Star Empire

"Now, we already have a certain amount of power, we have the ability to face challenges. We have the ability to adapt to and master different high-level information, and now, our culture is also moving toward rebirth step by step. By the way, speaking of that, that The emblem is now ready for use. At the same time, it is also possible to actually test the hot upgrade system that has been implemented in the fleet for a long time but has not been fully functional."

"However, we still need to wait a little longer from the release to the overall execution of this type of action that will affect the entire empire." Vidoville shrugged, "Limited by the current technical level, the delay in the cross-world communication network is relatively small. The words are still too high... Whether it is crystal energy or arcana, there will be a hard delay when these two information carriers carry the information offset driving equation necessary for void communication. Although as far as the current situation is concerned, the communication problem is not too difficult to deal with. , but if the number of territorial universes in the empire continues to expand, this project must be established as soon as possible."

"Order the second authority level individuals to assemble. This is a major Empire II level order. It needs to be determined whether we can advance the civilization stage to the next era."

"Confirmation has been completed and the communication operation is stable. The underlying protocol allows internal deviations to support this operation. The void offset difference gradient equation has been calibrated. All units adjust delays according to their respective intervals to facilitate the completion of conference unification."

A message from Star, the capital of the Star Empire, began to be broadcast to the entire empire network layer by layer: On July 8, 15976, the Renaissance Year, the empire will make a network-wide announcement.

In order to ensure that the entire empire network can stably receive this message and be prepared. When this broadcast jumps along the various territorial universes, the communication bandwidth of the imperial capital world will be greatly increased to cope with direct communication requests from distant territorial universes.

July 8, 15976, the year of the restoration.

"Here, we pay tribute to the star civilization."

"Twenty-six thousand two hundred and sixty years ago, a catastrophe of unknown origin destroyed the Star Federation and almost caused the complete destruction of Star civilization. Almost all people died in the disaster, and the once rich culture and splendid Civilization has been lost in the onslaught of death waves.”

"Our Ark has overcome many difficulties and crossed the void. During that time, we have been hunted, we have almost lost our way, we need to be careful about all resources, and we have even bypassed the Ark's protection and directly eroded the remaining civilization. There is nothing we can do about the pollution caused by the death wave of the remnants. Many survivors have left, but they have contributed to the continuation of civilization as a whole. They will not be forgotten."

"The long night has receded, and the light of crystal energy and arcane magic will light up the night sky and become the star that guides us to explore the truth. We already have the power to obtain everything from the void. The laws of the world surrender to the glow of the cosmic benchmark anchor. , we will no longer feel helpless when faced with the invasion of the death wave, and now, we are very pleased to see that the star civilization has not become indifferent due to changes in life forms and the overall environment. Opening the basic technology tree While the branches and leaves are spreading, different types of culture are also reviving."

"However, our current level is far from reaching a level that can make us feel happy and relaxed. The problem before us is still worthy of our efforts to explore - what is the nature of the death wave. Those flashes The vehicles moving the Σ symbol, the secrets behind the civilizations they belong to, our identity. There are many other issues similar or related to them."

"No matter what, we're still moving forward."

In the surging emotions of the entire network, every position in the star civilization that has been vacant for more than 26,000 years and should bear the emblem of civilization began to fluctuate like an oil film. Crystal energy metals, arcane crystals, and even Among the soul information that is still mysterious so far, a brand-new imperial emblem slowly emerges. Under the shining of the four-pointed star and the control of the sword and scepter, the totem "star" will appear at different times. It has been given different images, but the meaning of the totem itself has never changed. No matter what, it will guide civilization forward.

As civilization began to recover, Vidoville and Vesrivan began to downplay their overall impact: in order to avoid the problem of difficulty in executing important orders caused by the "arbiter" losing control, the last time the basic network was damaged Before the destruction was about to collapse, Zhai Cahir followed the order and stably tied the two emperors' own authority into the underlying protocol to ensure absolute enforcement capabilities.

But now it seems that the previous problem has not been completely solved - on the contrary, in a sense, the problem of authority level has returned with a new face: Although it is known as the empire, the existence of the emperor himself is becoming more and more serious as the content of it is constantly being discovered. Under the increasingly dangerous void environment, it gradually turned into a porcelain vase - once the emperor was injured or killed, the entire network might be blocked again. Although by playing a side ball, the emperor's authority can be extended by inheriting the fragments of his soul when the emperor collapses and dies, this is always a very embarrassing problem.

At the same time, since civilization is on the right track, the "captain" and "helmer" no longer need to hold the steering wheel all the time, let alone watch the large group of loyal sailors all the time.

Therefore, the empire began to promote the process of "regionalization" - a relatively clear "empire subset" was formed by one or a spontaneous group of second-authority level individuals according to differences in field research, and the elements between the subsets could interact with each other. Exchange influence.

