Star Empire

...For most order creations, the void is dangerous.

Theoretically, void can be regarded as the primordial source that is absolutely "zero" in any sense, causing all cognition, thought, existence, etc. to completely lose their own meaning; it can also be regarded as the primordial source that contains all possibilities, The source of all probabilities and all events - in fact, these two, or all similar or dissimilar statements... are probably wrong.

What we can describe is probably just the layer floating on the surface of the void that we can see.

The weird nature of the void itself gives it the ability to "dismantle and kill" order creations in an absolute sense. In most cases, order is sealed inside the world by world barriers. They are just a subset of the world structure, a cluster of elements. Only all subsets and elements begin to decay according to the void, and order has already appeared when it begins to take shape. Only after the laws of the beginning are combined to form a stable world can order survive in the void.

However, if an incomplete subset is taken out and thrown into the void, then the fractures in the subset itself exposed due to the lack of associated mapping will immediately become the "intrusion source" of void mergers. And if the relevant scope is further clarified, all information structures, even extraordinary information structures, as long as there are parts of their information structures that cannot be closed and self-consistent, then they will be eroded by the void - just like a drop of water wrapped in a membrane. Water can be recovered even if it falls into the sea, but if there is only one drop of water, once it falls into the sea, it may never be found again.

However, this is not without a solution.

The membrane that can separate the sea from the water droplets is the most critical structure that allows the order body to survive stably in the void - the order field.

In a narrow sense, the order field only refers to various types of physical creations, that is, a set of real information structures that are separated from the world of order and supported when sailing in the void. They can exist self-consistently at a lower energy consumption level and can represent A special structural shield with the attributes required by one's own void coordinates and part of the survival environment. In the broad concept, any information structure that can support the existence of an information body that cannot exist directly in the void can be called an "order field" - for example, now, the general order field also includes information bound to radar waves. Together the source of information amplification and isolation protection code.

Under the protection of these structures, the entangled information waves released by the wide-area void scanning radar can exist stably in the void for a long enough time, and they can serve as eyes that see through the chasm of the void... and they can also serve as themselves and the many people tied to themselves. Together, they turn their lives and strength into quantifiable resources for the empire and the eyes of the research groups that serve themselves.

In the void, more and more worlds began to turmoil. Even without arriving directly at those worlds, Zhai Cahir could see that the interiors of those worlds were being torn apart due to the disorder of the timeline and the imbalance of memory.

"It seems... driven by a huge wave, they are struggling fiercely on the edge of nightmare and wakefulness..." Around the diffuse soul, a series of probability curves and order matrices floating in the high-frequency arcane field are forming. The light points that seem to be there and not are constantly folding and changing in the leap. They outline a series of virtual and real results, reflecting the possibility of one layer of change after another, but...

"All calculations show that this strong order pressure comes from the imperial fleet, but..."

No matter how precise the crystal energy mathematical rate host is, or how vague it is but contains all possible arcane succession matrices, the results they calculate cannot make me feel real peace of mind - it seems... alas, this kind of fate A thing can never be held by its owner.

"...The empire, it should be said that it has been lucky for a long time..."

After much consideration, the Third Day District submitted a report on the possibility to the Empire's flagship.

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"The huge wave... There is an unstable coefficient in the influence of the Imperial Fleet..." Standing on the vast dark land, the projection of Vidoville frowned again and again. The two hulls themselves emitted a white-gold and The purple glow has not changed in any way compared to before, but perhaps because of something on its mind, Victorville always feels that they are a bit strange.

"The military joint meeting of the second district, all the flagship commanders of the second district, and the emperor of the second district, Kalost, please report the relevant situation." In the void, the two general flagships stopped spreading the world singularities along the way according to the probability of lightning. The creation of the world sows the seeds and completely closes the field of order. Although the two former "Doomsday Arks" are huge, in the endless void, they are no more brilliant than a drop in the ocean.

