Star Empire

"After the story enters the exile era." Kriz began to browse through the layers of strata that had been "dismantled".

"The actions of the same fleet and the control of the use of non-essential resources during emergencies are specific to the time when these things happened. They did not cause any irregularity in the story." Kryz glanced at these ancient "pages" . "Your Majesty, it seems that the first problem that the Empire cannot determine in the early part of the Exile Chronicle is that it cannot determine the specific factors that led to the first "Trek"?"

"Yes. Kriz, can you answer that question?"

"Unfortunately, Your Majesty, I can't answer it either." Kriz looked at it carefully and showed that there was nothing he could do about it.

"The Ark of Exile at that time did not have a reliable voyage log, and the original void coordinate recording method could not be used to deduce this issue. In addition, the void navigation system itself, which was relatively primitive in terms of technology and concept at that time, did not take this issue into consideration. Category, even if it is written into a story, it cannot involve the specific details behind it. I cannot use them to determine the root cause of the first flight of the Void Ark fleet. And the former navigation track of the Exile Ark has been rewritten by various information Many times, the tracks have long since disappeared.”

"...At this point, both possible clues have been broken, and I am not sure whether the first lost track accident was due to the exile fleet "yawing" to other quadrants. Because from a possible perspective, the dense The influence of the world group in the void, the regional "sub-quadrant" structure, the abnormal virtual information environment and other factors may cause the fleet to get lost."

"So, it seems that there is no definite answer to this question at this time. Kryz, continue the analysis."

"The exile voyage, temporary stability, and trying to modify the structure of the radar waves to make them more adaptable to the void environment are all no problem and do not conflict with the empire's current understanding. Next."

As the void survey radars slowly rotated, focusing the story on some blurry and invisible fragments and several veteran-level individuals, the surprise in Kryz's eyes erupted like a thunderbolt. come out:

"The Ark Fleet was pursued by world fragments contaminated by the death tide. Dark Star Fortress appeared in the world fragments. The Ark spaceship performed an Aloal self-destruction and destroyed the Dark Star Fortress. A few sane people helped the Ark Fleet's Order Field finally leave the world. fragments and stabilized life and the environment within the Ark."

"This section is too dangerous. If there is a slight deviation, the star civilization will come to an end there." Seeing this, Kriz really broke into a cold sweat in his heart, even though this story has been buried in hundreds of millions of people. In the history of tens of thousands of years ago, it is already the past tense of hundreds of millions of years ago.

"It is indeed dangerous here, but the dangerous passages are far more than this one." Speaking of this, Vidoville only responded in a calm tone. "Throughout the history of civilization, it is never too much to say that "civilization has reached its most dangerous moment" no matter when. Regarding this paragraph, do you have anything to add?"

"The self-destruction of the Ark and the improvised crystal energy orbital bombs at that time both had Aloal-type explosions - low directivity, low effectiveness, full-dimensional effect, these are no problems. But the effects of these explosions are far away Far beyond the maximum destructive power they could cause on their own. Even taking into account that the death tide atmosphere will amplify the impact of vandalism, it is currently insufficient.”

Kriz "zoomed in" some details: "Your Majesty, the Ark fleet at that time was shrouded in a layer of very bleak and complex information. I can't tell the specific content they expressed. When I looked at it like this, they looked like The red halo surrounding the fleet... this may be the "blood of Σ" - that is, the various information flows ejected after the collapse of Σ civilization, but the time when this kind of thing was confirmed by the empire to actually exist was already very late. ”

"The existence attributes and symbolic meanings ejected by Σ... Such information flow can indeed be said to be the blood of civilization. If those explosions that far exceed the theoretical value are contaminated by the blood of Σ, the death tide, and its own symbolic meaning, etc. If they are formed together, then all this will be explained much more smoothly. It’s just..."

Vidoville looked through his memory: "You are right, we know the existence of this kind of thing, and we know that this kind of thing is attached to the creation of the star civilization very late - we A complete understanding of this set of things will have to wait until the late Decision Era to the early Expedition Era. Moreover, most researchers in the empire agree with this view: the weight creations existing in the Star Empire are attracting and enriching them."

"Yes, Your Majesty, weight creations indeed speed up the empire's collection of them." Kriz quickly browsed through the historical records containing the keywords "weight creations" and "weight effect". By reorganizing information from these historical records, Kriz quickly got the answers he wanted.

