Star Empire

The empire is "refreshing," which is a very apt description of reality.

After the Battle of the Fault Zone, the Empire once again entered a period of relative calm. Threats outside the empire's borders still exist, but the sporadic enemies can no longer cause serious harm to the empire itself. There is no gap in the patrol of the Frontier Fleet. Their mission is to discover potential threats and then use all means to make these threats disappear into the void forever.

"Hmm...perhaps this feeling should be called...a pity? I still can't do much to help now..." Facing the world beyond the boiling prominences and star corona, the girl felt a hint of love for those in her heart. The strange sense of familiarity and trust in the world seems to have changed - I don't know if this is some kind of repetition. I have felt this way many times, but recently, this feeling has been a bit indescribable.

He seemed to want to say something or do something, but he seemed to have completely forgotten about it. Many creatures who come from "home" sometimes seem to need to provide some experimental conditions themselves. Although there are many complicated and obscure meanings in them, if they understand what to do, it seems that those words can correspond to many beings in the void. The tacit reality...

It seemed to have been a while since he woke up. During this time, the two parties seemed to maintain an almost silent balance. But now, the environment seems to have undergone some changes - everything around it has begun to become brighter and stretched, but there also seem to be many folds and fractures in the ever-expanding brilliant light paths.

"Now, these extended parts seem to be easier to understand and control... Well, perhaps, in the process of home expansion, these parts that were once used to protect the foundation of the home can be expanded and the newly generated parts can be covered. Better..." Compare his request many times before and after, as well as the connection and... "influence" between all events that may be related to it? After that, the girl finally made this decision: after roughly comparing the reality with the possible worries of him and "them", she found that her current decision would not actually make the part that they were worried about become more prominent. .

"Deep in the core... it's not an obstacle, but a real gap, which seems to be similar to the death tide they hate most... Strangely, I seem to hate those breaths, but why, everything here seems so peaceful... "In this regard, the girl thought for a long time in silence.

In the end, everything related to it was suppressed by the brilliance of the star corona.

"They still have a lot of things to do, so it's better not to bother them with such difficult-to-solve problems. However, I still have to remind them not to leave too many gaps..." In the past time, I was nothing. While trying to better understand my own situation, I also studied the thinking patterns and personality perceptions of the creatures in my "home". She believed from the bottom of her heart that one day she would figure out what she didn't understand, perhaps what she had forgotten. After that, maybe I can be truly re-accepted, instead of being surrounded by awe and being independent like this... Before that, it should be better to stay with more happiness...

Time seems...not too long. I'm afraid the road ahead will be very long?

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In the process of rapid development, various problems will always exist, and they will become more bizarre as the known area expands.

It should be said that from the beginning of the Great Stagnation in the Empire, no, from the Federation period, the root of the "ego factor" that led to all this has been laid:

Two thousand years of time, coupled with the influence and support of the environment, the combination of these factors may be enough for scholars who have made sufficient achievements in the relevant fields to mobilize all resources to analyze the vortex, and use the crystal energy in the vortex to lay the basic materials. The road to a new era, but two thousand years is too short for a huge change from cognition to reality. What’s more serious is that civilization simply did not accumulate enough experience and was kicked. Completely deviating from the original development trajectory.

From now on, it seems that the scope of application of "accumulation and accumulation" should be modified with more clear constraints - within the same level of logical/philosophical system. The large number of mathematical models and accidental theoretical prediction modeling accumulated during the Great Stagnation of the Federation enabled civilization to undergo an extremely explosive advance during the Empire period. The intensity of the explosive advance was so high that even the entire civilization shrunk to a crawl. In the Ark, the premise that civilization itself was almost completely destroyed could not completely block the process of the explosion - in the Ark, the empire actually made a lot of progress, and also learned about many parts of the new system that should be paid attention to. Some of the decisions made at that time are still regarded as "absolute orders" for the empire even now.

If you can understand that when a civilization is almost completely destroyed, the remaining parts can still remain intact and still progress, then you can feel what the changes that led to all this development actually mean, and this wave of progress that triggers How strong and unstoppable is the power. And such an extremely powerful driving force pushes the fragmented remains of civilization to stride forward, and we are already aware of the problems it may cause.

After that, the empire saw an orderly environment that was much broader than the world, and also encountered many things it had never seen before - the fusion of Vesrifan and the World Soul, or perhaps the World Heart, made all research The author has always been worried about this matter.

