Star Empire

In the new universe of order, the precious living environment that was lost and recovered can be said to have attracted most of the attention of this civilization that had gone through many hardships before.

In the process of the construction and expansion of each colonial point, the population of the empire is recovering at an alarming rate. However, even if the population is growing at an extremely rapid rate, the empire's top officials at the first and second authority levels are not yet more exhausted because of this - compared to the various plug-ins and mind-modification modules that are ultimately regarded as foreign objects, they are completely integrated into The soul correction method within life and the brand-new "new life form" that engraves the basic underlying laws into the spirit and body can be said to be a mobile "Code of Principles" in themselves.

At the same time, the highly self-disciplined bottom-level correction of the soul has eliminated the need for a large number of clear legal details, and the unlimited increase in quality brought about by information-matter conversion technology has made many desires in the face of purely material matters no longer necessary. Lost meaning.

Even if there is an intention to covet without limit, in the end I am afraid that just the linked list recording these contents will be long enough to circle the planet several times, and eventually it will be long enough to overwhelm the memory.

The competition in the past was based on a limited foundation and the ultimate lack of fairness, but now, the uncapped foundation can basically squeeze out all the old environmental influences - at the same time, the souls and wills of the Imperial people are no longer the same.

As long as the information-matter encoder network is well controlled at the principle level to prevent them from producing dangerous goods that are difficult to control, the remaining individuals at the third and fourth authority levels will be enough to stabilize the bottom of the pyramid on their own. exists, and can ensure that this pyramid, or the entire network, can exchange massive amounts of detailed content without delay or distortion - the essence of all things is information, and within the scope of bandwidth, there is no upper limit to the speed of all information exchanges of.

Therefore, the top management of the empire did not set up various management departments like the old federation to deal with various disputes that would only arise in the old era. The current Star Empire as a whole seems to be in an orderly manner. A large corps, and even Weisrifan believes that the current state is very good.

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Of course, there are still problems, and they are quite big.

As the top civilization in the universe, the Federation Civilization's strength is not only reflected in its military.

The more important part is that the Federation has seen most things in the universe, dealt with various environments that may arise in the universe, and has accumulated a rich foundation through these interactions over a long period of time - in other words, The Federation has a way and the ability to solve almost everything that happens in the mother universe. This is the foundation of civilization.

But now, in a completely new environment, the empire does not have such a foundation. If this collective only maintains its current status, then they may be able to support its stable existence, but they may not be able to support its substantial development.

But there is no problem - as citizens, they also have another identity, that is, as the tentacles and neurons of civilized super-individuals, they help the empire perceive and remember everything around them, and can solve most problems - these people themselves It will be the source of civilization heritage.

What the empire's top leaders have always wanted to create is a civilization that can have the power of spontaneous innovation and development. Even if one day, all the current empire managers cease to exist, the empire, or civilization, can spontaneously survive and develop - as of now Come, citizens of the empire can fulfill such a request.

On this basis, the main focus of Vidovir and Vesrifan was on the current main tasks of the empire.

Ikarim's job can be said to be the most troublesome - it is astonishingly difficult to capture the heart of the world. The position switching frequency of that invisible and immaterial information entanglement point in the universe approaches the smallest time unit allowed in the ordered world, and it It completely ignores the speed of light, which means that it is very likely that in a basic time, it may span hundreds of billions of light-years from one end of the universe to the other.

Moreover, the form of the object it is "attached" to is also very uncertain. It can be as small as an atom, as large as a star or even an entire galaxy. As long as it can reflect "independent" information aggregates to a certain extent, no matter the form or geometry, It may become an attachment to that information entanglement point, and the data brought back by hundreds of millions of high-performance detectors shows that it operates completely erratically.

Weisrifan once volunteered to try to interfere with the "attachment" inside her soul, but after conducting a certain degree of research, she found that after leaving the matching world frequency, even if the heart of the world is still there, Existence has just become a simple "object" that records a huge amount of information——

Except for recording the original world information and some frequency characteristics, it can be said to be just an ornament. Therefore, Ikarim has begun to prepare a new plan - to use the power of crystal energy to continuously and subtly modify and fill the entire world. On the one hand, these heterogeneous fillers serve as information calibration to integrate the constantly migrating world. The existence of the heart, which is so unique that it is beyond the awareness of the empire, is marked with path marking method; on the other hand, the highly controllable crystal energy radiation is on the same level as the world after it is fully activated. Under the premise of being highly controllable, the crystal energy shield It can be used as the most reliable filter, and judging from the current empire-related research, the Heart of the World seems to be closely related to the entire world.

It now seems impossible for such a huge information body to break through the crystal energy filter.