Under the influence of efficiency as the ultimate goal, this move does not affect the integrity of the civilization as a whole. In the face of complex technology trees, civilization itself must have a clear division of labor and efficient cooperation when facing new technologies. High adaptability - it does not conflict with the original intention of "all people united as one super-individual". After all, no matter what, the highest goal of everyone in the empire is the progress of civilization.

As for the emperor's authority, the best way is to dilute it as much as possible, or make it easy to inherit - but the very embarrassing point at present is that the emperor himself is stuck in the network as a node, which is equivalent to A small ball is holding up an inverted pyramid. Once the small ball is forcibly touched, the pyramid may collapse immediately.

At present, the emperor's authority can be extended through soul fragments - this in itself may be used as a relatively reliable guarantee.

Due to problems with communication technology and information control levels, as well as the frequent occurrence of large and small death wave pollution incidents, the power of reality has gradually slowed down the expansion of the empire's territory. However, this does not mean stagnation.

When more and more warships and countless heavy-armed fortresses and even fortress stars that can be permanently stationed in the universe are pushed into the battle to suppress the front line of the Death Tide Gate, the void exploration fleet has no They set down their own mission - in one different world after another, they record the basic environment of each universe and record the unique phenomena within the universe that occur due to deviations in the basic constants.

In some parts of the universe, detectors have even recaptured the reactions of intelligent organisms, in some planets, nebulae, and even neutron stars and stars with suitable conditions, and there are many more types near space structures condensed by completely different world laws and structures. , some very unique lives are being slowly nurtured.

Their arrival will warm the cold space of space, and exploration ships entering the universe will record them in detail and carefully avoid them.

Although those primitive life forms were not even civilized, let alone the Star Empire that can now span multiple worlds, watching them emerge from the coldness and blazing fire, trying to light up themselves in confusion, fear and curiosity The surrounding environment, these things themselves contain unique charm - this may also help the empire to discover new ideas and solutions to problems.

Under Eisendel's suggestion, the two emperors passed an experimental plan-[Life/Civilization Observer Project].

In the long history of the star civilization, except for the planetary level and when it just jumped out of the gravitational range of its home star, the civilization has experienced some splits and reorganizations. Except for those two eras, the star civilization is almost In the world, they have only seen two non-native civilizations, the Modori Zerg and the Theodal Empire. According to the deduction made by the Star Ming Civilization after jumping out of the world, the natural world in that universe The laws do not even support the emergence of any of the three major civilizations to a certain extent.

On many levels, it probably took hundreds of lifetimes of luck for the empire to be able to build it behind closed doors until it jumped out of the world.

The Observer Project is to observe native life and native civilizations born in many worlds - life is vastly different, and development trajectories are also diverse, although the current basic evolutionary section is not enough to allow Imperial Observers to fully exercise their abilities. mission, but even in the pre-implementation stage, the backlash this plan caused in the overall network ideological trend was quite positive.

"After all, we have endless resources and time, but it is difficult to use them effectively - the emergence of bottlenecks is inevitable but leaves us helpless. We must find a way to effectively find ways to adjust the overall development ideas of the empire. The region also needs a place where attention can be diverted - now we can be said to have fallen into a new doctrine - resource paranoia."

"Whether it is the control of the Heart of the World, the Gate of the World, the Void Engine, or our large-scale fleet, in fact, we only need to carefully consider the process by which we obtained these creations, our experiences and our You can find out by what you do. In fact, our research and experience on related concepts are still quite superficial. It is not difficult to find that once, our civilization could indeed be said to be prosperous, and our will at that time was "infinite time and space and endless resources." Enough to solve all problems." But it is obvious that our attitude is too arrogant. Under the endless water of resources, our will may have undergone some slow changes. Now, many practical difficulties have emerged - our The scope of cognition is still limited, and we have not actually been able to adapt the stage of civilization to the power we have.”

"We have endless resources relative to our level of civilization, but it is very difficult for us to use them. In fact, most of the time we can only achieve our goals in the simplest and most intuitive way... This may be considered a certain A certain degree of power has delusional, and old problems have reappeared in new forms. Is this a direct manifestation of history? It is undeniable that you outstanding scientists, or the rulers of the sky, do have advanced thinking and wisdom. The empire feels for you Pride and pride. However, to effectively improve the level of the entire civilization, it will take a long time and more data - in other words, we must have a higher vision."

"After all, if the knowledge reshuffle and cognitive revolution completely occur, the intensity change may be far more than this, but when that may occur, the sudden disaster of civilization disrupts the pace of all development."

"I hope that many civilizations that will appear in the future can inspire us. We have been behind closed doors for too long and have seen and heard too little. At the same time, I also hope that observers can tell us one day in the future: we are not alone, and what we want We are not just facing enemies, there are also our partners in the endless void."

