Star Empire

"...The communication of some carrier aircraft has been interrupted." In the crystal energy mothership formation located near the world barrier, Albeck found that many nodes in the entire fleet were unable to communicate.

"Order all carrier-based aircraft to immediately return to the first scheduled assembly coordinate and stand by, and do not allow them to return directly to the mother ship. The pollution ability of the death wave is very powerful. We still don't know, under the current level of information usage, our spirit, Whether the body and the network itself have the ability to block the pollution of the death wave...before higher-level orders are issued...don't act rashly!"

After arranging the small fleet that could be said to be out for study and collection, he repeatedly checked his body and soul. After confirming that they were correct, he connected the communication directly to the highest level.

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"Your Majesty, there is an unknown reaction in the third scheduled colonial universe, which is highly suspected of being contaminated by death tide. The information that has been confirmed so far is that the discoverer has lost contact. The carrier-based aircraft released by the fleet are currently on standby near the world barrier. The crystal energy restraining field has already All carrier aircraft are suppressed and their entire contact with the Imperial network has been temporarily blocked."

What Kalost wanted to say was transmitted to the two emperors and everyone at the second authority level without delay through the communication network.

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"Your Majesty, given the current situation, the infection and contamination capabilities of the death wave may not be as dangerous as we thought before."

Zhai Cahir responded, "The intuitive feeling of the death tide is that information is swallowed up and disappears, and the stability of the existence of high-level information such as crystal energy and arcana is very powerful. In the former blockade area, I have proven it myself , the crystal energy arcana can purify the death tide pollution."

"That's true, but what was attached to you at that time was just secondary pollution that penetrated through the information collection network. But this time, we will be in direct contact with the source of the pollution... We must solve the problem. But Don’t be careless, even if we have enough resources now, we may not be able to directly rely on these resources to solve all the problems we encounter..."

Vidoville expressed his concerns, "This time it will be more dangerous, and we don't know whether our bodies and souls can resist the pollution of the death wave."

"Maybe... yes." Tyrant suddenly responded, "I just tried to match the situation of the carrier-based aircraft. The fuzzy world line matching showed that the carrier-based aircraft still exists and the pilot is still alive, just to To ensure safety, the carrier aircraft itself proactively and completely blocked its connection to the Imperial network. The result is a large Bayeux weight."

"If that's the case... then we can try to get the army close enough to the source of the pollution... and be prepared for shielding. The things and phenomena that will happen, as well as the data... are impossible to know without testing. We cannot avoid the problem all the time. The four chiefs are prepared. This contact will bring you first-hand research information. At the same time, this is also the first shot of the empire to fight back against the death wave. There are many valuable things. Worth recording." Vidoville ordered, "Order the fleet to assemble!"

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Among the Immortal-class A2-type dreadnoughts as the flagship of the fleet, Vidoville intuitively felt for the first time the power accumulated by his civilization during this period of almost "freezing": without resource restrictions and industrial base restrictions Under the conditions, within hundreds of years, just the Immortal-class category, and the Prototype I attack flagship Truth-class of the same level, have added up to tens of thousands of ships. This is still due to the lack of sufficient battles. Test, the result of the situation where any upgrade module of the hull has not reached the required standards and the overall construction speed of the fleet has been deliberately slowed down.

Those petite frigates were later simply canceled from the fleet and directly became carrier-based sub-machine of large spaceships - as long as the mathematical rate calculation bandwidth allows, the space expansion module can expand the space to a very high degree. A spacecraft that looks only a few hundred kilometers long from the outside can fully accommodate a planet with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers.

There are 10,000 battleships, 20,000 high-precision fire support ships, 50,000 fleet close-in defense ships, and countless "joint shield strengthening sub-machine". This is the first time that the fleet will truly serve as a war vehicle. The established organization on the battlefield.

Near the world barrier that is close to the edge of the cosmic order, the bright light emitted by the gathering of tens of thousands of warships filled with crystal energy dispersed the eternal night entrenched in this cosmic domain, and even once caused the nearby The space fluctuated slightly. Looking from the fleet in the direction of the cosmic benchmark anchor, the entire world seemed to be reflected in the sparkling waves.

Between the void quadrants, the navigation method still follows the original information shift and jump law. However, because the basic universe parameters and world views are very different between different void quadrants, the huge impact it has also makes different quadrants completely different from each other. Overlapping but not integrating into one - this problem is particularly obvious in communication at present. Communication across void phenomena requires more compilation and conversion before it can jump smoothly.

