Star Empire

"Because the Dark Star Fortress has become dull and blurred, the ultra-high-energy accelerator may have accidentally become the key to unlocking the shackles - the small-scale ultra-high temperature it created may have triggered the Dark Star Fortress's destruction. Misjudgment, Dark Star Fortress may think that the abnormally high temperature point is caused by the void influx caused by the damage of the world barrier and swallowing the world's laws."

"So, it may have cut off part of the world structure and re-sewed the world barrier according to the standard process it set for itself, so as to avoid further expansion of the disaster caused by the void intrusion - in this process, the fortress's already dull operations may really This resulted in a small-scale influx of void.”

Kriz's eyes were fixed on this particular piece of story, "The accelerator and large chunks of the galaxy structure were either erased or cut away by the void. And when these small-scale intrusions occurred, the void may be due to contact. The decay occurred at the edge of the world barrier. The product of decay is arcane energy, which is the same thing as the arcane used by the empire now, but the arcane energy at that time was very rare and very thin."

"This part is not much different from the research results of the History Department. The only remaining part that we old guys can recall almost points to this result." The general flagship floating behind Kryz expressed this. Affirmative, “Please go ahead.”

"More on." Kriz began to slide the non-existent "progress bar", "The infection of arcane energy caused some materials to have abnormal properties. The emergence of these special materials made the star civilization's technology at that time slightly improved. Development, but since the foundation has not been unlocked, these developments cannot change the macro situation. The complete unlocking has already happened after the "Crystal Energy Vortex Explosion Incident". And in this so-called "Great Stagnation" stage, His Majesty and his predecessors They turned their research direction to theoretical research. And this part, huh?"

"Your Majesty Vidoville, I have discovered some relatively hidden lines. These lines have a larger historical span, but they can be spliced ​​into a more continuous and complete clue."

"I compared my previous memories. Most of these parts are considered doubtful by the empire or have not been studied in detail. I think this may be because on the one hand, they are indeed relatively secretive and difficult to detect under normal circumstances; on the other hand, they When separated, they do seem to be independent fragments without any problems. Only by connecting them to each other can we better see the full picture of the hidden clues - do you want me to continue to analyze strictly in chronological order, or should I prioritize these stories? Wire?"

"Prioritize analyzing story lines."

"Understood. Your Majesty, the first line I want to talk about now is related to "imaginary numbers" - starting from the blurred home world, and continuing to the existence attribute imaginary numbers applied to the space channel reactor and the Spear of Nothingness. It all ties together.”

"Connect them together. Tell us what you saw specifically so that we can compare it with the empire's existing research results." Hearing this, Vidoville frowned.

"Yes, Your Majesty. What I see is that there is a special "collapse" phenomenon in the space-time structure of the "Home Universe". This phenomenon will cause the "existence of imaginary numbers" in mathematical theory to appear in reality and lead to Extremely serious consequences. This "collapse" phenomenon is a "later law" created by the Dark Star Fortress, and such a phenomenon does not exist in the original world."

"The "collapse" caused structures of ten dimensions and above to not appear in the starry sky at that time. In order to solve the technical barriers, the civilization at that time did a lot of theoretical research. The results of this part of the theoretical research and the research process itself were both Contributed to the empire's later success in the field of imaginary numbers."

As he said that, Kriz's eyes temporarily moved to the corresponding "strata" of other eras: "The empire's space channel reactor was copied from Σ's small spacecraft. The replication and research process of this piece is the same as the empire's previous research. Closely related, the subsequent development of the Spear of Nothingness is also closely related to this experience. This does have the flavor of explosive development when entering a new field after accumulating a heavy foundation. The Empire has also recorded and analyzed this. It cannot be considered a mistake..."

"...But I think there is a problem with the focus of this part." Kriz hesitated. "——First, the Empire did not seem to pay much attention to the difference between existential imaginary numbers and the previous "imaginary numbers" and the origin of existential imaginary numbers. Second, the Empire's research seemed to be biased towards the earliest imaginary number phenomenon. ΣCivilization is intentional so that the observed people can follow a certain special development path, but I did not directly see this relationship here."

"So, then we may need to update the database. Kriz, what did you see?"

"From a God's perspective, between these two different "imaginary numbers", the former does provide part of the theoretical basis for the research of the latter and guides the general direction of the research. But the world that exists due to "collapse" Imaginary numbers do not exceed the limits that non-transcendent orders within the world can construct. They are the curtains that the Dark Star Fortress covers over the original environment of the world."

"The effects that imaginary numbers can cause, together with the fact that dimensionality increases will cause the binding force to escape, act as a 'lock' to lock the development process of civilization. The effect of this lock is actually quite good, Your Majesty." Kriz said seriously.

"I recalled the knowledge I had memorized before. For most civilizations with intelligence similar to ours, formulaic knowledge is extracted from various substances and phenomena in nature, and then these formulas are used to predict or speculate on the steps that development will take. “Next step” possibilities, these “next step” possibilities are eventually verified or realized.”

