Star Empire

In the void, there is a thick and vast cloud layer. In the cloud layer, there are countless inexplicable giant structures with countless radiating super-order tentacles - they float on the cloud sea structure that seems virtual and real, like Monsters are devouring the starry sky.

A certain "depressive" atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger, and this atmosphere, together with the body of the equipment group, is forcibly suppressing the ocean of information that is already boiling inside the equipment.

Once upon a time, controlling high-density mass materials and the huge energy attached to them required superb materials technology, brilliant insights into all of this, and enough luck and ideas...

Once upon a time, the first resource that could shape all things was placed in front of us, endless and never exhausted. They do not require anyone’s hard work or energy, they only require a slight flick of the will, and all the illusions in thoughts and wills will be transformed into reality by countless black boxes that are already elusive...

In the center of the countless tentacles, a huge cylinder fixed by a force field and connected to the cone is slowly rotating and rising.

The "order" is about to be issued.

Dots of white light are condensed on the smooth and sharp tip of the cone, as if a supernova has been compressed into a basic particle without attenuation, and is as bright as a singularity.

The first rune array began to be generated, and huge arcs that did not match the entire facility were born from nothingness. They condensed their own shapes from the chaotic white light, and connected to each other under the guidance of the preset program. closure……

Thought and matter have been unified.

The second rune array began to emerge, condense and connect the beginning and the end - no matter what, all this requires a goal.

The standards have been changed countless times, and the actions that were once devastating are now as docile as a...candle.

The third rune ring and logical structure ring are unfolded - in the void, there will always be such and such things that are different, once and for all... At present, it seems that it is far from being realized. The more we know, the more unknown areas The bigger...

Soon, the fourth, fifth, sixth and more logical arrays, assignment matrices and meaning runes with various structures but extremely coordinated with each other were arranged in place according to the preset program - the center of the cone point The blazing white light spot connected with the order center of all the rune rings completely and accurately, without any deviation.

"After all this, are we still us? Are we still us?"

"ignition!!!"

All the oppressive feeling surrounding all of this suddenly shattered, and the dazzling sharpness condensed at the tip of the cone spread into a surging light pillar whose projection was already much wider than the river system. The light beam passes through the rune groups and is given different sets of logical structures and basic connotations. They follow the instructions given to them and use part of themselves to peel off debris to condense into a field of order. They followed the guidance of the beacon, crossed the distant and dark chasm of the void, and exploded in the direction of "reality" in the trembling core of a heart between nothingness and reality.

As many prominences as there were in the blazing sun, there will be as many such pillars of light rising in this vast and thick debris nebula now.

Correspondingly, there is the sudden spread of countless cores, the sudden expansion of countless branches, and the generation of countless worlds in the void. They are truly all over the void, spread across the twenty-six quadrants, with countless giant hands stretching out in glory, as if they are trying to grab their own destiny from the void.

The virtual point jumping nets and huge reserve control troops that had been waiting around all the cores were dispatched in an instant.

The main axis of civilization ensures the relative flow and consistency of information within each world - no world will start to develop itself in advance, and if any mistakes occur, they will be immediately exiled.

Everything sacrificed in order to build a virtual dot network is enough to build up one starry sky after another.

The exponential development that has already been established is superimposed on the exponential expansion that can start again within the territory of the empire that expands on this scale.

They paint an unimaginable picture.

Although basic industrial modules and component modules require an almost conceptual level of aggregation and loss to build more advanced creations, each exponential expansion will raise the possible total amount of the entire empire to an unimaginable level - the longer the time , an expansion, a growth will make everything more powerful, make the numbers more crazy, and make everything's bottom line further deviate from the baseline, and deviate from the reality that may seem stable.

The mere expansion of them is enough to bring fear and despair to those who look at them, as if everything is out of control.

The empire still suppressed all this, suppressed this most direct source of expansion. Emergency stop commands, emergency will correction commands, and other triggering measures that have long relied on events and accumulation of events will shut down the huge growth area the moment any anomaly is retrieved and detected...

For a long time, the empire and the emperor actually... did not understand each of their actions, what each action represented, and what consequences it would have. The empire could only hope to co-varie with any results in the technical extreme deduction module. Hope your reaction is quick enough.

That is not just a matter of misunderstandings in ideas and directions. Once some nodes in the countless structures have errors, an error will soon be infinitely amplified by numbers. It will be a disaster that the empire cannot afford. And too many points will also cause huge damage to the empire network itself. Pressure - The redundant calculation of industrial modules is only enough to maintain itself without taking up the empire's network live resources, but once it needs to be integrated for higher-level construction...

They eat up a lot of computational bandwidth.

The never-ending attacks from countless aspects are constantly reducing the sum and possible upper limit of this huge collective, even though this "upper limit" should not exist.

The weight effect and technical extreme deduction module may be able to avoid some errors that are bound to occur, but at present... my relatively clear and direct needs should not include highly polluting structures...

We can only hope so, the engine power is already at full power, and it is impossible to stop it. Our own conditions do not allow it, and external conditions do not allow it.

