Star Empire

"……yes"

His Majesty's words were so strange, yet so firm. Under that unquestionable gaze, one node after another gave up the idea of ​​asking.

Having lived together and cooperated with each other for so long, there is always a right tacit understanding.

"There are actually many problems to be solved, and many of them are also very important, such as our system, our basic framework. Whether it is ten thousand years, two hundred and fifty thousand years, or other time spans , they say short-lived is not short-lived, but it is not long either." Weisrifan's "words" came again.

"yes."

In the "sky", there are scattered imperial fleets that do not form a matrix and void fortresses that are transferred here from unknown sources. Their various "firepowers" are messily pointed at the uncertain surface of the blazing sun. Everything around you seems unstable. Many times, "comrades" who were close at hand will be far away in the next moment, or almost overlap with you.

The empire's fleet and the empire's war weapons have directed their hostility towards the decision-making core of the empire, towards the core of the empire.

However, under the threat of numerous artillery fires, on the surface of the sun, those beings who were required to be stationed here and not allowed to leave did not seem to have any overreaction, resistance, or even any attempt to break out.

The atmosphere seemed a bit weird, I shouldn't say it was very weird.

But to those with the noose around their necks and their eyes clouded, there was nothing unusual about this. In the depths of those cloudy eyes, the original scene of reality no longer exists, and the turbulent waves of mixed colors are beating against each other, causing large and small waves. On the "sun" in front of us, although there are waves here, they appear sparse and calmer than other places.

"That's right." No one can guess what is going on in the depths of those cloudy eyes, nor do they know how their own thoughts will change after they merge with those chaotic eyes, or even that they won't even care about it.

No one cares, and no one knows what the perception of "it" is, how to convert "it" and "people", and those muddy eyes don't even care about the existence of "it". In fact, everything is not much different from before.

In the distance, some crazy fleets are suppressing the weird jets that are splashing everywhere. As time goes by, the actions there are becoming orderly and layered, and the aftermath may soon truly subside.

Within and outside the vast empire territory, the river of light with hatred tore apart the rules and shadows of the past. Armies move out from beyond the world and from within the shadows.

"Since I can't do it, why can't I do it? Why not?! Why can't you still live?!"

".?" "??" ".!?"

The targets of those fleets were the civilizations that were once responsible for observation and research by the Observer Council. The out-of-control fleets invaded openly, and then there was no doubt that the hateful fleets and soldiers made the ordinary people who did not understand what happened Civilizations have lost their dignity.

On the calm, white ocean surface, some darker patches and lines are gradually spreading. And just in this peaceful and slightly deviated interval, the vortex that seemed to be boiling was spinning faster and faster, and in the passage opened by the big storm, a heavily armed team was preparing to go deep "underground" with new machines. Excavate the imperial creations that were preserved dozens or tens of billions of years ago, to excavate the ruins of our predecessors and the treasures of our descendants.

Thick pale golden clouds, brilliant arcane broadcast arrays and row upon row of towers formed an unprecedented "urban agglomeration". Domes are dotted among these urban agglomerations. From a direct perspective, their divisions are unclear and their functions are chaotic. However, from a macro scale and a global scale, there are regular and complete connections between the functional units that make up this huge "city". Together they form a covariant community that actively supports everything here.

And in the sky of this urban agglomeration, in addition to the group of stars that are already far away at the end of space and the edge of the world, in the space that is closer to the light and more practical, the newly born stars are also forming a structure that better meets the needs.

"The void forge, world line storage, probability cloud broadcaster, world loop base, as well as a giant host and logical operation retrieval network suitable for various conditions"

"In the past, we only heard about them, and when we needed to apply for use, all we could care about were the corresponding terminals and functions. Seeing them clearly and clearly in this way feels very different from usual times. .”

"Okay, colleagues, it's enough to express your feelings - we have a mission."

"Understood, we all understand." In the long river, the topic quickly ended, and the gathered team turned into scattered streams of light and took their places in the activated information operation room.

". Among them, there are so many lives now, maybe it should-?!"

As he spoke, invisible prying eyes and the gaze of countless pairs of eyes seemed to emerge from both inside and outside.

