Star Empire

"If you really change your perspective...actually, many aspects of reality will become different."

"According to our interpretation of time, progress, and development, the "historical iteration" model we use has actually explained that integrating our current "overall foundation" picture into divergence and unity often often Rather than being flat, uniform, and standard paintings, they are more likely to be countless, irregular and incomplete graffiti, and the same is true for the empire itself. Realistic development is never absolutely regular and orderly. "

"The same is true for our lives - despite the huge differences and changes, we are still living creatures, and we still need to live well. We have needs that we cannot meet on our own, so we look for the natural environment. laws, recognize them, utilize them, extract technology from within them and use technology to meet our needs.”

"We need to adapt to the real environment, but if the real environment is too harsh and unsuitable, we must face it. And if we have the ability, we have to transform it until we can adapt and we can feel comfortable. Degree."

"In these processes...knowledge, methods, rules, concepts...they are born with the continuous accumulation of foundation. They are worthy of respect and respect, but they should not be sanctified. Then Among them, convenience of application and the bottom line of principles should be the top priority, and other things should not be given too much consideration. They, and everything related to them and similar should not become an obstacle to development, a burden and burden to progress."

"Lil, these contents come from...the History Department?" Vidoville asked.

"Yes, many explanations are extensions of simplicity. They may be considered the "fundamental avenue" corresponding to the development of life. After the birth of the oldest life, they sought the principles needed to survive and continue in ignorance, and How we adjust ourselves now, how we make ourselves and the groups we belong to better able to survive in countless different worlds are of similar nature. The evolution of the times will change some things, but there are also some things... still It won’t change.”

Weisrifan seemed to be answering, but also seemed to be feeling a little self-conscious.

"But...Lil, if you think about it...the changes also come from us, right? And we are the 'weights'."

"This is not a contradiction - the information left behind has told us what the significance of weights is. Our significance lies in balance rather than conservatism. If the development of civilization is no longer uniform, then our significance lies in correcting deviations for civilization, and correcting deviations It must correspond to the occurrence of changes..."

"In the future, we may also play new roles in other aspects. Perhaps "our" ability to carry these powers and effects will eventually have its limits, but we do not reject changes."

"Yes."

"Then... let's explain our decision to everyone. After all, no matter what we think or do, it is still limited to us. We need to let everyone know and understand and gain everyone's approval." Weisrifan pulled himself up. The person beside him who seemed thoughtful again said, "It's almost time now. "It" doesn't have that much energy anymore and can pay attention to everything about us."

…

A meeting was held.

The content of the meeting is very simple - to announce the decision made by the top individual of the empire "once" to all those who are already on "this side" and have the need to listen to its content and understand its meaning:

The two star emperors in the true sense are preparing to "retire" in many aspects, and the separated parts will be divided and handled by the rulers of the heavens, the heavens and other joint agencies in the future.

The empire will undergo changes to its overall structure. While gradually adjusting its understanding of "single personality", the huge "super-individual" structure will gradually be decomposed until the new structure can better adapt to the current practical needs.

The empire will begin to analyze the relationship between its existence and the "monster" in detail, and will attack at the appropriate time.

"...Your Majesty, we know that changes are likely to develop in these directions, but the changes they involve are indeed too great." Faced with the announced content, doubts came from all aspects and angles among the moving figures. .

"Your Majesty, super-individual structures and abstract personified understanding of target groups are of great significance to the stability of reality. It is true that they cannot face all situations, but if large-scale changes are made, a large number of structures in the empire must also make corresponding changes. Changes, related changes cannot be completed with a "day and night" effort...and among them, the "final results" caused by many possibilities may cause the entire empire to eventually collapse."

"At present, the empire's information exchange structure and overall operational structure have not yet become too big to be reduced. However, even if the empire's own structure is simplified, it is indispensable to describe them as complex and huge. Many departments and institutions are still developing, and they are still developing. It has not yet been finalized, but such a change in the specific content corresponding to the position of the top decision-maker will inevitably correspond to a change in the highest direction of these departments. And the change in direction means that all departments and all lower structures need to move upward There will be significant changes in what is presented and now they all need to be changed..."

"That's not all, Your Majesty, the current requirements are inherently contradictory. The empire is very complex, both macroscopically and microscopically. The life of the empire is active all the time, and there will be a lot of ups and downs in thinking. Now. Individuals themselves can ensure their own efficiency, rationality, and "loyalty to civilization" after basic screening, network inspection, and revision of the overall structure of the empire. However, there are many parts that cannot be solved by efficient rational unity, and even their Existence itself may also create new problems.”

"And if these individuals are combined to form groups, groups are combined to form departments, departments are combined to form systems, and then departments are combined to form regions... the iterative process itself will greatly expand the disturbance caused by the emergence phenomenon. In this way, if this is done We cannot rule out the possibility that the upper-level structure may permanently lose its meaning because the energy required to maintain its own existence is greater than the limit of its own output."

