Star Empire

This would not be a normal dispatch.

If there is still a future, if this civilization can still have descendants, everything here will definitely be recorded in history.

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Huge fleets stacked up and intertwined with each other, pushing and shoving towards the distant borders of the empire.

As a basic equipment that has been coexisting and adapted for tens of billions of years, the Void Engine itself can be said to have become an "innate" part of many nodes in the former empire and now this huge collective.

Therefore, even if frenzy and anger overwhelm reason and overwhelm higher logic, these ships are not really unable to move in the void because they have fallen into a blind and destructive frenzy.

It may not be possible to directly integrate functions into the entire collective, but the equipment corresponding to the functions can be permanently engraved in a certain part of the collective like the underlying foundation.

For tens of billions of years, many external devices that were once considered important and direct and could not be generated by one's own power have also been continuously integrated into one's own body by puppets, battleships and evolutionary matrices.

Just like the oldest ancestors integrated mitochondria and other archaebacteria and other gene fragments into the body, just like some kind of disturbing force circulating in the void, "fusion truth-seeking" thoughts and actions that may have actual impact.

Many ships were left behind, many individuals were left behind, and what was even more strange was that a large number of "ghost ships" that looked like corpses had mysteriously appeared within the imperial fleet that had expanded and expanded for tens of billions of years.

Their own structure is dilapidated and hideous, and even the nodes they exist in the network exude a sense of malice and decay. However, they are powerful and powerful, and they do not have any "rotting corpses" or "dying people" at all. "The way it should be.

The units that make up this huge and turbid river are fleets and countless battle puppets. These fleets and puppets should originally have their own independent tasks and independent actions, but now they are mixed together, and inevitable interactions and collisions occur every moment.

Although the two fleets will not meet and fight to the death, they will collide, exchange fire, tear apart the order and structure derived from each other, and leave behind a piece of debris, which will always be swept away by the void.

There are too many - the primitives that made up the huge structure of the former empire have been given the ability to replicate themselves. The lowest level can replicate itself once in a few days or hours, and even the most advanced giant information expansion primitives can replicate themselves automatically. It only takes a hundred years to replicate the next generation of existence.

It is true that as the original base begins to reproduce itself, countless individuals will be extracted from the expansion process and used for various purposes, but even the remaining parts are wiped out a large amount of "future totality". ”, they can still accumulate a very thick, even terrifyingly thick foundation.

This is tens of billions of years, and their measurement units have long been no longer included in the category of "imagination".

Although they cannot be compared with the endless cloud top of the entire vortex, and with the virtual information that expands and rises infinitely and often transcends the growth chain, as entities, they already symbolize the approximate limit of this collective power, and even the former empire itself cannot Unbelievable power.

It's too confusing - there are too many types of ships mixed in the fleet. They are designed to face various environments and perform various functions.

Ships that can be equipped by the empire in large numbers, and everything else, must have their own corresponding purposes, goals to solve, and are "relatively mature" in themselves.

Among them, there will be frigates and micro-ships that face small and medium-sized close-range targets, small celestial body structures, celestial bodies themselves, and even "small problems" on the surface of celestial bodies. There will also be those that consider the comprehensiveness of single-body team operations. There will also be flagships, specialized attack ships specially designed to face some specific structures inside the harsh battlefield, and field-killing ships specially designed to attack that do not completely appear in the actual information structure, etc.

When designing them, they have their own independent attributes, and they also have covariant attributes that can be integrated and deployed during coordinated operations, but that requires unified action by the fleet and requires coordinated and organized command.

The battleship itself can also be considered as a being with intelligence and soul, and the evolutionary matrix will also intentionally suppress action patterns that deviate too much to ensure that the formation remains stable as much as possible.

However, as all their superiors, as the imperial consciousness that has been completely melted, shattered, and reorganized, this violent and dangerous huge vortex of chaos is itself in a state of madness.

Naturally, it doesn't care about the fleet matrix, what positions are deployed, what kind of intelligence sequence...

It just wants to drown the target, so that it can temporarily eliminate the endless anger and madness that collapsed and spread after the explosion.

All rules become a joke.

In such a chaotic river, there are some defensive fortresses and forts that were originally used for fixed operations, such as the current Shengyin Praise, and some are quite satisfactory combat ships, such as various super flagships, indispensable, and more. Specialized ship hulls, they have special attributes in a certain aspect to enhance the corresponding functions.

And among them, naturally, it also includes the giant wings shining with purple light - in theory, it can jump to the doomsday ark at the end of the void order if the calculation preparation is absolutely sufficient.

How could they possibly act in unison? What's more, when high-level wisdom commanded the overall situation, it would have taken more than a hundred years to launch an attack on the distant branches of the world. What's more, now, we need to cross many, many such gaps to attack those near the extreme ends of the crazily spreading civilization. A black target whose bits are essentially undefinable?