"Stop the relevant thought threads and stop the relevant exploration."

All sense of abnormality disappeared again.

"It's a group, a whole group."

After the war, here, in this most peculiar "prison", the empire began the first comprehensive arrangement and summary of all its systems since the beginning of the new era.

In the last era, the empire relied on Σ's technological extreme deduction module to extract a large number of technologies and use them in war. Over tens of billions of years, countless numbers of them were released in large numbers from the technological extreme deduction modules and used against Σ and other enemies in the void.

After the Great Decline of the Empire, many related technologies were fragmented, and the foundations that held all theories together were also affected and questioned.

"This is the antecedent of this incident, and the reason for the incident itself comes from changes in the real environment. This record and the relevant historical records are at the same level as the detailed regulations."

“But there are a lot of parts of it that are really interesting.”

"What do you think?" On the other end of the connection, Weisrifan's inquiry was sent to Victorville's heart without any delay.

"Previously, in order to ensure that the decisions made were as realistic as possible and that everything in the empire could be as appropriately connected to reality as possible, in addition to directly "seeing" the empire with our eyes, reading the empire's information and participating in analysis and actual operations , we will often find ways to make our perspective independent, to be able to view some changes in the empire from a relatively third-party perspective, or even use the "God's perspective" in the ancient proverb."

"These practices are far from the "ideal state" we hope for. The content we see may be vague, fragmentary, and partial, but they are enough to help judge some phenomena."

"What about now?" Weisrifan asked with a half-smile, "What do you see or feel now?"

"In addition, I have to say, Vidoville, your "deduction" and "organization" abilities are really strong. How can I put it so strong? With those thoughts of yours, you are looking at the entire empire and its surroundings from a "God's perspective." All the plans and thoughts I left behind when I was watching it, even now I feel the physical sense of oppression. Of course, I may not have experienced those things with you, and most of my perceptions come from the wind field. The twists and turns. Maybe, I don’t have much say in these things, and I don’t deny that it will be painful, but the reality of moving forward..."

"Forget it, let's talk about these things when we get the chance - what did you mean by the "interesting" part before?" Weisruifan suddenly changed the subject, perhaps because he touched on what "it" cared about again.

"During this period, everyone is preparing various materials. These materials will be used to re-clarify the framework of our current knowledge systems and to further summarize our accumulated knowledge and wisdom. This is the current The task. But compared to what is happening in reality, my current feeling tells me that this is more like an individual activity, a larger but chaotic individual trying to sort out "its own" thoughts - "

"——Boom!" This time, the originally nihilistic roar really exploded around Victorville, and at the end of the island of order where the Void Sun was located, the stars began to become brighter, and hostility was reflected in those lights. Condensation, the spearhead of reality and the spearhead of nothingness now merge into one. Vidoville knew that those were the "expressive tensions" released when the weapon was charging to frighten the target. This was already a very real threat, and this topic could not be continued now.

"That's it."

At this point, these two nodes, which had been special for a long time, stopped interacting, and their "specialness" slowly faded away, turning into identical points of light in the ocean formed by the attributes of existence.

The "border" is gradually becoming clearer, but for now, I'm afraid we have to wait.

The specificity of "it" necessitates the need for new "special directions".

However, it seems that at present.

The opportunities are not all on its side.

"Your Majesty, why are you holding the meeting in such an environment and in such a way?"

No longer participate in meetings in an activated information state, or in a more efficient form such as a half-body-half-activated information state. When entering the venue, you need to go through a series of structures of different shapes and seemingly twisted ones. Those structures seem to be used for Some kind of buffer, but the way that structure is composed and the nature of its operation makes it almost impossible for them to be found on any ship still in service.

After bypassing those structures, you still have to actually walk through a series of long and narrow corridors. These corridors do not give people a good sense - they seem to have been corroded by unknown things. The inner walls of the corridors conform to the most basic rules of the empire's space-time structure. It is filled with various sticky substances or sand, and after so many delegates walk through these narrow passages, they will enter a strange-looking hall.