However, in the historical passages where the Observer Project began intermittently, the Empire had observed the phenomenon of a large number of individuals being attached to the Heart of the World from those small civilizations living in a corner of the world. In the recent numerous wars, the Empire had We have also discovered half-entities in the heart of the world that are almost solidified. Some of these half-entities can even be vaguely judged to have signs of trying to "maintain activity." According to the human thinking of the stars, that is "survival."

In the vast void, that may really be a very common thing - just like after the federal territory expands to the boundary of the universe, there may be supernova ray bursts all the time within the territory of civilization, but it is just developing. Before, the knowledge of civilization was really limited... This matter may have been concluded at this point. However, the ultimate consequences of the limitations of thinking and lack of consciousness are worth remembering forever.

After that, the initial forcible cracking of the imaginary number structure allowed the empire to master the construction technology of the space channel reactor, and mass production was naturally a matter of course - that may have been a very coincidental event. The lower limit of the imaginary end reactor itself is that it can be loaded into a missile not much larger than a real bow and arrow, and the upper limit may be equivalent to the endless leap power reactor carried by the Arcane Throne; and manufacturing such a reactor requires The conditions and technology... now seem to have extremely obvious upper and lower limits:

Although the imaginary number structure can be excluded by the entire order environment, in theory, it is only one type of information structure. As long as you know its conjugation parameters and theoretical models, in theory most of the mathematical models can be directly transformed into actual Civilizations with information models can produce them. Even civilizations like the Empire that have just entered the unification of information can master its basic structure by copying existing models. This should be enough to show that its "lower limit" is in the entire technological circle. It should be considered a very low existence.

However, if there is no direct and stable finished product, it may be a fantasy to create an imaginary number reactor - the ordered environment in the void theoretically has infinite existence attributes and countless existence possibilities. If you want to find out this Taking advantage of a commonality among endless environments... This is not a problem that can be solved by studying hundreds or thousands of worlds. In addition to the most basic skeleton, there are more and richer flesh and blood structures - if the empire had not captured a small, possibly just unmanned cruise unit or a small carrier-based aircraft of a similar level, if If that carrier-based aircraft still has a little bit of mobility, the Empire may not be here now.

The emergence of the space channel reactor gave the empire unlimited access to resources. Technological breakthroughs and endless resources allowed the empire to regain a stable world and begin its expansion almost immediately. Endless resources and infinite space allowed the empire to revive rapidly. At that time, everything was booming, civilization was flourishing, and all citizens were excited. And one after another powerful weapons that were once unimaginable were manufactured, and one grand plan after another was launched, which further promoted this trend - with endless resources, endless great things can be accomplished. , without any constraints. Such ideas were reflected in the implementation of Isendel's plan, manifested in the rapid expansion of the fleet, appeared on the road to white matter research, and caused many actions organized by imperial citizens to gradually deteriorate in a subtle way, and eventually led to Another major cognitive-material asymmetry problem: resource paranoia.

And when the empire started the Observer plan and began to try to use time and stable development to balance the problems, the Σ fleet appeared - the civilization was almost destroyed for the second time, almost all achievements were destroyed, and then... two total ships The emergence of flagships and technological extreme deduction modules directly forcibly raised the broken empire to an unimaginable, new level...

The many changes in this empire's great expansion can also be seen as an attempt to balance - high-intensity wars and extremely expanded technological power require enough mind to understand and face them. We cannot ask the real environment to change according to our needs. We can only allow ourselves to adapt to the environment, at least we will still need to do this for a long time to come.

The relevant attention requirements have been abstractly fixed using information equations. All area commanders and fleet commanders relay relevant instructions according to the authority system, and the weight distribution of relevant information must be absolutely accurate.

Comparing previous briefs reveals differences and connections. Our understanding and our environment are in a state of dynamic change. We need to emphasize some things, and we also need to suppress some possibilities as much as possible. However, considering the infinite possibilities of the void environment, biasing toward absolutes is very likely to lead to one-sided cognition. All reports have their own unique perspectives, and each report also has its own timeliness. We must pay attention to it—it may be difficult to find direction for development at a single moment. But if you connect everything into history and look at everything in it from different angles and using different mentality, you may be able to collect enough value. The contradiction still exists, but the contradiction itself is no longer absolute.

