Star Empire

Under the traction and navigation of the temporarily anchored space vibration hub, the huge starship did not waste too much time on the road. Soon, the matte black curtain around the ship quietly faded away, and in a shimmering silver light Around the black circular hole, countless slender silver lights radiate out from the edge of the hole in the shape of spokes. Even in the vast space of the universe, such a scene can be said to penetrate the sky and the earth.

"Star Star", the only connection channel between warp space and the main universe.

Codes representing consul-level orders have long been sent here. Compared with the last time Cavernrel left, this time this huge spaceship sailed into the quarantine area without much inspection.

Since there is interference from crystal energy radiation in this area, and the interference is stronger the closer to the vortex, except for a few nodes that can work in a low-bandwidth state, almost all the remaining main nodes are forcibly erected by frontline bases using physical methods. The relay station was penetrated. In this case, it was probably impossible to contact Kalost directly, so the spacecraft had to use the high-dimensional nature jump engine to crawl over like before.

Four billion light-years, even for the entire universe, can be regarded as a macroscopic scale. Under such distance and isolation, the flickering light points that can be directly observed in space are no longer single stars, but... galaxies stretching for tens of millions of light years.

The slightly lower brightness between each light spot is an almost empty dark abyss.

"Even for our current deep space navigation technology... Such a distance in space can be said to be worthy of our attention..." Cavinrel shook his head, "Some parts are really very inconvenient. As long as we are aware of the distance here, If the research restrictions can be relaxed... I must let Kalost build an omnidirectional transportation network with high enough bandwidth."

"...Uh...didn't you say that...in that closed area...there was a high degree of chaos and interference...our current facilities are basically not immune..." facing Cavinri In light of your lofty ideals, the chief controller of the information network who decided to leave his position that he has not moved for thousands of years can’t help but feel a little strange. You don’t plan to...

"If the interference received by one machine is too strong, we can reduce the gap and add hubs...and so on, and finally connect a set of physical-level physical links...Otherwise, each hub should be anchored with a shield generator and an anti-resistance generator. Interference Stabilization Array..."

"……you……"

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In the deepest part of the bridge, the control room of the battleship is hidden. Although generally speaking, part of the structure of the Corona-class bridge is still exposed and more conspicuous, but first of all, most of the outer structures are It is the structural area of ​​the nuclear armor and shield array, and this also includes a considerable part of the hull that protrudes and is completely healed with the bridge - the entire structure makes the spacecraft very resistant to damage.

Moreover, considering the various equipment of the spacecraft that utilize vacuum zero-point energy, even four-dimensional jump missiles cannot attack it very effectively. If the dimension is higher, it is just to express the nature of the dimension, that is, to forcibly increase the rank while maintaining it. The energy required for the structure state is already lost more than it is gained.

In terms of information security, if unknown external information wants to enter the main computer of the spacecraft, it must go through layers of screening and finally access the main computer through physical links. This process can basically filter out most of the patterns. Due to contamination or exponential diffusion of harmful data; finally, these systems have multiple sets of redundant backups, and there is another entire identical control hub. Even if one hub is really destroyed, another one can immediately take over the spacecraft. Therefore, unless the entire spacecraft is completely blown to pieces, the probability of the spacecraft being paralyzed before it is completely unable to fight is extremely slim.

In the main control room, Cavinriel and Zhai Cahill are conducting exchange research on the current situation. As for the federal warship, if you have sufficient authority, you can directly or directly use your thoughts anywhere. Let the spacecraft's computer system assist in controlling the spacecraft. Theoretically, these spacecraft do not need a manual control room at all. Even if only efficiency is considered... the fleet itself may no longer be completely necessary.

But at this moment, this structure that has lasted for tens of billions of years is still passed down in these advanced spacecraft. As for the reason... who knows, maybe it is due to habit... It is actually very difficult to change ancient habits. Even now, many definitions in the Federation still come from the original habits.

