Star Empire

Torres, Eskitte, Zhai Cahill, Cavin Riel, Caloust.

These five individuals represent several types of individuals who have had different responses to crystal energy exposure so far.

The first two were exposed to direct crystal energy radiation sources for a long time. They survived, and their bodies gained visible gains. Zhai Cahill was in contact with the information collection network and the information computer switchboard for a long time. Under the disturbance of the first stable state of suspected other information, the reaction to crystal energy is more intense.

Cavinrel and Kalost moved into the crystal energy environment from a normal environment, and they did not receive direct irradiation from crystal energy or crystal energy derivatives. Currently, they are experiencing fatigue caused by observing the first stable state of information. It has been alleviated a lot, but it is still unclear whether the main reason for this change is that their souls have really begun to mutate, or the nature of the crystal energy has declined, or both are at work.

"We need more powerful soul observation capabilities." Cavinriel looked at the video in front of him, "We cannot stop at the current soul technology. We must be able to control every basic unit of the soul and be able to observe it. , quantification, until precise manipulation can be carried out! And, we need to be able to separate the complete soul from the entity! We cannot stop at appearances and simple applications!”

"This is a new topic, and it's very big." Zhai Cahill shook his head beside him, "We have been studying the ability to send and preserve souls in the form of data between network nodes for a long time, and there are still loopholes. , it might take quite a long time to do what you said."

"No, you did spend a lot of time and energy to achieve the current results before, but now it seems that not only you, but also the entire Ultimate Frontier, all its research is biased towards superficial research. What we have done Everything is about utilizing nature with stronger means. The further we dig down, the harder it will be to utilize and control the laws of the world, so we will encounter bottlenecks and can only consider branching out."

“But it’s different now. Using information unification and possible broadened ideas, we can face all previous difficulties with a newer overall model. Maybe those problems that were originally unsolvable will be very simple to solve now. "

Zhai Cahir looked at Cavinriel and listened to his powerful words. After a while, he suddenly spread his hands, with helplessness written on his face: "Have you forgotten the regulations on permission locks? Such a huge subject, We also need to use information unification. If we really want to do it, how are you going to explain it to the other participants? Moreover, we need more than just a single batch of support!"

"This..." Cavinrel was choked, "Why... I suddenly found so many obstacles..."

"How about...calling the consul?" Kalost suddenly suggested, "After all, the army has taken over this matter, so as long as there is a real need, the consul can also..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kalost's whole body suddenly tensed up, and cold sweat broke out immediately. Because he clearly saw that the moment his words fell, the eyes of Zhai Cahir and Cavinriel became sharp as if they were waking up from a big dream, under the gaze of two swords. , Calost even felt... as if he was facing a ferocious herbivore. This feeling had not occurred for an unknown period of time.

Obviously, he is likely to be sold. After all, in the current federal system, as long as you reach this position step by step, you basically don’t have to think about pleasing others, and no one will think about it - for countless years, the selection system has already Proven their reliability.

And any suggestions given by these people who control different black boxes are completely fine as long as there are suitable reasons and execution conditions - but, in the process, there may be people who don't mind putting the suggestions in a private name. The person was beaten violently as if "just kidding".

"——There is nothing else to do anyway. From our current point of view, this is a good idea with implementation significance. Then this glorious and arduous task will be handed over to you. After we have researched some results, I’ll trouble you the first time I escort you.”

"Wait for me--"

Cavernelle gently patted Kalost on the shoulder, then pulled Zhai Cahir up and teleported away from the surveillance room before Kalost could react.

"This..." Caloust suddenly reacted and was about to argue, but the scientific duo had already disappeared in front of them. Looking at the empty surroundings, Kalost could only shake his head helplessly.

On the way to the Star Crown Battleship, Zhai Cahir and Cavinriel, who had escaped before, were walking in the corridor and talking to each other. The next goal was relatively clear, so the two There aren't many details that can be finalized.

"Then that's it." Zhai Cahir finally confirmed, "In the next time, I will be responsible for trying to find ways to initially restrain or control crystal energy, while you will determine the impact of crystal energy radiation on the soul?"

"exactly."

"...Crystal energy." Zhai Cahir suddenly sighed, "I don't know if this is our luck. In fact, after exploring the entire universe and there has been no new technological progress, some uneasy factors began. It is gradually rising. If there had not been this crystal energy incident, if it had remained at the same stage as before for a long time, maybe... the Federation would have self-destructed before the heat death of the universe. After all, we are basically at a standstill in all directions now, like this Yes, dynamic stability with minimal fluctuations may exist for as long as you want..."

"If we are lucky enough, maybe we can take this as an opportunity... to have the possibility to completely explore all the structures and laws in the entire universe, and even... we are also talking about having some kind of possibility The greater power, our existence... will no longer be attached to the whole world that is now separate."

"Luck..." Cavernrel didn't answer anything. After all, luck is also a part of life. In history, many famous scholars did nothing in the later period and even became a stumbling block to development. Their inertial thinking made them subconsciously Ignoring some minor phenomena, in the end, the experience may even become a kind of drag.

