Star Empire

".Senior?! Why?"

"This is an act tacitly approved by the empire."

"Tacit consent...?! But this is..."

"Contraband, transporting and trading without declaration and permission? This is allowed. I don't have the authority to tell you more about this at the moment. I can only tell you - they are tacitly allowed. And all such things are controlled by the Empire, whether before, during or after they happen.”

".All right."

"I can see that you have doubts and dissatisfaction about this. It's normal. When I first heard about this kind of thing, my reaction was more intense than yours. However, in the previous classes, you should have heard more or less Have you learned about "the world is imperfect" and "absolute idealization cannot be achieved" etc.?"

"Yes, senior, we have learned about the relevant content."

"Then, things like this are the "actual manifestations" of those words. Such actual manifestations can occur for many reasons. Some are due to the limited capabilities of the empire, and others are due to the differences between different levels. needs, conflicts may arise between them, and the compromises that arise when resolving or alleviating such conflicts may lead to such a situation. In order to avoid these situations from causing too many negative consequences that should not exist, the empire needs to invest more Strength to make up for and stop"

"That is to say, sometimes we need to take the initiative to make things more complicated, and then invest more energy in dealing with these things that become more complicated?"

"Personally, I don't think we can make such a judgment directly. It may be true if we only look at this small area, but if we look at it from a higher perspective, allowing these things to happen should also bring corresponding benefits, otherwise the empire There is no reason to allow this to happen.”

"oh"

The order field that wrapped the fleet began to change again, but for Kriz, everything that changed outside seemed to be covered with a layer of fog. I don’t know whether this layer of fog was covering all the scenery outside, or whether it was covering the surrounding scenery. In your own heart?

Along the way, the fleet passed through many worlds full of life. Some worlds were peaceful and prosperous, while others were covered in war. Strange flashes and fluctuations rippled at the bottom of the world, making the whole world invisible to mortals. The place trembled slightly. These ever-changing scenes sometimes cause exclamations, sometimes discussions, and seem to have even caused quarrels? But no matter what, the ship was always in order, so there was no need for him to worry too much about the outside.

Is it because I have been too obedient from birth to now? Or is there a problem with your own views or understanding, causing you to be unable to get around content that should not cause trouble when it appears in front of you at the right time?

Or is it because there is some kind of obsession in my subconscious, and I really hope that stability can exist forever, and that there can be a set of fair and comprehensive rules that can be applied everywhere and all the time? Or maybe I have witnessed too much pain, read too much injustice, and experienced so much helplessness that I hate these phenomena from the bottom of my heart and soul?

"Wait." Kriz felt something was wrong.

How old are you, how could the following possibilities appear? Are you really qualified to think of yourself that way?

"The signature reaction of the individual numbered 16-4-1-xs4028 has begun to increase. It is speculated that this individual may reach the critical point of outbreak in the near future."

"Your Majesty Victorville, His Majesty Vesrivan, have integrated all the independent void survey radars. The new void survey radar narrative network has been completely established. The preset new level 2-20 air authority positions will be on standby. All Traces of preparation activities, historical traces and related observations will be erased.”

"The analysis of historical records of earthquakes specially launched for this matter has been completed. We once again analyzed all the earthquakes that have occurred within 300 billion years. The results show that 75.4684% of the earthquakes occurred near the "narrative singularity" Within the accretion disk. And if the "sources" of these skyquakes are connected, they will show a cantilever structure. At the same time, the closer the time is to the present, the more frequent the number of skyquakes occurring at these locations."

"The time when the individual xs4028 began to become independent from the surrounding environment was at least three thousand years ago, that is, 868,000,000,000 years ago in the expedition year. The precursors of the "narrative singularity" had already begun to form." Faced with the As reports were submitted from different research centers, Vidoville's expression gradually became serious.

"All departments need to be careful to remove as many clear traces of action as possible after the work is completed - everything should look like it was "picked and pieced together from adequate backup plans" rather than "deliberately done." "."

"clear."

".I don't know if it can be a smooth transition." After confirming that there were no new deployments that could be made, Vidoville leaned back on his chair, "xs4028No matter what form his critical burst will take, After the outbreak, his abilities will be greatly improved. At that time, no matter from any angle, it will be impossible for him to continue to be an ordinary person and climb up the authority level by level."

"But this is a special case after all, and special cases are abrupt in the normal state. We cannot erase the abrupt part of this "special case" itself. Pay more attention to him and report the situation at all times. His development path should not deviate from us. The rational category we understand, but we are not sure at what specific nodes his "development path" will take."

"There is no way to erase it. After all, no matter what happens, the empire cannot quickly promote dozens or hundreds of "quasi-emperors" because of this matter to erase the special nature of this matter, and his own specialness is undeniable. . It is impossible, let alone unnecessary. All we can do is to help him find a safe and stable state as much as possible without disturbing him too much, and help him get through his crisis relatively smoothly. possible impacts during the development process.”

