The Dark Forest Law is a derivative of the Fermi Paradox.
It is based on the fact that survival is the first priority of civilization; everything in the universe is limited, and civilizations must constantly expand and grow.
In this way, the civilizations in the universe can not avoid conflict, and in order to obtain more resources, they must occupy other civilizations.
Coupled with the fact that communication between civilizations is very difficult, and the idea that those who are not of our kind will always be different, it is very difficult for civilizations to release their goodwill to each other.
With what Jon had stumbled upon today, the universe within his vision was not far from the Dark Forest Law's point of view.
As was their conflict with the Hundred Eyes.
The Hundred Eyes had attacked them in the first place, because the Hundred Eyes didn't judge what the Hope had come to their starfield to do.
They had no way of knowing if Jon had any ill will towards their civilization.
They also had no way to tell if Jon thought they had malice towards Jon himself.
All the better to be the first to attack when you can't tell, lest you suffer a first strike from the enemy.
The Hundred Eyes were also developing at a vastly different rate than the humans, proving another argument of the Dark Forest Laws, technological explosion.
Despite this.
Jon himself did not agree with the Laws of the Dark Forest.
One of the most important of them is "When a coordinate is exposed, regardless of whether or not a civilization actually exists at that coordinate, it is bound to be struck by a random nature."
For example, there are one million civilizations in the Milky Way, when a civilization's coordinates are exposed, 900,000 of them will choose to do nothing, 90,000 of them will choose to investigate, and there will be civilizations that will make different choices from the first two, that is, to attack randomly in that direction.
Under this premise, the law of the dark forest was established, and all civilizations in the universe tried their best to hide themselves, like hunters lurking in the forest.
However, in the development, level 1 civilization is unable to detect whether the outside world is in the dark forest or not, just like those 10,000 civilizations that choose to attack, there are bound to be civilizations that choose to blindly expand and grow rapidly, and such civilizations are surely not few.
The fastest speed in the universe is the speed of light. If a civilization does not find any other civilization within 100 light years through 10,000 years of observation, can it use these 100 years to expand to other star systems?
And, if there is a supreme civilization in this universe, and that civilization can no longer detect any civilization higher than itself in this universe, the only way for them to develop is to break out of this universe and see worlds outside of this universe, and that requires them to integrate the energy of the entire universe? Is the Dark Forest unsustainable?
There may not be only hunters and prey in this forest, but also donkeys with campfires, tigers fighting over territory, eagles circling over the forest, rats thinking they will not be discovered, and even civilizations like the Trisomes that have to move because of their own environment.
How can the Dark Forest be sustained in this way?
The Laws of the Dark Forest circumvented these points, leaving civilizations all at one extreme, the hunter who hides and the prey who is found.
But Jon couldn't refute that the Dark Forest Laws were wrong.
For the Dark Forest Law itself was the result of using backwards extrapolation.
As he observed, right now he didn't find the entire universe alive and noisy, only silent.
But in a journey of 4 light years, he had already encountered two high-level civilizations.
Jon didn't care if the Dark Forest Law was right or wrong.
Because he had a long enough time to verify what this universe was really like.
The only thing that Jon found laughable were the civilizations that truly practiced the Dark Forest Laws.
Hiding itself away would inevitably leave it with fewer means to detect the outside, so that if a true spoiler existed, the civilization would have no choice but to go in with its neck on the line in the case of unequal information.
Civilizations, if they were hunters, would be hungry, and tired, and wondering, and short of patience.
They would want to know if there is an imaginary enemy behind that tree on the other side.
So the hunter will not only be on the lookout, but may also take the initiative.
While a civilization does its best to hide itself, it should also be aware of whether or not there is a pair of eyes in this forest that have been watching them, observing them.
Jon called this civilization, the Observer.
It could be the supreme civilization, or it could be the ninety thousand civilizations that couldn't help but probe, eighty-nine thousand out of those ninety thousand found nothing, but a thousand civilizations found the target civilization, and they lurked and watched, drooling saliva and eyeing.
And right now, Jon is the observer of the civilization on Proxima B.
And this observer was already preparing something to enjoy this dinner.
"Ella, is the production complete?"
Fifty years had passed since the exploration of the civilization on the planet Beagle Star B.
During these 50 years Jon had been asking Ella to do one thing.
Gathering matter from the surrounding asteroids to build a thing.
"It's done Jon!"
Ella replied and released an image of the thing being made.
It was a behemoth, and the Hope looked tiny in front of it.
Measuring meters high and 5,439 meters in diameter, it was a huge cylindrical tower, like the Tower of Babel in ancient Babylonian mythology.
In fact.
It was indeed the Tower of Babel.
It was the pinnacle of all of Ella's technology right now, with light civilization alloys applied externally, its own technology using a combination of light and positive and negative matter technology, and the largest magnetic shield installed.
It makes extensive use of virtual reality and holographic projection technology.
It was a huge tower of challenges, and to ascend to its highest level, one needed to enter from the bottom to hit the top 200 floors.
"Based on your observations, is the civilization on Planet B of Proxima capable of breaking its defenses?"
Ella was confident.
"The civilization's energy source is actually similar to that of human civilization and does not possess photon or quark level particle weapons."
"The Tower of Babel has been filled with 90% of the antimatter that we have accumulated over the years, even if the civilization is bombarded with all of its weapons, it will be able to hold back 7~10 Earth days."
"Combined with the plan you came up with Jon, it should be foolproof, and has a success rate of 84.25% in my simulations."
Jon frowned.
He felt that this probability wasn't enough.
"Let's wait a little longer."
"Start again when this probability reaches 90%."
"The other plan can be started."
Ella nodded vigorously and stood at attention in front of Jon and saluted.
"Yes, Captain!"
Since exiting the virtual world, Ella was much more animated, and would now and then draw this inexplicable madness.
Jon didn't bother with it, but looked at the information he got in his hand over and over again.
The latest news delivered back was.
That robot had begun to work on hacking into the information network of the neighboring star civilization, and had spread the news of the invasion of a higher civilization in it in large quantities, and predicted that a high tower would descend.
This type of information was not conspicuous within that civilization and did not attract any special attention.
However it was widely spread, and a large number of Beeline B creatures had already seen the message, and that was exactly the effect he was trying to achieve.
"This will be a conquest without smoke."
Having been in the virtual world for so long, Jon had also grown more.
Especially being the king in it gave him more rich experiences and lessons.
How to use information and psychology instead of violence to fight.