Star Empire

"Understand that we are not yet suitable to contact other possible civilizations... In this regard, our inheritance has been interrupted. Originally, when we were in our home universe, we were extremely lacking in diplomatic experience... …etc!"

The sudden fluctuation caused ripples in the network.

"...Other civilizations..." After a moment of trance, Vidoville compared his inner state: it was completely different from the feeling he had when he received a wide-area psychological suggestion that might come from the Σ Celestial Fortress.

At that time, no matter whether it was joy, anger or sorrow, once you dig deep and directly explore the bottom of your heart, you will find only numbness and insensitivity. Even if you are afraid, let alone a reason, even if there is no reason, even if you feel uncomfortable, you will still think that you are normal - —After getting rid of these influences, the heart can truly "alive" from the half-dead state. It is as if the unreality of one's own soul and the world will disappear after a half-delay. Only then can anyone truly realize that one's own emotional changes are due to What.

But now, Vidoville could feel that the source of these emotions... was indeed him, and it was reasonable, and the sudden trembling was just a shock.

"It should be said that there are no more unknown influences...or, even if there are unknown influences, I'm afraid it has already been integrated into the reality that we think is reasonable..." Vidoville confirmed again from both the aspects of itself and the system. He had no hallucinations, nor was he controlled by any other unknown interference. "Lil, how do you feel?"

"No more questions at this point...Environmental disturbance seems pure to me..."

"Let's take it step by step. We always have to experience something... Facing the endless and far-reaching unknown, we can't take every step correctly..."

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Unknowingly, the invisible body of the empire developed and spread in the void.

In the endless void, it can be said that the development of civilization will not encounter obstacles in terms of resources. As the empire’s basic time slowly passes, extremely low-frequency New Genesis activities also begin to be recorded. Each one may have survived for a long time or The "newly born" universe is also being discovered.

In this process of opening up territories, it was not just the direct results of the Royal Fleet. In the continuous development, at least more than 30% of the results come from ordinary individuals at the third and fourth authority levels. And because they coexist in a network and jointly exercise a set of rules, they do the same as the Royal Fleet. good.

Under the influence of the guiding ideology established during the Exiled Chronicles, the current star civilization looks more and more like a whole, but every tiny structure in this huge whole will not lose its own wisdom. , this is a result that has been predicted by some models as early as the Star Federation period, and is also recognized by the entire current civilization. It is a more reasonable existence model that is more in line with the evolutionary trend:

With the continuous development and enhancement of civilization, the speed of information interaction and civilization's judgment and processing will become faster and faster. Under such a development trend, the various superstructures that once maintained civilization will begin to gradually integrate, and the manifestation of class will change from its own The weight of civilization is separated from other "external existences" such as assets.

Even... after countless logical construction tests, researchers can say that many late-stage federations that encouraged independence to a certain extent, encouraged unbridled imagination, and encouraged all kinds of "innovations" of a leap-forward nature were inexplicably incompatible with this trend. The essence: Just like the more the feudal system disintegrates, the higher the degree of monarchical centralization.

Perhaps these not entirely reasonable reversals are some manifestations of the impact of Σ - these impacts cannot be noticed until they jump out of the original scope of influence.

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With the continuous development of relevant concepts in the Star Empire and a series of continuous technological breakthroughs, all kinds of structures that had become ineffective during the old Federation period were completely abolished.

But from a structural point of view, there is a huge gap between the current star civilization and the conventional human society in theory, but it is beginning to resemble the former Zerg in many aspects - but the difference is that the super network here In , every network node and every individual has a considerable degree of wisdom and weight under the condition that they need to abide by the rules.

This not only greatly enhances the overall activity of the network, but also effectively reduces the possibility of falling into an endless loop when faced with contradictory options - under the current regulations, as long as it complies with the principles and laws of the empire, even if the practice violates the general terms , as long as you do not exceed the authority level and scope of influence stipulated by the law, as long as you are able to make up for the losses you have caused, no matter what method you use, as long as you can do it, your criminal record will be written off.

In the eyes of the current empire, in such a connected civilization, the detailed sentencing methods of the old era can be said to be meaningless, and even cause ridiculous scenes of fighting between the left and right within the civilization - the original meaning of punishment is to warn the group to comply Law, but now, when the soul is stamped with the imperial rules, the situation of actively violating the constraints may no longer exist.

However, the disappearance of punishment does not mean the disappearance of constraints. Although the empire currently has a larger size and has become a more united and internally harmonious whole, this does not mean that the empire can do what it wants without going beyond the rules.

So the rules still exist.

