Star Empire

The once bright starry sky is now being shrouded in dark clouds. Storms and flames are ravaging the stars, and the light of order quickly turns into a dim afterglow, and then is completely extinguished in the darkness.

In reality, the Order territory of the Star Empire spans over a billion Order worlds, but the Empire is far from having a truly profound understanding of the entire process of a complete world from its birth to its decline—the historical span of the Federation era. However, about 35 billion years, even if we include the nearly 10 billion years at the birth of the universe, this is just the beginning for the universe.

The Empire rarely devotes enough energy to observing a mass of information that provides no industrial value. Those information bodies will either be completely transformed by the power of the empire, or they will turn into battlefields and disappear completely under the fierce firepower of both sides.

Perhaps... the expansion of power and technology at this time did help the entire empire gain considerable room for relaxation. While gaining room for relaxation, the powerful imperial fleet did regain its disadvantage to a certain extent, and may even have achieved victory for a time. Gaining an advantage - however, what the empire has faced before is probably far from all the enemies it needs to face.

The gap between the empire and Σ civilization is probably not just a matter of orders of magnitude. In other words, if the empire wants to truly gain a comprehensive advantage over Σ civilization on the level of comprehensive strength, it may indeed be able to finally achieve it by stacking orders of magnitude. The goal, but I'm afraid... the magnitude required at the last moment is much larger than once estimated.

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When some of the shadows hidden under the scene were exposed to the light of day again, the thoughts of fear and consternation, together with the increasingly concentrated pollution of the death tide, spread among the network nodes of the imperial fleet, forming clusters of chains that spread death. Countless souls fell under the questioning of the trend of thought and their own soul level.

The vast void... how much has the empire seen?

"After all, have you ever truly realized what the situation of your own family is like? How many possibilities it may have, and how many futures it may have?"

"Have you given up on the narrow understanding and perception that you have at your own level, and started from the real information that is consistent with the universe, the world, such a large-scale information body, and what is truly corresponding to this vast space-time structure? Have you seriously looked at these worlds and everything in the void on a horizontal level? Do not rely on your habits and life limitations, but really look at reality?

For the so-called homeland, from the birth to the death of a world, the bright starry sky affects the entire universe, the changes of the entire world... are just a bright but short-lived part of the entire long timeline that has long been completely standardized. Just a short paragraph.

The order range of a world can indeed be measured and controlled using the cosmic benchmark anchor and the information star network. But the depth and breadth of all the information in the world... they are far wider than what the universe's benchmark anchor and the information star network can encompass and "crucify".

When the singularity of the world's predecessor lit up the creation glow in the void, this suddenly expanding huge information model began to draw unimaginable and magnificent creation power from the void. When everything was still pure and blazing light, the structure of the world began to slowly take shape.

The first force of the beginning given by the void and the influence of the surrounding world, and possibly even the void environment itself, will create weak disturbances in the original ocean of chaotic light. These disturbances will quickly spread throughout the entire ocean and make the originally uniform chaos gain a third degree. 1. Promotion direction and changing trend——

In the huge fluctuation of information, the world's underlying protocols began to complete the basic construction under the first push. They are the cornerstone of the world's operation. There is the most basic and lowest "bottom line of tolerance" for the self-consistency of the world.

When they are gradually established, the underlying protocols begin to influence each other, interact and form thousands of connections. Countless connections and influences pull the gradually cooling pure light, allowing them to collide and merge with each other and gradually form a more stable , more "detailed" basic information association mapping.

Countless pairs of the most microscopic particles corresponding to the actual intrinsic embodiment of information begin to appear. The upper layer of the world pyramid - the mapping management layer - takes shape in the interaction.

As the original first force given by the brilliance of creation becomes more and more diluted and becomes more clear in fixed details, the correlation and mapping further cool down and settle, and they begin to further interact and influence each other. Everything is fading away from chaos. Chaos is being rejected and exiled by the world of order. They are like blown mist, ejected upward and outward into the distance, while the parts that continue to settle and remain stable here continue their own collision and integration process.

These collisions and mergers will gradually flatten the rules within the space-time continuum. After the emergence of stable rules, the creation entity in the world that has lost its extraordinary brilliance—the basic units that make up matter—appears and interacts with each other to form a more stable and larger-scale microstructure. The structural system layer also appears.