Even if there are difficulties, the communication between the quadrants is currently unimpeded. In terms of achievements in these aspects, Master Zhai Cahill led the team to slowly deflect one by one in the void according to the fuzzy coordinates, and directly connected them with a nearly physical link. The void communication channel forcibly opened up by this method is a model.

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With clear coordinate guidance, the Imperial Void Fleet's information migration speed is no longer as awkward and laggy as the Ark Fleet's slow drift in the void - within five hours of the Empire's standard time, the Imperial Fleet was temporarily docked at No. The exploration fleet on the "outside" of the three-colonial universe world barrier took over.

"Your Majesty, this is a follow-up to the situation just reported. The carrier-based aircraft that reported a possible crisis has been "recovered" by the high-intensity crystal energy shielding force field. The carrier-based aircraft was seriously damaged, but the pilot is still awake. , there is no life-threatening danger for the time being. It is now in a state of complete isolation from the imperial network. We use the crystal energy constraint field used to store dangerous items to suppress it very close to the endless void. Once the carrier-based aircraft appears to exceed the stability maintenance threshold, If there is any abnormal movement, it will be immediately thrown into the void - this is the safest way we can think of."

"Very well, Albeck, you and I have both seen how dangerous the death wave is, and there is nothing wrong with being cautious in these aspects."

Vidoville nodded approvingly, "One-tenth of the fleet will stay here with me, and at the same time, a strong enough communication link will be established to directly connect with the Gate of Death Tide. The main force of the fleet will fight the source of Death Tide, Visery Fan, are you online?"

"Now, the information analysis array has been assembled. Both Tyrant and Docter are here. The analysis array here has enough redundancy. It should be able to offset the impact of the death tide pollution. After all, the previous Ark This result has been tested in the fleet - high-level information is enough to resist death tide contamination."

"Okay, got it. Be careful, everyone."

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Since the death tide pollution has begun to affect the space structure, the fleet on the front line has not directly pressed the source coordinates of the death tide outbreak. According to the first calculation gap, the location where the fleet exited the transition state was about tens of light years away from the source of the death tide. When the images recorded by the fleet were transmitted back along the relay nodes powered by crystal energy, When arriving at the flagship where Vidoville was located, the Empire saw for the first time the true form of this enemy who had nearly wiped out the entire old federation—at least a possible true form:

It was an absolutely regular, circular black hole. The celestial bodies moving near this dark hole were being infected by invisible forces. Black and red patterns began to cover one planet after another. Not to mention the planets, Not even the boiling flames on the surface of the faint blue star can burn these weird patterns.

These scenes really surprised everyone, but when they saw these scenes in an instant and nothing else happened, and the relay node responsible for the broadcast was stable, people were temporarily relieved. This was considered a Very good news - with the current level of technology, the crystal energy shield is indeed capable of blocking out the death wave pollution. And now the individuals of the empire who have experienced the strengthening of souls and hearts are able to resist some of the derivative contamination of the death wave - in the past, even in a crystal energy environment, just looking at a scene like this would drive people into madness.

If this initial test has been passed, then the next test will be whether the current empire's vehicles can support such a battle, and whether they can recover something from the disaster that once nearly destroyed civilization.

"Are you able to determine the specific structure of these death tides? In my opinion... the source of the death tide seems to be a black sphere?" Orif stared blankly at the perfect circle of black in the picture. In response to his question, hundreds of detection sub-machine detached themselves from the protection of the joint shield and entered the strange black hole. Inside the frontline fleet, everyone was nervously paying attention to that part of the extended network. This is A bold attempt to examine how resistant the network is to dead wave contamination.

For the sake of safety, these sub-machines actually formed several physical communication links from different angles extending to the Death Tide Gate in space - each physical link has a strong isolation barrier.

"The sub-machine is partially damaged, but because those detectors are crystal energy devices, they can directly rely on their own driving energy to maintain stability near the source of the dead tide for a period of time. At present, it seems that the data they sent back can be considered There is no distortion..." A promoted person under the name of Eskett carefully studied the data sent back by hundreds of machines at the same time: "No, General, no, the source of the pollution of the death wave is not a ball, that The structure is…mathematically two-dimensional.”

