Star Empire

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Facing this unprecedented cruel scene, the commander who had struggled to maintain the highest level of composure for a long time felt at a loss and even fearful——

As the absolute benchmark for defense in the existing system of the Imperial Fleet, the Star-Qi Fortress Group still has some redundant defenses, but it was as easy as paper to poke such a hideous gap. It once occupied A large number of imperial fleet combination blocks with multiple coordinates in the activated space collapsed and cracked in an instant - complete cracking from the source level, and it was no longer possible to detect the complete destruction of the existence they once had.

This may exceed the complete destruction of hundreds of millions of battleships. On the one hand, it means that the number of souls that may be dozens or even hundreds of times the number of battleships was silently annihilated in this like a blood tide in an instant. I don’t know how twisted they have been. Under the modulated crescent moon's dismantling beam; on the other hand, it also represents an extremely grim fact:

According to some mysterious and complicated information jump formulas extracted from the technical extreme deduction module, after the imperial researchers painstakingly conducted a large amount of background research and structural analysis, the imperial fleet also has a virtual information projection that is orders of magnitude larger through iterations. multiples to further improve its own information concentration and thereby enhance its own performance.

However, one of the most important things in the iteration limit of virtual information projection is the number of variables. For the imperial fleet, the number of variables is the number of independent imperial warships within a communication range without delay. The more variables, the greater the number of variables. The greater the overall information changes and driving trends, the larger and more elusive the number of refined branch directions in the development path will be. Those that are difficult to describe and can only be quantified in a vague range must rely on each battleship itself to exist. Information is the "raw material" that can be controlled and gives rise to virtual information projection.

Now, so many variables have been erased. Even if the loss is not serious for the entire fleet, this dangerous sudden attack has indeed weakened the overall upper limit of the imperial fleet for a period of time. ——Even if the projection of virtual information may skyrocket by hundreds or hundreds of billions of times, the impact of derivative information that is truly valuable to real existence may not exceed a weak increase of 50%, and its impact function will also increase with the multiple. The effective impact continues to rise and slows down, but... once the iteration begins, the level of iteration brought about by the explosion of chaos at the current level...

It is an exponential tower that is enough to allow the growth rate of the exponential explosion to be superimposed with more layers of exponential explosions of the same level - but now, the top layer of this exponential tower has been permanently cut off before new support arrives.

When ordinary fleet blocks are unable to mass-produce high-level reality information stabilization points to increase the number of their own nodes, and when new support has not yet arrived, the imperial fleet can no longer reach its highest level.

"Optimize the overall information structure of the fleet, and prepare all warships for explosive overload critical preparedness..." After the moment of sluggishness ended, the commander who had just woken up from a dream immediately updated the order, and the network node group also responded in an instant, but regardless of No matter what, this vast ocean will never be exactly the same as it once was.

Among the Imperial fleet clusters shuttled with white-gold light like electric arcs, what was ejected by the damaged battleship clusters, which was finally effective but not yet further assigned, was a large amount of verbosity spewed out by the unstable disturbance of the space channel reactor. The materials formed an information storm that swept through the world structure and space order equations. Facing this storm of chaos and the black-red undercurrent of the outside world that was more full of blasphemy, the imperial fleet was ready to have its defenses torn apart again.

However, the intensity of the next attack that may be attributed to a "wave" has returned to normal - the torrent of crescent rays, conventional attacks and information annihilation missiles is still stirring and distorting the defensive field of the Imperial fleet again and again. and shield, but the strength is not as unreasonable as before.

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"New Moon... It seems that the appearance and explosion of the blood cloud does not mean self-destructive overload. Maintain the current status of the fleet and do not release the critical activation of explosive overload until at least 7,000 enemy attack waves have ended. Push forward..."

Although they have been dealing with each other for a long time, no one dares to relax their vigilance against the enemy fleet, let alone spread their speculations at will - although it may be 1,780 years ago, from the main flagship The reminder shows that some of the habitual thinking and established behavioral habits of the people of the empire can still refer to some cognitive and philosophical summaries of the old federation period.