Not only because their vision has been limited, but more because they are not lucky enough. Many scientific results really need an accidental friction to be noticed - here, it is as if the impact of the universe playing dice is drastically enlarge. There are many types of these accidental sparks, but their occurrence probability is also very low. Whether you can meet it or not, it all depends on luck.

"I know that as a scientist, you may not like these unquantifiable concepts of nothingness."

"No." Cavinriel suddenly took Zhai Cahir's hand, "You are right, everything is composed of information... We... should not ignore any detail that may change the perception of reality. "

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In the following detailed tests, due to the limited performance of the space station built by the Goddess Bee Swarm Fleet, this powerful battleship became the main workplace of Zhai Cahir and Cavin Riel, and was separated from the emergency test medical module. The crystal energy samples that were exported also began to be transported here. A series of new experiments are being carried out here in full swing.

In the large laboratory on the side below the spacecraft, the entire laboratory is illuminated by blazing white lights. Even though the wall is completely opaque, you can feel its thickness and solidity just by looking at it. In the laboratory, a The batches of industrialized "Cavenriels" wearing experimental uniforms are pouring out of the cloning warehouse in small phalanxes. Their task is simple: receive exposure to crystal energy radiation emitted by various crystal energy infestations in various postures, distances, contact parts and ranges, and then save and observe the collected data in batches.

"This is simply like performance art..." Zhai Cahir looked at the holographic clone army displayed on the monitor and shook his head repeatedly. "I won't say whether it is reasonable or not. I guess you are doing this to speak to irrational people. They’ll all think you’re weird.”

"How about you think of a way to do actual impact assessment without relying on large-number experiments in the face of a brand-new existence that is enough to shake our cognition. The impact function cannot be directly mathematically modeled using the verification array. , what should we do?”

Cavinriel rolled his eyes at the chief control technician next to him, "If we don't try this, we won't even know the safe distance now that the isolation equipment is ineffective! To be honest, I feel like everything is full of contradictions now - no, How about throwing you in?"

While the real Cavin Riel was directing the experiment, Zhai Cahill, who was choked, continued to check the perspective videos of Eskett and Torres that they had obtained before.

Cavinrel doesn't care at all about this kind of large-scale use of "living people" for experiments, because the federal act's protection of human rights has a scope, and each citizen's registration method is unique, and this kind of Registration and memetic immunity are in a state of entanglement. Even if someone really wants to pass the fake as real, they have nothing to say in the face of targeted infectious erasure memes.

Regarding clones, the Federation has some more detailed regulations. So far, the Federation's population replacement is extremely slow. A family in the traditional sense maintained by federal laws may last for tens of millions or even billions of years.

In the case of irreversible loss of family members, the missing person is allowed to be copied and passed on. This type of clone will be given everything that a normal person has, including citizenship. For the kind of connection created by Cavinrel, Batch clones that do not have their own consciousness are only given "limited humanity."

Their advanced thinking activities will be erased from the beginning of their manufacture, and their pain nerves will also be functionally disabled to reduce their pain as much as possible. The chief scientist has the right to use large quantities of his own clones within the scope of the law, or he can Use different sibling clones of others with their consent.

This can be regarded as the final and most stable result that can be achieved by ethics, equal rights, practical application needs, and efficient abandonment of fierce friction among many factors. If it were in an earlier period, the black box state had not yet been fully established, and the federal class changes had not yet been completed. When it is considered active, every such collision of ideas will throw the entire federal public opinion into turmoil.

"……turmoil"

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In the subsequent repeated experiments, time was ignored. In some cases, only batches of subjects covered with crystals were sent to the isolation room for observation, and then a group of new subjects were controlled from the cultured cells under the control of biological electrodes. They walked out of the trough neatly. Cavinrel compared the videos extracted from the two people's perspectives countless times——

After screening about 1,500 or 1,700 times, Cavinrel calculated the degree of contact between the crystal energy derivatives and their bodies in each frame of the two people's pictures, and found that if the two people were placed in If the distance from all the crystal energy radiation sources around it is made into a function, then these two functions are almost straight lines.

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"...Straight line? Uniform illumination? Is this a factor? Can this be considered a factor? If nothing else, it's just this curve. It's the same if I randomly select a star's light intensity function chart without planets, as long as the space is uniform! "

Facing Cavinriel's question, Zhai Cahill responded rudely:

"This is the one with the highest success weight among the more than 35,000 possible solutions. I have contacted all the calculation forces I can contact here to investigate. I can't believe there are no clear variables in this, and I don't dare to Believe how the essence of the phenomenon corresponds to this - I have investigated everything as much as possible, but in the face of existence beyond our worldview, at present we can only obtain such a result based on observational conclusions, that is, such a uniform influence may happen to cross a certain A threshold. If you don’t believe it, you can try it yourself.”

"You will die if you try it. Who dares to conduct a real-life experiment with citizen code at this time?! What's more, how can we replicate those conditions? I think you are not responsible enough..."

