Star Empire

"What?" The first time Victorville learned the news, he thought he had heard it wrong.

"Your Excellency, I probably anticipated your reaction." Cavinriel spread his hands and smiled helplessly, "Indeed, its existence exceeds everyone's expectations, including ours of course, but this is The real truth is that it can sail through the void.”

"So, you..."

"Your Excellency, it may take several days and nights to explain this." Cavinriel interrupted Vidoville's surprise, "I suggest that the three of you should first understand the knowledge about the void after arriving at the command center."

"I have to say, this place is really beyond my imagination, no matter from every aspect." Ikarim looked at this environment that was completely beyond his knowledge, and he couldn't help but look forward to the future.

In this new super space station, the efficiency of the teleportation halo has been further improved. In the past, short-distance instantaneous teleportation was divided into two steps. The first step was to directly restore the material body to an atomic state while preserving the soul. Uploading, then reorganizing the body and injecting the soul at the new target location, this is considered a complete transfer.

However, Vidoville noticed that after they mastered the technology of information unification, the original movement process seemed to have undergone some changes - the coordinates could be directly corrected.

Although Vidoville also wanted Cavin Riel to talk about some of what happened during this period, the idea of ​​​​prioritizing efficiency still made him decide to go to the main control room first to deal with the current problems before dealing with historical issues.

In the main control room of the space station, four white haloes lit up at the same time, and the figures of the four people gradually turned from illusory to solid. When the outline of the last clothing accessory was completed, the teleportation aperture went out.

"Two consuls! Ah, Ikarim is here too! I'm glad to see you again!" Upon seeing this, Isendel came forward happily.

"Thank you for your hard work. I'm glad that you can make such great progress despite such changes... Zhai Cahir, are you tired enough to let yourself go?"

"Your Excellency... please stop making fun of me..." Zhai Cahir sat up with great effort. Before, he was not so much sitting on the chair as he was stretched out on the chair - "In order to dismantle those complicated Information structure, my eyes have been damaged at least hundreds of times in the past two thousand years... Now I have finally summarized these conclusions into positive results, let me take a rest, anyway, the main and deputy commander of this spacecraft is Eisen Del and Kevin Riel, my work has been completed..."

"Okay, okay, just rest." Vidoville shook his head slightly. As the chief scientist and chief control technician of the information collection network, he is very competent, but perhaps he has been immersed in the information network for a long time, which can be said to be chaotic massive data. The interaction... led to his personality being somewhat... maverick.

"Maybe it's been soaked for too long..."

"Several of you, in this universe and this civilization, the void exploration ship will conduct its first manned void trial in one hour from the standard time of this civilization. During the preparation of the spacecraft, please connect to the regional main network database to understand this part of the relevant knowledge. Although This time is not too long, but during this time, the density of things we have done and what we will do is unprecedented in ancient and modern times.

"Okay, uh... the standard interface of the ultra-large-capacity data transmission belt has not changed." Standing at the data exchange interface, Vidoville glanced at the new equipment and found that it had almost no changes. After Vidoville lifted up his collar and hair to expose the back of his neck, the golden light particles that were originally floating irregularly in the ring were instantly elongated and reorganized into shining threads. These silk threads danced gently one by one on the back of Victorville's neck. In the pulsating light of the bright line, a vast amount of knowledge was immediately input into the minds of Victorville and the other three.

A feeling of dizziness followed, but compared to the once violent and disorderly crystal energy peak, these external existences that gave people a splitting headache at first soon became clear and distinct, like the turbid waves rolling on the river. For clear flow.

…

"This universe has a five-minute countdown. Please conduct the last self-check of the hull sensor system of the exploration ship and wait for departure instructions." An ancient and unwavering male voice drew Victorville's attention from the ocean of void knowledge.

"This universe..."

…

Taking advantage of the current time gap, he carefully looked at this place. Apart from the celestial sphere panoramic display, there were quite a few things here that looked even primitive. For example, it was supposed to be the most advanced place in the world. The consciousness coordination console disappeared, replaced by a bulky physical console and a huge operating team that could only be found in databases recording ancient paper materials.

What's even more exaggerated is that there are a large number of manual control devices wherever he can see, and these devices are also matched with huge antenna arrays that are completely inconsistent with their identities, and are strutting on the outer shell of the space station. In the panoramic display environment, the upper shell of the space station has been opened, and these antenna arrays extend from the lower end of the console like spikes, pointing to the crystal energy vortex in the distance, like a gold-plated stibnite. The same thing, just many times larger.

