My Children Swarm the Cosmos – Chapter 159

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟓𝟗: 𝐍𝐨 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 (5)

Fully transcended machine or life transcended civilizations, their number of civilization entities is equal to the number of their military.

However, the Dratadien aims for machine transcendence but their minds remain as when they were biological entities, so unexpectedly their civilization has an ordinary appearance.

Their mechanically constituted members inhabit a civilization with tall buildings, roads and even a currency exchanged in data, implementing systems like markets and capitalism within it.

And the ruling system of this Dratadian species resembles machine transcendence.

An extremely large brain 140m in diameter is connected to complex mechanical devices. With no physical body, only a brain, this leader is called the “Controller”.

【So that’s why the pioneers’ gravitational wave reception did not return to them.】

The Controller is an intellectual entity that centrally manages all Dratadian minds and the minds of lower Controllers, a hub-like concept. Therefore no physical body is needed since other Dratadian members carry out the tasks a body would perform.

【Controller. The pioneers would have sent gravitational wave signals to us. But the Quakacor fleet blocked them so we did not know about this situation in advance.】

【Does everyone conjecture that?】

【Yes.】

【Yes.】

【Yes.】

【However, if the Quakacor fleet perfectly blocked the gravitational wave signals the pioneers sent this way, the Quakacor would have had to position their fleet in advance around the outskirts of the star system before destroying the pioneers. 】

【A planned event.】

【It is unknown whether this was planned by the Quakacor or by the Chimeraz behind them.】

【If the Chimeraz planned it, this situation would not end between us and the Quakacor.】

【If the Chimeraz are connected, it would be better for us to ask the New Universe Civilization Union for help.】

【That’s something to check cautiously before doing. Since asking the New Universe Civilization Union for help means we also cannot aggressively attack the Quakacor’s territories during this opportunity.】

【In any case, it was our misconception to think those monsters would accept peace even briefly.】

【The nature of a collective consciousness does not change.】

Andromeda Galaxy. A star system with one star and five planets in orbit.

The thought-body fleet had approached the planet where the Controller is located in the capital of the Drataiden.

The size of the suddenly emerged thought-body fleet is about 560 fleets, and the Drataiden fleet that is immediately confronting the thought-body fleet in the capital star system is about 270 fleet-level scale.

It’s a hair-trigger situation where a fleet battle can break out and the thought-body fleet can invade the capital planet as soon as the trigger is pulled a little.

In such a situation, the thought-body and the Controller were in a standoff.

➖You guys went to the planet we preempted and slaughtered immature children, and killed all the thought-bodies and subordinate legions who went to save those children.

➖If our pioneers really killed the thought-body and won there as you say, why don’t they contact us or come back?

➖How would we know that. When the second thought-body arrived, all that was left were gruesome corpses.

【Is there a reason why the pioneers wouldn’t come back?】

【None. Unless they were annihilated.】

【Let’s just take this as an opportunity to attack the Quakacor. This is an inevitable war.】

➖Still, our master has decided to give you guys a chance to apologize, fearing the situation where a power collision occurs in the Andromeda Galaxy.

➖Apologizing is something that can only be done after the facts are confirmed. We can’t help but doubt that this is an incident you planned to monopolize the dominion of this galaxy.

➖Monopoly, don’t talk nonsense.

The thought-body suppressed the urge to destroy the capital planet of the Drataiden right now.

➖This galaxy is ours. After the dissolution of the Le-orantarum Federation, the Quakacor became the dominant species of the Andromeda Galaxy. But monopoly? The dominant species of this galaxy was determined by the agreement of the New Universe Civilization Union and the Hive Alliance.

➖Our voices were not included in the process of making that agreement. Why should we follow the agreement made by the winners?

➖That’s because you guys are losers.

The thought-body showed hostility.

➖I can’t understand what you guys, who were hostile to humans and the Chimeraz on the side of the Le-orantarum Federation, are saying about coveting the dominion of this galaxy. If you lost in the Great War, you should be thankful for not being extinct and obediently follow the will of the winners. Is this such a difficult story?

➖Ideology. When did we ever forcibly demand dominion over this galaxy? It was the Quakacor, the largest power in this galaxy, and the Drataiden, the second largest power, who expressed their opinion to divide the dominion in half. But look at your hideous state now. You are angry at our opinion and want to trample on our race itself.

➖We can trample you dozens, hundreds of times. And you guys have wanted to get rid of us for a long time. In the first place, you guys were the ones who attacked us first in the past.

➖That’s because you guys were exterminating weak races and swallowing up planets one by one.

➖The weak races we exterminated in the past were primitive civilizations that could not even reach the space age. What’s wrong with a collective consciousness race that needs organic matter to choose such primitive civilizations and absorb them?

The right and wrong that has continued from the past to today.

➖Even if they were primitive civilizations, they were intellectual beings. In a civilization that is being destroyed by an alien invasion, how much fear must those who have not yet reached the space age have felt when they saw a monster like you. That’s why it’s called ‘evil’. That’s why the nature of your collective consciousness race is evil.

➖How can a living creature live without killing something? And do you know how contradictory what you’re saying now is?

➖Contradictory?

➖Just a few hours ago, you guys who were exterminating indigenous life forms and children on a remote desert planet, how can you babble such nonsense?

➖Our pioneers, unlike you, do not exterminate intellectual beings. Don’t equate the act of exterminating indigenous life forms with the act of exterminating primitive civilizations.

➖Life is all the same. Whether stupid or smart, it’s all organic matter. If the indigenous life forms you guys exterminated were forming small societies and ecosystems, what’s different from the primitive civilizations we exterminated in the past. It’s like saying that the act of extermination by you guys is clean and the act of extermination by us is ugly.

➖It meant to know the degree of difference in killing something. Quakacor.

