Star Empire

"...It may be a little strange to say that in the current empire, I am the only person who can actually make decisions and coordinate events throughout the empire." After a brief silence, Victorville suddenly said, "Whether hesitant or decisive, the empire's current behavior is actually decided by me. My action pattern determines the empire's course of action... This is contrary to the super-individual tone we originally set, and even now, I’m afraid I’m still wasting our time.”

"...But so what? Principle, what a beautiful word, it's a pity that we don't have the chance to enjoy it. Don't feel strange - for a long time, our top priority is survival, and survival requires an environment that can accommodate our existence To serve as the foundation; and then on this basis, we carry out various activities for survival, which together should be called life. The principle only serves survival and life, but now, this foundation may collapse at any time. "

"The current reality is that the soul substrates that support your lives all come from the individuals of the pre-star civilization hundreds of thousands of years ago. In the process of the birth and death of several generations of life, we have continuously improved these substrates, and they are now endowed with You may be curious about why there are so many "unfinished lives" in the heart of the empire now... The reason why these once-achieved goals are destroyed is due to the conflict of reality."

In the process of somewhat embarrassing fluctuations in consciousness, Vidoville continued to calm down the doubts and confusions about his words and deeds that came from the entire existential network, either by individuals or by groups, while he continued to analyze and calculate. At the same time as the scale and development of the fault zone, the power of the "World Line Tree" is re-covered to the existence codes of all non-Emperor-level individuals in the entire network.

As for the absolute details of this approach, Vidoville is still in a tangled state - even if he retains the overall existence of the empire, how strong can he preserve it? Will there be other effects? Are you using the system correctly? How much power can it exert, and what you think is your full strength, is it really your full strength...?

Do you dare to really abandon everything...

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All this may be contradictory in itself, but compared with the entanglement caused by "security", after more than 6,000 years of melee, the mentality of many people has undergone tremendous changes - many things can no longer be ignored. After being cared about, the source of the main contradiction has shifted vaguely.

During the "Old Empire" period tens of thousands of years ago, the issue of the highest authority, which was originally thought to have gradually faded away or even been dusted, almost sounded the death knell for the entire empire after being silent for hundreds of thousands of years - in the void there was no Absolute immortal life. And the old empire period. However, the entire star civilization tied its operation basis to two "ordinary individuals" whose life strength was not special. This approach almost led to the complete destruction of the old empire. And if that demise really occurs, the last emotion of civilization will probably be resentment - at that time, if the world where the first capital of Vidoville is located collapses, then the remaining life and territory of the empire will also collapse simultaneously - Not because he died in battle, but because of the out-of-control imperial authority system, he was dragged to the grave.

After civilizations have survived rounds of wars, the star civilization has already had certain ideological preparations and technical foundations for survival and development. In an empty and harsh void, if a civilization wants to increase its survival strength, it can be summarized as two parallel paths. This kind of thinking has also solved many development problems for star civilization in the past——

The first way is to increase the intensity of civilization itself. Create more and stronger battleships and fortresses; use a stronger and more stable life encapsulation shell to make the body stronger; repair the fragility of the soul, dig out and repair all hidden loopholes; sublimate the whole Thoughts that allow all Imperial soldiers to fight for the survival of the Empire.

The second way is to leave enough "stem cells" and sow enough strong enough seeds.

The existence form of these seeds may even confuse the current Imperial people, and even doubt whether they are from the same civilization as them, but for those "hopes", the form of the encapsulating shell is not important. Their mission is to survive one round of cruel torture and to light up the lights of civilization again when suitable conditions return.

The emperors of other regions and many "mobile territory" commanders are such seeds. After getting rid of the extreme imperial authority system of the old era, these individuals who have the authority to command a large number of resources and all the surrounding individual groups that provide calculation power, thinking direction and practical strength support for these core individuals actually have and The same potential for development as the entire empire - such a group is the fractal pattern of the empire, the stem cells of the whole.

