Star Empire

The term "expedition" may now have more symbolic meaning than actual meaning for the empire - on the surface, the empire has begun to send more and more forces to explore unknown borders, trying to push the limits of technology to the unknown, without limit. Countless people have tried to regain the "glorious" part of past history, but it is undeniable that the foundation of it all

The empire is still trying to crawl out of the ruins. Whether it is in terms of territory and territory, or in terms of technical systems and existence ladders, what the empire is doing now is to rebuild the ruins as much as possible, or to strengthen the past. The parts of the fragmented wreckage that can still be used.

"It is undeniable that we are still making progress and making unimaginable breakthroughs."

"But for the past, the relative heights we can achieve in various aspects now cannot be compared with that past era. We have used all measurement techniques and compensation methods, but the gap cannot be filled by algorithms. The gap is too big.”

"What part of the past glory has become the past? We are indeed catching up with our past, but we must note that the past glory comes from the destroyed technical extreme deduction module. The past glory does not entirely belong to us. Now, we want to Let that glory be entirely our own, using our own strength.”

"It is precisely because of this that we were born now, not in that era when the entire empire was falling into chaos."

"I like it here. The more I study and see, the more my logic will tell me - for individuals like us, in fact, now is a wonderful era."

"We think so too."

As time goes by, more departments are formed, more tasks are put on the agenda, and more teams are fully equipped to explore the still twisted black areas of those huge facilities. Inside the isolated world, through the temporary integrity of the broken prism, researchers are able to observe those fixed meme groups. They may be imprisoned within the containment array, or in an observation facility, or in their own Inside every detail of the body and part’s behavioral activities.

Inside and outside the twisted ring connected end to end, there is a spherical space with such a curvature that the curvature cannot be observed even from the scale of stars, and the order gradually transitions to chaos. The world barrier is transformed into a huge interval, allowing the void to connect with everything inside the world. In the depths of the radially spreading cloud rings and light projections, the golden light and shadow are visible inside and outside the range. The new power is fighting against the spreading trend from the beginning of the world.

To get along well with the all-inclusive world of order requires the knowledge to understand and deal with the all-inclusive world, and the logic and heart to be able to identify with this "all-inclusive" objective and rational world.

In the area where the world is difficult to filter and search by its original practical application methods and structural system means, the observer facilities from the empire are hidden in the shadows paved by the world's basic laws. From here extending to terminals scattered throughout space, the extraordinary properties gradually decrease. Information passes through the tiny gap between the underlying protocol layer and the mapping management layer, and their stability ensures the operation and smoothness of the huge information network.

"For us, main axis time provides an absolute reference system, but a further manifestation of this absolute existence is that discontinuous space-time needs to be integrated - which even shows the differences between different huge space-time structures. , and even the relativity of everything within the space-time structure. In our view, perhaps we have spent tens of thousands or more major axis years, but the relative time of each allows the civilizations we observe to be in our span tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years from the dominant perspective.”

"The world will not collapse suddenly, and if these civilizations are stable enough, they can continue to grow. For tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years, or even longer, if they can really survive such a long time , then they will inevitably develop, possibly to a very high level - able to cross the gap between stars, cross the thin darkness between the spiral arms, and leave those vortices in a relatively effective time span."

"Leave those diffuse light and shadows, those twisted ribbons or other native celestial systems, and move forward to a wider distance, across more structures, across distant space, across the shackles of time and space, and summarize the laws from observation Towards application, maybe even confrontation and weaving…”

"...Our actions are not overly in-depth, nor do they hinder the development of civilization. This also means that as long as the "original driving force" of those civilizations has not disappeared and the opportunities have not been completely exhausted, then these civilizations will always Will try further development, the need for development is actually equivalent to the earliest "survival"..."

"Ideally, there will always be a smart group in a large enough sample group that can develop to a high enough level to be able to detect these preset traces, and may even be aware of the possibilities behind these traces... Our Technology may be able to further deceive all of this, but if time lasts long enough, there may always be a civilization with sufficient height... Response and interaction are inevitable.”

"For this aspect, we have been lacking in this aspect. The results of interacting directly with past stories are not satisfactory, because those stories themselves are already doomed."

