Star Empire

The virtual point jump ship No. 06 temporarily stopped in a new world. The crew members on the ship were ready to relax here for a while and spend this rare one-trillion-year celebration in their own way. .

Among the activated cabins, they selected one of the joint conference rooms in the best condition, and then put on their most solemn military uniforms and all their merit medals. A huge round table was filled with various delicacies, musical instruments and books temporarily synthesized with energy bricks.

In such a simple but warm conference room, the people on the virtual point jump ship No. 06 celebrated the second trillion years of the longest order of the empire in their own way.

"Hey, let me tell you, I haven't fought in any of the previous battles, big or small! Whether it's attacking fault zones, fighting big monsters that accidentally appear in the void, or something else, I'm Everyone participated without fail!" cjka7304 chewed the "jam bread" made with high-purity crystal energy and high-purity arcana while pointing at his military medals and recounting his achievements. War exploits——

"Tsk! I didn't download the taste experience data package before setting off! Now it's better, I can only use the sensor to program the taste myself. What does this style of bread taste like?"

"Can yours really be called bread?" aksh1331 looked at the dark "bread" and the bright and dazzling "jam" in cjka7304's hands strangely: "Forget it, even if yours can tear apart a small galaxy. This thing can really be called bread, and its taste is definitely not an ordinary bread taste. I think your style probably smells like a quasar, right?"

"Have you fought them all? Don't be kidding me, boss - there are many wars in the empire, but there are several battlefields that are going on simultaneously. In the later period, some wars even split up. Is it possible that you really went there in a clone? In high-intensity wars, use any All methods of doppelganger are illegal——"

"Hey - of course I know! I'm just bragging. What's wrong with bragging?!"

"Why are you talking so loudly? You won't get drunk."

"However, if the environment allows it, it would be good to experience being a little tipsy. By the way, you guys should also talk about it, everyone should talk about it. We are all old guys, and there is nothing we can't talk about, regardless of the empire. What's going on over there now? For us, now is the most joyful time, so don't be so stern!"

"Okay, okay, you are the supervisor, you are the boss on the ship - I listen to you!"

"Who is that, hdjh3246, right? Didn't you say that you have studied a little temperament? Taking this opportunity, can I ask you to play a few pieces of music?"

"Okay, then I'd rather obey!" After accepting the invitation, hdjh3246 took out a strange musical instrument from the pile of strange-looking items on the table, then held the instrument in his arms and started singing .

"Hmm - the melody is good, but this song sounds like it is from the Kagera school. There are too many of this genre in the top ten areas. Do you know how to play something from the Youka 901 school?"

"It's a bit difficult, but I'll give it a try!"

"Ha - raise your glass! I wish the empire good order and good health for two trillion years -!!"

For the empire, the Two Trillion Years of Daqing was already hundreds of thousands of years ago. But for this group of wandering expeditioners, it doesn't matter. As long as they are willing to celebrate, they can celebrate this at any time. After all, festivals, especially for this kind of festival, require a heartfelt sense of pride and identification with the empire. For festivals, a positive atmosphere is far more important than mechanical punctuality and the ceremony itself.

The "Great Journey" class virtual point jump ship is the largest among the imperial ships, but here, this magnificent ship is just a speck in the vast sea, and within this speck, twelve Veterans across the empire's history celebrated the festivals they thought were worth celebrating in their own way.

After the celebration, which allowed them to express their emotions freely, the crew members sent their blessings to the empire, and then continued to sail the ship on the journey ahead. They were not sure how long it would take for the messages they left behind to be sent back. In the empire, no one dares to win a guarantee.

This world is too far away from the empire. Even under the best of luck, the information from the empire will need to go through hundreds of millions of years of turnover before it can reach here. As long as there is a slight mistake in the round trip process, the turnover will be The cycle may become billions of years or even longer.

There are many reasons for such a serious delivery delay. Before arriving here, the No. 06 virtual point jump ship left countless landmarks on the great journey it has traversed.

These beacon worlds are far apart from each other. Whether it is the information sent by the virtual point jump ship back to the empire, or the information sent by the empire to the virtual point jump ship, they need to cross each beacon to continue to be transmitted on the link. Countless beacons determine that information needs to be relayed many times and processed by equipment many times. During these countless times of processing, the hard basic delays will be superimposed and become more and more considerable and increasingly complex. huge.