"Such a process is repeated and forms a ladder of development, but the existence of this ladder is quite ideal. The practical application layer of the world can only provide limited conditions. If you want to continue to explore the rules of the world in depth, I am afraid that it is indispensable in the development journey. A stage that requires a lot of theory to pave the way and a lack of practical verification.”

"Take our own civilization as an example. The materials that the practical application layer can contribute are not enough to sustain our in-depth exploration of the high-dimensional environment in the world at that time. This cuts off the development path of civilization from the actual verification link. We must pass The theoretical path continues to develop in depth. The later additional "collapse" rules were cleverly arranged when the tenth dimension unfolded. This anomaly that suddenly appeared but did not seem to violate the possibility of the universe would cause the theoretical model to be inconsistent with the actual environment. There is a conflict.”

"For us, either we admit that there are problems with all the theories we have ever had and then completely reject everything we have done before, or we decide that there are no problems with our theories and that we have overlooked something that makes the once reliable theory There is something wrong with the model here - Xingming Civilization has chosen the second solution, which means that this problem will not lead to the collapse of the civilization's knowledge system, but Xingming Civilization needs to continue to study how to solve the original problem. Problems that never arise in the system.”

"At this point, if it is in, um, a "theoretical environment", both feet of civilization's progress are locked. Coupled with a little bit of insignificant thinking interference, if there is no external force to break it, it will be impossible to rely solely on the imprisoned people. The seniors themselves cannot escape from this dilemma no matter what."

"Relying on such an invisible huge gap, civilization will be limited to the interface between the actual application layer and the mapping management layer. If civilization wants to rely on its own strength to get out of the world barrier, they must fully understand the world they are in. Only in this way can civilization attempt to control some or all of the information within the world. Reaching this level is considered the most important prerequisite for civilization to be able to create a void engine."

"If this prerequisite cannot be achieved, without the disturbance of powerful external forces, civilization will eventually be trapped inside the world. No matter how many resources are tried to be piled up, and how many breakthroughs are made using orders of magnitude, without essential progress, these changes will be It can only have a temporary effect.”

"Moreover, when this trend of thought encounters stagnation in development, it will also lead to the problem of resource paranoia prevailing within civilization after a short-term technological boom." Vidoville took over Kriz's words. "From this point of view, the three primitive civilizations, including the primitive star civilization, should be recognized as more ordinary subjects, and we need to further deny that we ourselves were special at that stage and thus had a special destiny. View."

"Speaking of this, Your Majesty, I think "we" did have a certain degree of specialness at that time, but this specialness was not originally for our own use. The specific manifestation of this specialness is that there is an artificial backdoor in our body structure , and the "simple information control code" buried in our bodies."

"The man-made backdoor has been removed by His Majesty Zhai Cahir in the later years of revival. The simple information control code. It is precisely because of such an inner nature that we were able to survive the irradiation of crystal energy radiation at that time, and Minerals like crystals and liquids like water are used to coordinate the captured crystal energy. Without this specific code in effect, the crystal energy at that time could be considered equivalent to "destruction" for civilization."

Kryz's gaze deviated slightly, his gaze scanning to new areas in the information strata.

"Your Majesty, I must declare that this part of the content contains some speculations on my part. I really can't see the exact original story. I can only say that when we were created, the Σ civilization itself did not seem to be as different as in the data. Crazy as described. After creating us, Σ on the one hand used us as observation samples to observe and record, on the other hand we were also given an implicit "use", and this use was not important to Σ civilization at that time. It seems to correspond to some common needs."

Kriz paused for a while, and he needed to organize his words: "The creators of Σ seem to hope that we can quickly master the use of extraordinary power before a certain critical time point arrives, and then let our whole family use A form similar to a servant army to help Σ accomplish some goals. This goal is very vague, and I can only see that the main purpose of this goal is "expansion."

"It is precisely because of this goal that the dark star did not coil up our time and become an isolated and self-contained entity. Otherwise, the entire star home world at that time would only take "one year" at the earliest in the eyes of the Σ civilization. Entering a state of doomsday. It is precisely because of the restriction of this goal that Dark Star Fortress made adjustments to all the abilities it squeezed out when the crystal energy vortex exploded and the time passage within the world was likely to be fragmented."

"Your Majesty, you may have forgotten your personal experience at that time, but I can still see some traces. At that time, the information fluctuations released by the Dark Star Fortress to coordinate time and stabilize the world swept across the entire world - everyone at that time should Everyone can detect it, including you.”

"It's too far away, and I have experienced too many things during these times. I really can't clearly recall what happened at that time. But when it comes to expansion, we need to transform into a servant army and then help them expand their territories. Soil? And this is still a common practice?" After hearing the new clues that Kriz dug out from behind those ancient stories, Vidoville felt the contradiction in it:

"According to our observation and understanding, this is a thankless task - no matter what goals Σ civilization needs to achieve, they can completely rely on their own strength to accomplish it. For them, this means more production lines and If there is more time, why bother to take apart the problem that can be solved in this step and outsource it to a servant civilization that is unstable and requires additional time and effort to cultivate?"

