Star Empire

Deep in the remote universe, in the chaotic and dark space, an extremely standard two-dimensional perfect circular dark door is quietly releasing the breath of destruction.

Under the illumination of the incomprehensible unknown radiation released by this "door" that seemed to have been dug out of a piece of the universe, a black-red pattern began to quietly crawl onto the "nearby" stars and planets, and the cold and hard earth And the star corona rolling with flames gradually became coated with an ominous shadow. Under the influence of these ferocious patterns, these stars deviated from their original orbits one by one and turned into tops dancing wildly in the universe. Before being completely torn apart and disintegrated by the huge stress, every planet has become a minion for the further spread of this unspeakable disaster.

An invisible jet hit the paralyzed frigate. The ship quickly decayed and disintegrated under the erosion. However, this force was not satisfied with just destroying the ship. It found a new way to expand—— The interior of the ship has not completely shut down. It has chaotic data transmission capabilities and is still connected to the data collection network.

After the final signal was sent, the pollution hidden in the communication information quickly tampered with the overall content of the information, and the distorted information became a pollution carrier. When this set of information was transmitted to the hexagram at a speed countless times exceeding the speed of light, After the host, the contamination exploded quickly, destroying all security measures in the network backbone in an instant.

Following the flow of network information, the pollution began to branch out into two paths. One began to spread to the lower-level nodes connected to the host, while the other part ignored all firewalls and rushed to the entire federal territory of the DH-33 Grand Triangle Constellation. The operations management center, to be more precise, is a part of the deep mantle of the planet fortress - where the absolute information center of the federation - the highest host of the information computer - is buried.

In the data flow transmitted almost instantaneously, pollution relied on the data vortex to take root directly in the disturbance core in the highest host. The weak arcane energy and various protective measures contained in the core not only failed to stop this terrible power, but instead polluted With the help of an information channel created by a trace amount of arcane energy that can ignore the speed of light, it is instantly broadcast to all network nodes throughout the universe.

In the planetary fortress between the three stars, the energy system of the polluted information computer mainframe first developed problems. On the cube shell with the emblem engraved on it, several blazing white rays of light broke through the constraints of all energy circuits, turning the control room into There were multiple cracks in the inner protective plate, and the automatic thrust stop system was blown up in a strange way due to the inexplicable pollution. The uncontrolled high-density energy began to burn everything around it.

Tragic sirens and warning messages instantly filled the entire planet fortress. The maintenance personnel who reacted in the brief moment after the first explosion rushed into the main engine room desperately and tried to activate the manual thrust stop system. They became victims— —but not from the escaping vacuum zero-point energy.

The moment they forced their way into the hall, black and red two-dimensional patterns were slowly spreading from the cracks in the computer casing. Wherever the patterns touched, everything became distorted and weird, but no one paid attention to this. , the sputtering blazing white light made everyone tired of avoiding it. When they rushed into the manual control point after all the hardships, a guard responsible for observing the situation finally discovered the strange "..." appearing on the golden emblem of the Federation. stain", but before he could figure out what it was, he had mutated into a horrific monster.

"Ah, Tobias, you..." When the first person was infected and mutated and instantly tore apart another teammate near him, everyone finally noticed these additional abnormalities and also discovered the abnormality of the supreme host. , but with just a glance of contact, all their sanity has been reduced to nothing, and the desire for violence and destruction has taken over all their sanity.

But whether it was luck or misfortune, their bodies did not support them enough to unleash their destructive desires - they collapsed on the ground one after another, and their originally well-proportioned bodies twisted into countless terrifying and weird structures almost in the blink of an eye, and even Soon, the entire body, including these blasphemous appendages, begins to decompose and collapse.

Along the more than 3,000-kilometer-long chromogenic material pipeline, the energy highway that provides energy for the operation of the host has become the next target for the spread of pollution. With complete disregard for the power of physics, black and red two-dimensional patterns are along the inside of the pipeline. The outer wall layer pours into the core of the planet in reverse direction - that is where the vacuum zero-point energy main power furnace is located.

The principle of the vacuum zero-point energy furnace is to forcefully crush and distort a small piece of the world structure through the forced coordinate offset force field until the coordinate mapping is destroyed. The conflicting space structures will be annihilated and release the energy generated during the Big Bang. The primordial power, with its huge total amount, extremely high density, and some properties that are deviated from conventional physics, is the best description of vacuum zero-point energy. Once it is allowed to be released, what will result will be a horrific disaster——

Because it is impossible for any of the current constrained materials to directly control the density and total amount of them, even the best energy-conducting transistors have physical properties that do not allow this material to be used for this purpose.

