Star Empire

"...It feels a little strange, but what I must say is...this is indeed...very necessary, yes, I must admit it."

Low-authority individuals can constrain and influence the overall development of civilization to a certain extent. This was a design goal of the "super-individual" network when the Star Empire began to consider the overall upgrading of civilization in the Year of Exile - from a certain From some perspectives, it can also be said to be the one with the highest relative weight.

"Currently, it seems that many trends are becoming more and more clear, and we need to pay more and more attention to it... Our span is really too big, and it is really... difficult to perfect many structures in a short period of time."

“Many possibilities, many meanings and values ​​are not impossible to filter, they overlap.”

In the process of civilization development, increasingly convenient and efficient communication and transportation technologies will make civilization continue to return to unity from a state of divergence. This kind of return does not refer to a clear return of power or interests, but the "return" of the civilization as a whole composed of countless individuals that make up it.

With extremely abundant resources, the higher goals of the empire began to constrain all individuals, causing them to begin to regard the survival and development of their own civilization as their own goals and meaning of existence to a higher degree. Civilizations will use this as a springboard to become more " exist as one.

However, in this process, as all individuals begin to twist into a rope, possible situations such as multi-idea disputes that still have value should be considered.

If no attention is paid, their weight will quickly decrease or even disappear, and the entire civilization will most likely enter some unhealthy, very one-sided and low-level "one-word" state.

Since it has reached such a scale, even if some mistakes that are not realized in this case really have an impact on civilization, it may not be enough to damage the civilization itself. But if you ignore right and wrong in any direction of research and development, and proceed blindly without caution - then it will no longer be one or two things that are wrong, but an entire line. Once you go further, once there is a mistake on the road, the greater the price you pay as a whole——

Although the joint plan between Isendel and the two emperors stimulated individual actions and unity within the civilization, it went in the wrong direction for such a long time, resulting in a huge waste of resources. This is what matters to everyone. Things that have to be acknowledged in front of people.

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"Perhaps... we really may be too dependent on infinite resources relative to our civilization... Think about our current actions - we have unlimited venues and resources, so we can do this, but if In the past, when our resources were limited...if we converted all the stars in most of the galaxy into pure energy, but in the end found that this would not actually make any breakthrough progress, if these phenomena really existed, then our It is really possible for civilization to collapse under such circumstances..."

"but……"

"I'm not sure, and we haven't figured out why Su Zheng appeared at this time, with her as the basic node..."

"Perhaps this is due to habit. We are used to being the authority. We may influence too many things or even suppress some things invisibly. Maybe we are not prepared to be "challenged" at all..."

"Perhaps... this is not an abnormality. We originally wanted to find the right direction, and the direction she chose is currently the most suitable for development..."

"...I don't deny, I don't deny...all of this."

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Even if the Federation has perished, it seems that a considerable part of its remaining rule entries and experiences can still play a role in some relatively clear areas - in those "log files", there are many entries that were found after looking back and analyzing them. It is still self-consistent with the real environment. However, this does not mean luck. On the contrary, it means trouble from many fields:

The Empire was reorganized after the collapse of the Federation.

Although the current empire has the size and technology to absolutely crush the Federation era, the civilization structure of the empire is much more fragile than that of the Federation. Even now, the empire has not been able to restore much of the civilization structure - the inheritance of the empire's civilization essence. Since the Federation, this civilization has been completely different from its previous era. The stable structure that the Federation took 35 billion years to finally form was destroyed in one fell swoop, and later, the real environment proved that the structure of the Federation had become fallacious due to the interference of external disturbances - now, the Empire can only Inherit the incomplete, try on your own when it is highly developed, and make up for the shortcomings and loopholes in the civilization structure.

Such an action cannot be achieved by relying on the one or two wise men or the one-step or two-step thinking of pioneers, nor can it be made up by copying it - for a long time, the empire still needs a sufficient level of maintenance. mechanism.

Therefore, the empire needs to mobilize the power of everyone as much as possible to improve itself, which is also the direct reason for the emergence of the concept of super-individuality. In the concept of superindividuality, individuals at the first and second levels of authority play a basic steering role as the "brain" in the overall development of civilization, while the vast number of individuals at the third and fourth levels play the role of "peripheral nerves". ", they upload what they see, hear, feel, and think, and the first and second authority levels make further arrangements based on this feedback information. This is a basic adjustment at the ordinary level.

And a situation like that of Xihe Wuyi is a drastic adjustment in a direct sense, that is, "civilization moves toward righteousness." Obviously, the overall impact of adjusting the overall development of civilization in this way is very huge, and from these huge impacts we can see what kind of impact it will have once such "rectification" does not exist.