"The Fantasy Force has tried to conduct tentative interactions in the areas where multiple civilizations are located. However, not every civilization is complete and strong enough. We cannot be sure if the civilization itself has not yet formed a super individual, or the super individual tendency is not obvious. The complete will on that side. And the uncertainty of the sample itself will radiate countless results. We can get the possible range, but there is only one final result."

"Possibilities can only help us make adequate plans as much as possible to a certain extent, but what we have to face in the end is a certain result - this result may be complete or broken."

This kind of information exchange occurs between countless related individuals. Countless intelligent entities exchange their own observations and understandings with each other. When this information is accumulated to a certain extent, it will be turned into reports and records, which can be used at different levels in different fields. flowing between.

In different fields and different classes, people think about different things - what the Emperor's Council and top-level ministers consider is related to the direction of the entire empire. What directions does the empire need to choose in related aspects and what macro-economic decisions should be made? efforts determine the possibilities for the future.

The chief experts at the next level will start to study a more specific direction outline based on the feedback from below and the will of the upper level. At the next level, the people in charge who have begun to take responsibility for specific fields and sections will decide what is possible within the scope of their own responsibility. situation and began to differentiate the plan. Down to the lowest direct observer, how to allocate their gaze, how to interact and interact in the most detailed manner, and what rhetoric and interaction methods should be used to face different civilizations.

In addition to this, in order for all related teams to survive within the empire and to maximize their power, other departments are needed to coordinate related functional issues, and this is also It will involve more other corresponding departments and research organizations - there are various "systems" scattered throughout the empire, and very few entities can be independent from these systems. In order to achieve covariation of the entire system, each part within the system must exert its relative strongest performance while also paying attention to the avoidance of excessive separation and disagreement between each other.

There will be many problems, some of which are difficult to predict and come from directions that have been ignored or not discovered. The past history is still being studied, and the various possibilities for interaction between information may help the empire discover more possible "directions" as soon as possible.

As for the parts that are already visible and imagined, we must prepare as many plans as possible from now on and build a sufficiently suitable foundation for improvement.

For example, as time goes by, any department or organization in the empire is likely to become more complex and larger as time goes by. How to keep the structure as streamlined as possible to ensure the efficiency of information transmission and the speed and accuracy of interaction between departments? Sex, etc., these problems that have been thought of and are very real but quite difficult to solve require a lot of time and resources to be dealt with in a never-ending manner.

Many tasks and ideas need to be considered many times, considered repeatedly and emphasized again and again.

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The empire has many worlds, many kinds of worlds, and the worlds are not exactly the same as each other, which also means that there are countless kinds of "landscapes" within them.

On the outside of the huge artificial planet, star rings shining with purple or golden light are looming. They rotate slowly, leaving projections in every direction within the third-order space, while also sweeping across all possible directions in the world. The flowing light is like the surging blood of life, pushing these huge facilities to complete their tasks.

The huge and splendid palace may be closely related to a group of huge obelisks that don't seem to have much beauty, or a huge building that looks like an extended cube. The mapping connections that appear in the relatively abstract empire network and existential ladder structure are ever-changing in reality. They may only span millions of kilometers, or maybe...the two ends they connect are simply impossible. Measured by "distance".

Countless rays of light flashed inside the neatly arranged space grid array - those were the battleships of the empire. The empire's ordinary airports do not have very special structures. In fact, such airports may themselves be more like decorations for the empire's conventional fleets.

The empire's warships don't really need a home port. They need to dock. On the one hand, they need to perform periodic stable calibrations. The other reason may also be that the "life model" promoted by the empire, with an operational rotation cycle, may look more like It is life that will be more natural and more in line with the "mainstream trend" of the current empire.

Larger dock buildings and environment-creating buildings will exist in other ways. They themselves are often extremely large, occasionally magnificent and brilliant, but most of the time inconspicuous - in this respect it is enough, and at present, the empire's own technology tree is still trying its best to recover, and their prototypes can be restored from ancient relics The body itself is already valuable.

Inside the world, these buildings of different shapes, either brilliant or inconspicuous, have been heterogeneous, and even in some worlds have been completely alienated and transformed. The constellations in the mapping relationship are linked together to form an extraordinary space structure under the joint control of the world circuit and field life.

