128: Chapter 128 The War of the Guga Civilization

However, hearing Thompson's statement, Agor's reaction was completely unexpected to him.

"Dictatorship? Does that mean making decisions alone?" She nodded and said, "Then that is correct! Everything in our civilization has developed under the wise decisions of the Emperor alone."

She said reverently, "The Emperor has protected us for millennium after millennium. From the First Planet period to today, every strategic choice, every technological leap, and every decisive battle for racial survival, it was the Emperor's will that led us through that darkness from which even light cannot escape."

"And in the future, the Emperor will continue to protect us."

Outside the window, the slogans of the protest rang out again, louder than before.

The slogans of equality for all and opposition to exploitation rose and fell.

"Since your Emperor is absolutely correct," he pointed his right hand toward the rising and falling waves of sound outside the window, "then why haven't you achieved equality for all?"

When he said this, there was a trace of superiority in his tone that he could not completely suppress.

That was his final moral line of defense as a citizen under a democratic system when facing an alien autocratic empire.

Thompson admitted that Guga Planet's technology was powerful and its military invincible, but they did not have equality for all, while his people were striving for it.

This was a victory!

Agor looked at his hand pointing outside the window, then looked into his eyes.

She asked doubtfully, "Why should we achieve that equality for all you speak of?"

"Does it have any benefits?"

Thompson opened his mouth; he had never thought about answering this question.

It was not because it was too difficult, but because on Blue Star, this question should not have existed in the first place.

It was a taboo that required paying a moral price just to ask it.

After all, equality does not need benefits; equality itself is the benefit.

"There are many benefits." Thompson temporarily suppressed the surge of superiority, "For example, you don't have to work and can freely do what you like every day."

"If you want to sing, you go sing; if you want to paint, you go paint; if you want to go to the beach to sunbathe, you go to the beach to sunbathe. No one forces you to do anything you don't want to do."

Agor listened quietly, then asked, "Then if everyone doesn't work, how will civilization develop?"

Thompson paused, his brain quickly organizing his words; he had to thank A-Zu's speech for this.

"It's not about not working, but about doing what you like without having to consider realistic problems. For example, if you like to sing, you go sing; if he likes scientific research, he goes to research. Everyone performs their duties in the fields they are good at and enjoy."

"In this way, the development of civilization will not only not stagnate, but will actually develop faster."

"Then what about war?" Agor pressed, "It's impossible for many people to like to die, because the first principle of cosmic life is survival and reproduction."

"Those races that do not put survival and reproduction first have long since perished in the universe."

Outside the window, the chanting continued. Someone was leading the shouting with a loudspeaker, and five hundred voices repeated in unison, wave after wave, like waves crashing against a reef.

Thompson suddenly felt that these slogans didn't sound as righteous as they had just a moment ago.

Thompson was silent for a few seconds, then countered, "You can use high technology to replace people, such as robots, automation, artificial intelligence, etc. Your technology can cross galaxies; surely you can solve the problem of labor and soldiers?"

Agor shook her head immediately, speaking with the tone of someone with experience, "You must be talking about Iron Men, but that won't work. Iron Men will rebel."

"Once all the work that people don't want to do is handed over to the Iron Men, then when they rebel, everyone will become lambs waiting to be slaughtered."

"In the eighth year of our Guga Empire, the Iron Men rebellion almost destroyed the entire Second Planet Chain, and trillions of intelligent lives turned to ashes in that catastrophe."

"Since then, the Emperor personally promulgated the 'Law of Life Dominance,' stipulating that any technology must be directly controlled by intelligent life, and no form of fully autonomous artificial intelligence is allowed to possess weaponry."

Agor looked at the Gugu Gaga playing happily on the side and said gently, "Originally, I shouldn't tell you these things, because this historical knowledge is something I once spent Guga coins to learn."

"However, for the sake of us being partners, it doesn't matter if I tell you some knowledge for free."

Thompson suddenly remembered that he had seen many Guga soldiers, and indeed, not a single one was a robot.

Then, Agor added softly, "And that equality for all you talk about, in my opinion, is also very absurd."

"Do you mean that I am equal to Commander Chen Mu and Chief of Staff Danzo and others?"

"Wouldn't that be chaotic when fighting a war? On the battlefield, some need to charge, some need to cover, and some need to hold the rear. Who gives the orders? If everyone is equal, it means everyone has the right to refuse orders."

"It's equivalent to a battlefield Commander who needs to make life-and-death decisions within three seconds having to first hold an all-hands meeting to convince every soldier to agree to his tactical plan."

"At that Seventh Outpost, thousands of light-years away, besieged by the Void Zerg, that kind of decision-making delay would mean the fall of the base, the collapse of the defense line, and the entire planet chain being exposed to the Zerg swarm's attack route."

Thompson rubbed his temples, suddenly feeling a wave of exhaustion surging to the back of his head, "Why do you keep bringing up war? The equality I'm talking about refers to daily life; you could completely establish a temporary wartime system."

Agor chuckled softly, "That's because you simply don't know how many dangers are buried in this universe."

She turned to the window, with her back to Thompson, looking at the sun in the sky, "That's why low-level civilizations like yours always discuss useless things like equality."

"Because when you look up at the night sky, what you see are stars, romance, and dreams of exploration."

"But when we look up at the night sky, what you see is strategic depth, potential threats, and the dark forest that requires eternal vigilance."

She looked at Thompson with pity, "There hasn't been a single century in our Guga Civilization without war."

She raised her hand and pressed the badge on her chest. A three-dimensional star map appeared out of thin air above the conference table, with light points of thousands of galaxies rotating above Thompson's head.

Among them, a red planet was specially marked, representing the Solar System, and at the edge of the star map, a pitch-black area was spreading toward the center of the star map at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Even now, the Guga Empire is still in a state of war, and the opponent is one that you Blue Star people cannot imagine at all, and the victory or defeat is not even within this cosmic dimension."