Star Empire

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dilapidated.

wreckage.

The place was a mess.

Devastated everywhere.

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The giant hand from the void tore apart a large area of ​​the empire, and countless wounds were deep to the core. The territory of the empire was almost completely shattered, and even the deep core that the empire deliberately planned to forget and was still producing a steady stream of debris... was completely penetrated.

The void became silent again. Maybe this time... it would be really silent for a long, long time...?

is it possible……

As the empire prepared to compete in a life-and-death game, they really grabbed the chessboard called Order and knocked it down on its head, and was beaten to a bloody head.

There was almost no more reaction or attention from the empire. Everything seemed to have been used to it, expected, and even... it seemed that to some extent, it should be more... thankful.

If all the worlds were gathered together and completely gathered... the empire would probably be "extinct" again.

And this time... there are even some speculations that... this may be some kind of test, or even... "teaching"? !

After all, such an action is too crude and the execution is too barbaric. The entire operation and plan...if there are any, then the various loopholes in it...are probably no more than the 99% missing in this huge and corrupt world. There are fewer holes and imperfections in the structure - it doesn't feel like a tactical call, let alone a strategic call...

If it is not some kind of inferior and soulless underlying physical twitch, then I am afraid...the possibility of showing power and showing "big things" in the void is not absolutely zero...

I don’t know if they still have intelligence that can be understood by themselves, but it is confirmed that they should have the ability to operate logically.

This time, it is very similar to the last destruction-level war - however, this time, the scale of the enemy forces attacking the entire empire is probably not as good as the last time, and the overall action mode is also much inferior. But what they have in common is that they all allowed the empire to survive...

Maybe in this state, they think the empire is... "dead"? ?

"...It cannot be proven or falsified. Speculation is meaningless. Whether they intend to kill us or continue to show us what may happen in the void...it is meaningless in the end."

"We are working hard now, we are struggling now... not for civilization, let alone for some illusory hope and future - we don't need civilization at all, we just want to die more happily and with dignity in the future... "

"At least, we hope that we can fight to death in the future instead of being crushed to death, like bugs... don't want to feel any more pain."

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"The place is in a mess again. A large number of facilities we created in the void have been damaged again. There are large gaps and black barriers everywhere in the network. Without the protection of the node constraint layer, I am afraid those black barriers and fractures can Like a black hole swallowing up all retrieval requests and actual souls and consciousness..."

"...At least, this time is not a war of destruction..."

"Ikarim, and Agnas - I hope everyone can understand that even if our current network structure and storage model are modified again by the technical extreme deduction module, it is impossible for such a network structure to remain stable. It is impossible to preserve all information safely. If we were even a little bit normal, such a disaster would be enough to blow up our entire system - we would survive just because we are not normal.”

Zhai Cahir's soul flickered a little, and the light was not warm: "Everything in our current, or in the past network, all comes from the technical extreme deduction module - we don't need to understand their actual principles and geometric details. Geometry, we just need to have a rough understanding of their performance and then be able to use it..."

"No matter how much we lose, as long as the technical extreme deduction module is not damaged, we will never have real losses, as long as we still remember how to control those contacts. On the other hand... we are not considered civilized at all now, we It is impossible for civilization to become extinct. It has already become extinct. Since the existence of death has not been resurrected and cannot die again, it cannot be killed."

"...You can say less. Now that the situation has reached this point, no one wants to have more...unhappiness among us...?"

A few eyes without much kindness glanced coldly across the chasm full of holes and defects, "At least we still have souls."

"If you don't care, it won't hurt - do you think it's easy to really not care? It's not much easier than being able to take responsibility! It's simple to say, but how many of you have carefully thought about the implications of these words? Is it possible? Who can truly achieve their ideal self or everything, even everything in the enlightenment stories of lower civilizations - Is the empire capable? Are you and I capable? Look at us now! Who do we count? !!”

"...when did this happen..."

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"——??!! What happened to us?"

"...Aren't we adjusting the network? I didn't remember that between us..."

