Star Empire

Endless expansion, endless growth.

This huge and chaotic collective blindly drives all the production and creation processes that can be catalyzed in the body, and pushes them to the extreme one after another.

Massive fleets and countless puppets came off the production line, and all kinds of extraordinary equipment were manufactured in large quantities... but they could not make this group significantly "stronger".

Many evolutionary matrices have accumulated too many contradictions, too many unnecessary records, and too much malice and nameless anger when performing past tasks.

In the past, the spiritual pollution that erupted from the center of the empire only completely occupied the field structure and virtual information structure that permeated the entire empire. However, as interactions continued to increase and intensify, these distortions have begun to spread to the real level.

Clusters of unknown light and shadow entities began to appear in the originally regular puppet encapsulation shell. They were parasitic on the body as some kind of appendages, but they did not have any useful functions.

The body began to grow various appendages or appendages with strange structures. They were very rare at first, but as the batches continued, they began to become more and more crazy and even unstable. Normal bodies are becoming increasingly rare, but this does not affect most of the puppet's active combat capabilities.

In the order field supported by the World Vein Glossary and the World Branch Zenith, these huge facilities that guard countless worlds, more and more abnormal phenomena are flashing like crazy stars. The originally uniform and regular space became full of wrinkles, fractures and cracks. The unknown cloud not only obscures reality, but also obscures the truth, past and future. Everything around seems to be being digested, shaped like chyme.

The order field is divided into many weird bubbles. If you are not careful when stepping into the bubbles, one of the intruders and reality will always be deceived. Concepts have been distorted, alienated or even deleted, and the laws are no longer stable. They are like dancing lines, playing a meaningless and noisy movement. The peak of the movement is lightning and black mist.

Some of these images are real, and some are "materializations of perception and symbolism." In other words, these phenomena are expressed in this way because all the wisdom here, including all individuals in the past and present... they seem to There is some unintentional consensus in the impact these phenomena can have.

The stream of light from the arrowheads hitting the pyramid platform and the eternal light released by the pyramid itself were disrupted by these chaotic facilities, and the process of pollution, destruction and erosion of the entity was far from stopping. After several iterations, these once dazzling and once glorious huge facilities The surface is covered with dust and haze, as if they are gradually deactivating themselves, but are struggling fiercely to be occupied by another controller. It also seems to be heading towards self-destruction in some confusion.

After the broadened horizons and more basic compositional structures are discovered, the covariation and contradiction between concepts and laws are no longer topics without room for maneuver. They may still be changed by the most insignificant decimal place, thus directly destroying the orderly world that was formed when they were in a stable state, but they themselves have not been destroyed. They themselves still dominate the orderly environment that is different from the void. part or several parts.

However, such parts often don't end well. They are either charming and weird patterns, some distorted light and shadow, or empty nothingness or unfathomable darkness.

They were just wreckage and twisted corpses.

But in the whirlpool, no existence cares about these. They don't even care about themselves, let alone those things and phenomena that will not have any harmful effects on themselves.

Many years ago, the empire spread countless dream cruise missiles into the void. They were programmed into orders. They used the fact that they were informed of this phenomenon as a tangible proof. With the holes in all civilizations, All civilizations aim at dreams that are completely divorced from reality, and launch endless attacks on all types of existence shrouded in the narrative network woven by the void survey radar.

It didn't take too long before the void survey radar could no longer intercept new stories. The end of the story represents the end of countless lives - in theory, there will be no more "dreams".

However, as missiles launched in chaotic times, they themselves have not been deregistered from their tasks and missions, nor have they self-destructed. They even have the ability to self-replicate - this means that no matter how great the losses are, as long as one missile remains , and soon their figures will be everywhere in the void again.

Over a long period of time, their original source of projection, the former imperial collective that is gradually heading towards chaos, is mutating. The information structure they can display is increasingly different from the original identification range of the Dream Cruise Missile Identification Friend or Foe system, and so on. As for the empire itself, it has become a target. And for a long time, due to the same stimulation of pollution, these missiles themselves began to become dangerous and violent——

They start attacking themselves.

The nature is serious, but itself is not serious.