Those data that are still relatively useful rely on the surviving data repositories and the people who survived that era to pass them down and stabilize the empire's once empty and shaky cognitive system. But even so, Facing opponents who have been fighting for thousands of years, no one dares to determine whether the enemy's behavior has certain laws of phenomena and results, and dares to rashly connect certain events and performances with absolute certainty - the old cognitive system One of the things that has been identified is not to jump to any conclusions before having enough clear and comprehensive information to accept and organize it.

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After perhaps thousands of enemy fires once again violently bombarded the joint protective layer composed of joint shields and existential deflection beacons, another wave of omnidirectional reinforcements from the empire's hinterland arrived. The battlefield - due to the extremely long construction period of the Star Fortress and the Arcane Hub Ship of the Holy Inquisition, if a similar situation occurs in every world, then according to the existing overall shipbuilding progress, it may be difficult for new ships to catch up to this level All losses, but now based on the support received, the situation may not be that bad - this world has been allocated one hundred and twenty brand-new and fully equipped "mobile territories" that have arrived through the temporary world gate. "fleet.

This is enough to make up for the current fatigue of soldiers and the damage caused by the existence of fleet fragmentation, and can also help the empire's fleet to increase its overall upper limit. In this extremely oppressive situation where you have to muster all your will and strength, and you have to maintain the accuracy of your own thinking and actions even if you are fighting against invisible influences and even competing with yourself. The improvement is also quite necessary.

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Taking advantage of the brand new fleet entering the battlefield, while the Star Fleet was striving to gain control of the battlefield so that it could stop tilting further towards the Σ Fleet as soon as possible, with the help of a certain wave of imperial soul-boosting power broadcasts that happened to be radiated here, the fleet desperately launched a swarm attack. And for a time, it temporarily suppressed the temporary suppression of itself by the large-scale flagship fleet of Σ.

Taking advantage of this time point where he could barely buffer a little, the exhausted fleet commander separated out a little bit of the weak perception of his soul, trying to explore the piece that was torn apart maybe a short time ago, maybe a long time ago. , how many terrible damages have been caused to the big net condensed and spread out by the soul and spiritual will.

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He felt countless weak soul fluctuations similar to his own.

Due to the overwhelming enemy fleets polluted by the death tide, no matter what relative advantage the imperial fleet has achieved, as long as there is no new entity on the empire's side that can completely reverse the situation of the war, then in the unstoppable As the trend evolves, the imperial fleet will continue to slip towards a disadvantage.

On this basis, no one dares to relax - even though they can now execute many thinking threads at the same time and set up countless will concentration points, they have not dared to remove the almost insignificant fragments of thinking from the surface until now. Move out in the direction of the main battlefield and move here to detect the network nodes that were brutally strangled and destroyed by external forces before the time of chaos.

Under the protection of the conceptual encapsulation shell of an independent soul, these fragments can even face the entire chaotic network surging with practical thinking and spiritual power, even if they sink beyond the constraints of the independent nodes formed by themselves. The huge wave of thinking, and survive in it for a period of time——

This is a little problem that is "conveniently" solved in the flow of time after taboos and difficulties appear. Of course, taboos and forbidden areas exist, but even if they cannot be erased, at least they must be ensured in these restricted directions. Have a certain amount of technical reserves to avoid being helpless when problems arise.

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Many of the once familiar frequencies and numbers have disappeared.

In the process of the main consciousness almost diverging, relying on one's own subconscious mind to slowly wander around, near the shocking gap where the entire network is torn apart, more and more soul fragments similar to my own are moving their consciousness towards this. Get closer.

Facing this terrifying wound that existed on a more illusory level, the commander's consciousness slowly cooled down. After approaching here and filtering out the fluctuations in thinking caused by the remaining nodes, everything real here was revealed. In front of him——

In his own memory, there are countless lower-level commanders who have conveyed to him the coordination situation of the fleet, soldiers who had had a relationship with him before this series of wars, individuals who were born in the same batch as himself, and that Among them are many comrades and friends at different stages...

Now, these frequencies have been silenced forever.