Hopefully, this kind of action will not be the last time it occurs, and the next unconventional revision, revised guidance related to research or action... will not come too late.

"What the empire inherited... was less knowledge and more habits... This is not conducive to development, but..."

"There should always be a process, and this is probably part of the price we need to repay."

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In the subsequent discussions, Calost and the two emperors were also fully involved, and more direct researchers and mounting teams were also involved simultaneously - they needed to lead the development of the arcane fleet. With the subsequent overall development of the Arcane clan, the term "Arcane Magic" inherited from ancient literature has also become the deterministic name for the technology developed by the current Arcane clan, matching it with the original As for the existing subordinate nouns, there are also a bunch of new coined words - during the period when the research and development of the Rune of Truth was stagnant, the empire's senior officials were hesitant about this part. It is only now that these contents have been truly determined.

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"Not to mention facing war, even if we look at our own development process, we are already overwhelmed by the situations that war at the information level needs to face."

After the meeting ended, Vidoville glanced at another person who was still attached to the virtual meeting - "Isendel, I see that you were a little half-hearted at the end of the discussion? What's going on?"

"I felt an indescribable temperament from Xihe Wuyi - a temperament that I have never felt when working with countless colleagues in millions of years. It gave me a... strange feeling. "

"Okay, I understand, but to be honest, from such a long time point of view, among people at the same age level, you scientists are the most active, especially psychologically, there is almost no laziness. Traces of transformation. Like me and Lil, we can only react enough to details when our feelings increase, but usually... we have become a little indifferent. From some aspects, this is not good. "

"We used to explore scientific and technological progress, but now, the ultimate goal of our exploration is to a higher level, we explore the truth. If we don't have enough active curiosity to capture and analyze everything, then we are naturally not worthy, and we are not worthy enough. It’s even less possible to have the current identity.”

"At the same time, maybe we have also overlooked some things. The level we are standing on may not completely correspond to our level. In order to permanently solidify the runes of truth, we even tried to directly explore the secrets of creating the world, and Match the new void information decay equation by ourselves, but perhaps, this series of plans is too early, and we also lack too much foundation. The development and application of technology require all-round common progress..."

"It doesn't matter. Even if there is any rashness, as long as we can gradually realize it during the self-examination, this is the meaning of this solemnity. Don't worry too much about the rest - at least, we have time and resources. .”

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Restoration year 5696.

In the third newly discovered, logically obvious gap is the theoretical quadrant...

For some reason, the empire discovered that the number of surviving primitive universes began to gradually increase, and it also observed a Genesis frequency that was slightly higher than the void environment around the capital world. This phenomenon provided new insights into some previous conjectures. Evidence - it is possible that in the quadrant where they were originally located, there is some unknown existence that can suppress the activities of Genesis...?

However, I don’t know how far all of this can take effect. At the same time, there is a major navigation logic discontinuity in the void, and the logic of the universe structure on both sides of the discontinuity is highly consistent but needs to cross the quadrant barrier...

"It needs to be questioned, how much have we seen, how much have we understood..."

"I'm afraid, we are back at a certain starting point..."

"Compared to the void, the world is probably much smaller than the stars compared to the universe..."

"...??"

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Due to the current level of technology, Di Ran cannot directly ascertain the possible intuitive arrangement of worlds in different logical intervals in the void.

The partial order worlds between the void quadrants...the basic logic of order between them, that is, the worldviews are very different, and the super-rank translation equations that can span the quadrant differences...have a lot of difficulties in themselves, and at the same time, it will make communication The hardware difficulty itself has risen sharply.

Therefore, even if the various intuitive perceptions and understandings of the world currently found in different "possible quadrants" may be highly consistent, there are still similarities and huge differences among them, that is, visual sense cannot judge similarity and identity. , many times, the differences between them seem to cease to exist after crossing the gap, but sometimes it makes the crystal energy shield tremble...

There seem to be many similarities and differences, and I’m afraid the details still need to be studied...

Due to various reasons and realistic constraints, in addition to the ultra-high-power communication relay stations and super world gates equipped in the super springboard world across the quadrants and other symbolic creations that serve as the "origin development base", the void fleet is still used to Only conduct exploration activities under the current quadrant that is confirmed to be stable and familiar to the senses.

