Star Empire

Woo--buzz~~

A shrill scream that was weirder than the howl of a wraith, more ear-piercing than the shattering of a magnet, and more distorted than a gravitational lens "came" from the void. They run rampant within the ordered territory of the empire, interspersing between the webs woven by all wide-area radar waves, and spreading continuously between the fields of real information and nothingness.

Amid the stern network-wide alarm, the Empire discovered that it had been hit for the first time by an ultra-high-intensity attack from outside the Order Field, directly across the void.

For most creatures of order, the void environment is cold and extremely dangerous, but as long as the appropriate methods are mastered, the void is not insurmountable.

Order field.

All information structures that can be considered as "order fields" can protect information bodies across the void chasm - including the world itself, physical battleships and lives, including the radar waves released by wide-area void scanning radars that can cover various frequencies. , including information disturbance forces that can transcend the order barrier...

Naturally, this also includes firepower - such as Doomsday-Creation.

The sudden blow created huge ripples in the empire's network, and the rebound of the narrative layer caused the weight of many memories and knowledge to be misaligned. In this strange tranquility, the collision of reality and the past pulled many people away. Falling into self-silent reflection.

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That's right.

Both real information and virtual information can cross the void, so naturally the chaotic information in between can also cross the void.

Perhaps, it will be very difficult to match it with a suitable enough order field - the nature of Doom-Creation itself makes it have almost unlimited lethality and chaotic attributes.

Even the most solid space and order are far easier for Doom-Genesis to destroy than to cut through butter with a hot knife. Such various properties make it extremely difficult to match such a dangerous information source to an order field with a suitable structure. In order to accurately lock an order field in the void, it is very difficult from the perspective of imperial technology, even if it is a tiny frequency. If there is a difference, it is possible for the order field to deflect to a considerable level on the nonlinear structure...? !

Difficulties exist, but that's only in relative terms...!

Since all kinds of creations that are real information and fields and scanning waves that are close to virtual information can cross the void, then there is no reason why Doomsday-Creation cannot cross the void.

The extremely large and chaotic information jets they contain most likely contain all the information mapping modes that may be used in a wide-area ordered world.

As long as they are properly modulated and assigned, they can spontaneously form an order field in the void, and may even be able to directly form some kind of power source that drives this ultra-large-scale information tide by virtue of their own inherent structure.

In fact, you may not need a sophisticated control method. You only need to add some control scripts in advance during modulation to ensure that there is a sufficient proportion of the mapping structure to automatically generate an order barrier when necessary.

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"Why has the empire always taken the initiative to respond to the war for so long - wait, beacons! Those fleeting beacons!"

"The level of engagement is already... too late to modify any parameters! The range is only so wide!"

"We are surrounded!!"

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It is impossible for the lower energy inside the universe to support such a control method - energy must be attached to the mass structure. Even if there is pure energy like plasma that can be shaped at will, it is extremely difficult for them to leave the constrained environment. The shaped structure that maintains itself for a long time - the spontaneous chaos-increasing properties of energy and its "impossible to have a central soul" nature make the energy body mass itself impossible to control - at least in that technical and cognitive range, This cannot be done.

But Doomsday-Creation... they are not jets containing ultra-high-density energy, they are information waves, ultra-large-scale real-level information waves that are modulated by the decisive battle flagship and then directed and guided to explode! !

Although they look extremely chaotic and their destructive power is indiscriminately strong, in fact - their degree of controllability and control accuracy far exceed any energy cannon/photon cannon/low-level arcane directional array emission driven by ordinary energy. As long as the outgoing artillery fire has a precise coordinate that can be captured and locked by the system, then... the information torrent can be pushed to anywhere.

At present, in the process of millions of years of research and retrospective examination, these first forces are often named "such-and-such energy" or "such-and-such power" - corresponding to the resources within the world. But within the world, even if the utilization efficiency of various types of energy is close to 100% without limit, the "controllable" nature is ultimately lacking, because no matter how efficient the energy is used, the energy must be attached to part of the mass. The existence of mass results in an objective limit to their controllability, as does the energy that needs to be attached to the mass structure.