In the warship control room, which only has a few monotonous colors emanating from metal reflections and some buttons, there are two chairs that are incompatible with the general environment here. One chair is extremely simple and has several circles floating around it. ’s holographic information display, while the other is a recliner! Zhai Cahir made himself spread out on the chair as comfortably as possible, and seemed to be in no rush to deal with anything - he even seemed to have little enthusiasm for the upcoming breakthrough.

After several minutes, under the constant pressure of the resentment around him that had almost condensed into reality, he managed to raise his head and looked at the science officer opposite him who looked a little funny because of his body movements.

"I said, Cavinriel, what are you busy with?" The chief control technician tried his best to hold up his upper body and looked at the opposite side of him in confusion.

"...Can't you come and help? You've always stayed at home for thousands of years in an absolute sense, so why can't you take this opportunity to move around? Aren't you afraid that you will be completely offline?" Cavinriel rolled his eyes at the table. Zhai Cahir, who was sitting on the chair, seemed to have lifted the restrictions in an instant and let himself go. "Have you sorted out the information I asked you to investigate before?"

"Disturbing the law of material generation?" Speaking of this, Zhai Cahill finally got a little more motivated. He changed the style of the seat with a wave of his hand, then completed the activation of the information window and sent some of the information he had compiled to Cavernrel. .

"Currently, the data is limited. My memory stores almost all the information disturbance materials. However, the data of some materials are too old. I need to reorganize their data list to make it conform to the current format - you should I feel that although we are at the highest decision-making level of the federation, we are not busy. The things we actually have to remember are not too many in an absolute sense - after removing the structural black box layer by layer, we do not need to process too much intensively. matter."

"In addition, again, there is data, but it cannot be raised to an academic level. Even if this incident is confirmed, it is just a conjecture - we can go a long way on this road, but if there is not enough convincing evidence, Samples, then the theory will never be popular."

Around Cavinriel, a series of information flows that were much simpler than in other memories were unfolding.

"At present, it seems that the most representative information perturbation materials in the Federation are energy conductors, fixed-frequency vibration cores, etc. This kind of perturbation also provides a lot of help in the development of color core materials. Apart from the information computer itself, the most These are the representative parts. In the memories I am sorting out, there are materials with different properties that are representative. However, their properties are either extremely difficult to use, or they cannot be reproduced at all. Therefore, most of these materials have been tested. They were then contained to prevent their anomalous properties from disrupting the daily operations of the Federation.”

"And also, I have a rough guess about how these information materials are produced, which comes from private suggestions——"

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"Is it related to their source of disturbance, which is the purpose of the information computer?" Hearing this, Cavinrel's eyes became a little strange.

"That's right...do you think it's weird? Our originally illusory thoughts and will can also bypass our material physical existence. They no longer guide us on how to influence and change the world, but they can separate themselves from us... …produce effects on matter in the real world…”

"...But we need to be more specific." Zhai Cahir made some sluggish movements that belonged to human subconscious instincts.

"I guess that the formation of these materials is related to the main purpose of the information computers around it, and also to the role it plays. The material source of the energy-guiding grid is the energy transmission pipeline of the information computer; the perpetual clock The core source of the fixed frequency vibration is the secondary CPU used for calibration of the information computer, and the role of that computer at that time was to calibrate time for the entire federation; there are many other details, I have listed them, there are many that you should compare I am clear."

"That's true." Cavinriel casually closed the information windows surrounding him and walked slowly to the manual console. "This conjecture of yours is of great research value - even if there are indeed deficiencies, we will We have to face reality.”

"And this is exactly what we want to prove." After the resonance of language and consciousness ended, Zhai Cahir looked at Cavinriel's back, with a faint smile on his face.

The warship sails on a route that exhibits some high-dimensional properties. Its actual speed is not fast, just the high sublight speed of regular cruising. However, on its three-dimensional route, space has been curved in a higher dimension, like The battleship's body sails on the bridge across the deep valley, and the shadow it casts passes through the deep valley at a speed even more than ten orders of magnitude higher than the speed of light.

