Star Empire

"The information transmission method used by the field life... cannot correspond to any of the communication methods we currently use widely. However, it can be confirmed that there is no need to attack this life." After preliminary detection and judgment, Victorville No abnormalities were found among the network nodes.

The "ontology" of life in Field Zero has extended to the edge of the ordered world. The Information Star Network has not lost its original clear boundaries because it was covered by the field, and has not produced uncontrollable symbolic shadows. The existence attribute nodes of the empire network have not experienced uncontrollable collapse or merger and fusion due to the incorporation of life in Field Zero.

From this point of view, the first test between the empire and the field life should be said to be over. At least for now, it seems that although field life has very special existence attributes, after possessing consciousness, this degree of "specialness" is still within the controllable range. At least, the field that can theoretically "infiltrate" all real information bodies has not yet triggered any "destruction threshold" defined by the general flagship. Based on the current node situation in the world... it can be determined that the Empire's equipment and Empire's life will not be harmed by the unconscious appearance and existence of field life.

The information axis running through the world's celestial pole became slightly dimmer, and the density of the complex logic matrix wrapped around the light pillar also decreased. In the hidden consciousness network, all team leaders and emperors assessed the current situation as quickly as possible. and estimates, and a decision was made to further deepen the interaction.

"...The information transmission model has been calibrated, and the distortions and ambiguities have been repaired. Number Zero, according to the predetermined standards, conveys your current senses and thoughts."

"...The authority has been confirmed. Follow the empire's orders and start synchronizing the senses..."

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"The virtual information mapping and matching process began... It was confirmed that spontaneous adaptive mutations occurred in a total of twenty-seven intervals, and unprecedented new information models appeared in two intervals, and all possible effects began to be detected. Virtual existence individuals Already activated, the senses correspond to two-way understanding, and the connection begins..."

Everyone's senses can be said to be completely "refreshed" at the moment when this two-way understanding is activated.

In the synchronized senses corresponding to field life, everything in the world has completely changed: the vast and empty "space abyss" between the information stars no longer presents the darkness shown in the ordinary world's perception perspective and the "default" in the third-order perspective. blank". In the perception of field life, there is no "empty" part in the world. Space itself is also filled with various fields. The arcane probability collapse field, the strong reality stabilization field, and the cosmic benchmark stabilizing anchor broadcast field including the Star Network network are clearly visible. They complement each other but are "intertwined" with each other. Jingwei is clear."

However, the image of the Information Star Network, which originally occupied the world's most important "sense of substance" and "sense of existence", has undergone a huge change - in the eyes of presence life, these information aggregations with extremely high information density and "substantial degree" Like a black hole, it floats in the depths of a roughly uniform space. They are both field sources and "benders" of the world's internal order. From this point of view, perhaps the connection and difference between virtual information and real information require further in-depth research...

In the process of synchronized perception, some details that were not discovered at the beginning of synchronization were also discovered as the synchronization crowd's adaptability and calculation processing capabilities continued to improve: in the broadcast records of the cosmic benchmark anchor, the control world The information connection line and the strong reality stable field should be uniform and single, but in the special senses formed by field life after many adaptive changes, these "weakly visible" fields that should be in the background can be clearly seen of revealed.

Moreover, these fields are actually full of gaps and loopholes, large and small, and information stars that resemble black holes also have similar properties - most of the time they are inside the "field horizon" and are in a "blank" field state. "Among them, but on the surface of those dark holes, sometimes some light in the shape of a star corona erupts, and the strong reality stabilization field occasionally "extends" and breaks through the field horizon. Perhaps, in a high-intensity war for power, the Σ Order Correction Wide Area Fusion Field is based on these loopholes, so that it can easily open a vast battlefield gap.

At the same time, the interaction and survival relationship between the highest-weighted world line and other low-weighted world lines have also been further clarified - field information can indeed interact with reality at a very high intensity, but the existence attribute of "field state" itself is not practical. It is still closer to the virtual information state. Therefore, such life forms are uniquely endowed in terms of sensing virtual information.

Within a single-order world, different world lines themselves are "superimposed" on each other. The total amount of information is shared between world lines, and "information elements" of different sizes are constantly changing themselves due to mutual collisions. They have weights, so they can jump between world lines and form real-world environments with different weights and shapes.

At present, the world line storage bank that is widely used in the imperial world uses a similar principle. After further adjusting the crystal energy that constitutes the storage medium to jump into the ocean, the highly unstable crystal energy structure that has been specially shaped and assigned can have The extremely special "equal representation" also means that they can complete all information record reconstruction tasks on demand between multi-layered world lines. It is precisely because of this that the storage capacity of the world line storage library can even be said to be fuzzy. Upper limit - maybe new problems will arise in the future, but at least for now, its performance has withstood the test of reality.

