To the irrelevant bystander the words were a bit middle-of-the-road.
But for these hundred-eyed creatures that were truly facing this sentence head on, it was a sentence that was heavy to the extreme.
A single sentence that decided to dominate the fate of one of their races.
Back inside the Hope.
Jon used the monitor to watch the much-suffering Hundred Eyes on the planet's surface.
In human history, colonization was cruel and without morals.
If there were any saints or clerics, they would have charged that Jon should have ruled the Hundred Eyes on this planet in a more civilized way.
"Ella, is my colonization right or wrong?"
He was a little uncertain.
Because one of his words could affect the future of the Hundred Eyes, which was a bit too much for him, who was just an unusual computer engineer before.
Good thing Ella was unbiased.
"Of course that's correct, Jon."
"All human morals and laws are based on one foundation, and that is the supremacy of mankind."
"No creature can challenge the position of mankind, for example if a rare tiger injures a human then it will be put to death."
"For example, if a human being falls into extreme hunger, even if there is the last panda in the world in front of him, a human being can just kill it and eat it without breaking the law."
"These things are certainly cruel to other beings."
"But for human beings, this is the foundation, and without stabilizing this foundation, human society will fall into chaos."
"Extreme animal protectionism, extreme environmentalism, extreme vegans, through and through, are the destroyers of the human order."
"At the beginning of the 21st century, there was no way for humans to circumvent the environmental damage of development, and if it was forced to be reversed, then the result would have been to save the environment and the animals, but the deaths of millions and millions of humans."
"After all, humans living in the world's great cities cannot imagine that there are still a full 500 million starving people around the world in 2037, people who are waiting to be rescued by industrial development."
"Similarly, humans should not give any intelligent creature, whatever it may be, the strength and courage to challenge humans."
"In other civilizations, as well, if the Earth had not been destroyed in the gamma rays, and the light chasing civilizations had found the Earth by tracking the gamma ray bursts, and they had sent their spacecraft to arrive, it would have been the human race that would have been enslaved afterwards."
Ella's words made Jon discard the last stray thought in his own mind.
It was a necessary process for colonization.
"Then do it."
"After that, separate the adult and juvenile bodies among the Hundred Eyes, subject the juveniles to the new education model, and restrain the adults from spreading this information."
"If there is any violation, execute the whole family."
This was what Jon had thought of long ago.
Ella still couldn't understand this behavior as an AI.
"Jon, are you asking me to give you a reason for doing this?"
"Humans are still really complex individuals, it looks like it will take a long time for me to be a good human."
Ella is right.
...
Afterwards Jon made a name for the civilization.
"Chasing Light."
The pursuit of light in a dark and silent starry sky.
The intelligent species is also officially named the "Hundred Eyes".
After colonizing the planet, Jon had Ella create a number of policies to keep the Hundred Eyes at bay.
Among them was a policy to civilize the next generation of Hundred Eyes.
The first thing to do was to change the language and writing of the Hundred Eyes.
Because the surface of the civilized planet only had very thin air, none of the beings on the planet were able to make sounds, and they were presumed to use their movements to pass on information before communicating with light.
So the original flickering of light was still used as the language.
Ella seized all of this civilization's weapons, centralized all of the information from the Hundred Eyes, translated it into English records, and burned the original information.
It started making schools on the planet's surface.
And segregated their scientists in a separate area from the regular Hundred Eyes.
These schools were to encompass all the Hundred Eyes and have them learn English.
The written word was only the first step, there was also a need to compile books on human civilization, books that described the greatness of human civilization, the compassion of human civilization, the advancement of human civilization, the transcendence of humanity itself.
In the compiled books, the Hundred-Eyed Race is in dire straits because of the tyranny within their own civilization, and countless Hundred-Eyed Race people are worse off than dead.
A Hundred Eyes doctor sent a light signal towards the universe, which was captured by the human civilization.
The human civilization sent a fleet of ships across several light years to rescue the Hundred Eyes.
It also portrays Jon as the ruler of human civilization, the supreme prophet shaman.
All the information.
All of it had humans as the top.
Many things even Jon couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle when he saw them.
"We'll need that next, won't we, Ella."
Jon put the tablet down and stopped paying attention to the colonization information.
He was going to say one of the original plans.
Biology.
That had been Ella's shortcoming.
The original plan 1 was to colonize the civilization.
Plan 2 was Jon's longevity.
"That's right, Jon."
"I've begun collecting samples of the organisms on the planet's surface."
"An incomplete count has now identified individual species on the planet, ranging from microbes to megafauna."
One hundred and twenty thousand species.
Jon thought of Earth, this number of species was really low compared to Earth, especially after adding microbes.
"Can so few make a complete ecosystem?"
Ella nodded.
"Can."
"This planet uses volcanoes as a source of resources and gases, so all life comes from the energy they provide."
"Jon, one can think of the volcanoes here as the planet's water."
"The ecosystems formed by the volcanoes are not large ecosystems in the conventional sense, but small island ecosystems."
"Of course, there are other reasons why species are so few in the records of that civilization."
"The development of the species gathered aggression and predation, leading to the extinction of large organisms in this planet."
"At the same time the previous Absolute Zero weapon had also extinguished almost half of the species on this planet, and combined with the Antimatter Annihilator Cannon, it was predicted to have extinguished almost 40,000 species on the planet."
The horrors of interstellar warfare, the casual extinction of hundreds of thousands of species.
"Pity!" Jon sighed.
All of these species could have been extremely valuable for research.
"So, anything?"
Ella pulled up the results and put them on the screen.
"The main finding is the Hundred Eyes themselves."
"They are closer to the human eukaryotic domain, and have an unexpectedly high genetic fit with Earth creatures."
"The common lifespan of the Hundred Eyes is around 400 years, and I've extracted their associated longevity genes."
"Combined with an analysis of the protein database created by 'AlphaFold', the most comprehensive protein structure prediction AI of the Earth Age, it was concluded that using the planet's gene pool could theoretically increase your lifespan to 620 years."
"Soon this technology can be applied to you Jon."