Star Empire

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"...It's not easy. It seems that I still have patience and my thinking has not been slowed down by time. I finally waited until these products came off the production line." Looking at the black wrapped in several layers of force fields more than ten meters away, With a square structure, Cavinrel's sense of satisfaction is almost tangible enough to be visible to the naked eye.

"This means that your ship will be wiped out." Kalost looked at the excited science officer with a dark look on his face, "You really don't feel bad about the most advanced equipment?"

"Feeling distressed? It's impossible to say that it's not at all, but compared to more important research, these are all external things." Cavinriel didn't care about this.

"Okay, okay." Caloust waved his hand helplessly, and more than ten meters away, the tightly protected space annihilation bombs slowly rose up under the lift of the platform elevator.

"This passage leads to the sixth connection area, where a high-density barge is already waiting. In order not to affect the stable operation of the space station, we must conduct this blasting operation at least ten light years away."

"You can arrange this, just make sure the blasting is accurate."

"By the way, I have a small personal question." Kalost suddenly stopped. Although I don't know why, I especially want to ask you now:

"Why did you name your ship Aurora? Aurora is formed when high-energy charged particles emitted by a star hit the planet's magnetosphere, causing some air molecules in the upper atmosphere to be ionized. This is the case on most planets. This term has been spread. Down. Although aurora is a kind of area that widely exists in the universe where stars and planetary magnetic fields interact, and it can be regarded as a very beautiful natural landscape, it should not be enough for you to put its name on your own ship. ?”

"Of course it's not the Aurora. The name of my ship comes from the "Aurora" model in the Deep Space Kraken series of luxury yachts." Cavernrel said this with a little emotion.

"The "Deep Space Kraken" is a phenomenon that was occasionally encountered in deep space when the Federation just started interstellar navigation in ancient times. The spacecraft would occasionally suddenly lose the traction of the curvature of space and be thrown out of the super-light speed state. In this process, the spacecraft would often Accidents will occur due to violent shaking, and since there will be some interference after suddenly falling out of the super-light speed state, it will be difficult to detect the external situation of the spacecraft."

“Without the evidence of external real scenes, it is difficult for people to speculate on what happened when the disaster occurred... Therefore, following ancient primitive fears, people named this phenomenon according to the legend of ships in the planetary ocean being destroyed by large sea monsters. "Deep Space Kraken."

"Later, the investigation of this phenomenon showed that it is a space curvature cliff phenomenon. The sudden collapse of the structure of a massive star or certain weapons can create a space curvature cliff. However, in theory, naturally formed curvature cliffs... forget it. , not important. After the development of better space synchronic jump technology, this phenomenon is no longer threatening, but it is still retained as a unique name to commemorate those pioneers who sacrificed their lives."

"I also know this part of the legend, and it is indeed of commemorative significance." Kalost scratched his head, "But this doesn't seem to explain why you named your ship after this?"

"The original source was a dream of mine... After I really realized my dream, I no longer had the time and energy to take care of my original idea... This is just a warm-up - you too You can think of it as some kind of dream that I have always had..." Cavinriel's voice was slightly lowered, "...I remember that my dream seems to have never been...accepted."

"It's really rare that you still have this kind of dream that continues to this day...Forget it, let's work quickly."

"Well, I will set the spacecraft into autonomous cruise mode right away. You will hand over the subsequent guidance and fixation work, and then you will also select the blasting operation area as soon as possible."

"……good."

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Ten light-years away, low-perturbation stable deep space.

In a small "projection" that the "forward base" managed to hold up, in a semi-closed warped space bubble, several drones were installing energy-guiding grids on the shell of the Aurora's central compartment. On the bright silver shell, a slightly distorted circular frame with a diameter of more than one kilometer is gradually taking shape.

"The warp space bubble is really a versatile thing. As a defense and isolation measure, its effect is unparalleled." Kalost looked at the arc-shaped total reflection mirror not far away that reflected starlight and golden vortexes. said.

"Actually, this is best called the "Warp World Bubble."" Cavernrel was also staring at the total reflection mirror. "If it is a pure warped space, then it can only be used as a means of defense, but it cannot be used as a carrier to transcend the universe. Movement at the speed of light. In such a man-made environment, what is warped and closed includes not only space, but also the energy and natural laws that exist in it. After such a warped environment is closed, it itself is basically an independent small world. "

"...In addition, the same goes for the charges of space annihilation bombs. The reason why we still call them "warp space" or "space fragments" is actually a common name. They are far more complicated than space. Well, it may be that this layer of barrier contains more things than a single spatial structure, and it can interfere with the operation of the information collection network." Cavernelle suddenly added.

"The nature of the information collection network is indeed magical. Even though it has been used for such a long time, its mystery has not been revealed by us. It is very stable, and ordinary means, including electromagnetic interference, physical isolation and even space isolation, can There is no way to block it; if you want to divide network segments, you must use information computers to perform frequency modulation, or offline certain key contact nodes. In addition, the way and speed it transmits information exceeds any of our previous means - it almost ignores the speed of light barrier , this property is somewhat similar to the light of the golden vortex."

"That's right, General. The perturbation ability of the information computer is similar to the first-layer intuitive model of the black box. They can completely change the properties of mass and energy and create the unknown."

Cavinriel took out a small item from the gran library beside him. It was a square thin metal plate. On the layout, a set of long black numbers were beating continuously: 35 478 364 278, 2, 15 ,16,55,0.

