Star Empire

"...Teacher, I don't understand..."

"Disasters come from oneself, from oneself - trying to correct such a problem, and trying to resist such a disaster is far more complicated than the same problem caused by external factors."

"You may be curious as to why this situation can last for hundreds of billions of years."

"The problem spans the entire empire, across countless worlds, and across every life in the empire."

“During those crazy years, any contradiction could be intensified, any flaw could trigger a verbal spat that lasted for several years or even longer, and any order, any policy, and any speculation would be labeled with countless layers of conspiracy. . People are not cooperating with each other, and the various strata of the empire are not cooperating with each other. The imperial network is self-consuming and self-colliding."

"Under relatively relaxed circumstances, the imperial network is highly efficient. A complex matter can be broken down into many small matters with clear boundaries, and each small matter and every small part can be obtained by the appropriate person or organization, Departmental and agency processing.”

"But at that time, the basis for maintaining efficiency no longer existed. Intelligent beings were running rampant in the boiling whirlpool. Their time, energy and attitude in handling their own work could not be compared with now, and may not even be the same as those a few epochs ago. , compared with the more ancient "ancients"."

"In this case - procrastination is a very simple thing. For the imperial life that can theoretically achieve immortality, the macro-delay caused by being unable to meet each other's needs and stagnating and starting to wait for each other can Easily lasts tens of millions of years—one thing drags it out for tens of millions of years.”

""If I don't get the materials I need, I naturally won't be able to complete my task. "In the long task chain, the same can be said for every person, every institution, and every link in the chain. The entangled task structure is so deep that even special research cannot determine the reasons for the damage to the chain. A bad logical cycle will end up being a chain or a closed loop."

"The most basic freshmen can criticize the mission statement given by the headquarters as a mess, a pile of waste paper that can give countless explanations but without any annotations at all. The headquarters can also criticize everyone involved in this work. They are just wasting time on unreasonable details. Such problems continue to accumulate, causing a broad "collapse" in the foundation for maintaining the efficiency of the information network."

".Our own subjective agency, then."

"Subjective initiative also has its limits. What's more, it was like that at that time. The macro trend is like that. Under the constant distortion of unclear reasons, the trend is always pouring infinite information in this direction."

"In this case, if you choose not to surrender, for most of the empire's lives, this may have been equivalent to announcing their death. Even if the power of thought and existence itself is removed, the continuous stacking of endless verbal attacks will It is enough to harm lives and souls, not to mention that under the coverage of the empire’s ubiquitous fields, networks and other media, the trend of thought itself can project ripples, and the trend of thought itself has the power to distort reality and change reality.”

".Beyond this, the most important reason is - we can't find what force is twisting our thoughts and distorting our development direction. It's like if the world's barrier is damaged, the void pours in and begins to erode As for the world, if the rift cannot be effectively blocked, no matter how much we fill and repair the world, it will eventually be unable to escape the fate of destruction due to the influx of void."

"In short, this is a time that can make all wisdom feel deeply uncomfortable. Because the problem cannot be contained, the empire's management has also begun to give unoptimistic estimates - because a large number of lives have fallen into madness, the holders of knowledge cannot To form a unified inheritance and explanation system, the empire also lacks new lives willing to learn these obscure knowledge."

"Therefore, most of the empire may forever lose the possibility of development and advancement. In this long period of chaos, the empire may continue to forget knowledge, forget itself, and lose itself. One day in the future, we may no longer be able to create With the advent of a new information converter, we may no longer be able to start an engine that can cross the void, and we may no longer be able to repair ourselves, until—we worship everything we have created as a miracle.”

"But all this ended with the outbreak of natural disasters."

"In the year 532, 435, 573, 200±86 of the Star Empire Expedition, the first large fault zone hit the empire's border - it dragged back the general flagship headed by His Majesty Vidoville and all the garrison fleets directly under him."

"In the year 532, 435, 573, 762±45 of the Expedition of the Star Empire, the second great fault zone hit the border of the empire - it dragged down the armed forces of all the heavens and the power of the emperors of the heavens."

"In the year 532 435 574 024 ± 27 of the Star Empire Expedition, the third great fault zone hit the border of the empire - it dragged down His Majesty Vesrifan and the power of the Void Blazing Sun."

"At this point, even if the losses are extremely huge and new trends of thought emerge, monsters may materialize again at any time. The disaster is still blocked by the power of the empire."

"But this time, I don't know whether it was because the empire's expedition cut corners for too long and caused too many problems to arise in the void area that the empire could not see, or because the empire itself accumulated too many negative factors that caused the empire to attract a wave of death. ——"In the year 532, 435, 580, 659±38 of the Star Empire's Expedition, four areas in the void with joint reactions of Genesis - Doomsday and Destruction - Silence of the Void erupted simultaneously. It can be said to be a "four-in-one" approach. The fourth great fault zone formed hit the empire's border. "

"Who else can stop it this time?"

"The empire...the empire at that time no longer had any power to mobilize."

In the picture, thick clouds carrying countless black and red lightnings spread in the void, and the thick edges that have completely festered, spewing out disgusting pus all the time, swallowed feathers one after another, and countless branches of the world. The stem was cut open in disaster. The death tide drove straight in, and the fault zones spread wantonly across the empire like lightning across the night sky, endlessly extending its magnificent but decaying body. Where it swept, purple and golden light burst out occasionally, but they would soon go out.

"It sounds desperate. But teacher, we are still standing here after all, aren't we?" Kriz suddenly turned his head and stared at the teacher with his eyes. In his eyes, there seemed to be two strange white fires burning.