If a person who has not understood the situation comes here, he will definitely think that the backward manual console and exaggerated antenna array here are completely ridiculous, but Vidoville, who has just completed the course, knows that these seemingly backward equipment are solidified. How much seriousness, caution, and hard work.

The void is far more cruel and cold than imagined.

"One minute countdown, all personnel are in place, and the spacecraft is about to launch." In the AI ​​broadcast, Weisrifan and Ikarim completed the knowledge acquisition one after another. After hearing the pre-prompt that the spacecraft was about to depart, they also rushed We came to the console to witness this historic moment together.

"Start the spaceship and head to the rift in the world. Pay attention to monitoring your own navigation parameters." In the prompt tone of the space station AI, Cavinriel and Isendel released the restrictions of the spacecraft at the same time. At the tail of the spacecraft, the originally streamlined tail and tail were The needle-shaped vacuum zero-point energy constraint antennas have all disappeared, replaced by five huge energy nozzles. The overall shape is somewhat similar to the bundled long-distance development spacecraft originally used.

After a short period of fine-tuning the attitude of the spacecraft, the five energy nozzles began to slowly light up. A layer of pale golden light film swept across the outer shell of the spacecraft like flowing water and quickly wrapped the spacecraft. The spacecraft began to accelerate, and the soft light emitted by the tail thruster soon turned into a dazzling golden flame. After the spacecraft reached a certain speed, the hull stagnated for an instant, and then disappeared from the monitoring range at an extremely fast speed. Only a shining golden ribbon left in space roughly pointed out the course of the spacecraft.

"Is this... the actual effect of the new jump technology?" Vidoville looked at the golden light path that was slowly spreading in space, "In this way, this new technology does not produce starlight distortion when the spacecraft enters the jump state. Well, the original warp space bubble transition will have a reality distortion when entering the parallel movement stage, and the crystal energy should logically have a greater influence on the world itself."

"You are right, Archon." Eisendel turned to look at Vidoville, "The crystal energy vortex, as a huge and unstable information source, has a great impact on the universe. Now the time in our area Offset is one of the strongest proofs.

But if crystal energy wants to have an impact on the world, it must also have a corresponding evolutionary mapping environment. It can be said that a very important part of the level of crystal energy control is to reduce the consumption caused by the trend of crystal energy pushing towards unnecessary information. Now, all we can do is to increase the information-driven utilization rate of energy crystal energy to 80% - and for the rest, our current value assignment level is limited. "

"Therefore, some of the degradation products can only be released as waste, and the result is what you see, the light band remaining in space. But you don't have to worry about what impact it will have. Those parts that cannot be used are very It can be quickly converted into chaotic matter and eventually decay into hydrogen or helium and then dissipate, and you don’t have to worry about it causing too much pressure on the entire world.”

"Yeah. And just now in the information, I also saw a research plan for a new engine, but there was no explanation. What kind of driving method is it?"

"Coordinate definition engine? Ah, that is something that even we think is crazy." Speaking of this, Vidoville and even Eisendel himself felt like telling another mythical story, "In the unification of information, the universe itself As a huge information aggregate, everything that makes up it is also information, and naturally includes location. Of course, the universe does not need a coordinate system. The coordinate system is the tool we use to measure the universe."

"Now, the driving methods we have use the fluctuation and decay of one set of information to set and promote the movement trend of another set of information, such as consuming crystal energy to enable the spacecraft to jump."

"The fundamental purpose of making the spacecraft move is to make the spacecraft appear in the different locations in the universe that we need. If we think about it this way, the coordinate definition engine directly makes the spacecraft appear in our space by modifying the spacecraft's own information parameters. at the required coordinates, thereby eliminating the need for information fluctuations and attenuation to promote changes in information trends.”

"If this technology appears one day, then we will be able to appear in any direction in the universe at any time - the front-end test body already exists, which is the direct position change you feel during the movement, which is the coordinate correction The effects of the engine, of course, are still very primitive from our perspective.”

"This does sound very far away, even a bit illusory, but at the same time, since there is enough theoretical support, and even a considerable amount of preparation... I need more time to understand, you continue to work hard, researchers at the forefront will It’s just you.” Weisrifan held his chin and thought for a while, “I believe it will come true.”

At this time, Ikarim, who was left alone, was completely confused. If he could understand part of the conversation between him and Vesrifan when Vidoville was in a state of aura before, So what he was facing now could be said to be an out-and-out fairy talk.

"The exploration ship has exited the jump mode and confirmed that it has reached the navigation mark!"