"If we adhere to the original intention of the Observer Plan, it will take us a long time to reap the results, Isendel."

"Your Majesty, what we lack most now is time, and what we need most is time. In many cases, time is both poison and good medicine."

"...Yes, since entering the void, many things have become different. We once hoped to go faster, and faster. But many things that happened in the blink of an eye have changed everything about us forever... and now , we are going back to that era where it takes ten thousand, one hundred thousand or even more years to research cutting-edge technologies..."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

“It takes all of us, all of the team, to work on it.”

…

What the Renaissance Chronicles wants to revive is far more than just technology - in fact, in the process of substantial technological advancement, the Empire is also trying its best to search for possible loopholes or weirdnesses in the previous technology trees. The result could even be said to be a minor disaster:

The tenth dimensional axis is far away from the relationship between imaginary numbers, vacuum zero-point energy, and the regular structure of the space background. The source of the large explosion of vacuum zero-point energy can only be said to be a coincidence in the mother world. As for the Star Federation being able to occupy the universe, those jump techniques that seem to exploit loopholes in the laws of the entire universe actually have many inconsistencies with previous understandings. Under the current level of the empire, a theory that truly understands the entire universe The civilization of the universe may even directly delete the Federation of Stars with just a few more clicks on the control terminal.

The gap between whether the laws can be controlled and whether the information is activated or not is too huge. The gap between the so-called peak of the Star Federation and the true cosmic civilization is like being able to throw a giant arrow into a musket with a crossbow. Even the range of the artillery is the same - although there are similar effects to a certain extent, the basic theory is too different.

Fortunately, although the Federation has many problems with the strength of its actual creations, the Federation's many foundations and its accumulated experience are truly established.

"Care needs to be taken to reduce the power and energy usage of the detectors as much as possible to match the energy intensity that is possible from the sources of life that we are going to observe."

At Eisendel's prompts, points of light flashing with blue-silver electric light appeared quietly from the space, and then these detectors silently dormant among the stars or satellites of the planets near the observation point source. Medium - The empire has not yet recorded a world structure that is too different from the mother world.

When the Empire recorded the heat sources of life, it was discovered that most of the heat sources of life would be born in a relatively stable system. Stars and satellites could constrain the planetary environment more securely. The original detectors would not have the ability to detect most life forms. All harmful crystal energy rays are projected onto the planet - although the empire has no similar experience, these contents can still be imagined even based on the experience at the end of the Origin Era.

In the information fed back by these detectors, the empire's direct definition of life is even as low as being able to be independent, capable of self-consistency and self-inheritance, without even considering the issue of the soul.

"Although our standards are very low, and many of what we have recorded so far are only partial structural products that evolve toward this trend, we don't think there is anything wrong. The void is endless, the order is infinite, and we are not alone. , Now we don’t need to hide anything or avoid anything, we need friends, and we need to prove that the diverse ecology of the world is far more colorful than the Three Kingdoms or Beast Fighting chess we once had.”

"...We are not alone."

…

Restoration year 110195.

A report sent from the first area that Cavinriel was responsible for attracted the attention of the entire empire:

In the fifth quadrant of the void that has been discovered so far, an exploration unit that was separated from the exploration fleet and could spontaneously proliferate discovered an extremely unique world in the void: a world with very mixed attributes that looked completely different from The solid world barrier that does not comply with the laws of this quadrant is stuck in the void.

If the vibration frequency of the void coordinates of this world barrier were not unified, the exploration machine might even misjudge it as some kind of "illusion" caused by many worlds sticking together. The information intensity of that world barrier is extremely powerful. Not to mention that group of probes, even the mathematical rate host of the entire Void Exploration Fleet was unable to match the analysis results that could stably "enter" its interior. However, in the process of forced cracking, the Void Exploration Fleet still had a chance. Through some small "loopholes", crystal energy scanning waves were sent into the messy but huge information barrier, and the next discovery was even more surprising - within the scope of the world barrier , the empire recorded for the first time that the world barrier was not a world at the edge of the universe.

Under the protection of a world barrier, there are more than a dozen orderly environments that can be called "universes". Under the simplified imaging of crystal energy scanning waves, there seem to be various "channels" between those universes. These results have surprised researchers across the empire. Therefore, the fleet is sending back these situations. After obtaining the authorization, it "parked" directly near the strange world barrier and began mass production of mathematical rate hosts and various high-power scanning equipment.

"Cavenriel, what do you think of that world?"

"Your Majesty, from the current model, the world as a whole does not contradict our current understanding. The void is so huge, and the "ordered world network" defined in the void quadrant theory is very likely to be just The incomplete conclusions we draw are limited by our own level of observation. At the same time, now that we have actually seen this model, perhaps some of the conjectures I generated in the process of studying the world can be proven by this opportunity."

"So, Your Majesty, please authorize me to lead the fleet to explore that world in detail."