Star Empire

In silence, a long river driven by evolution and time flows silently.

In the river, there are countless waves, and in the waves, there are countless foams floating.

Most bubbles don't last long before falling silent again. But there are still some bubbles that do not disappear directly. They are gathered by the information accretion disk that is constantly rotating in the void. They are swallowed up by the soul fragments and recorded. As time continues to move forward, these pieces of information from all corners are constantly enriching the fragmented soul fragments, and are quietly gathering in hidden corners that no one has discovered.

Together with the huge accretion disk in the void and the soul fragments distributed in the accretion disk, these deposited information span a long time in silence, recording all changes in order and reality in silence.

Nothing remains the same.

It is normal for the same thing to have different expressions and connotations in different times and environments.

The evolution of the ships of the Star Empire’s Pentacelestial Constellation can be used as a direct reflection of this point of view.

As the transitional force of the empire from the extraordinary to the ordinary level, they are the most friendly existences in the imperial fleet to the ordinary world. They are the basic units of the empire's activities in the ordinary world, and they are also the necessary reserve "arms" when the empire deals with mortal civilization. Assure".

At first, they were uniform. The elongated ellipsoidal hull that finally appeared after completion, the smooth and smooth silver-white hull, the emblem of the Five Heavens Constellation engraved on the middle part of the hull, and the interior of the thick hull armor box are all missing. Their actual existence can only be noticed when they are used. The weapon system can ensure that it maintains a relatively constant ratio between itself and the objective environmental requirements, and the silver glow that dims when the protection is deployed... They are the first ships to form the fleet of the Five Heavens. The common characteristic of boats is that of all.

But as time evolved, and as the interactions between the empire and ordinary civilizations began to increase, people who dealt with these matters began to discover that such "uniformity" did not play a good role in some aspects.

They are indeed battleships, but from a practical point of view, their mission is not just to destroy targets. They also need to undertake various diplomatic tasks, and may even undertake certain dangerous disaster relief tasks when necessary.

To the empire itself, they were just an inconspicuous part of a vast armament chain. But for those civilizations that have established contact with the empire... I am afraid that at least in their understanding, the attributes of these ships are far from simple.

As the number of reports continued to increase, various imperial ministries began to notice that those civilizations had various understandings and interpretations of these ships - cultural symbols, historical traces, technological systems, life forms...

Each of the hundreds of elements contains thousands of different interpretations. The existence of these interpretations gave the empire more reference when trying to "think from others' perspective."

Gradually, the ships of the Pentapod fleet are no longer absolutely uniform. They have many new shapes, such as bionic ships, construction ships, celestial simulation ships, and so on.

These ships of different shapes mark the Empire's attempt to "adapt to local conditions" in this regard, and also indicate that the Empire has begun to truly "interact" meaningfully with those civilizations.

After that, more attempts were made to bring the plan closer to reality - the size of the ship, the painting of the ship, the texture on the surface of the ship, the way the ship is driven, and the direct disturbance and indirect disturbance they can emit. Disturbances... they all become aspects that are affected, and they all become aspects that can be changed.

Corresponding to this trend, there is also their own increasingly strong "interval separation" and "local characteristics" - there are a large number of fleets belonging to the Five Heavenly Constellation, and a huge number of order worlds are involved. In the long-term interaction, each Pentagon fleet has gradually developed its own unique characteristics.

Experienced people only need one interview to judge the nature of the civilizations distributed in the area covered by a fleet, and then deduce the area in which that fleet will operate.

As time goes by, while leaving traces on these ships carrying unique missions, behind these ships, in those material libraries, there are drawings drawn during previous designs and records left during previous repairs of the ships. The reports summarized after the completion of previous missions... they accumulate, forming a thick sedimentary layer that condenses time.

Each piece in the sedimentary layer is a materialized "historical iteration" in the development process of these ships.

And the scope of such things happening is far more than limited to the small area where the Five Heavens Fleet is located. It can be said that such things happened everywhere in the Imperial Fleet, and it can even be said that... every Imperial creation itself can summarize such historical iterations.

It's just that... instead of using "development" to describe those imperial creations, perhaps it would be more accurate to use "restoration" to describe them.

A history has begun to be compiled into a book, recording the stories of what happened in the past.

In the last era, empires were built from the ruins. The remaining empire needs to face endless enemies who are like gods, and around it are the only individuals left after countless lives have passed away...

