Star Empire

In the dangerous solar wind top, directly use the national ignition device to bombard the unstable environment in the wind top to create branches of the world, thereby opening up the initial base of advance. This is the solution that was finally determined to be feasible.

This measure seems quite radical. However, after analyzing a large amount of data, imperial scholars discovered that this was actually a relatively simple and very effective approach.

After long-term research, the empire has become aware of the environment at the top of the Fierce Sun Wind. In that extreme void, the surge of virtual information originally possessed by the void and the Fierce Solar Stellar Wind as an external force compete repeatedly here. The dominance of the environment has resulted in a complex and very unstable background environment.

If the Sun's stellar wind had always been relatively uniform, perhaps the environment here wouldn't be so dangerous and complex.

However, in the past three trillion years, the activity of the sun has experienced many peaks and troughs many times. The unstable solar wind is likely to expand the scope of the wind top when it is strong. When the sun is weak, the wind top will be compressed by external information activities, and then pushed to expand during the next strong stellar wind period.

Layers upon layers of turbulence form the entire top of the wind. This turbulence embodies the "specific process" of the blazing sun and the void background environment repeatedly competing for dominance in these areas. With the dominance constantly changing hands, the wind top has basically formed a dynamic stability here. At the same time, the turbulence itself has become a powerful obstacle that the empire's power of order has to face when crossing this "farthest border".

Directly using the national ignition device to bombard this superimposed turbulent area is a powerful way to "relieve pressure". After the changes contained in the unstable virtual information are fixed to the interior of the world, the environment here will tend to To ease.

At the same time, this is also one of the few "effective means" and "efficient means" that the empire has used in this field so far. If a gentle and cautious approach is adopted, then there is a high probability that the singularity dropped from here will be swept into the unfamiliar dark void by the turbulence, and its traces will never be found again.

More routes are working hard to extend their opening sections to the end of the Lieyang Wind Field.

Whenever a new route extends to the heliopause, a bright and magnificent canopy will open in the endless dome formed by the solar wind. These canopies are composed of countless worlds, and they spread outward in a manner similar to the extension of fractal patterns, delimiting large areas of void under the "rule" of the empire.

And when the branches of the world suddenly explode like fireworks, the industrial modules that once created the power source for the national ignition device will not be idle.

It took the warriors sent by the Empire a trillion years to reach the Wind Summit, and it took the Empire's fleet more than 500 billion years to barely pave the way to the Wind Summit. Different from the initial embarrassing moment, now, the empire's ships have been able to ensure that they can arrive here while still able to perform their missions, and safely deliver the goods needed on the front line.

This means that here, the empire can already show a very important part of its power-industrial power can already be deployed here.

Here, in the void where the Sun Wind Summit is located, except for the Lambda Civilization Alliance, which can peek into this area in cooperation with the empire, other civilizations can only look back and sigh. Those civilizations know that their own It was impossible to reach here in a short time, so everyone unanimously acquiesced to the fact that the treaty's restrictive power was weakened here. And this means that the productivity that the empire's industrial modules can release will no longer be limited.

Here, the industrial modules of the empire use themselves as blueprints and continuously copy themselves.

This process proceeds in an exponential explosion. In the process of self-replication, a large number of industrial modules will branch out from the exponential expansion. They will change their role and start producing power furnaces, certain equipment or components of large equipment, or even simply replace themselves with each other. They are integrated together to form a more advanced industrial mother machine and industrial unit. And, in this process, the nascent industrial units will continue to replicate exponentially until they expand their production capacity to a level that can meet demand.

The scale of the branches of the world is huge. Since the creation singularity cannot directly give birth to sovereign facilities when the world is created, the branches of the world will be in a blank state lacking jurisdictional power. However, in the face of the exponential growth rate of these industrial modules, such The void doesn't last long.

In order to ensure as much as possible that its previous efforts will not be wasted due to partial indulgence, here, the empire will still abide by some of the rules it has set.

For example, the information flow emitted by the National Ignition Device will still be specially modulated, and the world created by it will be very chaotic. This chaos is to prevent intelligent life from appearing in it as much as possible. If such a thing does happen, the Empire will accelerate the world into a doomsday state in the eyes of the Empire by modifying the reference system, etc., so that everything in it will end naturally instead of being destroyed by external forces.

