Star Empire

There is little order here.

However, it may also contain endless order.

The size of this world is endless—it is absolutely harmonious, absolutely self-consistent, and boundless in every sense of the word.

Here is endless eternal space.

This is the "artificial god world" of Σ civilization.

Here, it represents the absolute extreme of mortal wisdom and power of order.

Here, the largest emergence ceremony in the void is brewing.

Here, the invisible giant mouth is crawling in an invisible place.

here……

The most powerful calling force in the void has issued an order, and a huge amount of wisdom and power that exceeds the expectations of any order of will is gathered here. For this moment, civilization drained everything it saw and squeezed out all the effective power it could still obtain.

Information began to surge endlessly, with no rules to restrain it. Disturbances of terrifying intensity emerged from the bow of the majestic giant ship shining with the blood-red Σ emblem. They spanned endless time and space, were restrained, guided, and finally converged near a blood-red super-rank constraint ring with a complex structure.

Deep in the blood-red ring array, a mass of strange-textured material that looked like molten obsidian glass was being rapidly activated. And "below" the ring, on the other side of the order regulations, black-red mist and waves are constantly surging. The aura they exude is enough to scare any order creature - they are just phenomena and cannot be quantified at all. But at the same time, it seems to be the most direct and terrifying malice condensed in the void.

Countless giant hands of the void and strangely structured nets focus all attention and power here. Countless world management terminals of different levels are arranged in sequence, forming an unimaginably magnificent pyramid. They act regardless of the cost, and their behavior can only be called madness. Across the void and abyss, in the world network that is far more brilliant than the stars, the final remaining power begins to be completely squeezed out again. Deep in the matrix composed of those huge entities that can cover the starry sky, the final charging has begun.

These giant shadows have a position and arrangement that can only be described using the most arcane equations and logic. Countless beings are watching all this together. They are waiting, waiting for the white beam of light that penetrates the sky and the earth to illuminate everything in the endless eternal space.

The starting point, which is condensed from the world hearts of countless worlds, is quickly fully activated from a state of absolute silence. In front of the continuously stretching, swelling, and boiling light pillars, all other light sources were eclipsed and stripped of color. The huge fleet was reduced to the deepest silhouette under the blazing white light.

The evolution progressed to a certain point, and the final command was given. The blazing white light pillar was like a sharp sword piercing the body of the flesh and blood beast, cutting through the halo and the most viscous darkness under the restraint of the halo with an unstoppable attitude. .

However, some fatal deviations have made the efforts of civilization for hundreds of millions of years doomed to fail before the action is completely implemented. When the light beam penetrates the dark gate that is so large that it can be called a unique one in the void. , the black tide is already out of control.

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The spider-like dark web of connections that constantly emerges from the void and the gray sky that gradually begins to rotate based on the exit of the chaotic sea represent a desperate decision.

Ω–64 is a great number that is regarded as a belief by Σ civilization. Each level of it has become a ladder that contains the endless desire of civilization to declare axioms, especially to the point where the number of super information base stable points that can only appear here increases.

The power that every trace of civilization can exert is gathered without reservation, strengthened and gathered through the invisible giant pyramid, and is sent to the crumbling bridge without any obstruction or interference.

Concepts are failing, laws are beginning to become inaccurate, truth has lost its absoluteness, finiteness and infinity, independence and integration... The boundaries and rules between everything are being completely broken.

When the foundations of faith, will, and horror merge with each other, the power that the largest-scale emergence ceremony in the void can ultimately unleash will endlessly surpass the boundaries that civilization has ever touched.

The chaotic sea is being forcibly penetrated by the power of order. Under the huge black-red light beam, some shadows that have never been cared about are being disturbed or even tampered with inside and outside this realm that even the gods have not been able to fully explore - the existence of The negative side and the most profound malice are being carried away by this super information flow of unprecedented scale, and blown to the distant and unknown other side of this field that may have never been reached before.

However……

It takes twenty-one and one-third seconds to complete the iteration and complete the true convergence. And the last third of a second, such a short time, is now so long and so out of reach.

The dream was shattered, and he tried his best to use the whole family's strength to suppress the huge sect in the chaotic sea. In the end, he could not overcome the mistakes caused by ignoring the original problem and ignoring the most basic correspondence.

Civilization finally noticed the destruction, finally noticed the anomaly, and realized what everything had been like for hundreds of billions of years. But it is already too late. Faced with such an environment, it is too late to make changes. Everything here, including the countless warships gathered here, countless equipment and their own power, are the most direct and direct ways to defend civilization. The final barrier.

Countless sacrifices may have brought about some achievements, but those achievements are for civilization...

The nearly integrated super network has become the most direct and deadly carrier for the spread of disasters. The most terrifying disaster that can happen in the void has instantly transformed from a speck of stars into the most majestic tide. Huge and hollow rifts spread in the invisible plane. The once tall towers began to collapse from the inside. Countless civilizations began to come to an end one after another. The spreading cracks cut off countless stories and announced their demise. Stopped abruptly.