After they passed the hole, some changes quietly occurred in the space building array used for guarding. An extremely hidden, distorted guidance message from endless distances quietly bypassed all security measures with the highest authority, and was implanted in all the people in the blockade area. Nodes connected to the information collection network, neither humans nor devices, are aware of this.

The surface of the originally lifeless silver-gray building began to be wrapped by a faint milky white light film. The pale and dazzling hot death light once again appeared in those powerful space weapons. Almost at the same time, all defense systems were activated. , and some of them begin to unanchor and rearrange themselves into new structures:

A hemispherical shell.

All weapons are arranged along the surface of the spherical shell, and radiate in all directions with the channel cavity as the center. The order is in the direction of the isolation area. The order is in line with the process, but the source of the memetic information does not seem to belong to the Federal Operations Management Center. After a while, Some of the equipment seemed to be aware of the strangeness. Under the powerful recovery ability, these changes were suppressed. Soon, these facilities that were not authorized to be activated quickly returned to the state before authorization.

There is no record in the log file, and the total reflection mirror that is supposed to be produced by the vacuum zero-point energy burning space has not been noticed by anyone. Subsequently, they are almost deleted from the system and memory after the smallest identifiable unit of change. Clean - everything related to the previous changes seems to have been eliminated

"...I seem to need to report something?" Olive looked around and shrugged helplessly, "Forget it, it's probably the unknown golden vortex that caused it." As he spoke, he closed the door. Some of the remaining equipment was stopped, and the last remaining parts were the lowest-level weapons used to intercept micrometeoroids.

Physically, although the blockade still exists, it at least seems less formidable; but outside the countless parallel layers of the entire world, certain changes that are impossible for the Federation to detect are flowing here.

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The sixth connection area of ​​the frontline base space station is five thousand light years away from the crystal energy vortex structure in a straight line.

I have to say that it is a bit reluctant for the Star Corona class to stop here. The main structure of the frontline base was built by disassembling and recombining several Goddess-class ships. It was not large in size. In front of the huge battle leader, the roles of the home port and the incoming ships seemed to have been reversed.

"I...your place...is indeed not a place for ordinary people to stay..." As soon as the spacecraft stabilized, Zhai Cahir's complaint came out of nowhere: "...Just by coming here, I can... I feel like everything around me is putting great pressure on me.”

"...It's not that exaggerated. The pressure you face every day in the virtual world is no greater than this." Cavern Riel ignored this - after being at home for thousands of years, his legs can still walk well. It's very good. I'm afraid 80% of the rest are complaining.

According to the usual operation, after the connection is stable, the transmission aperture lights up and the migration is completed. But this time it seemed a little different. After Cavinriel and Zhai Cahir entered the space station, before they could say a word to the general, a chain-like structure composed of golden light surrounded the three people. Around him, at the same time, a holographic projection window popped up, but what was unusual was that the background color of this window was red.

In the red information window, a serious-looking young man wearing a white-gold officer uniform appeared in front of the three people. Behind the young man in the image, the double-sword golden ring symbol symbolizing the dominance of the federal army was reflected. shine brightly.

"Hello, Stratus Cavenriel, Pal Kalost, and Cape Zycahill, my name is Woodster Vidoville. First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to you for your bravery and questing spirit. With respect and gratitude for the results you have achieved, please allow me to explain your current situation.”

In the main control room, the three people quietly waited for what the consul would say next. The characters in the picture paused for a moment, and He Chengyin, whose voice was exactly the same as the consul's but without emotion, sounded again: "At present, you What happened was the activation of the Archon's temporary authority lock. I have ordered that the independent network segments in the quarantine area shall not have any direct or indirect contact with the main network under any circumstances other than authorized ones..."

"If you have achieved any new results that need to be reported, please escort them in person. During this period, no one other than the internal laboratory is allowed to understand the contents of the unified information. The calculation results of the Federal Territory Operations Management Center show that the information The hasty disclosure or promotion of the Great Unification under immature conditions is very likely to cause social unrest, whether it is the confirmed results or conjectures that have been achieved so far. After this news is sent out, keyword dependency memes will be added to the independent network segment to obliterate Mechanism, everyone must strictly comply with federal security regulations and this order when storing or reading. If there is any unauthorized contact, the person will be wiped out."