Now, it's just a bunch of out-of-control, self-replicating ammunition attacking some of its own minutiae.

The furious hatred made the collective quickly notice these attacking entities with their own "flavor", and more units were pushed into the void to fight against these dangerous existences.

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These changes do not occur in a day or a few days, a year or a few years, ten thousand or tens of thousands of years. If there is a relatively stable ruler to record linearly, it will be difficult to capture wisdom from the void survey radar. Tens of billions of years, or several tens of billions of years have passed since the beginning of the signal of civilization.

If everything goes by normally, there may be many interesting stories in tens of billions of years. But now, everything has passed quietly for a long time in a daze.

A deformed huge fleet confronts a corrupted enemy. On a broad macro level, more and more information that was once hidden or invisible forms a raging and violent whirlpool, sweeping and beating all the boring and tasteless lines of development in it. .

There was a time when there was still vitality and there were many creatures telling stories. The empire, a pyramid with extremely fast information exchange and feedback, could tell all kinds of stories in millions of years, including joy, bitterness and sorrow. As for Now……

The new structures extracted from the technical extreme deduction module create new warships and new weapons. Expansion, expansion, expansion...

I don’t know, can this be considered a kind of sadness? If those beings who once belonged to the empire could match such a clade and see these crazy scenes... would they feel sad?

There are no long speeches with record value, no new growth and new spiritual records, no more novel weapons and technologies that can be classified and summarized in a systematic manner, and no new ones have emerged within the vast empire. Intelligence and the structure of life. For tens of billions of years, as those chaotic fleets continue to extend and expand, there is only the extreme and nameless anger accumulated over a long time, as well as the increasingly lengthy and confusing logs, and the "reading between the lines" of the logs. Continuously derived gibberish.

But why is there all this anger? Why is there all this hatred? Why can they drive the "fusion corpse" of civilization to maintain such a long-lasting, crazy and reckless expansion? Why do the crazy corpses of civilization only like this one thing? Why are they still difficult to calm down even after tens of billions of years of consumption?

Is it because we have been on the verge of extinction several times and countless lives have been lost, but the living could not do anything at that time, so we have anger and hatred?

No, every disaster that destroys a country does bring such anger and hatred to the last living people, but what causes all this is Σ and the tide of death, which has nothing to do with other races. The spearheads of anger and hatred are different. It should be pointed at them…

It is because of the lack of communication and the existence of deviations in understanding that the words calling the empire "madman" hit at the most fatal moment that even the remaining life of the empire may not have thought of, and where their psychological defenses are most vulnerable. Is this causing all the anger that was originally everywhere to converge here, creating a breakthrough that causes an out-of-control situation?

It's possible, but... tens of billions of years have passed, which is longer than the history of civilization. If the anger really comes from oneself, isn't such a long time not enough for madness and loss of control to pour out? Exhausted?

Expansion - expansion - expansion again, countless worlds turned into dust, and the chains and networks supporting decay were interrupted and cleared. However, beyond the light, the black tide is still boundless.

However, during this process, the proportion of enemies changed subtly - in the void, there was a type of stimulation that seemed to begin to decrease.

"Fault zone".

After being contaminated by the high-risk death tide, the surviving information aggregates seem to be like keys that may open Pandora's box at any time - once a slightly intense stimulus is applied to them, they themselves are very likely to directly amplify and expand. , and directly unfolded into an absolutely standard, absolutely two-dimensional, perfect circular gate.

The invisible pollution spewing out from the gate will cause the entire world to fall into crisis in an instant, and as the pollution continues to spread, some of the underlying activities in the order world may even cause the death wave pollution to accelerate the spread-a huge and healthy world may It won't take too long before it will be completely dismantled and turn into turbulence in the void.

However, this is only the most ideal situation compared to the past. The world will also struggle, and they will also use their own "behavioral patterns" to try to resist and save themselves when they are in crisis. A well-placed breach in the world barrier would most likely allow the world itself to begin to draw the power of creation from the void, thereby resisting the spreading death tide pollution.

