After giving birth to pregnant eggs, the Arakans would put the eggs into a special nutrient solution. In ancient times, this nutrient solution needed to be secreted by the female Arakans themselves, which required a lot of energy and even led to the birth of some ethnic groups. In order to eliminate the bad habit of eating males to replenish energy, after entering the technological era, this nutrient solution became artificially synthesized, but it required a lot of food.
After 2 years of incubation, the young Arakans will be born. At that time, they will all look the same, with a soft-bodied worm appearance, and must live in a humid environment, and must live in a humid environment every day. They need to eat a lot of food - during the three years they grow, they need to eat nearly 60 times their initial body weight in food, until they grow to almost the same size as their mother. During this period, the female Arakon takes care of the young.
Three years after hatching, the young Arakans will undergo the most important transformation in their lives. They will turn into a giant cocoon that lasts for a full year until they break out of the shell and become semi-adults. They have gender differences.
Semi-adult Arakans are slightly smaller than adults and have no carapace protection. They need to learn under the protection of the group for 5-6 years to master the skills and knowledge they need to live independently, and eat a lot of nutrients. , eventually growing a carapace and becoming an adult Arrakhan.
In other words, it takes about 10-12 years for an Arrakhan to grow from conception to adulthood, even faster than humans. Compared with its relatively long lifespan, this reproductive efficiency is very high. The only restriction on their population is mainly food.
It can be seen from the entire breeding process that the Arakans need to consume a huge amount of food to grow. Although they strive to develop their own agriculture and livestock industry, after the population reaches a certain number, "eating" is still the largest and most difficult problem in the entire society. The problems that have been solved have not been alleviated by scientific and technological progress. Even because the Arakans have higher requirements for future generations, they have formulated a set of very high standards of "growth recipes."
Since the Arakans are sterol-heterotrophic organisms, the most critical elements for their growth and development are selenium and sterols. This is the key to the rapid development of the Arakan female’s intelligence, and also the key to the male’s super explosive muscles. The reason is that this high-standard diet structure has greatly improved the quality of the population of the Arakans, and has also brought about explosive growth in science and technology. Many outstanding female scientists have emerged. However, it has also brought problems to their home planet. Huge automated farms organized as cooperatives cover every corner of the planet, but demand always exceeds supply.
Before the Tau invasion, if a female Arrakhan wanted to give birth to a batch of offspring, it required the entire cooperative to devote all its efforts. All females worked to the limit to barely meet the requirements. Even if the technological capabilities of space navigation were achieved, However, due to the relatively barren galaxy in which it is located, the food problem of Arakan society has not been solved by entering the space age. The Holy Trinity Council has to invest limited resources in technology and space to seek new colonies, but this in turn has side effects. This has increased the burden on the bottom cooperatives of Arakan, and even because of the heavy breeding tasks, some young female Arakans gave up living in groups and giving birth to offspring and chose to live alone in the nest city. In addition, the cost of raising males is higher than that of females and they do not participate in production activities. Many cooperatives gradually reduced the number of male gestations, basically maintaining only one male per litter. This resulted in that when the population of this race expanded to more than three billion, the number of males was less than four million - including one-fifth of the male population. Half adult.
A big reason for the success of the Tau invasion is that the Arakans have problems in their own society - cooperatives have disintegrated one after another, and the population has declined instead of increasing. Many females choose to live alone until death, while males They stayed in the sect for a long time to hone their martial arts skills without paying attention to worldly affairs. In the end, when foreign enemies came, the Arakans, with a population of more than 3 billion, only had more than 3 million soldiers to fight. After eight years of struggle, they could only abandon their homes and flee.
But food is almost not a problem for Ada. In the initial stage of the Arakans’ resettlement, the Royal Court will provide them with high-quality food and nutrient solutions for hatching. , they only need to focus on restoring the number of their own population. After their number reaches a certain scale, they can be granted more efficient agricultural technology and food synthesis technology. In fact, the Arrakans themselves also have some unique technologies, coupled with their environmental protection The requirements are not high, and can be developed in extremely cold or high temperature environments. However, the demand for oxygen, that is, the atmosphere, is relatively high, and transforming the planet's atmosphere is just a piece of cake for Ark Ada, let alone Wang Ting.
Therefore, Soshyan is very confident that he can "use" all three galaxies.
After a moment of silence, Am'ke said slowly:
"This condition is difficult for us to accept. Both Sha'drag and Hou'Sain once had our colonies, although both Destroyed at the hands of the Zerg, the great Fire Caste commander Shas'i'Vorka led the nuclear-hunting guerrillas in Sha'dragg for sixty days, and the last defenders of Hou'Saan were in an abandoned mine. After holding on for a hundred days, they have become a symbol of Ke'shan's unyielding. If they are handed over to you, the people of Ke'shan will not be able to accept them emotionally."
"So, you are going to refuse?"< br>
"You can change the conditions. Those two galaxies have been severely damaged by the Zerg and will bring you little meaning." Soshiyang looked at the other party, and after a while, he nodded slightly.
“No matter, if you really want it, the Arakans will get it themselves, so I won’t get it for them myself, but as a price, you will provide the Arakans with the food they need as compensation. The term is 30 years, and the amount in the first year is 4 billion tons, and will increase by 5% every year.”
This is to ask the people of Ke'shan to feed their future enemies with their own sweat!
Am'ke calmed down his anger and nodded.
"Okay."
"Then, the remaining issue is about compensation. I have written the numbers on it. Do you have any other ideas?"
No. He had no idea, but he wanted to faint. This was almost an astronomical figure. Even though the Ke'shan family had a good industrial foundation, such a huge figure was enough to drain all their strategic reserves.
"Your Highness the Phoenix King, I don't understand. Your weapons are obviously more advanced than ours, why do you need these?"
"For use by vassal races, Ada's weapons are generally used by races. It’s not very useful, but your weapons are just okay, mainly because they are very versatile.”
"The quantity is too huge, please be more lenient."
Soshiyang thought for a while and agreed to the other party's request.
"Then pay in ten years."