Star Empire

Chapter 179 The vicissitudes of life

The sudden change of topic did seem a little strange to everyone.

"Do you mean that we need to spend extra energy to take care of the life forms in the planets or planetary systems that we encounter that are still inhabited by the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way? What if? If we do that, I’m afraid we will need to expend considerable additional resources and energy.”

"I know, to be honest, the entire empire is essentially struggling now - how do we define ourselves, what should we do, and what kind of activity trajectory should we create for ourselves. At least on this basis, what was once The Observer Project still has enough value. Now we may face major changes that will be difficult for even ourselves to accept in the long term. In order to prevent these drastic changes from blowing up, it is necessary for the Empire to incorporate some "neutralizers" "."

"...At least, don't forget our past experiences and thoughts."

After a slight silence, Vidoville's will began to reverberate in the hearts of the rulers and principal persons in charge of each region.

"I know that doing this will consume additional resources of the empire. We don't need those civilizations or life forms to do anything for us, nor do we need any direct resources from them. However, in an anti-order disaster with an unknown identity like the Death Tide, Faced with the attack of the corrupted remains of Σ, all the maintainers of order are on the same side."

"... We don't need any great slogans or supreme starting points. We want to fight for a living space for our own civilization. This is also fighting for a void order of our own... and "order" itself is very broad. If we want to re-understand order on such a basis, then just maintaining ourselves and studying ourselves alone will not work.”

"…clear."

"I hope that one day, I and other emperors of the heavens will no longer be able to use such direct guidance and orders to coordinate everyone's will to control the empire. How long will it be?"

The empire is expanding rapidly. More and more heavily armored fortress universes and increasingly larger fleet groups are coming online in large quantities at all times. The complex and intertwined network of world gates has established a chain for the empire in the void. A bridge across the unknown void.

The power of the empire is increasing day by day. When the "Moving Territory" is mobilized on a large scale, if you look at it from the distant space, these brilliant and huge fleet groups are like a galaxy flowing in the dark and empty space that ignores any conventional laws of the universe. And echoing it are the stars in the universe with the same texture, the same functions and similar functions.

After the last distant cruise, the eyes of the Void Matrix detected dense information clusters in certain "directions". The "empty area" is approaching the end. According to the current expansion rate of the empire's territory, there will be no more than 20,000 empires. In the information year, a real collision may occur.

Now, a long time later, a long, long time later, all this may be the tip of the iceberg. Where will the line of development lead?

"...I may not be qualified to directly ask you to do anything...However, I would like to express my gratitude to you for your decision from my own standpoint. In my heart, I still prefer to allow more order to exist. .”

In the "center" of the empire, in the thick atmosphere-like order field of the Void Fierce Sun, the Arcane Throne and the Void Matrix, these two majestic arks with long axes that can even cover part of the habitable zone of natural stars, are like two pieces floating in the sea. The fallen leaves in the sky float quietly on the boundless white "earth" of the blazing sun in the void.

"The existence of those orders will not harm our civilization itself, and I still remember, and everyone in the civilization also remembers how lethal the once-out-of-control super civilization can be to those ordinary civilizations... Now we have to All we need to do is continue to implement the observer plan, and at the same time make the decision after integrating the experience of our civilization and the analysis of the current situation. There is almost no extra effort to consume non-fragmented experience. Other than that, Besides, we won’t put in any extra effort.”

There is no hypocrisy or embellishment in Vidoville. The decision to save those civilizations is indeed something that can be done easily during the expansion of the empire. In addition, even if it is forced to add the setting, it is the star The strong stimulation caused by the unconscious crushing of the civilization by the Σ decisive battle flagship caused the civilization to almost perish, and a little "compassion" incidentally after the restoration of hardware strength. When the gap in civilization strength is so large that a powerful civilization can eliminate it with just one experiment. When the place where a weak civilization lives is rounded and flattened into pieces like dust, fairness itself has disappeared——

Absolutely fair? Should the Star Empire first destroy all the microorganisms destroyed in the past nuclear explosions/antimatter explosions/dark matter fusion fields/dark energy dismantling fields/vacuum zero-point energy explosions and those that also have society and a certain degree of intelligence? Are all Loris ants coming back? Standard will always put the survival and interests of his own group first. In addition, who knows how many types of standards will be generated as the levels change.

"Having said that, actually... Lil, you have always been qualified to intervene in all our affairs."

"We still retain the frequency band of your soul, and before we met for the first time, I'm afraid you used that frequency fluctuation to pull the ship we were on to the position of the Void Fierce Sun at that time... The Empire The authority system needs to recognize the personality and soul in order to re-accept the highest authority level individual who is already a bit like a symbol... Although it may be personality-wise... But I think if you need us to do something within the limits of civilization, we will Accepted.”

"...Well...Well, I really can't connect the experience after waking up on this white land with the civilization and the ruler of the country you have been talking about...So I still stay here quietly. It depends on your development, and from your technical perspective... although we can all do most of the same things, the gap between our... technical systems, or the paths to achieve goals is really too big. ...I'm afraid even if I really can be integrated into the entire group as you said, most people won't accept a guy who knows almost nothing giving orders..."

"…Then, protect yourself."

After the two giant ships slowly rose with light and precise movements that had nothing to do with their size, the girl let go of all the limitations of her perception. Under the gaze of eyes powerful enough to examine herself, the girl in a white dress The girl once again fell into slight contemplation and doubt. Although her seemingly innate reaction easily solved the possible adverse consequences of these strange thoughts, the girl was still confused about her current situation.

