Star Empire

"That's right, from now on, our civilization should be said to live on the Ark Fleet instead of relying on the fleet to live in exile in the void." A clear female voice suddenly inserted into the communication channel of the spiritual link, calling everyone They were all shocked:

"...Lil, when did you flash here?" Looking at the beam of light that suddenly lit up in the endless emptiness around him and the figure that emerged from the beam of light, Victorville didn't react for a moment.

"I have been listening for a long time. Anyway, I have the authority of the emperor, and there is no such accusation as eavesdropping for me."

Weisrifan folded his arms and smiled, "Yes, life. The Ark was once designed to only carry escaped citizens for a low-level life. Later, in order to avoid the non-navigation loss of crystal energy, as well as those low-authority individuals The material bodies disintegrated due to their own reasons. We sealed all their souls into crystals and shut down a large part of the entire spacecraft. Thousands of years of silence and silence, the situation at that time could not even be lived. Or maybe it’s not even called survival, but more like guarding a tomb.”

"Lil, you seem to have a big problem with that environment?"

"Of course, mentioning these contents at that time could be said to be extremely inappropriate and even criminal, but now, with sufficient resources, we must start to consider the content about "life" again."

"Even the chief scientist who serves as a consultant by my side, his work is still essentially military in nature. After all, social issues are almost no longer a problem for the federation, and there are dedicated people responsible for specialized tasks. These problems are simply unnecessary. Use these valuable and elite human resources.”

"But I think you should have determined that at that time, the powerful "Σ" civilization most likely exerted a considerable degree of psychological suggestion on us. In addition, the super long lifespan and the fact that it has been idle for more than ten billion years The combination of state of mind, various factors and environment is enough to become a powerful shackle that suppresses everyone's psychological activities, and now, this shackle no longer exists."

"Thinking about these issues from the perspective of a soldier, there is no problem in shaping the social environment of the entire country into a huge military camp, and the stability that can be achieved by doing so is more stable than any other system in the early stage. The majority of ordinary individuals The soul has been reshaped. Compared with the previously attached thinking modules and logic plug-ins, this change at the base of the soul is much stronger than the additional non-life form compatibility facilities, so some of the issues that needed to be worried about in the past are now It may no longer exist.”

"...Based on the existing social operation model and the actual situation after integration, if we don't care about culture or life, and just confirm efficiency and absolute unity, a huge military camp can indeed greatly improve our combat effectiveness, but This is only in the short term."

"If this continues for a long time in the future, the development of thoughts and ideas is likely to stagnate to a considerable extent, and the overall life structure model of "all people with one heart and supra-individuality" will completely wash away the divergent thinking of the entire civilization. Rather than being a smart person, he is more like a beast that only makes himself run faster, has sharper claws, and stronger muscles, becoming more and more able to fight, and more and more likely to be hunted by surprise."

"Although there are not many entities that can be regarded as "civilizations" in our former home universe, if we consider different regional branch phenomena, this situation can be said to be not uncommon. It's just that many times in the past, we were hunters. "

"Um"

"Of course, I am not doubting our current system. After all, when the system was formulated, I agreed with it from the bottom of my heart. However, unlike the old binary computers that ran completely according to pure logic, we are a computer with a large amount of information and A country composed of intelligent creatures with huge uncertain souls. In normal development, we still need culture - at least according to the current environment, after making comparisons, I think such an approach is valuable."

"I know, Lil, everyone has their own focus. In terms of society, operations, etc., I only know part of the content, and there are even fewer people who can use it. I am afraid that when we gradually regain our clarity and know that we should all After doing something and thinking about something, I'm afraid you will think that many parts of me are superficial - I won't say more about this part, Lil, can you do it?"

"Of course. After all, I am the emperor, not a follower and not a vase."

"Are you pretending not to know, or were you really in the dark about everything at that moment?"

"I think it's more likely to be the latter..."

"?! Not serious!"

