Star Empire

"Your Majesty, there shouldn't be too many problems with the following stories - they are all shaped by your own hands and experienced personally. Moreover, these experiences have not experienced the impact of disasters that can destroy the country, and their records are relatively clear and stable. .”

"But Your Majesty, I need to add something - at the end of the Leap Era, the Σ fleet's last attack on the Void Fierce Sun was launched by a lone decisive battle flagship. The attack was in the form of a very low-intensity Doomsday-Genesis . This attack seems to contain something else, but I can’t see clearly what it is. It seems like some noise attracted the “attention” of the decisive battle flagship.”

"Noise? What kind of noise?"

"I don't know, Your Majesty, this part has been severely eroded. I really can't find any useful clues." After waiting for a while, Kriz replied helplessly. "But Your Majesty, you don't need to worry, the noise has dissipated hundreds of millions of years ago."

"Well, that's good."

"Next, the main flagship needs to be repaired. Since the living body has lost its simplified information control code, if the empire wants to create new life, it needs to re-select suitable materials to make a suitable body."

"Most of the last billions of years in the Leap Era were used to recover the wreckage, find a way to "live", and refix the souls. The powerful weight effect of the two majesties played a role. Many souls were eventually able to be recovered from the infinite. Retrieving and repairing the void survey radar from the ocean of information has once again played a role. There are various stories that they have intercepted, and you have materialized those stories and penetrated into those stories to find the meaning of life and the meaning of life. Way."

"Your Majesty, there are no more problems here. The decision-making chronology ends with you making new decisions. And the new decisions are also in line with the "smelting" hope of the Σ civilization - the civilization clears the dead tide in a certain cycle. Pollution, in the long run, this can effectively reduce the probability of civilization encountering an out-of-control super-large-scale fault zone. And after entering the expedition era."

"Your Majesty, there are so many new expressions and new names that are forcibly put together with those words." Kriz quickly looked away temporarily. He felt as if golden stars were about to emerge from him.

"If the explosion of new names during the Decision-making Annals was due to the skyrocketing technological level and extremely fast update and iteration speed at that time, then this time it is completely because different people named the same thing with different ideas, such as the convergence alert model and Crisis prediction models are completely the same thing. They are really messed up. Also, what is going on with these messy feedbacks? Is this considered a special argument?"

At this point, Kriz suddenly fell silent. Through this powerful "information telescope", his eyes slowly scanned the newly born empire - at first, some people asked some relatively sharp questions. It seems that these questions that should have been answered have not been well answered due to a massive lack of cultural integrity. Some weird contradictions and rifts seem to be buried like this

. Time gradually passed, and the empire as a whole began to gradually regain its vitality and vitality. Big fault zone, pollution invasion, emergence of monsters. Kriz looked at the past one by one. He discovered some new abnormal slices "sent" from the future. At the same time, he also saw the thing that caused "the inability to look up" The new impact caused - the pink light seems to have formed an entity in the story, it is like viscous water, permeating everywhere.

"Your Majesty, there are many parts that follow...I can't say anymore."

"Forget it, we have gained enough harvest so far. Kriz, just read the rest of the story."

"yes."

Kriz "dispersed" his gaze and evenly spread it to the remaining targets that had not yet been observed. The heaviest parts of the Empire's history so far began to reveal themselves to Kriz, and Kriz also found that when he looked at them, a growing sense of familiarity emerged in his heart - it turned out that, This is another look at what I saw when I was floating in the void, another way of saying it. Essentially the same content is presented in front of you in different forms.

Things in the past flowed in front of Kriz one by one. He once again saw the content he had been exposed to in the movie viewing class. However, now that he holds level 2-20 clearance, what he can see is no longer excerpted fragments and large, vague and broad outlines. The unlocking of knowledge brought about by the improvement of abilities and permissions gives him the ability to see information that was once unreadable. Although as a "person", his age and his direct experience are incredibly short and shallow relative to his level of authority.

But as a narrative singularity, he has existed in the void for trillions of years. With the awakening of power, these experiences are no longer a cold mass of information. After they were activated, they worked together with the knowledge that Kryz learned and absorbed, supporting all the conditions that Kryz needed to possess such a level of authority.

Kryze knew that the Expedition had lasted over eleven hundred billion years. These eleven thousand years are a mixed bag of emotions for the empire, including longing for the future, dissatisfaction with reality and despair of the status quo, as well as the contradiction of being criticized and reviled while protecting, and even more There is unity and trust that helps each other in times of crisis.

Everything spanned hundreds of millions of years, and their accumulation made Kriz feel that the story was beginning to become thicker and more complete again. Every life, every existence, every word and deed of all things has a reasonable and relatively reliable foundation, and they are no longer helpless and without evidence.