Vidoville's eyes moved slightly downward, "We have already confirmed with the relevant departments that when xs4028 shows signs of an outbreak, we will send special consultants to intervene."

"This consultant must be very knowledgeable." Weisrifan responded, "When the time comes, I guess xs4028 will definitely ask a lot of questions."

"Yeah. But I think it should go smoothly here."

"Why do you say that suddenly?"

"Because no one around here seems to have experienced any 'patching' from the future."

"The worlds in the void are diverse. For the empire, these diverse world structures can bring new knowledge and new inspiration, but they can also bring a lot of troubles."

"Some worlds will form different phases internally - a relatively stable structure formed by multiple world lines that fluctuates periodically in the world barrier. Due to the existence of development, these fluctuations will not always stay in their original state. position, and their waveforms will be transmitted. Over a long enough time span, there may be adhesion or even brief overlap between these phases. For entities that have settled and stabilized within the world, this situation is completely OK. Call it a disaster."

"Look at this, there are different realms and layers within these worlds, and projections can occur between realms and layers. For example, individuals in the physical realm may form huge and complex projections in the dream realm or the soul frequency realm. Between these realms There are complex mapping relationships between them, and traversing them may consume a lot of additional computing resources, and it may even not be possible to traverse them at all, because they may have infinite attributes.”

"Therefore, except for a small number of worlds with similar properties that will be used as testing grounds, most of the rest will be controlled from the source by the World Loop."

"Senior, I have a question." Kriz suddenly asked, "If the empire's calculation and processing capabilities cannot exhaust them, then does it mean that the empire cannot handle these problems? If the empire cannot handle these problems, then why should the empire stay? A testing ground like this? If an accident occurs, wouldn’t it be irreparable?”

".Your questions are always very sharp, classmate." Faced with Kriz's "sharp questions" one after another, uqhc9841321 couldn't help but stare at him for a while, "I'm not sure of the specific method, but I once saw I have seen that there is an explosive that is powerful enough to penetrate these problems, but there seems to be rumors that this explosive is challenging part of the current knowledge system of the empire. It is said that the empire will make adjustments in these aspects."

"...Doesn't that mean that the empire's existing knowledge system still has many errors and loopholes? Can they be used with peace of mind in this case?"

"There have always been loopholes, and they have never been eliminated since ancient times... As for errors, the existing knowledge and theoretical system may not correspond to the possible and ultimate truth, but as long as the designed experiments can be done without logical loopholes or serious negligence , the experimental results are in line with the predetermined assumptions, then it can show that the current theory can be applied to current reality."

"Even in the future, where the knowledge we get from a broader level shows that these things really don't apply on a larger scale, as long as everything has undergone fundamental drastic changes, it will still be able to make itself effective. The world. Even the classical mechanics that appeared hundreds of millions of years ago can still be used within the appropriate scope."

"That's right...Thank you, senior." Kriz felt that he was a little upset. He nodded seriously to senior uqhc9841321 several times to express his gratitude. Then he leaned on the edge of the window and stared out the window, lost in thought. silence.

"Did I say something wrong?"

"Senior, and everyone, I'm sorry, please just leave me alone..."

"...Okay, don't forget to write down the things that should be recorded. You will need them later. If you have any problems or situations, report them to the system in a timely manner and tell us..."

"good."

"What's wrong with me?" Kriz asked himself, "Is it because the discordant notes appear that the entire movement is negated? But the boredom in my heart does exist. They seem to have existed for a long time. , they long for fairness and justice? Should I say this? But do I understand these things? What is fairness and justice? Why do I "look forward to it for a long time"?! Do I understand them? "

"Calm down! Calm down!!"

Scenes of scenery skipped through the portholes, and the scenery changed rapidly - at least in those special eyes. He couldn't see clearly what was happening outside. He just hoped that there would be something as soon as possible, something that could attract his attention to help him concentrate, and help him calm down his increasingly anxious heart. "What is that?" ?!”

I don't know if the scene outside is real, or if it is just an afterimage left in my memory. There are many tiny points in the strange starry sky, and they are moving in a way that does not conform to the laws of this starry sky.

"Are they ships? Are they vehicles of other civilizations?" The large number of comments they ejected told him that they did not fly in accordance with the empire's aviation regulations. But this place does not seem to be a territory directly controlled by the empire, so there is no need to abide by the empire's route regulations here, just abide by their own. What are you thinking about? !

"Calm down quickly, calm down, calm down." Unconsciously, Kriz found that his hands were tightly holding his head, and he felt like he was trying to avoid something. Curl up deeply. Everything outside seems to be melting - all entities, all nothingness, and all space-time structures seem to be turned into trembling, infinitely extending thin lines. The thin threads are wrapped in light, they shine with a crazy light, and the thin threads themselves are dancing wildly, they are constantly entangled and unraveled. They appear from all directions, extending in all directions, as if there will never be an end.

