Star Empire

"The Narrative Network of Void Sky Survey Radar has sorted out some of the observations - we cannot speculate on the specific details of those possibilities, but it is certain...the catastrophe that is breaking out has destroyed many worlds connected to our borders. "

Zhai Cahir said solemnly, "Currently we cannot get involved in the field of death tide, and we are still unable to draw more information from the current situation. What we can be sure of is that the death tide will cause extremely serious distortions of rules and Destruction, a high-concentration death tide will directly destroy all information related to it from all directions. All our current calculations for the death tide, all the results we get are actually just through the loopholes in the order structure and the "destroyed" existence attributes. And the structure that is reflected indirectly.”

"Currently, among all our rules for the death tide, there has never been the element of death tide as "itself". The reality of creating this series of regulations all comes from the result of the destruction of order. The death tide itself has never appeared, and it has never appeared. There is no existence that can be clearly defined as a "dead tide" that has collided with reality. All of our current observed phenomena are based on the distortion of the order environment itself, without exception."

"There are currently no clues with breakthrough value from past data. All records show that the death tide itself will invalidate order and rules. It will kill everything that exists and does not exist. The rules from order cannot be measured. It's - it's outside the range that we can currently quantify, there's no doubt about it."

"But whether it is because it is "outside the measurable interval" that our means cannot measure and fix it, or because "it will cause damage to all the information related to it, making all means before getting the result, its It is no longer valid in itself”…it is impossible to judge.”

Isendel, Cavenriel, and Ikarim gave a common result - after the reorganization, as of now, it is the strongest sky area for inductive processing of complex information. It is the highest area that carries unimaginable wisdom and power. The aggregator, the uncertain conclusion they gave caused the meeting to fall into a brief silence.

"The field cannot be covered, it will disrupt all fields, and the core location of the Deathtide Gate will be the most destructive."

"The Void Sky Survey Radar proves that once the Dead Tide Gate appears, the information that can be extracted from the void will be greatly reduced, and the speed may even exceed the damage caused by the void intrusion. At present, it seems that the void intrusion itself may be affected by rules such as the void quadrant division "Reducing" or "neutralizing" factors such as corresponding mapping links and information disturbance fields..."

"Some information is actually difficult to be destroyed, or in other words, if you don't deliberately cause damage, they may survive in the void for a short time, but for the death wave... this part of the information will also be destroyed quickly. The current test results All show that the destruction of the dead wave can at least equal the highest theoretical strength of any kind of information structure."

"The current war situation on the empire's borders is stabilizing... There are small-scale death wave activities, but the scope of such activities is often very limited, and it is difficult for them to exceed a single galaxy-demarcated unit."

"The disasters outside the empire may have stopped, but we don't know about it. In fact, without the continuous operation of the void survey radar and the entire imperial monitoring system related to it, we would not be aware of anything outside the empire at all. A suspected mass death wave outbreak occurred."

"The wreckage will be completely swallowed up by the void. Even if it is a huge fault zone, once the balance between creation and end of the world is completely broken, its fragility will be no different from that of a bubble. After the void sweeps everything away, all traces will be obliterated. Some details may never be seen again as the world shatters and returns to the void. At least for now, the overall environment in the void, the countless worlds in the void, and the common development trend in the void are one-way linear iterations. This The forward trend is currently unbreakable.”

"When void is confirmed as the beginning and destination of everything, the once indestructible information theory in the world will no longer hold true - the foundation of great unity allows the creation and true demise of nothingness. Within the world, even matter is completely destroyed and destroyed. Torn and devoured, their basic structure is completely gone. Their own structure, their information still exists and is indestructible to us. The foundation of the world is relatively stronger, so the world is more empty than the void. It means certainty, but it is void. Things will really appear and perish out of thin air.”

"The fire dragon in the cabin, the civilization deep in the black hole, the existence that cannot be seen or sensed in the invisible dark world, the boundaries between existence and non-existence may be really blurred. Even in the future, will dualism and binary opposition be clear? It exists, at least within the area of ​​​​our knowledge we do not confirm.”

"Relevant parties, do your two majesties have any suggestions or guesses?"

"There are some possibilities in the past, and there are also some corresponding phenomena. The two majesties did raise some possibilities, but they are not sure about those possibilities. This is just speculation. Again, this is just speculation."