Outside the world, more traces of life began to appear. The World Veins Overview Constellation, which was shaped like a sharp arrowhead, and the World Branch Zenith Constellation, which was large enough to accommodate super galaxy clusters, began to be gradually restored. The upper and lower layers between them The mapping relationship is slowly being repaired, and more frequencies and time and space are being brought back into control.

Apart from them, there are also a considerable number of "civilian buildings" - they are also of various shapes and can even be said to be all-inclusive. Countless imperial beings live in it. The internal structures of those buildings are either solidified and static, or activated and divergent. The former departments are still listening to opinions and constantly improving their works, and more people are also trying to find their own "way of survival."

"There are a huge number of harvest reports at this stage. Preliminary sorting shows that there are still differences in many aspects and further improvement is still necessary. However, relatively speaking, more of the feedback received now is not directed at us, but for interaction, The environment inside the building still needs our consideration, Minister Hu3477, and this is the report at this stage."

"It should be said that the related independent settings should be the first focus of the next improvement." hu3477 has already made preliminary plans in his mind. In this regard, the empire has enough freedom.

"It's just that, after so many revisions, the task is still difficult to complete." After a moment of silence, a vague question finally began to emerge deep in hu3477's heart. After going through so many changes and spending a lot of time and energy, all these tasks seem to be a bit like standing still. This is not what the current empire should be, at least from the environment I have experienced and what I know and rule. Judging from the team's efforts, they should not exist and should not be repeated in the original field in this way.

… Even the perspective from which I think and view information seems to be unstable – there is no necessary connection between function and appearance… Is it because of my own negligence, or is there a problem with the stability of the third party’s perspective… ?

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The power of the Imperial fleet's equipment and weapons does not require the permission of any world, they exist independently, and are themselves virtually immortal.

Although they can still hurt now, their strength seems to eliminate the need for excessive expansion.

Powerful networking systems, their own performance and connections to the Imperial network ensure the powerful self-repair and self-sustainability of these warships, which require a powerful energy source equivalent to the entire world's level of existence. Battleships have their own code, and they can act in an order - a much higher "order" than the ordinary world rules.

Just like all the missiles of the empire, they do not need to open a physical gap from a certain part of the ship body and fly out of the ship through this gap. They only need a corresponding mathematical rate key and sufficient calculation power. Ideally, a regular Imperial warship could fire an unlimited number of missiles in an instant. The specific numbers are a relatively accurate anchor point in the vague and huge overall - they help the fleet understand how much power needs to be used.

This is indeed true for conventional fleets. But for those more powerful goals, the reality seems to be more stringent.

The structures of units such as the empire's super flagship and position core flagship will more or less have pure strong law materials or conceptual materials, or will have similar self-restraints. If they need to be maintained, the requirements will be much more complex than usual. That often requires a more extreme environment, and such a super environment can only be provided by super equipment, such as the Void Forge and the Law Shaping Field Array. Their functions are indispensable, but they are difficult to manufacture on the spot. Therefore, we must try to restore them as much as possible so that they can be miniaturized and their functions can be expanded.

"Enough! This point of view has been raised too many times, and the records every time are clear and complete! What we need is exact plans, complete plans and specific action guidelines! These are just general directions with guiding significance. Planning is not of much use to us! We need detailed plans! After so many years, why do we seem to have done nothing!? Where have the specific results of the lower-level research groups been disposed of? The records in between Woolen cloth?"

"Everything is there, and the record is complete and clear."

".So, what did we do in the past? What did the surrounding docking units do? What did we ourselves do?!"

"What about the results we should produce? What if we don't come up with a plan for connecting the upper and lower levels corresponding to the results?"

"What have we done?! We can't have done nothing! Where are our results?!"

Deep in space, a huge, slender pale golden ring engraved with lines that shimmered with purple light hovered quietly.

In the center of the ring, a bright golden light shines like a breath. Through the huge door that seems to be blocked by a film, the starlight on both sides communicates without hindrance just like before it was built, just like This gate never existed.

The gate has its own powerful rank rules for information that needs to be identified and guarded against that needs to be interacted with or processed by the Imperial Mark. When approaching this gate, no matter how powerful the current navigation system is, it will be affected by the signal from the gate and automatically make another judgment on the "direction".