However, these hard delays are not enough to make the empire's creations face such low communication efficiency. Among all the factors that prolong the round-trip time of information, the most critical one is the void information gap.

In the territory of the empire, the impact of the void information gap has been greatly weakened - the territory of the Star Empire belongs to the old Σ civilization, and the information disturbance force of the old Σ civilization itself makes the void environment stable. , it can be said that although the Star Empire is remote, the empire is built on a stable enough basic base.

In addition, in the following two trillion years, a series of powerful "field sources" such as the Void Sun and a large number of world branches have been exerting a relatively stable influence on the void environment, which makes the void where the empire is located The environmental changes in China are becoming more and more uniform.

Although the void information difference still exists in a uniform environment, it has become able to be offset by a sufficiently sophisticated algorithm. Therefore, people living within the empire can freely travel across the world. With the blessing of a stable environment and a body constructed of extraordinary materials, the impact of the void information gap can almost not be considered.

But in such a remote place, where the traces of the empire have almost completely disappeared, the impact of the void information gap cannot be ignored. Under the powerful distortion caused by the void information gap, these heterogeneous and solitary information can easily be distorted, and the most easily distorted part is its "time".

In a void that is relatively weakly disturbed by order and civilization and whose environment is relatively chaotic, the evolution direction and frequency of information are extremely unstable. They rise and fall in turbulent waves like whirlpools that stir each other, and the empire's information must To cross all the landmarks, they have to fly into the void. In the process of flying across the void, the unstable environment of the void will naturally interfere with them.

As a weak splash in the turbulent sea, these information must conform to the trend when crossing the stormy waves to avoid being completely destroyed. In this way, they must conform to the ever-changing and unstable flow of time in the void. Make corresponding changes.

The creations of the empire follow the principle of time moving forward forever, even if something seems to be going back in time, it is experiencing the backward flow of time.

If change is used as a benchmark to judge, even if the thing appears to have returned to its initial state, it first changed from the initial state to the final state, and then from the final state to the initial state - time has still moved forward. One thing is for sure.

Following this basic premise, the empire's creations, such as those information flows that need to travel through the void, are adapting to changes in the void by constantly changing the pace and pace of their progress - that is, the speed at which time advances. .

However, in reality, the frequency of changes in the extraordinary information used by the empire on a daily basis has reached the limit - the limit that can be reached when the variables required to promote macro actions are met. Therefore, these information flows can only "go with the flow" by slowing down their own way. Every time you adapt, the flow of information that serves as a link to convey the knowledge of both parties will be slowed down for a while.

And among countless adaptations, those information flows - those bumpy boats in the roaring seas will naturally sail much slower than when the waves are calm or even smooth sailing.

Unless the empire can extend its territory here and make this place as orderly and constant as any territory in the empire, these problems can be solved.

Otherwise, as the ships get further and further away from the empire, these problems will only become more and more serious. This is the power of the void, the majestic power derived from the endless vastness of nature.

Here, the proud technology of the order life has long lost its arrogance and edge.

"In the year 2000 972 697 764 of the Expedition of the Star Empire, the 45th Sky Zone was established. Its role is to accept the components that were dismantled from the already bloated Sky Zone."

"In the Star Empire Expedition Year 2 003 164 743 059, an experimental version of the multi-world comprehensive compatibility algorithm has been launched. This version is designed to solve the problems of law conflicts and material collapse that mortal civilization may encounter when sailing across the world. In this After an algorithm is put online, matter from different worlds will be compatible in the same world after calculation and processing, and can interact with each other normally."

"However, there are some issues that need to be paid attention to - the new algorithm is currently incompatible with the security algorithms currently used in major sovereign facilities. Therefore, once a world collapses and requires a sovereign hub to be restarted, all participants in that world will be affected. Civilizations that trade across the world are likely to be affected by the restart and undergo large-scale regression."