Civilization is the sum of the humanistic spirit, inventions and creations, as well as public order and good customs that have been precipitated throughout history and are conducive to enhancing human beings' adaptation and understanding of the objective world. They are in line with human spiritual pursuits and can be recognized and accepted by the vast majority of people. Civilization is the collection of all social and natural behaviors that enable humans to escape from barbarism. These collections include at least the following elements:

Family concepts, tools, language, writing, beliefs, laws, city-states and countries, etc. Even though the ever-advancing social system, powerful productivity, and nearly endless life span have disintegrated the traditional family structure, faith once completely transformed into technological evolution under the protection of rationality and the continuous advancement of technology.

Although, during the Great Stagnation, belief systems similar to old religious concepts, such as relying on transcendent existences outside the universe for progress or enlightenment, once again reappeared, but as the Star Federation was crushed by the tide of death, After being completely wiped out, there were once again only a few hundred people who escaped to "guard the tomb" of the entire civilization. They had to be highly nervous, meticulous and focused without making any mistakes. As a result, these related systems also completely disappeared.

In the intervening millennium of the Exile Chronicle, the joint research of several chiefs not only brought endless energy, but also further strengthened the possible weight of the unified theory of information as the truth of the void.

Belief, on this basis, moves further to individuals and civilizations. As for people who have to fabricate or even verify the void, or even whether there is a so-called "existence beyond everything" above the void. It is true that they may have existed, but they have all already existed. Buried in the death wave when the Star Federation collapsed, meaningless stubbornness and refutation have long been annihilated as dregs in the chaotic past. Rational persistence and abandonment, as well as a tenacious research spirit, have taken over. mainstream.

After receiving sufficient resources, a considerable part of the old federal memory that had suffered heavy losses was reborn. Although some documents from the old era have been completely destroyed, in the new view of history, only the most critical historical nodes and the greatest discoveries relative to the era will be recorded. The most important part focuses on the Federation's start from the planet. Selling the limited section of the galaxy in one step - that is the most important starting part, and similar experiences and summed up experiences in the future are just branches on this trunk - however, compared to the trunk, the branches at this stage Incomparably brilliant and brilliant.

After the final glory, as technology stagnated and the limits of thought solidified, the line of history began to become thin again.

Since the explosion of the crystal energy vortex, this part of history has been remembered by this generation. It has never been actually confirmed, but has become the default background, from the powerful psychological hints of the Σ facility to maintain operation, to this possible external disturbance. The complete collapse disappeared, and everyone's view of this experience continued to change.

The worldview changes with the basic environment of cognitive existence, and the changes in the overall environment that have occurred now are enough to completely overturn everyone's already formed three views. I am afraid that after the current period of relaxation and joy, it will take more energy for civilization to truly regain the balance between thought and reality, and the process will be longer than the entire history of the Federation. But now, at least one thing is certain -

No one regrets being able to stand on these brand-new ships based on the realm that countless people have aspired to achieve before.

In the first-generation Ark, since all backup energy was stored in the warehouse of each spacecraft in the form of crystal energy crystals, and the reserves were relatively limited, those large pale golden seeds could only support The most common and basic survival needs, while other facilities can even be said to be extremely poor in nature. Later, they were completely closed down to save fuel.

Before the people turned into wandering souls, they were more like living in a prison cage than in a refugee ship. In order to avoid problems, the relevant inspection orders of Vidoville were as follows: A very important part is to prevent people from committing suicide or spreading negative emotions due to dissatisfaction - these phenomena existed in the old federal era, and many bad events occurred when real catastrophes occurred.

Of course, it can be said that many of their behaviors are actually unreasonable, but in such an environment, who is qualified to blame the deceased who can be said to have done well in such an environment?

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"City! Your Majesties, the space expansion technology has been stabilized! Now, in the same space equation, we can insert more coordination models as self-consistent solutions of the entire structure! This means that we can Quite a massive expansion! We can already rebuild the city here!"