Among them, there may be some powerful individuals that are suitable for void navigation and are closer to the end than others. They may be forced to return or return due to orders from the lower evolutionary matrix or instructions erupted from the core of certain territories. , it is also possible that they can use the industrial modules on the ship for production, and build new portals or void beacons and other facilities in the void.

Such a process occurs at every moment, at every stage, and at every distance along the way - there will be contradictions between the evolutionary matrices themselves, and there will also be contradictions and contradictions between the evolutionary matrices and the entire civilization that has fallen into chaos. deviation. And civilization itself is full of contradictions and entanglements.

The goal is clear, as long as most of this force can be driven to the front line. In any case, at least as of now, marching in chaos within a territory that is basically controlled by civilization will not destroy itself.

The fleet was pushed and pushed toward the front line, and they were uncoordinated and left behind a large number of chaotic teleportation structures and beacons, as well as a large number of meaningful or meaningless giant facilities.

Some semi-sustainable order field generators are propped up, and the order fields they prop up can serve as temporary ports. However, these ports are often one-offs, and they do not even disclose their identification frequencies to each other. In other words, they may not have "thought" about these issues at all.

There are too many problems with the chaotic organization. Many fleets have extremely weird organization. They may even be unable to deal with certain special targets that should be able to be solved. A single artillery fire structure will leave many loopholes that are difficult to deal with.

The chaotic order field that pervades the void itself will attract ships located in the void. The void engines of those ships may be interfered with, or they may fall into certain order fields as the deviation intensifies.

Order fragmentation fields and debris will also interfere with the operation of beacons, which will cause the ultra-long-range void fire strikes that can support the frontier to be inaccurate, etc.

If the details in these can be written into stories, then these stories will no longer be clear lines or webs with distinct layers and structures, but will be thick clouds and thick glue. The dark storm swept everything into it.

It must be made up of the most complicated garbled code. This garbled code is so confusing that even the void survey radar may subconsciously avoid these crazy twists and turns during its autonomous operation.

For the nodes, details, individuals, etc., such a scene is distorted, vague and chaotic, without any rules and systems. If the previous rules and systems are still there, then they may even annihilate each other.

But now, for this "big guy" that has been broken and then reorganized, these are all distant, not very noteworthy details that will not affect the overall situation.

There is also a general logic - at least it seems that part of the intention of those crowded rivers in the void and heading into the distance can be read, or at least. If there is a third-party perspective, then from a third-party perspective, The intention may be read.

Many of these stories, many parts, might also be seen as the reverse of certain events? Whether it is the identity between the two, the connection between the two, the attributes of the vehicles that make up the "long river", etc., all of this seems to be reversed compared to a certain stage in the past.

Time always allows something to accumulate, for example... as more and more forward teleportation facilities are activated, those teleportation facilities may even form themselves into a network, and they may be connected to each other and "amplify" their actions. Properties of the portal's purpose.

As a series of new beacon lighthouse array groups, they may stabilize the chaotic void routes to a certain extent. Super-large void gates may be established as a result. Ships that rely on void engines to travel to distant places can also find a relatively clear path. And the "solid" goal - at least, the efficiency has improved.

Almost all the void survey radars have turned their own story-catching nets. They no longer look at the source of chaotic stories in the void, nor at the storms that disturb the tranquility. As story-recording machines capable of sifting through stories, they have been relatively unaffected.

The vast and narrow arc slowly rotates, just like a telescope set up on the earth slowly rotating, sweeping across areas on the celestial sphere, sweeping across each sky area. They also sweep through every possibility in the void. world or wreckage, and record possible stories within it.

It is already very thin, and there are no stories in it, or in other words, the rest are the same stories——

For example, those wreckage, such as the broken dome of Σ, the shattered self-consistent law armor, and some equipment or world fragments that may still be barely functioning but are constantly evaporating, etc. Their stories are just going on coldly or have already Termination, there won't be many possibilities anymore.

However, such an eternal story is difficult to completely disappear. The many properties of the self-consistent law armor itself even allow it to persist for a long time even if it is directly exposed to the void.

They exist like this, just like the void survey radar that has been looking into the void. They are like eyes, scanning everything around them blindly, but they may not be able to see anything, and they will not process and record these things. Contents whose life and death are unknown will not be remembered.

From some aspects...perhaps considering aspects such as change and prosperity, the void is now becoming silent, extremely silent.

Once upon a time, the "celestial sphere" in the void was filled with all kinds of information fluctuations, all kinds of stories, and all kinds of responses.

The void sky survey radar can only roughly find out where these contents are located. If we only consider its role and function, the role of the sky survey radar is to receive various fluctuations from the void, analyze the rules and possibilities, and finally translate them into a a story.