In the eyes of order life, this moment is the beginning of life in the universe and starry sky.

When everything cools and settles, chaos fades away from the vast space, and the unevenness left after the system structure layer is formed will enrich the matter, and the promotion of information and related influence trends will continue to integrate and develop.

The first generation of huge, faint blue stars began to gradually light up the dark and chaotic space. In that era, resources were so abundant that those giant stars that were so huge that it was unimaginable and might even challenge the limits of the law could squander themselves wantonly. resources for tens of millions of years or even longer.

Subsequently, countless supernova explosions with unimaginable power will push more light elements and a small amount of heavy elements into space, and the dark curtain will be filled with the most spectacular and gorgeous fireworks in the universe for a long time - Gravity begins to cause various phenomena and becomes the most direct force that dominates the operation of celestial bodies on a macro scale.

Galaxies began to form, and among the nebulae, new stars lit up one by one. Deep in the galactic core, countless materials gathered a huge mass and crushed space and time. Black holes, and even terrible celestial bodies such as single giant attractors that may appear under extreme circumstances, are formed and begin to declare their influence and power to the universe.

Elements interact with each other to form various compounds. Elements and compounds gather to form a rich and colorful environment. With temperature, humidity, and various field interactions, the environment begins to undergo all kinds of wonderful changes...

The actual application layer is generated.

Half of them will spread outward to form a magnificent and deep vast starry sky, while the other half will collapse back into a small, disembodied core. The core and the macro world will maintain the relationship that existed when the world was born - the heart of the world will jump between information bodies in the world.

Under the shining stars, the original era has ended with vigorous creation activities. Three billion years or more have passed, but for a world, this is probably just the beginning of "development".

Not all worlds have the chance to reach this point - some of them may not have received enough Genesis impetus, so that they were crushed by their own power before the expansion was large enough and the information began to escape the chaos and start to cool down. Re-compression and aggregation in a very short time; or, their own foundation is so weak that everything is diluted to an unimaginable degree before forming a clear enough and solid structure.

The empty and cold space will eventually destroy the world barrier, and the Great Rip will end everything. In the void, everything is back to the beginning - and between the extremes, there will be countless worlds that have reached and passed this step and continued their own development...

For the world, or to be more specific and realistic, for most of the "intelligent life" in the world that meets the cognition, the stellar age will be the most glorious and dynamic moment of the universe. Countless huge reactors are constantly producing various substances, and the energy they release can promote various environmental changes.

With a very small probability, some matter will accidentally gain the power of self-replication, and some inherent pulsations and primitive consciousness will be accepted by the stars - life may be born, or it may not, a world determined by probability , not everything is certain.

But it is certain that galaxies merge, are born, and disappear, nebulae expand or contract with each other, and countless stars light up and go out... The super galaxy clusters and the Great Space Wall spanning the deep space of the universe will record the vitality and vitality of the universe.

Tens of trillions of years later, the lives of stars are gradually coming to an end. Large blue-white stars have been born and died millions of times, while smaller yellow dwarfs and smaller stars that are redder will live for much longer.

But even red dwarfs are far from infinite. Soon, even red dwarfs will be extinguished - in hundreds of millions of years, the mass of hydrogen and helium will either be fused into heavier elements, or converted into light and energy and dissipated in deep space. The light elements have been basically exhausted - no more new stars will be formed naturally for a long time after this.

The era in which information bodies need to rely on consuming free resources from the beginning to obtain the source of development power will come to an end.

After that, an era of coldness but still struggling for vitality, the twilight era of the celestial body - the degeneracy era, will begin to flow.

The stars maintained by the balance of fusion power and gravity have all been extinguished, and the available free secondary information sources have been burned out. Brown dwarfs between planets and stars, various types of debris formed after the death of stars - white dwarfs, Neutron stars, quark stars and black holes will occupy all the weight in the universe.

The starry sky will gradually dim over a long period of time, the glow of the white dwarfs will gradually dissipate, and the black dwarfs will no longer send any observable "light" into space. After the stellar era, brown dwarfs may become the only "gentle" source of energy at that time. They will continue to struggle and "brighten" longer, but they will also go out.