Each of the "pole" positions of the door has a set of crystal matrices that protrude from the main body. They are not obvious compared to the entire structure, but the "light" they release does actually become the reality of this huge door. Structural part. Those flowing, solid golden lights are the projection of all the mapping equations and logical calculations that need to be included when the entire world gate is "connected" with other worlds, from the mathematical rate level to the actual level.

After the existence attribute of the empire was wiped away by the dead light, the large-scale "collapse" caused by the lost part caused the empire to lose almost all of its territory, as well as all high-level facilities that might be contained within and outside the territory. Even the main network of the super transportation network that relies on the Holy Music Praise Fortress failed to hold on. The Holy Music Praise Fortress built using the World Gate and the sub-network parts of the overlapping network and the lower cross-world transportation network formed by their spontaneous use collapsed naturally. It makes sense.

What exactly the "Gate to the World" of that era had become, it is difficult to trace back to the exact result now.

"World Gate facilities. If the History Department is not mistaken, this type of World Gate...in the later era, they themselves do not correspond to the void transportation network. In the last traceable time, there are countless world gates that can The world gate classified as this level connects the structure of the world itself and the Holy Music Praise Void Fortress, and the super-large-scale void transmission network formed by the Holy Music Praise Fortress is the main void transportation network of the empire. Or simply in the void A large number of beacons are deployed, and the ships perform calculations and docking directly based on the beacons, without relying on these devices. They have their own equipment."

"In fact, it seems now that even the World Gate itself is not an absolutely necessary equipment - under normal conditions or weak disturbance conditions, as long as the imperial network remains intact, the World Control Facility itself can be responsible for every ship that needs to jump across the world. The battleship provides a temporary jump bridge point, and the battleship engine can complete the round trip movement on its own."

"The creation of the World Gate now only takes more into consideration the current reality of our fleet, and in fact the World Gate itself has quite a lot of limitations - its scope of action is too narrow compared to the entire universe. And it seems that our technology is not yet able to create a gate that can instantly deliver an entire proto-galaxy cluster and can be effective as a "terminal" in all orders at the same time. They are just complementary equipment that provides jump bridges when the fleet itself is not strong enough. The real big one. To jump in scale, the Sacred Music Praise Fortress is also needed.”

"Sigh, but now the Holy Music Praise Fortress Group itself is still trying to restore all functions, and we ourselves cannot withstand such crude information transfer methods. Moreover, we need to ensure omnidirectional control of the existence of the echelon. To put it bluntly, We can do without them for a while, but we can’t live without them.”

"In fact, even this gate contains considerable achievements and efforts, as does every inch of material and every equation."

"The data recovered by the Department of History show that a few centuries ago, the empire had just entered the extraordinary realm. At that time, the ancestors' understanding and application of all this was still in a fairly simple scope - the earliest world gate was not so much a teleportation Through the information body, it is better to say that the two worlds of the destination and the departure place are directly distorted and connected together. This can even be seen as severely distorting the two worlds in the void to form a real connection. interval"

"Therefore, the gate of the world at that time had a fairly large annihilation radius. Inside the annihilation radius, different legal foundations from the two worlds were actually competing against each other."

"In this way, those world gates require considerable scale of calculation support. It is natural that loss of control may cause serious accidents. World gates with rules that are closer to the current binding rules appeared almost out of thin air for a period of time after that. In the beginning , their performance was not good, but soon, they developed rapidly through several generations. But... until their performance crossed a certain critical point, most of the data became fragmented, or simply turned into a lump. Garbled code.”

"Currently, the basic structure of the World Gate can be restored. The emergence of this prototype means that we can quickly start to quickly build a new World Gate transportation network across the empire. Every world now has its own industrial base. , if the industrial base is still there, the world gates can be built simultaneously. They can cover the currently used and unstable transportation network as soon as possible and reduce the information transfer pressure of the fleet's void navigation, etc., what is this?"

In the remote control station far away from the gate of the world, the suddenly activated command grabbed everyone's attention in an instant——

"A similar structure was detected and judged to be the World Gate. The construction of the World Gate network has begun. The number of merged nodes for the current model: 3, and the number of nodes for other experimental models: 2677. Start coordination."

"This... what's going on? Isn't the current World Gate... the first prototype of this type of equipment?! What's going on with the other nodes that have been integrated into the network... Check the relevant records immediately !!”