"Yes. Because the empire just doesn't have the power to mobilize and transport. But the empire itself still has power - countless lives, countless beings, and the empire itself. In that special Period, these forces may not be mobilized, but their size and the energy they contain cannot be underestimated.”

"The disaster has shattered our homes. However, when the pollution first started, there were still many malicious voices - mainly various conspiracy theories still spreading. But as the fault zone spreads and the problem becomes more Seriously, some people are beginning to discover that - apart from taking practical actions to save themselves, any other behavior - such as blaming others, perfunctory and delaying and shirk-passing, is meaningless in the face of a real disaster."

"The dead tide will not compromise, the dead tide will not surrender, the dead tide will not accept pacification zones, the dead tide will not bargain, the dead tide will not recede because of verbal attacks or mental attacks, and the dead tide will not accept "sacrifice" , let alone carry out selective attacks. They will not be satisfied until they are destroyed - they will only expand, infect, and destroy until everything comes to an end."

"From the time when the death wave began to destroy the empire until everything finally calmed down, the process was very long and complicated. It was so complicated that even if you specifically researched the data, you would need to watch it for a long time to truly understand this series of events."

"Here, everyone just needs to remember: in the face of disaster, people finally began to put down their disputes and attacks, and began to save themselves. When they could save themselves, they would also save other people. Such behaviors are like dots in the endless night. The spark may be weak at first, but as more and more people invest in this faint spark, the weak spark that seems likely to be blown out at any time gradually burns into a raging fire that can start a prairie fire."

"It was also from these times that the current that contained positive and upward meaning began to suppress the once turbid current. From a macro level of the entire empire, it was the positive and correct power that finally overcame the chaos and chaos in terms of proportion and activity. sequence."

"After noticing this result, Emperor Vera of the Sixteenth Heaven District immediately withdrew from the front line. With her as the center, the entire Sixteenth Heaven District Emergence Research Team mobilized all the forces they could muster and launched a campaign covering the entire empire. A super large-scale emergence ceremony.”

"With the powerful power of the emergence ceremony, part of this achievement was solidified in a higher level - although for a short period of time, the previous problems still existed and were quite common, but this time, positivity and positivity prevailed A little bit. And with the help of the Emergence Ceremony, positivity can win a little bit every time.”

"Tens of millions, maybe even tens of millions of years later, as the death tide disaster finally receded, the empire became weaker and the internal structure of the empire became more fragmented. But - the problems and difficulties of the past have also been destroyed by disasters and wars. The empire was wiped out in one fell swoop. After undergoing the refinement, the life of the empire seems to have changed slightly from the nature of life and soul. After regaining the support and cooperation of countless lives at the base of the empire, the empire can finally begin to rebuild."

"The first thing that needs to be repaired is the knowledge inheritance system and communication system. In other words, it is the information transmission and reception system. As we have mentioned before, the knowledge and experience recorded in different ways of expression and different logical systems are very complicated. It is difficult to effectively inherit and even more difficult to effectively cross-integrate. This is true in the short term, but in the long term it is likely to lead to regional occlusion and the fragmentation of the information operation system.

In order to solve this problem, after in-depth research on all regions of the empire at that time, they combined their own needs, current situations, existing results during the combat period, and the results accumulated by the empire before the problem arose, and based on these contents, published the first A version of the Star Empire Code. Through these norms, the empire began to bind researchers and regions with unified requirements, and used strong and clear rules to stipulate how to say things and how to conduct academic research."

After that, after stabilizing the most important basic lifeline of the empire, the beings of the empire continued to expand the scope of unified norms and unified rulers on this basis. Later, this process was allowed to seek common ground while reserving differences, but the role of this series of actions in maintaining the empire's identity, unity, and promoting unity was always valued and was not allowed to be weakened.

"All of this is still going on today."

"It is worth mentioning that during this series of battles against the death tide, the relationship between the empire and the surrounding civilizations has also eased."

".Civilization around?"

"Yes, the empire is big, but the void is even bigger. Of course, the empire is not the only intelligent group in the void. There are many other civilizations distributed "around" the empire. Many of them can also cross the void and can use Powerful otherworldly information - of course, most of them are not powerful or noticeable compared to the Empire.

Some of the civilized groups surrounding the empire were formed by spontaneous agglomeration. And more tangible civilizations that can be called "powerful"... they are "seed" by the empire. In essence, they have the same origin as the empire. "

"At a certain moment, the seeds of the empire left the empire on a virtual point jump ship and went deep into the void. It was like seeds falling from the mother body, taking root and growing in a distant and unfamiliar environment. When these seeds gradually grew up, these seeds Although civilizations have the same origin as the empire, they may no longer maintain their consistency with the empire for one reason or another. In other words, they may have the same "blood" as the empire, but they no longer belong to the empire. "

"In the more than 500 billion years of chaos, the "aspects" containing the wisdom elements of the empire launched many wars against this series of civilizations, and the "multi-party relations" in the void were once very tense. In the later period, the empire began to show its After the decline, other civilizations in the void began to erode the empire in reverse, like parasites gnawing at a giant beast whose body became more and more festering - this change also gradually came to an end when the fault zone disaster was finally contained."

"In the face of terrible disasters, the empire no longer takes the initiative to attack the body of order. In the face of the terrifying great fault zone, those civilizations may be able to deal with the body of order, but they cannot deal with such a great fault zone. Taking this as an opportunity, The two sides began initial attempts to ease relations. For example, the two sides delineated non-aggression boundaries and determined mutually recognized void routes. Then, on these basis, they began to gradually sign some tentative cooperation agreements or treaties. Although progress was slow, I have to say that these measures are very effective.”

“Since then, we can finally say that we have entered the modern and contemporary era.”