Star Empire

Those bodies, those shadows, those countless non-existent tentacles that stretched out from the invisible and connected to everyone and everything in the empire all disappeared.

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Weisrifan refocused his attention on the matter in front of him. There are countless silvery, vague filaments in her hands. These filaments spread out and connect to the vast white ocean, to the countless tentacles that are stirring the ocean surface, and to more and more people being pulled from the ocean. On the "National Ignition Facility" that was forcibly raised from the ocean floor.

Perhaps it is because they have been immersed in the wind field, and the "solar wind" they have been bathed in for tens of billions of years has changed part of their information structure and causal connections. It may also be because the heavy structure of the blazing sun itself stopped and neutralized it when it erupted. There are considerable aftermaths, which makes the giant creations buried deep in the "stratum" less affected. In any case, they can still be used now, even if they can only fire a few more rounds, or even one round, this is enough to solve the problem. The urgent need of the moment.

After this, the samples will stay, and the Empire may not be able to use them for a while, or rather

"Lil? I checked part of the probability changes and the direction of the trend. I noticed" another "voice" sounded in my consciousness, and it became a bit wanton. The indescribable intangible thoughts and perceptions faded away again, Victorville The words sounded from reality.

"You also felt and deduced that now, the current situation is not convenient to communicate the details in detail, Vidoville, find a way to organize all the managers of the empire and the departments and groups that can conduct high-intensity research."

As he spoke, Vidoville realized that the conversation between himself and the other side was being encrypted layer by layer, and all existing radiation related to it was completely shielded. The conversation seems to have never happened, because it has never started and will never end. Small and almost impossible to detect shortcomings disappear in the vortex of siltation and chaos formed by the rush, like non-existent shadows inside the boundary line.

"... In this regard, try to avoid further losses?"

"...Well, as of now, we have no ability to prevent what happens next."

"……That's too late."

"Then...what should we do next?"

"Keep it on the surface - don't cause any surprises, don't have random thoughts, and don't leave too obvious a cover-up. Continue the normal implementation, and don't let everyone and the void survey radar array discover any abnormalities."

"You see, some problems and situations are unstoppable."

"In that case, we need to be "idle" for a period of time, which may be short or long."

"...Understood. But what could it be...?"

Vidoville asked, "Those giant shadows seem to be connected to everything in the empire. Although the current results based on modeling and deduction show that the connection between them is not strong, their existence is still unclear."

"That's the Empire, in other words, that's 'everyone'."

"By the way, Wood, have you noticed?" After a moment of silence, Weisrifan's voice suddenly sounded in Victorville's mind again.

"What's wrong?" Victorville felt a little strange.

"Have you noticed that our conversations with each other are becoming blurry? Look at the records of our previous conversations. Can you easily tell which sentence was said by you and which sentence was said by me? Even Can you confirm that every word and phrase in our transcript of our conversation, all of it, came from us?"

"It doesn't seem possible."

Vidoville's pupils suddenly tightened: "When did this situation start to occur? Wait...it seems that's not the only problem. Since we entered the expedition year, the overall story continuity of the empire has not been very good. Many places seem to have been abruptly cut off, and there are many places where there are considerable jumps between and before and after the stories, not just in the memory, but also in the log records in the empire system. If it is not explained If we rely solely on the original descriptions, we may be wrong about the contents recorded in these words..."

"The empire has encountered an unknown narrative attack?" This is the possibility that Vidoville first considered. "But so far there is no other clear phenomenon indicating this, and if it is the impact of the fault zone... the current fault zone was indeed huge, but its impact could not be so deep, and no matter how far away it is, ...There are currently no traces of larger fault zone activity.”

"The specific time cannot be determined. We also don't know why these situations occurred. According to the existing vague records, tens of billions of years ago, there was a weak record of this situation in the chronology of decision-making. But I can’t see clearly what is specifically written in those records. But one thing is certain, this is definitely not a normal situation.”

"And Wood, I'm afraid that so far, we are the only ones who have noticed this problem, and there is no obvious feedback from everyone. It is very likely that it has some kind of secret infiltration nature. It is not appropriate for us to publicize this phenomenon widely for the time being. Otherwise, we could cause unintended stimulation of the sources that cause these phenomena."

"In short." Wei Ruifan was silent for a while again.

"Maintain the status."

…

At the edge of the battlefield, the "focused sunlight" from the scorching sun shone into the wreckage of the logistics maintenance area that was being held by the imperial fleet. As the warm sunlight gradually illuminated every shadow, the attributes of this chaotic space-time structure continued to exist. The collapse process was finally contained.