Therefore, more cataclysmic supergravity field generators will be arranged inside the reaction zone, and the powerful gravitational field will be constantly switched to "slow down" the reaction speed of the furnace core. When these black and red patterns wrapped in black mist move along the pipeline After rushing directly into the heart of the furnace, the delay array near the main output conduit collapsed into pieces almost instantly.

It can be said that the next consequences can be guessed.

A power furnace that drives an entire super planet fortress, how big a "space mapping conflict zone" will be providing energy in its core? "

The former Modori Zerg destroyed a considerable part of the Federation's main fleet at the cost of sacrificing their entire race. They created the largest vacuum zero-point energy explosion in history. The unparalleled energy torrent created a large area along the way. Even the rule-challenged areas that still exist today, and the small and medium-sized ones, are caused by various types of space annihilation bombs created by the two civilizations after the universe's final struggle for hegemony. Their scales, targets and impacts are all different, making it difficult to assess .

But now, a well-deserved second-largest explosion will occur in the DH-33 constellation. However, judging from the current situation, no one may be able to evaluate this explosion.

The moment the top host issued the alarm, the alarm message had turned into a carrier of pollution. It did not let go of anyone who saw the message, but upheld the principle of equality for all living beings and turned them all into Freaks full of blasphemy and twisted and corrupted their souls.

In the center of a super triangle composed of three yellow-white giant stars, a cross-shaped silver-white light quickly expanded and spread for several light-years in just a few minutes. At the moment of the explosion, the entire planet was This furious sea of ​​energy turned into elementary particles, but the real disaster was not limited to the problems caused by this large-scale explosion itself. In the high-speed diffusion of energy jets, some faint black-red light spots were flickering quietly.

The density of vacuum zero-point energy is very high, enough to "burn through" the curvature of space, sprinting through space at a speed exceeding the speed of light in the three-dimensional world. Among these high-speed splashing white light streams, some of the jets hit their first target. ——Those three giant stars that use black holes as energy sources and even exist in violation of the rules.

Although the carrier has been transferred many times and has not been replenished by subsequent sources, these devastating contaminations seem to be continuously replicating themselves, without reducing the power of the infection. When the corrupted energy jet rushes into the star's atmosphere, The black-red shadows expanded at an extremely fast speed, and the bright star corona was quickly covered up by these expanding patterns, blocking the light of the star corona. At this point, these three stars have also become new sources of infection, and the way they transmit pollution is - astral radiation.

After the pollution expanded to a certain extent, the balance of the star began to be broken. The pollution broke through the corona and chromosphere, stirring and destroying the structure of the star and reaching the photosphere. Inexplicable "sunspots" began to wreak havoc on the original bright mirror. , the pollution continues to spread, and the speed even exceeds the speed of light. Soon, even the high-energy radiation layer of the Japanese core was invaded.

When the central stellar power source was touched, its original operating rules seemed to be torn apart in an instant. With the sudden increase in core pressure, some contaminated matter broke through the light speed barrier and was brought back to the star. corona, and continue to spread to other planets with the help of the "resonance enhancement" provided by the deep layers of the star.

For a long time, the concept of three-star rule has been influencing the entire Triangular Galaxy, and the central planet fortress is at the core of the idea of ​​rule. For a long time, these three stars have been given the meaning of the Council of Three Sages, and the Federation I have always believed that it has the power to bring wisdom and justice.

In fact, this is not a fantasy - these three stars do have unique powers, otherwise, they would not be able to maintain stability for such a long time. But now, even this unnoticed power is no longer enough to help these stars resist disaster.

When the central black holes of these stars finally collapsed, this huge equilateral triangle with a side length of several light years began to tremble. The three stars that were gradually going crazy even held hands and started a three-body movement, and the space was layer by layer. Tears, distorted light and shadows and weird cracks add another beam of light to this cosmic dance.

Along the network nodes all over the planet, this force of unknown origin is still expanding at the same speed as the speed of information transmission. No one has been alerted, or in other words, the speed of contamination is as fast as the speed of the warning. , when a report is received at a location, often all that is left there is one or a few pieces of black-red light and shadow crawling on the bulkhead.

Black fog that can swallow up all light, huge explosions flashing white-red light, and occasionally a group of mutants who no longer know whether they can be called humans or even living creatures will appear in the severely damaged cabin and Wandering aimlessly in the corridor, it turned into ashes at a speed visible to the naked eye - but this intermediate state will not exist for long, because before long, the entire facility will be annihilated or disappear completely. In the flash of a huge explosion.

On each colonized planet, one after another broke free from any restrictions, and geological disasters large enough to tear apart the planet followed one after another. Gas giants either set off super hurricanes that could cover hemispheres, or formed countless hurricanes that reached directly into space. Jets of material hundreds of kilometers wide.

