Star Empire

The Imperial fleet, transformed into a search and rescue team, is patrolling among the wreckage of the void.

In the battle not long ago, giant malicious metamemes emitted pink light into the empire several times. These continuous pink lights will form a world neighborhood that can cause powerful "void gravity" within a considerable range. Under the strong external force formed by these world neighborhoods, many branches of the world were destroyed even if they were not directly hit by the pink light or even quite far away from the pink light itself.

However, these damages are not absolute. Many branches of the imperial world in the critical area have not been directly "erased" by the impact of the pink light. There are a large number of worlds that have not been involved in the devastating pink light.

The conditions of these "wreck" worlds vary. Wreck worlds in better condition still have power and the world barrier is still in good condition. The world in the second worst situation temporarily loses power and cannot effectively shift in the void, but it can still ensure that the world barrier is in good condition. As for worlds in poorer conditions, their world barriers are often in trouble, and the void begins to pour into the interior of the world and destroy the order of time and space in the world. Such worlds are listed as key areas for search and rescue, requiring careful search and rescue by the imperial fleet. Proceed with caution.

The shattering of the world barrier not only means that the influx of void has begun to erode the interior of the world. In this case, it also means that there will be a considerable loss of information in the world, just like a large piece of the world has been removed with all the flesh. Same.

The "skin" here is the barrier of the world, and the "flesh" is the various information that makes up the inner world. The world was torn out of large pieces of flesh and blood, and it was not just as simple as a piece of space or some stars being gouged out. Its defects are full-dimensional, and destruction and fracture will occur in any form and at any level.

For the empire, if such damage occurs to the world of the empire and cannot be corrected immediately by sovereign facilities such as the World Loop Seat, it means that the entire world, including the World Loop Seat, has experienced serious problems. damaged. The world is already a leaky ship, and there is a risk of further "sinking" or even "capsizing" at any time. The living forces within it need to be transferred out and settled elsewhere as soon as possible.

At least, after finding the survivors in the wreckage of the world, you only need to take them away. You don’t need to give them too much advice, and it doesn’t take long to appease them. Due to the past policies of the empire, the empire’s Beings call the world their home. They do not pinpoint a certain planet, galaxy or world as their home. It is not difficult for them to move around.

At the same time, since the beings of the empire rarely remembered each other in the past, they did not need to break away from the existing network of relationships, nor did they need to try to integrate into new ones - they only needed to complete their subconscious activities, and they could easily adapt to the new network. life and integrate into the new environment.

As for the shattered remains of the world?

Just wait until the subsequent engineering ships collect the equipment or artifacts that are still valuable for recycling, blow the remaining parts into pieces, and let the void break them down. In this regard, the Empire has never been stingy.

In the wreckage of a damaged world, a truth-class battleship of the imperial fleet was slowly scanning the star sea that was no longer complete.

Most areas inside the ship are in a stable inactive state at this time, and the solid bulkheads divide several physical cabins within the ship. In these cabins, there are thousands of neatly arranged treatment cabins distributed on both sides of the wide passage. Most of the people who are in a dormant state in these treatment cabins have suffered serious damage to their bodies and souls.

Before the empire's official rescue team arrived, most of the survivors in the wreckage world had completed self-rescue and mutual rescue. For individuals that they are unable to rescue under the current circumstances, they will mark the presence of the trapped person as much as possible. Such individuals are the main search and rescue targets of the Imperial fleet.

Typically, individuals who cannot be rescued by ordinary means by other beings in the Imperium may be trapped in complex situations - such as being too weak or too damaged to be located by outsiders, or being in a location that is too complex to be located. The building has serious malfunctions and cannot be dismantled using the pre-programmed manual disassembly method, etc. When dealing with such individuals, special care must be taken whether searching or rescuing.

Outside of these fixed cabins, the internal structure of the ship is still in a fully activated state, and the equipment no longer has an entity, but appears as a mass of flowing light. The operators also turn their bodies and thoughts into streamers, and interact with these devices continuously and without delay.

"Captain, all plug-ins are operating in good condition, the life search radar and ground penetrating radar are operating normally, and the life treatment module is working normally."

"The search for the current working section has been completed. The ship is about to enter the next working section and start dividing scanning sectors."