Of course, these so-called laws and regulations are not static. Not to mention the existing rules, it is very likely that the system will continue to be shuffled before long - the empire and everyone are trying to comprehensively understand themselves again. Understand the environment in which you live. In the constant changes, I am afraid that not much content can be determined, reliable and exist for a long time.

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As for the difficult-to-handle white matter... yes, it is indeed a difficult thing to use, but the birth law and mode of action of white matter radiation have been basically analyzed, and research related to it is also ongoing. .

If that new existence can be effectively utilized, then it is obvious that the empire can expand its cognitive scope to a considerable range.

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May 5, 966, the year of the Restoration.

Star Empire standard second quadrant, third pre-colonial universe.

This universe has not yet been implanted with the Cosmic Base Stabilizing Anchor and the World Gate.

I wonder if it is due to the isolation of a void quadrant. In the second quadrant, some universes seem to have survived the previous void disaster. The overall difference in the void quadrant and the timeline docking algorithm between different universes also confirm that this There are indeed parts of the universe in the quadrant that have always existed here.

The empire has issued an order that such a world cannot be directly incorporated into the territory until it is thoroughly investigated.

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An individual cruise fighter plane is sailing in this small space.

Although it is only a single fighter aircraft, due to the huge expansion space that can be superimposed inside, this aircraft is not much worse than the small battleships of the old era. Before entering this universe, the mothership fleet carrying this individual fighter plane had already scanned the entire universe by attaching itself to the world barrier - there is no native civilization here.

Strangely enough, the laws of the universe here are very self-consistent with each other, and the physical constants do not make it impossible to use the energy of nature, or the energy required to use the laws of nature is higher than conventional energy. The scale of the universe is about 9,700 There are hundreds of millions of large and small river systems, each with an average of 500 billion stars. It is doubtful that there is no civilization in such a large-scale normal universe.

After the basic environment of the universe was determined, the mothership group began to continuously release its Gnakuli sub-machine. Since the mothership-level ships can superimpose very large space expansion, the individual carrier-based aircraft inside it The number is also very large - at least several hundred million is not a problem. After the restriction lock is lifted, the passage formed by opening the hull shell is very large, enough to accommodate hundreds of millions of such small carrier-based aircraft to enter and exit at the same time.

They are not directly responsible for occupying the universe, and they cannot occupy such a large universe.

Their mission is to provide basic space and equipment for learning and recording for those who ride on them.

Doing so is to inject new knowledge into the entire civilization network - after so many carrier-based aircraft and members are spread out into the universe, they will take on the task of recording natural changes. Under the constraints of the cosmic benchmark stable anchor, almost all parameters of the empire's direct colonization universe will be locked to the same value. During such a change process, due to drastic changes in physical constants, the celestial environment of the surface universe will often change. Dramatic changes occur, and in these processes many phenomena that are unlikely to occur naturally emerge in large numbers.

The new logical self-derivative module has proved that no matter how broad the imagination is, its scope is always limited by nature. The magnificent changes in nature often not only look spectacular. At the information level, these magnificent natural phenomena also have many unique information changes, and even some "symbolic changes" that are difficult to understand. Even if the existence of the Void Quadrant makes the inside of the quadrant The constants and structures of the universes are actually not very different, but in fact the specific details of each universe are very different.

Many times, a deviation of a constant 0.01 is enough to cause huge differences between macroscopic structures. And these information from nature will be recorded and sent back to the imperial information network. Perhaps one day, these seemingly ordinary records will collide with a unique mind, giving birth to unique new ideas, or even New abilities.

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Under the current mission command, this carrier-based aircraft is patrolling an ordinary star system. The center of this star system is a yellow dwarf star, and on the ecliptic plane of this yellow dwarf star, six planets are following the numbers. The orbit determined hundreds of millions or billions of years ago is running stably.

However... there do seem to be some problems in this community.

Observation results show that the "Environmental Stability Zone" between the first planet and the third planet does not contain any large celestial bodies of planetary level. Instead, there is a huge ring that looks like a mist. The diameter may even be hundreds of millions of kilometers, and the mass is extremely thin, so thin that this area is almost the same as the normal vacuum area of ​​the universe. In addition, the probe also found that although from an information point of view, there is indeed a very thin and A huge material ring, but...

The ring has no mass, not just any part of it, but the whole. Just like when the entire planet suddenly shatters, its original mass also disappears.

After noticing these situations, the soldier couldn't help but feel a little nervous - his memory clearly recorded that on the eve of the Long Night during the Exile Era, there was a vicious plague caused by a large-scale partial loss of information in the Ark Fleet. A considerable part of the symptoms are like this - part of the information disappears, but the overall information body still exists quite stably, which makes the situation encountered by those "patients" not like a disease, but more like a paradox, and now, this The massless material ring is such a terrible paradox.