Some stars with huge volumes, huge internal pressures, and high enough hydrogen and helium content even started thermal fusion from the core of the star under this inexplicable influence, and then started fusion in the core of the star that could not be balanced by its own gravity and directly violated the mass-energy equation. The abnormal radiation pressure produced by the nuclear reaction directly exploded into a bright radial nebula.

The solid planet set off an unprecedented swarm of super-intense earthquakes. A super mantle plume once seen in more than a billion years broke through all stratigraphic stabilizers and damaged surface maintenance facilities. A geological disaster that had not lasted for tens of billions of years once again pulled the earth apart. Entering the sea of ​​fire, these planets can even be said to have been repeatedly ravaged between intact and broken.

After the cities in the lower crust and middle and upper mantle were attacked, all life support systems and AI were all offline. Faced with lava with a temperature close to a thousand degrees, even if they were not infected and mutated in the first place, it would be difficult for citizens to survive like this. After all, most people have not undergone that kind of ultra-high-level military-level improvement. After stripping off all equipment bonuses, they are still carbon-based organisms.

However, these planets were not free to go crazy under these influences for long. With the collapse of the main star monitoring station of the planetary system, the scanning waves sent by the detection radar to the central star were also used and turned into a channel for disaster expansion. With the help of the scanning waves, Due to its strong penetrability, the star even becomes a nest for the spread of corrupt power at an even faster speed.

Under unknown power, they left their orbits one after another and transformed into comets spitting out black and red flames, using long trajectories in the universe to show their madness.

When these out-of-control cosmic pinballs swept across the ecliptic plane of the galaxy at speeds exceeding the speed of light, the turbulent gravitational waves overlapped and intensified due to the wrong rules, turning into a raging ocean tide, crushing the planets that had not escaped. , the force transmitted by such violent gravitational waves has long exceeded the allowed range of the Roche limit when it hits a planet that is not far away from the ecliptic plane, and falling apart is a good result. Some stars even Under such an impact, it was directly pulled into a flat surface, or even a straight line.

When the perspective is zoomed out, from a planetary system controlled by one star to a huge star system composed of tens of billions of stars, the scene is completely different.

If observed from an external perspective, what "lights up" the image of a galaxy are basically the many stars rotating around the central galactic core and the thin nebulae that stretch for tens of thousands of light-years. When hundreds of millions of similar systems happened simultaneously, the silver-white spectacular galaxy was coated with an evil glow of decay and corruption in a very short period of time. With the help of network nodes spreading, the pollution process was almost non-existent, and It jumps directly from the beginning to the end, just like throwing a silver-white plate directly into a black ink tank.

However, now, the endless black-red craze rolling in the abyss of the universe has pulled most of the universe into the abyss of destruction on some weird level.

The disaster almost destroyed the entire federation, be it fleets, planets, space facilities, equipment, individuals...

As small as a single life, as large as every country, as large as the entire federation, in the face of this disaster, nothing can resist this disaster that can even be transmitted faster than an alarm.

After exceeding a certain threshold, civilization is very tenacious, and life is even more tenacious. The large number of states currently existing in the Star Federation are the most intuitive embodiment of this sentence - the meaning of a state is reflected in a certain region, a certain group of states. Individuals, cultural traditions formed within a certain period of time, cognitive thinking, etc. As long as it complies with the Federal Charter, any thinking circuit that has ever flourished can be found in this flourishing ocean of thought.

The Federation is very large and has a long history. During its development, the Federation has experienced various periods, encountered various problems, made various mistakes, and had various problems with itself. This kind of thinking - the extremely thick soil ensures the depth of cultural heritage, and the huge territory also ensures that civilized ideas can continue to be practiced correctly under abundant material conditions. Even if it stagnates, what it possesses The horror undertones still correspond to all history and reality.

It is precisely these crystallizations of thoughts that have been continuously accumulated and distributed among different groups for a long time that the Federation can find the right path in the face of several challenges that may challenge the roots of civilization's philosophy, pass them on, and finally stand here.

No matter how difficulties and setbacks treat the Federation, the Federation can eventually solve them, just like after the wildfire finally burns out, new life can still be born on the scorched earth.

However……

The Kuroshio doesn't just destroy life on the surface.

To be more precise, it not only eradicated everything, but also threw everything and the soil that gave birth to it directly into the most terrifying polar corona of the quasar - the completely unrecognizable disaster not only completely destroyed everything, Even the basic rules that allow "understanding" and "guessing" to be established have been completely eradicated.

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The wave of destruction has swept almost the entire universe along information pathways that can ignore the speed of light. However, in some border areas of the universe, perhaps this inexplicable force has finally exhausted all its stamina, or perhaps it is the arcane energy in the information computer. In the end, it had an inhibitory effect. Perhaps the crystal energy radiation that was once generated from the crystal energy vortex and diffused into the universe before the long wall of the warped world was created played a role. Regardless of the reason, it was far away from the world barrier. There may be tens to billions of light years away, and the speed of destruction finally slowed down. The few residents here did not die on the spot in this vigorous first impact.

