Star Empire

"Then, let's continue with the next actions according to the plan established after the communication." In the void, Victorville's mood regained its calmness. "The Zero Sky Zone Fleet and the Guards Fleet are temporarily reorganized according to the scheduled plan. After the reorganization, the temporary branch will accept the command of the first and second authority level individuals in each sky zone."

Coordinating dispatch and conveying will takes almost no time for the current imperial fleet. Although the role of equipment is still huge, in the process of hundreds of thousands of years of rapid growth, in order to save the life of civilization, the empire continues to develop various When the class "excavated" the technology and equipment from the ultimate technical deduction module, it also obtained a network based on the connection between the soul and the will. However, compared to device groups, what this layer of network utilizes is a more ethereal but almost unstoppable legal connection - existential connection.

As long as you can be accepted and become a part of the whole, then as long as you have the corresponding authority level, all relevant resources in the entire superorganism will be open to you. Your memory will also become part of the entire superorganism's memory, and the superorganism's power will also be available to you. In its current state, small habits will not slow down the efficiency of the Imperial fleet or reduce the power of the weapons they possess. Therefore, after the bulk information transmission, analysis, and summary are completed, different communicators are still willing to confirm or summarize again. Actually, that's not necessary.

When re-selecting the virtual point double-yoke coordinate point, Vidoville felt the changes in the empire, which made his heart that had become cold due to long-term entanglement regain a little warmth——

The empire is becoming more powerful, and each level of the empire is constantly expanding its capabilities. Compared with the Federation era, the current empire has seen more situations, and has regained some corresponding methods in the process of constantly facing different situations - the behavior and thinking of the empire are gradually catching up with what the current empire can achieve. "technical level". At the same time, such multifaceted growth actually promoted the further development of the empire.

At the end of the Federation Era, in order to resist the Σ Fleet Dark Star Fortress and micro-carrier-based aircraft, "General" Kalost proposed to use ejection rails to build rail guns and launch activated crystal energy crystals as ammunition. The proposal was finally approved. After the great victory, Vidoville had already written down some questions and started thinking about them. Although the empire has gone through a lot, Vidoville has never been able to dispel the entanglements and anxieties that troubled him, but even with all the difficulties, he has never completely stopped thinking about these issues.

For civilization, what is advanced?

If this question were placed in the past federal era, the possible answer would be to have more advanced resource conversion technology, to have higher speed, to have a higher energy level, to have a more complex and profound energy extraction system, to have a more comprehensive and complete network and so on. But when the Ark fleet was in danger, the railgun with primitive thinking and low performance finally fired a life-saving shell.

According to my multi-threaded thinking analysis, more and more other thinking lines have given results. If the proposal and the rail gun appeared at a less tense moment, then I would most likely be able to take advantage of Kalost's plan. Cleansing the core of thinking will also perform a major filter on the thoughts of the entire empire, erasing all memories and behaviors from the old Federation period.

But it just so happens that at a special time point, those not-so-smart thinking and practices finally helped civilization escape. In the subsequent summary, Vidoville was also able to determine that the old Federation's most powerful fixed vacuum zero-point projectile weapon might not perform much better than that stupid rail gun in that situation.

During the relatively long period of stability in the "Old Empire", when the observer operations were continuously achieving results, there were many situations in the empire where the performance of the observation equipment was so powerful that it directly "burned out" the objects under observation. It was not until various types of detectors operating on the conventional physical level were redesigned and manufactured that the first fatal impact of the Observer Project on the observed disappeared. And until the "New Empire" began to engage in large-scale battles with the Σ Fleet, the observer group operating in the hinterland of the empire never gave up on these equipment groups that operated based on the physical rules of the world - even though they had undergone many improvements.

"Perhaps, for a civilization, the most important factor to measure whether it is strong or advanced, apart from ideas, is probably to see what this civilization and each part that makes up this civilization can do. I hope we can Our civilization can continue to develop, and one day, we can stand together again. Fragments of thoughts have been recorded, and the authority level is emperor level - the past has become a cloud, and we can no longer make up for the large and small shortcomings left in it. But these most important ways of thinking and crystallization of memories are witnesses of our development. Their existence is more important than wasting time in a long time."

