Star Empire

"...In order to prevent the birth of war, directly prevent the other side of the war from appearing? This way of facing is really straightforward."

"To be honest... I don't know if this is appropriate. War... between different civilizations and races, once there is a conflict of interest, war is almost inevitable... We still can't clearly understand ourselves, and we can't effectively understand the surroundings. The world... In this case, communication may not be a good thing. In short, it is best not to spread your energy too much now." Vidoville shook his head, recalling the time when he was burned by the disturbance. The war in the world made him feel a little strange in his heart.

"I feel that it is better not to rashly try parts that are completely unknown to us, at least until we are mentally prepared..."

"Yeah, actually, this is a mess..."

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"The pioneering action has been completed in the 117th year of the revival of the eternal clock..."

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"By the way, Zhai Cahir, what is the function of the unknown material that was crystallized from the former server? Can it still calibrate our time?"

"No more, Your Majesty. In the past, because it was driven by a certain amount of arcane energy, it could have a unique influence on the network with the help of its rank difference. But now, because its rank is actually higher than It doesn’t concern us, let alone the changes in information trends that constrain us. Now it can be regarded as a fairly accurate watch at most, and there are still some changes. The universe has become continuous at the information level. This The segmented time recording method is actually somewhat inapplicable. Should we consider eliminating it?”

"Since it's still accurate... let's put it there for the time being. It might be useful in the future. In the future, the event records will be distributed to each individual and each device, and the overall network will be large enough to maintain the information. The flow is stable, just keep that as a souvenir..."

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In September of the 117th year of the Renaissance, one month after the start of the great pioneering operation.

The new information model matches the host and abundant crystal energy to ensure the safety of the spacecraft sailing in the void, and they have absolute mobility after sinking to the world of order. After the research on the basics of arcane technology and Eskett's special abilities matured, Kalost adjusted the fleet's protection mode, crystal energy shield frequency, and the weight of various types of spacecraft in the fleet as much as possible:

The two types of capital ships account for a total of 15% of the weight, and they are the main firepower exporters and fleet joint shield providers in the fleet; the fire support ships account for 25% of the weight, and their main responsibilities are It is to track and kill targets with high mobility and strong stealth capabilities; fleet frigates (destroyers) have a 15% weight;

They are responsible for setting up a protective skynet for the fleet when the cluster target attacks, preventing the joint shield from becoming chaotic and fragile due to the impact of too complex attacks - when faced with possible high-level information attacks, they can completely reverse the phase Only by positioning neutralization can the power of the shield array be maximized. If it cannot be completely annihilated, then a large amount of redundant information clutter will escape from neutralization and form free high-energy clouds.

These high-energy clouds may be reused, or they may directly interfere with joint shields. Small and messy targets will greatly occupy the calculation ability of the joint shield builder. Therefore, keeping them out of the shield is the most ideal when war is necessary.

Frigates have a weight of 45%. They have almost no defensive capabilities, but they are equipped with powerful crystal energy control intervention equipment and extremely high-performance hosts - the former comes from equipment created by imitating Aisket's abilities. , and quickly completed the equipment change in the frigate group. When they act alone, they can change the density and frequency of the joint shield assignment within a certain range to improve attack resistance. When acting jointly, the entire shield will be on them. Becoming more powerful under the influence.

As for quantity? That doesn't matter - information material conversion technology represents unlimited resources. Coupled with the properties of the space channel crystal energy reactor itself, the empire's industrial system can be said to have almost no restrictions at present.

In addition, it has been confirmed that the mental power can be used to construct space. If a person's spirit is strong enough and has enough ability to maintain a wide and stable space, he can even build a new ship in his head - of course, this is just a grand statement for almost everyone now. .

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The universe is huge, and there are empty foundations everywhere in the galaxy. As long as the industrial capacity is sufficient, the vast universe is the best factory. In just a few years, the number of new battleship groups has begun to approach the military peak of the old federation. Under such a technological revolution, it can even be said to be very simple to manufacture various types of equipment in large quantities. All it takes is a basic industrial module, which can self-replicate under a controlled state and start manufacturing according to the blueprint - the index has skyrocketed. The power is worthy of awe.

As for these warships, except for the large spaceships that are temporarily considered to be mature under current technology, the small and medium-sized spacecraft have been left with an obvious backdoor control for fleet commanders - small ships occupy the fleet. More than 60% of the quantitative weight, and their equipment may not be stable - in the face of ever-changing attacks, the ability of frontline defense to adapt to changes and capture information is very important.