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Even with all the current observation records and failed speculations, it is actually hard to believe that the extremely powerful first stable state of information can be controlled by ordinary creatures just because of this small factor, let alone this structure. The gap is so big that it reaches the level of information stability, and structures that are not compatible with each other can blend into each other in such a simple way - this is as stupid as being able to master stars by basking in the sun, or eating pure radium raw by being exposed to nuclear radiation.

However, in more experiments that followed, the more evenly the subjects were exposed to crystal energy radiation, the physical examination showed that they were less affected, and in such experiments, distance actually became an influencing factor. Cavernel can't quite explain this. Before the crystal energy in the first stable state is completely transformed into a material form, if its various data are measured with conventional physical instruments, the values ​​​​should be zero or infinite. And it's uniform.

In any case, it seems that after the human body is exposed to crystal energy, the body can be compatible with the crystal energy to a certain extent. The result is clearly before everyone.

"...Well, I don't even know if this is its nature...I feel like it's more like a coincidence..."

Symmetrical to the middle cross-section of the spacecraft, on the other side of the spacecraft, Zhai Cahir was also conducting similar boring experiments. The rare lazy spirit before seemed to have temporarily disappeared from his body.

His experiments were all accumulated from failures. At first, he tried to use several special materials generated by information disturbance to interact with crystal energy.

The result is obvious. Crystal energy has turned all of these most sophisticated materials into powder, and experiments on atomic\\hadronic stacking materials and leptonic polymers have also yielded almost the same results. In these early experiments , all the results seem to point to one conclusion: Crystal Energy is supreme in the universe, and he has no feasible means to control this existence that transcends everything in the world.

However, Zhai Cahir was also a scientist after all. After these conventional man-made material compatibility tests failed, he turned his attention to the various native natural elements that exist in the planet.

At the same time, he also tried his best to change his way of thinking: In the unified world of information, everything is an aggregate of information, so attempts to be compatible with crystal energy should be viewed from such a perspective, "crystal energy's The essence is information fluctuations, so if you want to control it, or at least find a way to interact with it, the essence is to find a substance that can be regarded as a memory that can store these pure information fluctuations."

Zhai Cahill himself thought these ideas were a bit whimsical at first, but in fact, his understanding of the unity of information and his communication with Cavinrel gradually made him firm in his ideas:

First of all, the current Eskett and Torres can survive and still have material bodies. Although it seems that the direct impact of crystal energy should be on the soul, bodies made of ordinary materials can carry such souls, then This shows that substances in nature can have the ability to be compatible with crystal energy after special combinations.

And the most important thing is that whether it is crystal energy, the universe, the matter in the universe, the laws in the universe, the source is the endless sea outside the universe, even if the fluctuation of information is born from this endless sea of ​​chaos. Even after peeling off countless components, they can still have the original connection of the same origin. On the side of regularity, there is still the possibility of interoperability between different states.

Using this point of view to look at the previous human experiment results, it should be explained like this: when different elements are recombined, the information of the constituent elements will be reorganized to a certain extent, and the reorganized alloy, or new information aggregate, will Form a new existence, so that the newly generated information body will be able to form a self-consistent mapping with the crystal energy, thereby achieving macroscopic "affinity ability".

"The results appeared before the theory... We are guessing based on the results..."

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After determining the general guidelines pointed out in the explanation of the results, Zhai Cahill's goal was also clarified. The elements that make up the human body, even including plug-ins, are of limited types. The federal technology is enough to convert a complete human body. To carry out precise calculations of atomic types and numbers, Zhai Cahill's next work is to continuously mix these natural elements with different components and proportions, and then contact them with crystal energy to observe experimental phenomena.

In terms of crystal energy, both Cavinriel and Zhai Cahill deeply felt that no matter how advanced the technology the Federation had before, after facing the new field of crystal energy, their attempts to use crystal energy were different from those of the ancient times. Their ancestors tried to use fire for the first time, everything was unknown. In the face of this unfamiliar field, they also returned to this most primitive method.

They can only use the most primitive method - the crystallization performance of crystal energy can only be said to be a performance. In the actual modeling process, the properties that cannot be described at all are not compatible even with the chaos model. Although the current The test tools can still be used more or less, but they are just makeshift measures that seem to be adequate.

The emergence of crystal energy made the entire federation encounter for the first time an existence beyond the entire "collection" of its own existence.

“Whether it is imagination, fantasy or speculation, these thinking activities that give reason and wisdom will depend on the entire objective environment we know... No matter how absurd any idea or guess is, it can eventually find its counterpart in reality. There are clues...but now...this is a real element that appears from outside the entire collection, and we are afraid that any direct guesses about it are unreliable."

"But it exists in our universe after all, and this universe is compatible with it to a certain extent. We have also established several effective interaction processes with it..."

"It can only be said that we have the ability to explore its nature...but I'm afraid...we can only throw away all original thinking as much as possible to avoid causing too much interference."

"It's true that there's nothing wrong with being slow... We should still have a lot of time..."

"Start from scratch... I hope the universe can maintain it, otherwise... there won't be much time... Why do I always feel... it's not like this..."

"Relax, heat death, entropy explosion, big tear... these are still far away from us..."