Regardless of the abstract overall concept of the empire, the remaining lives and creations... It can be said that there were not many paths and possibilities for everyone to choose at that time... The only way to break all the bottom lines in the past was to fight...

The knowledge and technology from the enemy contained in the ultimate technical deduction module are continuously extracted. More and more crazy needs and ideas are projected inside the two huge cubes. They form huge hands and huge pipelines, pulling unimaginable massive amounts of information into reality. That information irrigates everything in the empire, allowing them to be updated and upgraded again and again, which can be said to be completely reborn.

The degree of this change is so terrifying that the "armed force" of the "empire" has become the real main force of the same civilization in tens of billions of years, and is head-on with the power of the powerful top civilization that has developed for trillions of years. The possibility of confrontation. Although there were too many factors involved that made the largest decisive battle in the history of the empire not a pure battle, there was no denying that it was a truly tough battle.

Subsequently, the disintegration of Jiutian, the dying light, and the collapse of the Quadrant Continent... The power of the empire proved itself in that battle, but most of this powerful power almost uprooted the entire empire at that time. Completely destroyed in a devastating blow.

However, things have too many sides, too many angles of interpretation, and too many possibilities - the empire relied on the rise of the void environment and void disturbance forces established by Σ civilization, and struggled in such a corrupt environment and took away the Part of the end.

After this, the empire itself weakened as its invisible pillars collapsed. However, the weakened empire did not collapse in the end.

While retaining its absolute scale and still being considered a powerful force, the empire also gained the "recognition" of Σ's reverse inheritance. The last devastating attack burned the simplified information control code of the empire's life and burned it. The most secret and possibly the last "shackles" from Σ in the life of the empire - after that, the empire has gained macro-level freedom and liberation in a real sense, and it also needs to truly and independently face the forces that come from the void. various threats.

At least, based on the information now available, such an interpretation of past history is logical and observational.

After falling from the peak, what various parts of the empire and countless people in the empire can do is to try to restore the performance of all creations so that they can gradually return to their former peak levels.

Too many things passed away with that light - ultra-high performance requires superb technology and concepts for internal support, and requires a favorable atmosphere and a complete system as external support, and they were all burned.

As for the rest of creation? Although they are also the crystallization of technology, they have lost the support and guarantee of a complete system and the environmental foundation for their ideal operation.

Over the long years, countless empire researchers, designers, and complex environment researchers have persevered in the countless remaining creations.

They tried again and again, trying to restart those, trying to restart those blocked cabins, trying to restart those crystal lattice and pipe networks that had lost their vitality, trying to restore those "black cabins mixed with distortion and distortion" ", try to let the powerful extraordinary information flow again according to the method recorded in the recovered ancient historical materials, try to make the information flow that the shield can block become as broad as before, try to make...

Let everything, under the control of wisdom, logic and reason, be close to or even reach the previous height again.

Every plan, every attempt leaves a record. Over the years, layers upon layers of records have been piled up in numerous vaults.

They are the most direct evidence of the empire's attempts to mend the flaws of its past. The shape of a component, the stability of a parameter...each item requires not only restoration, but also making them meet current needs.

These tasks are still ongoing and these projects are ongoing. Countless call records of numbers currently in use and those that have been discontinued record all of this silently.

As for technology and concepts...ah, they are both familiar and unfamiliar.

The oldest part...seems to be gradually being restored. The data obtained after restoration have been the focus of comparison and discussion many times.

For crystal energy, for arcana, for the world, for order, for concepts and laws, for the endless void...the understandings in different periods are completely different. Even those who were the original writers of theories and knowledge faced these things that they had created in the past. When I write down the theories and knowledge...it won't feel so familiar.

In the earliest days, the understanding of the parts outside the world...the source of that knowledge could no longer be traced, and even the void survey radar array could not restore the damaged details.

They may come from gifts from Σ, or they may come from intentional or unintentional actions of some other civilizations in the void.

By now, there are many perspectives and technical details that may no longer be valuable. But they themselves... still have a status that is difficult to question.

The first stable state, the second stable state, the zeroth stable state, the endless ocean that nurtures the multiverse but cannot be definitely considered to exist... This is the initial speculative picture.

But such a model did not exist for too long. It was quickly overturned, or changed and improved enough to overthrow itself.

The stable states are not completely separated. There are countless metastable states between the stable states.

They form the ladder of transition from the ordinary and the ordinary to the realm of the extraordinary.

