Chapter 173 Trisolaris' Differentiation_1

Due to the unique social structure of Trisolaris, when faced with major changes and choices, their entire society will exhibit collective alienation and fragmentation.

This is a good way for a group society to avoid annihilation, and many species on Earth have also evolved similar abilities.

Trisolaris is a highly intelligent group society, and this process is incredibly complex; even the Trisolarans do not have a sufficiently perfect social model to explain it, as sometimes analyzing oneself is indeed the most difficult.

Under the long-term pressure of the resource exchange program, an increasing number of people choose dehydration, and newly emerging leaders are often those with new thoughts. In the "tolerant" Trisolaran society, the entire society gradually divided into three main factions:

Warring Faction: Led by the former sovereign and most Joint Chief Executives, they advocate for a fight to the death with human civilization after learning cunning strategies, to vie for the maximum living space;

Escapist Faction: Led by the new generation of Governors and some former Joint Chief Executives, they hold a pessimistic attitude towards the possibility of Trisolaris defeating Earth, advocating the use of all resources to build warships for escape;

Survival Faction: This faction has a small proportion among the top level but the highest proportion among the middle and lower levels. They are, to be precise, what remains after the other two factions choose, and are also the largest group. They advocate supporting the Warring Faction before the doomsday war, and if defeated, supporting the Escapist Faction.

There is not much to say about the Survival Faction, as their stance superficially appears supportive of the Warring Faction, but in fact, they support neither.

The Warring Faction believes that whether or not they can defeat human civilization, the Trisolaran civilization needs to fill the gaps in its own culture, as this would make them more likely to survive in the universe.

The Warring Faction believes that defeating humans may not be the most crucial aspect; what is key is for the Trisolarans to make a strategic breakthrough. If not for this, they would not have agreed to strategic collaboration with Lin Sen, which naturally was also Lin Sen's calculation: without sufficient pressure, the Trisolarans certainly would not have the desire to cooperate.

The battle targeted not just human civilization, but themselves, a breakthrough for their own sake. Winning would mean securing the true future of Trisolaris, while fleeing might just mean losing that future.

It is apparent that this is different from the early thoughts of the Trisolaran high-level executives; it is a new thought born under the pressure of Lin Sen's resource exchange program, facing pressure by confronting difficulties.

Especially when the entire civilization is used for a high-stakes gamble, in the crisis of 110 years, the Trisolarans came very close to losing that gamble, but in the end, they won, and the Earth Camp's cage-breaking plan saved Trisolaris.

Belief is also vitally important in an army and is an important sign of military strength. Primitive tribes often rely on superstitious religions to consolidate their rule, which can instantly collapse when encountering something beyond their comprehension.

In the Korean War, the weapons of the opposing sides were nearly half a century apart in advancement, and the economic disparity was even greater; but we had a belief that this battle had to be won. It was a battle for the nation's founding.

Both Trisolaran and human civilizations regarded this war as a battle for the founding of their civilizations and believed it must be won. That is belief.

But Trisolaran society also sees the crosser, Lin Sen, as an unknown, and how could Lin Sen know about the social form and cultural evolutionary methods of the Trisolarans?

This is mainly Lin Sen's guess, and if the guess is incorrect, the Trisolarans might also be willing to reach a strategic agreement with Lin Sen, but it would only affect Lin Sen's final Lagrange plan. Lin Sen would just need to modify the plan appropriately, and his own status would not be greatly affected.

The Lagrange plan, in essence, was Lin Sen's exercise for humanity, a rehearsal for the envisioned future societal state and circumstances. Even without this exercise, the impact would not be crucial. With humanity's current strength, there may well be a chance of winning in the doomsday war.

The emergence of the Escapist Faction is mainly because of the human achievement in just a short hundred years, which has led to pessimism regarding the doomsday war, as well as the pressure of the resource exchange program on the Trisolarans, making them reluctant to confront humanity to the death, preferring to escape beforehand.

Based on the current analysis of the Trisolarans, in the next hundred years, it is possible that human technology could experience a surge, while the Trisolarans remain fixed with The Waterdrop.

The Waterdrop was not invincible; its strength came from its unknown nature. Humans might guess the essence of The Waterdrop at first sight.

Just as a tank on a medieval battlefield would be utterly dominant, after witnessing its capabilities and calming down, the people of the Middle Ages would have methods to deal with it.

History indeed has seen a few musketeer squads defeat armies of tens of thousands from backward tribes, but what we often celebrate are rare occurrences in history.

Given human ingenuity, The Waterdrop might have only one chance to attack and must achieve all its battle objectives in one strike; otherwise, the Trisolarans would be very likely to fail.

Trisolarans are extremely cautious in warfare, generally neither gambling nor taking risks, for example, they launched The Waterdrop only after Logic fired the "Spell".

The original text seems to indicate that a dense formation was humanity's greatest mistake. Had it not been for such a formation, many human warships should have been able to escape. In reality, the outcome would have been the same without the dense formation.

The original text actually says other Waterdrops adjusted direction, circling around various parts of the sun, and had it not been for entering The Deterrence Era, Chu Yan's Escape Fleet wouldn't have been able to flee either.

But this wasn't the most crucial point, the key was the pressure the resource exchange plan put on the Trisolarans, who were tense for decades, especially as the crisis 110 years away drew nearer.

Many in the Trisolaran society had opposed building Sophons, advocating instead for escape spacecraft, and it was at this time that the Escapist Faction was born.

Nobody knew whether, 110 years before the crisis, humans would stop building accelerator spacecraft, and the Trisolarans suffered immensely, nearly driving some of them to suicide with countless more dying from dehydration.

It also took the metallic willpower of the Trisolarans; if it were humans, they definitely would not have held out until the last moment and would have likely given up and chosen to flee much earlier.

Now, Trisolaris too experienced a technological explosion, with escape technology becoming more mature and even capable of recalling the First Fleet to flee to other star systems.

In effecting the escape, they actually didn't have to worry about future human pursuit. If humans pursued, the Trisolarans could also deter by acting as a "planet buster" and reveal Earth's coordinates.

As for whether a complete evacuation could be accomplished, this was essentially a non-issue among Trisolarans. First, they didn't care about the lower classes, and second, it was estimated that humans would not invade the Trisolaran world for another thousand years, giving the Trisolarans time to evacuate most of their population.

Indeed, the dispute between the Warring Faction and the Escapist Faction was like the controversy in the original text between reactionless engines and traditional power engines; the real argument was not over which method was better, but which saved more time.

The Escapist Faction believed more resources should be invested in escape; in the scenario of an end-day battle where humans and Trisolarans were in a stalemate, the Trisolarans would lose, and by then, the preparations for escape would be significantly reduced.

In fact, they missed a key point, Lin Sen didn't perform the Dark Forest broadcast confirmation and was actually luring the Trisolarans into a decisive battle. When the enemy hopes you will battle, can you still fight?

This type of group division within Trisolaran society, after a brief period of chaos, would also tend toward normality, especially since the three camps fundamentally had little conflict.

Particularly since humans gave up building the accelerator spacecraft, there wasn't much of a resource competition, and the Trisolarans did not indulge in internal strife like humans.

But the problem was that the Brainwave Blocker changed everything.