"It has been confirmed that all targets have been injected with stabilizers and the void sky survey radar's illumination signal has tended to be stable. After rapid processing of the macroscopic scan results, it was detected that the flow rate of the soul structure inside the structure has slowed down, and it was detected that the expansion rate of existing anomalies has slowed down. It has been detected that the flow of stable information within the space-time structure has slowed down."

"Retrieving stability, detecting that the internal rank fading of the space-time structure is slowing down, a stable space-time structure appears, and the existential collapse disturbance is slowing down!"

"The highest liaison command structure has received extensive information feedback - the basic fleet and the central coordination level have determined that the information processing capabilities and the current working atmosphere have begun to pick up, and the pressure on communication and liaison is decreasing!"

"After the retrieval is completed, the access beacons are immediately deployed, and the drone group fills the channel structure and completes the follow-up consolidation work. The follow-up standby fleet is ordered to try to carry out the rescue mission. After the rear equipment usage is coordinated and pre-operation is completed, the current space-time structure begins to be cut! Void Sky Survey The radar array strengthens the illumination of the space-time structure and synchronizes the internal weaknesses, trying to strengthen the connection with the rescue team, and synchronize as soon as possible if there is an abnormality in the range!"

"Enhance communication, restart some communication structures and correct the main axis time, re-regulate the corresponding scales and maintain the accuracy and effectiveness of the command structure..."

The radiating light ripples out, which not only contains enough materials to support the toppling existential building, but also contains positive and upward direction.

"Further strengthen the monitoring mechanism to confirm the coordinates of the secondary fall point and the unstable structure interval inside the unstable structure. Remind all commanders that it is not allowed to relax their vigilance, always beware of structural collapse, and pay attention to retaining relevant channel beacons And mark the relevant structures, and do not allow excessive rashness."

"Your Majesty, based on the current information operation capability, the executability level is inferred. The amount of information contained in your order cannot be effectively executed after corresponding to the corresponding action unit. The relevant action unit is still at the processing limit."

"Confirmation." Faced with the feedback that was delayed for a while, Vidoville was not surprised. This level was already approaching the limit when he was arranging the organization, but the clearer processing seemed to compare with it. My own estimate was even lower.

Soon, the brief relaxation brought by this momentary decompression was filled again with arduous and dangerous time-limited tasks, and failed feedback and countless damage commands began to appear in the channel again. And this is no longer within the scope of what I can solve. The "Guo Shi Wushuang" soul amplification pulse has been lit. I hope this can help all those in need as much as possible.

After making sure that there was nothing obtrusive about everything around him that he needed to directly intervene in, he shifted more energy and attention to facing his current task.

As the core element of the imperial fleet matrix currently distributed here, I can use most of the calculation resources to analyze the chaotic and constantly distorting and spreading space-time structure. Under the meticulous scans of various "eyes" such as the fleet and the void survey radar network and very high frequency nonlinear scanning radar from the entire empire, in the huge and bloated corrupted time and space, all kinds of detailed and continuous things were revealed. The rift valleys and the huge twisted holes are intertwined with each other, forming a complex network that seems to be a tumor that is opposed to the existence of order and helps evil.

Under the intertwining gazes of countless people, the most dangerous part among them, the one most in need of filling and neutralization, was quickly targeted. The "shell" that wrapped them was carefully torn apart, and the positioning coordinates that could shine in the void were inserted into them, providing an accurate basis for fire support from a distance.

Soon, those weird-shaped white lights, like giant comets in the void, trailing endlessly extending tails, arrived. They poured into the chaotic structure from the torn cracks, and they themselves After the assignment operation is completed, it is quickly reorganized, manifested and formed into a real information structure.

They circulate freely and spread almost everywhere.

They further prevented the collapse of the existence attributes here that were once uncontrollable like a chain reaction. The out-of-control corruption is dragged down even more slowly, the expansion and diffusion speed of the space-time structure is no longer crazy, the information ranks are further stabilized, and they are no longer transformed into fixed and unstable space-time dimensions.

"The structural stability continues to improve. It has been determined that the phenomenon of information annihilation caused by dead tide pollution is slowing down. This type of Taichu information transformation structure has obvious suppression capabilities. Currently, relevant entities, institutions, and groups have been marked accordingly. The current situation Gradually transitioning to a steady state, the marked existence will move the main target away from the battlefield after the corresponding moment."