"Check the boundary of order time and space again. The speed of void intrusion has been suppressed. The current location of the ship is safe!"

The Truth-class battle carrier is advancing slowly, and at the same time, several invisible scanning waves are continuously emitted from the hull. They will sweep across the space buildings and planets floating in space and directly penetrate them. When the ground-penetrating radar completes the perspective, the life-searching radar can easily find the weakest life signal wrapped in layers of thick armor and shields.

In one working segment, the sector drawn by one scanning wave is enough to scan all the celestial objects in the entire galaxy. During the continuous scanning process, the celestial sphere formed by the entire working section will gradually be densely covered by these sectors. After each celestial sphere is completed, the battleship will go to the working section and continue to repeat such work.

"Captain, the ground-penetrating radar shows that there are a total of 157 shadow points that cannot be seen through in the three sectors of this scan. The shadow types have been analyzed and all shadow points are in the relevant areas. Caused by a component failure in the protective armor."

"Use the main gun to cut the shadow." After analyzing the situation, Captain jehfs4314 issued the order.

"Confirm the order and load the main gun!"

On the outside of the shield at the bow of the ship, a small golden sun quickly condensed into a smooth sphere. It maintained complete synchronization with the slowly advancing battleship, as if there was a non-existent rod connecting the small sun to the battleship. Like being bound together.

"All shadow points have been locked, the calculation of the ship's motion status has been completed, and the synchronization has been completed."

"emission."

The order was given, and the little golden sun floating in front of the ship's bow simultaneously fired out one hundred and fifty-seven slender beams of light less than half a meter in diameter. These slender light beams spanned time and space, penetrated all obstacles in front of the shadow point without delay, and made direct contact with the shadow point.

"Captain, it has been confirmed that the formation of one hundred and fifty-seven shadow points is due to the variation in the properties of the protective materials in the relevant areas. The protective armor at the one hundred and fifty-seven armor bad spots and the internal space wrapped by them have all been destroyed. They no longer respond to commands input from the outside world. We cannot directly disintegrate them or bypass them through commands."

"Start cutting."

"Confirm the command, the main gun loads the control script and starts cutting the damaged armor."

The golden crystal energy light in contact with the damaged point was originally just like a beam of light shining from a long distance, but after the control script was loaded, the crystal energy contained in the artillery fire immediately began to perform complex operations as if it had wisdom. As he moved, the inside of the light seemed to have grown fine teeth, and they began to gently but unswervingly file the outer surface of the solid armor.

Under their rapid filing, the layers of peeled off debris were discarded into the corners next to them. The thick armor plates and the gaps in the armor were filled with large crystals that were soon completely drilled through. After these shadow-forming things were broken, the outside world was finally able to illuminate these dark corners.

"Captain, the statistics are complete. Of the one hundred and fifty-seven shadow points, ninety-three were damaged due to the disturbance caused by the pink light, nineteen showed severe corrosion marks, and forty-five were artificially blocked from the inside. . No imperial life or corpses were found in any shadow points. This situation has been recorded in the work log."

"I got it." The light group that jehfs4314 turned into flashed a few times.

The ship continued to scan, and as each sector was processed, the sum of all sectors was enough to cover the entire working section of the celestial sphere.

"This work section is completed, and the ship is about to go to the next work section. Start dividing the scanning sectors - huh?" jehfs4314 suddenly felt that the starry sky spread in front of him suddenly became a little blurry, and it looked like it was covered The layer is very thin and mist-like.

"Alert! An earthquake has been detected!"

Almost immediately, alarms filled the entire ship.

"Skyquake?!" Faced with this sudden unexpected situation, the ship and the members inside the ship responded quickly. The shields of the entire ship at all levels were raised as quickly as possible, and between the shields and In the gaps between the shields, a large number of broadcast beacons were evenly spread out. They began to continuously release complex signals that could occupy a large number of information frequency bands, in order to try to block the false information that came when the earthquake occurred. outside the body.

"Report on the status of the temporary medical bay!"

"The current situation in the temporary medical cabin is stable. All personal treatment cabins have activated all defense systems. A small amount of skyquake crystals have been found to precipitate on the external protective structures of some personal treatment cabins. The skyquake crystals have not penetrated deep into the environment of the treatment cabins."

