Star Empire

In the void, there are more than a dozen worlds slowly moving under the influence of certain driving forces.

Most of the world barriers in these worlds have undergone extremely serious mutations. Now they almost completely rely on the high power of the cosmic benchmark stabilizing anchor to prevent them from being swallowed up by the void.

"Before everything was clear or the consequences were clear, for the sake of temporary convenience, we rashly carried out too many implementation tests that could not be re-operated at our current level. Our network does not have the ability to reorganize fractals, and there are too many permission systems. hidden dangers..."

"What's the use of talking about this now..."

Through the remaining communication links, Vidoville could barely see clearly the "tragic situation" of the empire so far: compared to a few months or days ago, the entire empire's territory had shrunk to less than one percent of its original size, and the population had once again There has been a cliff-like decline. Although every time the defense line shrinks, the executive officer of the protective section will try his best to give priority to removing those who have the most probability of promotion or the most development talent, but this does not prevent the emergence in the later stage. Hard casualties from the world barrier blockade and accompanying extermination wars skyrocketed.

"The error that occurs in the permission system lies in the hardware-level constraints on the highest authority, that is, the emperor's authority. Once the response time is exceeded, this existence similar to the underlying protocol will stop pushing and the entire network will be blocked again, even more than the last time with Problems like this are even more serious. Forced reorganization will result in all devices without independent souls being unable to be integrated into the network, and the network itself will disintegrate and disappear. At that time, the empire will be completely destroyed in terms of its existence and execution capabilities."

Since the Σ fleet left early for unknown reasons, the war did not burn directly to the empire's first capital universe. Under the shining of the stars, the pale golden armor plate of the capital star was still strong and stable, but in such a small area The remaining peace and "integrity" inside cannot bring any practical and useful meaning.

"This time, we are stuck in our own operating mode... I am afraid that there may be no way to save the day."

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After traveling an unknown "distance" in the void, the remaining dozen or so imperial worlds finally settled down. The empire finally had the opportunity to lick its wounds: the cracks in the world barrier must be repaired. Repair it as soon as possible, no matter what method you use, otherwise those worlds will be swallowed up by the void sooner or later.

The impact of the void intrusion goes far beyond simply erasing everything in the area. If the influx of void cannot be effectively controlled, the world will continuously lose its own stability and inner structure before it is completely torn apart, just like people continue to lose their own blood and physical tissue.

At the same time, the people who survived, as well as the devices in the network that could still respond, began to silently conduct more detailed damage statistics. The loss of a large number of node switchboards caused the vast majority of requests to fail, and the population dropped sharply. And the extremely shrinking territory shows that the empire has a large amount of data and memories that cannot be saved.

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It may have been accumulated over several days or weeks of war. The log records and logical knots left behind alone are more than the log files accumulated by the former empire for hundreds of years.

"Cavenriel's cognitive crisis speculation and realistic speculation, Zhai Cahill's imaginary number trap speculation, and the details recorded during the battle with those unknown ships. In actual combat, the communication methods we currently use are not It doesn’t apply to our current actual needs. If we can adjust more quickly, maybe it can.”

"It may be of some use, or it may just be able to slightly delay the final result." Kalost did not agree with the feelings brought about by those who observed after the fact, "Your Majesty, in this battle, we and the enemy are not on the same side at all. A level, let alone a range that can be compared with each other. This result is what they gave us, and we did not have much substantive impact on it."

"It would be great if I could play a bigger role. Li'er was once able to help promote arcane research, but I...at the critical moment, I couldn't do more for the empire..."

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Restoration year 110, October 27, 195.

"Your Majesty, we found a very unusual record in the log file." In the capital star, a hurried figure flashed directly to Victorville, "Your Majesty, this matter... may be related to the Queen, I think so It would be more appropriate to tell you.”

"……How to say?"

When he first heard the news, a glimmer of hope flashed deep in Vidoville's heart, but rationality quickly silenced this hope.

According to speculation, the Second Capital World had been almost completely contaminated on the eve of its destruction, and Vesrifan finally launched a large-scale self-destruction through himself and the controllable beings in the entire world - all of this went far beyond a " The limit that a human soul can endure, no matter how strengthened that soul is. I know that Vesrifan is special, but even if there is a world consciousness that has never appeared for a long time, what role can it play? It may not even necessarily understand what happened when everything changed.