"Field No. 1, Arcane Life IV, Dornier, you and your direct troops and all subordinate teams continue to help maintain the battlefield environment. The current Void Fierce Sun cannot maintain such supplementation and irradiation for a long time. After two more markings, Active support will cease, and we need to continue to maintain the relative stability of this space-time structure."

"clear."

Time continues to flow. Compared with the stage when the boundless fault zone was raging wildly, the current time is still a bit chaotic, but compared to the lack of existence and indescribability caused by the death wave, everything is better now. There are too many - at least, they are already within the scope of rationality, within the scope that can be understood, calculated and coordinated.

In an area slightly away from the dangerous boundary of the space-time structure, resources from all over are listed here, and they are used to build new maintenance facilities.

After the space-time structure stabilizes, the impact caused by existential collapse is further reduced, and the impact of the "spiral world maze" that has been reacted multiple times seems to be becoming increasingly rare.

After the environment here stabilized, various rescue fleets with different configurations were able to obtain clearer gain support, and the speed of information flow was once again increased. With finally some fleets able to stably adapt to drastic changes in the environment, they finally have the redundancy to do things besides defense.

"The situation is similar to what we expected. This is the final result." Outside the space-time structure, within the Imperial Fleet, which is still struggling to hold up the leaning building, people who are capable of handling these matters have begun to exchange preliminary opinions with each other. :

"When the space-time structure collapses and falls, it tends to become chaotic. This chaos has accelerated and worsened to a certain extent as it spreads. Judging from the impact on the field structure, there may indeed be a "chain reaction". But this At what level does the chain reaction exist? Whether it is still a measurable phenomenon or essence within the scope of order and existence, etc. The details of these issues still need to be determined for real creatures."

"In the perceptual records, there have been many strong bursts of will and desire at the edge of the space-time structure - now it is further confirmed that those bursts came from the fleet fighting against the spiral world phenomenon. There is a corresponding relationship between these bursts, the spiral world mystery The formation of the array may be related to the disturbance of some information of fleet characterization, and the details still require more precise measurement and research."

"It has been tested with symbolic and actual force. When it is clear that the stability secondary weight effect exists, the drop phenomenon will be slowed down. Consideration can be given to greatly increasing safety redundancy in the design and use process to enhance the awareness of related phenomena. Resistance.”

"Um"

Staring at such a scene, staring at the vast space-time structure full of desolation, ruin and madness, Vidoville understood most of the reasons for such a phenomenon.

When the Great Fault Zone hit the empire's border, it was quite sudden and the disturbance was extremely serious. In order to prevent the expansion of the fault zone, the Empire mobilized as many forces as possible to build a defense line.

Countless beings come from all sides of the empire, from all regions, and from countless worlds. They had never done this level of coordination before. After the empire weakened on a large scale, almost all of the empire's technology and existence foundation were incomparable to those in the previous era.

The efficiency has been severely reduced, and the communication bandwidth and quality, as well as the existential links, have been greatly weakened. The imperial command system has been unable to carry out the efficient and precise operations it once did.

As the huge fleets arrive and stack together, there is also an extremely serious crowding problem. The various infrastructures of the empire can usually meet the daily needs of the empire ten times or even dozens of times, but currently gathered in this area , compared to the normal existence of various empires that are hundreds of trillions, hundreds of trillions, or even more, their density has exceeded the ordinary value by far.

Even after experiencing collapse, most of the empire's warships can extract information from the void, and can also use relevant information to create various structures and accessories they need. In most cases, they have the ability to automatically repair themselves and maintain the stability of themselves and everything around them without the need for absolutely strict logistical measures...

However, they are facing a death tide, and it is the most intense, chaotic, largest, and most disturbing death tide disaster that has been recorded in the void.

In such a war, millions of battleships can be affected. It can even cause the entire fleet matrix including super flagships and core flagships to retreat directly. It may even directly cause the fleet to "detonate" due to large-scale reverse flow of information. "The devastating impact on the fault zone may be just one or several larger-scale Genesis-Doomsday pairs of destruction. When the rift is completely torn and destroyed, the "consciousness" in the fault zone struggles and roars and releases the aftermath. .

The Death Tide can destroy everything, both describable and indescribable. In a head-on confrontation with the black and red patterns, the clouds that obscure reality and truth, the lightning that represents the annihilation of countless laws, as well as the countless damage, violence, loss of control and madness, even if the ship can survive the devastating impact, They also have difficulty repairing themselves directly on their own.

