Star Empire

The shadow of pollution is spreading, and the black-red two-dimensional pattern is extending outward along all possible transmission channels, coating everything with a shadow of destruction. However, as the Imperial fleet gathered to its maximum, such a large-scale operation brought equally huge impact and pressure to the Empire itself.

The shadows are still spreading, the mud sea is still spreading, and everything floating on the mud sea is partly being pulled down, while some are still gradually sinking into the depths of the bottomless abyss.

The focusing lens composed of the empire itself is still coordinating the hyperspace firepower from the entire empire. Outside the closed channel structure, a large number of imperial fleets, large and small, cautiously contact each other and continue to advance towards the vast contaminated area where the death tide spreads.

Still among the teams that were evacuated to the interior of the empire and were not suitable to participate in the head-on fight against the pollution of the Great Fault Zone, members of the observer team and part of the imperial fleet intervened within those civilizations and began to "transform" those civilizations so that they could own part of them. Resistance to dead waves, or at least the ability to block contamination.

Before and after the Great Fault Zone hit the imperial border, countless contaminated information fragments were splashed out. In addition to these actual fragments, the disturbance caused by the Fault Zone itself seemed to have polluted quite a few worlds. The observer team is very fast, but even so, the parts that are cut off from the inside of the world seem to be contaminated, with the evolutionary tendency of destruction and corruption unique to the death tide.

The empire already knew the fragility of the world's infrastructure when it knew that the equipment needed by the observer team could not carry a large amount of strong crystal energy to react. For a long time, the empire had been paying attention to relevant aspects and continuously carried out various Such preparation. The fragile ordinary world can be said to be quite fragile after losing the powerful blessing of Σcivilization background disturbance. The operation of everything within the conventional order world requires the stability of the heart of the world.

And the heart of the world... is the living information that was stripped from the source of everything from the moment the whole world was born, and is almost a mirror image of the macro world. Because of the existence of these connections, civilizations within the world will also have more "fragile" involvements than empires - until civilization and wisdom develop to the level of being able to calculate their own existence, it will be difficult for them to escape from the shelter of the world itself, and it will be difficult to escape. The various influences and influences the world has had on it.

It is almost impossible for civilizations within the world to have the ability to define their own order at a strong law level, and it is impossible to have their own stable range of laws and resistance to unstable laws. It is difficult for those civilizations to recognize, manage or even operate their own existence attributes on their own. . All aspects of their survival and operation require the world as a whole to maintain its integrity and stability. Therefore, research in this area is not sparse among observers.

With the issuance of emergency orders from the empire, macro teams began to coordinate the evacuation of the world itself or large-scale structures within the world. At the same time, a large number of detail processing teams and auxiliary drone groups entered countless different types of missions according to preset details. Within the civilization within the world. The curtain that once obscured transcendence and the unknown was removed, and the fleet sailed towards the stars, like a meteor shower in which vision and cognition were misaligned.

Among them, there were some fluctuations, and some lights and shadows interacted with these meteors, or tried to intercept these meteors, but they all dimmed quickly.

However, even careful consideration may leave fatal loopholes in many cases, not to mention that the so-called density and caution may actually only come from the empire's own perspective, from the empire's own perspective. What about "family talk"?

"This is... where our possible "life" was? We also lived in such an environment a long, long time ago?"

This was the first thought Vera and her team had about everything here after they entered this galaxy in accordance with the fleet distribution agreement and joined the "mortal perspective".

The tools currently used by members of the Observer are closer to the mundane category. These devices are not so powerful and cannot scan everything as they wish, but they are gentler and safer, and on this basis, they can also provide what they want. All information needed.

I came here with the team of the Observer Council. Everyone's mission is because of the civilization here. This civilization had been under the sight of observers before the death tide pollution broke out. As the death tide pollution hits, this civilization is very likely to be involved in the pollution. Therefore, the team of observers came here to help this civilization build a more stable and reliable defense line against the death tide.