Although ideas have been in chaos for a long time, the ubiquitous surveillance and pressure may have really disappeared. Now, Vidoville is more and more aware of why many people, including himself, directly use "ancient" and similar words when talking about history and the past. He also understands more and more why he and some people in civilization have been confused for a long time, and they always feel that time flies but the starry sky remains the same. And during the period of great stagnation, why are so many people still taking this for granted, and even acquiescing to the emergence of many development paradoxes that may now seem very obvious? In theory, after the grand unified field theory is confirmed, The technology of civilization itself should be able to support civilization's spontaneous discovery of the more basic source of information unification.

However, not only did civilization fail to discover them on its own, it may even have failed to make good use of the Grand Unified Field - civilization has never thought carefully about what exactly those technologies can be used for after possessing them. .

After being able to cross stars, the civilization's approach seems to be to continuously forcibly expand the energy level in its own technological system through reverse jumps. The basic configuration of plasma weapons that appeared simultaneously after being able to control plasma was used until the end of the vacuum zero-point energy rail.

Perhaps this can correspond to an old saying - civilizations continue to use their strong industrial base and rich natural resources to create large numbers of golden hoes.

The model abstracted from this series of practices may exist widely in the development of the infinitely rich world in the void. What the Federation did was far from completely wrong if considered individually. But if we look specifically at the federation itself and its history, then this approach shows that the overall thinking of civilization has never made a fundamental progress in a long time -

When the era of crystal energy arrived, civilization experienced a complete epoch.

"I hope we can eventually close these fractures. I also hope that one day in the future, the fragment of real consciousness in front of me will not be able to fit our empire." After confirming that all the pale golden "tributaries" are heading to the fault zone as planned After the corrupted border was stabilized, the virtual point jump of the general flagship was activated.

For order, the void may be an existence that can never be truly "touched". The void does not exist, but it can contain everything. Order seems to be just a layer of "oil stain" floating on the surface of the void, but many more profound and bizarre existences and phenomena do not completely support the establishment of these simple conclusions - the void seems to never be able to find a correct way to describe it. Measurement method. However, even if this mysterious and mysterious issue cannot be discovered, it does not seem to hinder the use of the void in all aspects.

In the depth and darkness, an abrupt "wall" is slowly creeping.

This wall is full of "breaks" of all sizes. The abnormal patterns are constantly rubbing and colliding under the push of the very red and dim sea of ​​clouds. The rules are in conflict with each other, and the fragile environment and the constantly boiling and exploding destruction phenomenon are aggravating the disasters caused by the conflicts between the rules. The flash that is enough to scorch the world shines endlessly here like the most ordinary lightning. Every time the ferocious black-red arc strikes, it adds a new scar to the already rotten wall.

However, what emerges from these scars is not darkness, zeroing, and invisible erosion, but thick clouds like blood mist. Within the vast structure, these clouds are torn apart and become bridges of communication and profanity, collapsing, reorganizing and then being rebuilt in an incalculable amount of time. Under the huge rift valley they spanned, the violent order collapse and invisible pressure seemed to have reached some kind of short-term balance. Billions of lightning flashes continued to streak through every decadent space order here, able to penetrate the entire The world's "law lightning" can be seen everywhere here.

However, compared to the entire rift itself, which is completely pulling its own existence attributes into destruction, these lightnings are insignificant.

This place is filled with the atmosphere of destruction and deviation from order. There may not be many people who can clearly see the enchanting light and shadow that are constantly returning to the rift valley, and the essence of the rift valley covered by the light and shadow. Order creatures live in an order environment, and everything about them is based on being accepted by the order. on the basis of. However, when the basis of order that carries everything is constantly being tampered with or even destroyed, then even if those creations and perception methods that are based on order and use order can still maintain the ability to explain themselves here, they may only see such a layer of collapse. Wrecked shell.

And beyond the far "distance", under the combined effect of the rough coordination of chaotic and violent consciousness and the pressure brought by the environment, pure destruction has reached a balance with another phenomenon.

Another phenomenon is called Genesis.

Under the influence of the memories once preserved by these corrupted consciousnesses, at the edge of the world barrier, countless cracks shaped like eyes are constantly opening and closing. The inflow of the void is blocked by a fuzzy structure similar to a reactor. The creation extracted after decay is the process of creation. The original power of order that was born. These cracks are the source of the continuous influx of Genesis power, and the continuous input of Genesis power maintains the dynamic balance of the entire system.

Otherwise, this structure will destroy itself first before the death wave disaster spreads.

Since there were a large number of creations that were difficult to digest in the world that had been swallowed up before, and the large number of devastating impacts produced after those creations were corrupted, they damaged part of the boundary stability of the entire corrupted structure. Therefore, in a certain coordinate section, the boundary of The expansion speed is accelerating - this structure may really have intelligence. According to some records, such a structure is considered one of the most dangerous existences in the void.

