Star Empire

The new order expanded dramatically.

When the Federation used to draw star maps, it would regard stars in the same constellations and their areas of influence as hexagons. These hexagons would be spliced ​​together to form an image that could be used by the Federation.

Such hexagonal puzzle pieces map out the territory of the Federation in the universe.

Based on these images, the Federation built a huge transportation network in space, connecting the stars into one star bridge after another.

Although these hidden star bridges cannot be seen directly under normal circumstances, as long as they think about the busy traffic between the stars, people in the Federation can't help but feel the magnificent projects and the enthusiasm of the builders of the projects. great.

Now, the empire is laying such bridges in the void at an unimaginable speed, but the piers of the bridges have become heavily armored fortress worlds.

The beams used in the bridge are no longer mass focus guides, but gates to worlds with unimaginable power and scale, and what the bridge spans is no longer the starry sky, but the void.

Resource extraction and utilization technology that is powerful enough and efficient enough has brought new breakthroughs, and the empire can effectively utilize all its power.

The anxiety of the past has turned into unparalleled surging motivation, and this powerful motivation is inspiring all beings in the empire to continue moving forward. As time goes by, more and more creations leave the design drawings and appear in reality.

The establishment of a fully mature Super World Gate network has greatly improved the empire's current information dispatching capabilities.

The gate to the world in the early days of the old era required the preparation of a very large buffer area. On the one hand, these buffer areas are to provide law adaptability for fleets jumping between worlds. On the other hand, they are also a safety reserve measure for the world gate to deal with possible "annihilation disasters".

Based on these design requirements, a World Gate needs to occupy a lot of space and also needs to have a lot of redundancy. Its efficiency can be imagined.

When using this kind of equipment for cross-world communication, even crystal energy/arcane information carriers that do not require law adaptation will be "stuck" here for a period of time before they can continue to be sent to the target world, which results in The emergence of hard delays.

And if this information is sent directly to the target world via the void route via the North and South Celestial Pole broadcasting stations, even the most efficient communication method before will cause delays and affect the network.

At the same time, the information carrier needs to generate a protective structure similar to an order field by itself through the void route. In order to provide energy for such a protective structure, the information carrier will become very bloated.

There is no doubt that this technical route was not a good choice for the empire at that time.

Now, all these problems have been wiped out by the impact of the new World Gate Network. The current World Gate no longer needs those security measures, which makes it extremely efficient that is unmatched by previous generations of creation.

But now, with the rapid development of extraordinary information technology, some new restrictions have also emerged.

For example, the once useful short-distance instantaneous movement method of uploading and downloading the soul-body through the network channel through coordinate difference can no longer be used. Although the network at that time was also boiling with information flow, the flow of information in the network at that time was The information cannot directly impact the soul, so it is very convenient for the soul to sneak in and log out of the network, and it is also relatively safe.

Now, the network is filled with information flows composed of crystal energy and arcana, and these information flows come from the tide of information uploading and downloading by dozens of imperial individuals throughout the network. If the soul wants Sneak into it and you will be completely submerged if you are not careful.

At the same time, the power of thinking is no longer an illusory existence compared to the material world, and the fact that arcana can carry mental power and will for information assignment and control further proves that current thinking and ideological trends have power. .

When an individual faces an entire wave of thoughts from nodes that are hundreds of billions of times larger than himself, the individual's soul is very likely to be completely washed away in a short period of time. And if external protection is provided, foreign objects that will cause damage to the network structure will appear in the network. After several experiments, the empire completely banned the practice of uploading souls to the network.

Void bridges continue to expand towards the unknown black tide. Once the world in the empire's territory can resonate with the world barrier from several nearby worlds, and thus be able to block the way to jump directly from the void to that world, the world will The world will enter the second stage of industrial short-term development - in this world, the construction of ultra-large information-matter conversion machines and void forges will begin.

They are the only industrial heavyweights that can produce Star-Awakened Fortress and Holy Judgment Arcane Hub Ship. These equipments take a long time to manufacture and are difficult to use, and because they involve strong influences at the level of pure law, a world can only accommodate one set of such ultra-heavy equipment into operation at most.

And even after these ultra-large industrial facilities are put into actual operation, it will take hundreds of information evolution years or even longer to create a real Star Initiation or Holy Inquisition. The shaping of information above this level, according to the current There are no shortcuts in terms of level.

Compared with conventional battleships, the manufacturing period of a Star Qi or Holy Tribulation is also frighteningly long - however, their performance is absolutely worthy of such a "long" construction period.

Apart from the white matter zeroing shield, the structure of the Star-Qi Fortress itself is an irreversible structural armor that is as strong as the combined shield of a fleet.

Even if it is not enhanced by other information, it is enough to resist the firepower of the Σ fleet that is currently known to a very high degree (provided that Dark Star and New Moon maintain their known operating methods and no special units appear) Down). While its defense power is sufficient, it also maintains a sufficiently high information control bandwidth. The crystal energy/white matter endless sea array suitable for the fortress level is enough to support the heavy task.

Although there is only one word difference between the infinite sea and the endless sea, they are actually two completely different things - the corresponding meaning of infinity is that there is no limit, and this infinity even includes effort.

The Endless Sea is essentially just a high-end deformation of the Space Channel Reactor. The stability is greatly increased, and the output level is greatly improved... After the upper limit is increased, it can maintain self-consistency within a very high upper limit, and that's all.