The visible and invisible bodies and flesh, the same will, the same influence, the same power, and everything that civilization can possess burst out together, and the plateau of the attributes of existence and the spire of the meaning of existence collapsed. The black tide envelops everything that is decaying rapidly, and carries the faint bright colors towards the void, towards the endless and meaningless distance.

Beneath the inevitable eddies and waves, the world is just a fragile bubble.

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The shrill alarm echoed in every inch of the space station, screaming crazily in every soul. The control room finally lost its previous calmness. Various orders and poor feedback filled the entire hall, and in the celestial sphere displayed in the panoramic view, a set of huge pictures was placed at the top. In the picture that flickers from time to time, fragmented information sources and massive clutter submerge all peace within the exploration range.

"Cavenriel, what's going on? Where is the exploration ship?" Vidoville pressed the shoulder of Cavinriel next to the instruction desk and asked anxiously.

"The target universe has shattered and collapsed." Cavernrel pointed stiffly at the top screen, "You can see that the part representing the echo of the world barrier has been split into several pieces, and these split pieces It is dissipating at a speed that can be detected, and there is only endless clutter within our void detection range. It is obvious that the target universe has disintegrated."

"What about the exploration ship?" Vidoville grabbed the scientific officer's collar, his eyes almost spitting out fire.

"The probability of survival is no more than one in a billion." Cavinriel lowered his head.

"The order field of the void exploration ship needs to be completely closed after entering the world. Otherwise, even if it has the same world barrier information as this world, it will be rejected by the world. What's more, the pre-installed order field of the spacecraft only belongs to our universe. The new one No matter how small the difference between the universe and our universe is, there is still a difference. It is impossible for the power of a mere spacecraft to compete with the universe."

"And the most fatal thing is that even if the order field can be turned on, it will take time to fully activate. The universe collapsed so quickly, and the exploration ship was almost on the dividing line between the order world and the void at that time, without the protection of the order field , relying only on the experimental crystal energy shield, the spacecraft will be dismantled by the void within two minutes."

"——Damn it!" Vidoville let go of Cavinriel's hand and leaned slumped in front of the console, "The first manned void trial, why did the situation become like this!"

"Your Excellency, this is not the point." Cavernriel's face has now begun to turn pale, and the faces of Weisrifan, Isendel, and Zhai Cahir who came after hearing the news are also very ugly. After seeing these strange phenomena, Victorville himself suddenly felt horrified when he thought about it.

"We have made a comparison, and the feedback in the void of the universe that is the destination of this mission is similar to our universe." Every word of Cavinriel was like a bomb that exploded in the hearts of everyone present. Kai, "Perhaps the former opponents just made the comparison in the wrong direction. In fact, some of them were not wrong."

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Many phenomena and explanations... have indeed become different.

The world is not solid.

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The total coordinate system of the universe is the ecliptic plane, the junction of the first hexagram and the fourth hexagram.

This is close to the border of the world of order.

In the edge area of ​​the universe, no matter which hexagram it is located in, the scene is generally the same. Over tens of billions of years of consumption, the hydrogen and helium here have been almost exhausted, and star-making activities have basically stopped.

The material that still exists here is basically in the form of icy planets that have geologically died, dying red dwarfs and white dwarfs, red giants that are at the end of their life, or black holes that can swallow everything and the brightness of all kinds of celestial bodies. Quasar. Most of the mass here has been converted into pure light and heat in the thermonuclear reactions of star clusters, and is scattered in the cold cosmic space in the form of higher entropy. Unlike the bustling cosmic area, everything here is already old. .

In this lifeless area, everything seems to have lost its vitality. Even the federal universe border patrol nodes and patrol ships that are still in operation, all the light they emit is extremely pale.

A "Silent" class frigate is conducting routine patrols to check whether there are any abnormalities in the nearby environment, or mechanical failures and civilian ships in distress.

"I have to say that even the numbers of these nodes have almost been forgotten..."

In the narrow bridge of the frigate, the adjutant was murmuring, "To be honest, I personally think that there are not even a few gravitational focus points that can be used as jumping targets in this kind of border area, let alone nodes open to civilian permissions. The most remote ones The waterway may be tens of millions of light years away from here, and the probability of civilian ships getting lost here is infinitely close to zero, and the role of these nodes is becoming increasingly disproportionate to the resources required to maintain them."

"Um……"

"Captain?" The adjutant turned to look beside him and found that the captain was staring blankly at the panoramic display in front of him, as if he had lost his soul.

"Captain, are you okay?"

"Oh, um...it's okay." After being asked several times by the adjutant, the captain seemed to wake up from a dream.

"It's really strange." The adjutant muttered in a low voice, and then continued to control the spacecraft. The "Silent" class frigate is mainly used for short-distance navigation and personnel penetration into physical buildings in space. It is small in size and has a very low power output. And even more so in such an environment, even the blazing white vacuum zero-point energy that propels the halo seems to have lost its power.

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The spacecraft continued to move forward, moving very smoothly and quickly. After another node was checked, the adjutant was ready to take a short rest, check the spacecraft system and return to the border outpost where they started. However, an abnormal alarm from the system interrupted the peace here.