"The creation of weights has indeed greatly accelerated the empire's ability to enrich the "blood of Σ", and at the same time provided the empire with a much stronger ability to maintain the blood of "Σ" than before. But this does not mean that the empire has gained weight. Code-created creatures were completely unable to obtain the blood of Σ before. At present, it seems that the projection of blood of Σ has started since the death wave pollution broke out, and this "blood" can be "stopped" by any existence, it just depends on the amount. It’s just different.”

"And the further part of the "political structure reorganization". Well, it is indeed the case. Try to integrate the crystal energy more deeply into the body and soul to increase safety. There is no problem with this. Random and malignant symptoms began to appear in the Ark fleet. Disease, and some components of the spacecraft are beginning to show signs of corrosion. Both problems are caused by dead tide pollution.”

"At present, if similar creations and environments can be created, these phenomena can be reproduced. The fragment of the world that serves as a springboard for the void voyage comes from an adjacent world close to the home world. On this world level" "Neighbor" is the target of void probes and void probe ships in the early stages of civilization. I can confirm that this fragment is also an "ark" - the escape ark on which the world consciousness of that world boarded."

"Considering the original position of the home world, the position of the Ark Fleet Order Field and the position of the world fragment, the "distance" between them is no longer close. This world fragment wants to "fly over" by its own power, even if If it can do this, does it use its own body structure as fuel? Also, at such a close distance, why doesn't Σ control the world?" Vidoville motioned to the research team "standing behind him" to do a good job Related content records, it seems that some ancient questions will soon get new explanations.

"I can't explain why Σ does not control the world. But Your Majesty, that fragment of the world does rely on consuming its own information to propel itself through the void. The world fragment gradually weakens due to the consumption of information. And in After capturing enough information from the powerful wave of information released when the Void Fierce Sun "ignited", it temporarily stopped the process of "burning itself". This is why the fragment of the world stabilized and the recognition signal was enhanced. "

"The Blazing Sun of the Void ignited fire. If we had the strength we have now, perhaps our records would have recorded a horrific supernova explosion. But at that time, we were just a bunch of waves in the torrent, which was enough to sweep us away. I was so rushed," Vidoville said. "What about the back part?"

"After the Void Fiery Sun successfully ignited, a large number of deformed worlds and unstable worlds' world hearts were directly devoured. They became part of the Fierce Sun's rays. As for why the world fragments targeted by the Ark fleet were not devoured, it may be that Because the "original rules" of Void Fierce Sun are selective about this, the fragments of the world are not selected as targets that can be devoured, or it may be an unexpected and low-probability event. I am not 100% sure of this."

"But Your Majesty, I can be sure of one thing - during the Restoration Chronicle, the empire noticed that there were fewer worlds near its "new home", and most of the worlds that "survived" were relatively stable. This was indeed caused by the Void Fierce Sun. Void The original settings of the Burning Sun may make it choose to destroy and devour worlds with lower stability first. And the rest will wait until the Ark fleet enters the world fragments."

"The problem of possession of world consciousness - Your Majesty, this matter seemed to have caused a lot of trouble at the time." Kriz expanded his vision to the extent that it could cover all the "people" in the Ark Fleet at that time: "Under normal circumstances, the world The heart of the world will jump continuously within the world, and the formation of world consciousness must have the heart of the world as the core. If the conditions are not so stringent, the world consciousness can also jump continuously within the world like the heart of the world. Attached to various information bodies within the world.”

"However, for an individual, the amount of information contained in an existence such as world consciousness is still too large. Theoretically, the impact of this kind of "possession" will not be so small. But from a practical point of view, The world consciousness possesses His Majesty Vesrivan and does so without causing many clearly discernible anomalies. It makes choices and maintains a great degree of restraint."

"make a choice?"

"Yes. When the Ark Fleet just landed inside the World Fragment, most of their souls were sealed in the spent crystal energy crystals. Their bodies were either abandoned or strictly sealed and governed. Such an entity can hardly do anything. The goal of world consciousness to "possess" is to find living things."

"Ah, one more thing. Although world consciousness has a completely different way of observation and thinking from humanoid life, it can also understand some of our rules through observation - on the premise that there are no obvious differences between individuals, Naturally, the more protected the possessed individual is, the safer it is. Therefore, at that time, several Your Majesties were all objects that could be chosen for possession. And this world consciousness also made a second choice."