That is one of the synchronous output terminals of the Federation's perpetual clock, the time scale of the entire Federation. Just looking at the digital system of this scale, it is difficult to superimpose the first number with the ones that continue to advance forward. The upper limit does not exceed 60 numbers linked together.

"This output terminal was originally bound to the three perpetual clocks, but now the other two have cut off their services to this area, leaving only the perpetual clock currently inside the third hexagram. This provides support. The radiant core of the perpetual clock was born under the perturbation of the information computer."

"Originally, the cores of the three perpetual clocks were the secondary servers of an information computer. That information computer provided time calibration services for the entire network at that time. Since information computers have a long service life, such related equipment The servo arrays are basically idle. However, after an inspection, it was discovered that these idle secondary servers had malfunctioned for no apparent reason. They no longer performed any standard work, but they could be fixed after inputting energy. pulses at a frequency that exactly matches the femtosecond."

"Now, all information collection network nodes are surrounded by the origin of materials with new properties. Around those information computers, there are often some strange mutations in some materials, and their property changes are probably related to the purpose of the node, but The results produced by this type of approach are very random. The properties of the newly produced materials are mostly very different, and they may not even produce materials with new properties."

Having said this, Cavinrel shook his head, "This is why I am a little disgusted with the extensive application of information computers and their derivative materials - even mathematical models fail to traverse the possible mappings and elemental patterns."

"...It's a mess. When I came here, I just wanted to collect information and save people; or isolate or close the anomaly, but the current problem makes me feel...unmanageable." Calost lowered his head and thought for a moment, " Because there are so many similarities or correlations with our current most extreme technical black boxes, that’s why you are so attentive to this incident? You even came here in person.”

"Yes, information means is currently the most incomprehensible to us, but it is also the most likely to have the power to push us forward." Speaking of this, Cavinrel said with complicated emotions, "After so many years, we have been I am using the technical black box to develop my own future.”

"Have these phenomena been without even a shred of reasonable theoretical support for so long? Are they at least speculations?" Kalost also knew that information technology and many related things are based on technical black boxes, but these words once again came from the chief scientist's mouth. Even when I say it, this situation is still surprising and scary.

"Of course there is. After the big explosion that annihilated half the galaxy, information technology began to appear, and many conjectures were established." Cavernelle chuckled somewhat self-deprecatingly, "Of course there are theories, they are all Mathematical models have a very low general application rate. The most ironic thing is that in my opinion, the hypothesis that is most consistent with all current phenomena has also been considered the most difficult to accept for a long time, and that is the grand unified theory of information."

"A grand unified theory of information?"

"That's right. This theory believes that everything in the world, including matter, time, space, concepts, laws, etc., is made up of "information" or "information". Everything, including you and me, is not essentially It is not what kind of particles it is composed of, but the result of the expression of information combination products. In this model, theoretically there should be an infinite and supreme existence that can accommodate everything, and our universe is just a small one in it. Bubbles, in this endless and supreme ocean, there are countless bubbles that rise and die in the ebb and flow of the tide."

"This...such an idea...is really not something that most people can accept." After hearing these shocking words, Kalost had to carefully consider what he was going to say, and tried hard to combine the words "fuck" that he almost blurted out with the words "fuck". He spit out "fictional superreason" because it was the chief scientific officer who said these words. However, in fact, even if the chief scientific officer said this, he still wanted to spit out those two words.

When the finite transforms into the infinite, closure transforms into openness, and the essence of the world is impacted, the first thing to collapse is probably the entire original philosophical system - year-on-year, the higher the development, the more "pragmatic" many contents will be. …”

"I know what you are thinking. Even I knew this idea at the beginning and strongly disagreed with it. During a period of more than a billion years ago, such ideas were suppressed and banned because they were calculated to cause large-scale social unrest. , until recently, many technologies began to encounter bottlenecks, and the Aldosil Council had to open all historical data to all scientists, hoping to get inspiration from those historical hypotheses that have not been confirmed or falsified. This set of ideas was Being rebooted.”

"It's a pity that although it can best explain all this at present, not many people can accept it. Apart from me, there are probably only four people who can accept it at the moment."

"Which four people?" Kalost was a little curious, but also felt a little admiration for the mind of these people. With this kind of thinking, ordinary people might just ignore it, let alone accept it and study it seriously.

"Military Consul Woodster Vidoville, Operations Consul Kundalil Vesrevan, Information Collection Network Chief Control Technician Cape Zhaicahir, Capital Science and Technology Minister, Vesrevan Chief Advisor Ariosa von Eisendel... is currently only confirmed to have them, there may be others, but I'm afraid they are only a handful, and we must ensure that the relevant personnel... are reliable."

Cavinrel sighed, "We really want to fully develop these theories, but now this theory lacks much support. Any existing information methods are unstable and there are no rules that can be quantified. Therefore, we must follow Logical requirements and federal law, in addition... there appear to be some practical issues, such as possible social unrest..."

"..." Calost looked at the science officer with real sympathy for the first time in his eyes. As a soldier, he could certainly understand the chief scientist's feelings, although he might not understand many of the sophisticated technical principles. , but he knows that the frontier areas of science and technology are the battlefield for scientists. A front that cannot be advanced, weapons that bring hope but are banned from use... The contradictions and pressures in this are all pressing on the hearts of these few scientists, but they usually try their best to hide their loss. After all, they are not really Logical machine.

However, just as Kalost was about to reach out and pat the science officer on the shoulder, the synthetic voice from the space station AI attracted the attention of two people: "The temporary warp space workplace and the energy-guiding grid structure have been coordinated. Please issue follow-up instructions." instruction."