Chapter 283: Advice! Weird navigator! Public opinion advice!

"Do you know the Atreides?"

At this time, Li De, who was far away at the headquarters of the Wanjie Base, sent a question to the captain of the Space Association on the other side of the Star Alliance through the dialogue communication device.

The captain of the Space Guild was very surprised to hear the other party ask this question. He asked the other party doubtfully: "Are you from the Atreides family?!"

The Atreides family is a top-notch family among the powerful elite in the Dune universe. They are moral role models among the powerful families and have great political influence.

If the Atreides family is converted into the context of the Three Kingdoms, it would be the Yuan family, a family with three officials for four generations.

As the core members of the Lansgard Council, the Atreides family usually seeks benefits for many aristocratic families, and therefore has won the support and love of many Dune nobles.

So when he heard the other party mention the name of the Atreides family, the captain of the Space Guild showed a look of surprise.

After all, it is unlikely that such a big family would have nothing better to do than hijack the spacecraft of the Space Guild.

"I'm asking you now, answer my question immediately!"

Reed shouted at the other party, scaring the captain so much that he nodded repeatedly, indicating that he knew the Atreides family.

Then, Li De continued to ask: "Then do you know the Harkonnen family and the Colino royal family?"

This time, the captain of the Space Association was honest and said that he knew them all. He also answered each of Li De's subsequent questions truthfully.

The Harkonnen family, like the Atreides family, once helped Butler quell the rebellion during the holy war between humans and AI.

As one of Butler's entrepreneurial team, after Empire State Building went public, Harkonnen naturally became a core shareholder and was able to participate in the benefits of dividends.

However, conflicts and disagreements arose between the Harkonnen and Atreides families over the key distribution of interests, and the two noble families became feuding families.

As the emperor, Butler was naturally very happy to see this situation, and would even deliberately allow the two aristocratic families to become more and more violent.

This trick of killing three men with two peaches has also become a necessary skill for the Colino royal family. After all, only if the ministers under their command are ruthless, can the throne under their butts be stable enough.

However, although the Harkonnen family is considered a very powerful aristocratic family among the many clans, the characters of these people are very greedy and violent.

To put it bluntly, he is still a bandit and does not care about what he does, especially when it comes to interests. He is like a starving ghost who would rather eat until his mouth is full of grease without caring about his image.

He was also unwilling to give up any of his profits to other families.

Therefore, in terms of reputation and prestige, the Harkonnen family is far inferior to the Atreides family.

Here, after learning from the captain that there are forces such as Atreides, Harkonnen and the Corino Royal Family in this universe, Reed has confirmed that this is the Dune universe.

"What is the current time? I want the specific time to be year, month, and day."

Reed asked the captain again.

Now that we have figured out that this is the Dune universe, we should figure out the current time point and see what stage the plot line has reached.

The questions asked by Li De are also the key information that Li Ang needs to know most now.

If Paul is now on his way to lead his army to crush Colino, the situation may be a little troublesome.

After all, he would have to fight Paul's troops with real swords and guns before he could successfully ascend the throne and become the Divine Emperor.

Although with the current technological capabilities of the Universal Corporation, it is not difficult to defeat the human civilization of the Dune Universe and forcibly complete the integration mission.

But this is not efficient, and the cost of war is very high. Le Ang is unwilling to pay such a heavy price.

So he now needs to figure out the timing so that it will be easier for him to deploy more specific tactics.

In response to Li De's inquiry, the captain of the Space Guild did not hide the truth from him and answered directly and truthfully: "It is April 10190, 4 AD."

After hearing this number, Li Ang, who was behind the scenes, seemed to be thinking about something. It seemed that they had arrived relatively early.

Because the story of "Dune 1" begins in 10191, at which time the Colino royal family has not yet killed the Atreides family.

As the protagonist, Paul is still a leisurely prince at home, but the conspiracy against the Atreides family has already begun to brew.

The royal family and the Harkonnens are sharpening their knives.

After learning these relevant information points, Reed ordered the Spartan warriors on the dreadnought to escort this group of people away and continue to interrogate them later.

In fact, the Astronomical Guild is neither good nor bad in the Dune universe.

As a completely profit-driven capital alliance, their only pursuit is to make money. To put it nicely, they are a business alliance; to put it bluntly, they are high-level workers who make money for the royal family and powerful families.

The world's giant companies have no intention of targeting an organization that is solely focused on doing business.

After all, this kind of forces will not be like fanatical and crazy religious believers who fight for their beliefs and ideals. They will only weigh the pros and cons and make the most correct choice.

It is often this type of organization that is easiest to negotiate cooperation with.

"I'm warning you, we are a member of the Space Guild, and our mission is to pick up the royal envoy. You have delayed my mission, so be careful or the royal family will hold you accountable!"

When the captain of the Space Guild saw the Spartan warriors in front of him trying to take their crew away, he began to shout and scold them.

