Chapter 295 Memorial Service and Integration of Man and Ship

September 23, 2038

The Empire held a memorial meeting in the central square of the ring world. All the senior officers and government officials of the Empire were present, as well as millions of citizens of the Empire who came to see them off spontaneously.

In the vast square, all the people who came to see them off were dressed in white robes, holding white flowers in their hands and standing silently around the square.

"Last month, in the decisive battle with the evil corrupter civilization, the brave warriors of our Empire sacrificed their precious lives in a foreign land for the safety of the motherland!"

"They fought the evil invaders to the last drop of blood! They! Are the heroes of the Empire!" Li Mingze also stood in the center of the square in a white funeral robe, covering his heart with his hands and said in a heavy tone.

At this time, the sky began to drizzle, as if crying to see off the heroes. People stood silently in the drizzle, letting the drizzle soak their clothes, and the rain and tears on their faces mixed together and dripped to the ground.

"Respectfully send the ashes of all the heroes into the Heroes Tower!" As Li Mingze waved his hand, the ground of the square began to shake violently.

A gray square obelisk with a length and width of 100 meters slowly rose from the ground. As the obelisk rose, everyone could see that it was densely engraved with names.

These were the names of the martyrs who died since the Empire entered the starry sky. After the Empire colonized the ring world, Li Mingze started the construction of this Heroes Tower.

Until recently, this Heroes Tower was completely completed. The huge obelisk tower with a height of 10,000 meters increased layer by layer, and the widest bottom was 5 kilometers wide! Up to 5 billion martyrs' names, native places, and ID codes can be engraved!

Now the millions of martyrs who have died in the Empire only occupy the top part of the entire tower.

As the national anthem was played, four soldiers formed a group, carrying a gray rectangular metal box with a length of two meters, a width of one meter, and a height of one meter, and lined up in a long line and walked into the square.

Each metal box contained the ashes of a hundred martyrs who died. Even if there were no ashes, there were still relics from his lifetime.

Four long lines of people walked into the square from four directions, each line was 20 kilometers long!

Soldiers wearing black power armor and white robes solemnly delivered the metal boxes containing the ashes of their comrades to the open space under the Heroes Tower.

Mechanical arms stretched out from the ground and sent these metal boxes into the Heroes Tower.

"Let us salute these soldiers for the last time!" Li Mingze said, raising his arms and saluting the Heroes Tower.

Millions of imperial citizens and soldiers who came to see them off also saluted the Heroes Tower. Imperial citizens in front of the TV also stood up and saluted. At this moment, the people of the entire empire were mourning the dead heroes.

The families of the heroes who had been crying in front of the TV stopped crying.

"Children (husband, father), can you see it in heaven?"

"If you can see it, I believe you will not regret your original choice and will not regret joining the Imperial Fleet!" The family members looked at the photos of their loved ones in their hands and tears fell again.

As the last urn was placed in the Heroes Tower, the huge Heroes Tower sank to the ground after a slight vibration, until only the top of the tower, which was hundreds of meters high, was exposed.

Li Mingze took off his white hat and bowed to the Heroes Tower before turning away. Qiuyue and Tianyi also bowed and followed.

The people in the square also placed the flowers in their hands around the stele tower and turned to leave the square in an orderly manner.

Li Mingze sighed as he walked. Tianyi behind him heard his sigh and shook his head. She knew that Li Mingze was feeling bad now, so it was better to let him be alone.

"I hope this Heroes Tower will never be filled." Li Mingze suddenly stopped, turned his head and looked at the top of the Heroes Tower and sighed.

"Your Majesty, it will never be filled." Tianyi patted Li Mingze on the shoulder and comforted him.

Dozens of days later, in the Imperial Royal Academy of Sciences.

"You watched the memorial service last month, right? What do you think?" Li Mingze stood in the conference hall of the Academy of Sciences and looked at many scientists. He found that there were many new faces among them, presumably the new humans.

"Your Majesty, we can't let our people sacrifice so meaninglessly anymore. The way of fighting must be reformed!" A scientist said to Li Mingze.

"Yes, it must be reformed. We must promote the unmanned warships!" A young scientist also expressed his opinion.

"Unmanned is certain, but how do we solve the problem that robots don't know how to adapt." Li Mingze frowned and knocked on the table in front of him.

"Your Majesty, I think we can let Lord Tianyi create some controllable intelligent life."

"Then we build a dedicated shipboard computer and confine these artificial intelligences to the shipboard computer, just like Alpha in the dreadnought!"

"We can use their underlying code to completely control them!" A scientist suddenly raised his hand.

"Oh? How about Tianyi, is this plan feasible?" Li Mingze asked Tianyi beside him.

"It's feasible. After mastering the underlying core code of the Dreadnought AI Alpha, I have mastered how to constrain these AIs!"

"If we start with both software and hardware, and then instill simulated memories of loyalty to the Empire, coupled with my level suppression and innate control over them, we will definitely be able to ensure that nothing goes wrong!" Tianyi answered with certainty.

"Very good! After we turn the ship-borne intelligence into life, we will transfer the authority of some weapons and defense equipment to these intelligent life."

"In this way, each of our warships only needs two captains and some officers on the bridge to control a warship! Maintenance and other things can be completely handed over to the artificial intelligence itself!" Li Mingze clapped his hands and said, the empire seems to be on the road of opening up artificial intelligence life.

"Your Majesty, instead of letting Lord Tianyi create an artificial intelligence that is unknown whether it can be controlled, we might as well integrate people into the warship." A scientist wearing black-framed glasses adjusted his glasses and said.

"Go on." Li Mingze nodded.

"Since our empire has already experimented with the combination of human brain and machine on special combat mechas, this technology has become mature and can be copied and used."

"We can completely replace the battleship's super host with an artificial super brain and connect the volunteer's brain to this super brain."

"Let the volunteer and the battleship become one, and control the battleship like controlling their own body, and with the assistance of the ship's low-level intelligence, we can completely only need two pilots for a battleship." The scientist habitually adjusted his glasses, causing a reflection.