It's just that... there is no concept of "absolute" in the void. It is almost impossible to establish "absolute" in the void. The same is true for judging whether something is beneficial or not. Many times, a type of information may have more than just beneficial and harmful effects. The things themselves often have multiple judgment attributes, and the same is true for changes in world line activity. The main reason for world line changes is because of the heart of the world itself. possess the properties. On the one hand, the Heart of the World connects everything in the entire world, and on the other hand, it is constantly regulating and influencing the entire world. Reality and the Heart of the World can be said to be mirror images of each other and influence each other.

Therefore, the Heart of the World will always interfere with the highest weight world line. As long as the Heart of the World exists, the highest-weighted world line will not be absolutely stable, and the information elements contained in the highest-weighted world line will always produce "probability weight transitions." In other words, no matter how perfectly the Cosmic Benchmark Stable Anchor and the Information Star Network shape their own fields and how high the intensity is turned on, the weight of the highest-weighted world line will never reach 100%. It is even possible that external devices After the broadcast intensity exceeds a certain level and density, these broadcasts themselves will also interfere with each other due to "realization" and greatly affect the performance.

This also means that there will always be internal interference in the world itself, and there will always be loopholes in the highest-weighted world line itself, and the source of the loopholes is the vacancy created after the "probability weight jump". Perhaps in normal times, even by Imperial standards, these weak loopholes may be difficult to detect, but the enemies the Empire faces...

In the face of the Σ Order correction wide-area fusion scene, I am afraid that no matter how small the loophole is, it will be directly bombarded into a shocking gap.

However... at this stage, the empire may not be able to independently maintain such a solid and huge order field environment without the Heart of the World in the future. The technical requirements for creating a very large-scale order field in the void that spans non-linear void coordinates, and the intensity needs to be no less than that of the world itself that has been reinforced by the information star network, are too high. If the needs of war are also taken into account, these The order field must have extremely high self-consistent self-healing capabilities. At least it cannot directly cause violent spontaneous collapse of dominoes just because the weak self-consistent boundary is broken down... If these requirements are to be guaranteed, then their boundary strength must be at least It cannot be lower than the joint shield supported by the crystal energy fleet block.

To maintain such a strong order field, the resources that need to be consumed every moment are probably terrifying. Even the huge Holy Sound Praise Void Fortress may not have enough information bandwidth to further promote the spread of the solid order field around it. What is the range? Therefore, the empire still needs to endure related possible problems for a long time and needs to constantly revise and refine them.

The empire is not unaware of these issues. It can even be said that the empire's understanding of these issues is even much deeper than that of a newly created living individual who is still absorbing and digesting the empire's knowledge. In that era when the Arcane Throne and the Void Matrix had just been put in place, a few Σ flagships were enough to plunge the entire Star Empire into bitter fighting and high tension. Internal and external troubles caused almost all Star individuals to be in some kind of subconscious neurotic state—— At that time, the Occam's razor thinking launched in Vidoville was to cut off these thoughts as much as possible to prevent them from spreading too much... At least now, instead of worrying about yourself, worrying about the Void Sun, and worrying about what is in the Σ creation you have obtained Is there any problem? Now the empire is more willing to focus on the practical part - in other words, the empire no longer cares whether there are problems with direct creation and indirect creation. I am afraid that the empire cannot solve these problems now... Vito Weir even wondered whether it was possible that all the methods the empire might have adopted to detect and influence it, and even the empire's "skeptical attitude" itself might be the result of the influence of those creations... Who knows?

But now, when what was originally just a bunch of data, a bunch of indicators, and the many possibilities and hidden dangers contained in the indicators themselves appear in front of everyone in a real way, everyone will still be surprised by this, and at the same time because of their own So surprised and surprised - even if you have been prepared, and even have a relatively full understanding, but these existences emerging from the shadows can be directly seen and intuitively understood... it will still cause a considerable degree of The impact of...

Perhaps, it is sensitive to actual existence, but not sensitive enough to information logic indicators... It can be regarded as one of the intuitive manifestations that the empire currently has powerful forces, but lacks suitable ideological and logical tools to control these forces, and even a complete set of corresponding level systems. ?

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No matter what, the empire must focus on the present. Survival is the empire's top priority now. Now that it has reached this point, there is no need for the empire to adhere to any strict "bottom line": at this point, the empire may no longer be considered a "person", and even now, such a situation has occurred within the empire. state of existence...

When everything around it becomes hostile, the empire must do whatever it takes to survive. This is not the radical and paranoid choice of any one person or group of people, but a profound lesson left by the ruthless stick of reality - only those who are alive are qualified to talk about the bottom line. If the entire civilization is in purgatory at any time, it will be at any time. It is possible for them to fall into a situation where there is no recovery, and there is no possibility of leaving any hope, so it is meaningless to talk about the bottom line.

The bottom line should play a more important role...in memory, perhaps it should be self-discipline.

