Star Empire

Tentacles with three primary colors of gold, purple, and white snake forward in the vast void. They branch off countless branches from the source. The fleet wanders in the void. Their actions, which are on the verge of madness, are no longer meticulous. Not at all relevant.

During the expedition, the void survey radars carried in the fleet were still working normally. They captured stories in the void for the fleet and the "Empire" that were different from war and chaos. As the fleet advanced, some traces in the void were captured. The story developed using these traces shows that a civilization that has evolved extremely rapidly and is already quite powerful is about to enter the fleet's field of vision.

The Evolutionary Matrices controlling the fleet received these stories from the void survey radar and put themselves into the "first person" of the story:

To me, time seems very slow and very fast.

Time seems to be very sufficient, enough that I can expand my domain and the territory of civilization beyond the boundaries of the ordered world almost in an instant. It is so sufficient that it makes me look at the wisdom of anyone who is still living in "ignorance". At the same time, they all seemed to be squirming in extreme slow motion.

The stars are really mysterious and fascinating. How many mysteries and possibilities are contained in the depths of the slowly moving and slowly changing silver disk?

Ah, there are other intelligent creatures, so let’s not disturb them yet. Let’s do our own thing first, and then wait until they are smarter, then we can work with them...

The star is very bright, the star is very hot, be careful when touching it, the star is very big, it seems that it can be used for a long time and can be used in many ways. By the way, many stars are very violent, so be careful when coming into contact with them - why are some still exploding?

Be careful, they seem to be very unstable. When you see similar structures, you must exert your will in time and take protection. The light of their big explosion is too bright. If they are directly hit by the light beam, everyone's lives may also be harmed...

It turns out that these shining light spots are just a small part of a larger structure. The larger structure is like a plate, floating quietly in the empty space... Huh? Why do these plates with so many stars look so weird?

I urge everyone to do some research and clarify the classifications. Maybe it will be more useful in the future...

Why? Why? ? Running, these big plates, these stars are running! etc! Look, look at those marks! They - they are not the stars we imagined! They are a lot of silver platters! Those huge silk threads are made of many silver disks, and there are many, many, endless stars! It may take us a long, long time to study the possible secrets! !

They're being pulled! Go take a look and see if there is anything unusual in the space where those long silk threads are stretched and pointed! If such a large traction is provided by things composed of these planets, then the total amount of matter there must be very, very large! But there are no bright, dense galaxies there, and there is no accretion disk energization reaction unique to supermassive black holes!

"Loss of information...The environment there can be extremely harsh and we cannot persist in that environment..."

"Tools should be built, strong tools or protective measures should be developed. At least, we can no longer go empty-handed..."

Are the contradictions irreconcilable? We can refer to each other, and the current resources are still enough for joint development. Otherwise, there are many such huge silk threads in the distant space. We should refer to each other's advantages and further try to integrate...

Has the integration failed? Maybe the two roads really need to go their separate ways... Don't be discouraged...

It's thin space and linear space... Strange, the original direction is missing... Who could cause these phenomena?

According to research, our current forces that affect the world can be considered to have four or five types. The fifth type is imprisoned in an extremely microscopic area. They are more like a fixed phenomenon!

Direction is one of the inherent attributes of everything in the universe! Almost all areas, including empty spots, will have those properties too! Many times they just don't show it! Most of them will show three, but the part that doesn't show three... gravity!

Originally, gravity would be diluted and diffused in other directions! Three directions just ensure the stability of the gravitational force. If there is less than this one direction that can carry out real diffusion, the gravitational force will become very large! It’s so big that it can pull the huge sea of ​​stars and everything under it on a scale of hundreds of millions of light-years!

There are anomalies here, the nature of which is not clear yet... Should we call them giant gravitational sources, or giant gravitational sources?

Ah, what do you think...

Forget it, maybe if we can't integrate, it's okay to be separated for a short time. I hope we can both find our way to each other.

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The light in his hand lit up the dark night sky, and the engine of the magnificent steel ship roared, cutting through the waves in the sea of ​​​​stars, moving forward bravely.

Be careful not to disturb those "children's" dreams.

There are many coils of this kind in the world, and they all seem to be connected to each other evenly.

It seems that everything there is exactly the same as at home. Is this universe uniform?

