Star Empire

This is already full strength.

But the target must be defeated, and the target must be defeated as quickly as possible, otherwise the scale of the fault zone will only continue to expand, and a wider area will be involved in the vortex of destruction.

The high-level and top-level decision-making bodies of the empire need to be responsible for the broader and more holistic scope of the vast world structure, the vast empire territory, and even the empire itself. In order to defeat the huge structure that is still expanding and decaying in the void, they can only continue to urge the rear to produce more war weapons, put more soldiers and weapons into the front line, and let them build high walls from countless angles and fields. Stop the endless destruction of the death tide.

But this also means that those soldiers and the most basic fleet structure must make the cruelest sacrifices. The fleet matrix and the elements within the matrix ensure each other's survival and stability as much as possible, but survival and stability are not a certain state and inevitable result. Under the crazy erosion and erosion of the destructive breath leaked from the large fault zone, a large number of nodes were inevitably extinguished.

Systems and networks use as accurate numbers as possible to inform both sides of the actual situation on the battlefield. These numbers, which are verified as much as possible and have undergone multiple proofreading and purification, can build as clear an intelligence bridge as possible.

"But, they shouldn't be numbers."

"Living individuals cannot be directly equated with empty and cold numbers. In any case, not now."

"Such emergencies are extremely rare. It's almost impossible to even call it an accident."

"But now, such a disaster has actually happened. Regardless of whether our technical system has the ability to incorporate it into the scope of safety calculations, we must prepare for such a large-scale crisis. What can we do? It may not be enough to completely compensate for all disasters, but it is much better to mitigate it than to do nothing."

"We have received a variety of suggestions from the past to the present, some of which seemed too rambling at the time, but if we look at this disaster and possible similar situations in the future, they show enough. long."

"Notify relevant departments, and on the premise of ensuring the highest emergency safety protocols, adjust the overall atmosphere and identify some new high-focus project teams."

Behind the "barrier", there are quasi-front-line worlds that are safer than the front line, and the "further rear" of these worlds. The empire's current considerable range of middle and outer worlds in this direction are being transformed as quickly as possible for maintenance Equipment and personnel removed from the front lines of the fight against the death tide.

Compared with the artificial time and space environments of the empire that are closer to the naturally born world, the overall environment within these transformed worlds has been reset to a considerable extent. If the environment presented by the artificial worlds of those empires is a naturally generated world environment superimposed with large traces of artificial transformation, then these worlds hardly show any "natural environment" that can be understood currently, and almost all existences , all showing their identity as the work of intelligent life.

Different from the practical materials in the natural world that only present a roughly generalizable macrostructure according to certain logical rules, these transformed "logistics worlds" are almost filled with loose but strict maintenance and storage arrangements. Between Gnaku, the arcane glow and golden crystalline light with a sense of mystery and tranquility shine as the background radiation of the world itself.

Outside the world, the transformed worlds are arranged in a strict array "formation", and their strict combination becomes a standard matrix floating in the void, like an army that is ready for action.

"Your Majesty, overall arrangements are being made for logistics facilities and treatment facilities, and the relevant specialized worlds are being transformed at an accelerated pace." On the edge of this huge "construction site" composed of countless worlds, countless flying streams of light are still stepping up their efforts to build a confrontation. Contamination of all creation required.

After the streamer used to guide construction passes by, those facilities that once had only skeletons of light and shadow will have flesh and blood, as if they are growing by themselves.

Countless information is uploaded to the empire's sub-project teams through various construction organizations and related construction units. While these sub-project teams are constantly coordinating these more specific construction processes, they also reflect the upper-level conditions reflected in these projects and need to be responded to. Then report it to the engineering department and construction department of the empire.

hu3477 and all the working groups following him carefully screened the details and possible loopholes in these living information flows - some uneasy thoughts and some unexpected but almost inevitable possibilities from their perspective. quietly emerged in my heart.

"Well, it is necessary to ensure that these logistics worlds and treatment worlds have sufficient independence and stability, and the connections between these worlds and facilities must remain precise and fragile. The structure itself must be stable and comply with the current fixed isolation requirements."

At the forefront of the war, countless matrix fleets surrounded the core flagship of the position and the empire's general flagship. The virtual information projection was constantly iterating inside the encirclement. The general flagship used this as an inexhaustible driving force to mobilize the power of the entire fleet to directly Story-killing hit charge.

Facing the dangerous and huge fault zone, all the nodes in the surrounding matrix fleet were arranged with incomparable precision. However, under this precise and brilliant sky, Victorville did not dare to use it as an absolute basis for victory or complete victory. . And surrounded by the brilliant pair of celestial poles and countless lives, he also read out some of the questions in the report, "Is there an "unexpected necessity"?"