More importantly, Kriz finally saw real "life" in this era. Spacious, bright, sturdy and warm homes are spread across countless worlds in the empire. Here, in this huge territory of order, the big family called the Empire is trying its best to ensure that every member can live freely according to his own will. No matter what these beings want to do, they will eventually You can find your final destination reasonably and legally.

From birth to rest, every link in this process comes from the choices of sentient beings. Admittedly, Kriz knew and saw that this was a somewhat idealistic goal after all. In reality, there will always be accidents of one kind or another coming from different places, and these requirements can never be absolutely 100% flawless.

But this is no reason to stop trying. Kriz recalled what the chief scholar who briefly accompanied him told him not long ago: the direct purpose of launching the Emergence Ritual was not to create a perfect living environment with no problems or errors. This was wrong. The role of the emergence ritual is to change the atmosphere so that the atmosphere can continue to develop in a good direction, and gradually suppress it while this development process is going on. In the end, it may even eliminate all the "soil" that breeds negative content and dark sides.

This is the purpose of initiating the emergence ceremony, and this is the ultimate purpose and meaning of all development and progress.

As his vision continued to deepen, Kryz developed two completely different ways of describing and observing the empire - if he only focused on the most significant events that had ever occurred in the history of the empire and the most important breakthroughs that the creatures of the empire had ever achieved, and progress, then the history of the empire will look like a skeleton-like frame.

The long history is cut into many segments by countless milestones and more anchor points. It seems like the empire is always being invaded by wars and waves of death. The empire is always allying with the order or being betrayed by civilization. The empire is always facing one after another. One problem and one breakthrough after another can only temporarily alleviate the contradiction.

"That's true, but it's not the whole truth."

Kriz changed his perspective and tried to bring himself into the perspective of an "ordinary person" to view the empire, or the path that civilization has taken. In fact, except for the chronology of exile, the chronology of ascension, and the chronology of decision-making by mortals, there is no such thing as a chronology of mortals. At other times, if you want, you can choose to live a life that will not be affected. And those shocking events, those huge waves that can stir up the void, for me

Most of the time, they are just news in the empire network, and their actual impact on you may be so low that it is not as influential as deciding what to play in the next few years.

However, Kriz knew that now he could no longer look at the empire from the perspective of an ordinary person. Relaxation, laughter, and banter are certainly more attractive than all these, but the empire's territory still has boundaries, and beyond the empire's territory there is still a dark void. The Empire is like an island in a dark ocean, an island shining with the light of order. In the black ocean surrounding the island, opportunities and challenges coexist. No one can tell what will jump out of this ocean in the next second.

The threats of death tides and fault zones still exist. The unknown Σ civilization may have unexpected impacts. There may be multiple super civilizations or even top civilizations in the void. What attitude will these unknown beings have towards the empire? What kind of technology they will have and what methods they will use are all unknown.

The topics are dark, heavy and practical. Most of the time, they do not need to be far away from the ordinary people at the top of the pyramid to devote their minds and worries, but there are always people in the entire empire who need to consider these and prepare for the worst possible disasters. It’s still the same sentence—relaxation, joy, laughter, and fun are certainly more attractive than joking, but they cannot support the backbone of the entire empire.

"Rapidly promote a newly born powerful being to a high position with authority second only to the Emperor of the Sky Region, and open all the historical data of the entire empire to this individual. The empire has been at peace for too long. The last time this was done was probably five years ago. That happened 600 billion years ago." Looking at the small figure floating in front of the eyepiece and controlling countless void survey radars, Vidoville whispered to Weisrifan.

"Yes, but this will probably be the only thing that makes everyone happy in the empire for a long time - Narrative Singularity accepts our sincerity and is willing to contribute to the empire. The status quo has been It’s so much better than most possibilities we’ve ever explored.”

"At the same time, this is also another guarantee. As an individual who can use narrative ability as an instinct, his vague narrative record and vague narrative development must be stronger than us who are more focused on destructive power. When the time comes, no matter whether the empire wants to recover He will be a backbone in the recovery process - of course, provided that he will not be contaminated. We also need to be prepared for this."

Along with the small voice, the figure of Weisrifan appeared next to Vidoville. The two figures standing side by side released a light different from purple in the deep arcane ocean that was about to turn black. .

"Wood, Marion Wheeler is already in place. After Kriz finishes his observation, you will take him to the conference room closest to the core of the blazing sun."

"Yeah, I know. And Lil, you've seen Wheeler's plan to unite the Third, Sixth, and Twenty-Two and Twenty-Third Districts to build a memetic research laboratory in the Death Tide Domain. Alright?"

