Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1262 - 481: Deeply Fortunate (Part 2)

At this moment, Ren Zhong heard a shout from Sun Ai in his ear, "Uncle! We’ve made a major discovery. The engineers responsible for cleaning up the battlefield have found something good!"

"What?"

"A piece of the Mother Empress Ship’s ovary with over 80% preservation!" Sun Ai’s tone was filled with excitement.

Ren Zhong was a bit puzzled.

Although the explosion power of C1915 was quite astounding, everything has exceptions. No matter how thoroughly the Mother Empress Ship was shattered, finding one or two good pieces is reasonable.

Moreover, the ovary of the Mother Empress Ship is inherently a core organ for producing reproductive subunits, and it should have an extra layer of protection, so preserving it relatively well is to be expected.

Thus, Ren Zhong did not quite understand why Sun Ai was so excited.

But once Sun Ai explained, he understood.

It turned out that although the Mother Empress Ship is named as a ship, its essence is a giant monolithic organism.

It does not have a centralized brain like humans, and its network neuron core cells that carry memories are distributed all over its body, especially concentrated in the ovaries.

The cells in the ovaries are mainly divided into two types: One being network neuron core cells that carry memories and thoughts, and the other being giant reproductive cells containing complete genetic information.

Giant reproductive cells have a large size and contain 46 extremely long chromosomal chains inside.

These chromosomal chains hold a massive amount of genetic information.

During reproductive subunit cultivation, the chromosomal chains of giant reproductive cells extract different fragments to create smaller embryonic cells. Once matured, these embryonic cells develop into specific creatures such as "Disorder", "Lurking", "Stinger", "Elephant", "Sandworm", and so on.

"We have the opportunity to retrieve the memory of the Mother Empress Ship from this piece and glimpse the secrets of the Sublimes through the analysis of giant reproductive cell nuclei. During battles between the Empire and the Sublimes, getting hold of a complete giant reproductive cell is extremely rare. Once it is clear that defeat is inevitable and irreversible, the Mother Empress Ship often self-destructs the ovaries and leaves not a single complete giant reproductive cell. The giant reproductive cells of the Mother Empress Ship are practically a giant treasure trove. Throughout millions of years of warfare history, the Empire obtained complete giant reproductive cells less than five hundred times, averaging once every ten thousand years. Each similar gain helps the Empire to update the Sublime database, significantly advancing the Empire’s biotechnology, and can provide substantial assistance on the frontlines of war for the Empire." Sun Ai summarized this way.

Ren Zhong raised an eyebrow, "So have I made a military achievement?"

Sun Ai nodded, "Of course! Oh, it’s a pity you have obtained the giant reproductive cells of a fourth-class Mother Empress. If it were a first-class Mother Empress, just this achievement would be enough to make you the first new Duke in fifty thousand years. In history, no one has ever acquired a first-class Mother Empress’s giant reproductive cells."

Ren Zhong: "Then what about the fourth-class Mother Empress? Viscount?"

"Yes, Viscount." Sun Ai replied, "Your Viscount title now is a temporary post added to meet the power structure needs when the Colonization Fleet returns. You have only the name of Viscount, not the substance. Although you took over nine administrator posts and completed the second half of the journey returning, which counts as meritorious, establishing the Source Star Colony was still their achievement. Without this battle, your merits likely could only earn you a Life Peerage title, at most ensuring a Hereditary Life Peerage, obtaining a piece of feudal estate not exceeding ten million square kilometers on a planet. But the ovary fragment of the fourth-class Mother Empress could make you a Hereditary Viscount, and still in the middle-upper echelon of Viscounts. Additionally, coupled with your management escorting the Colonization Fleet in completing the return and defeating the Mother Empress Patrol Team’s major military accomplishments, you have a great chance to become a Life Peerage Earl, and your descendants can obtain the Hereditary Viscount title. Of course, those are bonuses, the core remains this ovary fragment. What a stroke of luck."

Ren Zhong was quite satisfied upon hearing this, "Understood, it’s indeed a good thing."

"Should I now report the military achievement to the Empire?" Sun Ai asked.

Ren Zhong shook his head, "Wait a bit, first analyze the neuron core cells and check the memory of the Mother Empress Ship. I always feel that the Mother Empress Ship knows our whereabouts too well; things might not be that simple."

Sun Ai responded.

Soon after, Ren Zhong received bad news. Sun Ai said: "The quantity of micro-particle radiation generated by the fusion nuclear explosion is too great, the irradiation intensity too high, so most of the information in the neuron core cells of this piece has been dispersed and cannot be identified. Only a small amount of information in the cells is relatively intact, but it is not the complete memory of the Mother Empress Ship; it’s quite fragmented, and I have to reorder and piece them together to recognize, and it’s all rather recent."