There is a facility in the center of this hall. The light group in the center of the facility is blocked by many discontinuous arc-shaped suppression shells, and the base of this facility extends a pale golden transparent crystal track to the four sides, which can be vaguely seen. Information surges through it. In the center of the dome, there is a huge piece of unknown material embedded in it, which seems to be trembling regularly according to a certain pattern.

"Because, a long time ago, in such an environment, the civilized decision-makers at that time made a decision after deliberation and repeatedly weighing the actual environment at that time. That decision directly affected the development of the entire empire. The direction and development are possible, and the empire has overcome various dangers in the void to reach the present. We should remember that meeting and remember those great decisions." Vidoville supported his hands on the ring table and looked at the crowd around him. Scanned it again. "This is the best way to commemorate it. Chiefs, are the research results ready?"

"It's ready."

"Show and explain them." At the same time, all the emperor-level beings present gave the order at the same time.

The stored data are activated with the issuance of the command, and they spread out simultaneously above the center of the ring table and deep in the consciousness of all participants - that is a point.

"The classic routes we [used to] used, the current [main routes] can be considered to be three - they are technology, magic and chaos emergence."

In the picture, the solitary point gave rise to three straight lines, which did not interact with each other at first. Soon, however, these extending lines began to branch, branches intersecting each other and continuing forward. Their appearance makes the environment around the originally lonely dot seem to become more dynamic.

The lines continued to stretch, but the almost constant change in pattern did not last long. The lines representing science and magic are still extending, but their branches are entangled with each other, forming a winding structure of spiral advancement and spiral "retreat". At the same time as this entangled structure is generated, it also releases itself. More "bridging lights" connect the two main roads.

Where the third road is located, it and its corresponding branches continue to extend, but a straight line that originally connected the points has undergone new changes - in the part close to the points, a section begins to become somewhat transparent. , somewhat "illusory".

"Among these three lines, technology and magic are about as old as the empire, while the emergence of chaos is later than these two main lines." Following the words, the field of vision immediately changed, focusing on the two obvious and coherent lines. on the line.

"What is currently confirmed is that the two application lines of technology and magic are more in line with "cognitive science." Their development requires intelligent life to understand reality, understand the objective environment, and summarize the laws and rules. From this, we can further find out The correlation between laws, find out the connection between phenomenon, essence and practical application, and then learn, analyze and use these rules that can be summarized to change the environment and change oneself, so that "survival" can be easier and "life" can be More comfortable.”

"From this point of view, in this era, from our perspective, the differences between the technologies that are directly summarized into these two lines and their corresponding creations mostly appear in the "transformation to practical applications" Part. In this part, currently, the "magic route" has relatively higher barriers to entry - they often require creatures to have some relatively special powers, and they also need a suitable environment. This is not true for everyone. It will exist in every world.”

"The starting point of technology and magic is based on the basic environment, the most superficial and simple objective reality of the world... They may run in parallel and complement each other at the beginning. But as civilization develops, with some other structures, some other The order is established, and some other reasons begin to form. The completely different technology and magic may cause one of them to be blocked."

"After such a blockage, the continued development of science and technology is to take into account more objective factors, more environments under different conditions, and different levels of laws and regulations. At these broader and deeper levels, Look for patterns in the field and correspond to phenomena and essences that are “thought to exist” and “are needed.”

"The current development stage of magic often relies on a type of "energy" that can be pulled and disturbed by the mind, consciousness and spirit. By pulling these energies, they can penetrate into various structures of the objective world and then manipulate them. These "energy" pull the environment to change, which is part of the essence of the "magic path" we are currently delineating."

"The development direction of magic also corresponds to a more correct understanding of the world. While broadening one's horizons and improving one's level, one should face all phenomena, all disturbances, and all encounters with a broader mind and a more cautious and serious attitude. The connection between things. In fact, they can be said to be an extension of a method. They have differences and oppositions due to their own development models and corresponding "basic concepts", but in essence, they are no different from each other. .”

"At present, the extraordinary arcana we have can be regarded as one of the "top beings" of this type of energy. Based on current research, as well as a large amount of practical application evidence and interactive data, we can think so - high purity The high-frequency arcana itself is a "coordination and transformation agent between the laws of order." It is precisely because of this property that arcane information can be widely used everywhere."