"The crystal energy engine is converted to regular power mode, the shield is fully opened, the shipboard computer begins to match the world barrier format, and the order field is ready to merge with the world barrier!" Under the command of Cavinriel, many console operators were originally in darkness. The screens or locked handles also lit up or popped up one after another, and countless jumping data and curves flashed in them.

And far away, the tail of the spacecraft is spitting out a long golden flame, rushing towards the center of the crystal energy vortex. Judging from the picture transmitted back by the spacecraft, it is originally like an ornament dotted in the center of the crystal energy vortex. The black round hole has now turned into a giant black eye that occupies the entire field of vision, and looks like a giant black wall standing at the edge of the world. A strong sense of oppression was released from the screen, and Eisendel had to order to lower the display priority of the return screen.

"So, that black area is the void?" Vidoville asked curiously.

"No, Your Excellency, there is void after crossing that black hole. Before crossing that barrier, the spaceship always exists in the world of order."

"Barrier?" Vidoville repeated the word. "The barrier you are talking about refers to the world barrier that is the boundary of the universe?"

"Yes, the world barrier is the boundary line of the ordered world. Outside the world loop, its structure is also an "ID card" that reflects the characteristics of the world's information. At present, we can determine the composition of the world barrier: a set of self-consistent The information boundary layer functions like a biological cell membrane. The more detailed components of this set of information can be divided into three types: time, space, and law. These components can appropriately reflect all the backbone information of the internal environment of the universe. "

"The system coordination is completed, and the spacecraft order field generating device is pre-activated, ready to merge with the world barrier!"

At the front end of the spacecraft, an invisible force field spread like ripples. As the force field continued to strengthen, some bizarre flashes began to appear on the originally lightless black plane. Along with these indescribable flashes of light and shadow, the figure of the spacecraft became more and more illusory and finally disappeared.

Seeing the spacecraft disappearing in front of everyone, Victorville and the other three couldn't help but sweat, but the following instructions made them sigh in relief. "The fusion is completed, the spacecraft engine switches to void navigation mode, and the order field is fully opened!"

"Did that just now show the successful integration of the exploration ship and the world barrier?" Vidoville took a long, deep breath, "There is indeed such a step in the data, but there is no detailed record of the scene when it happened. If you change it to someone who doesn't understand the situation, If someone comes, he will definitely think that there is an accident."

"...I'm sorry, Archon, this is an oversight on our part." Cavernelle solemnly apologized to Vidoville, "The world barrier is not a completely physical existence, it is closer to a theoretically established mathematical entity. The information structure prevents the disordered void from invading the ordered universe. The integration process of the spacecraft's order field and the world barrier is to allow the spacecraft to acquire properties similar to those of the world barrier to obtain a "pass code."

"The world barrier looks huge from within our universe, but if you jump out of the universe, the world barrier is a representation of the universe in the void. In this case, the order field of the spacecraft and this barrier are on the information level. It can even be said that when the order field of the spacecraft merges with the world barrier, the spacecraft can freely define and appear at any boundary position in the universe."

"The spacecraft has jumped into the void, and all systems in the ship are currently working well." In the picture displayed on the secondary screen, the picture from the perspective of the spacecraft disappeared.

"Attention all auxiliary operators, start monitoring the changing speed of various information patterns inside the spacecraft, especially time. Once the distortion exceeds the warning threshold, perform manual correction immediately!" Orders began to fall back from words and will to various valves. And on the handle: "The void scanning array begins to blur the positioning to ensure that the area where the order field is located is roughly visible..."

"By the way, Isendel." Weisruifan suddenly reached out and poked the science officer in front of him, "What is the mission of your manned trial flight this time? To confirm the self-sustainability of the spacecraft or to study the possible appearance of people in the void environment. Variety?"

"No, Your Excellency Weisrifan." Isendel replied with a smile, "The main mission of this trial voyage is to send these people to another universe."

"What?" Weisrifan immediately raised his head with a serious face, "This is too arrogant!"

"No, Archon." Isendel took a step back slightly, keeping a comfortable distance from the girl in front of him. "We have used unmanned detectors and removed life support for all tests that are dangerous and uncertain. The actual ship of the module is completed. Now we have mastered the relatively stable void short-distance communication technology and the order field-world barrier fusion law, and the stability of the spacecraft's void engine has long been verified."

"We have determined that sufficient self-explanation and self-adaptive correction capabilities can ensure that it is still safe to cross the universe. We will not drift with the tide, let alone be submerged. There may still be differences, but we can maintain ourselves to a very high degree. independence, and lower dependence on the circumstances the world provides.”

