"When discussing issues such as 'what is justice' and 'what is good', Socrates took the stance that he didn't understand anything and needed guidance from others."
"Socrates feigned ignorance and induced others to elaborate on their views on such abstract concepts."
"He then used a series of seemingly ignorant questions to force them into such a confusing mess of contradictions that they finally had to give in and admit that they had no idea what they were talking about."
"It was the incredible magnanimity of the Athenians that allowed them to tolerate this kind of thing for decades. It was not until Socrates was 70 years old that they finally couldn't bear it anymore and forced him to commit suicide by taking poison."
——Isaac Asimov, "asimov on science" (Chapter: [False Relativity])
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Proposition 1: The Xagai Zerg are not humans.
Proposition 2: Human good and evil morality originates from human thinking.
Conclusion: The good and evil morality of the Xagai Zerg has nothing to do with human thinking.
Classical syllogism, amazing, right?
Extraterrestrial demons, alien life, indescribable, cute starfish, there are many ways to call them,
But the meaning expressed is unified and clear: they are not human.
If it is an orthodox science fiction story, when it comes to the theme of "alien", the social differences between humans and non-humans, ideological conflicts, technical routes, and ethnic destiny, these fierce conflicts under the grand narrative are the biggest highlights.
However, grand narrative and personal heroism - the most successful, most enduring, and commercially promising plot paradigm among popular literary genres - are in conflict with each other.
Describing the protagonist's 'successful process' in 10,000 words is called advancing the plot.
Using 10,000 words to describe the "objective environment" of the world is called a water word count and a heap of settings.
Although helpless, please understand:
Objective things are not subject to the will of the "protagonist" - just like a certain civil engineering devil who has written 10,000 words and is still building roads and has no time to show up - whether it is the palace of the kingdom or the holy city of the church, the world is natural
The ground is developing without stopping for a moment.
The obvious fact: when the "protagonists" are struggling, working, and 'advancing the plot',
The "villains" are also struggling, working, and 'advancing the plot'.
The good guys are in trouble, and the bad guys have to be in trouble too.
Only the dead do not need to roll.
Of course, since there is almost no group of readers who can sympathize with the "villains", the plot used to describe their "successful process" must be as concise as possible.
What? Does anyone really want to read the 150,000-word "Villain Farming Story Meeting"? No, right?
Well, the words are concise and concise, and the number of words is not enough. Let’s focus on the body of Xia Gai Yao Chong.
First of all, it is very counter-intuitive - although [Shagai Monster Insect] sounds like a "fantasy race", in fact, this kind of "Insect Race" wandering among the stars is a "sci-fi race" with its roots in green.
I won’t go into details here about why their former parent star (Shagai star with twin green suns) was destroyed.
The surviving Xia Gai went their separate ways,
The distant wanderings of an interstellar refugee ship.
One of the teams arrived at this remote planet in the crystal wall system - the luck of the Xagai Zerg and the misfortune of the native life.
The fight for survival is all about the butt.
The Xiagai monster insect group is mainly divided into two factions:
One group fanatically and blindly believes in a true god of chaos named "Azathoth". Xia Gai of this group believes that [powerful life forms] other than "Azathoth" are just false gods, trying to make all the wisdom they come into contact with
Life, turn to the [God of Blindness and Stupidity].
(If the alignment of AD Duke is regarded as [Lawful and Evil], then the alignment of azathoth can be regarded as [Chaos], pure chaos that has nothing to do with good and evil)
The other school, starting from the three moral views of human beings, is the pure hedonist school. Xia Gai of this school believes that obtaining a variety of brand-new "insect life experiences" and experiencing the "pleasure and depravity" of various intelligent lives is the only way to achieve success.
The greatest significance of their insect life.
(After successful parasitism, usually only brain drilling surgery can remove them from the host's skull)
In short, one sect is a religious worm, and the other sect is a chaotic joy worm.
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The Xagai Zerg that wandered to this planet also had to work hard to "farm".
In order to allow myself, a group of Shagai refugees, to ‘live happily and thrive’——
——First, conquer this planet!
The classic [Villain Target] can be called the classic one, the kind that has long been used to death.
Cliched and unpretentious.
But this is the [elephant in the room],
Whether you admit it or not, like it or not, laugh at it or not,
No matter how exquisite the packaging is,
The pursuit of most "villains" is nothing more than "I want to conquer" and "Let me feel happy"!
In short, Xia Gai’s pursuit of the monster,
It's so unpretentious,
Such ‘low taste’,
So true.