"Wait a minute, I thought of a situation." A flash of inspiration flashed in Vidoville's mind:

"Let's not comment on the meaning of expansion itself. There are two realms of order in civilization, one is in the void, and the other is in the death tide realm. The "stability shadow" in the death tide realm can suppress the movement in the corresponding area. The dead tide is active and improves the security of the ordered world. If civilization expands steadily or slowly, then the edge of this pedestal-like stability shadow can encompass the world-based territory of the entire civilization in the void."

"If civilization accelerates its expansion in the void, part of its territory may fall out of the protection of the shadow of stability. This can be explained from the perspective of the need to simultaneously expand the shadow of civilization's stability."

Vidoville thought for a while, but the feeling of dissonance still lingered: "But back to the purpose - there must be an extremely urgent and important goal to provide motivation, otherwise such resources would be spent to do such a huge thing. It does sound too childish. But why does the Σ civilization suddenly expand? Logically speaking, it is impossible for them to have the problem of insufficient order in the world to obtain a wider void area? But doing so will slow down the speed."

"Sorry, Your Majesty, I don't know why."

"No, you tried your best. We seem to have gone too far. Let's go back to the previous issue of imaginary numbers." Vidoville shook his wingtips slightly, "Wait, Kriz, I need to add something." Vidoville suddenly said, "The Empire has not ignored the importance of existential imaginary numbers, but our research in other fields has made us feel the anomaly of existential imaginary numbers."

"Fifty hundred billion years after the expedition, as the empire began to gradually recover, we began to seriously study everything about order again and try to answer every question we had asked. But as the research continued to deepen, the academic circles of the empire became more and more The more I pay attention to the fact that the world of order is much broader than we once imagined. But even so, the world of order still cannot accommodate existential imaginary numbers. It is like a loophole and gap in some kind of order. It is widely used but It is incompatible with the orderly environment.”

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that is indeed the case - I mean, the essence of existential imaginary numbers does have similar properties." Kryze replied. "The content of the story I saw is probably. Your Majesty, let me put it this way: the existence of imaginary numbers is indeed the embodiment of something that should not exist - Σ civilization forcibly uses the concepts and realities in the field of order to transform this original Things that should not have a physical body were forced to be written.”

"Forcibly write out imaginary numbers to bridge." Vidoville chewed these words back and forth for several rounds.

"If that's the case, then you can connect these clues - the failure of a large-scale bridge-building operation by the Σ civilization led to the outbreak of the Death Tide natural disaster. If they really wanted to build a bridge, this bridge If one side is connected to here, then the other end of the bridge needs to be connected to "that side" that may exist in the death tide field. If there is order on both sides of the death tide field, consider our side as the "positive area", then One side is the "negative number area". Since negative numbers appear in the level of existential attributes, imaginary numbers in the existential attributes can naturally appear."

"If it is explained in this way, then this part of the content can continue to be deduced." Victorville suddenly felt a sense of seeing the sun through the clouds.

"ΣCivilization uses the information of "this side" to forcefully write out the properties of "that side", just like i itself is not a specific number, but it has to forcibly express i in the form of a number. This approach A wrong solution is generated. The essence of this wrong solution in reality is a "garbled code" that is not tolerated by both sides at the same time. The existential space channel reactor needs to ensure that the end containing the decay equation is stably connected to the void. This will be The garbled code that excludes order, this misinterpretation that was forcibly written is just right here."

".His Majesty?"

"Ah, this is just a conjecture. I'm just raising it here. You don't have to worry about it and continue to analyze it."

"Yes." Kriz nodded, and he shifted his gaze back to the end of the Origin Era.

"Well, the information explosion caused time to accelerate in the quarantine zone, and this information explosion is a derivative of a greater information activity. The "even greater information activity" should be a bridge-building operation. After correcting the chronological method and the reference system of time, The timing of these two things can be matched. With the continuous interference of crystal energy radiation, the Dark Star Fortress's control over the isolation area becomes weaker and weaker. There is no conflict or contradiction in these parts. When the safely locked information broke out One sentence. That’s wrong, Your Majesty, this sentence is——”

"The escape of the observed civilization was detected, and the ancient solemn protocol was activated. There is nothing wrong with this sentence. Later, I saw this sentence transformed into the language we use." Vidoville suddenly stopped Kriz. "The Ancient Solemnity Agreement is a universal agreement that binds the observed civilization, and is used to provide solutions when the observed civilization becomes "out of control."

".Okay. His Majesty Zhai Cahir's "Eye of True Seeing" is caused by the simplified information code in the soul being "activated" after receiving enough arcane power and the external lock is loosened. The initial crystal energy body The way He Jing can integrate into the soul is very primitive. There is no problem with this. Then, Your Majesty, let’s start analyzing the chronology of the exile.”

Kriz looked at the record that seemed to be "soaked". He knew in his heart that he would find an opportunity to ask Vidoville why he stopped and interrupted him again and again. But it is clear that this opportunity does not exist now. Along with the slow rotation of the void survey radars, Kryz's eyes fell on the new starting point:

The "First Year" of the Exile Chronicle.