Star Empire

After the rules were passed, silence followed.

Everyone needs to understand them better. And beyond that, there isn't much to say.

The venue was once again dismantled. What is needed next is accumulation, analysis, and waiting.

Take this step slowly.

After all, the monster that straddles the countless worlds of the empire can be regarded as an abnormal part of the "soul" of the empire as a whole. As an individual in the projection of this huge existence, it would not be a wise choice to fight against the whole in which you are located.

There are forces that can fight it, but there is no hope that the outcome will be a lose-lose outcome.

…

Outside the sun, the angry roar of the giant beast was transformed into the roar of weapons, into the instructions that were constantly flowing between the fleets, into countless orders issued to unknown persons, and equally many... "reprimands".

"Why can't it be done!!"

"Why can't you bear our presence! Why do you have to collapse! Why are your bodies so fragile!"

"Why can't you make such a small sacrifice! How can you stand in the void with a body like yours that can't even withstand the faintest aftermath of the death wave! Why can you survive!!"

In the midst of these roars, countless battleships jumped from world to world in a loose mass. They continue to develop and spread, sweeping across countless civilizations inside and outside countless universes and countless space structures. Like a swarm of locusts in the void, like a natural disaster marked with paranoia.

Their arrival has broken the original tranquility of countless lives, the normal operation of countless civilizations, countless late nights that should have fallen asleep, and countless dawns that should have lit up the morning sun.

Living beings are either put into reactors for incineration called tempering, or placed in various analysis facilities for various rough dismantling and improvements. Civilization is thrown into the source of divergence. Countless timelines and possible reincarnations spread in the space of illusory mathematical rates. They are forced to make various choices continuously. Every slightest mistake will be accompanied by the most severe consequences. punishment. The development of concentrated forces is also punished, all improvements in individual conditions are punished, even if everything is taken into account...

"It's like a never-ending logical whirlpool, a big filter with no correct options at all. No matter what, the action team can always find a shortcoming or loophole in some aspect, and then they will use up all their indignation. and dissatisfaction, forcing the power of the empire into it..."

Records from the outside world record countless "mechanisms" among them.

"...Okay, we understand."

Above the sun and under the starry sky, two figures stared seriously at the recorded data from thousands of batches of scout teams.

In the night sky, the once star chains have become sparse and messy. The blockades across the sky dimmed, they became "weak" and "absent-minded".

And what is certain is that they will continue to dim, they will forget why they are here, and they will forget why they are enemies of the rulers of the empire...

"...Perhaps, now we can talk about the problems encountered by the empire, the problems faced by the decision-makers and everyone, and...the problems between the two of us."

The sunlight bent from the prominences, and they changed their structure. A gray barrier covered the two huge black battleships that had been dormant on the surface of the sun for a long time. And with the formation of this barrier, there are more contents that are covered and separated, such as... almost all the attributes of existence between the individual and the whole.

"The essence of the "monster" has been determined - it is a small part of the "soul" of the empire itself. It is a "concrete entity" that emerged due to the directional explosion of super-large-scale thinking waves and represents the abstract content of these thoughts and needs. "Existence." Weisrifan glanced at the "noose" on his body that was so weak that it was insignificant. "Thoughts from intelligent life gathered and formed such a huge aggregate, and this was composed of countless people's fragments of reason and The existence formed by thought fragments in turn controls people's thinking and consciousness..."

"This is a situation where a "superbody" may appear, and its existence is not too abnormal. In fact, we can completely think that the "soul" of the entire empire is composed of countless such monsters fused together. Formed. It’s just that they are all dormant, hiding in the depths of the empire to provide power for the empire’s existence, but this part is “awakened” because of these special reasons.”

"...The problems exposed in this can be determined..." Vidoville frowned slightly, "It is about the part about super-individuals... including the actual existence of super-individuals themselves, and the "understanding" of super-individuals. , understanding from all aspects.”

"The empire has experienced two similar ideological disasters, the first from top-down and the second from bottom-up." Weisrifan said, "If the entire empire is completely regarded as an independent and complete Individuals... These trends of thought may not actually be regarded as abnormalities as a whole. They may be regarded at that level as some kind of patterned transformation of the super-individual itself... However, doing so leads to Yes, it’s because we have overly personalized the entire empire.”

"We imagine the empire as a whole "people" and use it to complete various actions..."

"But the empire itself is not a "person". At least for now, the empire cannot be simply personified. Such an understanding itself will lead to a large number of deviations that cannot be taken into account. At the same time, such an abstract classification makes our own decisions not Applicable to all levels. And instructions will bring about changes, and the existences that make up the empire may not be able to resist such effects in many cases..."