"Two dimensions? How do you say that?"

"It is a two-dimensional plane in our physical sense, a plane without thickness. It looks like a black sphere because... no matter which angle it is viewed from, the structure it presents to the observer is a black sphere. Two-dimensional perfect circle!”

"The nature is so weird..." Even Zhai Cahill, who has been hanging on the Internet to record the results, has never heard of it. "If the sentence that always makes oneself appear as a two-dimensional plane to the observer can be regarded as a descriptive message, It is not impossible for such a structure to exist...but if we consider the expressive power of death tide and its derivatives...will it have such a thing as properties..."

"Attention, a UFO has been detected, flying at a speed far exceeding the speed of light in this universe!" The prompt from the shipboard AI caused Orif's attention to instantly return to the source of the perfect circular death wave in front of him: in the air that began to shake slowly In the space, countless fragments infected by the death wave are crashing into the golden joint shield of the crystal energy fleet.

"Attack!"

The convoy fleet and fire support ships, which mainly play the role of killing and defending in the fleet, responded immediately the moment they received the order to fire. Countless high-precision killing firepower and heavy firepower were so thick that they could almost become A dense close-defense strike curtain of a layer of joint shield immediately formed in front of the joint shield.

There is no doubt that these strange fragments come from celestial bodies that have been infected and self-destructed in the contaminated area. Under the influence of the death tide pollution, the "self-destructive tendency" and "power" of these fragments have been doubled. .

Silent but gorgeous explosions lit up from the airtight golden skynet, and their number began to skyrocket. It’s hard to imagine how many celestial bodies have begun to break under such a debris density, and what have happened to the broken celestial body fragments?

Amidst the continuous sweep of the crystal energy light flow, within the range swept by the light cannon, the space began to flash with dim golden light from the background. This phenomenon was not missed by the precise Imperial fleet sensors, " Space itself is being affected, and the frequency...is consistent with the frequency of crystal energy artillery fire?!"

"What?" Not to mention Olive and Vidoville, even Cavern Riel, who had been studying crystal energy from the beginning, was stunned. "Crystal energy artillery fire will still have such a phenomenon? Before this, we have never Not observed.”

"The stability of the surrounding space itself has declined under the influence of the dead tide pollution... Perhaps this is the reason why the impact that the normal space could withstand is now becoming a phenomenon and being revealed..."

Orif devoted some energy to quickly search the information returned by the viewer, "There seems to be some kind of resonance between the crystal energy artillery fire. Under the influence of such resonance, the crystal energy artillery fire seems to be able to spread over a wide range." Expand the scope of destruction..."

"Attention, the area of ​​contamination is expanding, and the space on the flank of the imperial fleet is beginning to become unstable. It is recommended to retreat..." Holographic projections instantly unfolded inside the ship and in the minds of all combatants. In the projection, a large area The space of the world is disintegrating, and the death tide pollution is spreading far faster than the speed of light. Whenever a planet is covered with shadows and black and red two-dimensional patterns, the planet will suddenly shatter into a piece that can kill thousands of people. All physical matter in a billion cubic kilometers of space is dragged into a self-destructing high-risk bomb.

"Send out a small-scale space field stabilizing device to suppress the astral radiation of all stars within the infection range, blow up all natural star bridges, recharge the truth-class main cannon, and turn more planets into minions that spread its pollution during the death tide. Before that, put an end to them all!"

Vidoville gritted his teeth as he watched the feed back. The almost unstoppable jumping infection method of the death wave caused the entire universe of the old federation to completely disappear in the indescribable wave of destruction within a few days. If the issue of the emperor's authority had not been resolved, once the emperor himself went directly to the front line, it might put the entire civilization in danger, and he might go to the battlefield himself.

Even if the current growth has made the Empire's achievements far greater than those of the Star Federation, even if the Empire has now broken many stalemates in the past, even if the current Empire is still trying to understand the world, trying to understand everything around it, trying to make itself more adaptable to the new world. environment, even if civilization is booming, the situation is really bright...

But no matter what, many things on the civilized level, no matter how deeply hidden they are, have never been lost.

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As the most conspicuous warship in the fleet, the scene of thousands of Truth-class ships firing simultaneously can be ranked third among the empire's man-made landscapes - the first among the first two is the activation of the information line when the cosmic benchmark stabilizing anchor is activated, and the second It is the ultra-large-scale information translation layer inside the World Gate. The first two are larger in scale, but obviously the scene of thousands of main guns firing volleys is more shocking.