After saying these words, the red holographic window slowly dimmed.

"Might it cause social unrest across the Federation?" None of the three people present cared about the issue of permission locks first. Their focus was all on these terrible words.

"Cavenriel, here you have the deepest understanding and research on the unified theory of information. What do you think of this sentence?" Calost was the first to break the silence.

"The unified theory of information...the cause of social unrest..." Cavinrel frowned, holding his forehead in thought. Obviously, this passage had a big impact on him, "If we just talk about the world The essence of crystal energy is composed of information, which is not a very serious problem. Our current research goal is to control and try to use crystal energy. The source of crystal energy is the endless sea outside the universe, which is a kind of energy related to the entire universe. Information stable state of one level for all components...wait! I know!"

"If you really think about it - it's quite obvious." Zhai Cahir, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke. The moment the other two people looked over, Zhai Cahir's face had turned pale, and there were beads of sweat. The beads seep out at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye, and can produce such obvious external manifestations under the coordination of multiple enhanced plug-ins and control systems. It is not difficult to imagine that there are things that can make a highly rational creature fall into deep fear. How serious.

"Any drastic change, no matter what result it leads to, its process must be turbulent." Zhai Cahir took a few deep breaths, barely stabilized his emotions, and then stared at the two people in front of him, as if they would change at any time. Like running away.

"In the unified theory of information, the source of the first stable state is the ultimate void and vast realm outside the universe. If we can control crystal energy, then we may understand the process of the endless sea outside transforming into crystal energy. It is even possible to control it, and the endless sea is truly infinite. In this way, it means that we have unlimited resources. If such news really spreads completely into society, then everything related to supply and demand will Everything can collapse."

Zhai Cahill said with an unprecedented seriousness, “Our current production-survival relationship... is based on the thinking and understanding of limited material and the need for authorized distribution on demand, and our current entire system Medium... quite high-level production and living forces require a large amount of manpower... This has always been a federal habit, but now... the ideological basis for maintaining manpower production may change drastically..."

In the Federation of Stars, due to the high degree of biological modification technology, human beings' individual development has reached a very high level, and almost all defects in genes have been eliminated. Under such conditions, most people's The physical parameters are very similar. Except for the color of the eyes and hair and the less obvious differences in body shape and face shape, they can almost be seen as being made from the same mold. However, in addition to the built-in recognition system in daily life, people can still rely on their own feelings to identify their acquaintances from several individuals with very similar appearances because of their temperament.

The Zhai Cahir in front of them gave Cavinriel and Kalost the feeling that the person standing in front of them seemed to have been replaced out of thin air.

"...Indeed...if we take this aspect into consideration, it is not impossible...In fact, it seems now that if many items that were not recognized in the past are true, it may indeed shake the entire foundation of our thinking and understanding... And these long-standing ideas are one of the cornerstones of the long-term stable development of federal society... From this point of view, it is understandable for the consul to make such a decision." Kalost sighed.

"With the introduction of the first stable state information, we have unlimited resources. I originally only looked at this from an academic point of view, and did not consider the impact on other parts of the federation. But this is not what we should be concerned about. We are now You just need to abide by the rules of the permission lock." Cavinrel, a workaholic, was not much affected by such an impact, or in other words, he was unlikely to be affected by such an impact. After all, he is quite "pure-blooded" the scientist.

"General, what are the conditions of the individuals in the emergency medical section?"

"You haven't been away for too long, so overall the situation has not changed much, and it is proceeding in the direction you expected. In addition to the self-discipline system in the medical module, Torres and Eskett have also been Help. There are currently no new awakeners, and the cabin equipment has been completely stabilized."

"In the next test, I hope to get a sample of crystal energy." Cavinriel didn't look back and went straight to the four-dimensional transfer cabin.

"...restriction lock...restriction?"