Compared with VHF non-linear scanning radars, they cannot clearly provide the coordinates or instantaneous details required for combat, but they themselves can greatly enrich the "range" of targets that have been found while determining the target "range". Inner”.

There aren’t many stories to write now.

The march itself may have taken thousands of years or even longer. Compared with some major events in history, it has to be said that some measurement rules themselves seem to be changing.

Layers of loopholes and negligence caused many lower-level nodes and units to be destroyed directly in the void and home territory. It was unclear and had nowhere to say, but they didn't care.

After all, everyone is just a micro element that you don’t need to care about. You, the battleship under your feet, etc., everything is a part, a tiny part that makes up that huge collective. It can also be said that everything is ordered by oneself.

What is all this?

It doesn't matter.

Outside the black target in the void, the army completed its assembly.

The overlapping fleets are almost crowded with all the void frequencies that can make "direct contact" around the "dark border", penetrating and blocking all the "roads" that may be jumping here in the twenty-six quadrants.

Countless battleships gathered together scatteredly, and some weird structures were forcibly formed among them. These structures may contain ancient fleet matrices, or they may just be many individuals wandering around in the order field at will.

They just stuff themselves into irregular arrangements and build up messy towers.

Their existential deflection beacons and existential enrichment beacons have not been fully opened. The almost long-term necessary protection systems such as joint shields and strong reality stabilization fields have not been fully deployed, and the virtual information projection has not iterated many layers. ——They are almost naked facing this dark battlefield.

Unlike what appears from far, far away, this "dark area" itself is not completely invisible and cannot be found.

It itself is not completely separated from its surroundings, but there is still a weak world barrier that is overly stretched and seems to be just a hair away from being torn apart, separating it from the real void and other order fields around it.

The border section is still partially active, and detections are based on those signals. They appear to be the aftermath of the Genesis message, with similarities to the Creation Flash... There is indeed a Genesis-Doomsday vs. Annihilation balance here! !

It can be confirmed that this huge and "regular" target placed in front of all locking systems, in front of everyone, and in front of all artillery fire, is a giant fault zone, an unimaginable scale that relies on aggregation and overlap to expand itself. fault zone!

As for hostile existence, there is naturally nothing to say.

attack.

It may be the most chaotic attack ever since the birth of this collective, and it is also the most powerful one here.

Countless warships fired wildly, and their hyperspace fire projection doors often disintegrated and dissipated before the gunfire penetrated the interior of the fault zone.

Therefore, most of them attach their order fields and even their own shields firmly to the nearly invisible barrier, and then directly bombard the barrier itself in the simplest way.

Fractures are constantly being opened, and cracks are constantly appearing. Once those cracks appear, the field of vision will quickly darken, and countless battleships will disappear together. They seem to have been wiped out of thin air, without experiencing anything. The change returned directly to the void.

There is no field here, or in other words, the field here is almost all established by oneself. They are more like tinder. After being destroyed, they may trigger certain chain reactions and cause the damage to spread like a chain of reactions. The only thing is that they seem to be more easily ignited than the target.

The imaginary blows that struck across the void hit the outer shell of the invisible barrier. To be precise, most of them hit their own people and the battleships that were only attached to the edge of the barrier. After the double-yoke imaginary connection breaks down, a pair of invisible hands will tear the target apart and directly exile the torn-off body to the infinite order.

The barrier will be torn apart by them, and some content will evaporate when the void pours in, but this doesn't seem to have much effect. As the environment cools down, everything will return to nothingness, and then other battleships will fill the void.

The firepower of Xingqi Fortress and Amps Strike Spear, which uses highly destructive and explosive structures to demolish the order structure and achieve its goals, is helpless in the face of the seemingly endless weird barriers - just like a certain time in the past. The final fulfillment of these concerns. No matter how these devices operate, their effectiveness must always be based on laws and the existence of an orderly environment. They need to find the corresponding "targeting site" to intervene in the entire system to finally take effect.

It's like a real blank vacuum that doesn't even have any properties of space itself. Even if a structure with infinite mass is put in, what role will it play? Nothing is affected by its presence, and it has no effect.

At this point, bombing the narrative structure itself will have no effect - in this case, the Arcane Throne itself cannot directly have such a high virtual information projection increase, and its power is simply not enough to bomb this huge structure. All the stories that run through it, not to mention, it is uncertain whether this thing itself has a "history" - if all the information is closed and it appears out of thin air, what is the use of erasing the story?

This may be closer to indescribable and indescribable. No matter what form of attack and influence, even if they can intervene and rush into the chaotic order barrier, they will dissipate. And there is almost no "dissolution logic", they are simply fighting against themselves. It is even said that countless of them will spread directly after being contaminated, and they may turn back and attack their source.

Waves of attacks, bombings again and again, "general attack orders" from different evolutionary matrices have been issued thousands of times.

