Star Empire

The death wave crisis is spreading. The fault zone is like a giant beast in the void, gnawing wildly at everything its boundaries collide with. While the fault zone is clearly facing the world of order, the iconic black and red pattern of the death tide is also quietly infiltrating through all channels to the front lines of the empire.

Even after experiencing such a disaster, the empire has shrunk to the point where it is fragile and even as small as a dust compared to itself. But if you consider the sheer number relative to zero, the empire itself is still huge.

This disaster caused serious consequences in a section of the empire's borders and areas. The empire is mobilizing all possible forces to support the most direct battlefield, but so far, although the situation seems serious, the whole thing has not forced the entire empire to stop. In the territories of other empires that are far enough away from the disaster, while countless nodes are crossing the void to go to the battlefield of the fault zone, there are still countless people and things still carrying out their "job" - recording and research.

Now there is an additional category of content to be recorded and researched. In other words, there is a major category of research projects whose priority has been greatly increased due to the emergency situation and the surge in temporary input of a large amount of data and reports that are almost impossible to obtain in ordinary times. ——The interaction between order and death tide.

"A considerable number of these reports may have had distortions left by the corrosive order of the dead tide when they were first compiled, and may even have direct contamination. It can be seen that there are quite a few details and vague rules. In fact, it shows a considerable degree of instability. Imperial network relay stations containing high-frequency supernatural information can purify them, but such transmission is still too dangerous."

"We still don't know what the corrosion threshold of unstable high-frequency crystal energy is due to dead tide contamination. Existing filtering measures are not enough to completely purify the possible residual contamination in these data."

"Temporary order, upload relevant information, block non-essential links, and set the maximum instantaneous transmission bandwidth for the highest security level communication link. Ensure that all "circuit breaker" nodes can perform their functions. Additional purification facilities and signal filtering for relevant links will trigger anti-trigger alerts Click. When necessary, fuse relevant links and lock down the network structure!"

"Understood, the order has been issued."

Commands are formulated and confirmed by high-level people in charge according to the main needs of the environment, and these commands are uploaded and distributed to other corresponding communication nodes, where people with different responsibilities parse and execute them according to their assigned identities. The command assigned to itself. When you start to perform tasks, content and more detailed parts that cannot be covered by your maximum scope of responsibilities will be passed on to other levels and very similar events will be repeated.

"The corresponding link has been modified and has begun to accept data that may contain contamination. The relevant warning report has been uploaded and they will respond to it."

Among the stars built of golden light, countless "ghosts", like having brilliant wings of light made of nebulae, began their own actions - the necessary safety must be guaranteed, no matter how hard-won this information is, No matter how urgent the research needs are, if necessary protective measures are not taken as much as possible, enthusiasm and tenacity will become a bridge for the spread of the plague.

However, the necessary research progress must also be ensured. If you change the perspective, these hard-won information can assist a large amount of research. The final results and theorems may contain a long list of numbers, names, and even group and department names as suffixes and suffixes. If you abandon them, it will be a waste of other people's lives and blood.

Finding the right balance within an appropriate pattern from these contradictory and conflicting parts is both an art and a technique.

During the intermission of research, among the countless various equipment in the laboratory world and the star network built with virtual or real isolation measures, the eyes of those "ghosts" looked into the distant depths of the void.

All access channels are closed except for those that carry firepower and deliver suppression fields. Once, if an individual was willing, he could see the part of the other side of the empire that he wanted to know in a very short time.

But now, all everyone can see is pure darkness. People know that on the invisible side, countless lives and creations are fighting against the corrupted huge order body and invisible pollution that can corrode all detection methods and detection methods, but no one knows what will happen to the void.

In fact, many people don't say that they know everything around them and everything they want to know. They still only know a little about themselves. What you can see may be nothing more than a series of relatively simple projections and narrow sides, and I am afraid that no one in the entire empire can intuitively understand everything about it.

"No, that's too pessimistic."

".?"

"Yes, if we strictly discuss the academic details and the real situation, then what we can see is indeed only one side. But we have already integrated many, maybe even all "sides" invisibly."

"Everything we say and do, including our thoughts, our consciousness, our emotions - many factors have been integrated into the environment invisibly, and they are everywhere. Just like our thinking and the decisions we make, these factors All the factors we consider may be expanded to correspond to countless results. And the countless results are summarized into simple items that we only need to use the simplest parts to live a good life."

".Indeed."

"Just do our job."

The gaps between worlds are filled with emptiness.

This is the best abyss to stop the pace of curiosity and exploration. It is also a natural chasm that can block the spread of almost "everything" - at least for those civilizations that cannot make the journey across the world as simple as walking around at home.

The silent and dark void environment can effectively block the invasion and influence of the "physical structure" polluted by the death tide.