After the customary order field was shut down, Vidoville controlled his body and completed an extremely rapid return like a ghost in the void. The self-consistent law armor has replaced the order field. This powerful shell itself can be considered to be forged by the hearts of countless worlds through a series of unimaginable technical means. It has transcended the shackles of the worldview differences between the void quadrants. The two giants The ship is already independent from any quadrant. Under the cover of the information fluctuations released by the final explosion of Genesis activities around them, the last traces of the general flagship were quietly erased. These two black wings have now temporarily become a true "black hole in the void".

"The joint meeting has been transferred to the encrypted line, and the commander's cluster has been transferred to the encrypted line. Your Majesty, the line connection has been completed. At present, we are conducting sustainable cruise inspection in the void using days in the main axis time as the unit." After Lost confirmed the summary data list for the last time, he packaged it and sent it to Vidoville, "Currently, the records we have obtained show that the battle density in the void and the probability of the "Σ Dream" appearing are greatly increased compared to before. .”

"The possibility report submitted by the third day area has been transferred, and you should draw conclusions from the information it shows. According to some speculations of Zhai Cahir and his power originators, it seems that the current situation in the void A force is brewing, a wave of power that can catalyze these Σ worlds and their ruined creations. Have you discovered anything in the relevant areas that you are responsible for? Or, in those areas, has there been anything that can be Events defined as “abnormal”?”

"No, Your Majesty, there is no abnormality in our own perception. All equipment in the cruise fleet is operating well. All probability fluctuation values ​​and equipment performance distortion are within the currently determined stable standard range." All participants in this meeting In the stream of consciousness of the imperial people, several new "existential information maps" used to enhance intuitive expression were quickly spread out: outside the golden starry territory, blood-red light spots were densely spread all over the place. Although the border looks scary at first glance, such a picture has appeared too many times in the past hundreds of thousands of years.

Everyone knows that only by actually facing a real war can you feel the shock it brings and its own cruelty. This is something that a drawing cannot express, no matter how detailed it is.

"If you want to ask us whether the war situation has changed, I can tell you clearly that the number of small and medium-sized battles we currently face has tripled compared to the previous 300,000 years, and the number of large-scale battles has increased fivefold. Already. It is confirmed that there are several areas with high world density in the direction we are heading. At the same time, during this period of battle, it can be confirmed that the creation background reaction of part of Σ's fleet has increased. After excluding the iterative influence of false information projection After that, its realistic confidence weight exceeded 0.97. However, we did not detect any other order effects in the void, nor did we detect any abnormal fluctuations or direct information interactions."

"The fleet in the second area has a considerable number of patrol teams in all void areas and void directions that you are not directly looking at. Their wide-area radar arrays are in operation at all times. You also know that the current patrol mechanism is here Over hundreds of thousands of years, it has been gradually determined in accordance with practical needs: the void cruise on the empire's borders and outside the empire's territory is dominated by the fleet in the second zone, but all other zones have fleets and technical personnel involved. In many zones, many With the support of this kind of technical means, our fleet actually has the ability to nearly "full-band scanning"..."

"Well... it is indeed true. After logical testing based on these data, it can be further confirmed that the source of the surge of influence should be the current imperial fleet. My observation records can also confirm the accuracy of these events... But , since there is still the possibility of uncertainty in the event, we cannot relax our vigilance. Countless probability curves in the void influence each other, the fluctuations of probability merge into chaos, and the destiny intertwined by countless chaos, we have not yet Maybe try to get it." After finishing speaking, Vidoville realized that he could still speak such speculative words for such a long time after being silent for a long time——

"Is it possible that the decisions I have made are too much? Directly eradicate the emotional personality and non-command behavior of most of the middle and lower-level members of the empire... Once the bottom line is broken once, then I am afraid that in the future, the concept of the bottom line itself..."