Twin or even multiple degenerate objects such as twin white dwarfs and twin neutron stars will lose energy in the form of gravitational waves during this gradually darkening time. They will gradually merge and may form new degenerate objects or black holes.

In the process, gamma-ray bursts with a brightness equivalent to thousands of galaxies will once again light up the increasingly dark space. However, this brilliance is fleeting, and the vast scale of space will continue to dilute the power of light. After reaching this point, no matter how powerful the light source is, within the constraints of the laws of the universe, it cannot resist distance and time.

What can bring long-term light at this time are black holes - their strong gravity pulls more and more free matter, forming a hot and vast accretion disk in the process.

Because strong gravity can bend space-time to a considerable extent, accretion disks can look strange. But...if at that time, there will still be life from the stellar era lingering in such a universe, then they will have no choice but to black holes.

Over the long span of time and space, the universe becomes darker and colder, protons will decay, atoms will disintegrate, and even black dwarfs, neutron stars and quark stars will gradually evaporate and dissipate, or they will decay into extremely weak particles. The stream of photons detected may be sucked into the black hole and contribute its last ray of light to the dark space.

When the information structure between active levels at the top of the world loses the resources to circulate and promote change, and the first driving force it possesses gradually becomes exhausted in the long evolution and slow loss, changes will become less and less, and vitality will will gradually stagnate. The practical application layer will gradually evaporate, gradually losing all its structure and all meaning. Their meaning and everything will be burned away and diluted to the point of being invisible as the celestial bodies gradually extinguish.

A few years later, the degenerate objects will disappear, and the black hole era will begin - at that time, there will only be trembling photons and black holes inside the world.

When the universe is cold enough, empty and dark enough, black holes will also evaporate, and gravity may bring them back together, but... the probability of those things is so low that it is indescribable.

In space at this time, everything has almost come to a standstill, and nothing worthy of recording may not happen in trillions of years... Everything in the world is slowly evaporating, and order is slowly lost - the structural system layer begins collapse.

When the black hole also evaporates, the long dark epoch will occupy a long time span.

Cold and empty. The universe is getting closer to an absolute vacuum. The law will be diluted to the point where it can hardly have any impact on the environment anymore. Matter and concepts are infinitely close to non-existence, the mapping will disappear, and the correlation will be independent.

Here, life in the Stellar Age can almost no longer survive. At this point, the cold world may no longer be faced by pure technology. However... the word "absolute" seems to have never, or very rarely, really taken effect.

The mapping management layer is indeed gone, but its disappearance does not mean the end of everything.

Energy may be lost from some invisible cracks, and information may continue to be annihilated in the process of cooling and silence, but not all of them cannot survive - in the eternal time, some may exist... they will be there The narrative memory of the world leaves a profound enough impact that can span space and transcend time.

When the structure of the world is still sound and full, these dim traces hidden in the darkest and hidden corners will be completely suppressed by the power of reality. They will be repelled to the edge of the world, to the end of the universe, to the gap between existence and nothingness. Between the cracks.

In the long process of collapse of the world structure, they may continue to evaporate until they disappear completely, or they may... persist all the way until this moment, when all suppression and influence have completely disappeared, the origin of the world that is already extremely fragile After being gradually exposed, they may... revive again.

Those are unimaginable life forms - they may themselves represent eternity and silence, or it may be that the constant "churning" in their chaos has caused some information to be reactivated under the distortion of weird power. In the darkness, there may be more and more similar monsters. They may be trapped to death by the power of the world, or they may become controllers of the world in a certain sense, and give the world "new vitality" from other perspectives... …

Regardless of the geometry of such a vital form, it can be determined that it is simply beyond the imagination of the empire.

In the end, everything born from scratch returns to zero point. The underlying protocol layer was born from nothingness, opening with glory as an overture, and ending with silence.

In fact, in the process of world development, at every step and every moment, countless worlds will perish for different reasons and under different circumstances. And there are also countless worlds that will continue to exist for countless reasons and conditions.

And this is just a reincarnation in the world - the ideal state does not exist, but no matter how ideal it is, the recovery and return of theory based on a closed information structure has not yet begun.