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During the slow expansion, the void exploration fleet discovered very small traces of intelligent creatures in more and more worlds - for example, there is a large range of "radiation" or "radiation" in an ordinary ecosystem. Differences in the "background content of heterogeneous substances in the environment," or clear and observable unnatural continental changes on some planets, or even unnatural movements of some planets and even planetary systems - it is obvious that there may have been something here Higher civilization:

They themselves have affected the ecosystem, shaped the heaven and earth, and have even been able to change the original trajectories of planets and even stars. The energy required to do this last step is beyond imagination. If they want to affect the orbits of stars in a single planetary system, they must Unless civilization can use dark matter, dark energy, vacuum zero-point energy, or at least one type of resource that exists in other worlds that transcends conventional resources. Otherwise, their sphere of influence must be much larger than a planetary system or even beyond a star system in order to raise so much energy.

However, these civilizations that may have been powerful for a while have all disappeared, so much so that the civilization itself has not left even a little bit of its former creations. It is like the entire civilization has been treated as a data package or folder and then deleted - nothing With one exception, this once confused all scholars, including Cavinrel and others, at first - even if there is really a dozens or hundreds of times of information basic evolution speed, that is, a difference in time flow speed, the imperial fleet and Logically speaking, the age difference between the two contacts should not exceed tens of millions of years.

For those civilizations that are capable of trekking into deep space, even if they cannot maintain operation for tens of millions of years, objects that can exist for tens of millions of years, at least large-scale equipment, should be more or less preserved - an object made of anti-corrosion metal Even if a large piece of metal appears in the most unfavorable natural environment, it will still take tens of thousands of years for it to go from being intact to being completely damaged by corrosion. This degree of time influence is not enough to make the creation of these levels of civilization directly traceable.

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However, there are not entirely no clues that can be traced back to the source.

In a certain universe, on the theoretical orbit of the influencing body calculated based on the distortion of the celestial body, the exploration fleet discovered an extremely weak decrease in the stability of space, and such unoriginal information changed sharply from stability to instability. , indicating that death tide pollution may have occurred here.

And soon, an even more horrifying discovery made Victorville and others feel actual fear: on a huge site that had been shaped by a certain planet, the exploration fleet discovered the central location of an environment similar to a "ritual". A huge trace of corruption appeared - although the collapsing soil and rocks had made the "totem" extremely blurry, but with the powerful calculation processing power, the true identity of the symbol was quickly restored - its If you only look at the external lines, the main part looks like a huge angular eye. On both sides of the "eye corner" there is a slightly smaller indentation that looks a bit like a crescent moon, and between the pupils of the "eye" Chu then analyzed a symbol that no one wanted to face - Σ.

The appearance of the relics of this "totem" made everyone in the Star Empire instantly understand why the empire's colonial universe for thousands of years was either completely new, or no civilization survived at all. During the Exiled Annals, several times when the empire's top officials were on the verge of losing control, large-scale plagues caused by death tide pollution, and the death tide pollution that should have been purified long ago in theory but has been corroding the outer shell of the Ark can all be explained clearly:

Σ is likely to be much more powerful than the Empire once imagined. Its influence has already penetrated the multiverse in the void, and after that civilization was completely corrupted by some irresistible death wave, most of its influence It is also possible that the force has turned into a corrupt vector for the spread of infection.

Under its influence, all civilizations that were weakly related to Σ Civilization were contaminated by the death wave, disintegrated and disappeared in this way, and the several changes in the empire during the exile were probably inseparable from this. If If not for the timely appearance of the crystal energy vortex, I am afraid that the star civilization would have disappeared into the vast void.

Fear and fear gradually turned into anger, but anger is often the most useless emotion - when the empire really planned to explore this super civilization that brought destruction to itself and everything around it, something happened inside the civilization itself. Several dangerous Death Tide Gate invasions.

Even with the suppression of the cosmic benchmark stabilizing anchor, those death tide gates still caused the destruction of universes one after another. In the most serious pollution outbreak, four gates that were much larger than the first and second records were opened at the same time. It appeared and directly polluted more than a dozen worlds, and even the doomsday order of the universe's benchmark anchor lost its execution power.

As a result, the phenomenon of "resonant pollution" that can transcend the isolation of the void was recorded between the gates.

The scale of that pollution far exceeded the limit that the empire could control. After direct losses of perhaps seventeen figures of imperial members and subsequent losses of more than 30% of the fleet, Vidoville and Kalost had to order a halt to the pollution. It carried out military operations internally - and this was the result of only two attempts with complete preparations.

I don’t know if I should call it lucky or unfortunate, but this method of “sacrifice the filter” to preserve civilization was finally proven to be feasible here. Although the empire suffered extremely heavy losses, these losses did not damage the foundation - the Star Empire's high-level structure and basic environment have not yet been matched, and the current infrastructure of the empire is not as intricately intertwined as before. They are now more like clusters of fractals that can be separated. As long as part of the function is preserved, the structure can be re-extended...