Having such an operational backdoor makes it easier to upgrade them - everything is information, and it is not a bad idea to regard this approach as battlefield patching - in the second half of the Exile Chronicle, the empire can completely It is said that a fairly solid foundation for development has been laid. What is lacking is sufficient space and communication resources with high enough bandwidth.

When resources are unlimited, turning ideals into reality can be said to be a matter of course.

At the moment, these fleets are opening up new territories for the Star Empire, and are facing their first battlefield - the void-level nature. At the same time, these spaceships are also carrying countless individuals - there are Aishite's special ability group, and others. There are first-level individuals based on arcane energy, and there are also a larger number of conventional crystal energy shaping individuals.

Except that the hair color and eye color of basic users of arcane energy usually show a lavender sheen, while the hair color and eye color of basic users of crystal energy mostly show light gold, there is actually no difference in the life forms between the two. , are all energy encapsulations, and even the ears of newly created arcane individuals show signs of being slightly elongated, with the upper auricles becoming pointed and upturned. Even if you want, all differences can be subjectively erased. High-level information can temporarily solidify uncertainty or decay in any direction. Therefore, appearance can be said to be irrelevant. As for more details... It’s not a bad idea to think that it’s some inherent disturbance—just like all life in the Federation once lived in a gravitational field, the void may also be filled with some influences similar to the background environment. Just because the Empire has never seen it before, it doesn't mean that the Empire has to dig deep and fight now - when facing the unknown, sometimes you can adapt to the environment faster by trying to accept it.

However, after the pioneering fleet entered more and more strange universes, some situations began to gradually attract the attention of the empire's top researchers.

There had been serious concerns that the timelines of independent closed worlds would have huge errors with each other, but it has never happened at all!

Since the level of the world barrier itself is not low, this barrier will still cause a certain degree of signal interference when communicating across the void of the world.

Therefore, the pioneering fleet will not sink directly into a certain world, but first drop two sets of equipment into it, one is a void information detection and scanning array, and the other is a cross-world void communication base station. The information gathered by the latter set of equipment will be strengthened, amplified and transmitted to the void end in the world of order, and the void end will then be sent to the same level of equipment in the capital universe.

Eventually, this summary information will be reported to the North and South Tianji terminal towers, so that the pioneering fleet can always be bound to the Empire's standard timeline. But after one universe after another was illuminated, Vidoville discovered that after converting the macroscopic material time of these universes, almost none of them had a distortion of more than 300% compared to the time of the capital, no matter fast or slow. And even under the most severe interference, independence did not occur.

It stands to reason that void itself has no concept of time. It is always before the birth of any concept. Therefore, if you really go outside such a time and return to the timeline of order, the difference should be huge - —After all, when a point outside a number axis falls back onto the number axis, from negative infinity to positive infinity, the probability of being hit at each position relative to the landing point of this point should be equal, but in such a On an infinitely extending line, the points can only always fall within the range of plus or minus three?

If we draw a probability distribution curve according to such a result, I am afraid that this curve will be flat until it is beyond plus or minus three, and infinitely close to zero. When it reaches the position of plus or minus three, it will almost no longer have curvature, but will directly Instantly jumped to the sky.

Time is only a problem on one hand. On the other hand, in the universe that has been developed, researchers at the second authority level quickly discovered the physical laws of these new universes, cosmological constants, etc. after assuming the detector array. are very similar - at least under macroscopic low-speed mechanics, there is no positive correlation between acceleration and half of the force and mass, or at high speeds, one hundredth of the speed of light will cause extremely obvious time slowdown and mass expansion, or In turn, the faster the speed, the faster the passage of time, etc. can be thought of and the ductile distortion of the model can be initially sketched.

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"Well... Looking back, this is normal. Perhaps, even if the massive macro worlds that existed in the past have disappeared, they still have left an indelible impact on the void. Countless worlds that still exist or have passed away have been transformed countless times. In the information broadcast to the void, some remnants of order may have changed their form, and by accident, they have become some kind of diffuse order in the void and superimposed on the original infinite sea of ​​probability. Under these influences, new creations The world may also evolve itself generally according to some of these ancestral laws - after all, the roughly uniform information offset of void navigation is a kind of evidence - we can sail in the void without having to follow a certain order of the world. for the ultimate goal.”