In the increasingly empty and deep environment inside the ship, Cavinrel was beyond words to express his excitement. He patted the shoulders of Eskett and Torres vigorously, making a significant contribution to the two men in the crystal energy control debugging. Those who contributed expressed their congratulations, and it was not until the last two people had to forcefully use their strength to open a weak shield for themselves that Cavinriel's catharsis ended.

The city, which once represented the cluster unit of civilized life, has returned to the civilized system.

However, the difference is that the cities in the Star Federation era were characterized by being tall and tapered, giving people a sense of high extension and expansion, while the current cities are relatively thick and full of rhythm, with broad traffic roads. Interspersed between the huge and regular metal buildings, it is responsible for providing the foundation for the blood operation of the entire city.

Ancient large-scale public ground transportation and air transportation have reappeared in civilization.

During the Federation era, short- and medium-distance teleportation technology had been relatively mature, and with ample system resource allocation, Federation individuals could carry certain resources and conduct arbitrary operations on the entire planet or space station level. The form of authorization allows you to move instantly and directly reach the target location.

Under such circumstances, the role of transportation hubs that support traditional physical structures, such as broad corridors or halls, becomes increasingly insignificant. Moreover, after the emergency system matures rapidly, in addition to serving as small-scale communicative flow channels, they do not function as other transportation hubs. All possible functions have been lost - therefore, in the cities of many states at the end of the Federation, the passages inside the buildings are relatively narrow, and there are no large-scale transportation hubs.

In the city, excluding the ultra-large freight corridors, the rest of the city can be said to be crowded - the functions of the transportation system are replaced on a large scale, so there is no need for them to exist.

Now, because the information density of crystal energy life is too high, and for safety reasons, instantaneous transportation that requires transformation is no longer supported for the time being. At the same time, in the joy of reunion, quite a few people seemed to like to gather together and enjoy a joyful banquet. Therefore, in the subsequent construction process, the city and buildings regained their originally abandoned broad structures, and They are strengthened under appropriate conditions so that they can better carry all current activities.

The bustling flow of people and shuttle vehicles form blood vessels that flow endlessly between different structures.

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The Space Channel Crystal Energy Reactor has proven its power with actual actions - for thousands of years, it has been in extremely stable working condition, sending the fluctuations of primordial information to the entire fleet that may even be enough to shape a huge vortex, and space The further development of expanding technology and spiritual portable space also brings an absolutely sufficient foundation for material storage and development and expansion.

With the continuous expansion of space, even Victorville and Cavernrel would sigh at the complexity and vastness of the ship if they wanted to take a closer look inside the spaceship. A spaceship that is only a few hundred kilometers long has achieved so much through space expansion. The final range may even approach a planet with a radius of more than three thousand kilometers.

Inside the spaceship, countless tall and wide towers, wide squares, large holographic projections flashing in the sky, and various public social facilities based on new technological levels began to be put into operation.

In the early stages of the project, Weisrifan also revived a batch of necessary bills based on past experience, but she soon discovered that after endless foundations and reunions after a long absence, this extremely heavy history brought After the mental cleansing in the past, people have truly put the survival of their beautiful homeland and civilization before their personal interests - even more perfect than the soul requirements formulated at the beginning.

With both consciousness and material foundation undergoing major changes, it is obvious that many parts of the old rules and concepts are no longer applicable - including her and the team she reorganized, they all have to maintain the operation of the city. Re-learn and summarize based on the development and changes of reality - as managers, people who can get in touch with their own civilization concepts and groups that regain innovative vitality are much more important than their own old knowledge. This is the consensus of everyone.

In addition to these cities that are livable and full of relaxation and happiness, there are also many "shadow laboratories" located on the back of the structure that are used to conduct various experiments and are constructed simultaneously, with completely different forms and functions.