They must need a purer environment to expel the dead tide pollution attached to the hull structure that may cause uncontrollable destruction at any time. After that, they can rebuild themselves using the ship's standard blueprints. And if it reaches this stage, the people and things inside the ship are often affected to a considerable extent or even corrupted - at this point, if you want to restore combat effectiveness, you must rely on external maintenance. This is true for the ship, and the same is true for life.

It is almost impossible to build maintenance facilities that can accommodate such a large fleet in such a short period of time and in such a narrow area. The facilities that have been built have become the "competition objects" for all the wounded and damaged ships. .

According to the records sent back by the fleet and the parts I can see, perhaps at the beginning, relying on the stasis field and other logistics facilities were barely able to achieve efficiency under overload conditions, but as the death tide interfered with the fleet and the environment more and more Dramatically, the command delivery system began to gradually become inaccurate. Requests that originally corresponded one to one may be sent multiple times by one of the parties. A large number of empty mappings and empty feedback occupied normal service requests, which further aggravated the problem of crowding of related resources.

When facing life and death, the most direct and serious shortcomings, any coordination is of little significance. This is bound to be accompanied by sacrifices, not to mention myself, perhaps a slightly more senior commander. After the order is promulgated, I don’t know how much is left to be truly implemented.

There are too many similar incidents, and there are too many similar phenomena, from data preservation to the survival of battleships and lives, from countless imperial beings having to completely abandon all their original lives and come to the front line, to the rather vast area of ​​​​the empire. inside.

Countless departments and research groups have been diverted from a large number of lives, and they themselves have begun to approach the warning threshold of the first-level full-efficiency operation capability. Countless industrial primitives from all over the empire have been diverted to the front line to build logistics arrays and fortresses. Projects related to facilities and other development directions of the empire were forced to suspend one after another. The lack of redundancy triggered too many macro events in this battle.

"Yeah." While thinking, Victorville felt that time seemed to be in a trance.

“Are we still making this too much about ourselves and the way we think is reasonable?”

The history of the empire is being restored, and the Department of History can sort out new fragments all the time, many of which can already piece together part of a clearer past: the empire has encountered many fault zones in its history, and When facing the boundless continent of Σ, the scale of the "fracture zone" outlined by the absence and shadow is much larger than the current one.

In addition, according to Dornier's preliminary research, it seems that the phenomenon of attribute collapse can also be slowed down or even avoided by stacking redundancy.

Should all factors related to it be studied, calculated and finally converted into safety factors, and then integrated into the current redundant calculation formulas? Faced with the exaggerated difference in magnitude and the seemingly unreasonable requirements, should we change our thinking so that these redundancies can be used as consumption in exchange for no longer sacrificing the existence of the empire, instead of simply thinking that it is "waste" and "exaggeration"?

"Vidoville, and everyone, I'm tired, and the active support from the blazing sun will stop." A voice with a heavy sense of fatigue and deep sleepiness came into the fleet that was still maintaining the status quo of the space-time structure. Command center. "The level of scorching sun activity has dropped significantly. If the current situation intensifies, the wind field may not be able to maintain."

"already confirmed."

The sun's light temporarily dimmed, and now it was difficult for her to find the shadow of the name "Scorching Sun".

With the support of countless fleets, the desperate entry and creation of countless lives and fleets over and over again finally began to bear actual results. Evacuating the space-time structure, and evacuating the chaotic space-time structure that began to collapse due to void erosion and void intrusion after it stopped expanding, the ship finally began to carry some "things", some equipment and lives that were once buried deep in the logistics array.

It has been "rusted", with ferocious and twisted fractures all over the edges. It can still be vaguely seen as the remains of a part of the giant Gnaku array. The stasis capsule array, which is shining with blue light that is no longer pure and is almost about to stop, is Ship wreckage that has been corroded and peeled off to the point where only part of the crystal mesh structure remains, the flagship hull filled with tumors and rustling white sand, some soul identification codes that are almost unrecognizable, and fortress groups of various sizes that are in good or bad condition. , there are also some fleets and fleet wreckage that have been in crisis before and have never been able to penetrate or leave on their own.

It seems that this place may be similar to the two large ruins rings that appeared in different eras.

"Your Majesty, the void survey radar has detected some illegal mapping connections."

"Mapping connection?" Vidovir's "body" located in the Arcane Throne frowned slightly, "Where does it point from here? The amount of information transmitted, the encryption level, the source of permission and the pollution detection permission?"

"They do not last long, their density is not high, and the amount of information they transmit is not large. At present, it seems... most of them are connected to other areas of the empire."

"Someone is saying it's safe."