Star Empire

In the void, countless light spots splashed out from the spreading light tide.

The dots of fireflies separated from the main light tide traveled to the unknown and distant depths of the void at an unimaginable speed. These light dots only needed one jump, and it was already difficult for the eyes of the empire to find their traces.

It is unimaginable that after the empire's basic system, whether it is life, cognition and knowledge systems, or even spiritual-realistic arguments, etc., has completely collapsed and been swept away by the dark turbulence, the people of the empire will no longer be able to After regarding himself as the heir and continuation of civilization, and even subconsciously no longer regard himself as a creature of strict order, after the actual foundation of the empire completely collapsed, the entire empire actually once again began to explode in technology and power. ——Probably far more than all previous technological explosions combined...

Maybe everything has been distorted, maybe the black box has locked everything...

It doesn't matter...

The logic needed to survive does not include much about oneself and the long term...

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The light points heading to the distant void have a very special trail - after four to five "beacons" that look very "dazzling" even in the void are lit, a world of order will appear in the wake - -A world of order that is very simple, but can be highly confirmed to comply with the "law of creation" of the void, and such a world of order will outline the footprints of these battleships in the void.

These warships are equipped with what may be the Empire's most powerful non-linear jumping device in the Void - the Void Point Jump Engine.

In the previous era of the ancient empire, no one dared to imagine that this kind of endless sea must be driven by at least thousands, or even more, connected in series with real information. It needs to be driven by at least a complete set of imperial fortress-level host arrays. A super jumping device that performs assignment calculations can be stuffed into a small ship whose longest axis in a three-rank projection is no more than a thousand kilometers, and whose internal space expansion properties are also extremely limited.

Moreover, the previous virtual point jumping equipment...the Eye of the Void and the Void Star Gate/Void Spear system were only used once - they could match a long distance at one time, but they were not enough to support the empire's creations to continuously cross the distant void.

In the past, the ship-based equipment that could support such actions of a battleship... was only available on the flagship.

But now, they are stuffed into such a small body, and force this body to explode with unimaginable potential - of course, the terrible consequences of such forcing are obvious...

Technology is still limited - in order to avoid falling into endless shortcomings on a limited platform, the final design of these ships creates less powerful results.

Their resistance is far weaker than that of the main flagship, and their foundation is as weak as a piece of soaked paper compared to the Void Matrix and the Arcane Throne. They do not have self-consistent armor protection that can almost ignore the void information deviation difference. Every time a virtual point jump is executed, the huge information deviation gap will cause huge damage to the entire body...

After about three to five jumps, these mission ships must create a world of order and gradually repair themselves in it-this is equivalent to completely rebuilding the body and soul of the ship and crew on a broken and unreal foundation. .

If you don't do this, after five deflections, maybe one or two more jumps at most, those ships and lives will completely turn into faint noises in the void.

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In the distant void, such light spots are multiplying and gradually extinguishing.

Accidents cannot be avoided.

"What are those?"

"The void noise source has been recorded, analysis has begun and the results are returned. The world link communication channel, all relay equipment is working in good condition."

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"That is……"

"Our former battleship, are there still... fragments of life?"

"At such a time and in such a location...how can they still exist...?"

"The total timeline has been destroyed, and the conversion between completely isolated reference systems can be assigned arbitrarily, but this..."

"They...at that time...the entire empire network was in chaos. All devices were struggling to maintain their existence amidst the rumbles of the aftermath of countless apocalypses. All hosts were filled with unimaginably clear pollution and pollution. Wrong... The Eyes of the Void can actually successfully project so much information to such a location instantly... They may still..."

"From this point of view, it may be explained that... when the crisis of annihilation came hundreds of millions of years ago, some of the empire's creations may have forcibly broken through the blockade of the Σ fleet, and may even have sailed alone in the void for a period of time relying on their own power. distance……"

Among the several discrete cores at the limit of the expansion of the empire, the "Imperial people" who had survived had their extended vision that could be carried and extended by any imperial equipment silently scanning those that were encapsulated in the structural disassembler. It was eroded by the void and turned into afterimages of various shapes. After a brief gaze, the sight was retracted, and the slight sighs did not travel very far in the network.