➖More nonsense. If you really want to discuss the value and dignity of life, you guys should be dignified first. In the first place, the degree you guys are talking about is a standard that you guys arbitrarily decide by looking at some life form from your perspective, isn’t it?

➖If it was arbitrarily decided, we wouldn’t have attacked you.

➖So, are you saying that a life that uses fire and tools should not be exterminated, but a life that is small and has many legs can be exterminated?

➖Our nature is different from your destructive collective consciousness race, and we who kill something out of necessity. What we did was part of terraforming, like cutting down trees, and what you did was a massive invasion and hunting towards immature intellectual beings.

➖You keep saying the same thing, just changing the words.

➖Moreover, today this galaxy is being eroded by such collective consciousness, how can we just watch this terrible sight. If this continues, the Andromeda galaxy will be left with collective consciousness races and races that only look at their faces. And the immature races that have not reached the space age will all become extinct, and there will be no more future races emerging in this galaxy.

➖I can’t listen anymore because I feel stupid talking to you. So you mean you don’t have a speck of thought to apologize to us?

➖You wanted war, not a war provocation. I knew it would be.

➖You guys started first.

【The Quakacor are tribes that must be burned and destroyed.】

【If we apologize here, it’s no different from not fighting and surrendering.】

【If we apologize, the Andromeda galaxy will fall into the hands of collective consciousness.】

【Let’s see the end now. Those monsters have gone crazy for not tasting blood for too long.】

➖Apologize. The Drataiden’s Controller.

【Remove the Quakacor.】

The Drataiden fleet rotated the cogwheel all at once. It was trying to operate the main gun.

➖Attack!

The thought-body fleet rushed towards the Drataiden fleet. A countless number of living aircraft spread widely to swallow the numbers to avoid the Drataiden’s fire, which was a tactic.

Almost at the same time, the Drataiden fleet’s main gun was activated.

If it’s the main gun of the general races, there are many particle weapons that hit enemies from relatively long distances, but the Drataiden’s main gun was a mass weapon that receives the force of the gravitational field. This was also a characteristic of the Drataiden fleet, which had been dealing with collective consciousness races that forced close combat in fleet battles for a long time.

Ahead of the light, the shells that reached between the Quakacor aircraft exploded before they even touched. They exploded like grenades that scatter fragments, scattering dish-shaped blades all around, and the Quakacor aircraft died from cutting power, not explosive power.

Tens of thousands of Quakacor aircraft died en masse until the fleet battle was established at close range. The Quakacor aircraft, which approached with such a huge damage, covered the Drataiden fleet and shot pockets or swung tentacles.

Kagagak. . .!

The fairly large Drataiden main ships rotated the cogwheel again and cut off the rushing tentacles. And the Quakacor aircraft, even if their tentacles were cut off, stubbornly stuck and burst an electromagnetic pulse.

It was an unexpected complication from the standpoint of the Drataiden fleet.

【That’s why the pioneers were hit!】

The Drataiden realized after being hit. The fact that the Quakacor could use an electromagnetic pulse attack.

🔷🔷🔷

Planet Petra of the Hecartra star system.

A building like a cave formed with pure white mycelium, where the Parahtoria and Ririm are in harmony.

The mutant Hounz, which survived several battles, sits like a puppy. And Anima sits on the mutant Hounz as if it were a chair.

Growl. . . .

When she stroked the mutant Hounz’s head, the guy cried as if he felt good.

“Anima. I heard you are pregnant. Congratulations.”

A creature fused with the Ririm and Parahtoria in the Elite approached her.

“May I ask you how Kreion-nim gave his genes to Anima-nim? To be honest, I’m curious.”

At the question of the Parahtoria and Ririm, Anima smiled.

“How can I tell you that? I’m ashamed. . . .”

“Your reaction. I guess there was an animal reproductive activity, so I won’t ask any more. You shared love. . . .Hopefully, this will strengthen the bond between the first ruler and the second ruler and have a positive impact on the Hive Alliance. Congratulations.”

She replied with a comfortable face.

“Thank you for congratulating me. Thanks to you, I think the baby will be born with the blessings of many people.”

“The offspring of Kreion and Anima. I’d like to ask about genetic engineering.”

“You are saying the same thing as the leaders. I guess you are all curious.”

“Curious. If you’ve decided on a gender, what is it?”

“I don’t know.”

“Who will the appearance look more like?”

“I don’t know that either.”

“Perhaps the birth of an offspring that is more powerful than the combined abilities of the two?”

“I don’t know anything.”

Anima, who kept answering she didn’t know, couldn’t hide the white smile on her face as to what made her so happy.

“Why don’t you know that, Anima-nim, who has life in your womb?”

“I decided to leave it to chance.”

“Why leave the design of the offspring, born between the greatest life transcendents, to chance?”

“Because that’s beautiful.”

“It’s hard to understand. But there must be a deep meaning. I’m sure there is. Anyway, we look forward to the birth of a wonderful second generation.”

Anima put her hand on her lower abdomen and felt life growing. An idea that contained her love, hope for the future, and present happiness. It was such a precious life to her that she thought she could die for this child in her stomach.

‘Is this how it feels to be a mother?’

She chewed on the word mother.

➖Master. Anima-nim. Ludwig-nim.

At that time, Nazar’s wave entered the collective consciousness.

It was completely unexpected news.

➖War broke out in the Andromeda galaxy.

‘What?’

➖Whose war is it?

➖The Drataiden of the New Universe Civilization Union. And the Quakacor of our Hive Alliance.

➖Nazar. . . . Tell me the scale of the war you saw with your eyes. . . .

➖I need to look into it more, but judging by the light afterimage, it seems that the two races are now fighting a full-scale war throughout the Andromeda galaxy.

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