[In the past online meetings, there was a suggestion from an unknown source that the death wave may correspond to everything negative in the void. Combining the "Deus ex machina" event, the concept of "reverse inheritance" and our own possible modification of all past memories and the chain diffusion reshaping of all related events. Now we have modified history in this way Iteration, we have completely changed the memory of many historical iterations, and even judging from the combination of iterations, we have indeed modified history now.

It is not ruled out whether these details come from us in the future, which is worth recording and studying. And multiple searches of past history and the deciphering and analysis of some of the remaining information fragments of Σ civilization Σ fight against the death tide is not simply because the death tide will destroy the order in the void, they may cause bigger problems, their truth Maybe even more twisted. 】

[Preliminary speculation is that there is a possibility of death waves - they are the "opposite" of everything that exists and does not exist in the void, everything that is knowable and unknowable, and all the areas that we can still touch that have been mastered and have not yet been mastered. 】

[It is currently impossible to confirm the origin and formation rules of this series of conjectures. Make a virtual conjecture with the highest unreality coefficient: if the truth is true, then it can be confirmed that all research on its essence and its own properties will no longer be necessary. The death tide itself determines that everything we have will fail when its "opposite" acts on it. All our technologies can only detect the remnants of our order but not its actual effects. Just like currently, we use the destruction of the residual environment of order to speculate on the possible spread of the death wave. This process actually studies how and what process the residual order information is so destroyed. We use this to simulate a virtual body that can be accepted by order rules and logical equations, and use the properties of this body to replace the death tide and make further speculations about the death tide. However, it is certain that there must be errors, and this error may be fatal. 】

[The death wave may be indescribable in the true sense. It may be different from the "incomprehensible" and "indescribable" caused by the huge and complex information body that exceeds the speed and breadth of our information understanding. We get the destructive results of the death tide, the source of which is the destroyed wreckage of our own rationality. It is indescribable and cannot be measured, and all methods of measurement will completely fail before touching its essence. Its scope also includes all our current conjectures and assumptions. 】

". More information is needed to further confirm and confirm the scope of the current research field. The lower-level think tank will deduce the value and possibility difference range to determine the essential research value of the dead tide and the positive threshold of investment resources. If it exceeds the threshold and the empire allows the elastic range, it will still be If results are not achieved, resources will be diverted and relevant research and development efforts will be invested in the direction of "practical application" to combat the death tide."

"At the same time, after confirming that the empire's strength has been further restored, and that the national security stability and the empire's basic life against external distortion have increased to more than fifteen weights in the preset safe interval, we will try to enter the death tide field to conduct further risk research."

"Prior to this, relevant safety preparations must be made, including basic life resistance and additional resistance, equipment stability measurement, network segment joint splitting operations, existing echelon isolation operations, and related disturbance forces, etc. It has been foreseen All possible ways to transmit the death wave require strict actual performance testing. If necessary, perform sacrificial testing."

"The environment is a bit unstable, and enough information has been exchanged in this meeting." The relative corner of the meeting, the empire's "artificial weight," Dornier, the top person in charge of the 15th Day District, expressed his opinion at this time, "Continuing may create an unstable environment and may affect the accuracy of the decision. I suggest that this meeting be ended here."

Deep in the empire's network, deep in the current echelon of the empire's existence, a secret passage opened up by using network nodes and the information environment quietly dispersed, and the nodes that composed them dispersed again. Nothing has changed.

After the possibility of the death wave crisis was initially detected, the empire urgently organized a third expedition. However, this expedition did not achieve very obvious results - to a considerable extent, it is certain that a large amount of information was lost due to the destruction of the death wave. Directly erased from the void, their massive loss makes it almost impossible for the Empire to restore its original stories and possibilities. As fire dragons in the cabin, they themselves did not have any impact on the empire, and from the beginning to the end, the empire did not get a glimpse of their true form. The weak fluctuations intercepted by the void survey radar and the rare small amount of information fragments can only indicate that disasters of similar scale may occur, but how these disasters occur and what the rules are, the empire does not know.

It can be said that the third expeditionary operation failed. More border outposts and void fortresses were placed on the border. As the basic environment of the empire began to improve slightly, the troops stationed on the border of the empire were also allowed to conduct conforming operations. It corresponds to the expansion of the charter and external exploration actions. And the information they brought back could only be said to be a slightly unnecessary addition to the empire's endless logs and workflow records.

More departments began to coordinate with each other and transfer authority, functions and corresponding areas to each other as efficiently and concisely as possible, or simply split, reorganize, and merge with each other.