".Indeed, Your Majesty, we have been preparing for relevant needs, but now it seems that the preparations we can make may not be enough for what we need now."

hu3477 responded, "Based on the results of several expeditions and several large and small death tide disturbances, we have determined the basic crisis thresholds in relevant aspects. Considering the problems of insufficient crisis thresholds that have occurred in the past, we will The anti-surge coefficient is set to 100. If the coefficient of resistance to other disturbances is added, our own local environment and temporary response measures can resist a disaster equivalent to 500 times the intensity of our set threshold in a short period of time."

"However, this disaster is much larger than all the disasters we had estimated. Such a large-scale fault zone has actually fallen from the perspective of application... Now, its appearance is too sudden for In this area, the Ministry is not sure whether the standards previously established can still be established to what extent.”

".Do your best."

Such communication is not concise, and it is not conducive to security protection at a time when the tide of death is everywhere, but it may have enough meaning to once again inspire new thinking and changes.

In hu3477's consciousness, the world's Negnaku and the World Matrix's incomparable rules, built by countless heavily armed people and equipment and being assembled as quickly as possible, are the same as those used by the absolutely standard fleet that is used to fight the death tide. The matrix structure is equally regular and precise.

If the opponent is not death tide pollution and their derivatives, if the ships that need to be maintained, the lives that need to be saved, and the civilizations that need to be relocated are not caused by death tide pollution, then at the level of the empire, there should not be any Difficult, there won't be so many restrictions and rules.

But the death tide will pollute everything, distort everything, make everything violent and disorderly, and cause everything to be damaged and collapsed in the visible and invisible realms, intentional and unintentional time and space.

For existences like those at the empire level, rather than directly corrupting themselves and causing them to collapse, it is obvious that the contaminated empire creations will first be made to lose control and go crazy, and then be able to maintain their own existence attributes stable and even maintain their strength for a period of time after being contaminated. The effect of time-driven, crazy empire creations killing each other and spontaneously spreading pollution will be much more efficient than "doing it yourself" to directly corrupt individuals or areas.

The first important sign of the corruption and madness of the empire's creations, or the first important type of phenomenon to be recognized, is that everything begins to become chaotic - including the observation perspectives of external observers and the infected themselves. Here, the target object itself and everything around it will become chaotic and disordered.

In order to avoid this as much as possible, the empire had to shape everything neatly and precisely, lest the chaotic formation of fleets become a springboard for the spread of the death tide.

There is no doubt that such a request will cost the Imperial fleet more.

Looking at it now, I am afraid that even in the era when the technology could almost make oneself do whatever one wanted, and the empire could do whatever one wanted, it might not be able to easily fight against such a large-scale death wave structure, not to mention that now, this country that has lost a lot of technology and is being The present moment that has been made up but still incomplete.

In the past, I, and perhaps in that era when a hundred schools of thought contended and everything began to revive, I and the people around me who were assigned to related character groups like myself may have thought more or less about myself compared to those brilliant and profound tasks. What is its use, what should I do, and what role can it play for me... Similar questions have existed for a long time.

After all...if you just look at your "direct scope of responsibility"...for construction, you are responsible for revising the rules of construction, and adjusting the rules to make them more suitable for current needs based on feedback from basic users and the needs of the superior structure. The extensible part seems to be quite narrow - if it is specific to the current situation, many people in the large group of this project team may have thought about what their tasks have to do with resisting the death tide?

No, now, the doubts in this have not only been eliminated, but can even be clarified again - all fields and all people's efforts will be linked to the empire and everyone's interests.

The objective existence corresponding to the empire's own interests is very huge, and the micro-elements that make up this huge existence come from all aspects of the empire's vastness.

The same is true for my own department - determine the limits of disturbance caused by dead tides of different levels of danger to various types of buildings and structures, and use this to determine the relevant thresholds in different aspects, and determine appropriate standards so that the building group can have sufficient efficiency and safety. Coordination, determine regular and standard convenience equipment contacts and interfaces, ensure that these equipment can resist dangerous disturbances while being convenient.

Are all these not making their own contribution to the infinite and vast goal of the entire empire? So why are they not contributing to fighting disasters including the death wave?

These thoughts and summaries are simple and straightforward. Observers' data show that the same content also exists within many civilizations, but they seem to have been more or less modified, or require a considerable amount of logical transformations to finally arrive at - no. Not knowing how great the difference would be, and not knowing whether the ideas that would seem to be considered simple and ideal here would be solid and complete in all respects.