Beyond that, there are no redundant actions - in fact, the encapsulation process is essentially redundant. As long as it is glanced by one or several people, any node within the empire that needs to access relevant information can easily know everything related to it. The wreckage can be fully understood without any recycling operations, but... Now look Come on, maybe they still have some commemorative value, or they may have some unique reference value...

only……

The void is too big.

In most of the known world, the law of aggregate dispersion at the general conceptual level governs the relationship between most sources and their influence - no matter how powerful a source is, its power will be dispersed by distance and breadth, and eventually Incomprehensible.

This is still the case in the world, let alone a void that may be composed of many completely different logical networks superimposed together, and can swing wildly between all algorithms and logical extremes at any time.

No matter how many battleships or fleets are separated from the expanding light tide and have the ability to jump to virtual points, even if these battleships have the ability to self-replicate, as their footprints spread more and more, the distance between nodes will also change. As we get farther and farther away, the intensity of communication will continue to decrease, and in the end it will feel like we are in another world...

It is impossible to traverse the void, there will always be gaps and loopholes left in it.

Under normal conditions, the empire can determine in which interval its creations will be annihilated. However, under that storm that can be called a country-destroying storm, the empire is on the verge of doom, and countless minds and souls are struggling and howling between nothingness and reality. , countless warships and information flood peaks formed a surging whirlpool, violently stirring and shaking everything in the abyss. At that time, I am afraid that many laws had long been annihilated in the deepest part of the chaos...

Void jumping is a non-linear operation. Even if all void engines operate in a roughly linear manner, it will not change the fact that void jumping is essentially a result that only needs results.

Those escaping warships... may have been transported to unimaginable depths of the void.

However……

In the silence, the communication pulses that have been extremely fixed and routine for a long time made the dynamic network seem to have solidified.

Countless warships fly across billions of worlds, just like under the desolate blood-red sky, the shadow brought by the black dragon's wings that can cover the sky slowly envelopes the earth covered in smoke and flames; it is also like traveling through time. The bolide in the sky passes away with brilliance and brilliance, and the fragments left behind either cause destruction or leave no trace...

By the time they left, their own life forms might have mutated...

And even if they can leave, they can cut off their connection to the main network on their own, and they can survive independently by relying on their own physical fitness... What will their lives be like...?

By now, at least hundreds of millions of years have passed. Even if the timeline has suffered devastating damage, they may not be able to completely separate themselves from all ties with the past.

If such wreckage can still be preserved, there are only a few possibilities, or they have persisted in the void for a long time and suddenly shattered not long ago. Either that, their wreckage may have some connection with the previous violent eruption at the core of the empire, and those connections prevented the further dissipation of the far-reaching wreckage. It is also possible that, compared to the empire, they did not experience much time at all... …

What the Empire discovered was a dead being.

So... what about the people who might survive?

In fact... after investigating the reasons for the damage to some wreckage, the Empire can roughly guess that he? it? Even if they survive, I'm afraid their situation will not be much better - there are no existences in the empire that can be called "stem cells" or "full memory cells", and there is no type of existence in the empire that can expand and differentiate into at least more than a dozen people in the empire. Basic individuals of different life configurations. The memory and structure of the empire do not have absolute fractal diffusion capabilities. Expanding with a fractal node will only lead to more and more errors being stacked...

At the same time, under such information that is enough to shake the narrative, destroy the cause and effect, fold and ultimately destroy the world, these escaped lives are likely to be chaotic themselves. Even if they can calm down, they will probably forget a lot of the knowledge and history of the old era that they once remembered, and it is impossible for them to leave with as huge a body of information as the world line storage library...

Life forms are in chaos, memory and reality are very likely to have undergone reconstruction, they have little understanding of themselves and everything, and a large number of black boxes are in a semi-damaged state. It is even possible that everything about themselves may have experienced closed-loop reconstruction. After the loop is opened, everything will be Being forcibly blended and reorganized in the midst of shattering and chaos...