"Because the algorithm is not yet compatible, the restart part cannot currently involve the existences flowing in from other worlds outside this world that require the preservation and maintenance of comprehensive compatible algorithms. When the world is restarted, this part of existence will be regarded as deleted. If there are If any civilization develops on such existence, it can be considered that the restart of the world will take away a large number of the development cornerstones of these civilizations."

"In the year 2 017 761 896 016 of the Expedition of the Star Empire, new breakthroughs were made in the Dead Tide's manual door-opening technology and order-Death Tide positioning technology."

"New breakthrough, then what? It can't really be just this sentence, right?"

"That's the only thing that has reached here."

"Well, it may become more and more difficult in the future. Since the information has been lost so seriously from such an early stage, it's hard to say whether the communication can be maintained normally in the future."

"Star Empire Expedition Chronicle 2 027 787 843 324. New application methods of emergence ritual and counter-emergence ritual small scale. Enhancement"

"The Star Empire Expedition Year 2 073 493 557 889 years. The regular expedition carried out major reforms and decided to change the cycle to 500 million years. The dead tide activity efficiency fitting is better."

"The Star Empire Expedition Chronicle 2 086 532 106 810 years. Time, the end of the world, the impact of disturbances, etc. have begun to be re-researched. The number of unsolved mysteries is decreasing. The early and middle periods of the Expedition Chronicle can be left to students as "thinking questions" It is being changed and continues to be researched and analyzed by the Department of History.”

"Star Empire Expedition Year 2 095 934 731 056. Re-examine the response and placement relationship between extraordinary energy and the Nine Heavens, and a new understanding of metaphysical, super-metaphysical and harsh practical issues is being established."

"Star Empire Expedition Chronicle 2 108 966 087 743. The death tide is highly active, and the structure of the Second Hytes World decided to establish a joint army to take over"

"In the year 2 278 966 087 743 of the Star Empire's Expedition Chronicle, the Observer Council and the Star Empire's Five Heavenly Constellations returned to normal working conditions. With the joint approval of the Imperial Emperor's Council and the highest memetic beings of the Lambda Civilization Federation, it was decided Mobilize civilizations that have cross-world civilizations that may be in danger of death tide disasters to form a United Defense Force. The United Defense Force is regarded as an independent reserve force for such civilizations. The Empire and the Lambda Civilization Alliance will provide partial technical support. To defend the territory of civilization when tide disasters occur. Under no circumstances shall this armed force be involved in any civilized civil war."

"Star Empire Expedition Year 2 351 005 413 607, the new emperor of the 52nd Sky Zone."

"Star Empire Expedition Year 2 497 509 746 056, Great Journey 06 Return Information Quality Analysis Route"

"Can you analyze what the missing content is?"

"Unfortunately, Overseers, we are unable to do this. Our ship's void survey radar is unable to resolve such thin threads of story."

"hiss--"

"Star Empire Expedition Chronicle 2 561 946 013 433, the 60-day zone memes flooded the 65-day zone... The rotating emperor was from the waiting list..."

"The Star Empire Expedition Year 2 763 000 010 106 years has subsided. There have been major changes in the initial implantation of defense reinforcement basic life innovation. The new sky zone was established... The rotating emperor of the 82 sky zone and the main functions of the sky zone..."

"Star Empire Expedition Chronicle 2 ■92 ■79 13■■■■."

"Why are they all gibberish? What year is this?"

"I don't know that the information transmitted is very vague and cannot be analyzed, but it must have been some time since the last time we received clear information. In the meantime, we have received many messages from the empire, but they are all Noise, and some seem to be missed. I don’t know what happened. There should be someone on duty during the hibernation process. "

"No, that's not quite right. It shouldn't be a problem with our personnel. It may be a false alarm between cabins. Now more than 90% of our spare cabins are activated, and they are passing on the information they still have to each other. To maintain the integrity of the whole, this may cause some information that has been processed before to be recorded again as new information by the backup systems in other cabins. What about the clock system on our ship and our own clock system?"

"It became unusable a long time ago, probably before the seventeenth or sixteenth time of complete hibernation. The clock system information was lost too seriously. Many things in the ship's clock system cannot be recognized. This is already the best As for the results in our bodies, if you think about it, those gadgets used in emergencies cannot provide high accuracy."

"Ah, that's true"