Star Empire

The giant malicious metameme fell, and the Σ fleet as an unexpected interlude was finally annihilated, and the war ended.

After the war, the powerful war machines that originally walked on the battlefield changed their roles. They transformed into arks that saved the lives and creations of the empire.

The life of the empire must be said to be tenacious, the countless preparations made by the empire must be said to be comprehensive, and the resources reserved by the empire must be said to be abundant. However, when facing an unprecedented extraterritorial enemy like a giant malicious metameme, these Preparation is still not enough to guarantee that everything will be safe.

Many lives and worlds perished in the war, and among those who survived, the damage they suffered has exceeded the threshold that can be repaired by self-rescue and mutual rescue. They need outside, more powerful help.

And these external, more powerful help will be provided by the empire's army.

They defended the empire in wars against foreign enemies. And in the war to save the lives and creations of the Empire, they also protect the Empire.

After the order is given, they know what they should do, and they also know how they should do it.

When the imperial fleet dispersed into a sky full of sparks and sprinkled on the "wounds" located throughout the empire, the emperors and other senior managers from various regions of the empire had already gathered together.

The giant malicious meta-meme has been destroyed, no doubt about it. The records preserved during the battle clearly record the collapse and disintegration of the giant malevolent metameme and countless monsters born from it. All the contamination effects caused by the giant malicious metameme have also disappeared. Five no longer has the effect of melting consciousness. Numbers and paragraphs containing the factor five are no longer out of control. All pink lights and blurred fields in the historical record have disappeared in an instant. All revealed, except as blurs, they are no longer corrosive.

The Empire has no evidence that the giant malevolent meta-meme still exists, and at its current level, the Empire cannot question this.

Although the giant malicious metameme has fallen, there are still many problems it caused that have not been solved.

On the Void Fierce Sun, which has regained its calm, a summary meeting on these remaining issues has begun.

"First of all, I hope that everyone will speak actively without losing careful thinking." Vidoville first said. "For the current empire, these problems may not be solved yet. But there is no doubt that these problems are very important, and any of them will have a profound impact on the empire."

As Vidoville spoke, a series of questions were projected into everyone's minds:

1. What is the curtain? How does the curtain work? Why does the curtain exist?

2. What is the relationship between the falling fog and the birth of the world? Is there a possible connection between the image of falling fog and the dead tide?

3. Why do Σ’s creations appear again and again? Where are these creations of Σ civilization located now? What is their current status? ΣThe final action of the decisive battle flagship was intended to show something? If so, how should we interpret the meaning of Σ's decisive battle with the flagship?

4. Regarding infinity and its collective potential, did the empire intentionally ignore them in the process of development?

Do I need to be extra cautious about numerical concepts?

"Everyone can put forward their opinions on a specific issue, or express their opinions on an entire item or multiple items. They are very likely to be related to each other." Vidoville said.

"Then let's enter the free speech stage."

"First of all, I want to make it clear that we have not yet actually observed the exact entity of the curtain, but through the various phenomena that have been observed so far, we can already determine that it actually exists." Wheeler started. He said that at this time, he had changed his mental appearance, and the previous sloppiness and decadence had been completely gone.

"The uninterrupted observations of the Black Gate Fortress for more than 800 billion years have shown that the impact of giant malicious meta-memes has shown a stepwise upward trend. During the observation process, we compared a large number of models related to information intrusion. The final conclusion reached by the lower area of ​​​​the Gate Fortress is as follows: "

"When external information invades a closed or semi-closed environment, if the environment is protected by a homogeneous/isolating protective layer or a repellent protective layer that gradually weakens from the inside out, the information receiver located in the environment will receive a similar stepwise rising influence curve. When the actual incident broke out, drastic changes in the virtual information environment were observed from around the body of the giant malicious metameme, which is in line with "when the intrusion process breaks through the critical point, "The derivatives of the invaded body will be leaked out of the main body."

"If the "veil" has been completely confirmed to exist, then our old views on extraordinary information will be greatly impacted. At the same time, we also need to further improve our views on the former "three-order" theory." In After Wheeler finished speaking, Ikarim, the rotating emperor of the Seventh Heaven District, began his speech.

"The decay of extraordinary information is most likely caused by this "curtain." Extraordinary information and the world are most likely the final product formed under the curtain after something in the void invaded the curtain."

"At present, the "curtain" is considered to have two states: uniformity and gradually weakening intensity from the inside out - if this can be further proven, then we can better explain why extraordinary information regardless of its nature and geometry But they are all at the same level, why is the world still at the same level no matter how huge the deviation is. Furthermore, we can also make a more complete explanation for content such as levels and the division of three levels."