Why do we attack each other, why do we oppose each other? The world outside may not be as we imagine...

Boundaries are self-consistent, boundaries... move! It is not made up of any kind of physical structure! There are primitives in the world that are more essential and fundamental than physics and the fifth force! There may be many, many such worlds! They may be the same! It may be different! Anyway, we're going to go out and give it a try!

"This requires a lot of resources and strength! It also requires more time!"

"But we all have them!"

…

"...Why are they still using primitive biomass...?"

"Is it the same on your side? In the sky area I observed, the civilizations are like this, with almost no decent development! When we plan to see the stars, they are using iron and fire. When we plan to leave the world, they still Then use iron and fire... more, they call it water... to push the working fluid?"

There is nothingness outside the world, and you will lose yourself. It seems that it is not a simple matter of resistance...

It persists, but it's short-lived...the connection seems to transcend time...there's something wrong with that. You need to stop and research more suitable tools or abilities...

A signal from outside has been detected! Still can’t decipher it! But it is clear, it is obvious that being able to detect and interact has already shown that it is obviously the same type of foundation as our world!

"Strange, why, everyone will disappear... Wait, look at the children on those planets... Diseases? How do they define invisible dangers? How do they do it? Screening? Isolation? Confirmed to be effective, public use ...Drugs?! Got it, got it!”

It’s strange why we are like this, so many measures should be applied to the entire world system that is homogeneous with us, but...

"Is it because of concentration or chaos?"

"Proliferative information disassembly models have been detected. They can attach to any information structure and survive! Strange...there is such an existence in that cold darkness? Then it should-"

"No, they don't come from the void. They will be swallowed up, just like us. Where will they come from..."

"The anomaly started to fade and we were slowed down - they say it's normal to have setbacks, but we..."

"Is the statistics completed?"

"Yes, among the stars, except for two absolutely obvious marks, other civilizations have hardly developed at all during this period of time, or the development results they have achieved are quite limited, and the marks are only relatively speaking... …”

"Could it be that we are the abnormal ones?"

"According to a common calendar of other civilizations, they believe that their celestial bodies orbit the stars once, and environmental changes are defined as one year at a time. Considering the rules we have summarized now, the stars have their own stable zones, and the stability of those lives The area is limited and the scope is relatively limited. The fluctuation difference this year will not exceed ten times that of the No. 1 discovery. We may try to merge..."

"How long did it take us?"

"From the time when the tribe was preparing to see what was hidden in the starry sky to the major event of quelling the disease... ten years, this is based on the first observation number for calculation."

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All that has become a memory. At least 500 million years ago, the world barrier was no longer an obstacle to civilization. It has become one of the countless naturally existing barriers in the realm of civilization that can maintain the stability of an ordered world. In the depths of the distant void where physical rules and physical distances are simply immeasurable, there are many, many such worlds and such barriers, and within those barriers and those worlds, many civilizations still exist.

There is no doubt that I am special. Using the rules of physics, it only took ten years to go from looking up at the sudden flash of whimsy in the sky to setting foot in the void——

This is no longer something that can be explained by miracles. After studying everything for hundreds of millions of years, everything that is difficult to understand comes from oneself.

Life traits and life forms are full of all kinds of unique qualities. It is impossible to clearly identify what your own life is made of. Why do those "children" even have to fight against the surface environment of the planet with their bodies, but they themselves can stay in the price control destiny? Without any protection, you can touch the stars that emit faint blue light with just your own hands. The unimaginable abyss of space seems to be able to be crossed without any foundation, and there are no difficulties...

This is impossible.

……maybe.

"Ten years to break through the world barrier?" The story intercepted by the fleet's evolutionary matrices did not seem to clearly mention the name of this civilization. For this nameless civilization, the core members of the evolutionary matrices were shocked, but also There is awe and fear.

"Is this really possible?"

In fact, this is possible. In the void, there are many civilizations that naturally develop rapidly, and technology and ideas are updated and transformed to the point where even oneself will selectively ignore the changes and details.

In the invisible realm, stories are always being passed on, and invisible blood infects the new body. They never dissipate, even if the perspective needed to see them comes from nowhere.