Such living beings, even if they can survive and persist...what can they remember, what can they leave behind...?

Even in the "blink" records not long ago, there are already many record entries in the database that after the collapse of civilization, survivors after several generations regarded the creations of their ancestors as miracles.

Imperial battleships are black boxes to most low-level individuals, and many super flagships are, in an absolute sense, black boxes among black boxes to non-researchers and advanced information operators—if the black boxes are intact, they may still be Can last longer. And if the black box is damaged, then in order to maintain the operation of these damaged systems, they have experienced memory distortion, life form tampering, personality and history damage as a whole... even "they" are likely to be in trouble soon. It can be done...

The Empire does not want to come into contact with such an individual, but it cannot rule out the possibility of contact with such an individual.

The empire hopes to return to the old days, to the era when it was still alive, and also hopes that some individuals from that era can survive, and maybe even recover, but...

Civilization cannot be afforded by a few people and a few devices saved from suddenness and haste - this is not any beautiful and empty ideal, this is an iron-clad, bloody fact. Even after thorough preparation, unless there is one individual that can be completely equivalent to the thousands of individuals in the entire civilization, relying on a few people to inherit the civilization is absolute nonsense and delusion. It is obvious that the empire does not have such an individual, or that There is no individual who possesses such abilities and is both intelligent and conscious.

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Perhaps, this is hope, the inseparable connection between reality and contradiction... It seems very contradictory, very distorted, self-talking and self-defeating, but so what...

The empire that has lost its vitality and life does not need to correct anyone's mistakes, nor does it need anyone to pick and correct its own "mistakes".

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The passage of time can dilute everything, it can make many past secrets emerge from the shadows, and it can also make many once vigorous real-life events become dusty over time.

In the silent expansion and explosion, time may have passed for hundreds of millions of years or even longer.

The vast void environment is being explored.

In the past, the empire had always been unable to imagine where such a huge fleet that once swept through the void came from...

Now, perhaps... some possible answers have emerged...

In the void, there are a huge number of Σ void fortresses with different shapes and structures but generally at the same level, as well as huge giant void structures with quite powerful structures but currently few in number - from the third rank alone Projectively speaking, they may be large enough to accommodate a single largest galaxy or a discrete star cluster.

The imperial fleet gradually destroyed some of the fortresses, either with arduous attacks or with heavy costs - some of the fortresses had completely lost their ability to respond, and the coquettish and wriggling black and red patterns had lost most of their sanity and activity. Completely eaten up, but even so, the materials they are made of and their own terrifying size are enough to make them nearly indestructible...

Not to mention those fortresses that are still highly active - their defense systems are based on the timeline evolution split system and spread to different areas, and the performance of various redundant equipment supporting them is quite powerful -

After fighting them, counting the Empire's losses was more like adding and subtracting big numbers than counting them.

There are many places inside those fortresses that are empty. At the same time, the interior of those fortresses does not seem to have obvious spatial expansion properties.

This seems to mean that such a space can carry many secondary creations with space expansion properties...

fleet! !

It is very likely that the decisive battle flagship fleet, or a larger number of decisive battle flagships, is using these garrisons that may be "sealed" in these facilities that may have management functions to complete the overall integration of the huge and chaotic super fleet. fake! !

In the exchange of fire, weak emotions briefly echoed in people's hearts...

The level of the decisive battle flagship is probably beyond any previous imagination.

However, as early as the old empire, the star civilization had already seen the aftermath of the little bit of power released by the decisive battle flagship in the chaos and self-conflict - that was enough to scorch the empire.

I don’t know whether it should be considered lucky or unfortunate that the empire has survived to this day...

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"More than 655.3 million worlds with Σ residual reactions have been calibrated, surrounding the twenty-six main quadrants of the void..."

"Start attacking ΣVoid Fortress..."

In the void, the imperial fleet began to arrange and coordinate the operation of each element according to the reorganized fleet matrix.

Although artillery fire that can bombard across the void will still hit the air, as a type of demand that must be implemented, even if they have not yet reached an absolutely ideal level, they must be developed and effectively utilized.