"The fleet structure is currently stable, and the detection system has determined that the shield has not become unstable or distorted. The redundant system is in good condition and can be overloaded, and the security space is in good condition." Within the several backbone networks that are allowed to exchange information, some from these queues senior commanders are exchanging information as simply as possible.

"After this operation, pay attention to reporting issues such as unclear task assignments and chaotic scheduling of the Imperial Fleet. Direct observers are ordered to continue to pay attention to suppressing and preserving space."

This fleet, temporarily formed after withdrawing from the destroyed border world of the empire, continued to move cautiously towards the core territory of the empire. Along the way, they tried their best to avoid every world that appeared in the scanning system. They tried their best to avoid the chaotic jets and weird disturbances in the void.

I don’t know how long this kind of maintenance and avoidance can be maintained, and how long this fleet can persist.

Inside the fleet matrix, there are two particularly obvious order centers, and corresponding to the scene that can be observed in the real life zone, there are two bright golden stars inside the order field supported by the fleet, and two phase centers. A radiation source unprecedentedly powerful compared to the environment - two bright golden stars corresponding to two conventional motherships from the Imperial Battle Fleet.

Their bodies are thick and bulky, and their pure crystal energy crystal arrays, smooth hulls, and gurgling crystal energy veins indicate their "extraordinary" status. At present, the powerful computing capabilities they bring and the foundation for injecting new strength into the fleet are trying to make up for the various difficulties currently encountered by this fleet and itself.

More shield calculation robots are being "vomited" out, part of the crystal structure is adjusted to establish more secure temporary communication link receivers and repeaters, and more calculation cores are being spontaneously connected. To maintain the void navigation of the entire fleet - in fact, these two motherships are relying on their own basic resources at this time, dragging an entire river system structure in the void to avoid the spreading disaster.

". Record the relevant situation, save it in multiple backups and layers, and if the situation is irreversible, at the cost of these ships and all our lives, the results will be sent back to the upper-level center of the empire that can accept them."

"Currently, the fleet matrix lacks the corresponding command transmission echelon and the corresponding distribution method, and the fleet matrix distribution cannot face the current situation. This operation has serious unequal distribution and lack of distribution weights. A large number of observer fleets that have been transferred and their The responsible civilization did not receive corresponding support."

"It can be predicted that our basic redundancy is insufficient. Some signals have been intercepted, and new hopes for reaching safer territories in the empire have been cut off or changed to one-way communication. A large number of local soul upload points have been destroyed, and network bandwidth has increased significantly. Under the premise of being damaged, the performance of the equipment used by the Observer Council is very low due to the crystal energy content requirements. These factors have led to the sacrifice of a large number of imperial lives and creations. We need more and safer redundant systems, as well as a large number of incompetent systems. Supplies that need to be calculated at a cost.”

"The giant fault zone will destroy the empire's territory, which is very large in total volume and depth. It is requested to further increase emergency passages and emergency communication links. This support operation is inefficient and may cause the fault zone to further spread and cause a lot of unnecessary losses."

"We should further accelerate the normalization of the performance of observer equipment and try to suppress unnecessary extraordinary information radiation. Related research corresponding to this purpose should be further advanced."

"This incident further proves that the current equipment system and corresponding individuals of this ship still have room for development. This ship can further improve its related performance by producing its own accessories or directly expanding the basic hull. Part of this has already been done Relevant deductions confirm that the plan is feasible. We believe that further attempts should be made to this."

There are many more silent network segments and order fields than before. With the refresh of the frequency of external representation of the order field, the order field seems to be breathing. In the process of continuous jumping, the two motherships tried their best to make the jumping process as safe and smooth as possible. Each of the former void beacons may still be bright now, maybe only one in ten thousand.

The Imperial transportation network inside and outside the world is adjusted to be one-way or completely cut off. In these ways, the Empire tries to avoid contamination passing through fragile nodes in the Imperial network and losing control. For the Empire, this is undoubtedly the safest and most correct approach, but for the people isolated on the "other side" of the barrier, this may be bad news that will cost countless lives.

On the silent island, the faces of the observers are becoming gloomy. Everything seems to be shrouded in an endless and broad leaden gray cloud, and no clear direction can be seen.

Nearly 100 million years have been enough time for this civilization, which has made sharp turns in the face of huge crises several times, to develop from a single planet to reach and occupy the entire galaxy. If the world continues to operate normally, they may develop faster and reach a higher level. But the invasion of disasters from outside the world almost instantly splashed dangerous pollution points across the entire world.

Although the Observer Facility has cut off the celestial structure where the entire civilization is located and most of the equipment distributed in space that they rely on for survival as quickly as possible directly from the world, such an approach is not only for here, but also for It was not perfect compared to the array of large-scale uniformly structured observer facilities that once spread across the universe, or in other words, the final results it gave gave the empire a feeling: it should be able to do better.