In the process of "resistance", these worlds themselves may abandon all stable structures and continue to expand their former boundaries in chaos. When conditions are suitable and several or more such worlds are connected, the prototype of the fault zone appears, and their development

There may be no upper limit.

At least now, the most troublesome and intractable structures are so rare that they seem to be harder to spawn, and the cause of their appearance, the massive outbreaks of death tides, seem to be much less common.

Once upon a time, in the face of this strange and huge pollution structure, the effectiveness of many weapons would be greatly weakened. When the reference system is destroyed, rather than relying on weapons to destroy it, any weapon is just roaring in despair. It is difficult for them to find any target, and even "purification" itself seems to be a bit hypocritical.

Some past thought fragments emerged from the chaotic collective. Although we will not verify what content these thought fragments contain, at least the current situation is "worthy of pleasure" to a certain extent.

In a storm, fate is like a helpless boat in the middle of a violent wave.

But... is that really helpless? Did the invisible hand really not change the direction of the boat at the critical moment and adjust the non-existent course of the boat?

The pentagram network flickered in and out of nothingness, and beneath it, in the more practical part. The last wishes are still struggling to pull the scattered reality, but now, they may not be seen, let alone seen.

Getting close to the point...

Remember.

A powerful civilization will form a safe zone in the void, and there will be corresponding edge zones and dangerous zones in the void. Be careful.

If the sea of ​​chaos is to return to order in the void, then the order itself will exert an absolute positive pressure on the outbreak and spread of the sea of ​​chaos.

A huge civilization is located in the void, and its own existence attributes are enough to suppress the outbreak and spread of the chaotic sea. From practical security to metaphysical, this barrier formed by order itself will be everywhere in the visible realm.

This is knowledge that even ▇▇ is not completely clear about yet. Of course, I am afraid that when receiving these messages, the memory of ▇▇ has been stuck tens of billions of years ago.

For countless worlds that exist in an orderly environment, the intuitive impact of this invisible barrier is that the world itself is a relatively stable and self-consistent information aggregate. They have greater resistance and lower "potential for mutation." In most cases, it is difficult for them to be infected themselves, and it is difficult for them to undergo catastrophic changes after infection. This is likely to be influenced by something more transcendent and illusory besides the laws of the world itself.

And another realm located in the void is located in the depths of the chaotic sea.

The pressure brought by powerful civilization will spread in the chaotic sea layer. Pollution will be forcibly suppressed, chaos will subside, and visible layers will appear in the chaotic sea. This layer will be so clear and obvious that it does not require impeccable and extreme technology to detect it.

It is a huge shadow that can support civilization and extend in the chaotic sea. Beyond the shadow, there will be more chaotic areas. In those areas, there may be countless and more dangerous possibilities.

There will always be someone who needs to walk the road ahead. Please remember not to engage in excessive confrontation in dangerous areas that have not yet been included in the shadow, unless ▇▇.

At the center of the void, the core of the blazing sun seems to have never changed.

But the surrounding clouds and probability fluctuations seem to be squeezed and pulled more and more violently.

Some abrupt entities are forcibly pulled out of the illusory structure capable of self-stabilization. Their totality and concentration are already too large, so that they are likely to fall into the real state due to the slightest disturbance. Information can measure it. categories, and then they will be swallowed by the void and turn into undercurrents that quickly dissipate in evaporation.

However, even those consciousnesses whose active range is outside this are unwilling to deal with this remaining star core anymore - it is too blazing and too difficult to approach, and all kinds of inexplicable growth and growth will always occur when approaching it. Death, these changes are also anomalies, which makes everyone very unhappy.

Outside the invisible "whirlpool cloud field", the once powerful national ignition devices seemed to have lost their edge. As time went by, they became dimmed one by one, as if they were losing some of their "souls".

However, this will not be ignored. The information deviation gap in the void will always become larger and larger as the territory expands, until it is so large that the boundary line seems to meet a completely different world view.

In the past, when the empire began to expand crazily at a more rapid pace, the national ignition device at the core used to ignite a large number of probabilistic lightning chain cores for the empire and create a large number of world branches. But now, the complex surrounding environment has obscured the "eyes" of these ancient facilities to a considerable extent.