In the past hundreds of thousands of years, the empire has been trying its best to digest and use the data converted from the technical extreme deduction module for its own use. After experiencing several large-scale upgrades of the background life intensity and the establishment of model equations, , the empire began to mass-produce various types of weapons that were previously unimaginable. In order to ensure that these weapons can be used safely and not burn down their habitat due to an inconspicuous oversight, the empire will conduct quite detailed and comprehensive testing before creating a new equipment or weapon. Such field generators are of course also included.

The Empire has carefully examined the interaction mechanisms between all weaponized fields and real information bodies, and through a series of high-precision information induction equations, all possible representations and identifications have been bound to the eyes of the Imperial people.

However, because the existence attributes and forms of virtual and real information are indeed very different, existing individuals in the empire who mainly live in the real information environment can only rely on data and logical equations to truly understand the problems that exist in the projection of virtual information - this After all, it's not the same as "seeing" them directly.

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"I understand... There are indeed many problems in this. I have even noticed some of them, but I have not been able to effectively capture them... The field life does not have more knowledge than me, but it can detect those Problems...Perhaps, I still look at these problems too much with the attitude and way of real information life..." As the new logical model was recorded, a silent sigh came from Vidoville's soul:

Power is important, but more and more facts have proven that without corresponding knowledge and cognitive concepts, having huge power will only cause that power to be consumed in vain, and may even directly make oneself a source of danger. ——The "weight effect" brought by the huge amount of information in the two ships of Arcane Throne and Void Matrix, coupled with the absolute caution that I tried to maintain in the chaos... I did not directly scorch the broken empire in the end, maybe I won't be a source of danger for a while, but with my current knowledge base...I'm afraid there is still a considerable part of the power of the flagship that I can't use, just like the combat actions of the Modori Zerg in the past were more powerful than my own thinking. Just like the weirdos who are even faster.

"Your Majesty... calls... you like this, right?" Even though it has been modulated and filtered, the very strange hollow consciousness fluctuations enveloped Vidoville's virtual projection, "I am trying... to understand all this, but There is a lot of content...I..."

"You still can't understand it, or you have no real sense at all. I understand. And I'm probably sure that I should be like some kind of black body in your perception." Vidoville temporarily stopped the narrative layer bombing process, "It's different. Life forms will have different understandings of all things in the world and the origin of information, and the same is true for us - your arrival has injected precious new blood into the empire, but we still need more integration with each other."

"Time is precious, let's move on to the next test, immersion compensation interaction..."

"Authorization detection...confirmed, began to infiltrate the target's existence, perceived the core interaction to be strengthened, and the field shielding began to dissipate..."

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"Fusion telepathy, confusion effects and sandbox observation testing..."

"Non-underlying authorized destructive testing..."

"Part of the "garbled code" in the technical extreme deduction module has entered a parsable state..."

"Instability has been detected in the replicating Hollow Eye, and basic logic repair has begun..."

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The Heart of the World may be regarded as the soul and life of the world, but due to the huge difference in perception and existence attributes, even if there was a case of Vesrifan being parasitized by an existence suspected of being the Soul of the World, the Empire would not The idea that a normal world has life without a clear world-consciousness whose intensity can be discerned, however...

After the birth of life in Field Zero, that experimental world seemed to really have life, a life that could be understood by the people of the Empire.

The taboos that once existed, as well as countless unattainable peaks, are being gradually broken down by the empire. And every breakthrough is an important process of "checking for leaks and filling gaps". It can even be said that these processes of "checking for leaks and filling gaps" are more important than the major breakthroughs themselves - the points where major breakthroughs are made are often already understood, or There have been at least vague speculations about it. In other words, even if it fails, the empire can roughly find out the reasons. After success, the empire's own knowledge and logic system can predict most of the relevant trends of the project.

But vulnerabilities, in which parts they will exist, how they will be exposed, and even the geometry of the properties of the vulnerabilities themselves... these are things that the empire cannot do by relying on imagination and deduction.

Regardless, the empire is finally making progress. At least now, the Empire has the ability to gradually pull itself away from the brink of death.

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In the void, the dots of creation light represent the harvest after the empire "sows".

The increasing maturity of countless industrial worlds, the integration and transformation of precious data from the ultimate technological deduction module, the cold and harsh real environment, and the country-destroying disaster that can make one's hair stand on end just because of its emptiness and numbness are stimulating every nerve of the empire. Promoting the expansion and advancement of the empire in an almost pathological way, the golden border in the void is constantly extending and expanding, and the phenomenon of large and small firefights continues. The sparseness of the low-probability events themselves begins to be diluted, and they begin to become ubiquitous in the face of the increasingly large total sample size.

Beyond the edges of the expanding empire, Vidoville discovered more and more anomalies in the surviving worlds of Σ.

The once-accidental "Σ dream" seems to be becoming more and more common.

In the rotten and twisted starry sky, the blurred and chaotic lines and the shadows of reincarnation and death will even create terrifying waves in the real world.

"Are they...really dreaming?"