"The world barrier in that world was completely blocked, and because the end of the world was greatly weakened, we believe that this process was affected by extremely strong external factors. After losing communication, we acquiesced that everything in that world had been destroyed. But During the process of this series of inspections, we found some traces in the relatively intact fragments of the world that were left over from the nearby world and that we dragged along. Some equipment seemed to have continued to operate for a period of time after that. …”

“There are some fragmented messages being conveyed that, although they have no practical content, may be modulated upon analysis.”

"What?!" Vidoville was stunned: "Why didn't you find it before?"

"The priority is very low, and the source of this report is a device that we once thought had completely failed, so it is also quite low in the overall communication link processing sequence. At that time, the war situation was becoming more and more urgent, and there was too much information that was too late. Processing, such interference information that is not strong is ignored...it can only be said to be normal."

"...can you determine the final direction of that "radio burst"?"

"In the early stage, we captured the information deviation gap within a certain range. If the information deviation remains unchanged after the outbreak, we are capable of finding where the information wave is pointing. Your Majesty, do you want...?"

"I have to go and take a look." Vidoville said solemnly, "I will cut off a piece of my soul to replace the permission response substitute of the empire network when I was in the communication blind spot stage, and it will take effect together with Li'er's soul fragment. Anyway, now that Part of the replacement of permissions at the hardware level can be replaced by any "equivalent" that can still be recognized and has the frequency of our soul. I am not playing a good role here, rather than being an embarrassing and inappropriate If you don’t have a network stabilizer, it’s better to explore these things, which can be considered to have some effect.”

"... Then Your Majesty, I will join you." Cavernelle suddenly said, "Anyway, all the empire's current scientific research plans have been stopped, and the current conditions are not enough to continue the follow-up work."

"Then what to do next?" Vidoville stared at Cavenriel and asked, "The authority system is indeed a mistake that cannot be eliminated, but now the world of the empire has been massively destroyed, and there is also the death wave pollution left by the Σ fleet. Now There should be many loopholes in the system, and this problem may be further overcome in the future. It doesn't matter if we are missing, but if you are missing, the possibility of the empire being able to develop again in the future will be greatly reduced."

"Your Majesty, I am not the only scholar in the empire, and you also know that breakthroughs in theoretical research require someone to build a sufficient foundation as a high platform, and then someone can build a spire leading to a new field on this high platform. I am just It's just the tower that was built. As long as the environment can still breed a platform for progress, someone will always be able to erect the final spire. It's not that I haven't considered these situations. And your Majesty, I also want to verify my application before I apply. Some speculations - His Majesty Vesrifan still has a soul of the world that has been silent in his body. Is it possible that this outbreak is related to him?"

Vidoville opened his mouth, but in the end he did not let Cavinriel give up his decision.

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After a short period of weight recognition, the highest authority of the Star Empire was transferred to a light golden metal safe deposit box that was sealed layer by layer. A piece of Vidoville's soul slowly floated in the box. This is the current highest authority of the empire. Helpless - permissions cannot be inherited.

But now, with constant adjustments, the identification and confirmation of permissions is no longer so demanding. Even if the authority holder is shattered into pieces, as long as there is still a piece that can be identified, the empire system can use this as a basis to confirm that the highest authority survives, and the network can continue to work and respond to various normal service requests. .

A thick, light golden round cake spaceship that seemed to be elongated slowly flew out of the ejection port of the battleship at the capital's star equator. Under the watch of some people, its glittering golden engine crystal matrix emitted a golden light. The spacecraft began to accelerate. In the panoramic starry sky display of Victorville, the starlight that had not been over-corrected quickly separated. One end slid down towards the bow of the ship, forming a crystal clear blue gem, while the other end Then they gathered at the stern of the ship and turned into a dark red star crown that seemed to swallow up the capital star.

Soon, everything returned to darkness, and weak vibrations came from the feet of Vidoville. The jump engine had sent the spacecraft to the edge of the world of order, and in the endless final ocean beyond the information barrier, it could play a role. Yes, there is only the Void Engine.

According to some information compiled from previous reports, the spacecraft wrapped in a pale golden barrier slightly adjusted its shape, and then pieces of cloud-like golden light emitted from the vast deck of the Indestructible-class Type A2 and acted on it. The fluctuation frequency of the order field, in the process of constantly modifying the void vibration frequency of the order field, the battleship began to slowly "accelerate".

"Cavenriel, what do you think we can see?"

"Your Majesty, I cannot make any guesses until I get enough information."

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"Your Majesty, there is something abnormal." The voices of several pilots flashed in Vidoville's mind, "The void speed of our spacecraft is faster than our design level... and it is still accelerating."