Star Empire

"Fighting with the dead? Fighting with the living corpses...?"

"Yes - you haven't studied the nature of the death wave in detail yet, and you haven't read the record collection of death wave events, so you may not understand this matter very well at the moment. Let's go on with this question, and in the future you will You will learn more details about this part.”

"Here, you only need to know that the spirits and souls of these individuals and creations of "ΣCivilization" were violently infected and corroded by ideological trends before their bodies. Under such a premise, their spirits and souls were distorted. Corroded, but their powerful bodies can still carry out a large number of autonomous activities even if they lose their centers. Therefore, such things as battles or formation battles can still be completed with these residual bodies corroded by the death tide."

"For the empire, while they were extremely threatening, they also brought about the initial negative part - from that point of view, everyone who had just recovered from the disaster... and was trying to "recover" needed victory. To boost morale, the common people of the empire need victory to relieve their sorrow and numbness, and to establish their confidence that they can overcome difficulties, but..."

"They can't bring these."

The world in the picture looks very strange - there are also purple and golden lights inside those worlds, and there are also stars and planets. However, the stars in those spaces have weak and sparse starlight. But behind the narrowness of the world and the starry sky itself, they seemed to be wrapped in mutated blood vessels and tumor masses, pulled in by something deeper and thicker.

The barrier outside the sea of ​​stars began to tremble, and time and space itself was like an ocean in a storm, rolling up countless huge waves. In the crazy flashing light and shadow, a group of black and red battleships emerged from the thick clouds. The clouds seemed to be poisonous. As long as they came into contact with them, everything would be irreversibly melted. In the direction they were facing, the empire's fleet was arrayed.

The flames of war have baptized the space-time structure of these worlds again and again. Every violent collision between information clusters will leave bone-deep wounds in the star sea and a strange light that stirs the stars. The rotting corpses are not restrained at all. They can sink into the world at will, or they can choose to leave at any time, leaving a mess behind.

"This was the picture of the war at that time - we were unable to effectively cause effective damage to the enemy. On the contrary, the new worlds of the empire were in danger. Warships contaminated by the death tide have extremely strong destructive capabilities against the order information body. Those warships Appearing inside the Empire's world will bring harm to the Empire, and no matter what they do after that, it will only make this matter more serious than before."

"Therefore, after the initial worries, entanglements, and joys finally dissipated, in this era, such war has always been the main theme of the main theme, and as time went by, it occupied almost all the weight. The Empire's Historical circles believe that the long-term test called "reverse inheritance" has truly begun from here."

"Reverse inheritance...?"

"Before you defeat your opponent, you will first become your opponent's shadow." The teacher paused and then said slowly, "This is the meaning of reverse inheritance."

"To defeat your opponent, you must first understand your opponent. This sentence is true at any time. This is true for people, creation, and civilization. In order to deal with enemies constantly emerging from the void, the empire at that time must Fight non-stop, and hold various meetings during the intervals between battles. Explain the enemy's behavior, analyze the enemy's purpose, break down the enemy's tactics, and determine the performance, quantity, and activity frequency and activities of the enemy's creations. Trajectory…”

“When the people of the empire are looking for the solutions they need to these contents and use these solutions to fight against the enemies that keep coming, the traces of the enemies will be deeply engraved throughout the interior of the civilization of the empire. And, The more we want to win, the more energy we will devote to studying the details, the more possible solutions we will come up with, and the more detailed we will analyze the enemy... We respond to the enemy's actions. , in the continuous repetition of this process, "we" will remember the enemy and everything about the opponent."

"This is the meaning of reverse inheritance. As for why reverse inheritance is performed...perhaps because among countless methods, only this seemingly original method is relatively safe."

"Σ has been completely soaked by the death tide, and they have become a new source of infection. The spread of death tide pollution... is pervasive. Any connection, any connection, may cause the pollution to spread further from them. Regardless of Whatever they want to do, any proactive behavior they take will probably bring pollution into their goals and results. This is a hurdle that no matter how sophisticated their technology and ideas are, they cannot get around it."

"Compared with proactive actions that cause one's own goals to be polluted internally, in this way, it may be better to let the pollution always be active outside the goals."

"Such a relative, and such a price..."

Kriz took a breath - he saw the high-intensity battle that lasted for thousands of years, he saw the terrifying duel between the giant black wings that he couldn't understand at all, he saw the long tug of war. War, as well as the time and space that has been torn and reorganized countless times between the raging wars, the expanded "tumor" has become a complex space-time structure that is countless times larger than the original world, and the gaps between these space-time structures ——Scars that are as difficult to change as crystals and represent that the stability of the space-time structure no longer exists.

These scars span countless light years and are visible in every corner of the world. That scar seems to be a fracture in the world, which runs through all dimensions, all time and all possibilities in the world...

"No-wait!"

"Get out of here quickly!"

A kind of warning and chill that seemed to burst out from the depths of the soul suddenly exploded. Before that, the joy and short-term relaxation that had been accumulated by the awakening and reversal of the power of the general flagship "Guo Shi Wushuang" disappeared.