For another example, if there is a death tide activity here, the Imperial Fleet will try its best to purify it and properly handle the contaminated world in accordance with the standards of the Empire itself. The empire will not throw away the contaminated world fragments or other things. Although this place is called the "dark void", the darkness here is only relative to the "eyes" of the empire.

Since the empire's observation here is still somewhat limited, the void here looks darker than the void area where the empire itself is located, but this does not mean that the void here is empty. There are also many worlds here, and it is very likely that there are various intelligent civilizations within these worlds. If those dangerous debris are disposed of at will because "there is no civilization within the scope of the agreement to supervise", then the races that originally lived here may suffer unreasonable disasters.

Here, the empire abides by the rules it has set for itself, and for things that happen here that have nothing to do with the empire, the empire does not use the treaties and agreements that are common in the empire to interfere here. In addition to the issues that must be paid attention to to prevent the slightest change, there is another important concept that supports their actions deep in the heart of the empire's life - rules are used to restrain themselves, rather than using them to demand others.

"Although I was mentally prepared, the actual situation is still quite different from what I expected. It's really troublesome here. There is nothing and everything has to be adjusted manually." He looked at the lights in front of him and then started again. The extinguished void map, 73-2-3-yorpq7131 couldn't help but complain.

"Be content, the conditions here are much better than at the beginning." After listening quietly, 73-2-9-oufqw31910 pushed back the complaints of his crew.

"I know, I know, I'm just complaining, why don't you let me talk!" yorpq7131 rubbed his eyes that had accumulated a lot of observation data, and then continued to stare at the screen surrounding him. .

These two people are the entire crew of this ship. They are currently on a Redemption-class predator ship. The hull of this predator ship is pyramid-shaped, like a thick and wide dagger. There are various points on the four sides of the hull. There is a huge hemisphere that protrudes from the surface. On the tops of these hemispheres, mysterious and complex concentric patterns are drawn.

The huge smooth hemispheres are the information pullers of the plundering ship. They can be said to be the most important core equipment of the entire plundering ship. It is they that give the plundering ship its plundering ability. They can form a powerful drag field, which can ensure the stability of its internal environment, thereby ensuring that even if it needs to pull existences composed of mundane information, this kind of device can still be competent for these tasks.

The channel construction project has been basically completed. Possible threats around the channel have been eliminated by the plundering ships during the construction process. After defense facilities such as firepower base stations and void fortresses are put in place, the task of protecting the channel will be handed over to them. The plundering ships, which are slowly advancing along with the engineering fleet, have now found a new job at the edge of the ever-expanding branches of the world. Before the sovereign facilities are in place, they need to be responsible for adjusting the twisted world structure in the branches of the world. , so that they spread evenly at the wind top.

"Ah - when will the navigation here be smooth? There are only two people in such a big ship and the previous no-delay driving mode cannot be used. It's so troublesome! It's so lonely!" After waiting for a long time, yorpq7131's The sound rang again.

"Captain, think about it, what age is this? The empire's fourth trillion year is more than half over! The area number has increased to 105, and several departments have been set up specifically for art. By the way, the ship Commander, did you know that the Imperial Council is ready to vote to guide the empire back to the stage of co-prosperity in the fifth trillion years! But the environment here is still like a little deaf and blind!"

"Be content, you know, it's very powerful to be able to use your brain to plug in the wires for assistance now. Those who first came here in the Great Journey Class, they all operated all the equipment manually, okay?! This is the Fierce Sunwind. top!"

oufqw31910 already wanted to give his operator a shudder - "Also, you don't know why there are so few people here! Don't forget, the offset difference of void information here is much greater than that in the Empire District! That can't be compensated for simply by relying on algorithms! We're fine, it's because the ship structure is trying its best to help us resist the impact of the information offset! If we bring so many people, the ship will not be able to travel in the void during the voyage. What should I do if my body can’t bear it?”

"Okay, okay, I shut up. The captain is right, I shouldn't argue with you?? Why is there nothing in front? Captain, are you sailing the ship properly?"

yorpq7131 once again "repaired" his already very "sore" eyes - that is, rubbed them well. At first, he thought he was a little dazzled due to exhaustion. After all, this place where he would still feel cold in his bones even if he wore ten sets of clothes was not suitable for working for a long time. However, the situation in front of him seemed to have gone beyond the "dazzling". category.

His eyes became completely blank, not to mention the world, not even the slightest fragment of the order field.

".I'm sailing? Huh? What's going on ahead?" oufqw31910 also noticed the problem. His ship seemed to be stuck in the void and could no longer move forward.