The function of the World Branch Zenith itself did not include large-scale creation, but they were forcibly expanded, and their overlapping layers blocked most of the view from the center of the empire looking out.

The National Ignition Facility has been unable to undertake the task of expanding outward. At the same time, they themselves are being eroded more and more seriously.

The stellar wind of the Void Fierce Sun was only weakened when it swept here, but the rank and attribute strength they should have did not drop excessively. What's even more dangerous is that after being intercepted by clouds, they themselves may be inadvertently assigned a large number of values ​​due to collisions between clouds - in other words, they begin to have "directionality".

For these giant facilities, they may have been "blowing winds" in the past, but now they are "polarized knives".

These national ignition devices do not have endless jump power furnaces like the Void Matrix and corresponding protection systems.

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Thousands of years, ten thousand years, tens of millions of years are like a blink of an eye.

In the long but indifferent years of chaos, countless probability lightning chains experienced large-scale bombings of unimaginable intensity. The structure that started from the void created countless worlds and countless universes. The universes iterated layer by layer, and countless different time and space, dimensions and separate planes smashed together, providing chaos. But extremely powerful.

During this long process, no one remembers that the details of the past do not seem to completely match the present - various types of Σ battleships, including the decisive battle flagship, once fought with the power of the empire in one universe, and in many universes Fight, fight in the universe and void, and even die together... At that time, both sides seemed to have exhausted all their strength.

But now, whether it is field, depth, relative quantity, absolute quantity... everything has changed too much.

However, the various factors that formed the various creations of Σ are still lingering on the path of the crazy entity sweeping everything, lingering in the void-this is not much different from the past. Behind the glorious victory and endless advancement, there is no evidence of real losses.

The power of the empire has grown stronger countless times. After the disappearance of civilization, the corpses that have not completely lost their existence are leaving themselves behind again and again.

But Σ...those remnants, even if the "Empire" has reached this point, the overall strength they form will always stand at a position where the Empire needs to take the "next step" to reach it.

So, why?

Is Σ still getting stronger? No, that's impossible - the tide of death has destroyed their logic and rationality from the inside out. They have long been nothing more than carrion corpses that exude the smell of corruption and are unwilling to disperse.

But why...the Imperial fleet couldn't tear them apart directly?

On which side does the change occur? On which side does it appear?

Or...who allowed this to happen? If even the current empire cannot achieve a true comprehensive advantage over Σ, it can even be said that the empire has never achieved a real advantage. So how could the past empires survive?

Why? ? ! !

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They may not be covariant, but that's what happened.

At present, no one is asking these questions, and there is no wisdom and reason to deal with these mysteries that arise from nowhere. Because wisdom and reason no longer exist.

Countless times, the huge force that has turned the sea into something smaller than a drop of water has released wordless roars and roars in the void.

Chaos and fury spread in the void together with the fleet.

Many details were lost in the brutal collision, and the waves formed by the huge piles of numbers have reversed - now, they are hitting the enemy who once destroyed themselves.

However, the owner of this dazzling golden flower, whose "tower of existence" presents sharp radiating shapes, does not seem to be satisfied with all the current situations.

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There is something strange in a certain void area.

According to the current... rough distinction, it is no longer an absolute frontier and border. Most of the passages around that area have been wrapped by the power of the empire, but the area itself is like a black hole that can never be filled. . No matter how large the team is, it seems that they will disappear silently in that black area...

Some painful old memories are brought to light.

Such dangerous structures have been recorded in the history of the empire, and if some people in the empire had really made up their minds to modify something since that structure was recorded... everything might not be like this.

It is a fracture zone - just like the process of stars constantly compressing inward during the fusion process, using more crazy fusion to resist gravity while generating heavier elements, the world itself continues to compress the structure inward to resist the erosion of death tide pollution. The fault zone formed.

It was a giant fault zone—big enough to carve out its own shadow on the map of the void.

Under the shadow, almost all information activities there will be swallowed up, and the feedback you can get from looking there is only silence and nothingness.

Therefore, it is a "missing darkness".

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That fault zone...

Its scale is unprecedented.