More than 10 billion years ago, Σ suffered from the natural disasters caused by the Chaotic Sea caused by themselves. Since then, they have been unable to recover and eventually lost all reason, wisdom and soul, and lost any chance of survival. They can be considered... ...has been completely destroyed.

However, over the past trillions of years, Σ civilization has continuously strengthened itself, transformed its order, interacted with gods, and many other impacts brought about by countless large-scale and far-reaching actions. The obsession to calm the chaotic sea, completely control the void, bring everything under control, and bring it into the order and control that I believe...

Is it really that easy to disappear? In the past, even the gods had to put away their pride. A powerful civilization that was so authoritative that even the will of the void did not hesitate to praise everything that had passed through it. This boundless order environment itself could really allow this once extremely tall spire. Will the dynasty disappear completely? Will "they" themselves, who have perished, allow this to happen? ?

These silent roars are full of grief and indignation. They are like the lingering wind in the night sky. The throats that issue these words roar at the top of their lungs at the order outside the realm of order. However, no one can hear such words.

At most, they are just transformed into the sharp, focused sound that their former weapons accidentally emit when they fire.

Other than that, no one can hear them, whether it is the evolutionary matrix, the void survey radar, or other successors. However, just because they can't hear it doesn't mean that the hatred left behind when the former overlord of order suddenly fell will dissipate easily.

The order of smelting civilization should have been pure, but with the influx of hatred from outside the order, the contaminated smelting order has turned the former plan into a "dance" of revenge.

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Not long ago, a huge war spliced ​​together with countless bloody and cruel battles finally came to an end in the void.

One side in the war is the annexers - a powerful rising star in the void, an emerging existence that annexed the legacy of Σ civilization 120,000 years after Σ encountered the chaos of the sea. They forcibly withstood countless peaks in this war and approached. Despite the horrific battle losses of tens of millions, they survived tenaciously.

The other side in the war is the Σ "Corpse Fleet" who accepted the smelting order.

The five combined decisive battle flagships and the huge fleet group that exceeded the number of sands in the time river were completely annihilated by the super beings who came from behind.

The war shook the void to its core. When countless peaks finally erupted, the density of creation and world annihilation exceeded the limit of understanding - it was as if, in those actions of unimaginable scale, even the Void Quadrant had a brief fusion or even It's like losing points.

Everything that could be mobilized in the void was drained, and both sides squeezed everything that could be utilized in the void to charge their respective extremely violent war weapons. Probability is annihilated, existence is devoured, and in the trembling struggle of the still weak consciousness like a broken star... no trace of reason is still necessary.

When this large-scale war finally subsided, all the free order structures and virtual probability structures in the void disappeared. Around here, the void became more like void and more like zero than at any time in trillions of years. It's more like the center where everything ceases to exist after the fault zone rages...

However, is there really any point in continuing this war whose meaning is no longer clear? The wisdom of civilization once believed that the continuation of war must always be for certain interests, but now...

Civilization is on the verge of becoming an irrational monster.

After the war briefly ended, there were many huge numbers in the battle damage report. In the past, every one of them was a living life or a battleship condensed with blood, but now...

The flames of war wiped out the existence of countless people, but in the final report, in the inaccurate battle damage report, they were indeed just a string of numbers.

I am just one in the huge ocean, and I may become one of the huge numbers in those battle damage reports at any time. For the sake of the continuation of the collective, countless individuals are constantly abandoning everything about themselves... This is very contradictory, but in Under such circumstances, it should be said that this is a kind of helplessness...

At least, the long time has taught me how to do something. When cutting everything that can be lost and abandoned, the sharp blade will fall and there will not be too much pain. The tears have dried up, and the blood shed has allowed all the home worlds to start fusion - whether to decide to go to the front line in order to survive, or to end life for the sake of one's own will and twisted heart... the choice has been made a long time ago.

In my impression, deep in the void of the past, I knew the existence of such a "overlord", but this was wrong. At that time, everything was not like this... No one wanted to fight, no one wanted to start such a war again and again. .

The price is too high, and more importantly, who doesn’t yearn for order and peace where they can live a good life? If resources are unlimited, what else can't be coordinated except principles?

"in principle."

How can we, after countless blood and tears have been shed, regard countless lives and countless creations condensed with hard work as strings that can be sacrificed at will? ?