——The end of the Emperor’s Council briefing——

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Reflected by the long river of time, the call to establish new lives and create new regions is gradually rising. More and more calculation results show that the current development and expansion speed of the empire is close to the limit that civilization can currently carry. If it goes any faster, enclaves and gaps will appear in the territory of civilization, and the technological system of civilization will be full of cracks.

The profound impact of massive information asymmetry caused by ultra-rapid development has not yet been forgotten. Not to mention that the Empire spent many years resetting the world many times, and even directly used the fleet to detect the Dead Tide Gate and other series of experiments. After the Empire's technology began to make an explosive leap, there were always extraordinary things in the voyage log. Theoretical records, as well as the error messages with coded entries in the last large-scale battle are still in front of you and can be seen at any time - they are all in the process of developing too fast, and technology cannot match reality and users. A series of visual manifestations of the resulting problems.

And this series of performances is actually quite mild. Although His Majesty Vidoville has never been able to determine the weight of the use of the World Line Tree, in the initial period, the existence attribute extraction and reset ability of the World Line Tree was indeed tested through various tests on and off the table. played a vital role.

The existential recovery ability of the World Line Tree is enough to ensure that the empire and its individuals will not die completely no matter what they do. Although in the early days of the empire, it was not too long for all people to have existential recovery beacons, but that was it. In the early days, this power helped the empire get through the strongest adaptation period caused by the "rejection reaction" caused by the technical extreme deduction module and the doomsday ark's forced intervention in civilization.

Now, on the one hand, the empire is indeed mobilizing a large amount of resources to help it continue to adapt to everything around it, but the empire itself has also begun a new round of extremely intense development, and ultra-large-scale adaptive modification itself can be considered a part of development - —If this part is too severe, then there must be a better compensation and correction method to correct the loopholes in the compensation and correction process.

The empire is currently considered a behemoth. Even if there are many problems within civilization, the size of the empire can provide enough redundancy to resist or suppress these problems.

But if you don't address them, sooner or later these accumulated vulnerabilities will explode. The empire has indeed reached this stage, a new era that is far more glorious than before. However, in the process of reaching this stage, civilization has crossed several fire pits and wandered on the edge of many cliffs. The details of this are still clear to the decision-making level.

In order to make up for as many loopholes as possible during its rapid development, the empire needs a type of existence that can discover and fill loopholes in the process of development. This will be them, or "them" at every moment, and also Eternal duty.

And this is also an extremely bold attempt - the empire will try to create some kind of truly efficient individual, a theoretical "field life".

According to the existing observation and record data, the "void environment" outside the world itself is not absolutely empty or absolutely zero. The feasibility of information offset navigation is an intuitive reflection that the world of order has established a macro network in the void. Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to find a "fixed" information offset method among many absolutely unrelated points and establish a systematic theoretical system.

And if we take into account the realistic idea that many "technical routes" can coexist in the world, perhaps, we can be sure that the "void field" information structure that was once under theoretical research can be confirmed as part of the void model—— The void field is intuitively expressed as correlation and influence. In the world, its manifestation is that multiple information bodies can have an impact on itself and the environment; in the void, this "void field" may be considered to be directly composed of order disturbance and order influence.

All things can affect each other, and illusory thoughts can also indirectly or even directly affect objective environments with completely different attributes. The existence of these facts can be said to further consolidate the correctness of the original theory of information unity, or "existence unity". However, as real life forms, if we want to have a clear understanding of this and complete the omnidirectional coverage from real life to field life, we need more research and theoretical accumulation.

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"First of all, we can start with the data we already have... As for the soul, we can currently try to continue to use the soul structure produced by the culture medium as the basic template of life. The soul built using extraordinary information has extremely strong adaptability and development and extension possibilities. According to Judging from the data that has been accumulated so far, when the exploration of unknown fields begins, we can first use the old, mature technology parts that may be related to unknown fields."

"It is undeniable that there are huge differences in applicable rules between different fields, and new fields will always eliminate most of the old rules. However, in the process of development, there are also inheritance relationships between fields at different levels, and we should not be one-sided. Look at everything in it. His Majesty Cavenriel’s experience has enough reference value, and these contents are worthy of being processed into a “path of thought.”