"...The query is completed, the log is complete, and the format is standard."

"…Why do we have no memory of this??"

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"Recently, some departments below have begun to report back some old issues. Records show that a considerable number of issues have been raised before several expeditions, and a considerable number of them are not long-term issues... They should have been raised long ago. Just solve it."

"When such a big problem occurs...where is the source of the problem?"

"I'm afraid... it's all the rings." Cavenriel responded seriously, "I reviewed a lot of log records with Dornier and Ikarim, and all the teams screened out a large number of duplicate logs and empty processes. ...It is difficult to clarify the time corresponding to individual nodes and paragraphs, but over a larger span of time and space, the information presents a chaotic state... It is as if a lot of information is lost out of thin air..."

"Is there any corresponding possible explanation at present?!"

"For the time being... not yet. His Majesty Void Lieyang and Victorville have received relevant warning records as soon as possible. The imperial fleet and all exploration-related organizations have also raised the alert level to the highest level. They will be able to use it soon. Use all your strength, but..."

"I'm a little worried... This feeling seems to have been experienced somewhere, but I can't go back to the specific time... It may have been before this era."

"In the fifteen-day area, in the twelve-day area, are there any abnormalities in the border dead tide activity records?"

"..."

"...What is this...what kind of reaction? Wait - it happened! We recorded the loss of information a long time ago, and now we are going through this process!!"

"Immediately issue a warning and prepare for the highest intensity of combat——"

"It's too late."

"It is an oversight, but by its very nature it may have erased the very foundation of our existence. We have been deceived by the truth about ourselves."

"After this, we must establish a more stable foundation and a more effective mechanism. Regarding this phenomenon, our approach is too dogmatic. It is beyond all bottom lines. Its own emergence is worthy of our all-out efforts."

"There is no fixed solution and we need to determine the boundaries ourselves. We are not good at solving this part, but we cannot choose our encounters."

In the deepest part of the empire's core territory, the Arcane Throne and the Void Matrix have sailed away.

Deep in countless prominences and coronal jets, countless eyes slowly open. The solar wind obeys the will of Vesrivan. They slowly change the direction of release and "orientate" themselves to a fixed position. within the interval.

Floating in the vast depths of space are countless forts outlined with flowing light and fiery blood. And among the layers of these forts, the huge world branch zenith, which is used as a memorial to all past lives and civilizations, and the huge pyramid that directly extracts the primordial information of the Void Sun itself to maintain its eternal light are emitting light. A warning of danger - the huge pyramid is surrounded by countless flowing lights, which are the identification symbols of all the dead who can still be recalled.

It is very likely that it will expand significantly in a short period of time, but no one is willing to expand the scattered streamer

"Retreat? Is this an order or a suggestion?"

Inside the blazing accretion disk, inside the dark event horizon where all the laws of the world are torn apart, deep in the observer facility that monitors all intelligent life and civilization in the entire world, facing the information from the top of the empire, the command here The officer hesitated.

"At this time, this is a recommendation. However, there is a high possibility that it will quickly escalate into an order." The network responded to the inner concerns of these commanders, "A comprehensive investigation shows that there are major malfunctions in all structures throughout the empire." A wide range of information loss phenomena, including memory loss. The entire empire is currently screening for related dangerous possibilities, and all departments and teams are being mobilized... This situation is extremely rare."

"I admit, this situation is extremely rare, but here, our mission and work." The commander shifted his attention to the countless terminals buried deep in the facility. Those terminals are monitored by countless imperial beings, and those imperial beings are taking their missions seriously, as well as the entities behind the missions - those beings.

It is easy to leave on your own, but it is too difficult to evacuate the world, or everything in the world. Performance and impact don't play well together yet. In order to maintain the basic stability of the entire world, in order to make itself look like a "pearl" instead of a sharp boulder, in order to deceive the delicate world structure, the observer world is currently unable to install the information star network, field life monitoring and world circuit always seat. Compared to the standard world of the Empire, they are delicate and fragile and vulnerable to attack.

If a disaster were to occur, these worlds would likely be the first to be overrun, even if the Empire tried to protect them.

"We need to hold an evaluation meeting. Before high-level suggestions are turned into orders, we need to measure the value gap and stakes as much as possible. Before the end of the specified time, we need. If the order is issued directly, please inform us immediately."

