Star Empire

"There are various reasons... No matter how you say it, the disappearance of these civilizations is probably too fast..." Vidoville looked up the work log of the cosmic benchmark anchor corresponding to the world with some surprise.

"Only two civilizations probably survived until the complete masking state was lifted..." Looking at the observation report that was not lengthy, and even pitifully short compared to his imagination, Victorville couldn't help but feel excited. A moment of doubt arose:

"It stands to reason that the natural resources left to them should be rich enough, not to mention... Although the main axis of civilization has been delineated, at present, even if there is a conversion problem, they should be at a comparable level with us. ...According to our experience, even if each civilization is located in the small section of the galaxy cantilever that we have cut out, the resources contained in it are enough for them to survive for hundreds of thousands of years...Shouldn't civilization...?!"

As Vidoville spoke, he suddenly realized that the entire empire had overlooked such a problem:

Since the development of the Star Empire, the only records of communication and exchanges with other civilizations are the two civilizations that were "pinched" by Σ in the Star Mother World. In more than 35 billion years, The Star Civilization has never had any contact with any other natural primitive civilization in the world.

After the observer plan was barely implemented in the last era, the universe under the empire was either too young or very silent. In just a few hundred thousand, or at most hundreds of thousands of years, it was not even enough time for the universe to be forcibly accelerated and cooled down. A civilization with sufficient intelligence is not enough to regenerate intelligent heat sources in the "silent" universe.

The empire has never contacted, witnessed or recorded any civilization that was born from nature and has not accepted external interference, let alone what kind of civilization it is, how it will develop, what it will experience, and where it will go! !

I don’t even know - what stage those civilizations should be in, what paths they may take, what problems they may encounter, and how they deal with their own problems. No, the empire only left behind stars and elements, but there is no I have thought about whether those elements can be truly and completely utilized by other intelligences!

The observers faithfully recorded everything, and naturally also recorded the struggle, recovery, development, changes and even death of those civilizations, and compiled them all into reports and submitted them. However, the entire empire is preparing with a first-level combat readiness attitude. To cope with the Σ shock, those reports will naturally be ignored in the period of non-integrated data.

A life-and-death war is imminent. If it is not absolutely necessary, who will read this information?

"...It may have been too long that each of us, and even the remaining memories of our civilization itself, have long been unable to help us recall the first years, and external interference has seriously disrupted our development trajectory. We simply cannot We can’t predict what will happen to these civilizations that we think are no different from primitive people. It just so happens that these are not the focus of our work, and the low-weight observer reports are ignored..."

"Our goal is not to intervene and observe, but we have already lacked too many conditions from the beginning, and a large number of past records have been lost. And to be honest, even if those records survive to this day, there is only a tenth chance that they can be used. One or two. We also have too much energy that needs to be put into the vast void. All this is a pity, but we do not face it seriously. This is also the most likely final result among the expected, but we did not expect it. Such results come so quickly, if you have the opportunity in the future, just put more energy and pay attention."

After the mood trends of the people who were paying attention to this matter in the Empire Network had just begun to fluctuate that was not conducive to maintaining the best condition, Victorville stopped his mood and immediately used the Empire Network to prevent the deterioration of his mood with his own will and that of the Emperor.

If a little effort can actually affect the mentality of some of the empire's top brass, or even the entire empire, then the entire observer plan will be somewhat ineffective. As a plan that has just started, its expected role has not yet been fully developed - Vidoville does not want to add an unideal feature so early to this plan that can theoretically have unlimited observation samples and record unlimited information structures and possibilities. First report, or rather an unpleasant start.

"Tell me about the observer reports summarized to you." Wei Duowei shook his head. Although no one can "see" it directly, in such a long-distance and slow exchange of consciousness, these individuals who have survived since the origin of They will still subconsciously retain some of the body movements or body language habits of the old era. "Although there were some fluctuations in the first complete and overall process of observation activities, the selected observers must have completely recorded nearly everything." All the contents, those reports are not available online yet, let’s talk about it and see if we can gain more from it by changing the format.”

"As commanded."

After Eisendel organized the details and integrated the contents of the reports compiled by the Sky Zone Observer Organization for more than ten thousand years, Vidoville, Void Fierce Sun, and even the entire Star Empire spanning tens of thousands of universes in the void, For the first time, I "heard" what changes a civilization would undergo and what it would experience if it were "not directly affected by the interference of the civilization process" - maybe those civilizations are not absolutely "natural", but they are subject to certain conditions in that way. Surviving in a highly polluted world is enough to prove their own originality and stability.

It is even possible that even if there is a contradiction, the contradiction may be forcibly ignored.

In some ways, this information is so needed right now.

"In our observer observation records, we first determined the levels of these civilizations." Isendel's will slowly fluctuated, and his listening was located in tens of thousands of imperial heavy fortress worlds. Countless people among hundreds of thousands of "Moving Territory" fleets. With the support of the existential network and the Arcane Throne as communication resonance nodes, his mood fluctuations and the information he wants to convey can be transmitted without any delay. Covering every inch of space under the empire.

"According to the current classification of world structure, we have determined the information structure of the entire world into four levels. The most basic level is the bottom protocol level, which is related to the information representation of the world barrier and the world's primordial state promoted after the Creation Flash is extinguished. The birth and survival of trends are closely related, and it can be said that this level is the basic source of basis for the world to exist and operate."

