Star Empire

"...Frankly, I don't think we're in a very good place right now."

"cjka7304, you should be more relaxed and say, not "not very good" but "very bad"." oyiof79846 said bluntly.

"The output power of the ship's current crystal energy power furnace and arcane power furnace has reached less than 10% of the full load state. The multi-variable power system is in slightly better condition, but the propellers of the four multi-variable engines have been permanently damaged. It's damaged, and we. We are no longer able to repair ourselves, and the information loss is too serious. If we had not been able to download the few patch data packets sent by the empire along the way, we might have been completely lost or collapsed. It's in the void. In addition, hdjh3246's body should be difficult to recover, right? Half of his body was already transparent before hibernation."

"Yes, Stoker, you are right. This is indeed the case." As one of the supervisors, cjka7304 was silent for a while before continuing to ask: "How far can we sail?"

"If we are lucky enough and we are currently in a relatively stable void range, and we can use conventional void navigation methods to move forward for a certain distance, then we may not have sailed to what we can reach. The end... But the end of this distance may be very, very close to our current location."

"And it's only if we get lucky that we can move forward."

oyiof79846 sighed, he didn't know what results his emphasis would produce.

"If we are unlucky, the conventional void engine may start for a while and we will be sucked into the void turbulence. In addition, we have comprehensively considered all the problems during this period. Supervisor, we will wait until everyone wakes up next time Let’s have a meeting at that time, we may need to admit that our strength has reached the end here, and everything in the future can only be determined by luck.”

"I'll think about it, thank you, go ahead and do your work."

After sending oyiof79846 away, cjka7304 began to think seriously about this issue - should we admit that the power of order has reached the end of its reach, and that the rest of it can only go with the flow?

A long time ago, the clock system in the ship and the human body had collapsed. After losing the ruler to measure time, the unstable body sense made it difficult to accurately measure time. However, based on some estimates of the data that can still be used, The ship under my feet has been on this great journey for at least 800 billion years.

Compared with the early and middle stages of the voyage, the middle and later stages of this voyage until now are lackluster.

As the ships gradually moved away from the Empire, both messages from and to the Empire had become intermittent, and contact had become difficult to maintain.

As the ship gradually moves away from the empire, the ship is becoming more and more unsafe. At the end of the virtual point jump, foreign objects formed by unstable virtual information falling inside the ship have become more and more common. It's okay if these foreign objects are not alive. If they are alive, their danger will skyrocket if they become infectious.

As the ships gradually move away from the empire, the powerful impact of the void information offset difference can no longer be compensated. Every virtual point jump will bring damage, and the damage will become more serious with the accumulation of the number of virtual point jumps. They have already spread. With redundant resources and safety measures in place, the current situation of Ship 06 is already precarious and not optimistic.

As the ship gradually moves away from the empire, the damage suffered by Duckweed leaving home has accumulated to a quite profound level. Sleep and automatic self-recovery have become the norm in the middle and later stages of the voyage, and the sleep time has also rapidly expanded from a few days. It has become a few years, tens, hundreds, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of years, and even in the later stages of the voyage, dormant repair cycles of tens or even nearly tens of billions of years are no longer uncommon.

After each awakening, the time until the state is good enough to continue sailing becomes shorter and shorter. Now, the issue of efficiency no longer needs to be discussed. The more critical and important question is - can there be new progress? Can the ship continue to move forward?

From the moment they decided to board this super virtual point jump ship, the people on the ship were already prepared to die. No one considered whether they could survive. Topics such as returning home had long been out of their minds. List.

As for being welcomed with honor in the port of your homeland... that's a fantasy.

However, in this final stage of death, everyone still has the right to choose how to greet his death.

cjka7304 himself has no right to make this decision. Even if the three supervisors work together, they do not have the right to directly decide this matter. This matter requires everyone to discuss it together and reach a consensus that can be generally recognized by everyone on the ship.

Star Empire [Expedition Chronicle] Year 2 ■■8 ■9■ 13■■■■.

"Why did everything turn into garbled characters when I woke up? Or is it still unclear whether the current empire still uses the year of the expedition?" The other two supervisors who had just woken up looked at the timer in the conference room and said in a daze, "Now that the distortion of time has become so serious, has it become so irreversible that it is impossible to verify it?"