This is not something you have the final say on, it is ultimately decided by the entire empire, reality, and everyone together.

The current fault zone is a danger, a disaster, a test, and an extreme.

However, whether to modify the existing rules and reset the protection goals based on them depends on a more collective and comprehensive decision.

Directly using stability and redundancy to resist such disasters with unknown attributes, or that the attributes are likely to be some kind of speculated "bottomless pit", is likely to create one bottomless pit after another. In order to fill such bottomless pits, it is very possible It will eat up a lot of the empire's time, energy and resources. Considering the overall situation, if it is difficult to directly resist a bottomless disaster, it may be more in line with the current environment to leave a gap that can be blown when necessary and hope to recover at a faster speed after the disaster.

But what should civilization’s time and energy be used for? What should civilization use the huge resources at its disposal? Isn’t it just so that civilization can survive better and the individuals who make up the civilization can live better? Shouldn’t all technology serve this purpose? If other civilizations that are much lower than our own understand this and constantly pursue higher goals, then why can't the empire do the same? Why not directly fight against extreme disasters?

Inside the "Logistics World Cluster", personnel restore the Gnaku array group.

More and more "seriously injured personnel" who have been removed from the front line are entering the recovery area in sequence.

Compared with the damage to life caused by other more "orderly" reasons, the destruction caused by the death wave is much more difficult-the Empire still has many powerful technologies that can restore life that have been retained, at least some of them.

But for individuals who have suffered moderate to severe death wave damage, these techniques are no more effective than simple and direct replacement and treatment recovery.

Within the technology of narrative rewriting, existence contaminated by the death tide is like "paper" that has been burned or dyed. It is difficult for them to be written in a normal way to create normal stories; in the perception of small-scale reality reset , the death tide pollution is an invisible void or a chaotic whirlpool, which can no longer be distorted or restored in the normal way; within the technology of existential transfer and reshaping, the individuals and creations polluted by the death tide, their existence Thousands of holes whose attributes have been corroded are like a pile of loose sand. The process of transferring and reorganizing their existence attributes is full of dangers.

Perhaps, this is also a direct manifestation of the decline of the empire - the empire's former technology may still be mainly based on the direct and simple level, which is the strongest foundation in the entire empire's technological system and is the empire's own.

As for other parts, the research on existence appeared after the Leap Era began, and the empire's corresponding researchers devoted a lot of effort to it. And those "omnipotent technologies" that seem to be closer to gods. They might have been able to treat everything reasonably, until the environment changed drastically, until the vortex of the existential attributes of Σ civilization itself completely dissipated, until the powerful and omnipotent products projected by Σ were piled up. The tower was completely destroyed by the dead light

They become stumps.

"In many ways, the empire still has a long way to go."

"All individuals in this batch have been repaired or transferred, and the relevant areas are undergoing phenomenon detection and corresponding elimination. It is expected that this area can continue to admit the next batch of injured people after ten minutes of standard axis time."

Isatura manually controls the control equipment connecting multiple isolation rooms to ensure that the high-frequency crystal energy can purify all possible unstable factors without any dead ends.

Compared with other parts of the empire, these facilities show an unprecedented sense of reality, solidity, and a certain inexplicable ancient flavor. In order to ensure the comprehensiveness and stability of the isolation measures, most of the materials here have been directly assigned architectural values. After that, it was almost completely locked down and no new changes were allowed.

Therefore, everything here, including those transmission arrays, including the pale golden walls, the sensor arrays throughout, the vast corridors, the thick partition doors, the directional acceleration field and positioning system, etc., are all "fixed" Yes, they only have some fixed modes of operation and will only work on fixed commands.

Here, the existential network that originally connected everything with almost no delay is clearly cut open. They are like branches that extend independently of each other and are finally connected to each terminal - not relying on fused nodes, but truly separated, Not connected to each other.

On the way from the main branches that these terminals spread to connect to the main network, several very sensitive fuse nodes ensure the security of the main network.

"Compared to the entire empire, everything here is a bit unexpected, but if it corresponds to the current environment, it is within logic."

After confirming that the environment was disinfected, Isatula activated the teleportation, allowing the next wave of injured people waiting for rescue to enter the recovery area he was responsible for in the preset order.

"Confirm that all identification numbers are stable, confirm that all individuals have entered the recovery facility, have been checked, and there are no omissions." After multiple checks with the equipment and his own proactive confirmation, Isatula uploaded the information he was responsible for through the corresponding channel. Regional results.