This is not only to provide a better and livable environment for the population in the spacecraft, but also to verify the development of supporting facilities needed after civilization begins to expand again - when the warp world bubble jumps into the universe network, it seems slow. What will the new infrastructure look like when, and probably when, civilization is no longer limited to a single universe?

No matter what, everyone believes that as long as everyone stands together and contributes their own strength to civilization, there will be no unsolvable difficulties in the void, and no one or thing can dismantle this revived and thriving civilization. .

In addition, in the vast order field outside the armored belt of the spacecraft, more and more strange facilities began to appear, and on that layer of pale golden barrier that was almost dim to the point of being invisible, a series of complex structures also began to appear. Light and shadow are like dots of stars, and in fact they are. This is Victorville's personal "little hobby", so he used a little extra crystal energy output to create a snapshot of the galaxy at the edge of the order field.

And those golden facilities that are moving along with the spaceship, and are strangely shaped like randomly stacked building blocks, are prepared by Zhai Cahir and other chief bosses for their own research institutes. If you look at the order field from the void, the order field There is no difference in size, it just occupies a frequency.

Such frequencies can be said to be truly infinite in the void. The "size" of the world within the order field can be determined according to the calculation ability of the order field. And at the edge of this absolute vacuum, where even space is not necessarily continuous, those strange facilities are used for high-energy experiments - such as military-industrial experiments, and higher-energy attempts.

Among them, explosions are inevitable. After breaking away from the world fragments, although the "world consciousness" is still sleeping in Weisrifan's body, she has lost the ability to control the world because the universe, or the order environment, has changed. Fortunately, the spacecraft is strong enough, and the small damage caused by the order field can be quickly repaired, so those small void intrusions during the experiment are not very dangerous. The crystal energy shield has enough power to disintegrate. The assimilating power of the sea of ​​ultimate probability in all things is blocked out.

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Of course, this is not absolute.

Among them, Zhai Cahir and Ikarim also discovered an unexpected gain - a past "mistake", or "excessive foresight when technology is insufficient", or even some kind of metaphysical one-sided separation error:

Only when those powerful high-level energies activate them and allow them to fully and jointly function at the information level with nearby low-level information bodies that are close to physical existence, will the high-level information produce a matching "inertial" response. In other words, if you rashly directly consider all information changes when the current technology has not yet developed enough to block relevant disturbances, you will be looking for trouble for yourself.

For example: the concept of the world itself has no quality, nor does crystal energy. They are just information. If you do not rashly activate them, they can only be regarded as things sealed in the storage disk, and the container that carries them It is a large memory, and simple physical concepts are enough to move a large memory.

Just like an optical storage disk, if you want to use traditional methods to transmit its contents, you can directly use a carrier to send the storage disk to the destination, or transmit the contents through a communication network, but if you want to use instantaneous transmission technology , then it is necessary to meticulously restore the positions of all the recorded information points when the entire disk disintegrates.

When the technology is immature, this will undoubtedly increase the workload. However, in the previous research process, Zhai Cahill's explanation of rank and its influence and changes was only partly correct. At present, a more accurate description is:

Only when a part of the information needs to be changed, or is considered to need to achieve this level of change, will its more basic nature as information be reflected.

For example, large-capacity information requires more external “push” to “push” it. In fact, it is more applicable if we think about and handle these things with a simpler physical perspective when they are not required to specifically participate in the change—— When simple concepts no longer need to urge those information to participate in changes, they will naturally not change at this level themselves, or need any external force to promote them.

Under this concept, they are highly focused on disturbed information items.

Considering practical applications, when information directly catalyzes changes, the entire information body can be regarded as a chaotic compressed package - when transferring this chaotic compressed package, the information of this package is highly integrated, and to transfer it only needs to transfer the whole. There is no need to transfer every information element one by one - the Law of the Void will take over the rest of the process.

If we want to be closer to reality, it is this - no one will consume more energy than people of the same weight because of their own experience and status.