In front of the joint shield, tens of thousands of golden light mist began to separate from the originally smooth surface of the shield, and under the control of some powerful force, it was compressed from the light mist into a particle only a dozen kilometers away. Each sphere corresponds to a pale golden giant ship exuding destructive power. There is no doubt that these huge spaceships can be called works of art, but what these works of art contain is the art of war.

As if some kind of constraint had reached its limit, these light balls condensed on the joint crystal energy shield exploded at the same time, and the golden light spears arrived as soon as they were launched. The celestial body shrouded in the death tide pollution had gradually begun to self-destruct. When he came into contact with this kind of high-level information from outside the universe, he was lit up almost instantly, as if a lamp suddenly lit up inside the crystal ball.

However, lighting up is just a phenomenon in which information is annihilated and exposed to the real world. The light spear destroys the original rules for the stable existence of these low-level information aggregates. Under the action of something similar to a chain reaction, the targeted planets were as if they were vitrified after being directly hit by high-energy beams. Their texture began to rapidly mutate into some kind of weird crystal, and then shattered into tiny bits. dust.

"The mathematical rate space stabilizer has been anchored, and its effectiveness has increased - gravity and related influences have weakened, and it has begun to suppress all celestial activities within the demarcated range!"

Under the action of a mathematical rate stabilizer similar to a small cosmic benchmark stabilizing anchor, the starlight of the entire universe dims almost instantly at a speed visible to the eye. With the current polluted-unpolluted area as the boundary, there is a gap left Under the redundant space faults of thousands of light years, the universe itself began to form a series of unstable space fault zones.

Once the situation goes out of control, this temporary cosmic benchmark anchor will use its own cosmic control authority to cut off the entire contaminated universe from the main universe directly from the world barrier. It doesn't matter even if the fleet is in it, it is powerful The crystal energy shield and order field can definitely ensure that the fleet can last longer than the fragments of the universe that are about to be shattered due to pollution.

In the fleet, countless Y-1 "Styx" missiles began to be pushed into the universe from the ammunition depot inside the ship through space coordinate conversion. The scale of these missiles was very huge, and their lengths of hundreds of meters were enough to Comparable to a small spaceship. And among this huge body, the propulsion device only occupies a very small part, and more than 90% of the remaining parts are warheads, which... are filled with crystals whose contents have been destructively compiled. Can crystal.

In the past, the ship explosives used to blow up surface ships were thousands of pounds, and the bombs used to blow up interstellar spaceships had a yield of about 100 million pounds of high explosives. The weapons used to blow up spaceships that can fly between galaxies have far exceeded a trillion, and they can burn large planets. The basic unit of the high-power weapons operated by glass is Jing. When fighting against vacuum zero-point energy, Gai has also fallen... Now, the power of the weapons has all reached a level that transcends the laws of the universe. This is a conceptual level of crushing and equivalent. irreparable with quantifiers.

These problems can be very clearly illustrated by stars that are completely erased without a trace when their light shines on.

Under the bright crystal energy cannon fire, space, time, and laws in the separated intervals are heading towards destruction one by one.

Amid the suppression of light, it seemed that it had been seriously disturbed by crystal energy artillery fire. The black, round "gate" that was originally unrippled in the ancient well seemed to begin to boil like an asphalt lake heated by magma. Amidst the surging black waves, A transparent "membrane" is struggling to maintain its integrity on the sea.

"Wait, the source of death tide pollution——!"

"...Oh no, it seems that the pollution source also has a stability limit...The disturbance we created...is recorded immediately! Fleet protection is enhanced!"

Like a dam collapsing, or like huge pressure breaking through a valve, some constraints on the dead tide pollution source seemed to be broken. Chaotic black-red mist spewed out from the gate, forming a majestic ocean tide. This pollution It was so violent that the temporary cosmic baseline stabilizing anchor was greatly affected.

The connection between the frontline fleet and the imperial network was suddenly interrupted. In the cosmic star map placed in front of Victorville and Vesrifan, layers of unknown aura began to appear on the edge of the light veins extending wantonly in the universe - a Another bright galaxy began to be shrouded in two-dimensional shadows and black and red patterns that symbolized destruction and death.