"After that, it's us, each of us, when facing a certain object, we will make such abstractions and assumptions among ourselves - everyone will concretely visualize the object as a specific "person", Or a 'panel' that reflects what we need. This has been happening a long time ago... long before the Empire."

“No matter what we’re dealing with—a specific person, a research group, a department, a special operations force, a fleet, maybe even a sector of space…we’re treating the object as a personification abstract individuals, but rarely regard them as a "collection" composed of countless individuals."

"But now... our core thoughts have begun to shift towards providing better life needs for all individuals in the entire empire. However, after the empire structure itself suffered a large collapse and fall, the unified approach of treating everything as a super-individual is no longer fully applicable. for all occasions.”

"At the same time... this is also one of the important reasons why we need to "break up" the empire's super-organic structure. The first reason lies in these two completely different ideological disasters - the empire's information transmission structure and authority are too monotonous, unified and regular The existence of structure makes the information transmission process on the "one-way road" repetitive and single."

"For a certain individual, this method of information transmission is not extremely efficient. But for these destructive and polluting large-scale information flows, it currently appears that they constitute a "high-speed" for pollution transmission. Road". All we can say is that the two entities that breached the fortress from the inside were not real enemies. If they were more destructive, or were contaminated by the death tide, the empire might be completely destroyed."

"The second reason is that the abstract identification of super-individuals cannot take into account the "single needs" of the included individuals. We regard all the objects we interact with as abstract "independent individuals". What this leads to is There will be no problem with our commands as a whole, but as the commands are dispersed and specificized, they are likely to be split by different layers as they pass through the layer structure and be adjusted with an unfriendly result. final output."

"And our information flow... often circulates from the top of the tower to the bottom of the tower for a week... before it can be considered an information exchange of sufficient scale. And outside of this... although the usual communication has increased significantly, it is still less than what it used to be. Everything under it, the intensity of new changes is too weak.”

"Indeed... there are likely to be more problems in cross-level interactions under such a gap... Recently, I have directly commanded and dealt with the information exchange situation about fleet divisions. Among them, the cross-level command There are too many levels, and the final impact of the order may not be consistent with what we expect.”

"And besides that, there are many more, indeed..." As the memories revealed aspects that were not the focus of attention, Victorville's expression became more solemn, but in some cases Before this happened, a hand had already touched Vidoville's shoulder.

"...I know what you are thinking, but really, don't think too much. All this may not be suitable now, but what is not suitable is the current situation. It is not wrong in itself, and it may even be an idealization trend in itself. One of the possibilities.”

Weisrifan's words came, and they seemed to be mixed with considerable spiritual power. "As the Void Fierce Sun, I actually have quite a lot of fragments and various remaining memories from Σ. Although we don't have them yet. Verify them one by one, but many of them have begun to be included as reference items for practical applications, and have achieved results...The dead light, the dead tide stability shadow, the nature of the dead tide and the nine days Nature...you have seen the results they can bring, I hope my words can dispel your worries——"

"In the void, it is very likely that on a very broad scale, super-individuals are ubiquitous and widely used at all levels. And there are a large number of examples that show that the concept of super-individuals and their corresponding actual existence may have a great influence on the wisdom in the void. Communication between communities has been a huge boost."

“Compared to the information exchange and information perception between loose communities, the super-individual formed by their upward emergence and re-fusion may be difficult to be understood by the “they” who compose it, but there is already a preliminary conclusion on this - super-individuals Individual chaos perception is actually simpler and more direct, and these relatively simple logical circuits are less likely to cause thinking traps and divergent possibility speculations."

"The communication between these intelligences with complex perception, simple content and direct transmission is actually more conducive to the emergence of harmonious symbiosis. This is not absolute, but at present, it seems that this is not too wrong."

"At the same time, just because we want to temporarily break up the empire as a huge super-organism does not mean that we need to completely erase everything from the empire's structure - the various authority levels and structural layers of the empire should be separated from each other. They no longer need large-scale information exchanges that can be completed by pulses throughout the entire empire. Information exchanges will form certain loops between various levels and run on their own, which is what we will do next." Visrifan concluded road.

"And what we will talk about later, "our problems"... all come from this aspect, right." Vidoville was silent for a while, "Actually, we are not smart or complicated. ...If we want to go back to a very ancient era...from the perspective of that time, we can say that we do not know how to "manage" or "strategize."

"Those have passed, and they should pass. Before the establishment of the empire, there were actually many efforts that were not misplaced, including the way decision-makers worked and their own capabilities. We did have many problems in the past, and it seems now Many things can be done better, but while we do not rule out our negligence, we should not directly deny and criticize the past - at that time, the environment and status quo were like that. If we continue to deny it because of the present and the future, All the past can only add to troubles."

