Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 135 - 136 Ordinary Civilization

Chapter 135: Chapter 136 Ordinary Civilization

The next morning, Zhang Yuan, sporting dark circles under his eyes, began his usual day of work. Regardless of the commotion on Earth Civilization, life must go on.

“How come, did you have insomnia last night? Stayed up to finish reading?”

“Yeah, Senior Brother, you won,” Zhang Yuan said with a smile.

“It has nothing to do with me… it’s New Civilization History that won.”

Perhaps it was because they were too far from Earth at this moment, or perhaps because as time had washed away familiarity, Earth Civilization had become very strange, everyone’s mood wasn’t so downcast, more like having watched an exceptionally dry film.

However, the clicks on papers related to New Civilization History had increased by more than a thousandfold over the past few centuries, including many comments on Zhang Yuan’s new papers!

Whether they understood it or not, people tried to find solutions within this new discipline.

Unfortunately, up until now, New Civilization History was nothing more than a complex network model full of calculations too abstract for most people to grasp. They were merely onlookers.

Only a mathematically adept person like Zhang Yuan had some say in the matter.

Especially when turning a historical node into a series of chaotic functions, involving many complex calculations. Sometimes, even Zhang Yuan himself didn’t understand what a calculated number signified.

“Now that we have historical reference data from Earth Civilization, we can continue to refine this discipline. It’s just that the sample data is still insufficient… it’s only been five or six hundred years,” Zhang Yuan read the current progress very carefully.

He suddenly said, “I think that Earth Civilization has not yet reached its worst state, there is still a possibility of breaking out of the low.”

“Yes!” agreed Senior Brother Zhao, “It’s just a Cold War after all. There’s a small probability to leap out of the trough, but a higher chance of becoming worse. Let’s set aside the calculations for a moment, from a political perspective, do you see any way the entire civilization could get out of the current predicament?”

According to the old historical experience, such a Cold War would continue indefinitely, similar to the previous US and USSR competition, until one side’s economy completely collapsed, consuming the other.

Of course, it was also possible that before the collapse occurred, one side would make a desperate move, sparking the first interstellar war of Human civilization, causing tremendous destruction.

“…Relying solely on internal factors, it’s difficult to climb out of this trough again,” reflected Zhang Yuan, “We really need the help of Aliens now! Their arrival could potentially be a seminal event that turns the tide. However, the probability of that happening is too low.”

Senior Brother Zhao couldn’t help but laugh, “How do you know the arrival of aliens would be a positive event? If we encounter an unstoppable powerful enemy, Human leaders would most likely surrender if there were a chance to survive, they’d rather live poorly than die nobly. How can ants challenge an elephant?”

“Only an enemy of equal strength can unite Earth Civilization. The probability of that, unfortunately, is extremely low…”

“That makes sense.”

Senior Brother Zhao made a joke that wasn’t very funny, “Maybe when we become powerful, we can be those aliens going back.”

“That joke isn’t funny at all. Do we even need to go back?”

After discussing this, Zhang Yuan furrowed his brows.

Even with a wealth of history to learn from, could a new civilization really do better than Earth Civilization?

Not necessarily.

Reality is always crueler than we imagine.

What will become of the generations that follow after the ambitious interstellar pioneers of this generation are gone?

No one can predict.

Humans have their own innate flaws, and their descendants might not do any better than Earth Civilization.

As history advances, the wheel becomes less and less something a single great person can change. How easy could it be to change that?

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Life aboard the spaceship was quite monotonous, confined to three keywords: study, entertainment, and rest. The research on New Civilization History continued, and translating samples into data was a key challenge.

One day, Zhang Yuan came to the Star Library alone, gazing through the glass at the distance.

He liked this little place very much for its tranquility to think about problems.

Because of the war clouds over Earth, the economic downturn, and budget cuts, the correspondences from the Deep Space Foundation had been reduced from once a month to once a year.

If funding was insufficient, it would be reduced further in the future…

That was bad news.

“Sigh, I would be better off if I’d kept that stock until now.”

Zhang Yuan was slightly annoyed, but quickly abandoned the thought. Perhaps if he had kept the stock, it would now be worthless, that company having gone bankrupt.

He began to attempt changing certain key historical nodes within the model to alter the current outcome.

What if a particular key historic event didn’t occur? Would that change the outcome now?

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.

Key historical nodes are derived from a multitude of prior history. To change these key nodes, the preceding history all had to be modified to harmonize and match.

And by modifying a large amount of preceding history, it was necessary to modify even more of the prior narratives, all the way back to the initial point.

As a result, every single point within the entire network system needed to be changed to alter the final outcome.

Such complex extrapolation of a chaotic system was beyond Zhang Yuan’s current abilities.

“Everything is connected!”

Most critically, according to the mathematical model of New Civilization History, the insurmountable low points a civilization inevitably reaches are not limited to one.

There were many more valleys ahead, more unsurmountable problems.

In other words, under the dim stars, “Ordinary” is the most eternal truth.

The twinkling stars in the vast sky concealed how many civilizations? And how many of them faced a mediocre end like Earth?

Even if Earth Civilization had not reached its ultimate endpoint, it was already nearing it…

Amongst the myriad paths, only one leads to the true grand avenue; the remaining 9,999 are all dead ends.

Unfortunately, this grand avenue, hidden among the countless dead ends, is not necessarily easy to find.

It even disguises itself as a rugged path,

During the growth of a civilization, it naturally comes with countless heroic figures, but even these great people can only delay the civilization’s journey toward mediocrity. Because they started on the wrong path from the beginning.

At this moment, Zhang Yuan resolutely decided to adhere to “everything follows calculation,” as mere human wisdom could see far too little. Even if what arises from the calculation is just a number, that simplicity and objectivity far transcend human wisdom.

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