Is this the price of "annexation" and "leap"? Were his past actions due to untimely greed mixed with his temporary choices, or were these inevitable, or maybe even... planned? ?

Maybe it's possible... Anyway, too many details have been lost. Some vague memories... Over a span of about one hundred thousand years, the former overlord of the void collapsed after that disaster, but he rose rapidly, becoming extremely powerful and powerful to an extent that is difficult to accept and unimaginable, and even dared to Calling that being who once occupied the sky a coming from behind...

Is it really coming from behind?

This time, civilization has almost sacrificed its past and future, but can all this really end?

The virtual personality that had almost condensed could not care about its mutilated body and pain. It once again focused its gaze on the void——

After the war, the spreading shadows will dissipate every time, but what are the deafening but invisible howls and screams? Do they really exist?

In the distant void filled with chaotic sea pollution and activated distorted order, a vast dark continent has emerged from the new shadow ocean. Shadows began to gather, forming nothing less than an endless cloud that had just been dispersed.

The ninth floor is filled with endless oppression, and the boundless sky covers everything like a sea of ​​blood hanging upside down in the void. The bells are ringing, and they are crossing the chasm, spreading death indiscriminately... including the remains of the former overlord himself.

For whom does it ring?

Dramatic changes drove the team and the "self" that had already changed drastically to assemble to the limit again, without any room for maneuver.

Will you die? For tens of billions of years, these suddenly rising beings have asked themselves, the void, and everything like this countless times, but the answer... can't be clear.

The army is gathering to the limit. If this is the end, then this final feeling has been made clear.

The big net has been opened, and in the center of the endless continent, in the middle of the boundless sea of ​​​​bloody stars, indescribable everything is slowly rotating. Deep in the giant mouth, the pink light is unstoppable.

...that's certain.

There will be many, many stories in the void, they ebb and flow in the infinite vast ocean that contains the vacuum of probability and everything. They are either long and perfect, or short and full of defects...

The narrative capture net that spreads widely in the void can catch many fragments of stories.

Many of these stories are full of flaws. In other words, not all stories in the void can have a perfect and happy ending.

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Strange, strange, what are you thinking?

Looking at the overall control panel in front of me, each button requires a lot of "strength" and "attention" to press, and a trace of doubt quietly flashed through.

"...Is it because there is too much pressure?" After glancing at the other commanders in the circular hall, Moka shook his head gently. He vaguely felt that he had dreamed of a civilization, a civilization that seemed very far away from him. A very powerful civilization far away.

He seemed to be able to recall that the civilization in the dream seemed to have developed more rapidly than his own, but after a long period of rapid development, they seemed to have been entangled by some kind of dangerous enemy, and were now in an extremely dangerous situation. struggling in the environment.

"What kind of strange dream is this? We need to investigate thoroughly. I hope this is not another vicious infectious disease that is difficult to control. Otherwise, it will be troublesome. The current void environment is really not very friendly."

Moka straightened his military cap a little while muttering, and then focused his attention on the control panel that was not yet lit up in front of him again.

The battle on the frontline is becoming tense. In order to fight against the invisible disaster, civilization's expedition operations have never stopped, but now, it seems that just the expedition is no longer enough to face the disaster in the void.

Fleets are like moving celestial systems. In the vast red polar surface, countless star rings rotate slowly.

Arranged neatly around the huge array of external orbital protection cannons are countless legions of beings whose bodies are engraved with runes and marks. Their clothing, style, and even temperament and sense of life are completely different from their own.

The battle on the frontline is becoming more and more tense. It is said that in the void, huge K↑↑3IN "World End" events that were once very rare and formed by the expansion or cohesion and fusion of more than one world wreckage are now appearing in batches...

More warships were sent to the front.

But now... I feel a little uneasy, why is this happening?

The sensing system has issued an early warning, and he soon entered the "immersion" state completely, and deep in the surrounding control panel buttons, bunches of red light began to light up, which was a sign that the system was starting to activate and was ready to enter the combat state. .

"About to contact the target - the boundary of "The End of the World"!! Expand all position systems, all great warlocks are preparing to leave the shipboard state - alarm, the target has been detected to have disappeared, and the super large-scale information flood peak is approaching!!"

"Unknown order barrier detected!!"

"What's this??"