Star Empire

After the two consuls quickly rolled out the information unified theory system at a speed that surprised everyone, numerous large-scale shocks that were predicted to be inevitable swept the entire federation.

Some changes are natural, and some changes are strange. The Federation has a long history and rich experience, but reality always seems to exceed everyone's expectations - when the power of reality mixes everything together, the Federation environment becomes A little more subtle:

In the federal management, more than 90% of officials have shown indifference or even slight hostility towards these new theories. Most of them are unwilling to use such a line of thinking to reconstruct the world - even if Zhai Cahir's eyes can already look directly at the flow of information.

In the vast circle of citizens, because the "endless sea" and "multiverse" carried by the unified theory of information more foreshadow the infinity of matter,

Although the Federation now occupies the entire universe, under the conditions of limited material, even if it is very low, Federation citizens still need to pay a certain "price" to engage in material trade. And now, as Vesrifan and Victorville said before, As expected, citizens began to question the value of material things, and at the same time, they began to question the connections closely related to them—that is, themselves.

Coupled with the turmoil experienced by many companies after the theory was made public, they generated considerable dissatisfaction - the reaction was violent beyond any feedback collected when Weisrifan leaked and hinted.

Rational groups... It seems that this should not be the case, even though many models still show that citizens' doubts are completely normal, but from the feeling...

If mild methods are used, this information will definitely encounter layers of "legal orders" after being distributed to federal officials. This is not for individuals, but the accumulation of countless years of federal laws and regulations - the federation is already very large. Now, a person's cognitive ability is limited. How much ability he has, he can understand as many things as possible... But now, if we do this, what will be handed over to the hands of citizens in the end?

However, despite this, it is impossible to force everyone to instantly accept this new theory that does not even have a material basis. If the personality and consciousness of the bottom citizens are forcibly deleted on a large scale, the authority of the consul will most likely be directly deleted. Even bypassing the impeachment procedures.

In this state, Vidoville and Vesrifan could only give in under the influence of reality, and first used the huge warped space bubble area previously created by the crystal energy vortex as a "test area". The vast majority of citizens did not want to Will be affected by anything, maybe with time... their resistance can be diluted.

"Such a decision... why... we are against ourselves." Looking at the Federation, which seems to be becoming more stubborn as time goes by, Vidoville sighed slightly, "Originally, Cavenriel and the others mentioned it before, If there were more mathematical model builders and controllers, the research process could be greatly accelerated, but now..."

“…Perhaps there may be errors that even the federal system could not anticipate.”

After the unification of information was announced, Vidoville ordered the reactivation of all space resonance hubs in the warped world bubble. Except for those that were too close to the crystal energy vortex and were not suitable for civilian ships to sail, this original realm of death was reactivated. Connect with the vast space of the universe.

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"Everywhere, after the news was announced, it was a mess."

A large part of the citizens who were originally trapped in the warped world bubble expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the actions of the two Archons in restricting their freedom and restricting them there unnecessarily. Vidoville suddenly discovered that after he did not completely use a black box to govern, he discovered that although the federation had been able to basically cooperate with the law from top to bottom in the past, the real reality seemed to be far more complicated than when looking at the country from a height. Much.

During the actions of resistance and evacuation, most of the people left here, and only a small number of people gave up the resistance... Victorville even wondered why many of the citizens' attitudes changed so much - the crystal energy vortex did indeed change from It is true that the source of extremely dangerous anomalies has become an important research material, and if used properly, most of the effects can be avoided. However, no matter what, the crystal energy vortex is always the crystal energy vortex... it has always been there. But it seems... it seems that when its definition was revised, some resistance suddenly broke out violently - even if the news was released in compliance with federal law, even these citizens knew that all of this was continuous of.

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"It seems that our prosperity... is not very resistant to change." Looking at the light spots representing the flow of citizens on the large star map, Weisrifan shook his head helplessly, "There is nothing that directly touches the interests of any entity. , but maybe there will be contact soon. This is indeed too drastic a change..."

"Since they are unwilling, then we will be the pioneer. If we really can't control it, let the country enter a state of emergency. At present, if we want to maintain the existence of information unity, we must maintain our own authority, even if it really He will be impeached and will need to wait until the information unified theory has a stable support group before he can finally leave office. Now the conclusion of the frontline base has proven that this new unified theory is established. If it is abandoned halfway, it may cost hundreds of millions or even billions. In a few hundred million years, the progress of history will come to a standstill - the value of entropy determines that we do not necessarily have that long."

Vidoville looked at the huge cosmic star map model in front of him. Almost all the light was moving away from the huge warped space bubble, and his tone couldn't help but speed up a little.

"Start the transfer as soon as possible. We may stay in that "small" universe for a while." To deal with specific matters in this way and touch the most dangerous frontline events... For history, this may also be unprecedented. first time.

After Vidoville and Vesrifan left, Zhai Cahir turned off the huge holographic projection and left here in a flash. He is not only the chief control technician of the federal information collection network, but also a high-level scientist. He has not forgotten the tasks agreed upon when cooperating with Cavinrel:

Find out about all the Federation's current technologies, including all changes in information materials, all special-purpose force fields, and everything else. How many of them have already begun to manipulate information?