"Maybe so." Faced with Zhai Cahir's explanation, Vidoville just nodded slightly, "We have never reached such a level before. The existence of cross-universe civilizations was once something we could not even imagine. I dare not think about it. Correspondingly, our management in this area... I'm afraid there will be many gaps."

"Indeed, after all, the cosmic network to be established cannot be simply equivalent to a star bridge transportation network between planets..."

"Now, Ikarim is stepping up its efforts to develop a device based on the Heart of the World that can directly control the entire universe. After it is installed, we can directly unify the time flow rate and messy constants of all universes. By then, a lot of trouble can be saved - there may be phenomena where celestial bodies cannot adapt to the laws and are directly destroyed, but it doesn't matter, we don't need the resources in the universe that much now."

"His Majesty?"

"Oh, the next task is left to you and Cavinriel - crossing various worlds can indeed be completed through the void route, but the void route is still more dangerous and more troublesome after all. You guys think of a way , to see if we can set up such a network between each world, or between universes, just like the old jump bridge network we once assumed in our home universe, so that cross-universe conversions can be completed directly within the world instead of no longer Through void drives and void lanes."

"Hmm... no problem, Your Majesty."

"Well, then...hey? Why...a ship has lost contact?"

Vidoville was startled. In the strange vision superimposed by countless filters, a message with a warning sign suddenly inserted across it: the entire Eighth Pioneer Fleet has lost contact.

"Communication has been interrupted, Zhai Cahir, use your information perspective to sense it."

After a faint arcane light flashed, Zhai Cahir also frowned: "No, Your Majesty, this is not that the communication has been blocked. The fleet still exists, but our communication cannot reach the location of the fleet. In other words, then The fleet may not be able to find our location now, this is..."

"Void boundary?" Recalling the Sixteenth Ark Trek incident that almost ensnared the entire exile fleet at that time, the word popped out of Victorville's mouth instantly, "But why does this happen? The way to sail in the void is Such a..."

"Your Majesty, according to speculation and existing information... the existing void navigation method is based on the network and foundation laid by the dispersed information in the void after the order of life and death in the world." Zhai Cahir said. He said, "Perhaps there is only one way to navigate the void, which is to rely on information offset to travel through the void or different worlds, but it is very likely that there is more than one such orderly world information network..."

"Why?"

"These worlds are highly similar to our current capital world, as well as our home world and target world. Perhaps it is because the birth of these worlds we are detecting is related to the unknown disturbances that came from the void before, but this This kind of disturbance cannot explain the former, so I think it may mean that we are currently in... maybe a super large network composed of countless similar worlds."

"This network will automatically generate nodes, and outside of this network, there will be more similar "networks" existing, and these networks will completely overlap each other and overlap in the void. Only in this way, Only then can we come up with the reason why we obviously tried to communicate according to the predetermined route but could not receive a response - for example, if a person accidentally traveled between two parallel worlds with the same laws, he could follow the original physical laws. He moved to the new world, but he is no longer in the original world, and correspondingly, he is absolutely nowhere to be found in his theoretical position in the original world."

"During this period, the guesses and model matching related to it have been uninterrupted...the preliminary guesses, the basis for dividing them...may be logic, strong law-level logic."

".Perhaps so, but what should we do?"

"Well... follow the void navigation route of the Eighth Pioneer Fleet to find the natural gap between the world's great networks, and then... maybe, no, use the simplest way to set up a communication relay "a distance apart", Find out how to switch between the World Webs, and then go find the Eighth Fleet."

"At this point, there is no need to worry too much about the Eighth Fleet - no matter what, they are already on a higher level than any civilization in the universe. To be born, to survive and develop, civilizations have to face various challenges. Challenge, a civilization of our level may not be able to grab a lot of them just anywhere - in addition, the Eighth Fleet does not need us to worry about the Sixteenth Ark. As for the reason for this matter, Your Majesty, although you may not be very sure I like to hear it, but...it is also true:

"The mathematical models provided by ΣCreation have been of great help to us, especially the properties of imaginary numbers and the connection model between virtual and real. Those mathematical models created based on the existence of void order have given us great inspiration and help , at least now, there is an existential connection between our network node connections to a certain extent. As long as the connected node still exists and its original attributes remain unchanged, this connection will not be interrupted. In this way, The Eighth Pioneer Fleet is still connected to the main network, and their own parameters and information evolution trends will not be biased."