"Alert, confirm the occurrence of the earthquake. The source of the earthquake is located on the world branch No. 22-39-168734369. The spread range is 22-39-168734369-986543-76431-165343 to 22-39-168734369-986543-76431-165364. The current scope of influence It is continuing to expand.”

Shortly after his world was affected by a earthquake, jehfs4314 received an official earthquake warning from the Imperial network. It seems that the destroyed communication system here is being restored at a very fast speed.

"Okay, why are there earthquakes around here?" jehfs4314 began to further adjust the ship's condition. At the same time, worries and doubts began to arise in his heart.

As a natural phenomenon that can bring disaster, earthquakes are nothing new to the Empire. But this sudden earthquake is a bit strange - it is located in the void near the world where the ship is currently located, and that area should be nothingness.

Something needs to be provided to provide the initial impetus before a skyquake can erupt - but now, the source of the skyquake is a void, there are no large-scale apocalyptic activities happening around it, and there is no other source of false information that can stir up false information. Something appeared in that area—what exactly was it that was providing the "energy" needed for the earthquake to vibrate? !

At the same time, the essence of skyquakes is that virtual information quickly pours into the world of order and rapidly decays and crystallizes. The empire's existing defense system is not very capable of defending against the impact of this phenomenon. Skyquake crystals may penetrate into the interior of the ship and facilities.

Under normal circumstances, the body of the Imperial Life has strong recovery and regeneration capabilities. Even if a bunch of crystals are inserted into the stomach, it is not difficult to recover. But after all, there are still a ship of seriously injured people on the ship, who have been injured. After being seriously injured, they no longer have such a strong tolerance to resist these possible external influences. The longer those seriously injured people are trapped in the paralyzed wreckage of the equipment, the slimmer their chances of survival.

"Why hasn't the earthquake ended yet? What?" jehfs4314 suddenly received more urgent news - the source of the earthquake and the impact of the earthquake began to expand further. He originally expected that this earthquake would only affect dozens of people at most. There have been small earthquakes in hundreds of worlds, but now it seems that this earthquake may have affected an entire small branch of the world!

"Issuing an announcement to the whole ship, I am the captain. The current environment of this ship no longer allows the search and rescue operations to continue. We will evacuate to a safe area. The search and rescue operations will continue after the earthquake is over!"

After the order was issued, the spacecraft began to quickly adjust its attitude under the control of jehfs4314. At the same time, the temporary world gate began to gradually gather around the ship. In order to ensure safety as much as possible, jehfs4314 prepared to send the ship directly to the farthest safe point from here. .

"What's going on?!" jehfs4314 suddenly discovered that the ship's attitude stabilizer began to output a series of rapidly beating data. These data were increasing rapidly, and the curves depicting their changes began to rise more and more crazily - this This means that the environment around the ship is shaking violently, and the ship's attitude stabilizer can maintain the ship's movements without interference from the outside world.

If external shaking continues to increase in the area, these stabilizers may be damaged and the ship itself will begin to shake. If the shaking becomes more and more serious, it will begin to exceed the processing limit of the ship's built-in stabilizers.

Zizzi-pa-squeak! !

The ship began to shake violently. At this moment, the truth-class battle carrier was as powerless as a lonely boat floating in the roaring waves of the angry sea.

As bursts of tearing sounds came from the space, a huge space rift spewing chaotic energy and countless mixed and fuzzy color blocks suddenly appeared near the truth-class ship and swallowed it completely. Lost.

"Everyone is ready to resist the impact!!" At the moment of being sucked in, jehfs4314 released all safety restrictions. Even under such circumstances, violent vibrations swept through the entire ship instantly.

Waves of tearing pain struck from nothingness. The golden sea of ​​light in front of him began to rapidly narrow and become dim. Solid walls began to separate the gradually blurry vision.

"Oops, the ship is starting to deactivate. The void information gap is tearing us apart. If the shields are being destroyed, it's hopeless."

A burst of ethereal and dull sound came, and the battleship seemed to have landed on a huge drum. The big drum was struck by the sudden heavy hammer, and the sound of the drum began to echo everywhere.

"Is this where?"

The crew members who had barely withstood the previous impact quickly began to take action. They wanted to understand the current situation, but they found that they could no longer access the empire's network. At the same time, what was presented to them was a completely unfamiliar starry sky. .