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At the edge of the universe, the progress of the plan that Zhai Cahir is responsible for is slightly higher - he has powerful computing resources, and his own special physical condition also determines that he has a higher ability than most people. Level of arcane knowledge.

During this period of development attempts, the report he sent back stated that the differences in the assignment methods and final effects of arcane energy and crystal energy have been preliminarily determined, and detailed research and attempts to manufacture quantifiable control equipment are ongoing. , but he has also stated in the report that because the differences between the two "first forces" of the two orders are so great, it is more difficult to fully achieve the quantitative control required by the empire's technology than to use rough and simple brainstorming methods. Much more.

Vidoville also completely verified this statement with his own actions. From the current point of view, even if the possible arcane system is greatly different from the crystal energy system, it will still follow the concept of science, or intellectual cognizability.

Science itself refers to the study of subjects, and after specific refinement, it refers to the practice of studying various kinds of knowledge through detailed classification to form a gradually complete knowledge system-it encompasses all rationality.

The magical world can have very different laws from the current technological system due to differences in the world itself and different energy systems, but these laws must exist, otherwise it will be difficult for the environment itself to maintain stability, let alone in this environment. living individual——

If a person who uses arcane magic is not sure what he will release, or does not know how big the fireball he will release next time, then will this system still have value? Even if there is still one, can it be accepted by orderly creatures?

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On the other hand, Cavinriel and Isendel were even more successful. The mutation of their research subject Eskett appeared in the crystal energy fused between his soul and this soul. As the research progressed, In progress, Torres and Agnasi, who had already demonstrated their performance in this aspect, also joined the information analysis plan. Cavinrel reported:

There have been some "changes in frequency" in Eskett's soul overall. Compared to the "coarse crystal energy" extracted directly from the space channel reactor, his power seems to be more "dense" in certain frequencies and aspects. In other words, there are fewer "loopholes". On this basis, Eskett can borrow the existence of these loopholes and use will as a method of communication to break into new "assignment points" in the original crystal energy system. When the new After the impact of the assignment point exceeds the original system, the control authority of the energy loop will change hands.

The phased research report here reveals the possibility that in the future, there will very likely be a considerable number of "partially perfected" individuals, and they themselves, as well as the equipment created with the help of these powers, will be able to Active throughout the empire, with a huge base and ever-changing experiences, it provides almost unlimited possibilities for the "perfection" part. Even in the end, it is very likely that a new beneficial change will directly overlap in Among all individuals, it directly affects the whole body in a real sense.

"United One Trans-Individual" will be far from just a theoretical good wish.

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The fastest progress in the plan is the construction of Kalost's fleet. Under the strong advancement of the information material conversion device and the space channel crystal energy reactor, the growth rate of all facilities is almost exponential.

Therefore, although the manufacturing drawings of various types of warships need to be designed, and since the final decision has not yet been truly finalized, and no one can tell what the future battlefield will be like, so when manufacturing each type of warship, A large number of different versions have been derived, and each version can be said to be mass-produced, especially the frigate.

It can even be said that once a new proposal appears in the entire military discussion group, and after discussion and is considered possible by most people, a new model of warship based on this proposal will be put into production-even in the end, a test fleet Before the final combination, even Kalost himself couldn't count how many different derivative models there were.

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When Vidoville arrived at the fleet test site at the edge of the Sixth Hexagram and saw the "real body" of light spots crowded together in the distant space, he couldn't help but look at Calost with a strange expression. : "This looks like a ragtag army that doesn't even have a standard design... An unexpected problem occurred?"

"No, or rather, our plan itself is a huge problem... After all, no one has seen the future "information battlefield", and no one dares to predict what it will be like in the future. Therefore, those various frigates are all in Different suggestions correspond to the resulting models. Although it may seem a little strange, please believe that we have definitely not done anything perfunctory in this regard."

"Understood. Speaking of which, today's test is destructive because there is no enemy. Now we can only deal with ourselves as imaginary enemies."

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, when the damage to the vehicle has corresponding value, I absolutely support it." Kalost responded, "It's just that at present, we are not sure whether our testing experiment on the Ark is suitable for the warship, so we The current tests can only count as performance, but we have not completed testing them."

"Well, let's get started, Kalost, let's show you the various levels of spaceships first," Vidoville said.

"Understood, according to the current number, the attack capital ship will initially conduct bombardment in the order of the predetermined targets." Kalost ordered.

In front of Victorville, a fine holographic projection accurately showed the appearance of the first test ship: it was very similar to the first-generation Star Exile Ark, with a long axis of two hundred kilometers and a width of three meters. Ten kilometers, and the "thickest" part is twenty-five kilometers thick. If you only look at the curves of the whole body, it looks like a big golden seed that has been elongated and slightly pressed.