"However, if we cannot further observe the actual structure of the curtain and determine the relevant properties of the curtain, we cannot be sure whether these theories are completely universal." Mu Chen, the rotating emperor of the 42nd Heaven District, said.

"Chairman Kryze captured a clear relationship between "decay" and Genesis activity while conducting void observations, after which the Empire used improved observation methods to determine the reality and universality of this phenomenon. But these examples only It can be shown that the process of the birth of the world cannot falsify the curtain theory and the three-dimensional hierarchy theory, but it cannot be proved either.”

"It is probably quite difficult to observe the curtain itself and determine the specific structure and specific construction method of the curtain. If we must treat it so rigorously, these discoveries may not be transformed into theoretical results that can be used by the empire." The fourteenth district's The two special emperors of Tiansheng No. 1 and the Immortal Holy Power of the 34th Tiandi expressed certain concerns about this.

"The curtain is definitely not simple. Chairman Kriz can't find a suitable way to label it to explain why he thinks that the fog that triggered the Genesis event was smashed down "from top to bottom." This shows that the curtain can no longer be used with ordinary methods. described in a hyperdimensional way.”

"At the same time, if we are sure that the world and extraordinary information were indeed blocked by the curtain and then formed after decay, then we can first confirm that finding the curtain is very difficult - at least no less difficult than finding the dying tide field It’s difficult to find where the partition wall that completely separates us from Order is. Also, the curtain may be even harder to find.”

"It's harder to find?" Vidoville looked at the core of life in Field No. 1 and the consciousness projection of the Immortal Holy Power: "Why do you say that?"

"First, if the above contents are true, then there should be a curtain at the crack in the world barrier. However, we have not observed that there is a "real structure" that can decay the void at the crack in the world barrier. We cannot The coordinates confirmed when entering the Dead Tide Gate are the same. The high consistency of these two situations determines that the difficulty of finding the curtain is at least equal to finding the "Dead Tide Partition Wall."

"Second, no one, including Chairman Kriz, has been able to clearly explain or observe exactly where the fog leaks in for hundreds of millions of years. The narrative method cannot explore where the curtain is, and we are missing a lot of information. Fuzzy detection means.”

"Third, everyone knows this. For a long, long time, our description of the specific decay methods and specific sources of extraordinary information has been very general and vague. If we want to add these contents, then we A clearer explanation must be given to the ambiguous parts of our previously vague descriptions, which will bring huge changes to the entire empire, and we cannot but consider the possible impact of these situations."

".Indeed." Vidoville nodded.

"These new discoveries will only affect the tectonic theory at present, and they will not have a big impact on the already clear discovery results." Kriz further sorted out the complex story line that was entangled in front of him, "The summary is that through observation, we The conclusions drawn from studying existing things will not be subversively affected. Because they are objective realities, they will not disappear just because we understand and observe them from a different angle."

"For example, regarding the Death Tide - the currently relatively accepted view is still the "opposite of order." Previously, the Death Tide was suspected by the empire to be a place where huge amounts of data were stored, with strong contamination and deletion capabilities. The meme pool of antimemes, the death tide, has also been speculated by some scholars as to whether it is formed by the accumulation of residues gradually peeled off during the operation of order."

"In the past, our understanding of the death tide was diverse. In the future, the empire's understanding of the death tide may change. However, the death tide is highly polluting and highly contagious. The death tide has clear manifestations in the world of order. Unstable black and red two-dimensional patterns will appear on the surface of beings contaminated by it, and "dead tide creatures" may appear inside the dead tide, etc. These phenomena will not disappear as our understanding of the dead tide changes. For already clear discovery results, their impact is not large and will not affect the actual use of existing results."

"The new discovery is currently judged not to interfere with the existing emergence system and emergence rituals." Vera, the rotating emperor of the 16th Sky District, said.

"Speaking of the death tide, I think what I saw when fighting the Σ decisive battle flagship may affect the empire's understanding of the death tide." Vidoville showed his simplified model to everyone again: "Yes I saw that among the extraordinary messages emitted by me, some of the clumps bounced off by Doomsday-Creation would "smash out" circles of black and red patterns after falling onto the plane containing the origin. . And these black and red patterns are obviously created by the Doomsday-Creation flagship of the decisive battle. I guess, are these scenes explaining to us how Σ civilization once understood the relationship between the death tide and the world of order?"

"It looks like a spreading stress."

"What?"

