Star Empire

Regardless of whether they advance or retreat, they are faced with extreme dangers - the unknown and fear in the void once again enveloped the entire empire and everything.

No one can tell clearly how much power Σ still remains in the unexplored depths of the void.

If we extrapolate based on the past understanding of the star civilization, Σ may have removed all creations in the far reaches of the civilization, and may even have removed many of the world's basic management facilities. The extreme gathering of civilization, from extension to a point in all senses, condensed into the endless eternal space shown by the remaining data...

But soon, the empire realized that there was a problem with its understanding - Σ's "extreme remote control power weakened to zero" probably did not correspond to the same thing as its own understanding, or did not correspond to the same thing at all. result! !

There are still a huge number of military units remaining in the remote border territories of ΣCivilization, and they are also seriously polluted - probably through network transmission!

After the Death Tide natural disaster that swept through the void slowly subsided, based on actual performance, the empire speculated that most of the units had been completely devoured and destroyed by the Death Tide in the disaster...

There may be nothing wrong with this idea, but this "no error" is relative to Σ civilization.

The wreckage fleet of Σ that emerged from the wasteland could completely scorch the billions of order fortress worlds of the original empire in one day, leaving not even much information debris that could be recycled.

And in the void, is there still such an existence, and how many are there? Now, in order to allow myself to live longer, and not to make my revenge action too empty and too short, I force myself to maintain stability and pick it up again. " It is impossible to study the ruins of the star civilization known as the "Empire".

If there is no qualitative leap in the expansion speed of the empire, or if it fails to acquire enough time span, then I am afraid that it will only be a matter of time before something like this happens again - in memory, the empire has conducted experiments: if the starships manufactured by the empire are destroyed by the tide, If it is highly polluted and corrupted, even a powerful battleship like the Barrier class that is good at defense and stability will be difficult to survive for more than 10,000 years, and this is based on continuous external repair.

Σ's battleships...can survive pollution and disasters on that scale for tens of millions of years or longer...Even on this basis, they still have a considerable degree of combat effectiveness, and their functions are still available and visible. There are no signs of further collapse...maybe there is even some recovery? !

It’s hard to understand, hard to imagine, why.

And scaling to a large enough scale in too short a time...

ΣThe remaining underlying neural reactions in the void have not completely dissipated upon awakening.

In the era when imperial civilization still existed, the imperial fleet stormed some unimaginable giant void fortresses in the void - and one of them could even throw chunks of a complete fleet with complete protection levels into the depths. One synchronized reality, and then completely annihilated them, or completely tore off all possible connections between them and reality...

Most of these phenomena occur in the surrounding areas of those void fortresses - but this is not absolute.

In vague memory, certain directional information pulses between fortresses have been captured.

If a huge abnormal disturbance affects the rotten underlying nerves of these existences and causes them to spasm...

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No, it doesn't matter.

What we need to think about now is how to exert enough value before death so that our compatriots who have gone to another world can have more "funeral objects" - and the final funerary objects and companions will definitely be themselves.

What you want to think about is not how to survive, how to continue...

At least, this should definitely not be in the main thread of thinking.

Civilization has perished, at least it should be clear now - the basic life forms of civilization no longer have a baseline comparison, and after the memory has been bombarded and tampered with by the narrative layer many times, theoretically, the original life structure and life forms of the empire no longer exist - —Different from previous "transformation" processes, after a disaster, even if all "people" and "fields" remain the same as they were at any time in memory, they may have been replaced many times in fuzzy compensation.

Moreover, this was directly tampered with in the entire building composed of the past and history - everything is no longer the same as before.

Civilization cannot be carried by one person or a few people in a few existences - the star civilization once remembered has perished.

In the old empire, all cultural research on culture and art, as well as spiritual philosophy and other aspects of spiritual complementation, as well as related thinking about oneself, have tended to stagnate.

In other words, at that time, those existences were only forcibly maintained by the power of the empire - some new works were indeed born at that time, and some ancient habits were more or less restored, but outside of that, civilization The mainstream changes have become the development of technology, the expansion of territory and everything related to it...

And in the midst of despair and madness that is approaching the bottom line, the main body of civilization has become stronger, the fleet's combat effectiveness has become more powerful, and the soul and heart have become more tenacious... Since then, everything cultural has basically gone extinct. All philosophy, thinking and inquiry, etc., are all aligned with the darkest and harshest abyss of reality. Everything is for war, everything is for survival. For all of this, civilization can abandon many things...

but now……

The culture is long gone.

The memory has been blurred.

Now - I'm afraid that humanity and the human heart are also disappearing.

"...In the past, we may have neglected development. We focused on some content, but also forgot too much..."

"However, reality often makes many things that should be taken for granted become helpless..."