However, the big difference is that the rear half of the ship's hull is a thick and round entity, while in the middle of the ship's hull, the expanded part at the rear is suddenly condensed, while the part of the hull further forward is It is at least two-thirds "weaker" than the rear section. This part of the structure is like a bud axis pulled out from a seed.

In the bow part, which is the tip of the bud axis, eight smooth and exquisite linear structures emanate from this part and are connected to the enlarged position of the middle part of the hull. It seems to be deliberate. The " The silhouette of "Metal Corridor" can be completely integrated with the curve of the hull at the rear of the spacecraft. At the stern, Vidoville did not see the thick engine nozzles bundled together - the nozzle structure was still there, but Those tiny structures are almost inconspicuous, and around these spout structures, there are some clustered crystal structures that look a bit like "antennas".

"The structures at the tail are shared. Those are crystal energy wave broadcast antennas. Their function is to allow the spacecraft to help support the fleet's joint shield and provide energy for this shield."

Kalost has already reported long and complex technical details reports to Vidoville through spiritual links, and these are highly condensed reports that have been simplified to a hundred thousand points with several nines at the end:

"The crystal energy shield can be regarded as an information isolation layer. On this basis, it no longer needs to be evenly arranged like the vacuum zero-point energy system. The front section of the spacecraft is the energy gathering section, where the main gun is located. The main gun starts Energy accumulation will cause interference, so we have simplified the front end of the hull structure to make this section as simple and stable as possible, while complex equipment and the main personnel activity areas are located at the rear of the hull. Your Majesty, the main gun The fire is about to begin.”

In space, the flying bridge at the front of the brilliant golden giant ship began to emit brilliant golden light. The surging golden light flow began to quickly converge along these flying bridges and the energy-guiding pipe network of the main body of the ship, and formed on the surface of the spacecraft. The front end gradually converged to form a small golden sun, and around this "artificial sun", a layer of spherical light film that looked very dim but had a very obvious solid texture concentrated the crystal energy of the main gun. The sphere is separated from the hull.

"Now I seem to understand why the Σ spacecraft we have dismantled has such a high degree of closure." Vidoville crossed his arms and said, "After all, if we do it directly from the information level, both attack and defense come from the intention of the sender. After the two systems can be independent of each other, many times there is no need for so many complicated anti-interference processing. At this level, as long as the meaning is OK, it will be fine."

Before Vidoville could finish speaking, the increasingly bright golden sun exploded violently as if it could not withstand the strong pressure coming from the surrounding void. The holographic projection quickly changed mode to a model. Display, and in the observation base with panoramic display, an extremely dazzling golden light spear instantly tore through the dark space at a speed thousands of times faster than the speed of light. This surging jet of crystal energy surging with destruction was After a few seconds, it penetrated its first target - a dense nebula. The violent crystal energy deleted all matter within the range of the light column, leaving large groups of clouds in the extremely thin cloud belt near the gap. Golden crumbs.

As Vidoville watched, the battleship's crystal energy main gun demonstrated its power again and again. When he saw the second target, Vidoville instantly understood why Calost chose the thin nebula as the target. The first goal - he wants to show himself that in the face of crystal energy, a magnificent power that transcends the laws of the world, everything in the ordinary world is the same.

Like a failed layer of chromonic force armor.

The second time, a huge blue star was hit with a crack that was tens of thousands of kilometers long. The sharp leakage of radiation inside the star caused the star's gravity to instantly gain the upper hand and soon completely broke the balance between it and the light pressure, destroying it. The ultra-high-energy radiation flow of sex is galloping wantonly in space, and the blazing flame fountain with hundreds of millions of degrees is sharply released from these two tiny gaps.

Soon, the star began to collapse suddenly at a speed that could be observed by optical means, leaving behind the most spectacular scene that these materials can achieve as a conventional star in the universe:

This was extremely powerful, far exceeding the extreme supernova explosions recorded in the hundreds of millions of years at the end of the old federation. The brilliant hydrogen jets and faint blue light dispersed the night sky in the universe at the speed of light, and Victorville knew that during this terrifying event, The nebula formed by the explosion contains what is likely the first batch of heavy elements in the universe.

However, revising the periodic table of elements is not an important task. Star civilizations that use crystal energy technology have long been independent of these conventional natural products.

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An hour later, a temporarily created celestial body that might be classified as a neutron star was pierced by a powerful crystal energy light spear and quickly crystallized. After a brief struggle, it broke into large and small pale golden transparent objects. In the fragments, among the scattered light spots of the holographic projection, Kalost smiled proudly, "Your Majesty, next, the No. 2 test ship, a battleship known for its defensive power, will conduct tests together with the No. 1. I hope their The performance will satisfy you.”