"Strange, the navigation system says we are sailing in the opposite direction to our course."

"Check the attitude of the spacecraft." the captain ordered.

"There is nothing wrong with the ship's posture, Captain." The adjutant also looked strange at this time. "The detection results of the navigation system show that we are retreating at twice the maximum normal speed, but there is no abnormal space flow around us. The system There aren’t any pollution meme alarms either, weird…huh? Stopped?”

Just when the adjutant noticed the change in motion, the spacecraft that was retreating at high sublight speed was suddenly frozen in space by an inexplicable force, slamming the two people onto the spacecraft's holographic display.

At the tail of the spacecraft, a string of dazzling sparks violently sprayed out from the gap in the outer shell into the space. The bridge was suddenly filled with smoke and the sound of sparks, and the entire deep scene of the universe was completely projected onto the control panel. The system's panoramic display also suddenly turned off.

The sudden stop just now caused the spacecraft's mass coordination system and inertial stabilizer to reach twice the design power almost instantly. Even with all the redundant modules, it could no longer maintain the federal superstatic power cruise requirements. Fortunately, they had all undergone a considerable degree of body modification. The almost self-destructive overload protection of their life systems and their already inhuman bodies prevented them from being seriously injured in such a violent impact.

"What...is going on?" The adjutant struggled to get up and check the control system of the spacecraft. However, at this time, a vibration perpendicular to the direction of gravity hit him and knocked him down again.

"Weird vibration...is this...the deep space Kraken phenomenon?" As a soldier, he naturally understands this part of history. The original old-fashioned jump engine will cause the spacecraft to vibrate violently in violation of the laws of physics if it sails for too long. , these accidents often led to the complete destruction of those ships that were not strong at that time.

But he quickly rejected his idea. The phenomenon of the Deep Space Kraken was caused by the curvature cliff caused by the defects of the old jump engine itself during long-term voyages. This has been identified, and this defect It has also been repaired long ago.

What's more, their spaceship was sailing in a regular power state before something happened. But this was not the root cause. Through the panoramic display screen, the adjutant was surprised to find that the few bright spots in his field of vision were falling out of place and appearing in his eyes at an impossible speed and observation method!

Moreover, as time goes by, the movement pattern begins to become more bizarre. Originally, these bright spots just exceeded the speed limit, but now, they have drawn up slender lines one by one, dancing wildly in space with more twisted trajectories. stand up!

Those are stars!

"You must report to your superiors immediately! Everything here has exceeded expectations!" The adjutant immediately activated his operating interface and prepared to connect to the main network of the information collection network.

"Wait, what are you going to do?" The captain, who had been in a soulless state before, suddenly came back to his senses.

"It is no longer enough for the Guagan host connected to the information collection network to report abnormal conditions here to the Hejia-level host!"

"No, can't connect, cut off the network, here..."

In the end, the captain failed to finish his last words.

At the same time, a destructive force has invaded the control system of the spacecraft and spread instantly with the help of the spacecraft computer connected to the host. Black and red two-dimensional patterns began to erode the facilities inside the spacecraft inch by inch.

In the information collection network, destruction is rolling through one group of nodes after another, and all protective measures and detection mechanisms appear weak in front of this tyrannical force. A black flower symbolizing corruption is blooming at a speed faster than light.

In the distance, on the surfaces of the planets dancing wildly in space, shadows began to spread rapidly along the earth. Black smoke began to rise, covering the sky that had little light left on these dark planets. The light path began to distort, and the starlight from the distance danced wildly in this area in an almost crazy manner, and then was annihilated in the expanding black and red pattern.

The wave of destruction tore through the increasingly fragmented cosmic space. Under the violent erosion of black and red patterns, the space began to collapse layer by layer. In the center of the tide of chaos, as a dark blood-colored hexagonal pattern cut through the turbulent sea of ​​broken clouds like a line between dawn and dusk, a huge figure flashing black and red light appeared from the shadows.

A celestial body, a celestial body full of artificial traces. This huge "celestial body" has a ferocious appearance that looks like a number of huge rocky planets that were melted and then forcibly merged together by naughty children. The shiny glass-metal hybrid shell has countless powerful energy ripples. Wandering.

If the people of the nearby Star Federation survive, they will definitely be surprised by the destructive energy surging near this huge unknown object. However, even under such a powerful energy shock, the completely heterogeneous black and red two-dimensional patterns were still eroding the original smooth outer shell of the unknown star inch by inch.

The countless unknown black lines that originally extended from this weird planet began to vibrate violently. Previously, in accordance with the preset total wisdom requirements, based on the entire world as a benchmark, they provided an explosive increase in information transmission to the endless eternal space. After being severely overloaded, it was hit by such a huge impact. Under the shell of the fortress that had begun to mutate, it was as if it had been soaked in the most violent acid. The core structure of this unknown fortress was no longer weak. Take control of a world that is beginning to collapse rapidly.

In the remote chaotic space, an absolutely standard circular "Dark Door" suddenly opened.