If the empire is really given a uniform and continuous perfect infinite environment... During this period of time, it is only the most basic quantity iteration. The empire's basic industrial shaping module is enough to make its subsequent measurement numbers around the entire Holy Music Praise Fortress. The axis goes back and forth five times. And if we can take advantage of the continuity of the environment or even the perfection itself... everything may surpass all imagination in an instant.

But I'm afraid...such a perfect environment is an ideal perfection that is ultimately unreachable now, perhaps even in the extremely distant future.

The price for all this was nearly tens of billions of years, and nearly sacrificial pain, numbness, patience, and mania for all souls.

Many constraints still exist, and pain is the best proof of these constraints and suppressions.

Reality is imperfect, and imperfection itself can be a huge and serious constraint. As for whether perfection is possible in the void, let alone perfection, or even a paradise... Is it possible? Where will they be?

"What? Myself? The nothingness after expansion, the corpse transformed after being broken? Grow again?"

"What does that mean? Who reported this?"

"Your Majesty? What's wrong with you?"

"Who is speaking?"

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The countless giant lights blooming in the void expanded rapidly. Countless "national ignition devices" driven by the wind field of the Void Sun's debris have provided an extremely strong original foundation for this round of previously unimaginable expansion. And if all the information generated by the huge cluster of devices within each world branch is gathered together... and focused on a certain point... it can also be "ignited", and the bright world fireworks can bloom in the void.

The time required to complete such a thing, even after a considerable degree of compression, is only slightly less than tens of millions of years.

Perhaps, after the establishment of the twenty-sixth branch of the world that was already stable and operating in other quadrants... The empire really took the last step at that moment, after countless disasters that almost slipped and even nearly backfired. after.

There are too many details, too many repetitions, too many pasts, too many that are no longer counted as blood and tears, too many that can only be seen as a calculation game of increasing or decreasing numbers, and are no longer worthy of being recorded in the archives.

What is obvious is... the Star Empire, the existence that currently holds this name, is considered "dead", has the most powerful power compared to its history, and this era without a name... is also the entire empire , even the only era between the life and death of civilization that can be compared with... that ancient and foggy primitive chronology - even though they do not follow a set of time systems at all.

The corresponding control equipment and protective equipment related to the branches of the world have also begun to enter the installation stage - the related design tasks have been proposed many, many years ago, and during these billions of years, the requirements have been constantly Additional, constantly becoming more consistent with the environment, and relatively easier to be understood by oneself, what kind of existence will it be and should be...

Before that, there were only twenty-six branches of the world as the territory of the empire. There were too many debris created by failures lingering in the void, cutting out huge wounds that seemed unhealable. The noise still exists now, like The soul of grievance that cannot be dispelled.

The empire has completely failed to keep up with its own pace.

Deep in the memory that is still vaguely discernible... Before the empire was established, several digital scholars who spent three thousand years in the crystal energy blockade to strengthen themselves, learn and integrate all knowledge have been passed down to this day.

After the empire was first established, these people were even able to withstand the huge pressure of the near-annihilation of civilization and the near-annihilation of the race to promote the continued development of civilization. They successfully completed the analysis of the basic structure of the existential space channel reactor at the virtual and real ends, and based on this, they secured an inexhaustible source of information for the entire empire to use.

After the new foothold was established, countless mathematical structures that had never been seen before were created, and countless important weapons of the great power in the absolute sense of that era were created. The empire even formed its own extraordinary fleet, and began to set its sights on the further powerful law of the void.

Although rash advancement will bring countless problems, at least at that time... everything can still develop, life still has a soul, and civilization is complete and healthy, although... it already needs leaders, and already needs to worry about... huge external disturbances Will it interfere with the self-development possibilities of civilization?

Everything is shattered, everything is shattered.

The struggling giant wings alone were enough to crush the strongest world at that time, and the doomsday and fear in those memories... might just be because of its "passing".

Then came the era of the Doomsday Ark and the Blazing Sun of the Void.

In that million years, after these two terrible Σ creations smashed into the entire empire, all destiny and all possibilities were completely changed - creations that could not be developed by the empire on their own, could not be controlled by the empire at that time. The knowledge was tightly stuffed into the knowledge system and destiny system of the entire empire by the ultimate technological deduction module. Ordinary lives can no longer keep up with the rapidly rising foundation of the empire. Even if they are given knowledge, it will be difficult for them to apply that information to practice in a short period of time...

Even the emperors, who were connected to countless supply calculation resource arrays and had persisted at a higher level for hundreds of thousands of years, gradually withdrew from R\u0026D and innovation - all they could do at that time was to perform extreme deductions through technology The module just turns its thoughts and hopes into reality, and then understands them. But just like this, it is already valuable - at that time, the empire did not have black box creations, or, even if there were, people had enough confidence to conquer them and overcome all difficulties.

People believed in themselves that the empire was still independent and would be worried about themselves.

And now...

Even Victorville himself can no longer understand how many mechanisms and details are hidden in the countless creations. In other words, all of them are no longer noticed or worried. The empire has completely broken through its own bottom line and no longer worries about any potential dangers to itself.