All factors that can promote information fluctuations, all existences that can cause the occurrence, enhancement, and decay of information fluctuations, as well as information fluctuations themselves, can be regarded as higher-level energy. In other words, they themselves represent the concept of "change happening".

Driving energy in the world to change the objective environment, such practices and concepts are only a lower subset of the ultimate truth they represent - a higher level does not always have to be deeper and broader. When the vision rises to a certain height, certain operating structures that were originally considered one-sided and metaphysical will become established and controllable - when plastic energy operations are performed at the technical level in the universe, no matter how sophisticated the manipulation technology is, the energy created will be The structure must also interact with all the physical conditions and physical environment that support its establishment...

"Yes, yes, that's right, you can't get around here..."

In confusion, facing the dark clouds that were about to crush the city wall, even with his struggling mind, it was difficult to pull one foot away from the deep quagmire of memories.

"——Wait, information can! The changes in everything are the fluctuations of information in different modes... As long as you want, they can be separated and controlled at will without affecting each other!!"

"This is-!! Metaphysical!!!"

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Extremely broad general application, all-encompassing ability, and a level of abstraction sufficient to deal with everything. These factors that are recognized and valued by order creatures enable order creatures to continuously transform their ideas and practices, and ultimately make "information manipulation" possible. The height reached an extremely terrifying level.

In other words, in theory, all control modes that rely on changes in information to achieve changes in reality... they are equivalent to directly inputting a soul into the information flow and inputting a set of virtual controls that can be maintained for a long enough time in a constantly changing environment. System and console! !

When the assignment is precise enough, the billions of turbulent waves composed of the torrent of information are just like the gentle breeze blowing to the boulders to the grains of sand that have nothing to do with their goals.

"——?! Delayed...memory?? In all of this...in such a short period of time...what happened to the empire? It has happened-suffered!!"

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The rotten and festering black-red blood began to pull the entire empire toward the abyss of collapse.

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What is civilization?

First of all, it is certain that this is an eternal question. For different groups in different environments and at different stages of evolution, the meaning behind this "word" is ever-changing. However... in all recorded reports, the word "civilization" itself has long been limited in its scope of validity - i.e.... within the limits that can be measured and delineated by the vaguest sense of logic and reason.

...Perhaps the word "rebound" can appropriately describe the change that occurs deep inside everything.

When changes of great intensity and severity occur in the structures that support everything that can be described, they themselves will change due to the large amount of intervention and loss of these external information - the actual degree of distortion exceeds the limit of the steady state Changes, just like real elastomers.

For a powerful individual like the Final Battle Flagship, the phenomena caused by their secrets and emergence... are enough to create endless ripples in countless stories and countless mapping connections.

It is precisely because of these special and thought-worthy properties that many memories that were once confirmed to be completely lost, from the lowest level of memories that have sunk into the distant past, the longest and most obscure history of the star civilization, will surface at that moment and be Many of the ancient ancestors of that time remember.

They have preserved this information - from the current point of view, their significance is naturally extraordinary, but in an era when even the value measurement standards themselves would be wantonly distorted or even shattered, these ancient words may have no practical significance... Who Can it be guaranteed that just because of this little occupation, some possible actions can no longer be executed because of this little gap?

At that time, no one could tell clearly. Even if you ask the ancient kings who have experienced all this and are still active on the front line of the empire, they will say that these issues could not be solved under the circumstances at that time. Answered.

Thankfully, many of the lost cultures and memories of our oldest ancestors were resurrected at that time. Because they are too old, some of the original samples cannot be tested, but it is certain that those resurrected ancient cultures played a considerable role, and even...many of the items laid the foundation for our current "cognition" The basic attitude held during this process.

For eons, the Empire has experienced countless wars and spanned unimaginable abyss of time and space. We walked a long way and rounded huge bends. Many times, our confusion and panic can blind us.

Returning to the starting point does not mean that there is no progress or gain. We have walked this road, experienced the sunshine and darkness on this road, and experienced positivity and pain. Even if we finally return to the starting point, we are already different from before.

