Chapter 144: The Event That Changed the Fate of Stuo Civilization

According to the information provided by Stuo Civilization,

the researchers of the Human Civilization delegation, and the researchers of the Negentropy Research Institute,

could roughly form a picture of Stuo Civilization entering the Intelligent Era.

Based on Stuo Civilization’s situation,

if no special event happened,

after entering the Intelligent Era,

the entire society’s productivity and resources would quickly gather into the hands of a small group.

That small group, who controlled intelligent production, sat firmly at the very top of Stuo Civilization society and would never fall down.

Because Artificial Intelligence took over the whole society’s production and operation, the cost for this small group to rule the entire civilization greatly reduced.

At the same time, the rest of the people had no room left to rebel or struggle.

The resources and productivity held by the small group would no longer flow to different levels of the whole society.

They were only passed down through the Stuo Civilization parent to child approach, and in this passing down, they gathered even more resources.

The upward paths in social levels were completely blocked, and the whole society eventually became fixed forever.

Children in the upper layer stayed in the upper layer, and those in the lower layer either had no children or remained in the lower layer.

In an extreme case, something like the ‘final owner’ in science fiction stories might even appear.

But now,

Stuo Civilization clearly did not end up like this.

If a civilization fell into this state, unless it was truly ‘gifted by nature’, the researchers could not see how such a civilization had the chance to become a Stellar Civilization.

That meant,

in Stuo Civilization’s history, there was probably a special event that happened at some key point.

This special event directly stopped Stuo Civilization from sliding into the pit of civilization becoming rigid.

It changed the future fate of Stuo Civilization.

But right then, Human Civilization still had not learned from Stuo Civilization what exactly this special event was.

At this moment,

many researchers in the Human Civilization delegation naturally thought of

the ‘Sacred Decider’ often mentioned by Stuo Civilization in past interactions with Human Civilization.

From Stuo Civilization’s earlier statement that Stuo Civilization leaving its home planet and moving deep into space was a choice by the Sacred Decider,

it showed clearly that this special event changing Stuo Civilization’s fate was closely tied to the Sacred Decider.

But here, the talk between the Human Civilization delegation and Stuo Civilization did not immediately answer this question for Human Civilization.

Sies from the Stuo Civilization delegation just kept talking deeply on the subject of Stuo Civilization’s wisdom race’s Genetic Memory.

“… It was also because of the Genetic Memory issue that new born individuals in our civilization, shortly after birth, could formally join the education system to learn.”

“As they grew, some basic Genetic Memory about words and language got awakened more, letting individuals in our civilization quickly jump into the next stage of learning.”

When Sies reached this point, he paused.

Then he simply mentioned another thing related to this.

“…Once, to try and get new born individuals in our civilization to gain more Genetic Memory, even the entire Genetic Memory of the parent generation… we did some research on it.”

“But it wasn’t successful later on, and we gave up the idea of doing this kind of research… Passing down all Genetic Memory seemed good, but it also took away many fresh possibilities for new born individuals.”

At that, Sies ended the topic and did not further discuss the Genetic Memory issue with the Human Civilization delegation.

He briefly described some things about Stuo Civilization’s education system.

For example, though previously said that Stuo Civilization individuals could finish the education system’s learning at about eighty years old,

that was only for those with real research talent who fully went through the entire Stuo Civilization education system.

Unlike Human Civilization, if someone wasn’t judged to have this talent, the Stuo Civilization individual couldn’t study until eighty years old.

Before that age, they were pushed into some industrial area to do work in production.

After that,

the earlier matter about Stuo Civilization’s Genetic Memory became like a small side note in these talks.

It did not get brought up again by Stuo Civilization.

This meeting between the two civilizations now went back to the main topic.

By the plan, the next steps for both civilization delegations were to share theories across many subjects like theoretical physics and math.

That was also why the Human Civilization delegation size had doubled compared to before.

Key researchers from all parts of the Negentropy Research Institute were involved.

With the experience from the last face-to-face talk,

this time, the exchange of theories between the two civilizations went much smoother.

They quickly moved from squeezing information out bit by bit to a stage of being excited and having intense debates.

Before, in just theoretical physics and math, both civilizations found some areas where the other had discoveries but they didn’t yet, or different thinking paths on the same problem.

Now, in other areas, it made sense that the two civilizations hadn’t overlapped completely in their earlier research.

This was clearly a good thing for both Stuo Civilization and Human Civilization.

It meant that in the areas covered by this exchange, both sides’ research would benefit and see a big jump in new results, new theories, and new ideas.

More than just swapping known theories,

some researchers from both civilizations would also try to work together on some theoretical problems during this meet-up.

This was a little trial for future bigger research cooperation between Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization.

But the time this would take was clearly much longer than just swapping and discussing existing theories.

…

At that time, though both civilizations had some level of trust by then,

clearly, they hadn’t reached full trust just yet.

Naturally, this visit by Human Civilization was actually limited to inside this Stellar City of Stuo Civilization.

Over the next stretch of time,

the schedule involved both civilization delegations having constant talks and exchanges in various fields.

This period of talks and exchanges lasted longer than the last time.

The Human Civilization delegation stayed in the Stellar City of Stuo Civilization for a full month.

Most days, they spent all day debating theoretical problems in those subjects with Stuo Civilization.

Researchers from both civilizations teamed up to pick some unsolved theoretical problems they shared and tried joint research.

At rest times, the Human Civilization delegation went back to their spaceship as a group,

and the next day, they started again.

Thirty days passed in a flash.

This meeting and exchange between the two civilizations was clearly a key step toward deeper ties.

The Stuo Civilization delegation saw off the Human Civilization delegation preparing to leave the Stellar City.

Just before leaving,

Professor Qiu Yiming from the Human Civilization delegation followed advice from the back group, Academician Qin Yu and other researchers from the Negentropy Research Institute,

and still asked about the Stuo Civilization’s Sacred Decider.

“Sir Sies, thank you for your hospitality during our stay. We are very happy that our civilizations could share more and collaborate more in theoretical areas across many subjects.”

“Before we part, we wonder if we could pay our respects and express gratitude to your Sacred Decider?”