"Run! Run away!" This is the only voice that still exists among these survivors at this time.

In the space station that was temporarily stable in the edge space, spaceships of all sizes began to swarm out of the guide rails that were stained with black and red patterns in no order. All their engines were turned on to maximum power, and the tail of the ship was blazing white. The energy aura even roasts the surrounding space and distorts it slightly. When everything in the entire federation, whether it is people, facilities, or AI, cannot be contacted, it will serve as a high-priority space vibration hub in the network. The network must have collapsed, too, so even though the survivors were desperate, none of them pumped energy into the wrong engine.

When the energy halo dimmed slightly, the hulls of these spaceships of various sizes and shapes instantly became illusory. The transition field, which had some properties higher than the third dimension, quickly wrapped the hulls of the spacecraft. Then, these light spots disappeared into the darkness. in space.

However, luck does not seem to favor these people. They just failed to take their lives immediately, collapsed on the spot or mutated into twisted monsters. In addition, the pollution had still taken root on these humans and the spacecraft they drove.

On the way to escape, due to the gradual confusion of the brain and the continuous superposition of failures in the mechanical flight control, the flight attitude of some spacecraft began to lose control, and the high-dimensional nature field was no longer stable. When both the brain-controlled interactive system and the mechanical flight control failed under tremendous pressure, these crooked spaceships were directly pushed back into the three-dimensional universe by the remaining laws of physics and space, disappearing into the still-expanding wave of destruction——

Under normal circumstances, Federation creations are solid.

But now, as the natural foundation supporting all rationality, it is shaky.

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At this point, it can be considered that this universe has completely collapsed from the material level, but the mere infection and collapse of matter cannot make them transcend the laws of physics. All the real matter is damaged together with all the hidden things, but it is still true. Things that exist, such as the laws of the world.

When all the stars began to decay and disintegrate, these black and red two-dimensional patterns did not leave directly from the surface of the object they were attached to, but spread directly into the empty space, but this does not mean that the vacuum can stop them. diffusion. Under the illumination of these ominous black-red lights, centered on all pollution points, the spatial structure began to distort.

The laws of physics are no longer uniform, and the cosmological constants have begun to fluctuate randomly. It is possible that just one decimeter apart, the G value and the c value will appear in two segments that differ by more than a dozen orders of magnitude. In these sudden changes, many objects crashed into the low-light speed zone in their own wild dance, and were shattered into pieces due to the remaining partial laws. The pure energy left behind even forcibly tore apart the already very fragile, highly curled High-dimensional dimensional axes at the microscopic scale. Dots of high-dimensional space spread across the universe and begin to dismantle several fundamental forces connecting matter, but this is still not the end of things.

When the alienated tenth dimensional axis was finally pulled from the microscopic into the macroscopic universe, the special rules possessed by this universe that had been restricted for a long time, the imaginary number space that was incompatible with the real world began to appear in the increasingly fragmented space. unfolded, and then annihilated each other due to the virtual-real conflict. Countless vacuum zero-point energy explosions whose brightness, energy release, range of influence, and scale exceeded the strongest supernova by quadrillion times began to explode in the starry sky that had become ferocious and distorted. Lights up, the torrent of energy splashes wantonly, tearing apart the already broken space, pushing the collapse of the universe to the final climax.

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"We have glimpsed a corner of the crazy universe, and there are some lights and shadows that are constantly approaching. We simply cannot maintain our own safety in such a scene. These distorted pictures are all."

In the crystal energy space station in the warp space, a ball of golden light is flowing on Kaloust's right hand. The ball of light is frantically burning the "black blood" spreading along his skin towards his body, and Zhai Cahill gently wiped away the blood flowing from the corners of his eyes and looked at the two consuls silently.

Behind them, there was a ball of bright flames. In the destructive burning, crystal dust was scattered, and a requiem music that was not melodious was played mournfully.

On the screen in the hall, a huge holographic display is flashing a dense group of light points; and in the corresponding real space, countless spaceships that have begun to disintegrate and are flashing ominous red light are moving at high speed. The spatial distortion left by approaching the closed area.

"We tried and sent our strongest dispatchable ships, and the soldiers were fully armed, but... before they could see clearly which ship they should target for rescue, those rescue ships would be lost. Contact... The most advanced security measures are simply unable to withstand the danger. Even with the use of crystal energy, equipment and soldiers cannot maintain their existence until the nature of the disaster is seen clearly - it is irresistible, and we have no time."

Cavenriel took a step forward and said, "Consul of Vidoville, Consul of Vesrifan, please give the order immediately to seal the wall of the warped world!"