Before realizing this, we once yearned for order and the future, we also fell, and our hands were stained with the blood of countless wisdom, the blood of our "past".

[Meaning is given by people]

All citizens of the empire should keep this in mind. ——"The Main Axis History of the Star Empire—Chronicle of the Ascension—Part VII"

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Within the Void Fierce Sun Order Field.

Not long ago, a super-large-scale strike struck directly from the void across the dark chasm and paralyzed Lieyang's entire defense front in an instant.

The battleship group was destroyed, the shield was penetrated, the beacon array turned into ashes flying in the sea of ​​​​blood and flames, and the remaining wreckage turned into a dangerous meteor group, facing the vast expanse of the blazing sun that had completely lost its vitality in an instant. The surface fell silently, and more wreckage disappeared completely the moment it was bombed.

They are not just broken into elementary particles, nor are they just disintegrated and reduced into sources of information and tiny points of order fluctuation.

Under the burning of the black-red sea of ​​blood, they and themselves, together with them and them, from the moment they were created, all the impacts they have had on the outside world and other people, as well as the impact of all creation and real environment on them and them. All memories were completely evaporated.

The terrifying chain reaction finally stopped, just like a fire that had lost its way to continue to spread. Everything in existence was already too fragile, and these channels had been destroyed before the destruction spread.

The hideous and twisted wounds were detected, and the preparations that had been going on for millions of years were put to use. The wounds begin to be slowly filled and repaired, but all of this can be "forgotten" to some extent.

When memories are distorted and arbitrarily deleted by forces from the outside world, I'm afraid... no one can still figure out what they have forgotten - whether it is reminders, traces left behind, or the meanings they contain, Can you still remember it? Do they hold all the memories you want to keep?

No one dares to tell all this clearly - perhaps, until an individual who absolutely transcends everything, an individual who can see everything from a third-party transcendent perspective intervenes, the ultimate answers to these contents... are limited to cognitive and philosophical systems. within the scope.

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"Please answer! Your Majesty Vesrivan, Fleet Commanders Joint Conference! Please answer!"

"Zizi - loss... blazing sun... no rational response can be seen!"

"——Damn it!!" Kaloust punched the crystal panel in front of him. More and more reports from the Sky Zone team have been compiled, showing that the battle damage caused by this powerful wave of bombings may even exceed the total losses in the past thousands or even tens of thousands of years. Judging from His Majesty Vidoville's necessary calibration instructions, the real losses must be far greater than the statistical losses in the first stage of statistics...

No matter how hard it is to suppress a certain feeling that has been accumulated in my heart, for the final catharsis, it is difficult to find even a word that can relieve the mania in my heart.

"It's not just the Void Sun... where are the other parts of the empire? Where is His Majesty Vidoville?!" After this moment of threshold catharsis, Calost, who barely managed to maintain his rationality, immediately transferred the highest link directly to all On the nodes belonging to fleet block-level commanders and other units at the same level, "immediately carry out the highest level of comprehensive warning throughout the entire territory! Report the situation again! Use physical information transmission with traces of real information!"

"...Your Majesty?! At present, the headquarters fleet has not found any abnormalities-"

"The Void Wide Area Scanning Radar has not confirmed any hostile response——"

"The Information Star Network matrix has experienced unstable fluctuations across multiple worlds. It is suspected-"

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"Invasion!! Super large-scale Σcorruption fleet invasion, level...indescribable!!"

"The world has been invaded. The enemy fleet is extremely large. It is estimated that the number of super flagship units in this world has exceeded 10 billion. There are a large number of escort fleets and the pressure on communications——"

"The wide-area scanning radar array encountered extremely severe interference! The unique feedback echo of the dead tide reaction and the order correction wide-area fusion field was detected, in the void..."

Massive amounts of alarm data and loss reports were refreshed one after another in an instant, like a majestic ocean tide. Continuously refreshing warnings resound in the consciousness of every individual who has the authority to receive them, like thousands of yellow bells that are ringing in unison. They overwhelmed the empire's border network almost instantly, and also overwhelmed the minds of countless people - many people with authority lost their souls and eyes the moment they saw them.