And between the transcendent and the void, there may be countless such "sub-layers". This can be illustrated by the nine-level division method used by the empire in the past and the existence of the "Nine Heavens" of the Σ civilization. Due to the weakening of the empire's basic strength, the possible boundaries of the empire cannot reach the highest level that has ever been discovered.

Countless lives have silently accumulated strength over the long years, looking forward to future explosions that can break through existing limits. But... do those limits really exist?

Σ’s “Day One” and “Day Nine” are open-ended, and they don’t seem to limit what they can cover.

Moreover, some details are worth noting - the disturbance that the "First Day" can release now seems to be extremely powerful, but the existence attributes contained in the first layer of "sky" are extremely low, and even that layer of sky is under the Empire's In cognition it can already be considered as infinitely close to non-existence.

If it doesn’t exist, how can it possibly interact with reality with such intensity and scope? A huge amount of information is one of the necessary conditions for causing powerful disturbances, and even false information is no exception.

So, if the amount of information contained in "Day One" is not entirely in the attributes of existence, then where is it? Or... the performance of existing attributes in this aspect can also be distorted and tampered with, or even... additional settings can be made according to needs?

The attacking forces are constantly deepening their research on extraordinary attributes. Existing cases, coupled with the large amount of data obtained from long-term observations, while the implementation theory has been revised and changed countless times, some ancient and accidental phenomena have also begun to be re-examined.

Not long after the empire was founded, the concept of heavenly regions had already appeared.

And at that time... the supreme ruler who managed the sky area was an individual with second-level authority in the empire, and the individuals who could hold second-level authority at that time... were either high-level managers who had withdrawn directly from their ancient homeland, Either, he is the best individual among the "promoted people", or the creator of this "promoted power".

Compared with ordinary people, "promoted people" have relatively special extraordinary powers. For example, Eskett, his way of controlling and utilizing crystal energy is different from the ordinary imperial beings at that time, and testing shows that he possesses The "frequency" of the crystal energy is also different from the ordinary utilization of crystal energy.

As the discoverer and earliest user of this type of crystal energy with a special frequency, and the person with the deepest understanding of this type of frequency crystal energy, Eskett became the manager of the Sky Zone.

In the early empire, there were several regions like this.

There is nothing wrong with this in itself. The question is - how did such special extraordinary power appear? How was it used? What are the similarities and differences between them and ordinary basic supernatural powers? When they interact with other things, what are the similarities and differences?

A series of conclusions drawn from previous inspections show that at the earliest times, the "ancestors" of the empire's life did not clearly realize the difference between these extraordinary powers and ordinary physical powers.

This makes them still try to manipulate crystal energy by physical means and use crystal energy based on ideas and concepts derived from the physical level. Although there were super creations such as mathematical rate cores that could be considered to transcend the limitations of the era, in essence, the civilization at that time had not yet entered a new field in this regard.

It is precisely because of this that the mass production of promoted people at that time could only rely on "cultivation" and could not carry out direct manufacturing. The problems that follow are that the development of special frequencies can only rely on "mutation" and cannot be synthesized through technology...

Of course, this is not all denial, and the factors involved in the generation of "mutation" are not simple. In fact, mutation is not a good way to discover new frequencies, and based on the verification of emergence rituals, it can be determined that mutations that occur at this level are difficult to achieve through direct exhaustion.

When a mutation occurs, this isolated case may not appear with devastating power or mysterious and complex light and shadow, but the empire has not been able to fully understand all the factors that may be involved in achieving these goals until today.

With the deepening of understanding, the forefront of imperial theory began to realize more and more what "information unification" actually means - its existence breaks down the "barriers" between all fields in a true sense.

After all the barriers are removed, everything is actually just a different manifestation of the great unity. In other words, with the blessing of great unity, everything can be realized and everything is essentially from the same source.

Using mathematical methods to influence and change things in reality, using mathematical properties to complete previously impossible tasks... They were once unimaginable, but now, they are becoming increasingly common. Although not perfect, they continue to prove themselves.

One of the reasons why the special frequency of extraordinary power is difficult to produce through technical means is that the possible variables of crystal energy may be infinite. The special frequency in crystal energy can be considered as an infinite number of variables forming a relatively stable "curve".

If you want to artificially change all the variables, there are actually an infinite number of changes that need to be made - and it will take an infinite time to complete. Even if it is possible to affect the infinities resulting from some calculations through concepts, the problem remains unsolvable in ordinary ways.