Under the crushing force of the extremely powerful pollution, all direct isolation methods failed - including the enhanced crystal energy shield. After destroying the fleet, the death tide pollution forcibly broke through the network firewall and infected large swaths of people. "Clean area".

In the end, the remaining fleets of the empire had to directly add an order field from the void to forcefully break the world barriers of those seriously polluted worlds, and this was the only way that the spread of pollution was finally controlled.

Among them, more and more people only use crystal energy, and its limitations have begun to be exposed one by one - the death wave is pervasive. No matter how strong the crystal energy shield is, if you fight in a powerful contaminated area, those The weird self-destruction phenomenon of information can also penetrate through the crystal energy shield. Even though the hardware conditions of the imperial fleet can cope with such a problem, Kalost and others understand one thing:

In these cases, the damage at the hardware level is likely to be the result of the continuous effects of many elastic events being contaminated. To put it simply, it is a fleet operating in a bad atmosphere when the atmosphere continues to get worse. Something will happen sooner or later, and it is bound to happen.

In the case of unilateral technical fields, the agenda of parallel operation of the results of the two major technical fields began to be gradually brought up. However, these were already two roads that were deliberately separated in order for both parties to achieve rapid development. If you want to How easy is it to suddenly require a certain degree of integration or the ability to work together after having already begun to achieve some development results? Not to mention, for a long time, the related fields of arcane technology verification and materials were still blank.

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"However, I really hope that this void is not destined to exist for a long time."

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Even if there is no death wave crisis with high frequency but no rules at all in the void, after the theoretical system gradually matures, it is an inevitable process to transform the content that can be determined in the theory into parts that can be practically applied. This is the decision of the entire history. Although most similar processes are formed along the development of time in the historical background, but now there is something different...

The content to be fully developed is not the branches and leaves of a technical tree, but a brand new system. The assignment method, assignment density and corresponding changes of arcane energy itself are very different from crystal energy.

However, arcane energy has many similarities with crystal energy in terms of their shared properties. For example, they are both high-level information. Apart from different methods of assigning values, they can be said to be "universal" and do not have many capabilities. Inherent basic properties - the level of white matter is the same as theirs, but white matter is extremely difficult to control, and white matter itself has the unique property of dismantling all things to a certain extent, and existence at the same level is not immune.

Although the gap between technical systems is huge, the control of arcane energy itself can be traced - the process of controlling it is controllable and replicable, which means that at least the system born based on this information does not mean that it is impossible to control it. Knownness and the case of nonreplicability.

The void is endless, and the empire is definitely not qualified to deny that there are truly unknowable and indescribable existences in the void, but at least arcane magic is not like that. On the contrary, if you want to control the arcane energy in detail and make it perform what the empire currently needs To play its role, the empire still needs a very complete mathematical system. In this regard, arcana and crystal energy have the same goal to some extent.

When crystal energy first appeared in the star mother world, because any restraint method at that time could not completely restrain the active crystal energy, some people happened to rely on their own body structures to endure extreme pain. Successfully integrating crystal energy, these pioneers who were born by chance also laid the foundation for the possibility of the initial crystal energy compatible materials and the fusion of crystal energy with human souls.

Crystal energy arcana is an extremely high-level driving force for information fluctuations. Due to their infinity, they will inevitably cause annexation, dissemination and assimilation effects on lower-level information. Therefore, it is difficult for ordinary structures to resist such a disregard for physical properties and The physical structure is absolutely real damage, and by chance, all the information on the human body structure of the empire at that time can be said to have formed an information structure that can be properly compatible with the assimilation of crystal energy. At that time, such results could only rely on experiments. , and no one could accurately preset the experiment, predict the goals, execute the process and final statistical results - these contents were outside any theoretical system at that time.

Now, with the support of the mathematical rate core, these are all solvable. Although there is a huge gap between the two technology trees, they achieve the same goal by different paths.

At the far edge of the world, in the huge galaxy like a gamma ray bubble, purple crystal clusters began to thrive on the lands of different planets.

Over a long period of time, many things will always happen. Many of them will be recorded, and many of them may disappear with the wind.

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Restoration year 12054.

The growth of a body does not require the brain to be directly conscious and order all neural reflexes, it only requires making the most significant and clear decisions.

In addition to these decisions, the already stable biochemical reactions within the body will take over most of the changes needed for the development of the empire.

"In accordance with your and His Majesty Vesrifan's orders and after comprehensive consideration of the actual situation, the preliminary certification of the combined fleet formation method has been completed and has entered the highest review stage."