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Chapter 27: Acquiring Hyperspace Communication Technology
The era of great suffering had descended upon this world like a plague of locusts.
Famine stalked the land with relentless hunger. Bodies littered the streets with each dawn's breaking. Driven by starvation's cruel mathematics, humans devolved into carrion feeders, gnawing the flesh of former neighbors without shame or hesitation.
In such times, the grand proclamations of civilization, freedom, democracy, and human rights became hollow mockeriesâempty words spoken by the well-fed to the dying.
The ruling castes, invoking the sacred duty of species survival against an alien menace, demanded indefinite surrender of all citizen rights.
They granted a license to military-industrial complexes to poison air, water, and soil without restraint. Through armed force, they controlled every grain of food and drop of clean water, transforming a once-green world into a charnel wasteland.
Into this manufactured hell stepped the Emperorâa figure of terrible purpose who drew the desperate masses like iron filings to a lodestone.
His words spread across the dying continents with viral intensity, igniting dormant rage in hearts too long numbed by despair. Where His voice carried, the spark of rebellion followed.
The Earth-Trisolaran Organizationâthose human collaborators who served alien mastersâworked in shadow to fan these flames higher still.
They sought endless fratricidal war among humanity, ensuring their species would be too weakened to resist when their true lords arrived.
When the Federal States of America's elite finally comprehended that the Emperor would never bend knee to their authority, they responded with the desperate fury of cornered predators.
"The individual calling himself 'Emperor' stands accused of crimes against humanity itself," proclaimed their public declaration. "At this critical juncture, when all mankind must unite against the alien threat, this seditious element spreads reactionary ideology. He serves as an unwitting pawn of extraterrestrial forces, seeking to drain our species' strength from within."
The Emperor's response carried the cold finality of a judge pronouncing sentence.
"These parasites speak of betrayal while they themselves have betrayed every citizen under their dominion. They invoke a 'greater good' that exists only to justify their ruthless exploitation of the masses, leaving the people without sustenance, without shelter, without hope."
His voice rang out across communication networks, reaching millions of desperate souls.
"Mark My words wellâbefore any alien invader sets foot upon this world, these poor souls will perish at the hands of incompetent bureaucrats and ambitious schemers. The ruling class cares nothing for Earth's survival, less still for the lives of ordinary people."
"Should we permit their continued misrule, they will achieve what no alien force could accomplish alone: the complete destruction of both our world and our civilization."
The Emperor's presence seemed to fill every screen, every speaker, every desperate heart that heard His call.
"My brothers and sisters, rise up and make your voices heard! Raise your hands in defiance! All who possess a conscience, take up arms! Save our world, preserve human civilization, secure a future for children yet unborn!"
"We must cast down these parasitic governments and forge a new orderâone of true unity and equality, prepared to face any external threat as one people, one species, one unbreakable will!"
His words proved devastatingly effective. Millions of young men and women answered His call, their voices raised in thunderous chorus, demanding the overthrow of the old order and the birth of a new age.
They yearned for governance that would at minimum ensure their survival until the final warâand grant them the strength to strike back against the Trisolaran menace.
Among those who flocked to the Emperor's banner came not merely desperate refugees, but social elites bearing vast resources and specialized knowledge.
They brought wealth, intelligence networks, advanced weaponry, and equipment beyond price.
Some even delivered nuclear warheads stolen from federal arsenals.
Should the Federal States dare unleash atomic fire against the Emperor's forces, they would face retaliation in kind. Even if such exchanges reduced the world to radioactive ash, the Emperor's followers would not hesitate to respond.
Deep within Earth's digital labyrinth, the Three-Body virtual world operated in perfect silence.
ETO members gathered in this hidden realm, discussing the approaching conflagration with the detached interest of carrion birds watching a dying animal.
Following Evans' elimination during the Guzheng operation, the Earth-Trisolaran Organization had suffered catastrophic losses. Humanity's Wallfacer Project had forced the threatened Trisolarans to reactivate their human collaborators.
These Advent faction membersâthose willing to die for Trisolaran civilizationâhad reformed their broken ranks.
The original ETO comprised three distinct philosophical branches: the Adventists, who welcomed Trisolaran arrival to cleanse sinful humanity; the Redemptionists, who sought alien salvation from human folly; and the Survivors, who merely hoped to serve as collaborators when the conquest came.
Government crackdowns had shattered the Redemptionists entirely. The Survivors had splintered away to form independent cells. Only the Adventists remained within the ETO properâfanatics who viewed humanity as a disease requiring surgical removal.