The number of survivors of this refugee fleet is not of the same magnitude as the native life - even if only counting the three regions of Spain, France, Portugal, and Saracen (in other words, 1/3 of the land on this planet
area), although the number of humans does not reach hundreds of millions, nor does it reach tens of millions, a guaranteed population of eight to nine million exists - and the number of Xagai survivors who have arrived on this planet is only three hundred insects.
OK! Please listen to the question!
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At the beginning, a damaged starship broke into the atmosphere and made an emergency landing. After a bumpy landing, 96% of the ship's hull functions were scrapped;
There are 300 insects in the whole ship, of which 200 are religious demon insects who work part-time in the technical position, and the other 100 are chaotic insects who work part-time in the agent position;
The natural reproduction rate of the Xagai Zerg is slow, and this refugee fleet can only naturally give birth to about 2,700 new insect populations in five hundred years.
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"Hey! High Priest! How do we conquer this planet?"
Let me reiterate the conclusion: the good and evil morality of the Xagai Zerg has nothing to do with human thinking.
Villain farming is also a technical job.
The population is measured in millions, and the insect population is measured in thousands. The gap in magnitude is like a chasm. Naturally, the "insect sea tactic" will not work.
Moreover, the native life on the planet is not pure and kind.
Whether it is extraordinary beings among humans or rare and exotic beasts, they are all much stronger than the Xagai Zerg.
Regarding the abilities of the mortal body, the Xagai demon insect only enjoys itself, and it is normal for it to be kicked to death by an elephant.
(Xia Gai's body is only the size of a pigeon. Although they have special supernatural abilities, they are still tangible and qualitative carbon-based creatures)
Therefore, they can only play dirty.
Don't get me wrong, it's not poisoning the chicken soup.
But...
Farming - accumulating resources - farming - accumulating resources - (loop n times) - summoning gods - rewriting the order of reality - Xia Gai's paradise.
Well, let’s put it this way, the technology tree of the Xagai Monster Clan is a weird technology line developed around the extremely terrifying religious worship of the [God of Blind Stupidity] - the sleeping “Azathos”
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They build bases and temples, develop black technology products, and have only one ultimate technical goal:
Summon "Azathos", awaken him, and make the material world more [chaotic and free]!
Free Chaos! Chaos Free!
The Xagai Zerg believe that as long as the sleeping "Azathos" is summoned to the material world and awakened, this ancient god of chaos can rewrite the order of reality and make 'true freedom' the only rule of the material world.
(Of course, this kind of ‘freedom’ is too early for humans)
The Xagai people's plan of conquest is actually that simple. Save enough resources, create a curiosity, and let the gods (the blind and foolish azathoth) activate the power of chaos and rewrite the rules of the world. They are the race that will benefit the most——probably?
Will the result be as [successful] as they believe, expect, and blindly believe?
Perhaps, only "Azathos" himself knows.
The god-summoning ritual of the Xagai Zerg requires both [technological wonders] and [super large-scale energy].
After landing on their damaged starship, about 96% of its hull functions were scrapped, but the remaining 4% of its ship parts and tool sets could still produce some technological products that would overwhelm local civilization.
The remaining parts tool sets available on the starship are "non-renewable resources" and cannot be replenished if they are broken.
The base and [Science and Technology Wonders (Temple)] are "farming" bases built with core resources after the Xagai Monster dismantled the scrapped starships - and the total output of high-tech devices such as the [Weather Controller] is extremely limited.
(Due to limited remaining materials), only a few were made.
And another top priority of Xia Gai's "crazy plan" is [super large-scale energy]!
In order to meet the consumption of [Technological Wonder (Temple)] when summoning the Chaos God, it is necessary to prepare an astronomical amount of energy to succeed.
The Xagai Monster has been investigating for decades and found that the amount of natural energy on this planet is scarce, and the quality of underground fuel is not good either.
The high priest is worried about this. He can't boil the water slowly, right?
At this time, there was an alchemist with his——
No, it should be said that - with her magically modified biological alchemy results originating from Terra Blue Star, she found the Xia Gai who were hiding underground.
The crazy chaos alchemist suggested to the high priest Xagai:
"Organic organisms are the most widespread, convenient and most useful fuel! I have a recipe for [Petroleum Shoggoth] here, are you interested?"
"Just raise the [Petroleum Shoggoth], feed it with organic matter, and it will grow."
"Look, there are many, many [organic substances] in this world~"