"As long as there is no human error, the probability of the spacecraft crashing is low. And what is even more exciting is that in the first power-on test after we developed the void communication system, we scanned large-scale information sources that do not belong to our universe , and the "distance" of the void is extremely close, so we arranged such a task."

"Then how are you sure that the spacecraft can still survive and operate in other universes?" Faced with such an explanation, Weisrifan was still a little dissatisfied. The sudden changes in the environment on both sides and the faint uneasiness in her heart made her rationality seem a little confused, although she She also knows that everyone here may be more authoritative than her.

"... When the world barrier is fused, the order field will carry out certain information transformation on the entire spacecraft so that all information bodies in the order field can better adapt to the environment of the new universe; on the one hand, we correct the frequency of the order field, and on the other hand, we change the frequency of the order field. The waves in it are extracted and analyzed and embodied as a basis for correction of the adaptability of the law."

"Furthermore, the level of crystal energy is higher than that of conventional physical laws. Even if the laws or laws of other universes are too different from ours, the adaptive variation of the order field cannot make up for it. Relying on the crystal energy fused by the spacecraft and individual members , can also resist for quite a long time.”

"oh."

"Chief Eisendel, the exploration ship has completed the expected information offset, do you approve the "fusion" request?" Next to Eisendel, an operator who was monitoring the information feedback channel asked.

"Allow fusion, pay attention to recording data and internal changes in the spacecraft. If any distortion exceeds half of the total allowable amount, stop this operation." Eisendel ordered.

"The exploration ship begins the fusion process with the barrier of the alien world! Pay attention to monitoring all situations at all times!"

Four minutes later, Isendel received feedback from the probe ship.

"Is there a two-minute communication delay..." Cavinriel frowned slightly.

Under the current conditions, communication in the void environment not only suffers from delays, but also has extremely limited capacity. Cavenriel and Isendel have no way to track the spacecraft immediately. They can only rely on the information sent back occasionally and the reports of manual calibration operators to roughly determine whether the status of the spacecraft is safe. Moreover, this is the first communication and what needs to be debugged. More, and the time reflected in this was even longer - about an hour later, Eisendel received information from the exploration ship again.

"The exploration ship has completed the fusion of world barriers and entered this new universe. Currently, all systems are working well and the order field has been closed."

"Please roughly describe the basic measurement items of the new universe." When communication is limited, the content is naturally as concise as possible and the capacity is as small as possible.

Six minutes later, a new message was delivered to the control room. The difference is that these words are marked with different colors and are beating slightly. Through the previous injection of knowledge, Vidoville knew that this was a "code word" agreed upon to reduce communication capacity in a void environment where communication was limited. The meaning of the sentence explained the situation, and the changes in the words explained the mood.

"The physical laws and cosmological constants of the new universe are very different from our universe; some element samples have been obtained, and they have the same properties as the elements of the original universe." These words danced gently, showing the doubts and excitement of the members of the exploration ship.

"The similarity is so high..." After learning about the new universe, Isendel and Cavinriel were also very excited. The conditions of an additional universe are almost negligible compared with the current universe. This This means that as long as there are enough ships, the Federation will own a large area of ​​XJ territory!

"Your Excellency Vidoville, Your Excellency Vesrifan, do you want to order the exploration ship to start pioneering operations in the new universe?" the two commanders asked for instructions.

"No, we still know too little about the new universe. When you were commanding me, I also learned about our void navigation technology and strength. With our current conditions, we cannot give even the best to the exploration ship in the new universe. And with enough support, once they encounter a possible native civilization in the process of opening up the new universe, the advance troops may be caught off guard." Vidoville said without thinking.

"I also agree, let the exploration ship return first." Wei Ruifan also expressed his opinion, "You can already send manned spacecraft to other universes, so unmanned spacecraft should also be possible. Use unmanned spacecraft first. Thoroughly understand the overview of that universe before making the next decision.”

"We have... Okay, we understand." Eisendel stood at attention and saluted, "Void antenna array, broadcast, order the detection ship to return with samples!"

…

Twenty minutes later, the receiving array still received only endless clutter.

"What's going on?" Eisendel and Cavinriel couldn't help but feel a little anxious, "Hasn't the exploration ship responded yet?"

"No communication signal that meets the format has been received yet." The correspondent was also a little nervous, "Chief, such a delay..."

"Alert! A large-scale information source fluctuation has been detected in the void within the detection range! The frequency collapse of the target universe and world has been confirmed! Repeat, a large-scale information source fluctuation has been detected in the void within the detection range! The frequency collapse of the target universe and world has been confirmed !”