Star Empire

A long chain of sparks winds its way to the depths of the void beyond the empire's territory. As a "flying needle" guiding the route, every time the virtual point jump ship picks up a new section on the route, it means that it One step further away from my home and harbor.

The ship known as the Great March marches on the Empire's great journey into the distant void.

"The emergence of a dense world cluster has been detected, and no extraordinary information response has been found. It is speculated that the world cluster is naturally generated. The virtual point jump ship No. 06 will bypass this area and encrypt the route beacons in this area. The encryption coefficient is three - —Create a world mark after every three jumps."

Every time when the virtual point jump ship encounters a problem, the process of the crew choosing an idea to solve the problem is the most critical. As long as the idea is determined, the next problem only needs to be "pressed button" step by step.

The broad and huge flying wings slightly adjusted their posture, just like a small bird avoiding the storm clouds in front of them, bypassing the dense cluster of worlds in front of them. Behind the flying wings, a section The slightly denser part of the polyline makes the polyline itself turn a small bend. After bypassing the obstacle, the polyline returns to its original direction.

"Discover an independent high-speed order field and determine the type of world neighborhood - it is determined that the order field belongs to the debris ejected by a world after the end of the world. A clear death wave reaction is detected in the world neighborhood. Test it again and confirm this The high-speed flying order field contains fragments ejected after the end of a certain world. The world fragments have obvious death tide reactions, and the world fragments have been highly corrupted by the death tide."

"The Overseer ordered the destruction of this world fragment."

"The operations team has received the order."

A giant missile larger than many small battleships was injected with abundant energy. The mathematical rate secret key activated the connection between the independent ammunition compartment where it was located and the external environment. The huge missile drilled from the body of the virtual point jump ship. Got out.

Under the guidance of the mothership's radar, it quickly found the target in the void, which was an order field that was wandering at a fairly fast speed.

The order field that is the target looks extremely irregular, and clumps of plume-like fog seem to appear from time to time in the world neighborhood wrapped outside the order field. These fogs should be the information flow that the order field on the verge of collapse is spraying to the outside world.

The occurrence of this phenomenon means that the information body wrapped in the order field has been highly corrupted by the death tide, and it is spraying its own "blood" from its ablated wounds.

If not processed in time, these fragments will have a small chance of mutating, and the remaining survival instincts inside the world fragments may learn to absorb the disgusting power of creation from the surrounding wounds, which will lead to They expand and grow, and then evolve into dangerous fault zones in the void.

The missile detonated close to the edge of the order field. The golden light tore a huge crack that could not be healed on the surviving fragment of the world. The order field was also torn, and the void began to flow towards the fragment, and moved at a very fast speed. The speed began to eat away at the fragments of the foundation of existence. Soon, this unstable factor that might threaten the safety of the waterway completely dissipated from the sight of the virtual point jump ship.

"Missile No. 7164 has been used, and every step of using this missile has been carried out under supervision. The supervisor of this ship has recorded this matter in the voyage log."

"Traces of the use of crystal energy were found in some of the worlds ahead, and it is speculated that there may be a "seed civilization" nearby. Such seed civilization may have developed from the virtual point jump ship previously sent by the empire."

"Bypass the relevant areas, increase the span of a single jump, and try to avoid our beacon world being discovered."

"clear."

The virtual point jump ship slightly adjusted its trajectory again, and a much larger arc passed around the remote civilization in the void, and the civilization was bypassed. The beacon worlds on this section of the route have also become more distant and sparse from each other. Even if you open your eyes and search carefully, the next beacon is already blurry and dim to the point of being almost impossible to see.

With the density of the beacon world on the void route opened by virtual point jumping, the empire's unlimited anti-crowding concept will only fail in a few places, and this is one of the places where the empire's unlimited anti-crowding concept will fail.

These worlds should not be too dense. Except for the facilities of the empire, they must not be conspicuous to other entities or civilizations in the void.

Although the virtual point route where the beacon world is located is still essentially the territory of the empire, it is very far away from the empire. Although the empire's military force is powerful, it cannot ensure that it has enough fleets and fixed armed forces to be able to Protect every world in the distant void just like you protect your homeland.

It is true that the empire's frontier is accelerating its expansion into the void based on these virtual point routes, but compared with the pace of the virtual point jump ship, it is still too slow. If you want the Empire to make all the beacon worlds on the virtual point route as safe as the Empire's home world, then I'm afraid the Empire cannot do this even if it squeezes out all the unlimited anti-crowding foundations.

On this basis, these worlds have turned to hiding and avoiding to protect themselves. They are sparsely connected to each other, and their traces can only be found in very inconspicuous corners using very tricky methods. Only in this way can the entire route not be dragged out when a world is discovered.

Outside the borders of the empire, everything in the void will no longer be safe. Although the stellar wind released by the blazing sun can still be detected here, the empire's hands can no longer reach such a distant place. For the beings of the empire and the creations of the empire, this can already be regarded as a "wild land" .

In these areas that the empire cannot yet manage, order will no longer be so "orderly". In such places, it is very common whether something is "lost" or a ship or ships are "wrecked". Even the most powerful void survey radar array cannot find such thin story clues, and denial and denial become easy here.

As a creation that contains high technology, any creation of the empire that ends up here may become a piece of "fat", and it is often the civilization here that covets these "fat" - from their own perspective, they That's right, but for the empire's creations, these problems have to be guarded against. There are even times when guarding against other intelligent civilizations that are also born from order is more troublesome than guarding against death tides or even fault zones.

