Star Empire

In the ancient empire, or to expand a little further, to enlarge the remaining memories and vision into the "possible" history of ancient star civilization... there may be hundreds of huge super galaxy clusters in different universes that have been given The name of Laniakea.

The later name may be more of a commemoration. But the first super galaxy cluster given this name by a star civilization...

I have forgotten that perhaps at that time, when the ancestors of civilization faced the vast sea and sky, they were in awe or out of shock... It is very likely that they truly and completely gave the meaning of this word to the cradle of civilization. The cradle of the cradle——

Endless, immeasurable paradise.

A small whirlpool that is common in the universe may have been the hometown for hundreds of lifetimes for many civilizations, not to mention that there are countless galactic whirlpools outside the silver plate, which are wantonly in space. The angel wings that stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years are in full bloom. If you don't pay attention, or if you don't observe carefully enough, this huge structure may be quite difficult to discover.

And now, the hidden but extremely "pure" related information network exposed in the void seems to reveal something——

Probabilistic lightning clusters in the void may not be directly identifiable. They need to be analyzed by external disturbances or special means and activated by entities before they can be transformed into actual real information structures.

But even if they don't usually show their actual body shape...their influence will also be revealed in the void...

Unlike the universe, the void has a very strong ability to block the spread of information. If you don't actively explore, the results will not be sent to everyone like the starlight in the universe and wait for them to understand before going. Pick up.

The existence of such a large world structure in the void itself is perhaps not surprising. After all, for the universe, just a small push when the Genesis explosion caused them to cool down and form a large-scale structure stretching for hundreds of billions of light years, and the void cannot become larger than the inner universe as the environment and foundation climb. Everything is more monotonous and cramped.

And if there can be certain disturbances in the void that can create such large-scale structures, then as long as it is really useful, then it should not be strange or strange that such large-scale structures can be mastered or transformed... But from now on Observations...

"Such a result... is actually very strange, or in other words, it is very different from the real range that we often carry out activities and measurements, and the symbolic meaning... The Creation Shine itself was born before order, and Probabilistic lightning chains... They are earlier than the world of order. It can even be said that theoretically they should be invisible... Stellar wind can indeed materialize them, but before materializing, they can already dominate creation in the void. The laws of the world..."

"Immediately guide the fleet to carry out border support, prepare to connect to the information matching matrix, and start analysis..."

Albeck's report was recorded, and the field life complex's perceived response was recorded.

In the void, those strange birds that "just appeared" can always tear off large chunks of flesh and blood from the body of order. There are more and more of them, and then they disappear, disappearing into the mountains and mountains with only dim shadows behind them. In the mist. Those unknown structures carry a dangerous aura. If they are also creations of Σ, then the danger in the void will be more dangerous and concrete...

Among the countless wreckage, I don’t know if they are hiding, or... they have turned into specks of light waiting for a new opportunity?

…

These strange birds...maybe they were once trapped deep in that fleet of unimaginable size?

Maybe... the sequence of "recovery" is not constant. Even if there is a pattern, this pattern must be far beyond what any individual can take for granted - a powerful unit may not necessarily recover faster. They...maybe they woke up from possible stagnation and silence not long ago? Or are they just like this, acting in unison in the void, appearing in groups and then disappearing out of thin air?

"maybe……"

"A moment of novelty and abnormality can only bring about a moment of change, no matter how we think and face it..."

"Success, secret, disaster, death, rebirth..."

"The way forward is no longer clear, or... there is no so-called way forward at all... We no longer dare, and we are even less willing to speculate on all possibilities for the future..."

"Maybe...try to start over..."

"We have nothing to do with each other, but civilization and future generations..."

"This is wishful thinking, and it is even more irresponsible..."

…

For a long time, everything that reality has given, except for the era that is so far away that there are almost no successors, and perhaps lives in a corner dreaming of the last sweet dream, everything is becoming inexplicable and cold.

For hundreds of millions of years, in the extreme expansion of countless individuals in countless worlds, as long as an accidental event occurs, its contingency will disappear, and with the expansion of territory and horizons, there will continue to be new and endless accidental small events. Probabilistic events are brought into view, and among them, there may be some disasters that were once devastating to the empire, and some kind of... memories that are enough to turn the vision into blood red?