The man-made buildings here have very distinct civilizational characteristics. The huge alloy buildings and the tall spiers made of "ceramics" are relatively neatly staggered according to certain rules, forming some specific patterns. According to past observations, the "laws" they follow can improve the "efficiency" of city operations in a certain way - at least, in the rules set by the people here, the impact of these "rules" can be Considered as "improvement".

It's just that... for a relatively long time, I and my friends around me could only subconsciously read and record the various sayings and alien knowledge, but why did this knowledge become established in these ways at this moment... This There still seems to be a lack of understanding in some of this.

Inside the space bubble that has been cut and isolated, some looming space routes marked by information in advance are still flickering. Beyond them, actual energy transmission lines in space, created by jets of ultra-high-energy plasma ripped from the depths of specially confined stars, spread out as accelerating orbits were lost.

The network was cut off, contact was terminated, the place was locked by a two-way event horizon, and even the starry sky that could once be seen completely disappeared and turned into darkness.

According to the general provisions of the detailed rules, teams should first further prepare their engineering equipment and force equipment in a place where "they" cannot see it at first sight. The more specific person in charge should lead a small team that will not cause hostility to the souls of the beings being executed, and go to exchange information with the first-level team of the person in charge in the area of ​​responsibility.

The interaction process should not carry any emotions that may be misunderstood, and should show the necessity of interaction, its own authority and reliability as much as possible.

Whenever possible, communication should begin with "statements" whose meaning is standard but whose arrangement does not conform to their grammar. Confidentiality should be given priority and all channels between the two parties that may cause excessive information leakage should be cut off at the beginning of the interaction. From the perspective of details, relevant aspects should be gradually revealed, and the degree should be consistent with the current deduction equation. The detailed parameters are determined based on the details of the civilization being implemented.

However, the actual changes caused by the large fault zone seem to exceed the perturbation limit that this series of once-established rules can bear. In the current circumstances, the current level of preparedness with multiple layers of redundancy and multiple protections does not appear to be able to protect itself. The rules themselves are accurate in that environment, and there is no guarantee that decisions made by executives based on these rules will be consistent. The logic and attitude that should be followed in a normal environment.

The "lights" have become quite dim, and all the energy pipeline networks are just weak and barely maintaining operation. In the office, one of the two parties in the conversation recognized the authority of these "outsiders" under the information bombardment and surpassing performance of the other party. and correct, and said that they would provide assistance as much as possible according to their requirements, but the subsequent detailed requirements made the separation between the two parties more and more irreparable.

"The network structure is cut off? The relevant facilities cannot be called? The order cannot be executed?! Why do we do this? We must do this! The pollution that appears from outside this world can destroy everything, and the way it spreads rapidly is precisely the way each All kinds of communication connections, even symbolic relationships and relationships that you think are ridiculous!"

"If we don't build such an event horizon, you will die immediately! As for those so-called problems? The equipment in your section is there and has not been suppressed, so why can't you use these equipment and nodes to build it immediately? Temporary network and temporary command system? The main server was cut off and related information supply services were stopped? What preparations should you make? What are the functions of these devices themselves? "

"What, no?! Price?! Don't you know how to prepare for risks? Those nihilistic economies? Even if they don't exist, your civilization can still exist and function!"

"Are we forcing others to make things difficult? None of you have thought about these most basic contents, and a considerable number of plans have even been implemented and succeeded - how do we force others to make things difficult? Are those plans prepared for the central structure? Those practices and plans It’s so good, why isn’t it used universally in all regions?”

"Cost? Then don't you have a backup plan or emergency upgrade plan for your basic backup and upgrade protocols and all other aspects? Evacuation? Do you know how vast the universe and beyond are? Do you know what kind of disasters you may face? did not expect?"

"Order all of your colonial stars and large space facilities to raise shields - I know that all of your facilities are equipped with protection! Order to delineate an isolation area. The isolation area will be delineated and implemented in accordance with the standards that have been provided. Civilians are strictly prohibited from interacting with all Non-essential communication of a command nature, and any information exchange outside the isolation range must be prohibited, and all relevant operating rules have been issued!"