"The second level is the mapping management layer, which is the level formed by the world laws intertwined in the entire world, what we have always called the "Way of Heaven". This level determines whether the entire world can evolve stably and exist for a long time. Closely related, it is also an important factor for us to judge whether all the laws, constants and laws in a world are reasonable and self-consistent. Currently, the world structure that occupies most of the information calculation bandwidth of our cosmic benchmark anchor is this. The two parts, the heart of the world, are also closely related to these two levels. The bottom world line, which has been suppressed in order to improve the stability of the real world, is the outline of these two levels formed by the spontaneous evolution of some virtual information. "

"The third level is the structural system level. Under the premise of the stable existence of the first two levels, this level determines all the material foundations in a world, such as whether the material state is the main basis or the unfolded field state is the basis. If it is a field, what kind of field will be born under the decisions of the first two levels; if it is a material state, what properties will the matter have, the differences and commonalities between the basic microscopic elements, etc., starting from this level. Downward, there is already a gap between matter and law, which are absolute entities. It has been difficult for us to verify what kind of changes the former Σ made to our mother world to make us stuck between these two levels. According to our current According to the inferences made from the obtained data, if civilization wants to develop to the point where it can contact the second level, it must break through this gap - in other words, start trying to integrate all the constraints and restrictions of the second level on the third level, and try to solve them. Even control everything in it.”

"The fourth level is the specific application layer, which is the level where civilization is born naturally in theory. This level is closely integrated with the third level. In fact, the fourth level is to a certain extent randomized by the elements in the third level. Formed by a collection and arrangement, now it seems that it is the farthest level from us, and it is also the most common but rare luxury."

"And the civilizations we have preserved, or the former civilizations, all have second to fourth level structures related to the native world in which they are located - but we do not. Compared to our mother world In terms of our souls, we are the outliers in that world."

"These civilizations are all in the process of developing and deepening from the third level to the second level. Observers have not recorded that any civilization has ever attempted to operate the ordinary laws that can affect the normal operation of the world... From the unknown of these civilizations They were cut out by us in a state of love, and these civilizations flashed away in the process of the advancement of imperial civilization. The observers also recorded more content: "

"It seems to be very different from us. We have been highly logical and rational during the chronology of our origins, and we even relied on technology that can be fully integrated with life. At that level of technology, it can be regarded as perfect. Rational thinking modules and related plug-ins ensure that they can maintain operation for a long time. Although due to some Σ black-box operations and our basic theoretical stagnation period of more than billions of years, the Star Federation and the federal people at that time were a little sick in some aspects or Slow, but at that time the entire federation was always adhering to reason and being as efficient as possible, but the ordinary civilizations we observed were not. Among those civilizations, even a single ethnic group would have suspicions, jealousies, Splits, crowding out, feelings and some weird ways of actually doing things that we don’t fully understand at the moment.”

“Observers have noticed that perhaps due to the limited productivity levels of those civilizations, their actual technological application levels are far from being able to effectively exploit resources that we think are even more convenient than at our fingertips. The actual production levels and theoretical production levels There’s a big difference, too.”

"While production capacity is low, the uneven distribution of resources and products among the classes formed by civilization may be the main contradiction that they have long faced in their development, and it is also the catalyst for all similar "infighting" and other things in our development. It seems to be completely wasteful and even unreasonable. It is an important factor in the rationalization of thoughts and practices. Once the intrigues or the main contradictions in general civilization come to an irreconcilable point, a large-scale redistribution of resources will naturally start. ——”

"War, this is what we have observed. It is the most common among those civilizations, the fastest redistribution of resources, and the most drastic adjustment method. However, unlike us, the carrying capacity of those civilizations is inherently weak. Moreover, the environment in which they are located is also filled with an atmosphere that is biased towards violence and destruction due to the pollution of the dead tide..."

"After the war broke out, those civilizations and the resources they possessed during the war may not be able to withstand the intensity of the war. The reason why most of the civilizations became extinct was because when a high-intensity and large-scale war After the war, most of their original technical systems and production and survival materials have been almost completely dismantled, polluted by the death tide, and even the simulated chaos will make it more difficult for them to obtain resources..."

"This is the main inducing factor, and the secondary factor I have mentioned before is that their fault tolerance rate is very low... When they are torturing themselves in the cradle and dying, they look up again, only to find that they are in the Races, countries, or civilizations no longer have the ability to touch the starry sky that once might have been within easy reach."

"...Perhaps, we don't need to judge for the time being. We have reached this point and what role Σ has played." At this moment, the bits of evidence at the scene may make everyone in the empire make a decision that can be said to be quite significant. To...a helpless conclusion.

...Without the intervention of Σ, faced with many tests and huge problems, the ancestors may not even be able to climb out of the galaxy where they were born.

In the chronology of its origin, star civilizations took a total of 35 billion years from mortals crawling on the earth to spread across the stars. The 15,000 years that 35 billion years can accommodate are too much, and in these 350 Over the course of billions of years, there have been too many variables similar to this summary. Even if the existing data is only a small part of what has survived the Exiled Chronicles, as long as you make a careful comparison, you can find that the star civilization of the past accidentally changed. How many times have there been possible events that could have broken oneself into pieces and left him unable to recover?

This may be a bad debt that will never be settled.

…

In the void, the threat is still there.

In the pace of great expansion, the empire has never stopped enriching its military power, and it does not dare to stop. In the face of all-round overwhelming power, no matter how well prepared it is, a weakling who can rival the infinitesimal low-level will always be the same. A candle struggling to light itself up in the storm - of course it can try to burn itself brighter, but it is difficult to survive for a long time with unchanging development.

With the rapid expansion of the empire's borders, distorted echoes produced by masses of information containing high concentrations of death tide pollution appeared in more and more feedback terminals.

The "void territory" that represents openness and stability seems to have begun to show fuzzy boundaries.