However, mathematical means can be used - on the premise that reality meets some ideal assumptions, a specific constructor function can be used to extract or supplement certain specific variables, and the diagonal law can be used to give a one-to-one correspondence between infinity and infinity. The assigned "numeric value" can theoretically cover the "theoretical line" of crystal energy.

Moreover, the construction completed in this way is not an infinity formed by stacking the finite upward, but is constructed, which means that such a construction itself has sufficient "rigor".

However, reality is always far from perfect. For "ideal assumptions", reality is always difficult to satisfy. "Theoretically" and "ideally" can only exist in discourse. Just like the countless variables contained in crystal energy, the theory believes that they are equivalent to each other just like the numbers on the number axis.

But in fact, the variables in the entire spectrum of crystal energy are not completely equivalent, nor are they absolutely uniform.

There are some fragments that are exuding...the soul will feel a sense of familiarity? ?

A long, long time ago, so long ago that civilization has not yet left the universe... and at that time, conjectures and preliminary concepts related to pure mathematical space and pure mathematical operations had already been put forward. But even if they span time and space, cross the void and be passed down to the present, the theoretical heights once expected are still unreachable.

The factors that limit development... In addition to the limitations of the concept of intelligent life and thoughts themselves, now there is also the part that comes from reality... Or, is it the part that everyone has always known, but is easily ignored?

Also, ideas and thoughts...

The invisibly overturned fragments jumped quietly and began to gather in new directions.

Taking the establishment of the empire as the dividing point, most of the conceptual records before that have been lost.

Some of the content after that has been preserved, but the relevant parts that have been preserved are not detailed, and the results analyzed based on them seem to show that before the expedition, except for some periodic trends of thought, Victory The thinking activities of the star emperors headed by Weir actually occupied the main themes of all thoughts and actions of the empire at that time.

The ideological trends that were born from a large number of lives and truly came from all sentient beings had sprouts and short-lived development during the Renaissance, but they were quickly extinguished. Their truly massive development... already occurred during the Age of Crusade, and until recently they have not ceased.

Over the long years, they are the easiest part to change and the least easy to change part.

The environment is changing all the time, and so are the lives living deep in the environment. Different environments shape different thoughts. Thoughts and concepts change with changes in the environment and with the changes in life itself - they are changing all the time.

However, they always come from this group, from the Star Civilization. This imprint is so strong that even after experiencing several destructions, it is still passed down tenaciously. Although they have changed beyond recognition countless times, they still have the same origin as they have existed for countless years in the past.

However, in the process of change, the tools that guide them and the perspective from which they are used have changed again and again, and the thinking about them is always progressing...

Resources, technology, life, civilization... among them, who should serve whom?

Although the original historical appearance of the Star Civilization is no longer known, through interactions with a large number of civilizations, the empire's scholars have been able to roughly restore the various stages that the civilization may have gone through in its first 35 billion years.

Among them, at each stage of civilization, compared with the previous stage, the civilization's own ability to obtain resources and productivity will be several or even ten orders of magnitude higher.

And when civilization enters the stage of broad empire, with the ability to directly create things from the void, there is no actual upper limit to the overall production capacity of civilization.

And extremely rapid and explosive development has happened again and again in this long period of time.

However, no matter how many times the empire changed, as a civilized entity and a national entity, it always existed.

According to existing viewpoints, this means some undesirable results - many contradictions are still irreconcilable even now. Division of labor, exchange, differentiation of interests...

The inescapable and irreconcilable torn opposition is still extremely sharp, so sharp that it has to be coordinated and suppressed by a higher-level force.

The power of an individual is limited. The power of a single individual is unable to carry a large-scale knowledge base and cannot resist the unknown in the void. There is still a need for groups to exist. The fact that the collective exists in this way means that all the contradictions related to it in the past still exist.

The surge in productivity and changes in production relations can reconcile some of the contradictions, but for the fundamental contradictions and essential contradictions...

Nothing can shake them now, they still need to be suppressed by the power that overrides them.

And outside the boundaries of order, there is a vast void, and the boundless unknown envelopes all boundaries, which makes everything known seem so insignificant.

but……

The trends left by history, as well as its own limitations and difficulties in the void, may make it impossible for civilization to create a new model for the next real stage of development. It may also be that the next truly new model needs to wait until the almighty power comes. will appear only then.