In the core territory of the empire, under the cover of the ultra-deep field of the Information Star Network that has lost its range perception structure, a dim light began to flow from the surface of the outer shell of the huge gray-white metal giant. Under the irradiation of ultra-high-frequency white matter radiation, the information disassembly capability inside the forge is comparable to that of a void environment. The thickness of the constraint consumption layer is constantly growing. The space expansion module is exploding one after another according to the rules it has mastered. formula output to prevent highly dangerous white matter radiation and white matter entity disassembly flows from corroding the outer shell of the forge. Tens of thousands of void forges are burning - they are not purely military equipment. If necessary, they can also be used to try to research, weave concepts and laws, select development routes, and can also be used to manufacture Life and soul, as long as the empire can fill it with enough suitable materials.

In these forges scattered across many worlds, life elements are divided into various parts, and then disassembled, topologically expanded and reorganized in these white matter structures that are constantly vibrating like the sea. The empire has conducted many life experiments, but those experiments are often conducted around the star human being. Moreover, the existing experiments are actually based on the origin of the star human being to further expand the attributes. It is undeniable that the Empire has transformed star humans countless times, so that the differences between them are so great that the former may not necessarily consider the latter to be the life they know, but in fact, the inheritance relationship between them has never been interrupted.

If you want to create a real field life, I am afraid it is no longer possible to use modification. After preliminary data are collected, the research on new life will directly extend to reconstruction. Needless to say about the physical aspect, the empire's current lives will always have an encapsulated structure no matter how extended they are, but the field life...the information contacts that these lives may have will be hugely different from the current empire's encapsulated lives, and the current The information contact structure can be said to be quite universal. If they cannot play a good role in new life forms...

Tasks come and go, and intertwined streams of information flow through the existential network. The empire's standard main axis of time flows through these "daily lives" that exist at the level of the entire civilization.

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"Your Majesty, the preliminary and mid-term research on new life and the preliminary planning of the Fourteenth District have been completed. The world structure that may be needed for the Fourteenth District has been uploaded." In the imperial network that is constantly moving toward integration and connection , the imperial decision-making body composed of the Emperor's Council and the regional commanders once again passed plans related to major events worthy of their attention. This time, the General Flagship temporarily stopped the ultra-large-scale Genesis activity using probabilistic lightning clusters to ensure the transmission bandwidth of large-capacity real information. Many information broadcast relay agencies in the void also directed all their attention to this Meeting interval.

These large relay broadcast nodes are given an extremely special information multiplication mirror. When all the instructed fluctuations pass through the relay broadcast station, their intensity will be amplified hundreds of millions of times by this mirror. Generally speaking, with at most two relays, the unauthorized noise part of the original communication will be "cleaned" completely due to the very obvious difference in magnitude.

"Field life, the basic information structure of life has undergone major changes, and the soul in the broad sense and the soul in the narrow sense also need to make major changes... This is indeed a completely new life configuration, at least within the scope of our cognition, we We have never seen life without physical structure - for a long time, we have believed that the operation of life itself requires a certain foundation. Except for the Modori Zerg and the individuals of another "Empire" with huge differences in configuration, we have In the home world, the Observer Project that was still implemented not too long ago has never observed narrow-sense life that can exist at a density lower than the density of life primitives in the environment. After the emergence of the information state, we can already Broaden your understanding of life - perhaps, some of the regular normal activities that you have known in the past, or even the regular tremors of some abnormal stars, can also be regarded as life..."

"Currently, my cognition is also limited - I can see more event attributes, and I can also process more deep scene details, but I cannot effectively convert them into information items that can currently be processed. I am also unable to analyze beyond the current level. My "insight processing level" is the same as that of the current empire. I also do not have more and better tools to process the huge overall information environment. Therefore, the future development of the empire still needs to rely on You need every individual in the empire to work together."

"The relevant characteristics of field life have been recorded - this form of life directly cancels the encapsulation system related to real information, and there is a huge gap between the narrow soul and the broad soul and the existing real information life. This type of life operates through probability enrichment , to fill possible loopholes and deficiencies that may arise in the development process of real information, and the specific implementation details remain to be ascertained.”

"Yes, Your Majesty, we have conducted many relevant experiments in this part. Among many plans, most of the items in the joint plan for the fifth, ninth, twelfth and thirteenth districts were adopted, but this Some items are still not enough. For now, although there are loopholes and deficiencies in our development, these "missing" places themselves are not as direct as the gaps and folds in a continuous plane. They are It is reflected in the lack of functions of existing creations, the lack of our thinking and cognition, etc. This means that these fractures are actually within the "encapsulation" system. And if we want to carry out relevant analysis and compensation operations and achieve "smoothness" "Stable", then according to the existing technical system, we will definitely use white matter, but now, we do not have a good soul-related information model that can control white matter..."