"What? It can't be done? The main energy transmission line has been cut off? The auxiliary energy is not enough to support it? Where is your tearing reactor? There is no manufacturing base here? Can't transport? Insufficient energy? Where is your energy? There is no long-term effect in emergency situations To maintain mechanisms and independent self-redundancy? Why would you allow these possibilities to arise?”

…

We used the most direct means and the highest efficiency to seal off the boundaries of the stars, and used the clearest attitude and the most efficient way to handle the incident to find the people and teams that have the highest and most comprehensive responsibility for the relevant affairs, and we got the result. The most disagreements and the most “weird” responses.

Vera did not have the time or energy to spend time tearing apart all the details with the planetary governors on these colonies. Even if she allowed it, the constant warnings and the reality corresponding to the warnings would not allow it.

And it seems that even if they agree to all of their demands, achieving these goals now looks impossible in the short term. After several planning failures, facing the outside of the bubble that was beginning to become dangerous, the Vera team activated all the equipment groups and blocked everything within the rules and their own logical judgment in the most extreme way possible. Non-essential” contact and contact.

For a time, the stellar activity in the center of the bubble is suppressed, and the huge star becomes dark. Sometimes, a part of the active plasma jet will be extracted and transported to the planets in the system. These resources will be used to maintain what the observer team deems necessary. with risk-free portions.

Among the concise and orderly huge buildings, the once glorious roads and the traffic roads that shuttled endlessly like a river of light were all cut off. The airport was filled with large and small ships, and they had nowhere to go. A dim, pale white shield enveloped them, but this shield further deepened the silent and oppressive atmosphere.

Public places that once had many queues lined up in an orderly manner have now been locked down. Only the faint background noise that will appear at this time can also show that these facilities are not dead.

"People" were almost all locked up in their rooms, and their own eyes, as well as the eyes their eyes longed to use, could no longer see the outside world.

Outside the two-way event world, some galaxies may be in better condition, some in worse condition, some need to be destroyed, and some have already been destroyed.

Some jets with a corrupt atmosphere sputtered to the outside of the event horizon. Disasters beyond this worldview would soon cause the non-vacuum parts of the space to be corrupted, and the space itself would soon become unstable. But before these phenomena spread beyond the intolerable range, the aircraft fleet that has completed the proliferation and the permitted equipment will cause these spaces shrouded in black fog to be evaporated by the light of crystal energy.

No one was contaminated by this, but soon, Vera and others discovered that the people living in these actual buildings and actual celestial bodies had more things that their own considerations at the time had indeed neglected, or in other words, had been taken for granted. content?

"...You still did it." In the conference hall, which has lost the sense of time and everything is difficult to calibrate, facing the energy pipelines that are running feebly, facing the man-made darkness and distortion outside, facing the drastic changes that have taken place But facing the colonial celestial bodies and colonial stars that they were no longer able to manage, the planetary governors let out helpless screams in the face of their jurisdictions that had been turned upside down.

"If this is the scenario you want, then we have nothing to say."

"Darkest Hour Anchor"

Although a large number of records, as well as some details and possibilities behind the records that can be further interpreted and expanded, have been recorded and passed among the individual observers responsible for this part for a long time, in fact, until they really need to face each other When they intervened in these civilizations, the real problems began to erupt on a large scale - a large number of preset scenarios did not appear, and many of the practices and conclusions given by the team and this part of the central database also seriously deviated from reality.

The responsibilities and tasks of the observer team determine the equipment and concepts required by the observer team, and these equipment concepts ensure that the recording capabilities and invisible spying capabilities of the relevant parties are strong enough. Observers are fully capable of recording all the accurate recorded information on the bright and dark sides of civilization as well as the fuzzy deduced information from equipment and life, and the observers can also deduct and make a large number of plans based on this information. , it can be said that the preparations of the relevant parties should be said to be absolutely sufficient.

However, the biggest problem here is that all theories and knowledge obtained from observation and spying all come from that civilization itself. No matter how this knowledge operates or how it evolves, they all come from the hands of this galactic civilization.