Many billions of years have passed since the sun's debris set off a flood of information.

Once upon a time, the empire was worried about why other crystal energy, which even civilizations that could cross the world had difficulty in mastering, would be accepted by it in such a simple way. It even possessed powerful crystal energy technology before taking the step across the world. In the past, the empire had worried countless times about how many secrets and possibilities those powerful foreign intervention entities would contain...?

However, until now, the answers to all questions are still outside the perception range, and... do not need to be cared about.

First, the role that individuals can play is getting smaller and smaller, then there are small groups composed of a few people, then thinking units composed of hundreds or thousands of people, and then tens of thousands, millions, tens of millions of fleet members, and even hundreds of people. Trillions and quadrillions of basic citizens, basic life forms and equipment throughout the entire artificial universe...

Everything is like a digital game. The puppets and various basic units have become huge strings that can be added or deleted instantly. When fighting against the huge death tide fracture zone, when fighting against various weird metaphysical phenomena, and when fighting against When fighting against the Σ fleet, which is extremely large and powerful for every era... they will fluctuate violently.

The evolutionary matrix has taken over almost all the operational foundations of the entire empire, and the spiritual beings in it... they are constantly being diluted, faded, and even forgotten about each other...

However, at the same time, their will became stronger, their bodies became more indestructible, their lives became more solid, and their power became more irresistible.

…Perhaps, like a drop of ink dropped into a pond, it might once have been evident, distinguishable, present and perceived. But as the dilution increases... they become less and less visible, thinner and uncanny...

Originally, the soul and perception should be diluted.

However, the entire illusory and soulless reality is under the preset rules and the will of the empire, using heavy and endless resources to preserve everything now.

The thinner the ink, the more it is enhanced.

The soul cannot hide, it can only watch and feel itself being continuously diluted.

It is said that...blood used to be red.

Perhaps such a reality can therefore be called red reality. It is a blood-like reality where the soul is constantly diluted and devoured but it is almost impossible to die naturally.

This is how people, who are connected to at least trillions of units of evolutionary matrices behind their backs, can perceive and react to reality, and what few roles they have left now...

"It's...enough..."

…

Outside the old "First Territory" where the empire has begun to complete its planning, countless branches of the world and information bodies of the world's veins are connected to pulse nodes "in the sky", and huge structures use the virtual and real boundaries as the "ground", pulling up silently. Rise from the ground.

The nominal name of the Cosmic Base Anchor, which has been used for tens of billions of years, was replaced by the World Circuit Eternal Block.

Correspondingly, there is the slender and tall arrow-shaped World Vein Overview Seat that stands in the void and the extremely huge and extremely thick "second-order structural pyramid" - the World Branch Zenith Seat.

Appropriate names and names also have enough power to influence reality. They are also part of the "information structure" and the empire. Perhaps it can also be seen as the pitiful struggle of the last bits of this corpse that have long been mixed with culture.

To be sure, they're not perfect. Even if all the technologies used on them are very sophisticated, they may not be able to form a perfect combination directly.

The original ones will have too many flaws, such as the World Branch Zenith. Currently, it requires almost half of the calculation bandwidth to maintain the order field, which makes its performance significantly reduced compared to the design. But... once disaster strikes, they are the fortresses that protect the sky from being blown down, at least, that should be the case in most cases...

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"disaster?!"

Perhaps, the world branch level has really reached the end of the last step towards the void stage. What is needed in the future is accumulation and quantity.

As an empire that possesses wisdom, is not contaminated, and can still execute tasks and orders with maximum efficiency, it has established an advantage in a battle of this scale and established a real advantage - Σ facilities may have much better performance than these original facilities of the empire. times, but after all, they carried the remains of the high-intensity death wave pollution that could corrupt countless worlds...

The Empire has the advantage. It can now "deceive" them. The Empire can now directly cut the edges and strike directly at the core of the branches of the world with huge holes in Σ's defenses.

The intensity of single-point wars between civilizations has dropped significantly, and it no longer even requires high-density, ultra-high-frequency general concepts, strong law confrontation, rank distortion, narrative layer bombing, and various types of irreversible annihilation and dislocation as usual... …

They seem to be getting a little dimmer...

A huge and brutal struggle replaced the unstoppable and uninterruptible showdown between the dots.

Countless worlds and world structures have been completely banished from their long-standing foundations of order.

Only the branches of the world are not safe, let alone comprehensive. A world without mutual connections and constraints, with free structure and logic should be equally rich and brilliant...

But this is only one aspect.

Some kind of weird throbbing was finally suppressed, and I looked back at history and observed the eternity... everything seemed to be "developing for the better", but...

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In the depths of the vast void, some "materializations" may be generated. They are the products of probability, the most illusory and glorious moments of nothingness and the final "materialization point"...

If the empire fights, the empire destroys the world...

The current operation has reached such a scale that neither the Empire nor Σ can take care of every detail...

The empire may have originated from a certain branch of the world, or from a certain civilization that emerged from a free world around the branch of the world... This is how narrative memory should be.

But now...all this...

Some paragraphs in this chapter refer to some relevant settings of SCP3001 Red Reality.