Vidoville's reaction was very fast. Shortly after leaving this planet fortress surrounded by three huge stars, a corona-class battle leader docked at this huge artificial planet with a metallic luster and picked it up. Wesrifan and Isendel.

Vidoville's own speed is much slower. The supplies he needs to prepare and the mobilization he needs to make are actually more and comprehensive.

The industrial production capacity of the third hexagram closed area is really low. Although Cavinriel and the others were able to obtain space annihilation bombs from the closed area before, and also used the later star corona level to build new space buildings, but at this level, It is far inferior to the main universe in terms of quantity and quality. If they want to rely only on the equipment they brought in before as a basis, the empty space in this bubble will be filled with space entities with the same density as the rich area of ​​the main universe. If so, maybe all the quasars here are extinguished.

Vidoville is not worried about large-scale military mobilization. Although the Federation gives citizens maximum freedom, it does not mean that those citizens are allowed to use powerful weapons, as long as they do not have space annihilation bombs and direct vacuum zero points in their hands. With weapons capable of that kind of energy density, autonomous AI on space stations and colonized planets would be enough to handle everything. In fact, the army gradually began to become a symbolic presence after peace, and there was nothing left for them to pour out their firepower.

Therefore, during the relocation of Vidoville, most of the military members were left outside as a stabilization force responsible for maintaining order in the event of possible intensification of the situation, and then gathered the personnel most interested in the unification of information to go with most of the warships The warp space bubble provides support for Cavinrel and his team’s follow-up research.

With the help of the stronger industrial power provided by the Victorville fleet than before, a series of new and powerful scientific research facilities were quickly formed in this small closed world. Although looking directly at the stars, the place was still lifeless. , but from the star map, more and more nodes are connecting this originally sparsely populated border land into a prosperous network.

From Weisrifan's perspective, the number of information items transmitted here during the construction period alone has exceeded the total number of transmissions in millions of years before the closure.

Now, Cavenriel still has not found a suitable way to directly extract crystal energy in large quantities, so if they want to obtain crystal energy samples, they still need to sacrifice the aircraft, let them be slightly contaminated by the crystal energy and then return, and then Eskett can use himself The crystal energy resonance ability is extracted. From the current point of view, the amount of these samples is barely enough for biological experiments and material experiments. However, it is obvious that if you want to mass-produce crystal energy-enhanced materials and popularize crystal energy-individual Fusion, this amount is far from enough.

"Your Majesty the Archon, thank you very much for following my advice and coming here, and you are even more determined than I imagined. Without your help, the establishment of these experimental facilities here would be a pipe dream for me."

On the upper bridge of the Federation's flagship, the specially built Star Crown-class battle leader "Star Star", Cavenriel excitedly reported his findings to Victorville.

"In fact, the outside world does not support the unification of information. It can be said that after such a long period of basic bottlenecks, federal citizens have adapted to the previous state. They hope to change, but are afraid of breakthroughs." Vidoville couldn't help but express his expression. Somewhat ugly.

"Vesrifan has made statistics. Currently, within the entire territory of the Federation, there are no more than three billion people who are ideologically neutral towards the unified information system, and there are only one billion supporters who are willing to come to this closed world bubble. When there were only 600 million supporters of the pioneers, the total number of federal citizens was already counted at twenty-one orders of magnitude."

"We once simulated the relevant migration - we once thought about whether too large a transfer of personnel would affect the operational stability of the federal structure. The federation has redundancy, but it is not high - now it seems that we are all worried about this. It’s too much.”

"...By the way, you said you achieved significant results? In what aspect?"

"Archon, now I have explored the crystal energy infection and fusion curve taking into account the physical body, and can identify people who carry out the crystal energy fusion process according to this standard, even ordinary citizens who only have basic strengthening plug-ins and modifications. , complete integration and recovery can be achieved within two weeks of proper use.”

"This is a good progress, Cavinriel." The Archon first affirmed, but then he thought of another question: "How do you determine the unit of crystal energy?"

"The number of crystal energy inerting times." When mentioning this, Cavinrel was also a little disappointed. "This is what I will report next. The current crystal energy fusion experiment cannot be promoted. The insufficient amount of crystal energy obtained is not only one aspect, but also The important aspect is that right now we can't measure crystal energy in a precise way."

"As for the measurement method of crystal energy, based on some items of the unified theory of information and the current observation results we have obtained, we speculate that the measurement method of crystal energy may be similar to the perturbation of information computers, which is distinguished by frequency. But currently our equipment cannot perform such processing. You know, within a few thousand light-years near the crystal energy vortex, most of the equipment will be interfered with and almost unusable. The aircraft that conducts crystal energy sampling requires a part of the consciousness to be diverted to operate. It even requires mechanical procedures to barely maintain stability. And within a considerable range, communications and various sensors will be disturbed. Although physical methods can compensate to a certain extent, this does not essentially solve any problem."