The empire has made various deductions and plans based on the information obtained from spying and describing this civilization. Although a large number of correction coefficients have been superimposed on it, all of this is from the hands of the empire, from a country that once spanned countless territories. The world's branches and overall technology may be close to the hands of the Σ civilization's void super civilization in many aspects, but before this, the two sides had no interaction on a practical level.

The territory spans countless huge structures composed of worlds with different structures. The basic level and practical application level of technology span countless fields. For super civilizations in the world where the same colony has just completed coverage of a single galaxy, the gap can be huge. It cannot be easily divided by one or several levels.

The most direct phenomenon caused by these gaps is that when the two parties first come into contact, the two parties may have basic logic that can be communicated as a guarantee, but because of the huge level gap, they are not in an interactive range at all. This is true whether it is relatively illusory information exchange or actual structural interaction.

The same complex structure composed of countless individual structures with clear relative boundaries exists everywhere. For living things, it is the various micro-elements that make up its own body; for the universe, it is the endless stars that form a vast vortex. and sticks; for the void, it is the infinite world that forms a broader giant world structure. There may be some philosophical or symbolic similarities between them, but they are definitely not replaceable by simply changing their skins. ——Micro elements cannot be replaced by the world, and stars cannot be equivalent to cell groups by relying on simple coefficients and logical transformations.

“Sending knowledge and theory to the past through activation iteration cannot be done 100% of the time.”

"Yes, but it is not 100% impossible - the civilization and macro order we live in develop linearly, so for us, we cannot restore everything to that era, and it is difficult for us to derive parallel structures or Just split yourself apart. But the void does not set up an absolute barrier here."

"However, such methods are still limited at present - there are too many relevant aspects, and even if they are known in advance, many events that can be called tragedies may not disappear completely. We can only hope that these methods can be used as much as possible A quick reminder to everyone at that time.”

On the battlefield, the battle between the Imperial Fleet and the Fault Zone continues.

Visible and invisible attacks are completely mixed with each other, more uniform than uniform, more skewed than skewed, and more chaotic than chaotic.

Attack records and instability alerts at different levels are delivered as accurately as possible to the command hierarchy and fleet center that need to handle them. Affected by the death tide pollution, many of the information may still be stable when it is initially transmitted, but whether the information will be distorted during the transmission process and after being delivered, and what kind of distortion occurs, remains to be determined by research. But the reality is that there have been several verifications but the two parties still cannot confirm the truth of the incident.

A series of powerful disturbances such as strong reality stabilization fields, existence enrichment beacons, rank confirmation disturbances, position reality repair pulses, etc. are released from the position core flagships and super flagships of the huge imperial fleet located at discrete core locations. Constantly refreshing the macroscopic time and space and reality where errors and loopholes are constantly appearing within the battlefield that is within its control.

Beyond this border, everything is strange. Black-red fog shrouded the already chaotic space-time structure. Tangible and invisible jets were continuously released from the depths of the vast and twisted fracture zone, creating huge holes and countless frequencies of waves in the glorious and towering barrier ahead. Ripples, but there, the chaos here and the wantonness here are almost completely unable to be displayed. The damaged barriers will be repaired quickly, and the flashing brilliant light and shadow are unbearably hot. This has been predicted and has been experienced.

Deep in the fault zone, the banks of the blood-red light river are getting brighter and brighter. Countless lightnings collide with the chaotic clouds. They represent the violent collision and annihilation between countless laws. Like swimming dragons, they seem to possess With their short-lived wisdom, they are like countless jumping bridges. They cut across all cleavage points and across the festering void that contained the endless power of creation.

Inside and outside the festering, countless stillborn universes were making their final convulsions. Many of them were completely deleted by the artillery fire projected from the high wall, and many of the remaining parts collided with the countless information layers superimposed here that were either stable or had collapsed, and were destroyed by huge external forces. Forcibly blended until the foundation is broken, they will become the source of new corruption and pollution.

The rampaging fog collides with the laws that cut through the vast space, and behind them, the pollution behind these countless violent phenomena is advancing with huge "power", and every time they charge, they will face the stars flowing backward. Violent attack. The black-red lightning and the blazing white jet passed by, and the corrupted cloud swallowed the top of the golden-red light pillar. The cloud dissipated out of thin air, but the light pillar remained brilliant.

