Star Empire

Time is moving.

The outgoing team drew a huge arc in the void. At this point, the fleet is gradually approaching the end of the arc.

Compared with when it set out on the expedition, the expedition fleet has become a little different - there are some new creations and some new lives, while part of the old creations and lives are missing. Among those gaps, the lucky parts can still lie quietly. Already missing from the list, and the unfortunate part does not have the unfortunate part.

There aren't many that can see them, at least for the current empire.

If we look at the entire empire and the entire civilization, the current empire is repairing its own flesh and blood tissue. Countless tiny beings operate according to the deployment requirements of the entire system. They are constantly repairing and replacing the defective parts, replacing those burned by the fierce light. The decay and blankness that emerged - a lot of restoration work is underway and has already begun to play a preliminary role.

But the "Empire" also knows that the current recovery and improvement. Compared with the glorious creation of countless lives, his huge body spanning the entire void, confronting the strength of that dark continent, everything here now , is just part of the ruins left behind after the once glorious palace collapsed.

The "Empire" is waiting - waiting for the life that constitutes it to be glorious again, waiting for itself to be glorious again.

"The theory we want has finally produced results? Well, it seems now that the actual results are different from the expectations, but it is certain that they are in the covariance interval and can be corrected through superposition coefficients and other methods."

"Recently, I feel that many ministries have actually begun to present research results in large quantities - I guess from this point of view, our research may not be available until the Integration and Covariance Department collects relevant content and pushes it to the entire network. Considerable progress. After this, we may have a sufficient basis to study those dangerous areas and transcendent areas that are still locked."

"It's just that now that these results have come out, most of the plans that many departments made before may have to be pushed back. There are too many things that conflict with what we had expected, and even run counter to the entire basic concept structure. Many verifications are even outrageous in our opinion, but these legal structures that seem to be very inconsistent with our expectations are the most original part - here we must thank those "voyagers", I am afraid they really can't come back, right? I don’t know where they will go.”

The main part of the expedition fleet had returned many years ago. But the massive results they brought back took time for the empire itself to digest and process.

At the same time, some results have been obtained, but they may not be able to be transmitted back to the core territory of the empire. They were obtained in the void far away from the empire. They are too far away, and the transport ships may not be able to withstand the long void.

The entire empire is now rebuilding the broken technical system, and verifying a large number of details requires more accurate results. Countless people participated in these verifications, and countless people paid attention to these results. And necessarily accompanying these observations and concerns is a concern for the people who execute those characters.

Discussions like these may look very different depending on authority, scope of responsibility, and individual functions. But there is no doubt that in the discussions of countless lives throughout the empire, while there is respect for these beings, there is also a little doubt and helplessness.

"Even where they have arrived now, it is only the outermost layer of the core territory of the empire during its most powerful period. Not to mention reaching unknown areas, even the boundaries of known areas, we no longer have the ability to touch. And execute The time span of these current tasks has covered from decades to tens of millions of years. What has the empire experienced in the past?"

". It can only be said that based on our current work, even in tens or hundreds of millions of years, the knowledge system we can sort out will still be the framework and high-level foundation that was once possible - we can only In this way, true transcendental theory and transcendental technology will remain a castle in the air for us for a long time.”

"Look at the battleships, look at those huge fortresses - many of them are now just a core, a core that has been stripped of all additional structures and lost countless technical foundations, or a core that can barely move. 's body."

"But even so, these ancient creations also have the terrifying power to destroy the world for us. Just for me, I feel a little incredible - the History Department can actually combine those who have experienced huge disasters and turmoil The data and traces have been sorted out and summarized; it is also difficult to imagine how our predecessors and ancestors tens of millions of years ago could rationally analyze the essence of these huge creations, instead of generally worshiping them as "gods"."

This kind of information interaction is very common in the current imperial network - one person can exchange information with a few people, or with thousands of people. These powerful new beings don't care much about how they survive now. Whether their nature is an individual or a cell in a super-individual is not that important.

But now, some departments of the empire and the Emperor's Council seem to be promoting new norms in relevant parts, and it can be clearly felt that these norms are stronger:

The life of the entity owned by the empire should maintain its own shape under most circumstances and must not be changed or distorted at will. If the life form itself will radiate out the realm, these must also comply with relevant regulations. At the same time, the living environment of life should be fixed and have a fixed "format".