Of course, a powerful self-discipline system can instantly confirm how many frequencies have been wiped out. Even if there are no soul-less high-end intelligent large-scale devices in the network that are only driven by the underlying working protocols, relying on themselves, the commander can still detect them in an instant. I got that numbered statistical linked list that was long enough to circle around the stable equator of the heavy fortress star several times, but it was quite different from my own perception - the numbered linked list was just a cold list, but my own perception, They truly bind soul and life together...

As the soul fragments wander aimlessly, more and more similar thought fluctuations begin to resonate with my own perception...

Apart from some differences caused by different levels of authority and different positions and functions, there is actually no huge difference between everyone here - in essence, they are all fighting for the empire and the survival of the group. No matter how they work, they are equally noble and great.

Even the lowest basic nodes have souls, wisdom, their own circle of understanding, and their own close friends, comrades, and colleagues, and they are naturally also affected by this severe impact.

To outsiders, the huge numbers may just be a series of numbers that are difficult to imagine and have unclear meaning. However, no matter how large the group is that has been so seriously disturbed, there are always some basic parts among them. These are the direct The basic part that bears all the consequences cannot be further diluted.

For these basic parts, I am already familiar with them, and they have even completely become the background. The nodes that my consciousness and thinking will flow through inadvertently, and the responses I get from many of my subconscious behaviors will no longer last for hundreds of thousands of years. It will appear in any part of your cognitive scope...

For tens of billions of years, star civilization has never been as stable and able to bind all existence together as it is now. Human beings have never been as driven by the huge imperial machine as they are now, and they are walking like this with each other. near.

However, the first thing that makes people realize this is farewell.

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boom.

"?!"

This extremely unexpected and unknown obstacle caused the commander's thread to concentrate slightly. On his way forward, another thought thread similar to his own interacted with him. An unreasonable hostility made the commander suddenly suddenly Come to your senses.

"Soldier! Explain your situation!"

"...Huh? Commander, I'm sorry, I..."

"Your emotions are filled with hostility that shouldn't be there. Explain your situation!"

"This...Commander, I don't know, I just...it seems that this situation has happened many times. Inexplicably, I feel irritated and disgusted by it, as if everything around me is hindering me, unconsciously , I seem to want to tear apart everything that is blocking me around me, and...! This is——Commander, I am willing to accept punishment!"

"This is not such a simple issue in this aspect... If such hostility and uncontrollable emotions outside of logic arise... it will not be so simple, but..."

The commander thought of something for a moment, but soon, one round after another of increasingly dangerous warnings quickly occupied the main consciousness of all individuals in the entire fleet.

On the other side of the world, suppressed by the spreading Order Correction wide-area fusion field, the attacks of Crescent Moon and Solar Eclipse began to intensify again. The original basic laws of order in the world have been completely destroyed, replaced by a zombie world barrier formed by countless variables, information models and controllable mappings from both sides, an extension of the limits of both sides' power.

"The hinterland of the empire and the general flagship...haven't there been any news from your majesties..."

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"Please, please give us some more time!"

Retrieving countless battle reports that were sent like snowflakes from the border defense lines of the empire with a depth of more than five layers of the world and rounds of requests for help at the cost of countless deaths and irreparable hard battle damage, Ka Wenrel and Isendel felt as if their hearts were being dug out of flesh and blood with sharp knives - all the blood had been shed.

The overall implementation process of Void Fortress has changed, and now it is significantly behind the expected plan.

According to the planned design goals, the Void Fortress itself will be put into practical use as an extremely powerful void plane portal and over-range support base station, and the output terminals of two external devices activated simultaneously in the entire fortress will be responsible for calculations. The "Imaginary Eye", an imaginary entity coordinate calculation matching equation output device that can span twenty-six quadrants of the void at the same time, has been installed.

However, the other most important function designed for the entire fortress - the equipment test that carries the function of jumping and blocking non-imaginary coordinate calculations inside and outside the world - has undergone major changes - the devastating explosion and large-scale The annihilation of existential coordinates caused by the failure of imaginary number manipulation is only secondary. The most important thing is that the initial idea of ​​​​this type of device itself has problems——

During the Federation period, all operating laws of all Federation spaceships relied on the original laws of the universe. In fact, they were located on the practical application layer of the fourth level of the world structure, but they only extended their hands to the second level of the world. In fact, these battleships are extensions of the world itself.