"Even if all existence and development does not require a reason, it at least requires an environment and a foundation..."

"When the fertile soil no longer exists, when the earth that breeds life is scorched, even if some new life will be born in the cracks, their final result... will only starve to death."

"The old civilization has been destroyed. We are just a group of ghosts from the past, from the old star civilization."

"Creating new lives... then there is no way to confirm whether they are healthy, whether they can have an environment in which they can survive by working hard, and whether they will all collapse in the next moment..."

"...What are you thinking about??"

"The idea of ​​forming a new civilization and a truly complete army of life nature is now full of blasphemy against life... We have no ability to protect them, and we have no ability to protect ourselves, so why should we bring them life? With the beginning..."

"I only hope that my death will make the compatriots who have passed away no longer lonely..."

"Perhaps in the future, everything will end and everything will become silent..."

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Accumulate, expand, become stronger.

In sporadic battles, countless starships fell from the void, but there were still countless battleships that had been reincarnated in their own homes or in the void when they roared for the first time at the enemies in the void. Self-destruction.

Among the countless wreckage of warships of various types, the basic industrial modules of implants began to activate after absorbing the surrounding materials and available information structures. These seeds require corpses to hatch, but what they are born is indeed in line with the memory of the empire. , "real" vitality or even life.

The skyrocketing numbers and effects brought about by such a recovery are unimaginable.

The passage of time is not long compared to everything in memory and the past, but the derivatives created by countless basic equipment are enough to restrict the stability of some worlds in the empire, and even enough to transform them into some kind of The industrial world and the fortress world that existed in the past.

Unfortunately, this is still limited to the "border area", or... the area where the empire's power can stabilize the "reincarnation surge" and "abnormal recovery"... is limited to the territory of the former empire, or in other words, the area that was After being activated and violently stimulated by countless Genesis reactions, the accretion disk became vast and extremely violent, beyond the place where the empire once had vitality and last hope.

The accretion disk is becoming chaotic and violent, and endless existential blueprints with serious deficiencies are being continuously poured into the former accretion disk by the void matrix. And those fleeting wreckage... every moment of their creation, development, destruction, etc., will leak a huge amount of high-level information and information pollution.

The Void Sun and the void environment will swallow up most of the structures, but the impact of the remaining small parts gradually accumulating will still gradually separate the two sides, covering everything...

The Blazing Sun in the Void is no longer a blazing white sun. Even though the intensity of the stellar wind it releases has never weakened, the "dust cloud" surrounding it is getting thicker and thicker - the void breeds infinite probabilities and possibilities. Perhaps, the decay of the void can give birth to the world, but the world is just the "final product" of the decay of the void.

It is also possible to directly decay concepts, laws and even some metaphysical structures of existence in the void. They can all be traced from logic and unified equations, but because the probability is too low, and if there is no orderly world, they cannot directly It just exists stably in the void...

Perhaps, some metaphysical beings, or some other creations that would normally be annihilated or dissipated immediately after birth, have now begun to attach themselves to these haze existences...

It doesn’t matter anymore. In the past, the empire had nothing to do, but if Lieyang can devour the world’s heart and world structure with low stability and low logic, then this may show that Lieyang is able to rely on the huge amount of world’s heart that has broken the world. To slowly repair itself, now that the empire can do this, it cannot be stopped.

Even if it may bring some heavy costs...?

It doesn't matter.

As time passes, the stars are obscured by dark clouds.

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The huge fleet and the chaotic world network are gradually recovering. Moreover, after the industrial basic module implants transformed from countless corpses completed their tasks, more and more advanced industrial modules began to be built, and the positive impact of the long time and success again and again was also brought to a certain extent. Beginning to dilute the pain from the past and heal the scars on all levels of technology, action and soul - huge orders of magnitude and unstoppable trend reversal are shaking violently in destiny.

Many ideas and information have been completely annihilated in the void with the destruction of countless void forges and world line storage banks. However, although most of the ancient technological trees of the empire that served as the basis for innovation and comparison no longer exist, the remaining creations can only reveal some of their past attributes and some of the special attributes of their possible locations...

Even if the empire's basic production capacity is restored, I am afraid that if it only relies on this foundation, it will only be able to mass-produce various types of cannon fodder, but...

What violently confronts this reality is the crucial creation:

Technical ultimate deduction module.

Enormous numbers, unimaginable technology, shattered empire, collapsed reality, and bone-deep pain... That battle destroyed the empire's civilization, leaving everyone in the remaining empire unable to shed a single tear. Hard work, but...

That chaotic war left a lot behind, an unforgettable feeling that was no less than tearing a body in half, and countless battlefield noises that were simply unrecognizable at that time...

Now, it is being transformed into inspiration and even obsession in large quantities.