"The deepest part is still pitch black...and there seems to be some obstacle blocking my ability to look back on the past...the historical line is cut?"

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Currently, the Star Empire has thirteen void sky zones. After the technological extreme deduction module was discovered and triggered a series of large-scale expansion plans, each sky zone now has thousands of heavy fortress worlds under its jurisdiction. .

Although in the initial period, the empire did not make much progress in overall technology due to the fear of unknown creations from the "enemy" and the uncertainty about the controllability of various new products. During that "buffer time", the Empire became aware of the full existence of the twenty-six quadrants of the void and acquired a body with strong resistance through navigation and adaptive transformation in multiple worlds. At the same time, this period of time also allowed the Empire to decipher those technologically advanced creations. and verification have bought time, and now, a huge civilization built by "truth reference" is blooming in the void.

After the self-consistent closed-loop reserve channel structure of Star-Aid Fortress was used on a large scale, Victorville directly scanned all the empire's creations through its own retrieval request, Li'er's perception, and the result once again confirmed the identity of the Doomsday Ark. Reliability - no operable information backdoor remained from it, and aside from the new internal structure, when Vidoville looked at the technical extreme deduction module and the shells of the two spacecraft, he even found that he could not retrieve the spacecraft at all. Any construction information or "process remnants" it had before the binding was activated is as if nothing existed before a certain point in time.

In fact, all that is needed to solve these problems is a simple logical question and answer that does not even require an additional circuit. What if it is not by chance that the empire encounters these creations, but direct old Σ individuals? No matter how hard a node is, it is impossible to carry all the memories of the old civilization. Even if it is bound to the most powerful storage bank, the huge amount of information gathered in one place is enough to crush the most powerful single soul.

Although the level of the old Σ is still unknown, its strength is far from the level where all members have the same power as Vesrivan - and after being infected with the death wave, the connection from the network will be completely destroyed Nearly all firewalls cause corruption to start from the deepest part of the soul. In order to maintain sanity, even if there are survivors, it is very likely that they have been significantly different from the individuals in the memory of the old civilization, and require no death at all. Tidal reaction - otherwise, it would not be Vidoville sitting on the Arcane Throne.

So, if there are various backdoors in these arks, which can allow the severely corrupted old civilization to directly drive in and take over the new civilization without any cracking, then do these two ships still have any meaning in existence?

At the same time, during the relatively long adaptation period, the empire did not directly use the technology extracted from the technical extreme deduction module. Instead, it developed it while using the equipment on hand to analyze its information and information structure, and Rewrite it according to the format used by the empire to finally achieve the goal——

If you are worried that the direct technical source is still unsafe, then obtain a finished product and open source all its structures, and then reversely disassemble the finished product to extract all the resultant information structures, eliminate all derivative parts, and then use Empire Just rewrite the habit. Anyway, there may be backdoors in technology, but the truth of order in the void will not. At least from the current point of view, it has never belonged to anyone.

This is why the Empire's network format has not undergone major changes - it is very different from the format and even the underlying protocol that the Arcane Throne used to listen to from enemy fleets. However, the two have relatively Similar roles and functions.

After finally and repeatedly confirming that entanglement had no useful meaning, Vidoville also began his own huge project, and this project has never stopped in the hinterland of the empire since he began to go out on cruises - in In the empire's "Zeroth Sky Zone", a huge fleet that can compare with all the military power of the other thirteen zones is being intensively built in a universe with tens of thousands of them and superimposed anti-phase space.

This huge fleet contains more than 90,000 Xingqi and Holy Inquisition, and it also represents more than 90,000 matching "Mobile Territory" fleets, and this super super fleet is directly led by the emperor. The target that the fleet wants to fight is the enemy that the most unfathomable empire is least willing to face:

Decisive battle flagship fleet and advance possible corresponding auxiliary fleets.

After encountering several native worlds filled with death waves, the empire's expansion slowed down slightly - a slight delay in the process of deciding on the approach and implementation. And in this process, with as meticulous an operation as possible, a considerable number of life clusters were cut out and relocated virtually.

In the following time, according to the predetermined regulations, those civilizations will undergo subtle transformation in the new world to ensure that they can adapt to the new world. This process will also include slowly adjusting parameters to allow them to give their own theories. The process of system compensation and correction, as well as the process of "natural excessiveization".

During this process, the cut-out space will maintain a high degree of independence. The cosmic benchmark stabilizing anchor needs to simulate the environment they once existed in, and even needs to replicate the starry sky with 1:1 details, and even need to simulate what happened after falling into the death tide. The resulting chaotic environment.

It must be a very scary thing for any civilization to suddenly discover that the starry sky above and everything around it suddenly becomes incomprehensible to even the best scholars.

However, the first defeat that struck the current empire as strange, unexpected or even frustrating did not come from the distant border, but from the heart of the empire——

The Observer organization adheres to the principle of never intervening and only observing and recording. Therefore, the Observers have not intervened in those civilizations, and have also blocked the mapping that can be retroactively observed as much as possible. They just record everything.

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However, none of them realize the difference between themselves and those ordinary civilizations.

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"Your Majesty, the observer record report shows that... all the civilizations that were separated from the original world and merged into the empire's time axis have not survived for more than 15,000 imperial information evolution years. This observation operation failed as a whole." In the consciousness of the somewhat dazed Vido Videl, the feedback from the observation organization and the reactions of Eisendel and others revealed regret, "In the fastest time of two thousand years, the slowest time of 14,800 years, those civilizations They perished one after another for various reasons.”