From limited, to open, to huge, to extremely huge, and then... and then... and finally infinite. Many times, problems and variables do not require hard work to dig into dead ends. Instead, they may require new perspectives. That is a higher, wider perspective.

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Even in pure darkness and coldness, variables can be reactivated.

And all of this is just a path that may be taken within an ordinary, no matter how ordinary world. This is just a path that one space-time structure among countless space-time structures may take. This road is infinitely narrow, and there are infinitely many specific "clusters" surrounding this development possibility. However, even though this road is endlessly narrow, there are already infinitely many worlds that have traveled this road.

How many world types are there in the void that are incompatible with each other? How many possible world structures are there under one worldview? What events are they likely to experience? What variables are formed? What possibilities are ultimately shaped?

In the year of Spindle Evolution, this concept was launched, which is indeed a good basic start.

However, this precious measuring stick, the real value contained in this measuring stick - have all of these been truly utilized? Outside of the world beyond constraints, those worlds with endless changes and possibilities, have you ever looked at them across that long period of time and understood the huge differences? !

Has anyone really thought about it, if everything is born from scratch and returns to nothingness, what is the meaning of its existence? !

What is the background? quantity? force? that's it? ?

The void is infinite, the probability is infinite - the potential here has no end! !

If everything dies, why is all this happening? What else is pulling at the possibilities, causing all kinds of wonderful or weird new existences to emerge one after another?

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The turbid waves overwhelmed all defense lines.

No matter how hard you try to resist, no matter how hard you try to attack the huge fleet cluster that fills your field of vision, no matter how hard you struggle... in the end, the blood-red Σ emblem and the boundless thick clouds of chaos will always drown everything.

The gap is too big.

The Σ fleet entrenched within the territory of the Imperial Order has an unimaginable variety of flagships - "old opponents" such as Crescent Moon, Dark Star, Eclipse, Gap, and Fault, which the Empire has dealt with many times over the past million years. , and there are many kinds of weird units that the Empire has never seen before.

The mechanics of their weapons were unheard of and unseen by the Empire.

They may not be that tough, but those complex attack patterns with huge numbers and extremely weird patterns make it difficult for the imperial fleet to guard against them.

Many times, the imperial fleet may even disappear out of thin air - strikes come from places the empire has never thought of. They bypass the defense system and the cognitive limits of the empire. Under the most intense and fierce battles, Exploiting a series of loopholes that the empire had not incorporated into the defense system, it took away the basis for the empire's fleet to maintain the battle.

Hard to imagine, but incredibly real.

How knowledgeable is the Empire? How many parts of the empire can be clarified and can completely connect knowledge and reality? How many worlds has the Empire seen, understood, and studied in detail? Just a world similar to the Empire's mother world would have countless possibilities. A series of extreme events with low probability that are so incredible that they challenge the perception of reality. Under the huge sample space and endless vast time stack, it can be said that they happen all the time and can be seen everywhere - the empire does not even dare to say that it has understood these things through research. How many.

Then, there will be more subdivisions in such a roughly similar world. The perturbation of the chaotic system can make every variable in it have a slight difference, which can infinitely amplify the difference between the results.

Not to mention, there are twenty-six such "world categories"! ! Moreover, this is far from infinite, far from the end! !

In the millions of years of ultra-rapid expansion and technological explosion, the empire may have used all its strength to make it possible for it to barely compete with Σ's equivalent combat power at the height of the "backbone", but for this With a bare trunk, how many leaves and side branches have the empire neglected?

Not to mention how such a bare needle tip can compete with the endless vast plateau, just for such a height, how many superficial or hidden cracks did the empire allow to appear on this extremely towering and abrupt trunk? How many of these field beings and real beings can see and solve, and how many loopholes are not visible at all, or are not regarded as loopholes at all?

What’s even more frightening is how many problems did the empire miss? What doesn’t the Empire know? And in this information conflict involving the narrative level again and again, what has the empire forgotten? strength? Scope of knowledge? Magnitude? Or something else?

How to make a completely undefended vulnerability resistant to all-pervasive attacks? How can one be sure that the accuracy of one's knowledge is truly accurate without objective reference?

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Fear, weakness, surprise...

