Star Empire

"...Scale?" Someone repeated this simple word in a low voice.

"…Yes, size."

"...Teacher?" Faced with the sudden silence, Kriz felt a little uneasy in his heart.

"We can be sure that the imperial beings who had just completed the transformation on the "hardware level" of existence at that time... they did not realize at the time how vast the new world they entered was."

"Everyone has become accustomed to reaching the end of the world in one step...Compared to the inherent impressions and memory inheritance formed over billions of years, the exile fleet took ten thousand years to find the new world. Although it has triggered thinking and attracted attention, compared with the huge "inertia" left behind, no matter how heavy and heavy the accumulation of these ten thousand years seems, it cannot be ignored. Compared with the existing overall situation, It was still too weak at that time..."

"Um……"

"However, not realizing these situations at that time is not necessarily a bad thing." At this point, looking at the Ark spaceship that has sunk into the world barrier in the picture and has begun to eject landing cabins and city construction modules among the stars, it is hidden in the The voice in the darkness sighed softly.

"At that time, even being aware of the gap didn't mean much. Because with the empire's technological level at that time, it was impossible for the empire to close the "scale" gap anyway. In other words, at that time, Some people in the empire may have realized the problems behind this short-lived glory and peace, but they may not say it out loud - after all, there are too many things within civilization and in the void that can no longer be accomplished with "hard work" of."

"They require real, long time accumulation, enough and just the right amount of luck, and even top-down endowment..."

"If you think about it on the other hand, the short-term relaxation at that time may have helped the imperial life at that time to rekindle their desire for survival and life, as well as their hope for the future. After all... after the huge pain, Numbness may cause intelligent people to lose their self-emotions and sensitivity to the surrounding environment, and then become dull but unaware of it.”

"Everyone should also pay attention to this in the future - don't just look at one side of anything when analyzing and judging anything. Everything has many sides. No matter how "good" things seem, don't forget to think about the possible disadvantages they may bring. No matter how "bad" the situation seems, don't forget whether they may have good effects, even if they may not be revealed at the moment - the answer obtained by combining these different attitudes and perspectives is closer to the full picture. It can better meet our long-term needs.”

"yes."

The deep sky is dark and clear, and the sea of ​​stars embedded in it is burning like a sea of ​​fire.

Some of them are indeed burning - the original otherworldly materials are gradually burned away, replaced by synthetic materials created by the hands of wisdom. With the protection of the world barrier, the precarious civilization once again stood on a relatively solid foundation. Now that the track has been re-paved, the heritage and ideas that once had no place to be released can naturally be re-injected into the train of civilization's development and progress, allowing it to run again...

In the darkness between worlds, there seem to be some "walls" - some invisible walls. The existence of these walls makes it dangerous to sail in the void. No matter how strong the shield of the ship is and how powerful the power is, as long as it sails to the place where these whirlpools are, they will be trapped in the dark whirlpool just like the ancient ships trapped in the whirlpool. lost contact. Some of them can finally return home after a long time, but in the early stages of these events, more ships are trapped in the void forever, and no trace can be found...

"The early wandering events cannot actually be regarded as strange "unknown phenomena." The exile fleet had also encountered them in the previous era of exile - according to the memories of the emperors who had experienced those events, it seemed that it was because of the need to proofread the void. The deviation between the actual value of the jump and the calculated theoretical value, the fleet needed to perform different navigation actions than usual, which led to the first "lost"."

"The "Trek Incident" at this stage may be a "replica" of the first Trek - because the void engines and navigation logs of that period were all lost in previous large-scale disasters, and those disasters were enough to tear up the entire empire and tear up the carrying capacity. Many historical details that are the foundation of the empire's existence have been destroyed by these disasters, and based on the current level of technology and understanding, they are extremely difficult to restore."

"We are also unable to determine what level of accidents these things should have been classified into according to today's standards during the Trek. So...if you want to know exactly the truth behind all this, you can only look forward to it. With our unremitting efforts in the future, we can uncover these fogs surrounding the truth."

The picture returned to darkness, but this darkness only lasted a short moment - in the new picture, purple vortices, golden bubbles that dissipated after violent expansion, space studded with crystals, and the Milky Way seemed to be cut off by a knife, as if standing in the center of the world. Huge curved cone-shaped buildings flashed past one by one. After these scenes, the starry sky seemed to become brighter than before, and even the abyss of void that separated the world barrier became no longer so dark - everything seemed to start to become more positive and upward.

"If we follow today's habits, such things would be trivial. But in that era, each of these things had a ground-breaking influence. The new extraordinary information body white matter was discovered, and the gate to the world finally The test was successful and put into use, and the "Cosmic Reference Stabilizing Anchor" was successfully developed... They greatly promoted the progress of the empire."

"Promoted by this series of progress, the empire's population not only surpassed the peak population during the Federation period in a short period of time, but also expanded its territory to places that were unimaginable to its ancestors - outside the world. Yes. Said... Just like these intercepted and fast-played images, during the period of the Renaissance, the development of civilization was like pressing the fast-forward button. The gate of the world, a huge hub capable of controlling the world, was in the void. The methods of high-speed jump and communication have been mastered by civilization one by one. It seems that nothing can stop the development and expansion of technology and power, even..."

In the broken and twisted time and space, clouds and mist were tightly entangled by black and red two-dimensional patterns. The door was no longer stable. The black sea that was no longer regular and hidden behind the clouds and mist set off a group of disgusting turbid waves. . The former celestial body is gone, and the only thing that can still maintain itself is the golden spikes deeply embedded in the tar.

"Even the death tides in the past, the disasters that destroyed the entire civilization, were overcome by wisdom and strength - perhaps, they can be trampled underfoot soon. But...is this really the case?"