If one day they are really torn apart from their entire body and thrown into the depths of the endless void, then they themselves have the ability to survive independently and recreate civilization. For the group of commanders, Vidoville is confident of completely reviving them, but for the emperor who has special assigned information and abilities, Vidoville remains a little more cautious. If he is destroyed one day, can the binding effect of the world line tree also be counted as a mapping connection? All seeds cannot have the same conditions - different definition methods may cause death and disaster to turn into life.

These contents are put together with the contents needed to build stronger battleships and create stronger life forms, which is the technical foundation.

At the same time, after the second "annihilation war", as the old empire was annihilated in the benevolent black-red light of the decisive battle flagship, there are still some [lucky thoughts] - the Ark fleet itself can sweep the entire It was a fluke to escape from the death wave natural disaster in the universe; the situation of getting lost in the first attempt to establish the "Void Navigation Coordinate System" belonging to the empire was not serious, and the experience of finally relying on strength to forcibly save everything was a fluke; in the Ark After the fleet set sail again, the damage to the isolated city and the spatial coordinate paradox caused by erroneous calculations were finally suppressed and resolved by the crystal energy shield. This was considered a fluke; countless experiments that were considered supermodels in that era were ultimately unsuccessful. Destroying the order field can be considered a fluke

Although civilization has produced a large number of emergency plans for the "worst consequences" in the development of the past generations and clearly blocked the meaning of every punctuation mark in every command, I am afraid that in the billions of years in the later years of the Star Federation, , the worst consequences rarely occur.

In fact, although civilization has always taken these worst consequences into consideration, it has quietly classified them as "impossible events". In other words, for a long time, the consequences that have occurred throughout civilization have The subconscious mind seems to have acquiesced that the worst case scenario cannot happen. No matter how bad the event is, there will always be someone or coincidence that can make it end safely and beautifully? !

I hope that now, the empire can truly dare to think and do what will happen if one day the main body of the empire is really completely wiped out.

This is the ideological basis.

Among the many development factors, although the degree of luck is difficult to quantify, Xingming Civilization has accepted luck, and even accepted the view that "fate will indeed affect the development path of civilization" to a certain extent - if we really want to trace the origin, The occurrence of events can be said to have an extremely mysterious pattern, and it may even have no quantifiable rules at all. You can make a judgment after weighing the records left by the observer's activities and your own civilization memory that is still in the process of judgment - luck often weighs even more than "power".

As an "older generation" in the absolute sense of civilization and one of the only "complete aliens" at present, as the civilization continues to improve its own attributes after several generations of catastrophes, Victorville's spirit and will have not been completely Keep pace with the direction of civilization.

Part of Vidoville's personality and soul was lost, while part of him remained in comparison. At a height that is still difficult for the empire to reach, his way of thinking and scope of vision are already difficult for many people to understand.

He would also temporarily suppress some issues, and for other issues, he would try his best to speak out the parts that could be accepted by reality. He didn't know how valuable this kind of "art" could be...

As for my own way of thinking...

We must think clearly about the possible future path, and we need to be truly mentally prepared to accept those results - the long-term future, the technical needs in the near and medium term, the ideological needs, whether we may face a critical turning point, the empire's experience and foundation Is it stable...

In this long journey of thinking, many roads are winding and may even be spiral. Vidoville knew that just in his own thinking over the past tens of thousands of years, there have been many stages that can be summarized, and the ideological directions between stages may be different.

If you compare these thoughts with what he wants to think about on a stage-by-stage basis, you will find that many times the stages may not only be unrelated, but may even contradict themselves or even go backwards - but that doesn't matter, at least these Victorville has encountered this situation before. Even if all past experiences have been invalidated, their existence can at least give him some peace of mind...

As long as these ideas and plans do not deviate from the most direct goal, then they are valuable regardless of whether they are inherited or continuous.

The rest will probably be suppressed at the bottom of consciousness forever.

"The overall binding of the existence is completed, and the recovery of the zero-day fleet and the implementation of repair procedures have begun. The "Guoshi Wushuang" imperial-level enhanced pulse wave will be re-deployed in three hours from the main axis of the empire." In a period of time that can be said to be neither long nor short. After the silence, Vidoville's order broke the rather rare calm in the Imperial network.