Currently, only two super-sized ships, Arcane Throne and Void Matrix, are equipped in the Infinite Sea.

The surging power of the Endless Sea of ​​White Matter array allows Star-Aid Fortress to simultaneously drive the Existential Deflection Target Generator - a strong law-level wide-area fleet protection equipment. Generate a target with an exact replica of the real target at the victim location to completely deflect the mapped attack.

The own iteration module can be considered to expand and augment the virtual existence information by iterative multiples, and can also be used to recover friendly combat units. The dismantling projector is one of the most important and highest-level firepower output sources in the "Moving Territory" battle sequence. It is also the sword in this battle sequence that has the ability to directly tear apart the imaginary void trap.

What the Holy Judgment can do, except for the target deception and combat recovery system similar to the former, is the remaining types of arcane attacks that can directly cover a considerable range of time and space and can carry out "endless reincarnation".

In order to have as many high-value armies as possible, the Empire needs a large number of Void Forges.

In order to ensure the safety of the forges, each void forge will interfere with the world's communication with the void when it is started. This can reduce the possibility of the world being noticed when the forge is ignited.

For the same reason, Lil, or Void Lieyang, was also persuaded not to take any action for the time being - and the latter was happy to accept these arrangements. The empire's extensive infrastructure continued to increase production capacity, and the two engraved The giant black wings with light patterns almost no longer appear in any territory of the empire.

The empire is gradually entering a stable stage of development. During this period, the people of the empire were working in full swing. Far away from the empire, Victorville is exploring the more distant void and lighting up the "Void Map".

Compared with any void drive method currently understood by any empire, the two technologies of Arcane Throne and Void Matrix can be regarded as complete "pinnacle" in all aspects. The speed and control accuracy of warships in the world of order and the void Dudu is so powerful that it can even be said to be a bit unbelievable.

In the past, Zhai Cahill and others looked at such a problem in a one-sided and fragmented way: pan-conceptual energy can promote the evolution of information, and giant ships like the Arcane Throne have a large amount of information, both in terms of total amount of information and information complexity. To exceed imagination, theoretically propelling such a giant ship would not only consume a huge amount of energy, but the movement of the giant ship itself would also be extremely difficult.

In the Year of Exile, due to the great change in cognition, there were countless such questions. However, soon, the reality that did not change too much refuted all these metaphysical questions one by one:

Changes in the information body will indeed be affected by complexity, but there is another crucial indicator, which is the "information concentration" of the information body itself, or "the degree of compression of the compressed package":

Just like a person, information changes during a person's activities and growth, and his memory, understanding, thinking, etc. will all change. But he did not become unable to move because his soul was burdened with infinite possibilities, because if he wanted to move forward, he did not need to change all his information. At this time, for the external change of "walking", other information dimensions are compressed together, and they do not take effect.

At this point, the question of the two giant ships has been given a clear answer. However, such an answer itself also shows that Σ technology is beyond imagination: What kind of advanced technology can be used to create the Arcane Throne and the Void Matrix, which have essentially unlimited information? What kind of sophisticated technology can compress their information concentration to such an extent that their actions can be so "light"?

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The Void Matrix and the Arcane Throne, the two most powerful starships in the empire, cruise at extremely high speeds in the void, and try their best to use their own power to explore the world that exists in the "nearby" void. .

As a source of information that is almost impossible to capture, the Arcane Throne and the Void Matrix are not afraid to reveal their existence in the void.

Unless they are directly invaded, it seems that it is almost impossible to lock the two giant ships again after they move in the void.

The void will erase the evidence that the ship existed here, although after an observation, it may always leave some traces. But after a comprehensive discussion, everyone came to the conclusion that for now, these traces should not pose a danger.

Now, Vidoville thinks he's not afraid to look into the abyss.

However, the current situation in the "abyss" is somewhat inconsistent with Vidoville's expectations.

"It's strange. Logically speaking, I have been chasing the outside for so long. According to the level of previous war encounters, it should be far more than just a few scattered wastelands."

Since there is no Σ void power map, Victorville has to carefully and carefully scan everything in the void. He did not give too much stimulation to the few scattered worlds that had the death wave response, but as of now, the empire faced pitifully few enemies in all directions.

It cannot be ruled out that this is some kind of illusion. Victorville now knows that the Star Empire is located at the far edge of the Σ civilization. The source of the natural disaster is the hinterland of Σ. According to my understanding, there should not be only such a few worlds that can be preserved even after being washed away by the Void Sun.

It's not impossible that the rest... are hidden. Otherwise, why can Σ's fleet always attack the empire like ghosts, but he can't find any trace of them?

On the other hand, it is not ruled out that this is really the original appearance of the wasteland after the complete apocalypse.

As for the new Σ fleet that the empire faced later... they might be the "remaining wave" of the fleet brought by the decisive battle flagship. They were originally dormant near the empire, but after being disturbed, they re-entered the active state, which made the empire think that they were "elusive".

In that battle that was originally enough to wipe out the star civilization, the Σ fleet may have chosen to retreat because of what happened.

Although at present, there is no conclusive evidence to convince myself of either possibility, but some kind of instinctive feeling is telling me that the latter is more likely.

Under the silent comfort of "instinct", Vidoville's hanging heart relaxed a little: "At least, the empire still has a chance, and although I still have problems that need to be solved, I also have the time and opportunity to Solve them..."