He did not single out the name of the "Space Guild" to warn the Spartan warriors, because the captain himself knew that in front of the aristocratic factions, the Space Guild was just a small character with little influence.

This doesn't work at all.

Normally, even some small families dare to bully the crew members of the Space Guild, not to mention the people from some big families.

At this time, only by reporting the name of the royal family can the family's soldiers be calmed down.

Obviously, this crew member still did not take the Universal Corporation seriously, and he still mistakenly believed that the other party was a private company organization of a certain big family.

That's why they dared to intercept the spacecraft of the Astronautical Guild without fear.

However, in response to the captain's warning, the Spartan warrior stepped forward and grabbed his shoulders. With a little force, the captain grimaced in pain and began to scream in pain.

"Please cooperate with our work."

After saying that, the Spartan warrior let go of his hand, and the captain of the Space Guild immediately became obedient, and followed the other party away with a sullen look.

Seeing this scene, Li De couldn't help but smile. He even wanted to threaten the global giant enterprise.

With the current technological strength of the Universal Corporation, even if the entire Dune Galactic Empire were combined, they would not be a match for them.

Even if the Dune Empire's troops have Holtzman shield technology that can block laser cannons, that shield does not completely ignore laser cannons.

This shield technology, like the energy shield of the Reaper civilization, is still limited. It is impossible to maintain the protective state for a long time, and it will also run out of energy and become ineffective.

Therefore, the fleet of the Universal Corporation can completely break these shield barriers by using hard-light main guns to attack.

What's more, at the current stage, the world's giant companies have already mastered strategic-level weapons such as neutron annihilation.

With a single effortless neutron killing beam, a planet's life forms can be wiped out in less than three minutes. With such high efficiency, if Leon were not a human being, it would only take a short time for him to unify the Dune universe.

But this kind of brutal and mindless approach has never been Li Ang's style. Treating people to meals, beheading people, and treating people like dogs are his favorite tactics.

"Escort them all away and keep a close eye on them. Don't let them run away." Li De gave orders to the soldiers on the front line.

"Yes!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Spartan warriors took all the crew members of the Space Guild away.

The staff of the Research Department also entered the Space Association's high-class ship and checked and searched the equipment and devices inside one by one.

Soon, they found a "person" tied to a life support device in the cockpit.

But rather than being a human, it was more like a monster with severely degenerated limbs and only a big head left.

But this weird big head is the human navigator in the Dune universe!

When seeing this scene, the top executives of the giant companies in the conference room of the base headquarters couldn't help but frown, with expressions full of disgust.

"Is this the human navigator in the Dune universe? This is too abstract. If you don't know, you might think it's a brain in a vat."

"..."After hearing everyone's comments, Li Ang acted very calm, as if he was not surprised by this.

In fact, the navigators in the dunes also had normal human appearance at the beginning, but these navigators needed to take spices to maximize their potential.

This will help improve your calculation and thinking abilities.

But in the process of inhaling large amounts of spices, these professionally trained navigators will slowly mutate into monsters.

In general, the more abstract and bizarre the navigator's appearance, the stronger his calculation and predictive abilities.

There is no way. As the organ that consumes the most energy, the human brain is bound to have inevitable compensatory effects once it is overdeveloped and used.

The consequence of the expansion and overdevelopment of the brain is atrophy of the limbs and almost loss of mobility.

Although the navigators in the dunes are a bit ugly, the business capabilities of these humanoid AIs are still quite superb.

The navigator on this spaceship is a senior navigator, a high-level professional in the Astronaut Guild.

In the Dune universe, with a navigator of this level leading the way, there is basically no need to worry about the extreme space environment.

At this moment, after looking at the situation here, the employees of the giant companies at the headquarters of the Wanjie Base started a detailed discussion on the current Dune Universe.

The danger level of the Dune universe opened by the star gate this time is not very high, and the magical substance called spice is also unique.

This universe has low difficulty and high return rate, so the world giant should take over this universe as soon as possible.

Seeing that the opinions of the senior executives were converging towards a consensus, Song Zhaomei, the head of the strategic department of the giant company, expressed her opinion at this time.

"We should immediately dispatch a fleet to the Dune Universe and try to capture this universe as soon as possible!"

The integration of the "Dune" universe is a project personally selected by boss Leon, and at this moment, the executives of the giant company are just going through the process symbolically.

Therefore, there can be no opposition to the unification of the Dune universe.

So the next second, all the senior executives below echoed and supported Song Zhaomei's opinion.

"I agree with Director Song's opinion. The Dune universe is very suitable for the integration of our world giant enterprise."

The person who spoke was Ott Cunningham, the head of the scientific research department.

Because humans in the Dune universe gave up on the research and development of computer technology, the humans there are almost at zero level in terms of information technology!

Their information USB drives are even some specific cultivated organisms, and even their flapping-wing aircraft use scallop biological engines.