The cruiser began to accelerate, and the crystal energy jump engine gave all vehicles almost unlimited speed. In the process of any vehicle traveling from one point to another in a world of order, the most important part of the time spent is the crystal energy jump engine. The starting and shutting down process.

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The sixth planet in this galaxy can be said to be an exaggerated and unparalleled behemoth for a rocky planet within the environment of this universe. Due to the existence of this massive planet, the center of mass of the entire galaxy is even pulled away from the central star. This makes the entire galaxy more like a weak binary star system than a star-planet system.

In the orbit of a distant planet billions of kilometers away, the originally blazing sun has shrunk to a faint point of light that is almost a background foil. Therefore, this rocky planet can be said to be very cold and dark. ...Perhaps because there is no external energy interference, the atmospheric movement on the surface of this planet can continue without interference...

When the information scanning filter locked on the planet, the pilot immediately discovered something unusual: because such a planet is far away from the sun, its atmospheric activities can be active for a long time under the existence of inertia, but this does not This means that this is a situation that will always exist. The terrain of this planet is not flat. The strong winds blowing all over the world will continue to be hindered by mountains and plateaus and eventually stagnate. Moreover, even if the storm here is relatively powerful, it will be strong enough before it subsides. Even if the entire planet is polished without any edges, that doesn't mean that the storm circle can continue to accelerate.

In the accelerating wind, little dark red flashes began to appear on the cold surface. These were the melted rocks caused by the ultra-high-speed "solid wind wall" rubbing against the ground. The strong wind tore a hole in the dense clouds all over the planet.

When they saw the entire planet through this opening, the crew of the aircraft immediately felt the difference between reality and the false-color picture. The surface of the star was covered with towering and ferocious mountains, which would be enough to crush itself. The collapsed mountain peaks pointed slantingly towards the sky like broken bone spurs.

Between the mountain peaks, huge twisted stratigraphic structures crisscrossed the earth like hemangiomas with interlaced lesions. The exposed planet earth showed black color and a sticky and disgusting texture, as if it was filled with vengeful spirits and memetic pollution. The asphalt lake is general.

"This planet... has such a ferocious and terrifying planet ever appeared in the world under the rule of the empire before...?"

A strange throbbing and manic feeling enveloped the small aircraft with golden light. The pilot felt that he seemed to be slowly falling into a bottomless rift, and it seemed like there were ten million unscrupulous people. As if someone was cursing wantonly in his own ears, he had to withdraw his spirit from the surface of the weird planet to stabilize his mind.

A huge mushroom cloud column broke through the top of the atmosphere, and the volcanic ash cloud tens of thousands of kilometers high instantly spread throughout the entire atmosphere. Driven by strong winds, the ash cloud instantly completely covered every inch of the planet that could be seen from space. On the surface of the ground, a strange black-red electric light flashed in the gray clouds. Thousands of extremely powerful thunderbolts would pierce the sky in one second, cutting large swaths of gravel on the ground and creating a backdrop for the manic gale. Send new weapons.

There is no doubt that such a planetary environment is enough to tear apart any spacecraft that only relies on metal to form a shell.

"A weird physical phenomenon that violates the current laws, a geological activity that is close to self-destruction, this is..." The pilot suppressed his manic thinking for a while, and then his heart suddenly tightened, and a dazzling golden light separated from the carrier-based aircraft. . The communication fluctuations passed through the world barrier in the next moment and arrived at the mothership fleet anchored at the boundary between the world of order and the void. This message only had four words:

Suspected death wave.

The next second, the orbit and movement of the planet began to change drastically. The entire planet was like a bouncy ball that was bumping around in the orbit, spinning wantonly in the universe, like a crazy top that had lost everything. Controlled by the laws of physics, in the space around the planet, even the starlight began to bend and fluctuate, as if the space itself was distorting and disintegrating step by step.

In the information receiving array of the mothership fleet, the existence signal of this aircraft disappeared.

Before the planet could start its out-of-control surge, the movement pattern that had already surpassed the basic laws of the universe had already torn it into pieces. Under the interference of unknown radiation, some of the fragments even flew faster than the speed of light. Under the violent friction of these fragments, space cracks with strange lights and shadows began to float up silently from the darkness.

As if the world was collapsing, large areas of space began to shrink suddenly, as if being sucked into an infinitely distant world, and everything began to collapse toward one point, as if the universe had been dug out of thin air to an area that could not be measured. In the vacancy, an absolutely circular "Dark Door" exuding destructive power suddenly exploded.

Under its influence, the planets and star bodies around it, the sun billions of kilometers away, and even the space itself all took on an air of decay that was about to decline.