Kriz's pupils shrank sharply, and at the same time, not only him, but the hearts of all the students currently watching this clip also tightened at this moment——

In the picture, three giant battleships that had been fighting against the empire's main flagship for thousands of years and seemed to be showing signs of fatigue were suddenly shrouded in strange light and shadow. They exploded together with the auxiliary fleets around them, tearing apart in the void. A huge river of blood-colored light connected to a realm whose nature could not be described even in obscene words, and a violent torrent of violent corrosiveness and infection poured out from that realm almost instantly. In a short time, it swallowed up large parts of the empire.

"..." Even though he already knew that such a thing had happened trillions of years ago, when the restoration scene containing the historical fragments of that time appeared in front of him, Kriz's fists were still shaking without him even realizing it. Quietly grasped under the influence. And, on his fist... there seemed to be a layer of dim white light.

"This is the first time in the history of the empire that it has been attacked by a fault zone - this fault has left the empire with rich experiences and profound lessons."

"In the process of fighting the fault zone, the empire noticed such a giant death tide entity for the first time. It also noticed the balance of destruction between Genesis and Doomsday for the first time. It was also the first time that the empire discovered a giant death tide contaminated by death tide. How dangerous and difficult the entity really is. And...during this time, the Empire began to pay attention to the parts related to "narrative power" and "narrative application."

"Fault zones have no emotional activities or logical reactions that intelligent life can understand. They are only governed by the primitive desire to survive that has survived the destruction of the world. They will only desperately absorb the power of creation that pours in from the cracks in the world barrier and continue to Expansion - they are more dangerous than any army from Order."

"It was also in this lesson that the empire began to notice the difference caused by the gap in "scale." The "notice" here does not mean that someone or some organization within the empire noticed it, but that the empire began to take notice from the overall level. noticed the difference caused by the scale gap. After noticing this, the empire began to exert efforts to prepare to fill the gap..."

"In a very short period of time, new ship types appeared in the empire's fleet. Brand-new models of super flagships and position cores began to pass acceptance under new standards and were installed in large quantities. The empire's fleet and territory began to expand in a very short period of time. Rapid expansion in a short period of time - the most intuitive manifestation is that the "moving territory" fleet formation method that has been used for many thousands of years can no longer meet the needs of the imperial fleet. They have become fleet blocks and become more... Part of the huge matrix. But..."

The war was going on just as hard.

"Actually, for the empire at that time... this period of time was probably very painful." Faced with the empire's territory that was constantly changing its shape like a slime mass and the countless refreshed marks representing the outbreak and end of the war, The teacher said this.

"The stronger its power, the more the empire will be afraid of why it was not destroyed when it did not gain such power, and the more worried the empire will be - worried about how to fill the gap. Of course, Such a gap may not be filled, because just what the empire saw was beyond the limit of what the empire could do with all its strength at that time.”

"When the span of the gap exceeds a certain level... in fact, the values ​​outside the range do not have much meaning. The measuring scale has expired, so there is no so-called accuracy. It is beyond understanding. No matter how many times the range differs, there is no difference in perception - they are all astronomical numbers that cannot be achieved in actual actions."

"Soon, the struggle to awaken once again turned into numbness. Strengthening combat power and expanding armaments became the only thing the empire had to do at that time. The battles and expeditions were non-stop - everyone was tired, but the empire was The chariot that is speeding does not allow anyone sitting on it to relax."

"The circles of history, logic, and probability analysis believe that during the later period of the Jump Era, if the Σ wreckage that kept attacking could show some mercy, or they could more or less show that they were still rational, then It is very likely that the empire at that time would choose to surrender to Σ as a whole, or a considerable part of the intelligent individuals."

"But Σ's wreckage fleet has never shown any such performance. Therefore, this already very weak bottom line has never been breached..."

"Also, at that time... the empire did not give 100% trust to His Majesty Vidoville and Vesrifan who had become "weight creations". The empire had no way to verify the safety of these creations, so naturally , the empire would have no way to determine whether their impact is safe."

"As the "background existence" of the empire, Void Sun has been using her power to protect the empire while rarely interacting with the empire's wisdom, so she has received relatively more respect. But Vidoville is different. ——He needs to frequently interact with various people within the empire and deal with various things. Therefore, his relationship with the empire is deeper. Compared with Vesrifan, he is a spectator. A more practical individual.”

"There is no doubt that with the help of more powerful eyes and special experiences, he can see much more than ordinary people in the empire, but it is also this much more part that makes his relationship with the empire inevitable. Disjointed.”

"At the same time, because the "Technological Ultimate Deduction Module" at that time also came from the main flagship, while enjoying the convenience and safety brought by using the "Σ Technology" that was replaced by the imperial style, the suspicion of His Majesty Victorville was also growing day by day. . However, most of them were drowned in the rolling waves of countless wars."