"Oh, this structure may indeed be called extremely dangerous. A single explosion in the fault zone on the border of the empire can wipe out nearly a million heavy fortress worlds. However, the source of its birth-this is quite ironic. This is A test?" In an inconspicuous corner of the corrupted wall, two small flying wings were flying slowly into the void against the ever-expanding structure.

"The communication strength is stable, and the single-body distortion rank is within the acceptable range." Looking at the report flashing in his mind, Vidoville felt a little more at ease - in theory, most of the enemy ships in this "fracture zone" are The decisive battle flagship was emptied of itself when it self-destructed, or was fused, and eventually became part of this huge blasphemous structure spanning the void.

Those "regular" Σ flagships are no longer difficult to solve at present. When it was slightly forward, the impact caused by Vidoville's first use of the Spear of Nothingness Matrix to shake the information fault should be said to have been substantially bypassed, or in other words, it was let go by the protective layer of the decisive battle flagship.

And that imaginary number blow itself and its derivative effects were huge. It should be said that that attack should have very powerful interference and destruction capabilities for conventional flagship units. Coupled with the further corruption of the current raging death tide, and the empire's existing fleet already having a considerable numerical advantage, it should be said that those remaining warships are no longer able to pose a serious threat.

Even if there are still large-scale enemies of this level, the Empire still has the Spear of Nothingness carried by the Praise of the Holy Sound as its trump card.

What Vidoville was worried about was the third decisive battle flagship that showed no abnormalities. Due to its own needs and those of the fleet, Vidoville cannot fully activate the "Borderline" system for a long time. But he knows that once the border line is fully activated, the bearer of the border line system will most likely be completely isolated from the ordered environment - independent from the world.

Under that situation, it was impossible for such an impact to affect that carrier.

"Must be reminded at all times. Start backing up memories and beware of the decisive battle flagship." After the barrier beacons it spread gradually spread, the enhanced connectivity provided by Vidoville's re-extending "eyes and ears" has been able to maintain the interference of the death tide. Under the circumstances, his level of contact with the Imperial fleet was reduced.

"Doing business makes it easier for people to forget the rapid passage of time - every moment is worth recalling. Maybe even Cavern Riel would find me a little strange." In the final silence, Victorville was quiet. Quietly waiting for the boundary of the expanding fault zone to cross an invisible "line", "all system information calculation bandwidth limits are expanded, and the "Guo Shi Wushuang" soul enhancement pulse wave burst increase is ready to be completed."

The world in the void is diverse.

Such items as the environment within the world, world law patterns, information representation methods of world barriers, etc., these items can all be used as criteria for classifying the world. As the wall boiling with a sense of distortion and corruption continued to advance, many "obstacles" that originally stood in the way were annihilated by it without hesitation under the torrent of the chaotic sea. These distorted and corrupted order resources will later turn into sources of pollution, helping the entire structure continue to expand outward.

However, as a fault zone born from the self-destruction of the decisive battle flagship, the chaotic consciousness that controls this huge structure seems to be slightly smarter - in the process of continuous expansion, it, or they seem to have discovered some strange parts - a certain An edge barrier seems to have swallowed a large number of "worlds", but these worlds seem a bit strange in terms of frequency representation and the amount of information they contain.

The chaotic consciousness turned a little part of its attention to the wall of corruption that was constantly devouring the "World Barrier".

Under the constant corrosion and peeling off of the pollution of the chaotic sea, those structures whose size and structure are so absurd compared to the world that they can arouse the vigilance of chaotic consciousness are rapidly being stripped of all disguises, showing their original appearance: one by one as if A huge black metal ball being corroded by strong acid.

What is different from the last time is that this kind of special armament, which has been personally defined by Vidoville as a "positive-weighted white matter ship-borne bomb", not only has a larger input base for this cluster explosion, but their explosion range is also in the fracture zone The edge of the barrier - although the fault zones contain extremely violent and thick death tide pollution, and the fault zones themselves are indeed contrary to the orderly environment, in fact, they must still have the necessary order shell.

At this time, the bright light formed by the white matter was tearing apart the barrier that was protecting the blasphemous order structure like tearing cloth.

"Start recording, and the interaction curve between the high-density white matter information structure and the dead tide environment begins to generate - once again confirm that the dead tide can synchronously and directly erode the white matter, confirm that the order structure of the white matter is stable, and begin to analyze the details based on environmental changes..."