"It's also a bit strange. You must use an actual body, and so many daily actions require such additional attachment to physical buildings and physical creations. Many of these parts are indeed unnecessary. This completely adds a lot of trouble. Yes, why do we have to live in a defined space?”

"This is said to be to draw a line - and it is said that this is what the Emperor's Council, the History Department, the Void Emergence Ceremony Department and even the two supreme rulers want, this will help us not fall into the madness we have experienced in the past. stage."

". It is said that in the past, the period when the empire was the most powerful was also the period when the empire itself was the craziest and most bottomless. There was no life like us in the empire itself. Everything was crushed and blended together to form A strange existence that spans countless worlds in the void, and in that period of madness that was full of noise and irrationality, it is said that the weakest tremor of the empire and the smallest military mobilization may rely on the aftermath to drag hundreds of millions of worlds into pieces and towards destruction."

"It's unimaginable." "It's unimaginable for us."

"Before the beginning of the new era, everything finally ended, and our predecessors began to appear after everything stabilized. They tried to explore a new way of living together with the remaining puppets of the old era and the matrix structures corresponding to the puppets. And now these realities The shape restrictions may be to make up for those "missing" bottom lines on the one hand, and other parts may also have some commemorative content."

"After all, the Department of History can prove that we should have gone through every stage of this, but we skipped too much content in our history, such limitations."

"It can only be said that it has its meaning, but it is not absolutely necessary or absolutely correct?"

"From the current point of view, it should be correct and have its own meaning. After all, on the one hand, we are still not completely sure about what is actually completely suitable for us now. And these restrictions and these requirements are essentially... Just a little bit will allow us to have an actual model and be a little slower - more importantly, these doctrinal requirements do not correspond to any emergency situations such as life is threatened or the environment has high-risk uncontrollable existence. At the same time, they are also "temporary" "."

In the inconspicuous corners of the empire, some temporary information exchange channels have been established that generally do not receive much attention, and these may contain some discussions from a more independent and "self" perspective.

"Team leader, regarding this part of existence, "the meaning of existence lies in existence itself", how should this be experienced and understood?"

"It should be said that it is not difficult to understand - as a self-consistent and independent existence, before the self-consistent structure is formed, the foundation to support a rational and closed self-will does not exist, and "you" does not exist because of this. When you are a After the independent information body is self-consistently closed, you begin to exist from that moment on, but existence is like a blank sheet of paper - your existence only provides the "existence" itself that can be shaped. And the subsequent shaping part depends entirely on you. Make all your own decisions.”

"But at present, the information I captured tells me that I may not be of much value to the entire group. I only contribute a negligible part..."

"All work can be seen as a part and a side from the larger collective. This is true for almost everyone in the entire empire. This is not "insignificant", but "each has his own contribution" "Everything you can do." If you work in the Soul Research Department, then all the data and model images you have examined are helping us, helping the entire department make more correct and better decisions - all of us are here for this Working with purpose.”

"oh……"

"..."

"Speaking of which, this part should be reported as quickly as possible. This time, the Ministry of Human Resources and Personnel and the Emperor's Council were slow to make decisions... But this is very important. Even I can give information and even tips on this aspect. Warning, the empire network and life basic units should be given stronger basic assignments and the innate thinking circuits should be narrowed... This can be said to be too much."

"We can't let them be too smart when they don't need to, or think too much when they don't need to. Even though the empire needs unknowns and variables, it also needs bottom lines and perseverance, and it can't be indulged because of a lack of variables or deliberately making up for something. .”

"This is the foundation after all."

The "team leader" watched thousands of new individuals leave from the part they were responsible for to take up other positions.

As one of the elders, he knows how important this "foundation" is.

The empire is indeed a melting pot of possibilities, but it does not contain everything, and it cannot contain everything.

The empire is growing and recovering, from the vast, chaotic ruins of the past and the broader and endless nothingness.

The framework is being repaired and the holes are being plugged. Rules began to emerge from everything, and they in turn became the basis for classifying everything.