The thought flashed away in his mind, and Vidoville tried his best to suppress the underlying thinking thread in the chaos, "Understood, you will continue to strengthen patrol inspections. At the same time, you will temporarily stop patrolling in the outer borders of the empire. Expansive patrol activities, part of the fleet returned to defend the key node world and the Holy Sound Praise Fortress - we have pushed the line of fire to the vicinity of several information-intensive points, and in the near future, we are likely to face high-intensity battles."

"Understood, start coordinating instructions immediately."

"...I always feel that there may still be a problem, but where this remaining weak possibility comes from, it seems that no one knows at present. Excessive speculation and unfounded doubts will only cause a large amount of resources to be wasted invisibly. Consumption, according to Occam's razor circuit, they are all within the sequence that should be pruned, but..."

The disturbance released by the detonated special world singularity smoothed the impact of this small absence. The clustered Genesis-Doomsday fluctuations caused by hundreds of Imperial expendable test worlds are enough to create noise within a certain range that briefly interferes with communications. In the vast and cold endless nothingness, a slight sigh quietly passed through.

"Notify all individuals in the empire that the general flagship will start the "Guo Shi Wushuang" soul enhancement broadcast five minutes after the empire's main axis time, execute the main axis standard docking, and start the countdown..."

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"The fifth to seventeenth fleet blocks suffered large-scale actual damage, the joint shields and defense lines were compressed, the development direction of space order and the basic concepts of protection were redefined, the virtual information projection overlay density was increased, and the fleet block array retreated for repairs!"

"Reverse information pollution has been detected in the correlation mapping between the joint shield and the relevant warships. We are on high alert. High-density information clusters contaminated by high-concentration death tides are very likely to be "shocked" in this way while the joint shield is intact. Combined shield-powered ships and shield broadcast nodes!”

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"The fleet's operation to leave the world of order failed - an unknown type of interference appeared, and the space rank and order correction wide-area fusion field evolved abnormally... It is highly suspected that an unknown type of warship or special function creation appeared in the Σ fleet. According to the existing imperial standards It is assessed that the interference intensity is close to the core position type..."

"The density of the enemy's invading fleet is too high, the integrity of the confinement constraints of the web of existence has declined, and a tactical doomsday guidance process has been implemented... The key retention channel has been opened, all individual souls in the regular fleet block have been uploaded, the flagship has been evacuated, and all affiliated fleets have entered Self-destructive overload mode, Eye of the Void – guidance beacon lights up, and the Spear of Void projection begins!”

"There are many serious problems in the attempt to compete for world power in the absence of the Information Star Network. We have almost no experience in related fields. This should be the focus of the next step of research..."

"Large-scale physical creations whose information totality and concentration exceed Dark Star Fortress have been discovered in some worlds. Considering the current expansion trend and direction of the empire, it is suspected that the fleet has broken through the outermost world circle of Σ, recording the density of facilities and related response speeds Changes in the situation, start the battle damage-environmental estimation data correlation matching..."

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Hundreds of thousands of years of rapid development, the recognition of field life, the successful analysis of the "garbled code" of the ultimate technological deduction module from different information perspectives, the maturation of the new fleet structure, and the great progress of the empire's basic industrial strength, there is almost no Endless expansion...all these factors are driving the empire to become stronger.

It is no longer possible for the empire to restrain its influence - the empire now must be towering and shining brightly in the existential plane of the void. Just like the giant attraction source, even if it is wrapped in the dark and empty space, its huge gravity will not affect the bending of space-time within a considerable range.

The large-scale installation of void forges, giant industrial machines, and high-performance computing and processing cores allows the empire to expand its military power with almost no restrictions. After a variety of new warships gradually made up for the various loopholes and shortcomings discovered in previous battles, the empire began to switch from defense to offense in some areas.

The price naturally exists. And in the beginning, the empire paid a heavy price.