The redundant computing power to cut and maintain space structures at the galactic level is already the limit, and larger structures are no longer possible with the equipment currently used by the Observer organization. But reality tells the entire empire that the pace of real development will not stop at this height because of the current upper limit of the empire.

The inside of the Milky Way, which was once vast and magnificent, now has black spots and holes that are deeper than space and can swallow up attention and souls - the death tide. Part of the physical phenomenon formed by diffusion has begun to swallow up the basic reality of this silver disk.

All the original space channels and communication channels of that civilization were cut off by this fleet to prevent the contamination from spreading too quickly. In the process of achieving these goals, this team carried out experiments and conducted virtual environment tests. The planned rules and regulations - the rapid emergency response force has been dispatched to help that civilization avoid disaster, and the relevant action groups directly affiliated with the empire appeared in front of other civilizations.

Reality showed that it was almost a disaster.

Since the isolation measures taken by the empire directly cut off their physical network and the information exchange network that was still relatively "virtual" to them, the civilization spread across hundreds of billions of star systems was almost cut into hundreds of billions of pieces, and maybe even It's more, countless small and large fragments. Each galaxy cannot communicate with each other, signals are inaccessible, and ships and transmissions are inaccessible. The Galaxy-level material dispatch that originally required a huge fleet to carry dispatch materials was instantly cut off, and countless fragments fell into serious single or multiple categories. Supplies are in short supply. The constant outbreak of various disasters that transcend the worldview itself and the cessation of all communication have caused civilization to lose almost all of its original command system.

Endless chaos spread quickly as a result, and the actual situation provided by the monitoring system showed that this chaos may even cause that civilization to be destroyed by its own chaos before it is corroded by the death tide. However, the Empire knows that even the weakened and suppressed pollution has its essence that transcends all realistic possibilities of the entire world and transcends the worldview itself.

It is very likely that it comes directly from the void, and no matter how powerful a galaxy-level civilization is, the limit of this civilization's capabilities is far from touching the boundaries of the universe itself, let alone relying on its own technology to fight against disasters outside the world. If the Empire unblocks it, then even the remaining contamination can instantly break through all the firewalls in their network and directly cast a shadow of corruption on the entire galaxy - this seems to be a logical knot with no end.

"It's too idealistic. We are too idealistic." Faced with the communications from the rapid response emergency force, more and more memories began to tremble in the records of the Observer Council.

"We once believed that a disaster of sufficient magnitude would force all civilizations to mobilize all their forces to fight against nature, and that they should be united as never before. However, our own actions first destroyed the basis of their unity and unified dispatch, and we were also greatly affected. Underestimating the dark elements inherent in everything. Look at these records, look at their own statements, look at the corresponding personal thoughts behind these, the opinions of others, and the corresponding percentages of rationality, emotion, and disturbance. this is too scary."

"The former can be attributed to our own lack of preparation, as well as the fact that all our current concepts and practical actions may not meet the overall needs of the current environment. In the face of this weird disaster, from our purification actions, the reason for the loss of contact The superposition of these upper-level management structures further stimulates confusion and disagreements between people. If we use the current model to deduce it, it is indeed normal.”

During the conversation, part of the crystal energy firepower extended from the current fleet locked some dangerous points in the silver disk. Those polluted celestial bodies have begun to lose their own laws. They have become crazy and dangerous. They must be completely out of control to form new ones. powerful sources of pollution before they completely disappear from the plane of existence.

"We ourselves cannot imagine how many things we have been connected with in their eyes, and how we exist in their eyes."

It is necessary to go through layers of filtering relay stations to submit the results to the terminal. The polluted celestial body and its influence are gradually being erased. In the face of the erased celestial body and countless lives, "watching" The observers at the terminal could only express their helplessness.

"There is no way. We know part of the cause and nature of this disaster but they don't. Strange unknown races and hugely different information asymmetries... If it were us, we would not be able to directly accept such a warning, even if "they" behave Be kind.”

In his consciousness, more and more information related to himself passed through his underlying thinking. Religion, conspiracy, doomsday, gods, prophets, ancestors, hallucinations, experiments, parallelism and dislocation, future warnings and past warnings...

The team is far from enough.

"I said...what about us?"

"Us? What happened to us?"

“...Have we allowed these games to become part of the most basic soul and dissolved in our daily lives, so we don’t care, or...our own environment determines that we can not play in normal times. Affected and troubled by them, but they can also completely affect us and disrupt everything about us? We just try to keep ourselves away from them as much as possible, but in fact... we are not aware that these may develop in different forms throughout the order. All stages of fortification?”

"The previous departmental research was not..."

"Have they considered that if this huge death wave disaster destroys a large area and forces the entire empire to completely block this territory, all the possibilities here and the direct possible further consequences? We have anticipated and considered it. Have you experienced the consequences and prepared yourself?”

"Everyone, get ready...the tide of death can destroy everything..."