"...how...how could this happen..."

Recalling that the terrible disasters that were so tragic that they nearly destroyed the country once again appeared in reality, something seemed to collapse deep in Kalost's heart.

"...immediately shrink the defense line!! Adjust the infrastructure of the Empire World Array and enter emergency defense mode——"

"Your Majesty Caluster! The combined fleet issued a final warning: The second super-large-scale attack has occurred. The main target of this attack is the Sun Guard Fleet... It has been confirmed that the fleet has lost valuable combat capabilities... The discovery letter Target, a considerable part of the fleet's information may have been erased, the precise part is difficult to count, and the reality's stability is questionable..."

"……What's this??"

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"Shrink the defense line immediately! Recover the world line storage warehouse and void forge! Prioritize the withdrawal of the most important personnel data and equipment to the core world!"

"Omni-directional ultra-large-scale intrusion has been observed...the radar array has been partially paralyzed..."

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"The most advanced battle fleet formation! All barriers, don't begrudge your energy! Don't consider any reservations!"

"A large number of information models have suffered irreversible losses..."

"In the future, the instability of information matching results will increase, and the convergence and aggregation value of this reference system is decreasing!"

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"The eleventh day zone's highest authority has been missing for... ten thousand years. The situation is unknown, and a wartime emergency replacement will be implemented immediately. The first successor, Merisila, was killed in battle, and the second successor, Kalarina, was postponed. Kaya died in battle, ranking X

–J–11–643k77…the order—Xihe Wuyi survives, and the order of succession is confirmed. The highest command authority in the sky area is transferred, and the redundant grouping and binding of all fixed auxiliary equipment and relevant think tank teams begins..."

"The overall field stability of the empire has begun to decline sharply. No. 1 warns all members of the empire that the degree of macroeconomic instability is increasing..."

"Many unknown giant information black bodies have been detected in the empire...communications with His Majesty Vidoville have been extremely restricted..."

"What is he doing?!!"

Between the worlds, a river of black and red blood boils and splashes above the abyss.

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Under the endless bombardment of the blood-colored light that could span the void, the dim barriers flickering on the two small wings that tried to attract and resist did not last long before they were extinguished. When they further began to isolate themselves, the huge black star cluster immediately began a new round of target transfer.

Destruction is the most intuitive attribute of death tide corruption.

The stability of information networks is declining. The cavity effect caused by countless instantaneous losses and the noise flooding all frequency bands interfere with communication. However, even based on fragmented information, the outline of the real environment can be roughly integrated and completed:

The source of the death tide that is spreading destruction within the empire is a decisive battle flagship team and a huge cluster of countless flagships like a sea of ​​stars.

Virtual information projection, node iteration, gaze, multi-view detection, leak detection and filling, final perfection...

There may be more than a dozen decisive battle flagships, as well as super flagships that are far more numerous than thousands of cosmic star seas, and more various secondary nodes that guard the flagship like a swarm of queen bees...

How many layers of projections can they iterate out? no one knows.

Because before they know it, they will be completely evaporated in the gunfire - when the fleet is large enough, the node network is strong enough, and the iterative projection of virtual information begins to unfold and skyrocket, the fleet's own combat effectiveness will expand at a speed far beyond a straight line.

Compared with these extremely tragic disasters themselves and the impact of these disasters, as well as the size of the empire itself and the degree of preparedness of unexpected plans, the empire's overall response speed is not too slow.

The empire's command link immediately released all restrictions, and the emergency wartime dispatch protocol ensured that all required instructions always have the highest weight and highest processing priority.

After a short period of silence, countless firepowers of all kinds came from various world clusters in the empire and attacked the black tide that was rapidly spreading and swallowing everything.

The Spear of Nothingness from the Praise of the Holy Sound, the directional enhanced radar waves from the void base station, and the giant special cross-world missile with a long axis of hundreds of kilometers, and a size and equipment that are even more exaggerated than ordinary motherships, like rain. Usually splashed out.