Hide your place and clean up your traces. Until the empire's power extends to such a place, keeping a low profile and protecting yourself is the best option. There are still "oasis of civilization" in the vast desert, but they are only a minority among the minority.

The virtual point jump ship moved forward silently, one beacon after another lit up behind it, and the range lines drawn by the empire were being crossed by the ship. As time went by, the " "The Great Journey" has passed the safe limit for the Empire's ultra-deep void survey fleet to safely reach.

Further ahead, there is an unknown void that has become wild again for the empire. The road ahead has only been traveled by earlier virtual point jump ships, but for the countless virtual point jump ships in the past, it is no longer easy to get here, and it is no longer easy to decide to continue to the former. Most of those who continued the voyage were lost forever in the vast void, and the route maps they left to the empire bear witness to their former bravery.

However, the huge disaster caused by the giant malicious meta-meme destroyed these waterways and destroyed a large number of historical anchor points. The empire lost a lot of information in the disaster, and part of this history was also swept away by the turbulence. For the younger generations who are now here, the path that once existed has disappeared, and they need to find a new path.

"The ship will stay here to perform in-depth maintenance, determine the working condition of the existing beacon world, and check whether the information transmission system on the route is available."

"The order has been received."

The singularity that was enough to create the world emerged from the body of the flying-wing battleship on a huge missile, and the two flashes of creation briefly lit up the surrounding void. Just like before, the flying wing sank into the interior of the world, but this time, the virtual point jump ship No. 06 would not just stay here for a while, but would stay for a relatively long period of time.

Throwing out industrial modules and manufacturing sovereign hubs, void beacons, and self-defense weapons are routine operations. Here, launching the virtual point jump ship requires completing some special operations.

While the stokers are checking the ship's power system and confirming that the ship's hull structure and energy network are operating normally, the pilots, operators and supervisors will send back the sailing status so far to the empire. This summary of the situation is It will include the void coordinates of all beacon worlds when they are completed, a complete set of voyage logs, a complete set of equipment usage logs, and all other information that everyone thinks is worth writing. When all these are packaged and packaged, they will be stuffed into the broadcast equipment in the current world, and then "hop-hop" back to the empire's homeland.

This needs to wait, and it can even be said that in future voyages, people will spend more and more time on this matter. Now, from here to send a message to the mainland of the empire and get a reply, it may take more than ten years, or it may take decades. But it doesn't matter, the crew members in the lonely deep space lack the most is time.

The Star Empire Expedition Chronicle is 1 997 717 735 103 years.

"There's a response! There's a response! Everyone come and see!"

"What?" Hearing gudjd1317's sudden cry, iyrqf463 stopped playing with the drone in his hand, oyiof79846 stopped checking the corridors and pipes of the spacecraft, and uoga4051 stopped playing with the world distribution map in his hand. Look, everyone has gathered in the main conference room. Under the display of the supervisors, a string of text is gradually emerging on the screen of the main conference room:

"The Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between the Star Empire and the Lambda Civilization Alliance has been officially signed on standard time: Star Empire Expedition Year 1 997 717 735 189. The signing of this treaty means that the empire and the Lambda Civilization are deepening friendly exchanges and developing Take one step further on the road to deepening cooperation."

"The "Detailed Study of the Frequency of Keywords in Historical Documents of the Star Empire", led by the History Department of the Star Empire and compiled by multiple departments, is expected to be published in a thousand years. The main purpose of compiling this article is to analyze the different developments of the empire. In a stage, there is a corroborating relationship between the keywords used and the research direction of the empire’s main achievements in that stage.”

"At the same time, it is understood that the scholars of the Department of History who compiled the article hope to determine whether there is a misuse of keywords in this part of historical documents by calculating the frequency of certain keywords in the document. These scholars believe that in the past, When the empire's technology system was not yet complete, achieving major results could easily lead to the empire's academics abusing keywords related to the results in aspects that were not covered, thus affecting the judgment and understanding of future generations of scholars. This problem needs to be corrected as soon as possible. ."

"The "Great Journey" class virtual point jump ships No. 07 and 08 will be completed within ten years. It is expected that all the "Great Journey" class virtual point jump ships will be used to manufacture the "Great Journey" class virtual point jumpers before the Star Empire Expedition Year 1 997 717 735 293. The ship's special slipway will be fully constructed/renovated. The empire plans to build a total of 150,000 virtual point jump ships of this type within seven hundred years. This is the first batch. There is no information about when the second batch of the same model will be built. Seminar on virtual point jump ship is in progress”

"Okay, seeing that the empire has signed a cooperation treaty with λ, I feel relieved." After confirming that the empire was not at war with λ, gudjd1317 let out a long sigh.

"There is no news that I am very interested in." fqfih4653 browsed the content passed several times, "but it is quite interesting. Before I left the empire, I really didn't pay much attention to so many things happening in the empire every moment. . When you get here, it’s funny to think that these news are just the tip of the iceberg of the countless things happening in the Empire. No matter how many times you’ve been surprised, it’s fun to feel this again.”

"Okay, old guys, our vacation is over, it's time to go!"

The supervisors issued new sailing instructions, and the stay here was just a short rest on the endless road.

"All self-inspections have been completed. The entire ship is in good condition and all equipment is operating normally!"

"The command has been confirmed, start executing the virtual point jump calculation program!"

When the huge, broad flying wings left the final beacon, with a powerful jump, the giant ship disappeared into the boundless dark ocean.