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"I hope that in the future, I can re-find my own goals in this chaotic structure, find a more direct meaning of civilization, and have goals and principles that are more worthy of practice."

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"More than six thousand years have passed, why has Victorville become so strange and difficult to communicate with? I have never felt this situation before." In the communication channel jointly commanded by the Emperor of the Sky Region, Kalost said what he had just seen Everything he said felt strange - "Our Emperor has never felt that he was so cold before? Six thousand years is not a short time, but it is not a long time. Why?"

"Maybe it's because the boring but extremely intense battle that lasted for more than six thousand years did cause some changes." When his soul no longer floats in the cold and fragile order field, but in the solid and powerful field of order, When he was coordinating the dispatch and operation of the entire sky fleet with others in the "Holy Inquisition" arcane hub ship, Cavinriel felt that in those thousands of years that seemed to have been deliberately forgotten, the snowflakes kept coming like snowflakes. Casualty reports, requests for help one after another, and time and time again, I recalled the stable environment that was obtained at the cost of countless lives, and the countless things that had solidified into strings that would never move again. Coded souls.

Compared with the length of his own life, not to mention that war, even the length of time occupied by the entire Star Empire is completely insignificant. But this short period of six thousand years made him feel as if he was in another world - life is constantly extending, but this does not mean that the rhythm of life will also be lengthened simultaneously.

It is precisely because of this that when Cavinriel finally discovered that his sensory coefficient had been continuously reduced in the process of studying the Holy Praise Fortress, and finally reached such a bizarre number, he felt the present. Real surprise.

"No, in other words, you are all a bit too selfish in your thinking." A voice that was respectable but not liked at this moment suddenly came in:

"You think His Majesty Vidoville is cold and strange, and there is a gap between us. This is true, and it was initiated from one direction from his side - after the intervention of the Arcane Throne and the Void Matrix, he fundamentally I'm afraid he is not the same kind of person as us. In other words, he and we may not even be considered the same kind of existence. For people who are not at the same level at all and have completely different perspectives and ideas when looking at problems, if it's you, you Even if you are willing to let go of all barriers, do you think you can be so intimate at that time?"

"So, do you mean that our actions and ideas are not well thought out?" The consciousness frequency of a junior directly inserted into the consciousness communication circle established by the current diversion thinking threads of various emperors, "You are a senior, I don't Deny it, but I don’t think your current attitude and thoughts are much better than ours.”

"If you are still considering these issues based on the environment we live in...then there is no need for me to communicate with people who don't understand the real environment."

"you--"

"Forget it, Aphra, Zhai Cahir's speaking style was actually like this a long time ago. Maybe it may be a little abrupt here now, but... at least he doesn't have other intentions now." Cavinriel still stepped in to suppress it. There is a possibility of further changes in the current somewhat strange atmosphere.

"Maybe his words are not very popular with everyone, but he is actually quite reliable - it used to be technology, but now it's also coupled with force."

"I'm just worried that if this happens, there will be trouble between us."

"You are serious, Aphra, and you will take seriously all the things and phenomena you encounter - there is nothing wrong with that, but our empire is not just built on the harmony maintained by "relationships". The soul agreement and The laws of the empire are above all else, and as long as they are not completely destroyed, no matter how difficult it is, the empire will eventually find a way."

Cavenriel replied, "Although from us, various personalities that are efficient and loyal have begun to appear, but no matter what, we have always dedicated ourselves to the empire in our own way. While we continue to strengthen the achievements we have made, we must also continue to adapt to new changes and come up with unique insights and coping methods. This was also the tone set when we first decided to reorganize the Empire's superorganisms."

"That's enough. Anyway, sooner or later we will all go our own ways in the future - the more you talk, the greater the impact. If you talk so much, it will be boring for anyone to see that all the people in the area are the same. . Remind everyone to pay attention and cheer up. This will be one of the most dangerous opponents we face, and it looks very different." Although Zhai Cahill's answer softened a little, but...

"...Zhai Cahir, I think I need to ask you why later..."

"The reason is obvious." Zhai Cahir's attitude did not change much in response to the question coming from the depths of his soul.

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"The authorization code has been submitted, and the imperial-level call of Sacred Music Praise Void Fortress has been approved."

"The virtual point coordinates of the Eye of Void are activated. Target: edge of the fault zone. Spear of Void is charged and ready to fire."