This is a concept that has not been considered clearly: information concentration. Its emergence and establishment have reunited some cognitions that were once separated by metaphysical concepts.

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Development and time cooperate. For civilization, heritage will gradually accumulate in the cooperation of the two.

Over a long enough period of time, the Empire has done some things, and these things are enough for the Empire to reflect on and learn from them.

It takes time to formulate the rules for the use of a manufactured thing, and in new fields, thoughts and logic also require realistic choices.

Although the empire had the foundation to enter new fields, with almost no transitional stage, the empire was kicked hard into new fields by reality.

This means that in the face of everything brand new, there are a lot of gaps in understanding and rules in the empire - many times, although Cavernrel and the others finally use various methods to come up with solutions to the problem, there is some kind of embarrassing The feeling of powerlessness always lingered around them - and in their later memories, they also found the source of some emotions, why even if the experiment was successful, the feeling of unsatisfactory and untimely would flash through their minds - because of many shortcomings Everything has been affected by ideological chronology caused by actual omissions and the lack of physicality of the huge system.

The reason why many ideas and practices are strange to people is because they theoretically "should not have appeared in that era" or "appeared in that era in a very inappropriate way." Looking back now, that series of practices that may not have been clever but were effective finally succeeded... Maybe it shows that the environment still has a certain inheritance, but the empire's old reserves are no longer enough - not to mention, the empire's predecessor may What happened.

In the face of the changing and unquantifiable status quo, the empire can only think about taking one step at a time, and the results of the previous step are also extremely fragile. Everything is mixed together, tangled and difficult to sort out.

Now that the empire has a certain foundation, it can rely on its own knowledge to redraw the rules.

Although it can only provide standard provisions for some events in the past, it can almost be said to be a huge progress from scratch.

They are new.

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"There are always background information fluctuations in the void, and some sources have been detected... Your Majesty, it seems that for now, there are a large number of doomsday situations in the void range that we may be able to scan." Faced with a new and sophisticated navigation system After continuously scanning the background environment model map obtained, the expressions of Cavernrel and others were not very relaxed.

"It can be confirmed that the phenomenon of creation spontaneously exists in the void. We may find a suitable world after sailing for a long enough time, but as of now, none of these worlds can survive stably - the birth and destruction of worlds in the blink of an eye The process will be over.”

"...Do you know the reason?"

In the simple and almost empty navigation guidance cabin, facing the spiritual projections unfolding in layers, Victorville was a little confused about how to judge this - if Σ had indeed created some kind of huge natural disaster , then it may be completely understandable that the environment needs time to recover after a natural disaster, as long as these creation activities are regarded as a part of the calming process.

But it seems that, according to Zhai Cahir and others, these worlds are always extracting certain key elements, and this element is not a form of existence that the empire is currently clearly aware of... This may be cause for concern.

"According to the existing crash waveform feedback, some worlds can be confirmed to have been stripped of a large number of key elements - but according to the few captured models, the structure of these worlds themselves is very chaotic, and a small piece can be detected by us. The fragments are full of "original" errors and loopholes, and there are still parts of the world... they contain a lot of existence that we cannot directly analyze. Your Majesty, please allow me to assume that we will most likely end up in a In a world where arcane power can be harnessed.”

"Why do you have such a view?"

"Based on our past records, it is very likely that after the super accelerator we set up at the edge of the universe malfunctioned and penetrated the world barrier, the incoming void was assimilated and dissipated by the world structure and formed arcana, which seems to be integrated with a large number of laws. The first stable state information. If those structures that we cannot analyze are exactly the same as the shadows caused by arcane magic, then..."

"Perhaps after this disaster, the stable structure of the world that spontaneously appeared in the void will decline, and this may also be simultaneously reflected in the world barrier - there are loopholes in the world, and the void will pour into the world through these loopholes."