At first, oufqw31910 thought that there was an error in the target he set, so the world neighborhood formed by the ship's order place was not connected to the world that should theoretically exist at the target, so he calibrated the navigation equipment again. But he discovered that at some point, the void in front of him had turned into a pure blank, and there was no other order field in that area.

"Shouldn't it be? This place should be far away from the edge of the branches of the world we are patrolling, right?" After confirming that the abnormal situation in front of them indeed existed, the two of them suddenly became serious - themselves The current location is still a certain distance from the end of the theoretical world branch. There should be more worlds in front of me. It is not easy to erase hundreds of billions of worlds out of thin air - what could be the reason? What led to this situation? !

"No, no, there is a problem ahead. The void engine cannot sail even if it is switched to coordinate correction mode. It seems to be directly blocked? Interrupted?!" oufqw31910 found that there seemed to be a very powerful barrier in the void in front of him. This kind of The barrier directly blocked the Void Engine's jumping ability. The feedback the Void Engine sent to him was "unrecognizable operating instructions" - this situation reminded him of the Web of Existence equipped on the Void Fortress of Praise of Sacred Music, but There is no doubt that there is no sacred music praise here.

".I have never seen such a situation." oufqw31910 shook his head, "Even if it crosses a previously undiscovered sub-quadrant, the shielding effect it can cause cannot be so strong. Is it possible that it will not be the discovery of a new quadrant? Alright?!"

Thinking of this, oufqw31910's eyelids jumped several times - if the entrance to the new Void Quadrant is really discovered here, then this will be an explosive discovery. The empire has been in its fourth trillion years since its founding, but so far, the empire has never discovered a new void quadrant. If the shielding effect here is really due to the discovery of a new quadrant, then the impact will be It is unprecedented and immeasurable!

"yorpq7131, this ship is in an emergency state. We need to go to the equivalent positions in other quadrants to determine other possible situations of this shielding effect!"

"Okay, got it." After receiving the order, yorpq7131 began to coordinate his observation filters so that he could still clearly observe the specific situation in the void in other quadrants. While he was modifying the filter, oufqw31910 operated the void engine to start changing the void quadrant in which the ship was located.

The plundering ship shaped like a giant dagger did not change the void coordinates of its own order field, but changed the specific composition rules of all time-space-law elements that make up the order field. Through this change, the plundering ship entered another layer of "filter" in this void. With a crisp click, the functional node that the quadrant clock was originally running suddenly stopped, and another functional node started its own operation - the ship had arrived in another void quadrant.

"Captain, the interference still exists and is in the same position!" After the quadrant conversion was completed, yorpq7131 overturned the two people's previous speculation in one sentence - the inexplicable shielding layer also appeared in the new void quadrant, and Judging from the location, the shielding layers should be "connected"! !

"I feel like this is not the work of an intelligent civilization, right?" oufqw31910 felt uneasy in his heart. He once again directed the ship to jump over several void quadrants, but in front of them, the shielding layer in the void was still there. ——Intangible and without substance, without a trace but penetrating the sky and the earth.

Setting up such a large-scale shielding layer in the void that can span several quadrants, or even all quadrants, is not an ordinary feat.

Within the scope of my own knowledge...at least before I participated in the construction of this project, the Lambda Civilization Alliance could not achieve this level, and even the empire might not be able to achieve it.

If a civilization suddenly appears here that is powerful enough to set up such a super shielding layer in the void, then the impact of this incident will still be unprecedented and immeasurable, but there is no doubt that surprise will turn into shock.

"Uh, Captain, I think I have the answer." yorpq7131's voice was trembling, and when he synchronized the information he saw to Captain oufqw31910, both of them suddenly broke out in a cold sweat - "Notify the engineering command Department! Immediately set up invisible beacons to mark the dangerous area!!"

In the void in front of them, there is a strange order field. The order field has been seriously damaged. The huge creation that should be strictly protected in the order field has most of its body directly exposed in the void, like It's half a skeleton emerging from the thick clouds.

But even so, it didn't seem to be violently invaded by the void.

This huge piece of equipment is like the ribs of a giant umbrella. Where the ribs come together, you can vaguely see an oblate spherical hub. There seems to be damage to the outside of the hub that doesn't seem too serious. Perhaps it is That damage resulted in the exposure of this field of order.

On the exposed black outer armor plate of the hub, a huge red Σ emblem like a giant eye is particularly dazzling.