The visible and invisible places, details are unfolded again. It may not have been possible to study in detail in the past, and it may even be a part supported by a vague and fragile framework. After its huge shape was fragmented, the remaining parts also had enough opportunities to be determined and extended by more detailed and unified rules.

The details may be regular, uniform, and even, or they may be fragmented, vague, or even dangerous. The entire empire is restoring all the parts that it can still think of. The entire empire is reorganizing and integrating all the remaining fragments of the god-like power of the old era that has passed away, and looking forward to the possibility that one day they will be completed again and possessed again. A glory that is no different from the past.

The process of rebuilding glory is bound to be accompanied by countless and unimaginable dangers - too many of the past creations are overly dependent on the technological extreme deduction module that has been completely destroyed, and the technological extreme deduction module is said to be The ultimate technical deduction can be carried out according to the user's perception and cognitive level. Many of the details have disappeared with the fragmentation of past history.

If the conclusions drawn based on speculation are still valid, then it is conceivable that the peak of the armed forces created during the extremely crazy and chaotic period in the past must be glorious and terrifying.

The ultimate technology deduction module comes from Σ, and the technology contained in it may still be inseparable from the Σ civilization itself even if it is separated by historical lines and relationships.

As for the order and technology in the void, it can be said that there are quite obvious problems in this. Because the current fuzzy boundary seems to indicate that it is impossible to measure at which moment and link "void" began, in what way and even in what way "itself" decayed downwards and upwards to form the most basic and most basic Blank, containing only basic information elements with weak existential attributes that are almost impossible to reduce.

This means that order in the void may be formed from the bottom up, and vice versa.

The most basic Taichu formula probably does not exist - this means that all the information, all the rules, all the foundations and all the orders in the entire void are not theoretically indestructible.

Theoretically, they could be redefined and perhaps even rewritten from the ground up.

The reason why they still exist in their current form to this day may simply be because the scope, depth and breadth of everything involved now is so huge that they may truly exist attached to a truly infinite foundation.

They have not yet been completely overthrown, just because there may not be any existence in the entire void that can shake the essence of order in the void from an infinite level - in turn, this may be one of the reasons why the empire feels at ease now.

Even Σ does not have the ability to directly and completely shake the foundation of the entire order. At least from the perspective of the empire's current fragmentation, the limits of everything do not seem to exceed the range that can be explained by the unified information, and the demarcation between them is still drawn. Focus on the difficulty difference rather than the theoretical difference. Σ can only influence the rules in the Void Order by relying on the "parameters" that superimpose its own influence and its own rules.

However, these independent influencing factors formed by their own huge size may have been enough to completely shake the operational foundation of the entire order. Their various actions may have been no different from completely recasting the law - now they have collapsed, and the impact they left behind The power may also become fragmented or even disappear directly. This leaves too many parts that can no longer be determined.

It is no longer possible to determine how much of everything now is "original" and how much is affected by the influence of Σ. How much of it is the baseline quantity that has been "solidified" after the influence of Σ disappears, or is still trembling and fluctuating. Variables, will these unstable variables dissipate quickly as time goes by, or will they drift away and disappear at an unusually slow speed, or will the basic environment have been recast?

Is it possible that the empire's own legacy of influence has begun to play a role in this process? The empire does not exist yet, or it may even be an era when Σ does not exist. It may be the home of the "gods" whose details are still unknown, or it may be other possible civilizations whose influential factors that are impossible to identify are still at work. What was the environment like at that time?

If this is a closed, basic order environment, such as in the world or other similar order structures, in those areas, information is extremely difficult to lose, and an order environment with sufficient objective stability can iterate from the past to the variables that may be experienced in the future.

But for the infinite open system of the void, a non-existent environment in which everything will be lost after returning to the void, after experiencing such a large-scale information drastic change, everything in the environment will return to the void, and its basic abilities will also be lost. As upheavals occur that completely distort the narrative and story and never be the same again - there may be no point in looking back.

According to the decision and request of the Emperor's Council, the Void Sun has temporarily shined more sunlight on the people who study these contents, and their hearts may be swallowed up by nothingness and weakness...