Inside the two mammoth flagships of the Arcane Throne and the Void Matrix, many tangible bright lines floated slowly and unaffected from the turbulent and shocking waves of the violent and boiling ocean of information.

Under the control of the preset program, these bright lines move rapidly in the endless space with a rather "unbridled" attitude. In the chaotic space constrained by time rank and space rank, these flowing lights and shadows are constantly beating, and the contents they outline include closed-loop information retention channels and spatial channel reactions that can provide crystal energy and arcana. Furnace and all other "models" included in the imperial battleship information drawings.

"Xingqi Fortress...well, this part needs to be studied in the future..."

As the stream of light finally closed all the gaps just right like an Ouroboros, a huge and complete galaxy instantly appeared in the vast Void Fiery Sun Order Field. Discrete star points are given meaning of connections with nodes between each other on a macro scale. When the "information construction skeleton" of various super flagships and battleships set up the galaxy entity, various drone groups that are smaller in size and weaker in existence but are orders of magnitude larger than the battleships have become the link of the entire galaxy. The ubiquitous "nebula" in between.

As the nebula continues to unfold, at the end of the distant order field, a somewhat twisted, huge space body with blurred light and shadow seems to be being pulled by an invisible force, with an order field that is so thick that it almost has an entity. The coordinates of a certain empty object slowly shift from the origin. And the pulling force on this unclear light and shadow seems to be quite strong. In the process of the increasing differentiation of light and shadow, some constraining structural belts are like stars pulling gas cloud belts, but the scale is countless times larger. It vaguely points to the Arcane Throne and the Void Matrix.

The seemingly virtual light and shadow slowly swept across the galaxy spread out by the skeletons of various warships. This process even made it difficult for even the huge fleet cluster close at hand to clean and completely calculate these "assigned lights and shadows" "How did it sweep across this galaxy - maybe by sweeping, maybe by turning, or maybe by passing by?

Whenever the assigned light and shadow covers the galaxy itself, part of the originally empty, even ferocious and distorted battleship information skeleton will be transformed into entities, and the rings between the virtual and the real will impact the galaxy again and again. Covering, most of the largest sky fleet in the entire empire can be said to have been "constructed" almost instantly.

"Your Majesty, we"

"The sudden changes in the Σ decisive battle flagship exceeded all our expectations. We could not have anticipated such a situation. The mistake was mine." After being thawed, the members of the Sky Fleet, whose memories and minds had regained clarity, recalled almost instantly. They knew what they had done in the "last moment" - they were aiming their guns at the emperor's ship that had protected them for thousands of years!

However, before these thoughts came and penetrated, Vidoville had quietly suppressed them.

"The speed and construction of this scale, Your Majesty"

"I didn't play a big role in this. To be precise, I only played a role in delineating the assignment range, and this selection range can actually have an infinite total amount - within the existing existence constraints. After the determination is completed, I can directly reset all the imperial facilities except the Holy Music Praise Fortress in a short period of time and let them have intact combat effectiveness. If there is enough time, even the Holy Music Praise can be repaired, but at present Unfortunately, I have not found a way to replicate these existences. In the previous battle against the decisive battle flagship, I actually relied on my own state and weak "local advantage" to persist - if we say If that decisive battle flagship functional branch had not been contaminated, I would have probably fallen into an absolute disadvantage." Facing the huge and still powerful Imperial fleet, which had just survived another round of life and death tests, Victorville knew that he had I should be happy, but for some reason, many of my thoughts are entangled not only with some unhappiness, but also with some vague and more complex emotions.

He even felt that he was reliving some of the "peaceful periods" he had experienced as a consul. When Cavinriel and others have no communication request, he faces the entire federation like he is facing a game that is running slowly - he has the power to control and modify almost everything, but his existence in the game will only Adjusting themselves coldly, they will not have any emotional and mutual understanding interactions with themselves outside the screen, as the Federation once did - these feelings were not felt until the Ark of Exile broke out of the world barrier.