"I mean, those black and red concentric circles are very similar to the scene where the stress caused by an object is being squeezed by an external object and spreads inside it." Eisendel looked at those patterns and said seriously. "And if we consider that the "fog" that can cause the creation is from top to bottom, can we think that the death tide may also be the stress generated by something? And the "something" here can be The world? Or the orderly environment of everything itself?”

After Isendel finished speaking, the meeting place fell into silence, but the silence did not last long before it was broken by Ye Li, the rotating emperor of the 37th Day District:

"Everyone, as Chairman Kriz just said, the change in the understanding of the death wave does not affect our contact and war with the death wave. Isendel's new speculation just sounds really worrying. , but the empire’s various ways of understanding the Death Tide in the past have something in common with the new speculations, and this commonality is that “the Death Tide can completely and completely destroy all ordered worlds.”

"So, we don't need to pay too much attention to this new speculation itself for the time being. I think what is more worthy of our concern is the scene that His Majesty Victorville saw afterwards. If our understanding is not wrong, that scene looks like a death wave It was like a full-blown explosion in an instant.”

"Yes, a full-scale outbreak - and the decisive battle flagship seemed to imply that we had such an outbreak because of "too much order."" Vidoville's expression was somewhat solemn. "And in the next scene, the punctured hole seems to imply the "bridge" of Σ civilization."

"So. ΣCivilization once believed that if too much order accumulated in the void, all the death tide pollution would burst out in an instant? Is that why they went to great lengths to build that "Void Bridge"? What if? If that's the case, then we may have to consider building bridges as well."

"But the Empire doesn't know anything about bridges? Even if we really need this bridge, we have no way to start."

"Quiet for now, everyone, don't get excited." Dornier asked everyone to calm down first. "These contents are only speculations at present, and we do not need to directly construct the future based on this information that is not yet certain to be castles in the air."

"And. At present, even if all the above speculations are true, there is no need for us to worry about the "death wave pollution outbreak" for the time being." Aloal then added, "The arrival of giant malicious meta-memes will at least bring about A collection of information with a total amount of Aleph's potential came, but the death wave did not change too obviously. And the fluctuation of false information brought - "

"Wait!" Victorville suddenly thought of something, "Speaking of virtual information, the "vesicles" surrounding Σ's creation all appear when virtual information fluctuates violently, right? Great fault zone, narrative singularity , giant malicious meta-memes. They will all cause violent disturbances to the false information environment, and only under such circumstances will the vesicles of the creations that reported Σ civilization appear - then, Σ civilization still has quite a huge The power lies outside the veil?!”

"If this is indeed the case, then we may need to consider unlimited military expansion again." Speaking of this, everyone's expressions became solemn, and Vidoville found that compared to the chance of winning for the imperial armed forces, When it comes to Zero's giant malicious meta-meme, people seem to pay more attention to the less powerful Σ fleet. I wonder if it's because the power of the giant malicious meta-meme has made it less realistic for everyone.

"However, it seems that they are not simply located outside the curtain." Vidoville continued his memories.

"When the narrative singularity matured, the Σ creations arrived, but at that time they sent a box of very special information annihilation missiles, and chose to self-destruct directly after the goods were delivered. And these latest times The death tide pollution on Σ creations is still very "fresh", it looks more like it was shortly after the infection, and it doesn't look like it has been there for more than two trillion years."

"The decisive battle flagship is infected with the death tide. If the Σ civilization did not build additional decisive battle flagships, then all the decisive battle flagships should have been infected at the same time. However, the continuous observation and historical records of the infection of the death tide pollutants All show that the technological creations that have just been infected by the death wave should be in a very chaotic state. They should not be able to participate in such a battle, let alone make various tactical actions."

"In short, there is nothing wrong with the general direction of continuing to strengthen the empire's armed forces. Our current technology is still inferior to Σ. We can only rely on local operations and numerical advantages - we must be prepared."

"And the current situation is also conducive to us carrying out a relatively large-scale military expansion."

"The Star Empire's Five Heavens Constellation needs to be rebuilt, which may take a long time."

"So, what about the concept of numbers? Do you have anything to say?" Vidoville glanced around.

"Um"

"In this case."

"Your Majesty, I don't think we can take effective measures against such a thing."

"…Does everyone agree with this point of view?"

"...Yes, Your Majesty."

"Okay." Vidoville said helplessly, "Then, we need to discuss some more practical issues next."

"A more practical question?" Aloal repeated this sentence several times in a low voice. He always felt that something that needed to be discussed was left out, but what exactly was left out?

"Then, we need to modify some of the national policies that were once formulated to combat giant malicious meta-memes, so that the empire can develop better in the future."

Before Aloal could think of what he had missed, a new topic started.