“The cognitive method of abstracting a complex collective object into a person and assuming that the complex collective is a person, an existence, and a standard life can effectively reduce the layers of emergence phenomena caused by the iterative process. The perturbation of Then the upper structure performs the same condensation and transmission..."

"Your Majesty, your Majesties, these problems... they are not impossible to change, adjust and innovate. However, they may cause us to pay a huge price, and at the same time, this will also take a long time. Furthermore, The large-scale changes related to this may destroy the existing structure that has been "adapted with great difficulty", and require a large number of lives at different levels of authority and different positions throughout the empire to adapt again... All aspects will also be affected by this. There was a loss…”

"——?!"

"Everyone, there's no need."

Following Weisrifan's words, the meeting site was instantly surrounded and closed by a lightless "event horizon", and the phenomenon that appeared at the same time as the closure of this event horizon was the "noose" that had never disappeared on countless people for a long time. "At this moment, it was so dim and subtle that it was almost impossible to check. Although it was not broken, according to the current experience of the empire, it can be confirmed that even if it is a conceptual level connection, due to the huge deviation in the amount of information, it has been weakened to the point that it is impossible to continue. How much actual information can be conveyed on a large scale?

The existence of these vague connections also prevents the sudden "darkness" formed by completely blocking the connection from attracting the attention of the "monster"...

At the scene, almost everyone "changed their appearance" in an instant, and their serious and serious direction almost turned 180 degrees. At the same time, the conference hall, which was once expanded and built strictly according to the proportions of the Ark of Exile's control room and the corresponding corridor network, has now become simpler. It is so simple that only the steps recessed toward the center and the arc dome are left. You can also enter it instantly. After reaching the activated state, a large number of structures are activated, and the flowing information collides and aggregates within the black body, forming a new skynet in the dark night.

However, the viewpoints that were previously used to oppose the Star Emperor's proposal, as well as the large amount of actual data and actual research behind the viewpoints, reversed their phases, and they spontaneously became their own "anti-meaning existence" relative to the level of meaning. . These documents with opposite meanings were quickly put together to form a very mature "specific plan."

"The re-adjustment of the existing structure may indicate that predictions have been made, and the existing structure's blanks and redundancies are complete..."

The "super-individual "disintegration" plan has been completed, and the basic structure will remain unchanged, but more power will be given to the lower levels. The macro information structure will be adjusted. Previously, the information pulses that needed to span the entire authority "pyramid" will be broken up, and they will Spontaneously recirculate and form a relatively stable structure within the delineated scope of authority. Delineate bandwidth and total volume for direct communication channels across authority levels, optimize algorithms and actual representations, and help the empire confirm that they understand each other accurately..."

"The story locations that need to be changed have been simulated based on the results of the Void Sky Survey Radar, and have been simulated multiple times based on the actual model. The results are confirmed to be reliable, and the story is confirmed to be above the covariance threshold..."

"The final calculation result is inferred... The possibility that the purpose and meaning of the relevant events will be distorted and tampered with is slightly lower than the danger threshold..."

…

"Your Majesty, the "Insert Narrative" plan has been completed and confirmed." In the center of the activated golden ocean, the waves with souls presented the complete package to the two imperial emperors standing in the center, and presented it to the only capable people in the empire. An entity that carries out empire-wide large-scale "narrative changes."

"Your Majesty, this plan is not absolutely safe. At the same time, although all previous studies are indeed a reversal of this plan, the problems they correspond to do exist - the change is indeed extremely important, and we really need it now Major changes. But we believe you know and understand...the contradictions of reality cannot be completely resolved. These contradictions are straightforward in nature, but they are sharp, and they can also stack on top of each other to create a complex status quo."

"They need to be tolerated...The empire should not be dragged into another whirlpool too quickly by excessive changes. For us now, compared to changes, the cost of starting over is already so great that we no longer have what can be gained. benefit."

"Yeah, we know."

…

"Narrative... Wood, you said, since everything can be manipulated and adjusted in a "story-telling" way, then, if we truly integrate ourselves and the entire empire into a story... then who will be the protagonist? What? What will become the main line?"

"I don't know... I feel that the protagonist may not be any one or a group of specific people. Perhaps in our eyes, we can see the changes in the empire more directly, and we can present the macroscopic appearance more intuitively. , but compared to the true structure and details of the empire, and the truly countless stories... no matter how powerful and brilliant any one or a group of specific people is, they may be eclipsed by the whole."

"If the protagonist is the entire empire... it would be too big and too chaotic. The empire itself may really have some perception system, and it may really have a "living" part that can be abstracted and can communicate with us. , but I’m afraid we can’t understand the content.”

"...Speaking of which, there are other parts, Wood, do you understand?" Weisrifan suddenly said: "For the race, for the civilized community established by wisdom, and for the whole, survival and continuation can be called The first priority. But for the individuals among them, survival and continuation may not be the [first] priority.”

"Lil, why do you ask this suddenly?"

"It's nothing." Wei Ruifan shook his head, "I just suddenly... felt something."

"It's time for us to prepare for the next step."