The ultimate technological deduction module contains countless black boxes. This giant metal box looks like a creation but is directly derived from the Σ civilization. The countless structures and results output at this moment are pushing countless unimaginable high-risk creations in the empire's overall sequence into practical applications. state……

There is no need to worry about technology and self, nor to worry about destruction and usurpation.

When the ultimate foundation of bottom line maintenance will be continuously destroyed, then what is the need for this empty bottom line to exist?

Just...sigh.

During the intermission of the war, Vidoville dragged his exhausted body and slumped on the black armor of the Arcane Throne. This black and smooth land stretches into the distance, and the originally smooth and rounded surface of the spacecraft has turned into a vast land in Victorville's eyes. Faced with the current situation, he felt waves of despair rising up in his heart - if he did not continue to follow the path of "civilized" development and blindly acted recklessly, he would not even be able to get revenge, and even this surviving group would not be able to do anything. Any act of revenge will become a laughing stock.

He struggled to sit up, looked at the black land extending around him, and sighed slightly.

Since we want to follow the path that civilization has traveled before, to develop again, to embrace order and make progress, many things must be restarted, such as recording history and summarizing experience.

Vidoville wanted to write down something, something clear, sensible and logical. No matter what the content is - whether it is a voyage log, a war report, your own conjectures or even conjectures, you want to record something and write something properly. But after working hard for a long time, no matter how hard I force myself to calm down, the words I leave behind in the end will turn into long and short sentences mixed with whimpering and messiness. There is no logical relationship between them. Even if I hesitate for a while, I will read it. If you don’t understand what you have written, you probably don’t need to expect others to understand it. (1)

"Ah——!!" Victorville, who was kneeling on the outer armor plate, punched the ground in front of him hard, and his roar revealed endless sadness.

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Countless worlds have been pushed into the era of degeneracy, era of tearing, era of fusion, era of projection, and even directly into the era of black hole, diffusion and closure...

In this time span that may exceed the entire history of the Star Empire by dozens of times or longer, countless secrets contained in the depths of the world have been discovered by the empire, and countless pairs of eyes have discovered it within a year or within a few years. , I have seen the complete life trends of countless worlds with huge differences in logic.

This was unimaginable before.

Countless various types of native worlds have gone from birth to extinction or even death. The various events have been recorded by countless cold and ruthless recorders as well as field sources dispersed in radar waves, void scanners, and even the network of eyes and wills— -This may also explain that while the former empire seemed to have greatly developed and stabilized its military power and will, the empire itself had missed many things and how narrow and cramped it was...

It is unimaginable that when the imperial army is expanding wildly and the core edge of the empire is either about to succeed or turns into a huge structure of wreckage and shock waves, the void area around the empire is actually so calm. It even seems...the empire has already destroyed one of its own. Stepping into the hard boundary of the former influence of order... In many directions, the original world of order seems to be becoming more and more numerous, and everything around... except for some scattered remaining ruins, seems to be becoming more and more... It's getting quieter...

The silence is somewhat unimaginable, even the scale of time and the span of the void interval have risen to another terrifying level under the catalytic attack of multiple external factors and the madness of obsession and calmness. Everything around it is in many places and in many directions. , seems to have been taken away in large quantities...

Guessing is uncontrollable. Once there is a loophole in the adopted plan, it may need to be compensated at a cost of hundreds of times in the future.

but……

never mind.

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"It is said that... you gave an order, Isendel, and Xihe Wuyi. It is said that several of you ordered the edge fleet to jump many native worlds into the extremely far depths of the void."

"Yes - the time axis of life in those universes can no longer be skipped."

"What about us?"

"We are not short of worlds, and perhaps in the future we can harvest some novel wrecks."

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Principles and wisdom may be such contradictory existences. In order to coordinate them well, I am afraid it will take more time, or accumulate more advanced ways of thinking and understanding, in order to further promote the pursuit of common ground while reserving differences and perfection of the entire group...

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In the darkness, some strange stirrings were noticed by the beings in the field, and then further noticed by the empire.

When the world falls into the closed loop era, closed era, and dark era, which may be just a spark away from the end of the world...how can those worlds still breed...life? Phenomenon?

It seems that there have been experiments before, but the observations were never detailed... many of the results are as if they were never reported or even compiled...

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"Introduce logical judgment and enter the calculation process...the shadows that seem to have entities and are slowly stirring...are they a bit like the order correction wide-area fusion field that has been greatly weakened and simplified?"

Note: (1) The paragraphs were added later, hoping to explain why many texts in this volume are poorly structured and have the nature of the Riddler. This is to show that the star civilization at that time was desperate and uncomfortable and was unable to support orderly historical records. , even the narration is tainted.