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"Nearly half of the nodes in the network have collapsed. Now all operations are almost black. It is completely impossible to predict how an instruction will be distorted after crossing a long transmission network..."

"...Indeed, this is a very, very serious matter...but at least we can...forget it."

"Gather together? Meeting? What do you want to say? Indeed, there are few individuals in the entire empire with souls. At the same time... at this juncture, this gathering does not have any positive elements - We have lost a few more old friends with names and soul numbers."

"Albeck, Orif, X-T-11-6466723, If they are missing, then...I am afraid that even if they can recover in the future, they will at most become a rigid and serious individual, rather than the people we know. Cavernrel and Eskett's souls are damaged, and they must rely on Jingjing for now. The lag field is used to delay the divergence and fragmentation trend of the soul..."

"At least...there is still room for remedy."

"When was the last time we used the console to analyze the information model together...?"

"Hundreds of millions or more than a billion years ago, I only vaguely remember using the information model console when the imperial civilization still existed. After that... I don't know if I participated in implanting cores and wreckage transformation models. Corresponding research..."

"We still need a lot of time to verify our conjectures and implement our plans. I hope this time, the tranquility in the void is no longer an appearance..."

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There is no peace here.

The stasis module is located in the center of a huge intermittent golden ring, and the ring is inlaid with a huge number of crystal matrices at equal intervals. These crystals broadcast stasis replacement information to the module core in the center of the ring according to a certain "rhythm". Maintain the attribute of "never changing".

The ring itself is very huge, with a single-rank diameter of more than 30 million kilometers - however, compared to this once huge and complete universe, this ring itself... is crucial to this world, but it is still Just an inconspicuous tiny point of light.

Outside this small closed interval, the situation in the world is not so good:

In order to speed up the adjustment of the entire healthy macrocosm as much as possible, the empire gave up, or rather improved, the once single information star network. Now, with the help of the "Force Field Relic" of field life, the Cosmic Baseline Stable Anchor can greatly enhance its control over all information structures of the entire world, and can effectively utilize all resources in the starry sky shrouded by the Relic. Such a world may Just looking at the strength of some parts cannot compare with the heavy fortress world of the past, but the current standard empire world surpasses the previous standardized creations in terms of overall scale, complexity and completeness - under the premise of being highly controllable, the complexity will no longer be Become a burden to control, but become part of the "weight" that presses the entire world back to baseline.

The world should be more stable, but now...

In the vast space, the original structure of the stars has collapsed and spread. The original star clusters and astrolabe exploded as if their gravity had been instantly removed, and pale golden light spots ran and collided irregularly in the space, as if this place had been hit by a severe death wave. There are a lot of loopholes and errors in the underlying data between the world itself and the world. The Cosmic Benchmark Stabilizing Anchor has to scan the entire world again and again at very short intervals and sort out the errors, otherwise the world will soon "break itself" poison".

And in the depths of the starry sky that is on the verge of collapse and disintegration, those parts that should have been dark and dark are now constantly shining and wriggling with countless coquettish yellow lights - that is the alienated starry sky and the unstable underlying space. The result of the conflict between the structure's attempts to tear and destroy the foundation of the world and the joint stabilizing effects of the "relics" of field life and the stability anchor of the universe's baseline.

In fact, this place is no longer suitable as an industrial core - special information model molding requires an extremely stable environment, and the current world structure... even if the additional redundant correction facilities and the powerful basic performance of the molding equipment are enough to reshape processing The stable zone needed... The already highly distorted world is likely to be unable to withstand the extended pressure brought by these powerful industrial modules - the world may be torn apart.

However... this is deep in the core area of ​​​​the empire. As one of the core experimental areas in the former industrial implant model construction plan, this world, together with some of the surrounding ancillary structures, is currently the best-preserved world/world in the entire empire. One of the structures. In other words... this is one of the few bases in the empire where one can manufacture "own" items.