Not like before. In the past, when the Imperial fleet was still immature, the Empire could basically only conduct local operations. To put it bluntly, it was to use the resources of the home world that were large enough to forcefully drag it to death, or to defeat Σcorruption that was several times or more than ten times stronger than itself. The branch fleet - the imperial fleet can only rely on the cosmic benchmark stabilizing anchor and the information star network to hold on. At that time, the Σ fleet could travel almost completely freely between most imperial order worlds, as long as they "willed".

Later, when the prelude to expansion was played and the empire's counterattack began, the empire did attack some Σ worlds at that time and destroyed a considerable number of large physical facilities in those worlds, including Those that resemble a "trident" may be functional facilities specifically responsible for long-distance high-power communications, and may also include "world law constraint centers" such as the Dark Star Fortress that may function similarly to the cosmic benchmark stabilizing anchor. During that period, the achievements of the empire can be said to be brilliant both from a practical level and from a symbolic and spiritual level. During that period, the Empire not only acquired a considerable number of worlds and laid the most basic material foundation for many future plans; at the same time, the Empire destroyed foreign enemies, defended its territory and even expanded its territories. These events can It gave the Empire its first real "comfort" - at that time, the minds and wills of the Empire's people had not yet reached a level that matched their technology, and the Empire still needed to pay attention to things other than success and failure. . And those results comforted everyone's hearts full of anger and helplessness when the empire needed it most.

...It’s just that no matter how brilliant the achievement is, no matter how proud the achievement is, it has its timeliness and “scope of influence”.

At those times, the Empire actually had vague and sporadic reports pointing out that the theoretical level of infrastructure construction in the world occupied by Σ was extremely low - at least, compared to the Celestial Air Traffic Control Tower - the Cosmic Benchmark Stability Anchor - in the world of the old Empire. The Gate Facility Group is much inferior to the Cosmic Reference Stability Anchor-Information Star Network Array-Space Fire Defense Base Station-World Gate Facility Group during the New Empire period. At that time, the empire would naturally attribute it to the power of Σ. If a huge Dark Star Fortress could function sufficiently to replace all the facilities the empire had deployed in the world, then these worlds would naturally not need other facilities. Functional facilities or redundant facilities.

But looking at it now, I'm afraid there are more problems...

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During the silent cruise, Vidoville retrieved the data records and memories of nearly a million years while matching what he had accumulated with the empire's corresponding cognitive concepts and basic technological levels at that period. . The high weight of the general flagship ensures that its needs and orders can be spread throughout the imperial network as soon as possible. During the analysis process, many mature and experienced analysis teams, as well as ancient military commanders and even several days of The emperor of the district also participated in related research and analysis. However, the deeper the analysis, the more bizarre the problem seemed...

"...To sum up, Your Majesty, we can confirm...the Σ worlds we attacked at the beginning should be said to be the far edge of the far frontier at the most remote layer of the world circle where civilization belongs. The Dark Star Fortress is indeed very powerful. , but if it is just a battle fortress like that... it can indeed control the entire world, but if we look at it according to our current standards... a dark star fortress can even be as stable as our two latest models of cosmic benchmarks. anchor, and have an information star network that is ten times the density of our current regular donation for auxiliary broadcast and enhancement, I am afraid that is not enough, or... "should not be arranged like this."" Cavernrel used himself and his team The words condensed from hundreds of thousands of years of wisdom and hard work, heavily touched every thought thread of all participants.

"If we are still trapped in the universe and need to be restricted by the internal mass and space-time of the universe, then we must consider sustainable development and even utilization of resources. No matter how abundant the total amount of resources in the universe is, it will be limited. If there are no restrictions, If used casually, civilization may be hindered by the deteriorating environment or even directly trapped to death before it has the technology to jump out of the universe..."

"However, in a void environment and under the premise of unlimited resources, the relevant statement will no longer be true."

