're an inspector... If someone goes on a blind date knowing you're an inspector, they must be attracted by your salary and the fact that you're not home all year round...
Tell me, in this situation, where are we going to find enough inspectors?"
Hmm, that makes sense. It seems like being an inspector in the Empire is similar to being a sailor on Earth. Both earn a lot and go home little... In the dating market, this group sometimes gets special attention...
"so?"
"So, when manpower is scarce, the Empire uses clones to complete this task. However, the gene pool of the Empire's direct citizens is kept secret to prevent hostile forces from using genetic weapons. Therefore, the Empire selects indigenous people from primitive civilizations within its sphere of influence...
Simply put, a primitive native is randomly selected, his genes are extracted without his knowledge, and then a patrol officer is trained... and in order to commemorate this native, the patrol officer's basic memory and name will be related to this native.
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