"Yes, our ship has not been able to receive accurate information from the empire for a long time." cjka7304 said seriously.

"Everyone, listen to me - the condition of this ship is already very bad, and we are no longer able to continue sailing far away in the established normal way. At the same time, due to the loss of stable communication with the empire, we are unable to receive orders or orders from the empire. Support. Under the current circumstances, we need everyone to make a decision that can be recognized by everyone for their future, or how to die."

"While everyone is sleeping, we have compiled all the current information on this ship. You can check the relevant information on your own."

".The powertrain still works and we still have the momentum to keep going."

"The functional loss of various functional equipment on the hull has exceeded 99%, and the remaining inventory is only enough to create one or two more beacon worlds. If we continue our voyage, we will lose contact with the empire forever."

"But if we don't leave, we won't be able to do much if we stay here. Our bodies and the ship's hull are already badly damaged. If there is another big impact, the situation may not be optimistic, right? "

"Speaking of which, do you feel that you feel very uncomfortable after waking up this time?" fqfih4653 suddenly asked.

"I feel a little cold. I don't know why, but it's just a little cold. Everything else is fine." hdjh3246 looked up and down at his body and surroundings. "But it's really a little strange. Why do I feel cold like you?"

"I feel very empty and lost. It feels like I have lost something and I have no interest." fqfih4653 tried hard to make himself look more positive, but his efforts failed. "I don't know where I came from. When did I start feeling like this, but I have never felt so unreasonably lost as I do now. What is wrong with me?"

"So, what about the others?" The supervisors asked all other participants, "Do you have similar or other discomforts?"

"I feel a little chilly. It's cold from the inside out. It's not very comfortable, but I can't tell when exactly this discomfort started to appear. There are a lot of empty spaces in my physical work diary. I can’t explain the situation clearly.”

"Empty, boring, and I feel like I have no fighting spirit. It seems so. Why is there such discomfort? Where and when did these types of discomfort start to appear?"

"Any other questions?"

"It's basically similar, I feel chills."

"Almost, I don't feel any more discomfort."

"Me too"

"Tsk, the detector can't detect any problems. No new distortion positions were found, and there is no way to identify lesions that can be clearly identified." cjka7304 used the best-preserved detector to scan the person who felt uncomfortable and the entire room several times. , but no matter which method is used to read the data in the environment, there are no more parts that can be judged as "abnormal" in the data.

".I'm sorry, but your discomfort can only be recorded from the perspective of words and intuitive perception. At present, we can't find any actual data to support this."

"Forget it, it doesn't matter, it won't affect our thinking and actions." hdjh3246 waved his hand, "Let's talk about more important things first. What other options are available to us now?"

"There are not many options available, or in other words, we only have two options left." cjka7304 said.

"First, we continue to use virtual points to jump and sail. At present, we can still create two worlds, but there may be only one world that can be regarded as a usable beacon world. After that, we will enter a complete Trek state. Second, we use regular void engines to sail. If we are lucky enough, we may move forward relatively safely and smoothly for a certain distance, but if we are unlucky, we will directly enter a complete trek state. .”

".That means essentially we have no second choice. We just choose how to sail the last leg of the voyage, right?"

"Indeed."

"Then I support the first method - but you need to create a blank world to use as the current anchor point to stabilize the next jump." vbkd4637 said.

"Based on my flight experience, there is no greater change in the risk between virtual point navigation and void navigation using conventional engines. Conventional void engines need to be in a relatively stable environment to be effective. If we use a conventional void engine here, we will most likely be swept away by the turbulence. When we get here, I don’t want to let luck dominate the last stretch of our road.”

"We support his opinion." Two other pilots randomly gave their opinions.

"We. Our understanding of void navigation is limited, but we agree with what vbkd4637 said, and we don't want to let luck dominate our final journey."

"Okay, then, following the pilots' opinions, we build another world, and use this world as an anchor point to continue to use virtual points to jump forward until we can no longer move forward half a step. Everyone returns to their posts! The operator is on standby. !”

"yes!!"

"Encapsulate the singularity! Missile launch!"