"Take your time, there is still... time." Vidoville comforted the somewhat disappointed science officer, "Zhai Cahill is now using his unique perspective to examine the various science and technologies of the Federation to identify them. Is it a simple rule of utilization, or has it begun to approach information operations? I believe that after Zhai Cahill’s screening, the Federation will have other technologies that can be transformed and used here. Compared with this, I will now arrange a new research for you Task."

"Standby!"

"Looking for a reliable way to obtain and store crystal energy." Vidoville said, "I have read all the experimental records. It is too expensive and inefficient to use a disposable aircraft to obtain the crystal energy from the periphery of the vortex. And if If you are right, the crystal energy will gradually infect the materials of the safe deposit box and cause damage during the storage process."

"Understood." Cavinriel saluted and turned to leave.

After the hatch was closed, Vidoville asked the AI ​​in front of the console to raise a chair, and at the same time, the galaxies and construction plans within the warp space bubble were unfolded. It has to be said that even though the Federation civilization has occupied the entire universe and this small area is still a barren area, it is this "sparse" galaxy that still has a considerable amount of material available for use. The scale and magnitude of the universe are staggering.

In the spherical star map in front of Vidoville, it marks a small part of the boundary extension of the supergalactic region that is isolated here, as well as some more famous large quasars, as well as newly built space buildings.

Most of these space buildings are indeed various scientific research facilities and energy output and transmission devices, but some are prepared for citizens who support the unified theory of information and are willing to live here.

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"These facilities will now be reactivated and given special status... Even if the federal government, which currently controls most of the weighting system, does not support this... at least we can try to express our position..."

"I always feel... it's not that simple... I hope someone is willing to come here..."

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"Unified information? A brand-new unified theory? After the energy is cooled, part of the structure of the universe generates mass through the Higgs field and finally forms a macroscopic material structure? How come it has become such a virtual thing as information? ?”

"absurd!"

"It is said that when cutting-edge technology is developed to its extreme, it will turn into theology. How come such an impossible explanation has been developed now?"

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"Don't talk nonsense. Of course I know information theory, but that is the domain of mathematics! Haven't those mathematicians created countless plausible chaos models for thousands of years? Why don't they deal with these things?"

"According to the public information on the Internet, the newly appointed governors seemed to have ordered the blockade of parts of the third hexagram that were most affected in order to reassure people, but... they handled this matter... bypassing many people ... No, they comply with the law.”

Among the countless branches of the Federation that are like tentacles taking root throughout the entire material universe, and in that magnificent city, such voices of discussion and questioning can be heard endlessly.

Under the illumination of the stars, in the life-like energy veins of the space station, and in the space resonance hub of the dark deep space, the collision of major concepts aroused by the violent vibration of thoughts is like a gas giant planet due to the magnetic gas in its core. Like the three-pronged backflow curve formed by the leakage of metal influence, the violent cyclone surges and rolls, as if it wants to completely devour anyone who disagrees with it.

No matter what is above these people's heads, be it blue, yellow, red, pitch black sky, the dark space dotted with countless stars, or a translucent dome. However, no matter which class or level they are from, those who point to these new theories are often opposed, and only a few people choose to remain silent.

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"Todd, what do you think of the latest results from the Federation's Supreme Council?" In an ordinary room in a magnificent spire on the surface of an inconspicuous planet, two people wearing uniforms conforming to the Federation... The current main style, white-based casual clothes with some blue or gold decorations, are discussing certain current situations——

Driven by some acts of civil disobedience, some factories have temporarily stopped working, and these people whose bodies have been heavily modified to play their role in perfect integration with the factory's large number of super machines have temporarily stopped working - which is very important to them. This is something that has never happened in countless years, but that's okay.

The universe is very big and there is a lot of matter, and the federal redundancy is enough to sustain consumption.

"Elke, do you think those theories are realistic?"

"I'm not sure, but I know that it seems that a lot of the things we are using are actually in a state of what is called a "black box". We can use it, but we don't know the specific process."

"Ha, let those unlucky scientists solve it. I still have to face real problems. I also have to take care of my several "family members" scattered at least eight million light years and sixteen million light years away. , Tsk, these "family members" have not seen each other for thousands of years - let me tell you, there is no need for this traditional family to exist now - but the law requires us to maintain these structures! You said it is not contradictory ?! What’s even weirder is that no one seems to be willing to say this before! They think everything is reasonable!”

"What's wrong with your rational thinking module? I looked at the content on the Internet, and it seems that there was no such messy content before?"

"Information...simplified control code...serious out-of-control alarm...no response..."

"What? Todd what are you talking about?"

A somewhat cold feeling seemed to seep out from the bright white walls and the hall with shining lights, and was nowhere to be found. It was as if the whispers of ghosts from outside the world exploded in the mind of the speaker. Although this feeling is fleeting, for information network workers, what they are best at is capturing the smallest fluctuations in the network.

The feeling just now was real.

"...? What? Are you hallucinating? I know that the information collection network is a job. You need to connect to the network frequently to adjust the information flow. Even the lower levels will have a hard time..."

"Todd?"

"It needs to be connected to the grid and a lot of data needs to be processed... The lower levels will also have a hard time... hiss... indescribable..."

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"Ah, what did you say?"

"No, no, it's nothing."