Chapter 273: Establishing Diplomatic Relations
When the Envoy Spaceship of the Hans Civilization docked at the Blue Star Hub, officials from the Foreign Affairs Department, led by Xu Hongwei, were also present.
However, this reception arrangement made the envoys from the Hans Civilization feel somewhat disdainful.
According to normal logic, as an emerging civilization, Human Civilization was already in a lower position of identity when the Hans Civilization took the initiative to make contact this time.
This was a very rare situation in normal interactions between civilizations.
Just like in the Earth era, when facing small countries, great powers similarly would not condescend to take the initiative to establish diplomatic relations with small countries.
There was only one possibility for this situation.
That was interest.
This point was clear not only to Xu Hongwei, but also to Fan Ren.
As a star system that had never been visited by alien civilizations, the Solar System had extremely rich resource reserves, and there was an even more important point.
That was that technological development here was extremely backward.
This could be seen from the fact that they did not use warp engines to fly directly to the Blue Star Hub along the way, but only from the many industrial ships observed coming and going along the route.
This emerging civilization was not only extremely backward in technology, but also in economy.
From the time of civilization registration to now, a total of 5 years, in this backward civilization, only a few official ships were equipped with warp engines, a device that greatly improves efficiency.
Not only that, although most Earth-like planets in this star system already showed traces of industrial activity, according to data observed through signal receiving devices, industrial production activities on these planets were not active.
Similarly, currently in this star system, dozens or hundreds of satellites still showed no traces of industrial activity.
Obviously, the economic development of Human Civilization was extremely slow, to the point that the infrastructure on these planets had not been purchased.
Of course, the Hans Civilization did not know that the reason Human Civilization had not developed these planets was mainly due to insufficient population.
Recalling in his mind the various information obtained from observations these days, the Hans Civilization envoy named Mai Dao could not help but smile on his face.
Their strategic purpose might not require much effort at all.
“Respected Foreign Affairs Officer, I am the envoy Mai Dao from the Hans Civilization. I will represent our civilization in contacting and exchanging with your civilization.”
“Hello, Mr. Mai Dao. We warmly welcome the arrival of your civilization. I am Xu Hongwei, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Human Civilization. I will represent the will of the Chairman of our Civilization Committee to handle the contact and exchange with your civilization’s delegation.”
Xu Hongwei was full of smiles, with an extremely good attitude in communicating with him.
At the dock, the Space Force honor guard stood solemnly around them. These humans, about two meters tall, created a huge visual impact on these short Hans Civilization envoys just from their appearance.
It should be noted that the height of Human Civilization, even among all civilizations in the entire Galactic Alliance, was extremely high.
Even taking the Sirius Civilization as an example, the intelligent lifeforms in their civilization moved in a quadrupedal upright manner, with a height of only about 1 meter.
The diversity of carbon-based organisms in the universe made this posture not unusual.
Height was largely due to factors such as the gravity, atmospheric oxygen content, self-rotation period of the original planet where the civilization survived, and temperature differences caused by distance from the star.
Perhaps by coincidence, these factors made humans one of the top-tier organisms in height among numerous intelligent lifeforms.
After some exchange, envy appeared in Mai Dao’s eyes, but his mind could not help but wander.
Just looking at this physical advantage in stature, it could be foreseen that once the population of this civilization begins to grow rapidly, their economy in the mining industry will surely take off.
After all, artificial intelligence devices were not allowed in the Galactic Alliance, so for the mining industry, which had huge physical demands, the main production method was to rely on population for mining.
Under the gaze of one tall honor guard member after another, the delegation passed through a long passage and finally arrived at the grand and spacious reception room led by Xu Hongwei.
On the other side, Fan Ren watched everything here through the camera, thinking about another matter in his mind.
He did not care much about the diplomatic establishment by the envoys from the Hans Civilization.
Just as in his previous discussion with Xu Hongwei, with the Hans Civilization at this point, all their proactive actions toward Human Civilization must contain impure purposes.
And as a comparison.
Thinking of this, Fan Ren could not help but smile at the corner of his mouth.
Not only in interactions between countries, but even in the Cosmic Era.
Exchanges between civilizations were not too pure either.
Was everything Human Civilization showed now really as backward as Mai Dao saw?
In the Ross 154 planetary system, 9 light years away, at the hidden base.
Although only five years had passed, the overall development and changes were already vastly different.
Now, under A’dai leading production, Jin Qiaoying leading economy and trade, Li Jian leading the Azure Phoenix Legion, and Fan Ren leading the Science and Technology Department, the Fox Pirate Group.
Not only had the produced warp engines successfully started small-batch sales on the Starfield Market, but even the nuclear fusion solution in the industrial field had made some progress on the Starfield Market.
Moreover, as early as a year ago, at Fan Ren’s request, the Fox Pirate Group had completely cut off raw material deliveries to Human Civilization.
Now, all production raw materials of the Fox Pirate Group were procured from the Starfield Market.
Similarly, the Azure Phoenix Legion now had begun equipping warp engines on batches of escort and cruiser level ships.
The research team led by Fan Ren had successfully raised the nuclear fusion conversion rate in industrial applications to 78%.
In comparison, the average level of similar products on the Starfield Market in this aspect was only 60%.
Not only that, now Fan Ren, except for returning to the Solar System every certain period to handle official duties that required his signature, spent most of his time in the Ross 154 planetary system.
Under his leadership, a group of top scientists from Human Civilization in related fields had now begun research work on battleship-level warp engines.
It was expected that in a few months, once the R&D work was completed, these produced battleship-level warp engines would be installed first on the tens of thousands of Punisher ships that were already waiting eagerly.
At the same time, the research progress on electromagnetic railguns was also proceeding synchronously under Fan Ren’s leadership.
In the next few years, all outputs from the Fox Pirate Group, beyond meeting their own demands, would be sold on the Starfield Market as appropriate, and would not be used by Human Civilization.