In this dim starry sky, more golden light spots are being continuously produced. But the way forward for this small fleet, as well as countless other fleets similar to them that are evacuating, is still unclear.

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The fault zone is still advancing. In the depths of the frontal battlefield, countless warships form a huge and solid matrix. They are fighting against countless jets that are shot out and contaminated with high-risk pollution, and are slowly sinking everything. , fight against invisible pollution.

Countless fleets pulled up skynets in the void, intercepting the corrupt and crazy huge structures. Between the nodes, countless battleships themselves form even more detailed network nodes in the "mesh". Up and down the high walls of existence, they struggled to maintain their own solidity and integrity, blocking the invisible pollution that invaded the deeper empire territory.

On the soft mud sea, the huge golden-red light beam released by the barrier class deceived the real existence. The corrupted jets originally aimed at the fleet itself were attracted by the "smell" released by these beacons, and they deviated from their original direction. This brilliant bright beam of light annihilated. The Shengyuan-class field blasters and the Shengmang-class field-killing ships cooperate with the ubiquitous alien life forms to cut through the vast and foggy battlefield, attracting countless beacons that have successfully attracted a large amount of physical corruption along with the order structure where they are located. Exploded and pushed into the void.

The Strike Spears fight alongside the ancient Star-Rising Citadel, their powerful attacks constantly attuned to the searing torrent of information and their frantic use to scorch the festering festering fringes of the corrupted bulwarks.

In the grid, there are information pulses from countless nodes struggling to spread again and again. They are spread as far as possible across all nodes inside and outside the entire fleet structure, providing opportunities for gain and repair for all nodes that the fleet can still contact. The Holy Inquisition-level arcane hub The ship, the Star-Suppressing Fortress, the Prophet-level Probability Coordination Hub, the Order Heart-level Order Compilation Fortress and the First-level Origin-level Dispersed Logistics Center together stabilize the structure and will of the entire battlefield.

These brilliant and obvious positional core flagships and super flagships can be so conspicuous in this battlefield, and it is indispensable for the assistance and support of the more extended part of the fleet matrix.

Countless more detailed flagship battleships and conventional motherships are arranged into a standard and regular physical matrix. Between the countless them, a surging torrent of information surges, providing support for itself and the entire space.

Iterative projection of virtual information, strong reality stabilization fields, expendable deflection beacons, joint shields and imaginary void traps. Most of the expendable structures of the large fleet that can be called the "fleet" are almost all integral parts of themselves. here.

It should be said that from the past, present and foreseeable future, starting from the significance of overall existence, soldiers will be indispensable.

"The third wave of rotation teams encountered the impact of death wave pollution, and their stability declined. The quick reaction force immediately guided them to retreat and repair. The fourth and fifth waves of rotation teams entered the information exchange position!"

"The logistics area accelerates the production of consumable materials - giving priority to ensuring sufficient production of replaceable information transmission relay stations, jump missiles, shield maintenance robots and consumable environmental supplementary equipment!"

"Relevant production constraints have been relaxed. Each ship can produce in-ship accessories according to the recommended plan and self-made preset plans to improve the performance of the ship. Note that the fleet matrices still need to covarie with each other."

"Pay attention to the replacement of the emergency communication facility associated keys and corresponding mapping structures. The original structure and the linear time connection are about to be unstable. A period of instability will come. Throwing away the original maintenance structure will produce large-scale crystal energy assignment fluctuations. Be prepared to resist self-impact!"

The surrounding space is alive, with countless imaginary and real figures, like streams of light, shuttling between the devices. They carefully exchange information with each other and maintain the exchange of information according to their assigned responsibilities. They use various methods and methods. This angle constantly determines its own stability to prevent contamination from opening unsafe gaps and pouring back. They use the tools they have in their hands carefully and make them perform as powerfully as they should the next time they are needed.

"Commander, the rear logistics fleet has encountered a major problem - the instability of our overall environment is becoming more and more serious, and the available bandwidth of rear industrial facilities and interaction channels has been greatly reduced. Our wounded and souls who need to wait to recover their bodies and self-structures It’s difficult to recover in time.”

".The fleet's own soul transfer equipment is not enough to support existing needs. Are our stasis field facilities still functioning well?"

"Currently, individuals and equipment that are functioning well and have spontaneous damage and integrity drop records have been entangled in stasis. However, due to contamination by the death tide, the stagnant information body cannot completely stop evolving."

"If necessary, withdraw the stasis field into the rear area encoding stack and wait for rescue."

"The situation is not optimistic." The surrounding lights and the passing figures could not conceal the boundless sense of depression coming from all directions. Countless information flows in front of my eyes, and instructions are sent and received around me like breathing.

My authority can only cover this step, but even at this step, the current situation is clear enough.

Deep in the part of the network that belongs to his command, the shadow gradually spreads.