As he spoke, Kriz moved his gaze away from the eyepiece, and turned to look at the endless white land at his feet: "The second choice it makes is to choose individuals that it thinks are relatively gentle and peaceful. Although That world consciousness may not understand what we mean by "murderous intent", but it can feel the edge of these threatening messages. So Your Majesty, His Majesty Vesrivan being possessed by the world consciousness is not a pure matter. Random events."

".That's it." Kriz noticed that Vidoville seemed to sigh slightly when he answered this sentence. Is this to express helplessness or regret? This part was not what he needed to think about, so he put his eyes on the eyepiece again. The sight of the narrative singularity was once again amplified by the huge "monster", and was passed to countless void survey radars deployed throughout the empire.

"There are not many problems that need to be pointed out again in the development of the imaginary end and the existential space channel reactor. Your Majesty, I need to emphasize this point. As I said before, strictly speaking, the empire has not learned to create the imaginary end - it The real manufacturer is the Σ civilization. The empire only successfully copied the imaginary end and obtained the structural data of the imaginary end through this process."

"——Your Majesty, I have no intention of slandering the efforts and research of any scholar at that time. It is very rare to be able to copy such a structure and transfer this "rubbing" and apply it to practice. But since we are reorganizing history , sort out the past problems, then I must tell what I actually see.”

"Yes. There is no problem. You did it right. And if we really conquered this technology on our own, it took us less than 40 billion years to master the top civilization Using the production method of creation that has been honed for five trillion years makes the direction of the story unreasonable. Now, the difficulty of the problems we once faced has dropped by more than one order of magnitude, and has dropped to the level of our civilization at that time The level that hard work can reach. This helps us stabilize our story." At this point, the light patterns on the two flagship ships flickered slightly towards Kryze.

"Well, then there is the "awakening" of His Majesty Aisket at that time, just like His Majesty Zhai Cahir. However, His Majesty Zhai Cahir is a "paranormal fusion" that can coexist with the body and extraordinary energy and can make the extraordinary power manifest. The two processes of an "awakening" of a special nature were combined into one, and Her Majesty Eskett's "awakening" was a subsequent independent event."

"Considering the situation at the time, His Majesty Zhai Cahir's "awakening" was because he had accumulated enough information and operational logic to assign variant values ​​to the arcana at that time. And Your Majesty Eskett... I think it is more It may be the "endowment" of the void. For more parts, Your Majesty, I want to wait until later to give a unified explanation. I need to unify the explanation based on new knowledge. After all, the span of this phenomenon is too large."

"certainly."

"Chronicle of Exile, next. There are not many problems with technology. New life forms, new ships, new technologies and new voyages. There are no problems with these." Narrative Singularity glanced at each entry. , he quickly focused his attention on the next question:

"At that time, you mentioned the problem of the ears. This is indeed worth noting. There is indeed a new information disturbance that affects the background environment of the void. This new disturbance has caused the empire's humanoid lifeforms to begin to tend towards "elf-like" traits. ". It should be certain that there is an existence in the void that can serve as the "mother body" of all the elves we imagine. This existence may be an extremely powerful individual, or it may be an entire civilization. But it has the most profound impact on us This is not the result of information disturbance."

"What is that?" Vidoville noticed that Kriz's expression seemed a little strange. "Just say it. So far, there are no problems in the void that we cannot accept."

"Human form, human form." Kriz shrugged, "The information disturbance force that has had the strongest impact on us has given us human form. The information disturbance source of "forming human form" is stronger than "Elf King" or "Elf Kingdom" "Much higher and much deeper."

"For example, if we set a continent as the basic world to carry the story, the impact of "Elf Disturbance" on us is similar to the existence or existence of a powerful elf country on this continent. This country It has had a profound impact on the continent, so the culture of elves is also spread throughout the continent."

"And "humanoid disturbance". In my opinion, it is similar to the initial setting, just like we directly set "most intelligent creatures on this continent are humanoid creatures." And similar disturbances Alternatively, I personally believe that the two perturbations may be caused by the same source - or at least the 'same' source."

As he spoke, Kriz had already shown Vidoville trillions of star maps. These star maps showed images of starry skies from different world branches and even different quadrants of the world. The celestial bodies that make up these starry skies are all kinds of strange, including circles, rings, and even... There are undulating threads and ribbons.

However, no matter what era these worlds were born in, no matter what is written in the practical application layer of this world, the star map shows that there must be a star in a fixed position - even if there are millions of lights around this point The environment during the year tends to be a vacuum, so empty that there is no possibility of supporting the emergence of a solitary star here. This place will definitely be occupied by a luminous celestial body, without exception.