From this we can see that the technological points of the Dune humans basically include genetic modification, shield technology, and interstellar travel.

Even a few humans can gain some special abilities through spices and genetic engineering.

But facing the massive interstellar war, these people cannot change the situation, especially facing the human civilization of the huge scale of the Universe Giant Corporation, with strong production capacity and legion soldiers.

If the Cosmic Corporation wants to control the situation in the Dune Universe, it doesn't even need to send many fleets. It only needs a regular expeditionary force to handle the situation here.

On the point of integrating the Dune universe, all the top executives of the giant companies have reached a consensus.

But the key point now is how to carry out the next step.

"Everyone, tell us what you think."

At this time, Li De, standing on the main stage, looked around at the people below. In the previous Zhutian Action Plan, the decision maker was only Li Ang.

But today, for the first time ever, there is a time for the top executives of giant companies to come up with ideas.

Some confused executives of large companies began to fall into deep thought and did not dare to raise their hands to vote easily.

This is not because they don't know enough about the Dune universe and are worried about saying the wrong thing, but because they are afraid of taking responsibility for making the wrong idea.

After all, within the system, most of the time making fewer mistakes is far more important than making achievements.

"Hey! If you ask me, just give me two legions of fleets, and I will lead the navy to attack the Colino royal family, destroy the old emperor there, and let the boss take this position!"

Jack Wells, the new Chapter Master of the Iron Hands, stepped forward and spoke in a muffled voice.

Other executives of giant companies didn't dare to speak, but he had no concerns and spoke directly and bluntly, expressing Li Ang's true thoughts.

Giving him the fleet power of two legions is enough for the troops of the Universal Corporation to crush the royal family of the Dune Universe!

After all, the armed forces there have absolutely no ability to resist the neutron annihilation, Scorpion Tailed Lion virus, Sojourner Dreadnought, and star-destroying nuclear bombs of the Universal Corporation.

With Jack Wells speaking first, other executives of large companies also began to offer suggestions and express their personal ideas.

According to the previous experience of the world's giant companies in integrating the universe, there are actually only three integration plan ideas.

The first, and most simple and brutal method, is to rely on absolute force to forcibly take over the local boss and control him for one's own use.

For example, the planetary consciousness "Eva" of Pandora.

But this approach is only applicable to other species and civilizations, and is not very effective for humans. After all, it is difficult to convince the public by doing so.

The second scenario is that the global giant corporation becomes the savior, saves the local civilization, and casually completes the integration mission.

This state is the most ideal, with the lowest management cost and the best effect.

Because this can maximize the effect of convincing the public.

For example, the 001 "Underworld" universe, the 002 "Pacific Rim" universe, and the 003 "Edge of Tomorrow" universe all achieved the purpose of integration by relying on giant companies to play the role of saviors.

As for the third type, it will test the decision maker's micro-control ability.

For example, the 004 "Halo" universe took six years to completely integrate, and the Covenant War alone lasted nearly five years.

During this period, all the methods used by the world's giant companies were extremely unsuccessful.

But the core operation is still the same three steps -

Treat guests, behead them, and accept them as dogs.

In the Dune universe this time, the local human civilization has neither encountered external threats like the Covenant nor needed to be rescued by a giant cosmic corporation.

There is no god like Eva who can have final control over the local natives.

If we choose to go to war with the Colino royal family and forcibly kill the emperor here, it actually doesn't make much sense.

After all, there are so many powerful families in the Dune universe, and when one batch dies, another batch will emerge.

Once the Colino royal family dies, the throne will definitely be taken over by the most powerful family, leading the other families and fighting against the world's giant corporations to the end.

Even for the attack of the Universal Corporation on the Colino family, the Harkonnen and Atreides families, who are watching from the sidelines, may applaud and wait for the outcome of the battle.

Therefore, unless all the families in Dune are wiped out, it will be of no benefit for the giant corporation to rashly start a war.

Seeing a small dune universe actually made people feel a little helpless, and the senior executives below were in constant dispute for a while.

At this moment, Song Zhaomei, who had already seen the reference answers from Li Ang in advance, took the opportunity to put forward all the ideas of integrating politics and religion and joining the Divine Emperor.

By integrating the local human civilization as the Grand Pope or the Divine Emperor, the task of integration can be accomplished at the lowest cost, and even without going to war!

At this moment, all the executives of the giant companies present stopped talking and turned to look at Song Zhaomei.

Song Zhaomei also bowed her head and said to everyone in a serious tone:

"Everyone, the humans in the Dune universe firmly believe in the legend of the savior, but as we all know, the legends and mottos throughout history are nothing more than political propaganda manipulated by humans."

"Since the local humans are willing to fall for this trick, we should take advantage of it and package the boss as a savior from outer space, the emperor of all gods who will unify the universe."

"Only by doing this can we reduce the local people's rejection of the Universal Corporation as much as possible and facilitate our future management of the Dune Universe."

"..."

(End of this chapter)