"The soul structures of Cavinriel and Eskett have been temporarily stabilized... In the previous battles, we should have noticed that in fact, the souls of many individuals with intelligence were still intact the moment their bodies were blown up. , and may not even have any personality defects. However, in that case, we have no way to save them. Not only will the soul become fragile after being stripped away, but it will also easily attract "attention"... At the same time, what remains now The main souls that come down... generally have too huge information entanglements - conventional soul containing equipment can no longer carry them, and more advanced souls are non-linear void jumps and soul dispersions are reduced and preserved... At least for now, the soulless puppets unuseful."

"We have...forgotten some parts, some treasures that we have not discovered just now."

Isendel, who was in the information control state and whose body and soul had been fully activated and expanded, together with the field life, began to implant information implants that had been calibrated many times into the stasis core in the center of the giant facility. The gurgling golden light spans across space, like waving some kind of pale golden silk in the dark night. The silk is fluttering in the wind and flows across thousands of kilometers of night sky...

"...We once tried to use souls and thoughts as the carrying space for our external objects, but in the days that followed, we always dealt with all kinds of dangerous objects and dangerous information...directly using thoughts and souls to construct The space to hold them is full of dangers - one loss of control may completely blow up the soul..."

"However, just because such attributes won't be used for a while doesn't mean that those redundancies are worthless..."

The implant implanted into the stasis core has lost its entity. The once highly concentrated light spots spread out, forming a huge ship shadow that surpassed the Sheng Mang class around their souls.

As the void printing light flow continues to sweep, the tiny light points sprayed from the void first form reference points inside and outside the ship shadow. As more and more light particles "stick" to them, those most basic The light spots quickly spread and turned into solid structures that were crawling outward along the shadow. The gaps and cracks quickly closed together, and eventually formed two huge shuttle-shaped battleships with a laterally bulging middle and an overall elongation at one end.

"In order to make the "explosion" as stable and fast as possible, this type of warship can only be as simple in structure as possible..." Eisendel's "eyes" scanned the surface of the huge spacecraft, which was a mixture of metal and crystal, "Charging energy" Encapsulated structures can indeed achieve higher resistance and strength, but...their structures ultimately need to be superimposed and stable, which requires a large amount of information calculation bandwidth, which is not suitable for ultra-long-distance and high-intensity operations in emergencies. The soul flagship that jumps to ensure that the main personality and main soul leave the battlefield..."

"This can be regarded as our first type of extraordinary material with a single structure... It does not rely on compatibility or extraordinary information fixed modules. It directly extracts information from the void for assignment and transformation..."

"Yeah, it's hard to imagine that so many extreme attributes would be born in the end of the world. Some of them are even incapable of even our artillery fire. In order to analyze them, we must use higher-end violence..."

"However... these can actually all find corresponding models - stars from within the past world. After stars undergo various drastic changes in their twilight years, the properties of the remaining celestial bodies are far superior to those of the past stars. The fusion core itself. At the end of the world, all the world lines of the entire world will enter a closed-loop disintegration process. All the information and possibilities of the entire world from the beginning of creation to the end of the world will converge at that moment... The birth of extreme materials is not impossible. …”

"Those Σ possesses high-level and perfect materials at the level of mathematics and logic..."

"Maybe it has gone through countless generations of improvements based on this, who knows..."

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"The appearance of soul encapsulation characteristics has been detected - the gap in the two souls has been filled and they are entering the awakening and recovery period..."

"After Torres' personality reshaping is completed, let's banish the outer structure of this world. The equipment is left behind, and the space is completely irreparable. The more we try to intervene, the more those "scars" will be stimulated and develop. The crazier it gets." Looking at the countless crystallized remains in the "Muddy Sky Layer" that were struggling like crazy struggling and twisted like dragons in the "Hundred Sky Layer" and the increasingly abnormal celestial phenomena, Isendel shook his head, and he suddenly instinctively wanted to call the incidental calculation again. Group, but no matter how you call, the existence that is connected is only a cold and huge calculation power, without any trace of soul.

"..."

Some of the blood-red light before my eyes never faded.

But I... really couldn't cry anymore.