Inside the vast and spectacular matrix, distributed on the outside of multiple central, huge and shining stars with metallic luster, star rings that are spitting out scorching jets are slowly rotating. Every rotation of them will sweep through the fleet, fill all the loopholes, and bring better ideas and obsessions to the logical structure that has begun to twist and distort.

However, while bringing powerful help to the fleet, these huge fleet fortresses... As healers, it is still difficult for them to heal themselves in some aspects.

Time keeps passing, and the rotation of time leads to the continuous change of reality. Among them, some changes have begun to accumulate, but some are not yet active.

Deep in the fault zone, several chaotic consciousnesses who have noticed the burning pain and abnormality have begun to control the corrupted cloud in their own way. They force the corrupted matter, which is a mixture of countless world debris, to change its direction and change its mode of operation. Their The state of corruption and the chaotic environment here are just right to support the germination and endless growth and expansion of certain violent ideas that drive order to destruction. In their rage and blindness, they drive these currents of destruction, negativity, and dispersion with arms as fast as their fingers.

At the center of the confrontation, these waves that drive all things toward fall and decay and the chaotic consciousness that controls them collide head-on with the invisible flames. In the center, surrounded by countless matrix fleets, two pairs of blazing celestial axes are extending, and complex logical words and rune groups are entangled in the brilliant light pillars. The two imperial flagships are ready for the next time, starting from dismantling the story and the basis for the existence of logic and rules.

The void outside the battlefield, the nothingness and everything beyond the origin and end of all things, accepts all the stains and all the leaked information floods splashed by the fierce war between the two sides, and returns them all to their origins.

If the perspective becomes infinitely wider and the base point is infinitely far away from here, it may look like a mountain resisting the invisible pressure that makes it collapse, or two clouds and mist flowing around each other, trying to eat and devour each other. each other.

It’s just that the micro-elements that make up these images or entities are countless living beings.

The empire's force tore apart the corrupted boundaries of the fault zone. In countless areas, the countless gaps formed by countless heavy artillery from all levels resonated and distorted with each other by the destructive atmosphere of the fault zone itself. Doubly enhanced, in the end, these loopholes can no longer be used to extract the power of creation from the void, they can no longer be repaired, and they can no longer resist the cold and invisible erosion from outside the boundaries of order.

They were completely broken, the barriers were no longer fortified, the void began to pour in, and the purest and deepest darkness began to spread among the boiling clouds, vortices, thunderbolts and patterns, as well as their own representations and the truth and invisibility behind them.

This darkness is the same as the darkness in the center of the bright blood river shining like blood in the center of the fault zone.

These broken gaps often become the starting point for the uncontrollable backflow of the void, and eventually cause the fault zone itself to disappear into the void. However, there are exceptions - those who live inside the fault zone and have been completely corrupted but are not dead yet. The huge collection of world consciousness, as well as some consciousnesses that emerged from the depths of the fault zone, had been swimming in the death tide field before, and may even be born directly from the depths of the death tide field, launched a new era based on these loopholes. A desperate and crazy counterattack.

The corrupted clouds and spreading lightning tore apart the thick joint shield outside the Imperial fleet, and wiped out countless warships in the black tide. The pollution and corruption here were so intense that these The battleships did not issue a warning, did not respond, and did not even have time to explode. They were erased from reality and narrative, and they were no longer remembered.

And outside the central area where corruption began to spread, the spreading ripples dragged more teams into the whirlpool of collapse and fall.

The high-level center of the fleet and the center of the empire soon became aware of the damage that exceeded the warning threshold. Narrative compensation and void survey radar, which had begun research tens of billions of years ago, soon discovered the huge gaps and difficulties here. Imagine beyond casualties.

However, apart from ordering these battleships to retreat and ordering more reserve teams to continuously fill in, the imperial center has no other choice - here, there is not much left to retain.

"Is there anything else we can do?"

"We... I'm afraid we can't. All we have done now is the best we can do."