When the crystal energy whirlpool first appeared, the "unrecognizable operation request" that Cavinrel received when he directed the radar to illuminate the void rift was because that area was outside the absolute order and was establishing a mapping relationship with it. At the same time, the waves emitted by the scanning system that could be manufactured with the technology at that time were naturally impossible to exist or spread in the void. It would only be swallowed up silently. This unprecedented situation was caused by unknown suppression at the time. Under this circumstance, it is normal for the system to judge it as "unrecognizable" - within that scope, the operating mechanism can be tampered with or even abolished by external forces.

But now, just the fact that any ship equipped with a void engine can fly in the void is enough to show that these ships that transcend any worldly limitations have high self-consistent closing capabilities and independence. If they want to completely let Its existence mechanism is no longer appropriate, and I am afraid that the entire grand unified theory needs to be completely rejected.

Who has such ability? Who can have such ability?

I'm afraid some approaches and ideas were completely wrong from the beginning.

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After encountering a series of major research and development setbacks, this combined system was split into two parts - the blockade system "Web of Existence" and the attack system "Spear of Nothingness". The former uses a huge amount of coordinate conversion chaotic mapping to forcibly prevent non-decisions. The definition of flagship-level void coordinates, and the latter was a completely weaponized use once envisioned——

By attaching a set of highly modulated distorted information to the target. When this set of distorted information collapsed, the attached coordinates and all existence inside the coordinates were directly disassembled into two imaginary numbers that could not be allowed by the existence within the full range of the void, and in the void Being expelled from the infinite distance on the void level under the suppression of power - that would be complete destruction!

However, to go beyond the current technical level, one can only obtain inspiration through the ultimate technical deduction module. On the other hand, a huge amount of manpower and material resources must be organized to reversely parse out the information structures with large or small reference value as much as possible within a limited time. , thoroughly analyze and understand it and have the ability to reconstruct it.

However, it will take time and resources to turn it into a technology system and style suitable for the empire. In any case, it is impossible to rely on appropriationism now.

Even without long-term consideration, even if technical independence and civilizational dignity can be put aside, the effect cannot be guaranteed if those models are used directly - there is actually no mature off-the-shelf Σ technology in the technical extreme deduction module. All its results are deduced according to certain inherent powerful laws - since it is a "deduction", especially a deduction applied at this extreme level, whether it is reliable is questionable.

Surrounding this huge fortress, which is basically capable of housing a standard nine-shaped fortress galaxy in the imperial universe, is a field of light gold and purple. The contrast between these two should be very abrupt, but now it looks like it. The unusually coordinated thick fog - this is after superimposing the omnidirectional mapping activation exposure equipment, which is stepping up the modulation of the entire fortress's soul community, including Cavinriel, Isendel, and some of the Eyes of True Seeing and those from All the wills of countless low-level, middle-level and high-level researchers in the empire are integrated into this mist of light.

"Preparation for the 1,657th virtual test - Web of Existence, Eye of the Void activated, pre-irradiation of the target -"

"The Endless Sea Power Furnace Array is working to improve stability and start charging..."

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"Three hundred and seventy-nine, variable number 952 has an abnormal mapping pattern! Emergency stop!"

"The total concentration of information is too huge...it's too late!"

"Avoid! Avoid!"

The mist of light suddenly spreads, but no matter how fast the action is executed, there is no guarantee of safety - the Void Fortress's series of giant power furnace matrices superimposed with the rare ability to surge and increase the real information has a huge range of influence and is so unstable that it is difficult to It is estimated that no matter how fast the reaction is and how far one escapes, there are still hundreds of nodes that have not escaped the imaginary number death wave.

"...immediately search for survivors and send first aid..."

"No, Your Majesty... don't worry about us... we will be with the network itself... the manpower... can no longer be reduced..."