Now... for some reason, it seems familiar - even though a long time has passed, the foundation is almost blank. Even with the knowledge of countless worlds, the entire empire is still at a loss when it comes to utilizing this knowledge. And to test them, even if there are things that many people feel are wrong, these "bugs" still have to be triggered. Some of these triggered errors may be avoidable, but there are also many that have left unimaginable painful lessons - errors occurred, but the mechanisms by which they occurred were obscure and complicated.

A large number of basic rules and regulations and laws written with blood and tears have been circulating in the empire network since then. Some of them may be a few people, a small group, a small organization or a department that agrees on commonly known as "efficient rules", and the rules and regulations that are reported together and are of sufficient value and sufficient pan-macro warning significance are The information was discussed by higher-level departments of the empire and even the Emperor's Council, and then written into the information flow of the entire empire network in clear terms - White Matter-U33 Information Interaction Security Threshold Law, 13-4-2-K23 Observation The void stability theorem and a large number of rules containing seemingly messy prefixes come from this.

"It is our incompetence to remember you in this way."

"These provisions will be named after you - in the future, they will prevent similar phenomena from happening again, or... make the death and tragedy itself more valuable."

The territory of the empire has no fixed shape in the void - not only because the only remaining branches and branches of the world in the core territory of the empire and the world itself are still trembling like convulsions, with the different reference systems between each world. Depending on the contact methods, the shape of the "simulated projection" that the entire empire's infrastructure can present varies greatly.

And this difference is not even limited to the actual model - the difference between different reference systems, different relationships, and worlds, that is, their distances in the void are not the same. Between two worlds, the distance they span in the void to go to the target and back may not be equal - the information correlation between some worlds may be one-way.

The existence of these constraints determines the existence of the branches of the world, but for now, these broken void channels need to be taken seriously. Their current gaps may not be ignored, but in fact they do not need to be taken too seriously. .

The empire's territory does not have an exact shape, but it still has a rough projection - like the remains of a nebula left after a supernova explosion.

In these slowly pulsing and flickering empire territories, as if it were a heart itself, there is some strange and versatile equipment - the Void Sky Survey Radar.

They were once produced. As one of the "last creations" produced by the empire itself, void survey radars were first used to assist those very high-frequency nonlinear scanning radars with extremely powerful performance and influence in locking high-speed deflections in the void. Small moving targets or targets with strong non-narrative masks.

Later, these radars were used to scan for possible civilizations in the void, recording some of their details and possible stories, but after that, there was a long blank. The violent imperial fleet formed an almost blind and foolish flood that swept away everything in the vast order area. For tens of billions of years, intense reverberations or long, ethereal background echoes in the void were most of what was recorded by the void survey radar.

They were first used to lock targets in the void, but they are essentially omnipotent - if everything in the void is information and is included in the hugely compatible framework of information unification, then what kind of existence cannot What about being written into a story? How many such existences are there?

Even when the war in the empire was at its most intense, the void survey radar did not suffer too much interference.

The dead light kills the last dangerous factor and the last direct inheritance. It fills in the last missing part of madness for the final wave of destruction. Nine days, death knell and pink light, they destroy countless things in the void. The solid world is stabilized by countless devices, but their aftermath kills the empire itself, but the void survey radar is not affected - it is a creation of the empire's own research and development, one of the empire's own precious technologies .

But since they can see stories and see all the connections between information bodies that cannot be seen on the surface. Has the empire really used it to illuminate itself?

The present is ultimately shaped by countless iterations and accumulations of choices made in countless moments of past history, and the concepts of history and time, first and last are only relative terms, and their establishment requires a foundation - if it can be based on a third party Looking at it from a perspective, time sequence itself may not exist. What exists is just an ontology with countless layers of iterations integrated with each other.

These radars have a wide arc surface, and their long-axis rank projection may be as high as tens of millions of imperial kilometers. For equipment, this is large enough to be usable - this broad arc surface constantly captures the faintest light in the void. The information echoes, and its base and supporting infrastructure will record the details of all the echoes, producing countless stories and possibilities.

In the arc of these stacked stories, some radars discovered that there were some gaps in their recording equipment, and some stories seemed to have been reset to zero.

"What can cause the original normal fluctuations in the void to disappear from such a long distance?"

"If there's anything that can cause information to be destroyed, it's the void itself."

"It's the reaction of the death tide!!"