Part of the past experience, as well as the data from other civilizations that have been included in it, can show part of the results - as the responsibilities within the empire become increasingly clear, the "upper level takes over everything" or "gives it to anyone" has appeared in some cases in the past. Phenomenons such as "randomly assigning tasks with extremely different fields" are unlikely to occur frequently again at present.

However, specializing in special tasks may lead to ambiguity in task handover and ambiguity in corresponding responsibilities. This means that if this part is not clarified and delineated in a more specific manner, there may be a large amount of vague information in future imperial logs. Such a possibility is not in line with the empire's own needs and the original intention of setting up these "departments".

The problems that will follow are not limited to this part. In the visible or invisible future, as the empire's responsibilities and domain demarcation become more complete and detailed, the size of a complete department may continue to increase. This means It may lead to a large number of redundant processes that slow down the overall progress of the task.

This possibility exists widely in a considerable number of civilizations observed by the empire - civilizations partially composed of individuals with independent living abilities and self-intelligence form a social structure, and after the social structure is highly stable, certain factors will allow individuals to deal with a situation. What was essentially a simple matter required traveling long distances and obtaining numerous approvals from multiple agencies before it was finally resolved.

"It does not mean that it is incorrect or inappropriate to do so. Civilizations that have been observed and recorded have taken the initiative to make the overall social trend develop in this direction many times, and some of these actions were successful."

"It can only be said that if possible, then always adapt to changes and always treat all circumstances with the highest caution and seriousness may be the best forever, but that will cost unimaginable energy and resources, and time may not allow it. We can squander resources arbitrarily within a limited range without considering the actual situation itself. Now, we need rules and guidelines. We need to determine our ideas and guidelines, and we need to know what we need to do in what kind of environment and how we need to do it. The attitude, the way to think and the depth of thinking.”

The rapid development in the past and the backfilling of a large number of basic observation results have given the current empire a foundation on which it can stand firmly. This foundation floats on the sea of ​​mud. Its existence will not make the individual empires think and perceive because of their own. Expand a little and drag yourself into a bottomless quagmire of logic.

Over tens of millions, maybe even billions of years, more and more individuals have learned more and more knowledge, they have determined more and more paths and directions, and they serve as the backbone of countless departments. Because of their existence, the huge empire finally had a relatively stable foundation.

Before and after the three expeditions, in those parts that are not remembered and known by everyone in the empire, and are not directly engraved in the most superficial history of the empire, there are countless people who have contributed to the operation of the entire empire. If something is deemed worthwhile, someone will be responsible for it. The plan has been suspended due to various restrictive reasons that have not yet been thought of and insufficient basic conditions. These items may be unique and may cause the empire to reflect on itself and think about the reasons why this issue has not been dealt with.

The empire spanned a long time, but it was different from the past. To be precise, what was different from the previous era was that this time the empire did not leave everything to chaos and the unknown, and did not let the crazy will block it. All one's own perceptions of the objective world, let alone time passing by without feeling - all the passage of time is recorded, but the importance of different intervals is not the same, so their corresponding recording levels and levels of detail Nature is not the same.

The new life will now be given imprinted teachings in the formative period of the soul's personality before birth - a long life does not mean that time can be squandered and time can be wasted. Now that the empire is recovering, it is too common for a job to require countless people to work for tens of thousands of years, but this does not mean that the people who exist in it have become poor because of their long lifespan or time perception. Different and wasted a long time.

All time and all memories have not been distorted. Although the time span is huge, if there are important points, they will definitely be remembered. If the rest is indeed unchanged, it may not be a bad idea to compress it in the future - currently, the life of the empire has considerable control over its own inner being, within the framework allowed by the empire.

The authority system and the basic soul personality shaping system will be further upgraded. New life will be given fixed knowledge and cognition. Some of their authority, power and rights will be restricted according to certain rules compared to the past. Their basic personality and The soul is no longer in a state of immediate blankness and emanation. This ensures that the basic life will not form a correct consciousness that deviates too much from the empire's baseline during its initial development.

It seems that separation and unity now have more new understandings.

If the timeline is compared to a line, and the empire itself, as well as all information bodies that follow metaphysical separation or covariant unity, are regarded as "paintings" passed through by this line, then the process of the information body moving forward, It is the process of constantly modifying the painting of "oneself", or creating a new painting in front of oneself and integrating it with it. Each fusion may be called a historical iteration. Paintings are not isolated from each other, they will influence each other, they will merge.