Flagship-class and even fortress-class missiles that have been restructured and transformed from former battleships into carriers and can carry out self-seeking attacks across the void have gradually become mature in application...

They may not be able to accurately attack the shadow holes or background noise in the void, but for the order field that shines like a lighthouse around a giant target like a super-large void fortress, these still inflexible but powerful weapons are completely Can afford the task of attacking difficulties head-on.

In the void, order frequencies were lit up one by one by the Empire's combined fleet blocks.

Countless shooting stars and fleeting bridges flying across the sky have connected a completely different order field. If the battle in the world can still cause changes due to variables leaked from the information source, and therefore certain visual and light and shadow effects appear... then such a battle is a pure splash and explosion between data and models. Violent collision...

Maybe... like a volcano erupting in the face of the violent wind and rain of a super giant thunderstorm...?

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"Compared to a world that can be continuously reinforced and perfected, in a war between order fields, even if there are lives and countless devices that are constantly reinforced and repaired, the order field may still collapse... We cannot determine the threshold of the order field collapse. What are the details under different disturbances, but it can be confirmed..."

"If we have strong enough technology and equipment, then the order field we create may be much stronger than the world, but currently..."

"Once the order field undergoes critical collapse, the void intrusion is likely to instantly enter a state of irreversible expansion..."

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Albeck's heart was not at peace.

Countless periodic routine communications made him feel a little irritable and a little lonely. Even the ubiquitous field life seemed to be unable to relieve some of the entanglements in his heart.

The overwhelming firepower around him and the countless fortress artillery fire that penetrated deep into the Order Field did not attract much of his attention.

Almost all of his "old colleagues" have become phantoms of the past.

It seems that I shouldn't live here...

...? ?

"Commander——An unknown ultra-high-energy reaction has been discovered, and the concentration of unknown information models is rapidly increasing——"

"Unknown flagship discovered - the level does not match - repeated delineation... the corresponding unit - is the core flagship!!"

"The prediction results are vague and diffuse - field! They will target all our field structures!! All field life cores should be avoided immediately! Beacon array, information stabilization lattice, joint shield -"

The violent vibration caused the fleet to begin to tremble irregularly.

In the third-rank projection capturer, a type of shadow that has never been recorded before appears - they are like some kind of huge monster with thick and wide wings, with some kind of pointed beak... "Bird" - it may not be better than They are as huge as decisive battle flagships or barrier-level units, but they have far surpassed any previous Σ flagship-level units!

This also further clarifies that Σ’s combat units are not broken! There is no power gap between the super flagship and the decisive battle flagship! It’s just that the empire didn’t pay attention to them before, or they never visited the empire before!

Woo——buzz～——

Several Genesis events suddenly exploded at the edge or even within the Imperial Fleet's order field - and then, these horrific explosions that were triggered, like the scorching sun, seemed to be solidified at the moment when the structure of a large area of ​​the Imperial Fleet's field was dug away. , and then...was taken away? !

"The mechanism of action of the Holy Light...the strong reality stabilization field is removed, and the strength of the fleet's joint shield is increased to -"

Before the consciousness command was woven and issued, some kind of strange chain reaction instantly exploded the omnidirectional defense system of the imperial fleet:

Those giant bird-like warships seemed to swallow up all the created Genesis reactions in an instant. Then, the Genesis Explosion that was frozen and devoured began to reconstruct and revive, and was amplified tens of thousands of times in a certain shock structure——

"...Record!! Use the Genesis reaction around the imperial fleet to seize part of the structure of the void environment and field environment, and at the same time——"

The order field and countless battleships evaporated into the depths of the scarlet light that was tens of thousands of times hotter and more violent than the Big Bang of Genesis.

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"We need support. We need to count the damage. We have been played the number addition and subtraction game again. We have encountered several high-intensity attacks and the attrition is too serious-repeat, we need support...wait?!"

"The pulse detected by the field life... is very weak and secretive, but the area it covers... is extremely huge!!"

"It's spreading!!"

"The noise is dissipating - verify that all signals are coming from the same quadrant..."

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"Oh...damn..."

"This is much more exaggerated than Laniakea..."