Driven by the softening of various factors, the emotional fluctuations that suddenly reappeared on the Internet for some reason triggered stronger and stronger resonances among countless souls - facing the swarming enemies. , more and more battleships, individuals, and even the world began to choose to abandon the formation and escape - they cut off their connection with the network, and forcibly left the entire existential network despite the pain and errors caused by the cutover of the underlying protocols. The chaos adaptability originally used to make up for the loopholes in the narrative layer and enhance the self-consistency level to resist paradoxes took effect at this time.

Inadvertently, countless constraints disappeared without knowing when, and pieces of order fields formed streams of light, trying to break through the light stream of the dark sea of ​​clouds.

The shock caused by the sudden change caused a lot of firepower that should have been aimed at the enemy to be directed at these "former compatriots". However, in the depths of memories that suddenly appeared later, the increasingly silent decision-making network remembered that hundreds of thousands of years ago, they had participated in many meetings and actual actions on the preservation of civilization and seed plans - but they didn't know When did it seem to have been quietly forgotten, completely forgotten. Huge legions, assembly, counterattack, revenge... they became the main theme of the empire's actions later.

"Vidoville...Vesrifan...narrative structure, reality true and false..."

"What are those!"

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The Imperial attack on the Seed ceased.

But these seeds still cannot escape this burning hell on earth.

Yes, for imperial technology, it is very difficult to locate the order field in the void. It is even impossible to accurately locate it in a short time.

But this situation is true for the empire, but it does not mean that it is also true for Σ.

A large part of the heritage of civilization lies in the fact that during the endless passage of time, civilization faced countless problems, large and small, and put forward countless needs of different sizes and levels, and finally came up with various methods to solve the problems it raised. problems and accumulated from them, what is finally formed is a category that makes the word "underlying" one of the most important parts of a living concept. As long as there is demand, as long as there is a goal, as long as it is not absolutely impossible, then the realization of demand is almost absolute! !

Other models of information annihilation missiles began to appear in large quantities.

If the conventional information annihilation missiles that the Empire has seen many times are "arrows," then these new types of missiles that have been added to the battlefield can be seen as many types of spears with sharp barbs.

Countless prey returned to their origins in the void under the attack of the spear.

"Commander, why is there no commander!"

"What is the emperor doing? What are the decision-makers doing? Fleet commanders, what are they doing??"

“Where is the main flagship??”

"Attack on compatriots...Defection...Reality is deviated, logic is wrong, permission-related locks cannot be corrected."

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The fleet shattered along with the stars.

The Void Forge was gnawed and destroyed by countless information annihilation missiles, and the raging white matter tide could no longer even stir up the iconic disturbing light in the space.

Various types of information annihilation missiles, as well as countless types of weird attacks, have completely penetrated all the structures of the world, and the information needed to maintain the order of time and space itself has been basically burned away.

Most of the empire's territory showed a strange dark red color and disturbance. The world seemed to have become "crispy", and the various structures of the world became loose, as if it only needed a slight push to completely collapse. Under the oppressive black-red starry sky, the path disturbance left by the attack rain that was dense enough to interfere with itself stirred the space, causing the environment that was extremely close to the black space to twist and squirm like flesh and blood, revealing corruption, disgust, and Malice.

After the imperial fleet and star network array that possessed wisdom and soul gradually collapsed, the remaining self-replicating drones lost their restraints. They replicated themselves with the absolute ruthlessness and coldness calibrated in the underlying logic and rushed to the front line in large numbers. However, this did not It has no effect, not to mention that it can cause effective casualties to enemy ships or delay time. They can't even fly within the effective range at all.

Before the battle, a slight sweep of the powerful order-correcting wide-area fusion field could make large tracts of them disappear out of thin air.

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Counterattack after counterattack, wave after wave, were eventually swallowed up by the huge enemy fleet that covered the sky.

As long as the defense at any point reaches a stable state, the doomsday-creation torrent across the void will blow up the entire defense line from the memory and narrative system, causing everything to completely evaporate from all levels that can be found.

"Obstruction" and "resistance" have never been established in practice.

The Eye of the Void can no longer find the Gou Chen Star that always hangs in the "correct" position.