Everything moves forward according to linear time, and the "original painting" from the past is superimposed on the paintings drawn at the moment of transition from the future to the past under countless eras and countless circumstances, and is finally born after integrating and integrating them. It's the present, it's everything now.

The past and present coexist, and they are both parts that can be adjusted and controlled. The future is still divergent, and it has wider room for shaping. No matter what happens to this painting now, as long as there is still a chance, its future will not be without choice.

More weapons and battleships have been repaired, and more technologies that have failed due to the "Great Collapse of Existence Properties" caused by Σ's dead light have begun to thaw due to the efforts of countless people - these technologies have begun to partially recover, reviving them. The foundation is forged with countless rules and precautions named after life, which also means that a considerable number of lives were lost due to accidents or negligence in the process of restoring them.

Currently, the empire uses characteristic projections within the range of virtual and real information to confirm the presence or absence of souls. But such dividing standards are just to better determine some originally vague content and lay the foundation for possible future needs. In fact, the boundaries that were once needed no longer have that meaning...

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Reality is not perfect.

If the information bodies created by the empire are safe and complete, and can play all the functions they once did, then they can be precisely controlled by any imaginable information communication method, which may be even more difficult to imagine than the current limit.

But these creations that transcend technology often come from that crazy old period. What ancient standards were implemented at that time, not to mention how different those standards are from now, those creations are because the light of death has rubbed across the entire empire. The existence of attributes has caused a considerable degree of collapse. Even for fleets that have been able to go on expeditions, it is very likely that a considerable number of spaceships still have a large number of black areas inside.

They can be activated only because the countless redundancies are enough to support their own basic operations. Even if more than half of the systems collapse, the remaining parts can still drive the entire ship body and internal functions to maintain a certain degree of operation. —.

Researching and restarting the black zone, and reactivating the systems and spaces inside those huge but dangerous ships, is a necessary process for researching more advanced technologies. In many cases, the harsh conditions of the environment itself make it necessary to complete the goal. To organize an attack, teams must be dispatched to reach the core of the danger. Therefore, it is difficult to completely avoid a large number of casualties.

Maybe it can be avoided, maybe many accidents that end in "glorious tragedies of blood and tears" themselves should not happen.

The current situation may not be the best outcome, but it has begun to become part of the historical iteration. Even if there is pain and death, remember them and use technology to try to avoid their recurrence in the future.

History does not always follow beautiful ideas and perfect rationality. In many cases, historical iterations from the past are full of problems, and they may even be full of loopholes. But this cannot stop the progress of time, and it is even less likely to cause future generations to stop living and creating the future, replace a full set of intelligent arrays with powerful workers, and try to find variables by decentralizing the federation, resource paranoia, and solemnity. , make extensive use of Σ’s technology to resist Σ’s invasion, abandon souls, civilization, and reason.

Which one of these is beautiful, and which one must conform to the rational logic of the time? How many judgments are made based on reason?

It is even impossible to know whether the logic and reason at that time were "logical" and "sane" - after experiencing the aftermath of the powerful obliteration effect of the dead light, the part of Void Lieyang that can be restored and herself are limited. , and after the ancient beings who crossed over from that era were themselves illuminated by pink light, their own historical iterations may have been "denatured" as a result, and the history they recorded may not necessarily be equivalent to the "original history."

By observing other civilizations, the empire may be able to find natural support from certain stages, or roughly derive some common practices that it has overlooked. However, these contents can only be used as a reference, and it is difficult to serve as a solid foundation and An absolutely reliable basis.

Moreover, the current objects of observation are too limited - not all universes can give birth to life, and the birth of life itself is more magnificent than any creation stories and mythological plots known to the empire.

Observers are looking forward to the development of the objects under observation, but until more plans are made, concerns about the blanks remain - if those civilizations really grow, they can span space, and maybe even span the universe. , across the world, by that time, should the empire establish communication channels with them? How to build it? What is the purpose and significance?

Should imperial law cover them? If what they do complies with its own legal and practical circumstances but violates imperial laws, how should the empire deal with it? What should be done if the empire exposes its existence due to unexpected reasons such as background environment, its own negligence, and the explosive development of the objects under observation, thereby impacting the civilization under observation?

In the past, there have been several opportunities to improve the system, but they were all nipped in the bud.

"I hope this time." Vidoville couldn't help but sigh while browsing the results sent by the builders of the Observer Council: "I hope this time it can go on forever."