Their deployed Wallbreakers had already defeated two of humanity's champions: Rey Diaz and Taylor. Three opponents remained: the ongoing duel between Hines and his Wallbreaker, plus Luo Jiâthe man their lords considered the greatest threat to Trisolaran victory.
"Humans display such predictable foolishness," declared the figure wearing Qin Shi Huang's digitized form, his virtual sword gleaming as he stood upon a rocky outcrop. "I believed the Great Ravine represented their species' nadir. How wrong I wasâit merely marked the beginning of their descent."
"Once open warfare erupts, we shall manipulate both factions into nuclear exchange. We'll transform Earth into a radioactive wasteland, ensuring complete civilizational collapse. Then our descending lords can claim the Solar System without resistance, establishing their paradise upon our world's corpse."
"Caution remains paramount," Einstein's avatar interjected. "This self-proclaimed Emperor presents unprecedented variables. Initial sightings placed him in a wasteland region located within the disputed Federal States territory. From there, he entered a nearby settlement. Educational background, employment history, social connectionsâall remain completely opaque."
Confucius' digital form nodded thoughtfully. "Has Sophon discovered no additional intelligence regarding this individual?"
Einstein shook his head grimly. Sophon monitors our entire world, but the sheer volume of data generated each second proves overwhelming. Moreover, it must simultaneously calculate restrictions upon human scientific advancement. Consequently, non-critical information undergoes periodic deletion to maintain operational capacity."
Planetary surveillance represented no simple undertaking. The information Sophon recorded every second reached astronomical proportions.
Though quantum entanglement arrays could transmit data regardless of distance, physical laws still imposed bandwidth limitations. Infinite simultaneous transmission remained impossible.
Furthermore, the data Sophon transmitted required processing by Trisolaran computers. Even their advanced civilization couldn't analyze such vast information streams in real-time, nor monitor every individual simultaneously.
Sophon's existence resembled installing cameras beside every humanâit didn't grant the Trisolarans twenty-four-hour observation of each person.
"Direct Sophon to increase surveillance focus upon this individual," Qin Shi Huang commanded. "Historical analysis becomes irrelevant now. From this moment forward, we must know every action this being takes."
"Comrades, remember our sacred purpose: ensuring our lords claim this world with minimal effort. Humanity cannot be saved. Earth belongs to the Three-Body."
War erupted across the continents like wildfire.
The Federal States' elite applied relentless pressure, demanding the Emperor's submission. Yet He had never considered peaceful coexistenceâfrom the beginning, His path led inevitably toward total war.
Conflict escalated rapidly from border skirmishes to full-scale continental warfare.
Initially, the federal leadership maintained supreme confidence. Their integrated modern military would surely crush the Emperor's ragtag revolutionary forces with contemptuous ease.
That confidence evaporated within hours of the first engagement.
The Emperor's gift for inspiration proved devastatingly effective. Even within federal ranks, His followers operated as a shadow network, continuously feeding intelligence to revolutionary forces.
One catastrophic defeat followed another, leaving the federal military in complete disarray. The Federal States of America collapsed like a structure built upon sand, continuously contracting defensive perimeters while losing territory with each passing day.
Desperation finally drove the President and his staff to ultimate folly.
"All personnel who have defected to this 'Emperor' stand guilty of treason against the United States of America," came the official declaration. "Nuclear weapons are hereby authorized for deployment against all rebel concentrations."
That order became the final catalyst for federal destruction.
Nuclear weapons represented the ultimate escalationâtheir deployment would inevitably cause massive civilian casualties.
Soldiers who had maintained lingering loyalty to the federal government defected en masse rather than participate in such an atrocity.
Generals receiving launch orders refused compliance, unwilling to bear responsibility for crimes against humanity. They understood that nuclear deployment would trigger global retaliation, potentially ending human civilization entirely.
When the final army group chose surrender over complicity, the Federal States of America declared its dissolutionâa mere two months after hostilities began.
The Emperor stood before assembled multitudes and proclaimed the birth of the Human Empire, issuing ultimatums to every remaining nation: submit to unification or face the consequences of continued division.
"Alternate universe Human Empire!" the Raven cawed with unrestrained excitement. "Once we merge the two Human Empires, we'll achieve a Tier-2 classification!"
With the Human Empire's declaration, the Emperor's influence over this reality's fate reached five percentâa significant milestone that granted the Raven substantial Primordial Power reserves.
A system notification materialized before the Emperor's consciousness:
"Fate Node altered by 5%. Acquired: Quantum Sensing Array communication technology, Sophon manufacturing protocols and associated knowledge base, Thought Steel Seal technology."
The Emperor examined this new knowledge with the analytical precision of one who had mastered the technologies of countless civilizations. These gifts would prove invaluable for the campaigns yet to come.
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