The splashing firepower almost directly gave the entire barrier a substantial "shell". Huge large-scale attack missiles were assembled from countless industrial bases that were later generated and were continuously pushed into the battlefield, like endless purple and gold. The tide is generally spreading towards that layer of corrupt barriers.

The overlapping fleets were either squeezed together or left huge gaps. They just attacked the target in front of them suddenly, but without any plan. Now, more than any campaign ever, they are a pure waste of resources.

The battlefield once ran through everything that could be covered by information description, down to the primitives, and up to the fuzzy boundaries of truth. But now, those once powerful weapons have no trace of sophistication and advancedness at all. They only fire hard and stack up. Apart from his own quantity, there are not many other brilliant moves.

The fault zone is very large and will take a long time to resolve.

But for order, it just requires a lot of time and a huge amount.

Compared with the void itself, any structure that appears in the void. Looking at it now, they will have limits. Even if everything here is truly indescribable and truly empty, the huge and considerable amount of information in various forms can always fill this "bottomless pit".

The fault zones themselves are not existences with absolutely infinite attributes. They may be extremely huge, but the death tide and the order itself are mutually reinforcing and destroying each other. If we really want to choose a standard that corresponds to the void measurement system, their hugeness is not enough to say that they are unattainable.

Regardless of the degree of internal pollution or development, they are existences that are gradually collapsing during their development. As long as there is excessive disturbance, the process of self-collapse will become faster and faster. The Genesis-Doomsday pairing Elimination will break the balance.

no matter what the cost

The long attack may even cause certain directional rituals to appear in the void, and they may be integrated into the fleet invisibly, so that the battle can finally start to go smoothly even if it is still hindered by the chaotic environment and crazy consciousness. Just like through the star-shifting mechanism, countless branches of the world take on the shape of arrows pointing to the Void Sun, so that the gains that can be obtained from the attribute "The Void Sun is the center of the void" are expanded and even come true...

The ancient sunlight that had been lighting up the void for tens of billions of years was finally introduced, and the light of nothingness lit up everything, making the darkness here more and more obvious.

The unrestricted and uncontrolled bombardment of information caused the edge of the fault zone to be forcibly restored by the power of order, and layers of "flesh" were scraped off.

The balance between Genesis and Doomsday versus destruction begins to be broken. It is possible that such a fault zone structure may eventually disappear directly and return to the void as it develops. Nothing will be left. At this point, in fact, the terrifying The balance itself no longer exists, which is why it looks so fragile...

Maybe it was not the fault zone that was fighting the fleet all along, but some kind of projection of himself?

In any case, the fleet's indiscriminate bombardment and the light from the void sun began to shrink the fault zone, and the blind spots in the line of sight, the locking system, and the scanning radar were rapidly shrinking.

Those dark mist seemed to have lost the ability to gather together. They were peeled off from the main body and swallowed and dissipated by the void. It was really like the haze of the past that had been broken up and was about to be dissipated.

This is something to be happy about, even the group far behind has become calmer.

There are too many strange creations that have been assembled, and they are still being sent to the front line in a steady stream. If this process is to be completely terminated, full implementation will take at least several decades.

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Suddenly, an extremely strong sense of crisis instantly passed through everything, across the nihilistic logic of every evolutionary matrix, across the scene, across the chaotic frontiers of the entire empire, and instantly exploded in the "hearts" of all ships and superconsciousnesses. ——

This is not a fault zone! Its interior is not the wreckage of the world, not the tide of death, not the void, not anti-existence, not the collapse of reality, not the end of time, no, no, no, no...

Almost instantly, the fleet still chasing the dissipating clouds and smoke chose to retreat.

But many of them no longer have any luck.

The dark red space suddenly expanded, and it spread far away, much wider than the void frequency that the "fracture zone" could contain...

As the black fog receded, the land began to spread, and angular buildings and tall spiers began to appear. Unknown dark red light patterns and emblems shone above the huge domes arranged together.

Above the spire, the dazzling light dispelled the black fog, and the space began to extend, quickly filling all the holes. Rigid edges and rounded surfaces continue to spread as the land expands, until it ends where it started. Deep within the leyline pattern, which resembles blood vessels, an unimaginable amount of energy surges.

An invisible storm began to emerge. It slowly rotated and swept away everything around it, whether it was in the order field or in the void.

Countless flowers watered by machinery and life bloom after the storm sweeps away. As the storm completed its periodic rotation, countless world management facilities within the empire's territory almost instantly entered the highest combat status and activated all alarms:

Located within the "First Quadrant", the oldest place of origin in the empire's "theoretical deduced history", almost all world structures have undergone slight changes - they are resisting the control of imperial facilities! !

For the first time, the group hesitated.

This continent, this continent of spiers and domes, was beyond any danger that had ever existed.

Its hand may be as long as the distance between the boundaries of the Void Quadrant itself, and it may be wider than the world itself...