"Um?"

In the erratic peripheral vision, Kriz seemed to have found a breakthrough that could release his attention - he saw that part of the spacecraft he was in did not seem to "melt". What?

He blinked hard and looked outside seriously again - nothing had changed.

"Is this... a propeller? A pair of propellers? Rotating propellers?"

When thinking about this, many scenes that seemed to be unrelated at first seemed to be connected: in a flashing scene before, an aircraft that should be made of the original materials produced by that planet was flying. The outermost bottom of the planet is flying slowly, and it seems to have such a "propeller" on its head, but unlike the propeller of this spacecraft, the propeller of that aircraft seems to need to rotate all the time to ensure that the aircraft Able to leave the ground. Because I noticed that once the rotation of the propeller slowed down, the aircraft began to wobble and fall downward. It can be seen that the simple aircraft probably does not have much redundancy and does not have many safety measures.

Stopping pushing is a big deal. But in my impression, the "people" who flew the aircraft did not seem to be panicking. I saw that the "people" sitting in the back tightened the parts that may be used to control the aircraft, while the "people" sitting in the front seat tightened their grips. He strapped himself in and pulled out a stick that had been bent many times. He leaned out of his seat, inserted a stick into a hole in the head of the aircraft, and shook it vigorously.

"Squeak - squeak - squeak -" Along with a burst of thick smoke, the stalled propeller resumed normal operation.

There seems to be more than one such scene. In other parts of the planet, there are other aircraft with completely different shapes from this aircraft. No, various machines that require power can also do the same - they can all be started by such a curved stick.

".Why did our ship stop? Will the fusion reactor stop like this?"

"There are several unexpected factors that may cause this phenomenon, but the reactor needs to be inspected in detail to be sure. Captain of the third engineering team, lead your team to inspect the reactor."

"Yes, Captain. Team members - check all your equipment, especially protective equipment - especially pay attention to the crank handle!"

". Rocker? Is that the name of that stick?" While Kriz silently wrote down these contents, the team walked all the way to a position that should be said to be close to the rear of the ship. There, a sealed alloy hatch gradually opened under the influence of a small crank.

"Captain, we have checked all components according to the manual. Currently, the parameters output by these devices do not exceed the requirements."

".Then this is simply a weird thing. There is no clear fault. Is there anything else that can stop this thing across dozens or hundreds of layers of bulkheads?"

".No failure? That's really strange. Captain, instruct your team members to try to restart the reactor - if the failure occurs again, send a second backup power to the interstellar communication system."

"clear."

"Come on, boys - turn around. The sudden stop of the reactor didn't leave us any chance to prepare. We can only rely on this hand-crank method to turn on the activation switches of these high-strength capacitors."

". The manual can turn hundreds of thousands of revolutions. I guess this is enough for us to be busy these days. Some emergency equipment with built-in backup power seems to be still running at low power... I hope it doesn't get too hot in the cabin. Under such circumstances, it is quite troublesome to effectively dissipate heat here..."

"Today's learning content is how to start the negative space reactor when all automatic equipment cannot be started due to unexpected circumstances. As we all know, the core of the negative space reactor is a special giant turbine, half of which is in the Cora The other half is in the sea of ​​subpositive space, and the other half is in the sea of ​​Nokya negative space.”

"When the turbine rotates, it can stir the dividing line between positive and negative space, which can cause all kinds of positive and negative particle pairs to annihilate in the output shaft of the turbine and release huge energy. Under normal operating conditions, the turbine relies on extracting these particles Part of the energy produced during annihilation can sustain its own operation."

"However, if the central turbine of the reactor completely stops operating due to unexpected reasons, then we need to use our own power to make it spin again. When manual assistance is needed to start, the most important tool we need is everyone. Look, this is it.”

". Rocker?!" Looking at the entity that gradually formed in the professor's hand, all the students felt incredible.

"I know, this may indeed be surprising, but this thing is really magical - you can see it from the primitive exhibition hall, to the antiquities exhibition hall, to the current equipment operation manual. It is the key that can stir up time and space."

"The key to stirring time and space?" As a distant bystander, this sentence left a very deep impression on Kriz for some reason.

"Including you, the reason why we teach like this is the same - what if one day, our equipment is paralyzed? What if one day, the surrounding environment changes, and changes to the point where our current understanding can no longer understand it well? What? We must be prepared - if there really is such a moment, we have to abandon all this and return to life on the natural ground, we will not be helpless."

"Archaeological results of ξ-78 ruins."

"Understood, Professor."

"Very good, then let's learn how to involve the seemingly meager manpower..."

"It seems that the engine and the rocker are a natural match?"

Just like watching a movie, after letting a large amount of information that he had seen intentionally or unintentionally flow through his mind, Kriz finally felt calmer. After calming down again, he noticed what was special about this.

"But why...do I care so much about this?"