In the picture, the empire needs to face a tidal wave of attacks from the Σ fleet in the dark void beyond its borders at all times.

"However, compared to the group of corrupted wrecks that are powerful but have lost their advanced wisdom. At least they seem to have lost their advanced wisdom, the empire still has life and wisdom. It has more paths for the coming disaster. To fight. In waves of fleet attacks, the empire's territory began to expand more rapidly - since the general flagship can already search for probabilistic lightning chains in the void, the new creation method has more High efficiency.”

The territory of the empire began to stretch into the unknown darkness and the vast wasteland of Σ civilization. In the midst of brutal battle after brutal battle, something new catches everyone's eye - giant entities the Empire has never seen before.

"If we measure them by their positioning." The "pyramid" in the picture is highlighted: "They are the "world context overview seat" of Σ. And the huge entity next to it" is like a bent sky, inscribed with metaphors. Most of the previous Σ entities had complex emblems, and the giant facilities were highlighted: "They are the "World Branch Zenith" of Σ."

"Of course we know now that such giant facilities manage the grand order structure of the world, which is similar to the large-scale fiber network of the universe. But at that time, no one could connect the two. These giant facilities in the total The flagships were destroyed with all their might by the Imperial fleet, but they changed the Empire's view of time."

"For a long time, the empire and the federation before the empire have always believed that time is intrinsic to the entity of order. As a way to describe the variables of the entity of order, they have an inherent binding relationship with the entity of order. But those codenamed "Darkness" The powerful time-splitting attack of "The Dome" has shaken civilization's view of time - perhaps, time is not just an intrinsic, artificially shaped tool for understanding and understanding the world, but it can also have the initiative itself. "

"Time itself has the initiative"

"Well, the two extremes of this matter are that time either has no initiative at all, and the manifestation is that the order entity controls its own time. Or time occupies the absolute initiative, and the order entity is dominated by time. "We" are closer In the direction of "ordered entities control their own time". As for the possibilities brought by the other extreme, it seems that only some more extreme mathematical tools can describe them well at present."

"Ah" Facing the cruel scene shown in the picture, silence began to spread everywhere. This silence may be out of confusion or helplessness.

As if out of consideration, after the battle to destroy the Dark Dome, the empire finally ushered in a brief period of peace. But after such a terrifying calm, from a far away perspective, a wave of destruction has set off in the void that is far more powerful than before.

"This part of the content was not known to the empire until tens of billions of years later. However, they had already happened at this time. The Σ civilization seemed to briefly wake up at the macro level. If we say before that, were all their actions mixed? The logic of order still needs additional analysis, so after this, it can be determined that they have finally decisively started the implementation of the "reverse inheritance" plan. All their actions have added more deliberate elements. It's just that .The bell to begin action rang through the void, but the Empire did not know it.”

"have no idea?!"

"Why is this happening?!"

"However, even if the empire knew about it in advance at that time, I'm afraid it wouldn't be able to take any effective measures."

"Σ uses the powerful information fluctuations erupted when the "Great Wall of Void" self-destructs as a signal to order the remaining fleet to act. Although such information fluctuations are very powerful, they are not as powerful as the information fields used for defense or attack. Strong destructive power and directivity. They were shielded by the stellar wind field of the Void Sun. At the core of the stellar wind, that is, within the territory of the empire, all the imperial equipment at that time could receive was some chaotic noise. Until Before the real disaster strikes, the strangeness begins to be gradually noticed.”

"By the way, at this point, the teacher wants to ask you - do you still remember how the first fault zone faced by the empire was created?"

"Uh, is it because of the "self-destruction" of the decisive battle flagship?" After an awkward silence, some uncertain voices came from the darkness.

"What about a more specific situation?"

"Yes, it's teacher, I can't recall. No, wait! There are three decisive battle flagships, and the ones that self-destructed and detonated the fault zone were two!!"

"This is the power of the "borderline" system. This system is enough to hide all historical traces left by the entity that carries it, including almost all the impacts it has ever caused, as well as everyone's memory of it. At the limit At this level, this device is powerful even in the realm of narrative - it can deceive everything."

In the picture, the huge black wings that suddenly appeared dropped a large number of beacons along the way, and they disappeared in a flash. The giant wing itself continued to make virtual point jumps, its traces quickly became blurred, and disappeared into the void in full view of everyone.

"It took millions of years for the empire to rise from the ruins and build the empire into what it is now. And to destroy it all, Σ only took..."

The black-red torrent of information spanned the void and abyss, crushing everything in their path. Their first attack tore through the layers of protective structures above the blazing sun, while their second attack annihilated the souls and minds in the stars.

"No - don't! Ah -"

The wide-area fusion field of order correction is like a storm cloud in the void. The clouds of chaos swallow up and dissolve everything in their path. The territory of the empire was like a huge piece of shortbread, which was smashed into many large pieces in the first fierce attack, and these large pieces were quickly divided and surrounded by countless enemy ships, just like Pieces of cake that fell into the ant colony and were being cut and eaten.

"Less than a day."