"No."

Accompanied by a violent pause, the singing in the picture suddenly shattered, and many specious runes floated in front of the frowning people. After nodding several times, the small micro order fields that could be seen everywhere began to extinguish in pieces. All this is like a large basin of cold water poured into a fire that is about to light up. This coldness lasts for 110,000 years.

"One hundred and ten thousand years..."

"...Resource paranoia. You may not be familiar with this term. It led to the empire's unreasonable madness after the great advancement, and led to our attempt to use the power at hand at that time to master or even modify the universal laws of the void, which is now The flow pattern of information in the field of general concept/strong law level and above. There is no doubt that this is impossible to achieve by any means. But all the beings in the empire at that time believed that: as long as there are enough resources, there will be no The result that cannot be piled up—is it possible?”

"Actually... this is not absolutely impossible. But... this possibility cannot be piled up in that way."

"In these 110,000 years, in addition to normal life, civilization and everyone need to calm down and digest those creations that can change the entire civilization in just a few decades or hundreds of years. More importantly, We need to make ourselves and our civilization aware that changes have occurred.”

"Building several experimental fortresses, overcoming past disasters, and possessing a more powerful fleet does not mean that civilization has entered a new field. All this can only mean that civilization has made a huge breakthrough."

"But there are still more things to do and more roads to go when entering new fields - when problems occur with crystal energy equipment, does civilization have a complete set of plans to deal with it? When designing and using these equipment , how do designers and users view them? Do they use them as things in a new field, or do they think they are just old devices driven by new kernels? Do we have specifications to determine the upper and lower limits of the new field and Keep it safe..."

"Wait, wait, wait, these are all problems, they all require real time to be solved, and they all require the accumulation and accumulation of experience and lessons."

"It's just... In the twelfth thousand years, an unexpected disaster brought the accumulation process to an abrupt halt... Perhaps from then on, from the time when the distant exploration fleet came into contact with the "node world", we came into contact with Encountered the unfathomable "hidden plan" of ΣCivilization..."

The focus of the storm is not huge, but its power is no longer restricted by ordinary "volume". The world was instantly shattered by the stirrings of the Black Wing, and its actions made the Empire unpredictable, unpredictable, and irresistible. The defense line was continuously compressed, and even the capital world, which gathered the elite forces of the empire, could not stop the coming and going of those ships wrapped in black and red thorns. At this point, except for the hope of leaving a tombstone... it seems that there is no possibility of asking for anything else.

"It can be said that all living things have this characteristic - what can be passed on when death comes. From the current perspective, this may be the characteristic of memes. Any complex information body is simple information A hodgepodge of structures and memes.”

"Memes are a deeper basis for information transmission and diffusion than genes. Any memes have the tendency to continue and spread themselves, even "silent memes" that are completely inactive and have become an inherent part of the information structure. It has such a tendency. When death comes, the desire for continuation from them will be fully activated. The macroscopic manifestation is that individuals hope to leave their heirs or their own marks, and civilizations hope to leave their own tombstones..."

Purple light and shadow flickered crazily among the stars. Everything in the world has been reflected by arcane power and a huge mirror that does not exist. If the image is destroyed, the real existence will be gone...

Unfortunately, the things that were destroyed did not include the "targets" that destroyed the entire empire in a few days or in a day, this time at the expense of countless lives and the entire world.

"The 120,000th year - this is a critical time point. The empire could not see anything at that time, but if we look back from now, we can connect more clues. But for the analysis of where the empire is For this small part of history at that time, the clues that were added later were more macroscopic, and they were not very useful for precise small-scale analysis."

"Specific to the imperial environment at that time... Why the Sigma fleet and the decisive battle flagship did this, and the exact reasons why they adopted such an approach cannot be ascertained - the decisive battle flagship could not be hindered even in the slightest by the imperial power at that time, but it was Didn’t destroy the empire.”

"According to the recollections of those who have witnessed it, it all seems to still revolve around the phrase "Ancient Civilization Solemnity Agreement"..."

"Shortly after this incident, the current controller of the Empire's flagship, His Majesty Vidoville, discovered... the "Weight Creation" made by Σ in the distant void where the specific coordinates can no longer be verified, and they obtained part of the truth from it. , and brought her back to the empire after merging with Lieyang..."

"From here on, the academic circles of the empire have generally believed that Σ has noticed the empire and began to intentionally cultivate the empire as its "successor". Because from here on, probability can no longer effectively explain what has happened - just imagine, a star After the elementary particles merge with the soul of a microscopic particle, they pass through the unstable wormhole and control the entire world on the other side of the wormhole. How can this be explained by probability?"

As soon as the words fell, the bleeding old world was swept away like sand in the wind. Under the bright and scorching sunlight, Black Wing began to continuously output technologies - those technologies were already too far ahead of the star civilization at that time.

A battle fortress that is as big as a planet but moves faster than a shuttle. It is bigger than a giant star. It can bind the most dangerous extraordinary information and use it for its own use. It can transform all celestial bodies in space in a short time. Industrial modules, as well as singularities that can be used to create worlds... all of this dazzles everyone.

"This is what happened at the beginning of the Leap Era. Civilization began to expand rapidly and began to rapidly expand its military power to deal with possible challenges. There were so many dangers in the void that any success and joy only urged people to continue to achieve greater successes. There are so many achievements and breakthroughs that everyone seems to have simply forgotten their sorrow. No one dares to stop, because the enemy may cross the void at the next moment. However, no one dares to rush forward, because the same - no one can Determine whether the technologies that drive the Empire forward may contain secrets that could poison the entire Empire."

"The war broke out, but soon "we" discovered that "we" were fighting against a group of dead and wights without souls, intelligence or even consciousness."