"Since arcane information often requires spiritual participation, the areas of development itself will be different from the direction of science and technology. Highly sensitive sensibilities may care about some relatively ethereal content, such as symbolism, etc."

"In our opinion, these contents require a certain basis for information unification before they can be truly and clearly observed and recorded - and before this, the different understandings of the two routes are very likely to be lost if there is no appropriate opportunity. There are many reports and a large number of verification models that can provide support for the growth of disagreement."

"However, judging from your summary results and the current actual situation of the entire empire, these two roads are not absolutely separated and absolutely incommunicable." Cavernriel suddenly said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, not only do they not block each other, in many cases, they can actually complement each other - technology and magic will have their own relative "weaknesses" and "strengths" for a long time. In the face of everything but It is not necessarily a clear reality, and they can be complementary to each other. However, in reality, these ideal results are often difficult to appear, because development is not based on ideal conditions, and the direction and concept of development are often confused. ——”

Wei Ruifan's eyes became a little cold.

"Although there are many opportunities, the length of these paths is not worth paying attention to. If the conditions are suitable enough and the luck is good enough, they can all reach the truth after passing the test of time and space." At this point , the entire audience focused on the two most special emperors.

"Well, what about the third way?" Vidoville continued to ask.

"The emergence of Chaos has appeared since the middle and early stages of the last era. It is worth noting that this part only has entry logs and usage logs, but R\u0026D logs and experiment logs are very rare - His Majesty has already explained why in this part, so we will not delve into it further."

"The special thing about Chaos Emergence itself compared to technology and magic is that at a high enough level, it can create "new" things - compared with previous technology and magic, it can be considered to bring "new" things from some aspects. There's a whole sense of 'irrational'."

"Considering the current situation, the barriers to entry in this field may be higher than any development path that starts based on understanding reality. Whether it is technology or magic, to a considerable extent, they all rely on what already exists. Partially, the results it can create will not leave the existing large framework. Of course, this is not absolute, but compared with the "efficiency process" of chaotic emergence, they are sufficiently divided to form different paths."

"Currently, Chaos Emergence is connected to technology and magic in some directions. These connected parts may represent outdated but still existing "unsolved mysteries" in the accumulation of technology and magic, or they may represent some aspects of technology and magic. "Ultimate frontier". But in fact, chaos emergence exists in all "fields", and they can appear almost anywhere - a large number of relatively simple micro-elements gather together, and they form more complex advanced activities, condensing far-reaching goals. As a whole that adds to itself, this whole sometimes goes a step further to form a larger, more substantial super-individual.”

All eyes fell on the "noose" connected to him.

"It" is a part of the will of the empire, and looking at it now, part of the will of the empire has also appeared because of this.

"Don't talk about this for a short time." Wei Ruifan suddenly said, and after such a reminder was issued, everyone noticed the changes around them, paying attention to the things that seemed far away from them before, as if they had just been piled up on them. The golden dome around you.

"These paths are the backbone of our current understanding and development, and they are also the "theoretical tools" that guide us as we move forward and develop." As they spoke, the chief executives involved in the research simultaneously activated the next evolution - where is it clear Countless lines sprout from between the main trunks. They are more gorgeous and more extended than the probabilistic lightning chains that erupt in the void.

On the huge synchronization plane, the flowing light forms a giant tree more complex than any logic expansion board. Everyone is waiting quietly, waiting for it to become luxuriant, waiting for it to extend more and more branches, waiting for its growth to be in sync with the present.

"...synchronized."

"Yes, your majesties, it has grown up now. However, the explanation of everything now is not over yet."

“Different knowledge and different concepts will appear completely different in different fields.”

"At the same time, in the explosive development, traditional roads have indeed not been abandoned. They have been developed to a great extent, but they cannot completely cover everything."

Several rings of light expanded outward from the central point, and they "cut" the growing giant tree.

"To date, our knowledge tree has spanned many fields."

"We are now beginning to transition to the 'field'."