"During these processes, it is possible that the world can digest these infinite beings poured in, and cause them to decay into a force of the same level as Genesis. It is also possible that in the process of void pouring back, the damaged locations will continue to increase, and the products will continue to mutate. It will destroy the stable surface structure of the world, and eventually destroy all laws and make the world a mess - and from the moment the surface stability of the world is destroyed, the interior of the world may no longer be suitable for survival. The subsequent process, until the part before the end of the world , is the process in which the world, as a huge model with self-consistent operation capabilities, forcibly resists errors and omissions within itself."

"The premise for all this is that there are some just-right loopholes in the instability of the world barrier, so that this destructive process can reach a dynamic balance - now this premise may be widespread, and our observations support this View."

"...Then, we may be able to undergo significant changes in the new world, or be able to tolerate and understand the new changes." It has been thousands of years since the voyage began again, but the confidence that was full from the beginning of the journey has never been throw away.

As long as the forces of civilization unite together, there will be no insurmountable difficulties in the void.

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"Your Majesty!" In the control room of the huge spaceship, Cavinrel excitedly pointed to the large holographic projection in front of him, "Look, a stable frequency! After analysis, it can be determined that it is a native world!"

"Where are the parameters of the world?" Looking at the familiar frequency and information fluctuations in the holographic projection and additional light screens, Vidoville felt a long-lost emotion - excitement, and then nervousness.

"The radar is already scanning, and we have also released the recently manufactured void probe." Cavinriel nervously operated everything at hand, and while waiting nervously, a series of scanning data began to gradually gather. It was displayed in front of everyone with first/secondary authority: "According to the records of the mother world, the relative difference in parameters related to the stability of the universe does not exceed 15%, the speed of light is 377296532m/s, and the chemical elements have greatly changed, but the overall law Changes can still organize the periodic table. It can be confirmed that the structure of the universe inside this world is highly similar to our home environment!"

"It looks like this can definitely be the new world we live in!" Vidoville was so excited when she saw Vesrifan for the first time, as if the breath of the universe as the cradle of order and life could infect her through the void. The mood is the same, "Cavenriel, Zhai Cahir, how stable is this universe? Is it in a healthy evolutionary cycle?"

"Stable, Your Majesty, even if we don't adjust the perpetual clock and directly connect the timeline, the flow rate of the two timelines will not exceed three times. To stabilize the life of the universe... Even if it is three times faster, its stable starry sky life will be It’s still hundreds of billions of years away, and we don’t even need the absolute starry sky anymore – that’s enough for us to use as a springboard for revival!”

"Then... let's announce the news." After looking at each other, the two emperors nodded to each other.

The thoughts coming from the spiritual network can be clearly felt in the minds of Vidoville and Vesrifan, and the intensity is even higher than expected - after all, the various environments in the spacecraft are already quite complete. It can even be said that it is no worse than the peak period of the old federation. Under this situation, the world of order should not still be so attractive to ordinary people - however, after a little careful thinking, this reason was found out. bright:

In any case, the current situation in exile is forced. Even if the empire does have a void sailing fleet that can never land in the future, the feelings brought by the two to the people of the empire are completely different.

The difference in information expression between the order fields began to gradually decrease. After the golden light merged into the barrier that could almost only be described by information mathematics and gently pushed the barrier open, the bright galaxy from the order world finally reflected again. In the eyes of all the people of the Star Empire.

"Lil, if we follow the same habits as last time, we..."

"Know that a new era requires a new mentality and realm. The long night has dispersed, and it is time for our civilization to revitalize."

"Then let the Chronicle of Exile become history."

"Well, the next year's calendar number will be directly named the Renaissance Chronicle..."

"It's such a simple and direct naming method, but... it just fits."

The eternal clock counts, and on December 27, Exile Year 10284, the exile history of the Star Federation and the Star Empire inhabiting the Ark Fleet has ended. The foundation for revival has been prepared for more than six thousand years of careful construction, and now, The light of civilization will bloom again in this group.

Chronicles of Exile completed