"Well, I've seen it. A newly departed virtual point jump ship discovered a piece of debris of the order field with a somewhat strange nature not far from the empire's border. In this debris, there is a rather large death tower. Gate of the Dead Tide, but what is surprising is that not only is the gate itself extremely strong and stable, but the death tide pollution it releases is not violent. I don’t know what conditions lead to this. A door was generated. But that door really suited Wheeler's needs."

"I estimate that the redundancy coefficient of the unlimited anti-crowding plan will soon be enlarged at the request of His Majesty Wheeler." Vidoville said softly. "In the future, I'm afraid there will be more big plans like this, not less."

".Your Majesties?"

"What's wrong?"

"Your Majesty, I have read all the historical records so far. There are some omissions and inaccuracies in some parts of the expedition chronicle. These contents can be processed with my authority. I have notified the places to be modified. Got it." Kriz said, staring at the flagship behind him.

"very good."

"And Your Majesty, I would like to ask a question, of course, about what can be said."

"speak."

"Your Majesty, I noticed" Kriz hesitated.

"Since the 500 billion year anniversary of the expedition, every 100 billion years, His Majesty Vesrivan will cause the Sun to mutate into a super asymptotic star, and the boundaries of the Sun's order field after the mutation will expand rapidly and release An unusually powerful solar wind is produced. Such solar wind will make the empire's void navigation very dangerous, and after the empire's world is hit by the solar wind, it is equivalent to experiencing a high-intensity earthquake attack."

"Your Majesty, every such actual combat exercise will cause a large number of lives to be seriously injured or even killed, and many worlds will be destroyed. These losses of life and resources are real, and the impact left behind after each such actual combat exercise Is it really necessary that more emergent rituals are needed to make up for this?”

"Well, if that's what you're asking about. Kriz, I want to ask you, do you think the current void is worthy of our gratitude?"

".Grateful to the Void?" This topic confused Kriz. "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"Think about it, although we live in a world of order, we are protected by the order field and world barrier and do not have to face the void. But we are living in the void all the time - we draw inexhaustible extraordinary power from the void , we discharge all the waste we create into the void, and we have been doing this for hundreds of millions of years, but the void is still the same void, and its properties have not changed at all because of our actions."

"And that's not all. Our communications and our navigation all need to pass through the void. The existence of this huge group of empires is inseparable from the stellar wind generated by the void sun and the virtual information floating in the void near the empire. Also, we learn rules, use rules and improve our lives through this knowledge that can be converted into formulas. We can proceed step by step without updating our most basic understanding all the time. All of this is because of emptiness There’s a quality to it – a kind of inertia that manifests itself very, very extreme.”

"Kriz, think about it, if the void does not show extreme inertia, what would happen if the void is very active?"

"Yes" Kriz just deduced a little bit of the content under this prompt, and he felt creepy:

If the void is very active, then the order and the creation laws of the world may change at any time, the old world may collapse and perish at any time, and the new world may be completely different from the old world starting from the underlying structure. The originally stable extraordinary information equations will no longer be able to stably extract power from the void. They may fail or even get out of control! !

If the void is very active, even if the world barrier can temporarily block the restless black ocean, the void still has countless ways to interfere with the existing world of order. Using skyquakes to pour virtual information into the world of order is one of the methods. And even now, when all these negative factors do not exist, the earthquake can still be called a disaster. If the earthquake has a purpose and can think about it, then what will the world of order be like? situation? !

Moreover, the situation is not just that - it is certain that the empire has a large number of derivative structures stored in the void in the form of virtual information, including emergence rituals. The empire needs to rely on the void environment to do many things. If the void environment is no longer inert and stable for long, what will happen to the data flows across the void that sustain the empire? Will most of them deviate from the target, or will they be tampered with on the way across, and by the time they reach the target, they have mutated to the point of being highly toxic?

Even this is considered good - what if all the void routes are cut off because of this? The empire's network connected by powerful equipment may collapse in an instant. The empire will shatter into countless pieces in an instant, shattering into helpless islands and eventually being swallowed up.

If the situation is even more extreme - on the basis of the previous ones, the void will begin to spontaneously produce a large number of strange creatures that will invade the world, and will distort the wisdom and thoughts of any life, turning them into countless mirror images of each other and co-existing with civilization. What about the monsters who died together?

Kriz didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"The void is indeed dark and cold. It can swallow everything and destroy everything. But the void has inertia - extreme inertia. And this inertia is the best gift that the void gives to order."

"Most of the empire does not need to worry about these problems, but there are always people who worry - it is not absolutely impossible that the void will no longer show such inertia in the future. We must always find ways to prepare for this. The temporary losses may seem heavy at the time, but in the end it is much better than being at a loss when we really face these difficulties." Vidoville patted Kriz's shoulder with his wingtip again.

"We still have some things to do."