In this regard, Weisruifan spread his hands, "Actually, over a long period of time, the management at that time was not actually all about driving the entire group forward. In fact, it existed for the stability of the group. However, a collective is not an absolutely rigid body, nor is it a "person" with independent and simple thinking and behavior patterns.

The energy poured into this may consume a lot of collective motivation to move forward. At the same time, too many coordination relationships will make the web weave denser and more difficult to sort out. Therefore, I think that if those pyramids can be strong and clear, and if the situation inside those screens is accurate enough, a group of superorganisms capable of ideal abstraction will be superior to a group of corresponding "people" at the overall and grand level. "

"In fact, they are not absolutely unnecessary, and they cannot be removed directly. But now, we will not weave this web ourselves, and we should not help weave this web. Everything related to them , it should be left to the people who need it to weave it themselves, we just need to take a look at the right moment, and not let the too complicated parts become too affecting everything that should be normal - we should "retire" in some aspects "Yeah, Vidoville, you should feel it too..."

"There are some problems and situations that we no longer have enough intellectual and practical strength to face head-on." Vidoville nodded, "The foundation of our lives is not enough..."

"It is easy to regard specific objects as a specific personality, and measure the corresponding objects by the possible behaviors of an abstract personality, but ignore their essence and possible corresponding complexity, as well as actual possible actions and possible trajectories, and ignore the possibilities behind the group. Some of the objective requirements behind the actual existence of embodied changes and super-individual correspondences ignore the covariant development of these embodied "super-individuals" with each other, as well as the "meaning behind the short-term and long-term correspondence between their actions" "Wait...that's part of the problem right now."

"But there are more parts... Victorville may not be able to see it clearly, but I think you should be able to understand - we... are different from other emperors, other people, and other existences in the empire. From the existence In terms of attributes, we are already different.”

"For example... solar energy can do it?"

"...Yes. Being able to rely on the wind field of the blazing sun to quell the embodied monster that is part of the empire's existence. The fact that it is not completely included in this monster is already a manifestation of the problem. But there is more. ...The differences between us are already too great in nature...the entangled cause and effect, everything we can feel and see, the composition of ourselves...etc., etc., all our existence attributes have been forever affected by Σ's creation. Impact. At present, it seems that the gap cannot be bridged."

"Although there is an imperial network as a bridge that can communicate everything, the gaps between us exist objectively. They cannot be ignored, and the differences caused by these gaps cannot be ignored."

"Vidoville, can you believe...or even accept that, in the deepest part of the blazing sun, there is a Death Tide Gate that may be as large as the target gate in the bridge image?"

"...Actually, Lil, if this is the case, perhaps not only me, but everyone has predicted it and deduced similar results based on a series of evidence that has been captured. However, this direction seems to be unclear for the time being. There is no need to be studied and cracked, and together with it, there is no need to actually determine and conduct research. Because not only does it have no beneficial part, it may also significantly interfere with current cognition and current practical applications. But Lil, you Since it’s mentioned, then…it doesn’t hurt to explain it—”

"The Sun is too orderly. So far, we have not captured the huge amount of useless information that should exist from the wind field, the outer structure of the Sun, or even the shallow star core, as well as the various entities they may correspond to. . However, according to the current evidence, the assignment of variables and the advancement of trend changes cannot be without flaws and loopholes. This also means that there should be a large amount of useless information in the operation process of Lieyang... About this information Where exactly is it and where will it go... Speculations related to it include the possibility that Lieyang has controllable death tide gates, and Lieyang may use them to annihilate useless information."

"...Oddly enough, knowing it yourself and hearing it from an individual who can truly interact and understand you... feel completely different."

"Understanding each other is always valuable."

"Time will change, space will change, and everything they carry will also change. The entire empire is always changing, from every moment to every era... guesses, understandings, records, and predictions will change all the time. In the parts that are shown and not shown, in the time that is noticed and the time that is not noticed, the changes never stop. In every era and every moment, they have appropriate parts, missing parts and inapplicable parts. They are never absolute and unique, and they never have an eternal benchmark..."

"We have spanned a long time, seen a lot, verified a lot, confirmed a lot and denied a lot... It can be said that we have accumulated a lot, whether they are right or wrong, applicable or not... they are Precious. Whether the past was clear or chaotic, we can no longer measure the line and scale... We have come to the present. I hope we can see more changes and possibilities. I also hope... understand, and be able to Support each other so that we can overcome longer time and more challenges together..."