Judging from our current technical system, we can analyze and control all the information structures in the world, or even if we do not do this, we have the ability to analyze and study all the information structures in the world... This is what lights up the world. The premise of door technology and void engine technology. Therefore, a civilization that can span the world must have the ability to influence, adjust and even manipulate all structures of the entire world. And if the level is raised to the level of Σ... assuming that only theory and ideal conditions are considered, the technology and resources of that civilization can transform the world without limit. "

"Yes, Your Majesty, let me add the most appropriate example we can find so far." Kalost took over the topic, "The "heavy fortress world" we created during the expansion process is actually very narrow. And under this premise, the starry sky is still sparse to the extreme. If we don't do this, we will not be able to transform that world into what we need before a big tear occurs. Now, our territory may already contain more than ten There are billions of such artificial worlds, but the number of all the artificial stars in our world combined is probably far less than the number of stars in our former homes of the Alidri-Sloan Space Wall and the Wuxian-Boreal Space Wall. , not to mention compared with the number of stars in our parent universe."

"We don't have such high productivity, so we can't quickly transform and assimilate a huge universe with billions of galaxies on the premise of efficiency first. But there is actually a very clear condition here: we can't do it because of technology and foundation Capacity limits our actions, but if we don't care about the cost, we can completely transform a complex universe like Homeworld and build it into the strongest fortress."

"After a long period of building theoretical models, we finally confirmed that what restricts our actual actions is "our own practical ability to act" rather than "whether we need to do this or whether we can do it." Perhaps we should define A new term: unlimited demand imaginary.”

Ideas and data were passed to the memory of the general flagship, and this time, almost all the research elites in the entire empire responded to Vidoville.

"If ideal conditions exist, assuming that a civilization has infinite total resources, infinite space-time territory, and infinite information shaping speed, then if they still retain the concept of individuals after developing for an infinite time, then their Every individual included in the civilization may be a top-level being like the Battle Flagship or the Void Fierce Sun. Top-level beings can solve far more problems and resist disturbances than low-level beings. So as long as there are enough top-level beings, All problems can be solved once and for all.”

"In an ideal state, top-level beings can produce unlimited production, so naturally there is no need for lower-level beings. Lower-level beings often represent compromises and concessions. In an ideal infinite environment, the hypothetical civilization does not need to make concessions or compromises, but in reality it does not work. . The height in this theory is probably not reached even by Σ. No, it should be said that it has not been reached, and it is impossible to reach it."

"However, considering the realistic confidence weight of this hypothesis, Σ, they are fully capable of transforming all the stars in the world while ensuring high efficiency, and are even fully capable of using extraordinary creations to completely reshape each of their worlds Theoretically, the general height they can reach is much higher than ours, but what we have seen during the expansion process of hundreds of thousands of years has always been a world with a very low degree of transformation, and there are even a few and no A completely transformed native world. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Death Tide Natural Disaster may have destroyed many worlds in Σ, but looking at it now, even if those worlds were not destroyed, we may only be more convinced of our findings... "

"Wait... If you think about it this way, then..." Vidoville's heart stirred up a wave, "If you consider the "territorial boundary" and "border thickness" of a huge civilization... it is very likely that there will only be a dark The Star Fortress looks like the number of "edge worlds" nominally hanging there is probably far greater than the stars in the universe. But such a large number... according to our current level, one hundred of them have no trace of transformation. The world of Σ is not as good as a mature industrialized world with a void forge and a huge amount of information processing mother machines. Σ can completely transform its core world to improve production capacity. Moreover, at least in our records, in so many worlds, inside the world But there are basically no infrastructure facilities, and they should not be able to provide much productivity. In other aspects... maybe the endless world has other uses, but..."

"To bring such a huge number of worlds under control in such a simple and perfunctory way, it's as if... they did it all in a hurry. ΣHurry expansion, rush to create a huge amount of world control equipment, in a hurry To bring countless worlds under his control in time... demand... drive?" Victorville's heart tightened.

"All this...why?"