"Gou Chenxing" recalled this name, and Vidoville's expression became very serious again.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Gouchen Star. In a naturally formed world, this celestial body must exist. Moreover, its own trajectory must be quite stable, and its position relative to the entire starry sky is almost constant, without exception." Ke Riz said. "The second celestial system with signs of disturbance. In the home universe, it is called DH. Forget it, the number is really hard to see clearly. It is called the Grand Triangular Constellation, which seems to be the capital of the star civilization at that time. "

"The three super quasars that form the constellation Triangulum are also the product of external information disturbance. This disturbance allows the three super celestial bodies whose size is measured in light years to exist stably - after overcoming physical limits. It will not disintegrate due to excessive sparseness, nor will it collapse and explode due to gravity. However, the level of information disturbance that caused this spectacle did not reach the "initial setting". The source of the disturbance force of radiation should also be some kind of super-powerful entity—— Perhaps, this entity will be related to the Samsung system or "three"."

"If this statement is true, the broadcast source of "Humanoid Disturbance" and "Gouchen Star Disturbance" is a super being that is much stronger than Σ Civilization. It seems that the hidden threat of the Empire has increased." Victorville's The bow of the ship sank a little lower. For him, this movement was already very slight, but for Kriz, the intensity of the changes in the two black continents in front of him could be said to be spinning.

"Your Majesty, there is no more story that I need to retell in the Chronicle of Exile. The origin of the concept of unified information has been correctly guessed by the empire. This is the impact of Σ civilization. There are still some remaining in Chronicle of Exile. Questions, these questions seem to be more involved in the later parts. I want to wait until I read the next era and collect more information before expanding on it in detail."

"no problem."

"So, the Renaissance Chronology" Kriz once again fine-tuned the direction of the void survey radars: "The traces of arcane energy were found directly from the cosmic background radiation, and soon after, white matter was discovered from the out-of-control arcane energy source. The Empire Having encountered three kinds of extraordinary information and mastering the decay equations that created them, I have to say that there is indeed an element of luck involved, as the properties of these three kinds of extraordinary information are completely different from each other."

"Are there no other factors causing interference?" Vidoville asked.

"No, Your Majesty, there are no other factors here. This is a small probability event that may happen. With good luck and the accumulation of scholars, the empire was able to take advantage of this extraordinary information. However, in the process of developing these new resources, once There was a period of unusually frequent Genesis activity, during which the output power of various reactors also increased - the factors causing this effect...are similar to information disturbance."

"Relatively similar?"

"...there are differences, but the two cannot be directly separated." Kriz began to think about how he should reply briefly, and at the same time, he began to add the large-capacity data packets corresponding to these simple words into his words .

"If I use the most similar content I can find to explain...the source of the abnormal activity in the reactor and the abnormal activity in Genesis may have released some symbolic influence, and the symbolic content should be related to "creation" or "active" "It's related to the meaning of other words."

"Your Majesty, that's all I can see clearly. If we continue to speculate...the source of this symbolic release is also a super-powerful entity similar to the Σ civilization. This symbolic release also cannot reach the "background" "Setting" level. As for the specific objects that release these effects, it cannot be deduced based on the current conditions."

"It seems that there may still be a considerable number of super entities or powerful civilizations in the void that do not belong to Σ. The empire needs to invest more energy in this area."

Although countless individuals across the empire have raised issues related to this aspect many times over the past eons, these issues often become dim due to the influence of reality and the passage of time. Except for the "Federal Period" in which the ancient historical data is incomplete, the Empire has never come into contact with a normal civilization or existence that is equal to or more powerful than itself. Naturally, the Empire has never been the same as other civilizations. Civilizations or super entities have engaged in peer-to-peer communication.

Even though teams composed of various scholars and departments in the empire have conducted deductions in these aspects many times, in the absence of external samples, this has always been done behind closed doors. In addition, without the most important condition of "realistic demand", no matter how hard you try, the shoots that lack the foundation for development will eventually be sealed away in the dust.

Now that Kryze has mentioned these things again in this way, the empire may pay attention to this issue again within a period of time. But Vidoville knew that the attention thus aroused would be dissipated again after a long enough time, but how long it would last, I am afraid it is impossible to say so clearly.