And now, in the face of the Empire, the entire Empire seems to be doing the same to some extent.

"...Fleet assignment completed."

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Network has compiled intelligence. The existences contained in the last set of major target lists have been destroyed by the Spear of Nothingness and the Imperial Fleet. The remaining enemy fleets are being gradually eliminated. We currently have an absolute numerical advantage."

"The unrivaled status of the national warrior will be activated in ten minutes - order all fleets to prepare! Tactical coordination is completed, the fleet obeys the command of the sky area, and the first experimental bombing will begin in thirty minutes!"

After the empire's flagship status was restored, the originally sluggish and chaotic network also regained its vitality. With the continuous materialization of virtual point jumps and the unfolding of large-scale world gates, calm was restored in the originally complicated and lively Void Fiery Sun Order Field.

"Lil, please don't use power on a large scale in the future unless necessary. I don't know how to measure your ability, but please be careful."

After this hesitant suggestion or warning was conveyed to the blazing sun of the void, the girl instinctively stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to grab something, but as the two giant wings shining with brilliant light patterns disappeared under the Behind the hole they called the "Gate to the World", facing the empty "atmosphere" again, after a short period of silence, the girl's outstretched right hand slowly dropped down.

"I have an impression, but who is he, where is this place, what does home mean, and what should I do? It's familiar, but strange." In the chaotic and somewhat confused fluctuations of consciousness, the girl turned her attention back to When she came to her "body", an inexplicable feeling of confinement and fatigue lingered in her consciousness. She didn't know if it was due to the large-scale use of power before. "Why did he stop me from using power? I felt that some scenes were not Not surprisingly."

Under the subtle control of the girl's subconscious, the surging vortices on the surface of the Void Sun and the terrifying prominences that are tens of billions of kilometers high are boiling all the time, but a bunch of these can overwhelm the most powerful single entity in the empire. Not a single bit of the huge torrent formed by the information flames of the crystal energy main gun fell around the girl. Although there may be countless huge vortices intertwined with concepts and laws "tens of meters away" around her, no matter No matter how these turbulent torrents collide with each other, as soon as those "flames" with strange textures are about to cross this invisible barrier, they will immediately calm down and disappear invisible.

Beside the girl, the surface of the blazing sun, which contains infinite power, has a sense of tranquility that is completely incompatible with the surrounding environment - here, the solemn and solid flame of information is like a calm water surface, occasionally showing a few traces of it. Ripples, and the height caused by these ripples is not enough to reach the toes of the girl standing quietly on it. The plain gauze skirt seems to have no obvious boundary. After touching the slightly rippled plane, the boundary between the skirt and the surface of the blazing sun will become blurred - from dozens of meters away, it is extremely blazing, even enough to knock the girl off her feet. The flames of information form a "well" hundreds of millions of kilometers deep, and the brilliant prominences that spread tens of billions of kilometers in the order field, licking the dark space again and again in visible and invisible ways, all the way to the outside of the order field. To the depths of the endless void, the scope is so vast that it overlaps with many unnoticed influences, and even to a considerable extent is related to the "ordered stellar winds" that have unknown connections and are deeply "intertwined". , these existences, together with the long skirt worn by the girl, constitute an unimaginable "original costume".

Outside the scorching sun, the vast wind field has long covered unimaginable distant depths, but now, the girl cannot fully perceive all the content beyond her current understanding, and her attention is not on those things that have already been It's so far away that I can never reach it despite my best efforts.

"There is a layer of obstruction at the core. It is very blurry. Even the most determined vision cannot see through the strange state of the obstruction itself. It is not what they call a void. The obstruction has a shape. Is it a dim and hidden cloud outside? It's a bit similar to the obstacle, maybe. There seems to be a purer darkness deep in the clouds. Take the time to remind them, there seems to be a misunderstanding." The girl's eyebrows wrinkled slightly, "Below the obstacle, It seems that there will be some danger."

"."

"who?"

All the girl's subconscious inner protective power burst out with a moment of tension.

".strangeness."