The regrouped imperial fleet was quickly formed and quickly launched a counterattack. Under the cover of many battleships and even fleet blocks, which were almost suicidal, the order field controlled by the empire was forcibly spread out, and the huge fleet of Σ was launched. "border".

Hundreds of thousands of Xingqi fortresses and Shengmang field kill ships were forcibly sent to the edge of the wide-area fusion order field of order correction spreading in the void. Pale white light was spit out by the huge flagship, tearing apart the chaos again and again. The twisted edge of order cuts countless large and small gaps in the dense clouds. Some of them will evaporate part of the chaotic field structure, and some of them will disappear into the darkness out of thin air or be suspended upside down by Σ like a galaxy. The dense firepower that is usually poured over is annihilated on the path forward...

When the order fields collided and merged with each other, the more intense and cruel "close combat" phase reached its climax in an instant - Eclipse broadcast a high-intensity wide-area suppression field that could freeze the will to attack, Dark Star The fortress and the escort fleet together release countless information baseline stability points, which together with the strong reality stabilization field that floods the entire chaotic information ocean, firmly pin this cruel reality.

Every cluster launch of the Creation Flash of the Holy Light Fleet can tear out huge rifts in this chaotic structure, but the seemingly living chaotic ocean can always heal all the wounds, fiercely The white light collided with the crescent moon's disassembly ray on the same attack path, and annihilation and nothingness destroyed the weak structure at the connection of the order field.

When the order field surrounding the ship is blown away, the fleet blocks and flagships will fall into the void. Some of them may be able to forcibly deploy shields, or rely on thick and strong extraordinary armor to forcibly resist the erosion of the void. And restart the order field, and more parts... will become one of the noisy noises in the void.

The expedition fleet, together with the Holy Sound Praise Fortress, built the last overseas protection network before the order position in the void. The more comprehensively configured Empire's stationed guard fleet uses the cosmic benchmark anchor and the information star network as the world's core barriers, and is prepared in every time rank and space rank.

The macroscopic scale of the world has also been compressed for a time. The cosmic benchmark stabilizing anchor has used almost all its resources to perform calculation broadcasts to maintain stability of the cosmological constants and the basic environment of the world. The practical application layer of the world structure has almost completely disappeared, and the starry sky has turned into laws and concepts. With the afterimage floating on the screen, the weight of the real world line has been raised to the extreme——

Every world has been transformed into such a fortress, or is transforming into such a fortress.

What these imperial territories turned into fortresses have to face are countless enemy ships, endless pressure filling every location, and endless and overwhelming forces, covering from the structural system layer to the core of the underlying protocol. Indiscriminate bombing.

The world barrier was torn, and the shattered wounds were deprived of control by external forces. Countless information annihilation missiles soaked in venom drilled out of the cracks. Driven by the world coordinate definition engine, even in the face of the Imperial Information Star Network Due to the strong suppression of the system and the high-power and strong reality stabilization field, these black arrows can still only leave a series of unclear afterimages in the empire's locking system.

Then, billions of dark blind spots suddenly appeared inside the world.

At the other end of the artificially created oppositional structure within the world, in the dark whirlpool sky of chaos, with countless branches wandering and growing, and under the black information base stable point, a neat and huge Σ fleet matrix quickly took shape. As the two peaks of information in the world struggled to compete with each other, countless tiny defects in the underlying protocol range began to be expanded again and again, and eventually were completely torn apart, turning into a coquettish streak of sparkling light in space. A ferocious crystal crack.

Between the flickering light and shadow, the fractures and rifts projected by those ugly crystal scars can span several order intervals in the third-order projection, and in the habitual starry sky of the empire, those wounds can span a distance of tens of millions of light years. . However, these fractures are often not "natural" - many of these fractures themselves seem to be cut off abruptly - half of them follow the spatial order that is constantly being distorted and modified, just like in space The giant crawling insect body, but the other half... seemed to disappear into the darkness out of thin air.