This seems to have formed some kind of dynamic operating system that maintains the operation of the empire.

Sometimes, it seems that there will be nameless backfires boiling in certain nodes of the network, but soon, they will disappear without a trace...

…

Everything... seems to be getting darker and darker.

Every effort and every struggle the empire makes seems to end up in the abyss of failure.

I want revenge, I want to fight, but...

Either he is facing the fate of being destroyed, or... everything he has to face and fight against is this and that... natural phenomena, as well as corpses and remnants.

Every punch seemed to hit nothingness.

"Wait, a billion years...at this time, we-?"

…

The indiscriminate bombardment, which is equivalent to the high-power direct strike of the Genesis Brilliance, seems to be "swallowed" by the Imperial fleet.

Those giant birds with weird curved beaks began to be bombarded by beings similar to themselves.

The existence of the ultimate technological deduction module has allowed the entire empire's creations to begin to approach Σ - both in terms of performance and shape.

In the void, with the blink of countless pairs of eyes, countless worlds went from the beginning of creation to the end of destruction in an instant. Various spaces, environments and even... Life - in the eyes of the empire, they have gone through a complete life normally, and may even have been witnessed by the stars.

It only took a moment.

During the endless battles, a trace of worry flashed deep in the hearts of the former survivors, but these worries were also suppressed. However, this time it is not because I am worried that the leakage of the content I am worried about may cause other individuals in the empire to overthink and lose control of panic, but...

No one can understand this anymore.

Stars, battleships, order, laws...

Everything is beginning to lose the mystery and fear behind it, and they are all being transformed into usable resources by the empire.

Even the artillery fire began to lose its fiery feeling.

…

Competition, resistance and even hatred are supposed to drive civilization, or groups, and power to explode.

However, with the integration of countless node arrays, the data network of the entire empire is becoming deeper and deeper and colder.

Countless high-performance puppets drive countless warships of various types in the void to sweep everything, the world, various void structures, and the endless abyss between logic and description. Some of them will be temporarily satisfying, but more...

Once a collection spreads in all directions, no matter how powerful its source is, it will eventually be diluted...

Countless meetings and discussions, countless whispers between individuals, countless calculations driven by a huge matrix composed of billions of logical hosts...

The empire should have reverse scales, and it should also need reverse scales...

At least, the empire should have a key event that can be mentioned, thought of, and attract the attention of the entire civilization, or thought about...

……should?

The empire has experienced as many as three super disasters that can be called mass extinction level. If any one of these affects a civilization that has no basis for preservation and is at a critical point of change, it will definitely lead to the complete extinction of that civilization. No suspense, no possibility of survival.

The demise of civilization, the loss of comrades-in-arms, memories being tampered with, homes reduced to scorched earth...

If the source of these is not worthy of a struggle, if these are not worthy of being resented, remembered, and completely destroyed at all costs...

So what else is worthy of being given such action and purpose?

but……

Many data and records are no longer available for testing. The several destructions caused by man-made natural disasters caused by countless Σ battleships have caused heavy losses to the empire and the memory of civilization. What remains in the depths of everyone's minds are just vague general lines. This line vaguely allows everyone to recall what they have experienced, and what happened when civilization took a sharp turn at a critical position. What vague events...

"It seems that it's over here..."

"We can't recall those numbers, we can't piece together those faces, and we can't even determine whether the civilization in our memory is the civilization that actually existed, or... is it the part we want to believe..."

"Narrative bombing can completely penetrate everything. It can not only make a person's past disappear, but also make the past, reality and all related memories disappear..."

“We have no way of recalling what we have forgotten—let alone what we have now may have been tampered with. Unfortunately, it is impossible to find a realistic and reliable benchmark against which to measure what we have experienced, narrative layer The impact of chain bombing is enough to transcend any connection. I am afraid that even if they are thousands of worlds apart, the connection is enough to be severed..."

"We have long ceased to understand ourselves."

…

There is no need for conference rooms, no additional scheduling, and no special information deployment protocols.