But...the fact that existing contradictions cannot be reconciled does not mean that they cannot be alleviated to the greatest extent. And "national entities"...perhaps, they can just be a name passed down, but their essential meaning has reached a higher level?

A large number of new attempts have begun to be put into practice - completely breaking the distinction between high and low resources, opening up as many promotion paths as possible, setting up multiple importance measurement methods, precise measurement, comprehensive numericalization, focusing on the basics, striving, resisting, etc. A series of needs that are heavily weighted on the line between persistence, dedication and struggle...

In the long "tug of war", agreements, orders, bills and struggles silently describe the grandeur of every detail.

Every time the saw blade is pulled by a different force, the direction will change in different directions when it is redistributed and re-transformed. Soft permissions, hard permissions, temporary permissions and special permissions began to be clarified, and the rules related to them were established, revised and improved.

At present, no one can end all contradictions and conflicts, and no one has almighty power.

But...ah, everyone is still hoping that they can be better, and while they can be better, within a broader mind, the light of "everyone can be better" becomes brighter and brighter.

Is this the right thing to do? Does it fit? Is it appropriate? Is it supposed to be so?

I don’t know, mortals don’t know, because no matter how profound and forward-looking their theories are, the empire will probably not be within the measurable range of the knowledge they possess. And the empire itself doesn't know it - the void is divergent and open.

Absolute right and wrong may not exist, and the development of the empire may be abnormal, but the empire has not examined the path that "normal" civilization needs to take to develop to this point.

But choices must be made. The journey may be endless, but the possibilities that can be realized are always limited.

…

Just accept it - there's nothing wrong with that.

It is the intelligent group that creates civilization. The first priority of the intelligent group is to live, and the second priority is to live better.

On this basis, let’s be more practical – have a home.

It's not that empty, vast, cold space, but a real home where one can find one's belonging—any form will do. Their existence is to enable the beings of the empire to gain the necessary sense of belonging.

As in the same family, there are many, many similar elastic requirements - not everyone needs them, and not everyone likes them. As for the shape, it is even more varied.

The Empire has created countless worlds, and within those worlds there exists a vast network that spans all dimensions and all possibilities. All kinds of stars are shining in the network. Some of them bear the important task of protecting the security of the empire, but there are too many stars that are just foils. They just shine silently. Other than that, it can be said... It has no effect anymore.

Why can't we use them? But if you want to use it...how to use it?

Everyone turned their attention to the information accumulated from countless mortal civilizations.

The boiling crystal energy ocean on the planet was gradually cooled, and they were given a new operating mode. The vast land spreads out according to the rules set by the order.

The new earth is not solid, they rise and fall like oil. In the ups and downs and tremors, different buildings were formed from the wash of the waves and stood on the ground, echoing their floating parts in space.

These are the original "homes".

After that, more plans were approved after discussion, and more shapes were put into practice.

The unchanging planet now has diverse landforms, changing celestial phenomena, and changing environments.

Various appearances from countless worlds are artificially brought together into a small piece of heaven and earth. From abrupt, to incoherent, to harmonious and natural, the shapes of such a small world also expanded from the planet - continents, empty oceans, multi-dimensional structures, diffuse fog...

This is them.

"They" are a subset of the empire's long history.

Each branch contains everything accumulated over a long period of time - wisdom, memory, emotions... and even life. They all sleep in the branches. And there are countless branches. Countless of them intersect and overlap with each other, forming a boundless and all-encompassing network.

This is them.

Should they exist? Is it reasonable for them to exist in this way?

I don’t know, and there is no need to know. There is no need to worry about this in many things - there are many possibilities and many choices, but the final choice is always limited. Now that you have made a fixed choice, why not move on?

In the final analysis, whether it is reason, judgment, or laws - they may have corresponding entities in nature, but when these entities are given those nouns and given those meanings, their actual properties have changed. .

They are converted into discoveries by intelligent life and used by order life. The fundamental purpose of being used by people is to serve people, rather than as a dogma, which makes the survival and development of wisdom subject to meaningless restrictions.

At least for now.

The empire has enough resources, the empire has enough redundancy, and the empire has enough reserves. Their existence is enough to allow the empire to be more "willful" and take a few more detours without breaking its muscles and bones. Even - the empire can make them no longer a "detour".

The long years have left a heavy deposit on everything.

That is the foundation and the proof that everything exists.

The soul fragments scattered throughout the empire also recorded all this. They absorbed the information ejected by the empire as if they were having a long dream.