Black space, under the bombardment of both sides' laws and the bombardment of information annihilation missiles, has become a huge black space structure connected on the scale of the macrocosm! !

"... A large number of dark areas have been detected... The command link is damaged, the strength of the existential network itself is unstable, and it is not enough to support high-bandwidth long-term communication. A large number of transfer devices are lost, and the existential network is requested to be suppressed——?!"

At some point, the Joint Conference of Commanders responsible for guarding this world suddenly noticed that everything around them seemed to be becoming silent...

In the dark deep sky, purple and light golden stars are extinguishing in patches.

"Zizi——Retreat, return to defend the core area...Zi Zi..."

"The time when the order was issued... actually had two points that deviated from reality?! This is..."

"Warning, the link has been cut off, and the world barrier has been reverse... blocked."

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At this point, the Guard Fleet Command Joint Meeting quickly determined something: no matter what actions the previous higher-level decision-makers needed to take on their own, it was already too late now.

Something in my heart that should have been completely eliminated has swallowed up countless souls at some point. Under the pressure of the enemy fleet, these influences that should not have existed made everyone's will soften like heated wax.

The world's front body, which was constrained within the terminal ring, lit up and extinguished again and again, and the giant dagger-shaped fleets continued to push the creation brilliance into the distant depths of space. They were in the ever-expanding dark clouds. Countless gaps were struck, but compared to their diffusion speed, these temporary rays of light were quickly and completely swallowed up.

Under the attack of countless firepower clusters, the golden-red light pillars that penetrated the imperial fleet matrix could no longer maintain a sufficient refresh rate. Under the crushing of the unstoppable waves, they dimmed one after another. The waves extinguished the bonfires struggling and swaying on the shore, and Gradually everything was submerged in the icy tide of chaos.

As the discrete core of the fleet, Star Initiation and Holy Inquisition are stronger and have stronger firepower than the escort fleet directly under them, and the command system and communication system are more stable. But now, all this is just delaying the arrival of death——

The world barrier has been completely turned into an open mode due to the power struggle of the Σ fleet crushing the first level, and the influx of enemy fleets...the number is unpredictable...

The most conservative estimate is that the number of Σ flagships that have entered this world and can correspond to Star Qi, Holy Inquisition and Holy Light is more than the total number of sub-machine carriers and ordinary battle carriers in all fleet blocks! !

The combined dismantling rays emitted by billions of Crescent battleships... I am afraid that even if the Imperial fleet uses all its strength to directly form a shield guarding the cosmic benchmark stable anchor, this bloody spear will penetrate the shield. I'm afraid it won't take any effort... Faced with the absolute power gap, all the variables held by the imperial fleet may be useless...

"Everything is a lie..."

"No...what did the Empire do?! We-"

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This is just a world.

If the world is compared to a basic unit of intelligent life, then everything that happens here is actually equivalent to an insignificant part of the entire immune response battlefield.

When the two systems are large enough, if the direct "immune activity" is considered from the overall level... the details seem to be insignificant, but if the eyes are slightly focused, all observers will probably be confused by the "immune activity" between such huge super-individuals. The details contained in "Immune Response" are extremely tragic and completely shocking.

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Not long ago, hundreds of thousands or millions of Imperial Order worlds were ended in this way.

But... these worlds, and all the Imperial soldiers stationed in these worlds... they seem to be the lucky ones. Even if their personalities have been damaged, even if their memories have been lost, even if their bodies have been wiped out... at least there will still be some beings who remember them. What is recorded may be a part of the trace, or a part of the trace and a part of the body.

And in other more solid worlds... no, there are systems one after another such as the Praise of Sacred Music - Void Array - World Matrix. These systems were evaporated piece by piece by Doomsday - Creation.

Under the scorching light of blood, the broken narrative layer distorted cause and effect and reversed reality. Countless devices have lost their memory of creation, and thus their own meaning of existence and the "manufacturing needs" that accompanied their birth. Without any damage, they disappeared into thin air in full view of everyone.

Not too many people were surprised by this, it just seemed like it was the way it should be.

The command links are falling silent one after another.