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"Currently, according to the basic survival requirements and functional requirements of field life, they still need some physical information, and they need to resume proliferation. At the same time, we also need to communicate with each other."

"The fourteenth day area is likely to be a relatively pure "functional area", or an "internal area" - this area does not need to maintain the empire's external expansion and war operations. However, the fourteenth day In addition to the physical part, the field part should be able to cover the order territory of the entire empire. The job of the new life is to find and fill the gaps for the entire empire. However, it requires technology and insight to identify the loopholes, and the field life needs The information we have is probably more than what observers inside the sky area need to know."

"Their final form should probably be similar to the existence properties of the "void field" in the void. The void can support so many events, and even if there are rules to follow in the void itself... the orderly environment will definitely not be Trapped inside the world barrier. In the void, disturbance forces, probability extension, and perhaps even many accumulations in the birth and death of countless orderly worlds must have transformed the void environment of absolute zero and absolute chaos to a considerable extent... It may be similar to an oil film floating on water... In short, the void field finally formed by these factors should correspond to the final state of field life we ​​expect."

"This will definitely take a lot of time. At present, we have no way to create an independent reference system, and it is difficult for us to find a suitable unit to push the existing reference system to deviate from the total void environment... The intensity of the main axis of civilization is very high, and , the main axis of civilization actually also depends on the void environment itself - we are also immersed in various macro-influences, otherwise as long as we enter the void, any operation on the reference system and measurement axis should be very simple. And if we want to break It’s…it’s not something we should be thinking about right now.”

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"The Holy Mang level has entered a stable mass production stage. It requires the use of the Void Forge more than the Holy Inquisition, but less than the Star-Awakening Fortress. At present, if we want to create a strong law-level closed-loop reincarnation structure , you must use the Void Forge... The mass production difficulty of the Void Forge is actually higher than that of any flagship, and its base limits the production capacity of our fleet flagship..."

In the current Empire Heavy Fortress world, all "stars" can theoretically move freely. However, most of the "stars" do not move most of the time. The optical perspective can intuitively see through the entire highest weight world line. However, compared to the twinkling stars in the real universe where planets and nebulae of different colors, brightness, and sizes complement each other, the information star network in these heavy fortress worlds looks like an irregular, perpendicular to the line of sight. The thickness of the sky is covered by a large net. And between this large network, there are often some moving points of light - the imperial fleet.

"...Perhaps we should consider reorganizing the moving territory fleet unit. At present, it seems that our fleet combination method comes from the Σ fleet, but... we may have misunderstood some contents, and the essence of the Σ fleet we encountered It will not use mobile territory as the main fleet structure. This fleet structure is more suitable for special cruise forces that require long-term self-sustainment.”

"Now it seems that it is not very suitable for very large-scale capital ship clusters. If we want to weave a very large-scale fleet cluster with more complete functions, we should consider rewriting the fleet matrix. At least, it should have some type of structure that can Maintain efficiency even as core and boundary elements expand indefinitely.”

"In the multi-layered protection system, the strength of our field protection and existential deflection beacons are both low. The existential deflection beacon is finally generated after the coordinated operation of each ship's own calculation system, fleet block operation system and large flagship. The current existence deflection beacon generation process causes relatively large damage to the ship body itself, and there may be the possibility of the real existence decaying and cracking into a virtual form. At the same time, the existing flagship one-time calculation resources have a limited carrying capacity. If the fleet block expands Too fast and we will be unable to cope..."

"If we are to develop a new fleet model, it may take a hundred thousand years or more to mature and implement it... We have begun to return from the qualitative change period back to the quantitative change period... We must ensure that during this period, we have Enough fleets to deal with potential dangers in the void. Moreover, the new fleet structure means that there will be many new positions and needs..."

"Fortunately, even in the midst of drastic changes, we have enough time and space to make up for it, or even improve it..."

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In the gradually dispersing light mist, a huge ship slowly appeared. Its third-order projection exceeded any mass-produced ship in the empire. Judging from the third-rank projection alone, it can even be compared to the Σ decisive battle flagship wandering in the shadow of the void.

"The functional test of SCFLG-XM-4 Barrier Level Zero Test Ship is about to begin..."