"Order the action fleet and action teams to prepare for relocation and prepare for large-scale world transfer or civilization transfer."

The plan is not completed, the words are cut off, and countless actions that may be before and after the words are also cut off.

When words break, even silence itself falls into silence, non-existence fades into nothingness, and maddening noise turns into maddening noise. Twisted structures that are difficult to quantify span the chasm of space between worlds.

The world barrier was blown away, and countless galaxies turned into restless white sand on the surface of a manic drum. The white sand was swallowed up by the emerging black tide and eventually sank. The huge fiber chains all over the space were torn to pieces, and the stars were corrupted in the black and red shadows. But before the corruption caused them to be broken and twisted beyond trace, the strife caused by the collapse of existence would completely crush everything in them.

The blood-red lightning across the fragmented endless time and space turned into long whips that could shatter countless worlds. They cut through the decayed space and broke countless worlds into pieces that were hard to find.

In the vast void, the swallowed order has become difficult to measure. Twisted borders proliferate, they rot and go mad. But such wild and twisted structures are more like living beings than they are in their normal state.

Deep in the space glowing with dark red blood, the rolling clouds represent that truth and stability have long since disappeared. Everything is shrouded in fog. Order and the world are turned into firewood. They are ignited by the death tide, and they are ruined. There is no point in releasing the fog that obscures truth and truth, because when you disperse the fog, the part you want to try to protect is long gone.

In the clouds and mist, blood-red lightning passed through the endless spreading cracks. Countless of them were like wandering dragons full of malice. They flashed past every splitting point, and flashed past the forefront of every collision and collision. The laws were annihilated. The flash of light burst out violently in this way, roaring at the boundary between order and anti-order, roaring at all possibilities for development in all remaining broken dimensions.

The deepest and darkest points are carved into the very foundation of space. No matter how divided, violent, and twisted this space that is constantly heading for collapse is, those dark spots don't matter. All they did was cause everything around them to be quickly eroded and enveloped in black and red patterns.

In the deepest part of the corrupted structure, a part of the center of the bloody river of light that constantly inspired lightning and corrupted mist began to turn dark. The void seemed to be torn open, and all the ill will towards order and all the opposites of order seemed to have found a breakthrough. They gathered here and poured their "will" endlessly into the external environment.

The river of light becomes more fragmented, the environment becomes more ferocious and twisted, time becomes strange, and their trajectories become distorted - now they are no longer rivers, but whirlpools and undercurrents in the endless ocean. Scales and measurement units no longer have meaning. They are arbitrarily distorted. Infinitely long distances can be covered by grass. Micro-units that are difficult to separate can also be broken into countless parts and scattered across countless parts. Deep in the corrupt space of billions of light years.

The boundaries squirm and spread outward, and they devour world after world. If there is nothing for them to devour and digest, the broken order field that has no connection with the word "stability" will be blown away immediately under the erosion of the void.

The rotten world barrier will be torn into huge wounds, but the remaining will and the underlying struggle around the wound will not allow the erosion to spread. They will try their best to fill the holes and transform the parts that cause them pain. This kind of competition ultimately led to countless Genesis-Doomsday balances of destruction. The huge structure continued to draw pus-like power from this festering wound, and it would grow more and more before completely destroying itself.

Countless probability enrichment points suppressed by twisted brute force fall into the void. They may explode and generate new worlds, but for this rotten abyss, the products it gives birth to are already dead fetuses. . The stillborn world shattered in the void, and the aftermath of corruption spread out, hitting the barriers of other worlds before being flattened by the void and continuing to expand the wave of destruction.

On the path of decay, a bright golden wall of light blocked its path. On the barrier across the existence interval, countless dazzling white lights rose from the plane that was infinitely close to zero. They fell across the gap between existence and nothingness, and they violently tore open the appearance of the huge corrupted structure.

The severe pain attracted the attention of the structure, which further inspired the primitive and crazy "desire to survive" inside this corrupted huge structure to fight back violently at all costs. The meaning of 'destroy' was guided and ejected by brute force. These non-existent jets containing the aura of destruction beyond metaphysics cut off the golden glow emitted by the barrier - that was countless battleships and lives.

"I'm afraid the amount of lost information has been annihilated here. This is a big fault zone!!"