"According to some of the current public information, it can be confirmed that some individuals in some areas are unable to enter the recovery array. After proofreading, it was confirmed that the overall identification codes of the relevant individuals have been corroded and decayed by the death tide, and they have temporarily lost their presence in the recovery array. Legal position in the empire network. Temporary measures have been taken to supplement and restore the relevant individuals. Except for the body, if the identity code will also decay due to the death wave, then the possible accidents may exceed the current maximum conceivable limit."

Isatura continued to keep a close eye on the equipment that was responsible for restoring the lives and body structures of the people in the area he was responsible for. The conditions of the people who had just been sent into the array were complicated, and the less injured among them might not carry direct fatalities. Tide pollution is just that the death tide eroded part of their body and soul structure and began to lose their self-repair ability. They only need to accept active repair from external equipment in the stasis chamber, and the severe ones in this part will Recycled and reorganized as much as possible, including souls and remains - they are all safe.

However, many individuals will still carry part of the ongoing pollution when they are encapsulated and transported into the array, and they themselves are still being corroded by the death tide. While these death tides corrode these bodies, they themselves are also a source of extreme instability—— The damage caused by the death tide does not follow an absolutely linear development. Although there is often a rough process from simple to complex and from minor to severe when they corrode order, this drop is not stable.

It is possible that long-term corrosion can still be in dynamic equilibrium at some point, or it is possible that the originally stable structure quickly lost control after being briefly contaminated and became extremely dangerous, and life with various extraordinary foundations such as crystal energy arcana once lost control. There is a possibility of self-destruction, and these dangerous bodies are very likely to directly blow up all the facilities in the entire protective cabin.

Inside the stasis chamber, the possibility of self-development of information is frozen. These bodies can actually be considered to be in a state of "absolute stillness" of the self relative to the self. The device will identify the damaged parts of these bodies and souls and even if they are completely frozen It will still evolve and drop damaged parts and try to purify and repair them, or simply extract life-saving components and completely destroy the remaining parts - they will often be safely sealed and thrown directly into the void.

Most of the time, this may be true, but this does not mean that everyone can receive assistance, and the assistance received by everyone will be effective. Just from himself, Isatula knows that there are already more than 70,000 individuals due to various reasons. "Dead" due to reasons, except for some memories of them, they no longer have entities and cannot interfere in the current environment.

Time passed quickly. This batch of injured people were treated and then sent to the rear for larger-scale soft recovery, and new injured people were sent here. Similar processes are repeated over and over again. Isatula repeated his work mechanically, performing almost identical routine inspections again and again.

"The equipment has been approved correctly and is ready to accept a new batch of injured." In a nearly closed network segment and a huge structure that actually blocks all information exchange directions, I can't get much information from the outside world. However, even if I get the actual It is unnecessary and may even be dangerous. That is not the part that needs to be concerned about at the moment. The necessary information is sent here through a dedicated secure channel, and that is enough.

"Suspicious. Alert, some equipment is abnormal - abnormal information flow is detected, and the stasis isolation system has partial failure."

"What?!" This seemingly unclear warning message instantly attracted Isatula's full attention.

"Danger reminder, turning on manual control of this area may lead to pollution leakage - administrator identity verification, verification has been passed - network segment protection area is blocked, fuse nodes are fully activated - emergency push-away measures have been activated, and the peripheral isolation system has been activated. Remind the administrator Note that this operation may have fatal consequences, please ensure your own security measures and smooth transfer of authority."

After a series of confirmations, Gnaku activated the manual control authority of the isolation cabin. A bright golden shield rose around Isatula, and in the area where he was not looking directly, between the information Contact was cut off. The wall brightened, and a golden "bloodline" running through it was activated. The regular streamer is ready for protection and isolation, and is also ready to throw the part that has been isolated by the shield into the void at any time.

"The automatic system enters the standby state, and the manual system is activated." In front of Isatula, a series of screens with bright curves jumping around, logical groups and rune arrays that appeared and died directly in nothingness quickly appeared.

"Calibrate the stability coefficient of the stasis cabin, calibrate the stability of the working environment, and calibrate the system integrity." While ensuring that the stasis field can operate with full effect, Isatula manually checked the functions of the equipment in the entire isolation cabin one by one. He checked it, but the more he checked, the uneasiness in his heart became clearer.

"No error found? This. The death tide can directly ignore the isolation, and they can directly interfere with the stability of the automatic operation of the equipment?" After repeatedly confirming that it was correct, Isatula was ready to report the current problem - self-inspection There is no mistake but there is a real operational error. The nature of such an incident can be said to be relatively serious in its own field.

"Alert - critical error, equipment has experienced Type I critical damage."

"Alert - fatal error, terminal sensor and value record not found."