Everyone who still maintains contact with the old era actually knows that——

The bottom line of civilization, the bottom line of the empire, and the bottom line of people have been continuously retreating. In fact, there are not many restrictions in the entire network - there may still be hope, but at that time, everything was based on extremely dangerous foundations. superior. During the Federation period... and part of the Empire period... it seemed that due to the lack of the highest authority and the shackles of the underlying protocols that were almost as strong as physical shackles... many extremely heavy losses occurred, and a large number of opportunities that should have been grasped were passed in vain...

The fewer the restrictions, the fewer the rules, the worse the survival status, but the higher the chance and possibility of survival.

What's more... there have only been three mass extinctions, which does not mean that "extinction losses" have only occurred three times.

Even for the current imperial fleet, attacking Σ Advanced Void Fortress is still dangerous, let alone in that era - however, if you don't care about the huge existences that have been discovered, their attacks cannot be confirmed from source and route. ——Often able to cross the void. And... the empire is now increasingly aware of how difficult it is to lock an order field that can change all the time in the vast void...

I'm afraid... the Σ equipment that can drive those imperial fleets that can strike across the void and can lock the ever-changing frequency of order in the void... the basis of the enemy tracking method itself is all at a super-conceptual level!

Who dares to let such a threat go? !

However... for the empire, it is just a matter of the order of its own losses...

In every war, the empire will face losses - from the loss of physical battleships to all-encompassing information structures. Most of them may be obvious, but some parts may take tens of millions of years, or even longer. It takes accumulation to eventually reveal itself, like an old beam with major flaws but still working...

Every place may be defective, and every place directly related to the stability of life is dangerous.

Limitations must be constantly erased.

But...if the bottom line related to life and foundation can be continuously erased...

There is no doubt that there is no need for other bottom lines to exist.

"Perhaps...this is the problem caused by not having a bottom line..."

Within the vast, cold and strange territory of the empire, which has numbered countless billions, the communication between consciousnesses that still have several frequencies and characteristics can be easily perceived by each other.

"Perhaps... our current indifference is because we no longer care about the bottom line... or that we have once again made a major wrong decision. We have diluted our goals and diluted everything about ourselves..."

"..."

"We have been in pain countless times. We fainted from pain at least three times."

"But it's hard to imagine, it's really hard to imagine -" In the quiet network, the fluctuations that briefly appeared were quickly diluted by countless nodes.

"Our hatred has never been sustained...past and present..."

…

"It's hard to imagine, we simply can't determine whether this is a sign of madness, or a pathological status quo, or an aspect we look forward to after promotion but never pay attention to, some kind of silence that is turning to criticality, or whether it has become before death comes. The tolling of the death knell becomes increasingly distant and hollow..."

…

During the long and empty time, the empire's expansion speed and time breadth once again became unprecedented.

The stellar wind field was out of control, and the original Σ facility array in the void had many impacts... Could it be that after that impact, the... storm circle that accompanied the formation of the decisive battle flagship team disappeared directly? Like the attachment structures dissipated...?

In the void, large and small Σ structure enrichment points began to gradually expose more macroscopic structures——

"We have confirmed that the super-large world extension structure in a single quadrant has been established..."

Before and inside countless souls and "eyes", there is a huge projection structure finally simulated by countless logic models that may even be able to completely burn out the thinking circuits and perception systems of the first generation of true super information life created by the empire. His image is deeply engraved in the memory of every conscious body:

Compared to the wings of an angel... it seemed more like the skeleton of a giant beast that was riddled with holes. In this complex super-rank extension model, it has countless fractures, countless holes and shadows, and more distortions caused by the deviation of the fluctuation information from the theoretical value that seems to be inconsistent with reality...

This structure currently seems to only extend in a single quadrant.

but……

Just this jagged and broken skeleton is enough to reveal how glorious this structure might have been when it was once complete! !

It extends wantonly in the void, and just this wreckage...if it can be "caught"...is enough to envelop almost...the entire empire! !

"……If……"

"We have enough information influence..."

"Can we also... create it in the void?"

"It's hard to imagine...that our number...would have such a corresponding relationship with these structures..."