"What are you doing? Stop them!"

"Integration and merger... Your Majesty, if there are fewer people responsible for the task in this sector... the weakening of the influence of false information projection will be so great that it will indeed significantly weaken the existing computing power... As long as we do not leave the network, the upper limit will not be …”

"...Your Majesty, don't waste time. Researchers and auxiliary calculators like us can be born endlessly, but you are unique... By being able to do these great tasks, we are worthy of our souls and existence..."

Everyone present fell into a brief silence as they watched the purple-gold starlight dispersed around the fortress structure turn silent.

Then, these silent light groups immediately surrounded the huge fortress again.

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"No...no one is not unique...you are with the Empire..."

"Truth, please guide us. Even if we still fail this time or even next time, please tell us that we are on the right path now..."

"Efficiency, efficiency! Time, time!"

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The world where the Zeroth District is stationed is the battlefield of the general flagship and the decisive flagship team.

Even if the world barrier has been blocked, even if the terrifying pressure brought by the Doomsday-Creation and Order Correction wide-area fusion site makes Vidoville physically and mentally exhausted, as the most powerful flagship of the empire, relying on the existential network of the entire empire, He still has the ability to know everything that happens in the empire, and naturally he can also integrate everything in the network into his own perception.

Facing the enemy's terrifying firepower that almost completely swallowed up the field of vision, bombing from the beginning to the end of the world, and sensing the Imperial fleet struggling under the invisible weight around them, the confusion and pain of the past were once again entangled in In the heart of Vidoville:

What can I do? What is my contribution and value to the empire...

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"No...no one is not unique...you are with the Empire..."

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"The frequency has been silenced... Farewell has come... Everyone serves here, between life and death... There is no distinction between high and low. They all use all their strength for the empire..."

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"With their own strength, for the sake of the empire, everyone..."

In the misty murmur, the psychological pain finally cut through the final blockage like a sharp blade, and the spark of thought cut through the chaotic thinking like a thunderbolt. From the era of revival to the era of exile, and maybe even the era of origin, it was entangled in The problems around me and the feeling that had always been vague were finally clear at this moment.

A golden long sword gradually emerged from the void. It had the same blade and hilt as the "Long Sword of Command" in the national emblem.

On a suspended platform that emerged from the stream of light, Victorville, holding a sword in his hand, re-condensed his usual daily entity from the state of soul dispersion.

He is the Star Emperor.

He is the highest authority in the empire and one of its leaders.

He possesses the most powerful combat power and the largest amount of resources in the empire, and leads the entire empire.

But he doesn't have any special power in any aspect.

It is impossible for me to have the eye of true seeing like Zhai Cahir, nor do I have the courage, patience and carefulness to guide the empire to directly establish a new system like Weisrifan, nor do I have the powerful mathematical modeling like Cavinriel and others. With the information analysis ability and the elusive and mysterious arcane power of Erwin and others, and after being devoured and bound by the two doomsday arks, the unmeasurable alienated body was further stretched away intentionally or unintentionally. The distance between oneself and the empire.

But now, I have found the path I should take——

Since you can't do anything directly, then use all your strength to help people with goals and power throughout the empire, give them the highest level of support, and help them clear all obstacles.

Everyone is unique and irreplaceable.

Only when these people truly come together and work together for a more noble goal will the empire be complete.

If you don’t know what you should do, then share all the power you can share, so that those who understand their own value can break away from all obstacles and maximize their power.

The Empire Network is under its own control, and unless the Empire disappears completely, everything related to the Network will never die.

In the infinite sea where the output of the two flagships has no upper limit, the boiling ocean of information has become strange.

Vidoville gently raised the sword.

"The overall network connection is stable...start broadcasting..."

An ancient word appeared in Victorville's mouth at some point. Whether it was appropriate or not, and the source was no longer important. Now, a new meaning will make the ancient words shine again.

"I have national scholars..."

Vidoville slammed his sword to the ground.

"……second to none!"

In an instant, the shadow was dispersed.

The fluctuations of will with a terrifying amount of information echoed in every soul frequency throughout the empire for a long time.