"Your Majesty, I would like to ask, these are anomalous information that does not belong to that era, but can be better integrated into that era. They are-"

"Oh, those are the narrative compensation methods used by the Empire's technical department to make up for fragile narratives." Vidoville replied immediately. "You should also be able to see that Xingming Civilization has made many sharp turns on the road of development. For the entire development path, these "sharp turns" are relatively fragile. Therefore, we need to rely on technical means to fill in some information into the iterative layer of history at the time to strengthen these “vulnerable points.”

“As long as we shift our concept of understanding time toward the way of “controlling time,” we can start from the present and send information to the past like taking root.”

".So that's the case, then won't this cause contradictions and conflicts?"

"Essentially, this operation uses the "time contradiction" in a gentle way. In short, if a life form is born and grows to be a hundred years old, it will not experience certain events when it is ten years old. One thing, but through narrative technology, he has the memory of experiencing the event when he was ten years old and the memory of all the changes caused by the event, and the corresponding entity also appeared in reality at the same time."

"So from the perspective of the plausibility of the story, even if he himself did not actually experience such a random thing, relying on his memory and its impact on reality, we think it is not impossible that he experienced such a thing. "

"This is a means of narrative compensation. If you reverse the view of time and think that there is an independent time that governs material changes, that is to say, layers of "historical iteration" entities will be formed. Even if this individual is cut open and traced back to The memory changes he had when he was ten years old will also stay in that era. Just like pouring gel along the cracks in the formation and then cutting the formation, the gel filling the cracks will also stay in the cracks of the corresponding era." Victor. Vere threw a lot of high-density information directly at Kriz.

"Understood. I have no questions now." Kriz nodded subconsciously. His eyes continued to move from the past history to the present, looking at the marked questions:

"It is normal for accidents to occur at the early world gates. The concept of creating world gates at that time was similar to using a "door" to forcibly bridge the world neighborhoods of the two worlds with each other, and then use this distorted world neighborhood to bridge the gap. The world is universal. This approach is similar to forcibly pulling out a "tentacle" from two different soft-bodied creatures to penetrate each other's body, which will produce a serious conflict of laws, which will lead to the collapse and disintegration of the original information structure."

"His Majesty Zhai Cahir's fleet and working group officially came into contact with the Void Quadrant at that time. However, it seems that his original judgment about the Quadrant at that time was not completely correct - the wrong question did not come from the Eye of True Seeing, but from the Eye of True Sight. It came from the technical limitations of the time.”

"At that time, the empire drew quadrant boundaries based on the differences between coordinate types that would cause spacecraft navigation and communication to be blocked. However, the star civilization's spacecraft at that time was not enough to ensure that it could travel unimpeded in a single quadrant. Also That is to say, His Majesty Zhai Cahir may have labeled the "sub-environments" currently in the same quadrant into different quadrants at that time——"

"That is to say, at that time, the Empire actually came into contact with not as many "Void Quadrants" that were in line with current understanding as recorded. If the term "Void Quadrant" comes from the Star Culture, I will not conclude that there is a mistake. . However, the origin of this word and the things it corresponds to are the same as the fundamental origin of the early concept of information unification. It was the disturbance of Σ civilization that created them. Therefore, they should be divided into Σ - which is what we now delineate. Confirmation by means of the Void Quadrant.”

"At that time, residual traces of civilizational activities were found in many celestial bodies and in the interstellar space of different worlds, but the civilization itself disappeared? This was also caused by the collapse of Σ. There is no problem with this part. The star civilization was not directly affected by the death wave at that time. There’s an element of luck involved.”

"As everyone has speculated, Star Ming Civilization happened to be on the dividing line between intra-world civilization and cross-world civilization. If Star Ming Civilization cannot cross the world, then Star Ming Civilization will be swallowed up by the death wave disaster of the mother world. And if the level of development is higher, then the death tide pollution may directly pollute the star civilization along the connection between Σ civilization and star civilization."

"After a brief period of explosion of applied products, a large number of new creations began to appear throughout the empire. The next step that our predecessors were prepared to take was too big. When we realized that resource paranoia may bring disadvantages including impetuousness, After the impact, the development of applied technology was temporarily suspended, and the focus of research began to return to the theoretical level. Determine the development status of civilization, determine the new emblem of civilization, and make preliminary attempts to record the existence status and lifestyle of other civilizations, huh."

"Next, Your Majesty Vidoville." Kriz glanced at the bright Void Sun, and then looked at the pair of black wings floating behind him: "Next, I need to analyze the event that ended the Renaissance Chronicles. Fighting.”