Star Empire

"Successful." Ikarim let out a long sigh of satisfaction, "Your Excellency the Consul, Chief Zhai Cahir, thank you for your suggestions."

"The approach you planned before is not wrong, but the performance of our equipment is not enough to support the storage of large amounts of data for a long time in such an environment. We must give priority to ensuring that the math rate core can run at its highest state at all times. .”

Zhai Cahir looked at the crystal energy crystal that was shining again and couldn't help but shook his head, "Relatively speaking, the cost of your approach is too high, both in terms of energy consumption and resource occupation."

"...I hope we can find a way out before all our reserves are exhausted." Vidoville said expressionlessly, "After leaving the universe, we have been walking a one-way street. Whether we can survive depends on ourselves. We can’t go down any further.”

"Everyone should return to their respective posts. So far, this is the best state." Weisrifan waved his hand, "By the way, Cavenriel, Isendel, your next research focus should be... It is the expansion of the void detection range, the simplification of mathematical rate equipment, and trying to find ways to reduce the energy consumption of the spacecraft. However, try not to touch redundancy. Although redundant units may seem wasteful, they must not affect these critical moments. Operation of life-saving equipment.”

"...Well...that's true, Archon."

"Then, I'm leaving too." Weisrifan said hello to Vidoville. Since he holds the highest authority, Vesrevan can teleport from any place to any place without restriction. After the teleportation command was activated, a ring lit up under Weisrifan's feet. Under the golden light, the girl's body quickly became illusory, and disappeared completely as the teleportation halo was extinguished.

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In the void, a unique but constantly slowly modifying frequency shuttles through the waves like sea fire rising from the endless ocean. On such a hastily built escape ark, not to mention ordinary citizens, even the managers had almost no entertainment resources. In addition to the need for special supplies for high-cost occupations such as fleet balancers and the ability to conduct key target research, the Ark Fleet's overall control of crystal energy has been as detailed as every crystal energy they can decay. able.

A few years ago, when the Ark had just entered the void and started its initial journey, everyone still had the power to enjoy a lot of entertainment and possess a lot of redundant items, but that only existed in the initial period - at least in that initial dark age. , these practices can help troubled and confused souls calm down, and even temporarily numb them - time can heal the problems they encounter.

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"I have to say that the performance of those ordinary citizens is indeed worthy of praise - so far, there has been no report of major losses in the Ark Fleet... Although I don't want to say this, but... No, even if we realize that, we It cannot change these problems - civilized black box control can indeed greatly improve the efficiency of filtering redundant information with the assistance of suitable systems, but the layers of black boxes are tantamount to comparing these people's lives to chips and materials that can be used Loss and abandonment..."

"For such a long time, they first came to a remote isolation area. While losing the prosperity of the universe, they also had to bear a lot of tangible or intangible pressure. Then they had to accept the reality of collapse in an ever-changing environment, while also having to Having to leave their homes after a series of events. For these citizens who have lived stably for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, to be able to withstand these changes... is remarkable."

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However, as the voyage progressed year after year, this part of the energy diversion also began to decrease until it completely disappeared - in any case, this was consuming resources that could not be obtained again.

Naturally, some people will still be dissatisfied with such changes, but the bridge controls all energy flows, and no matter how restrained and "simple" they are now compared to their former federal life, they must endure it.

At the same time, this also means that these individuals who once existed freely in a long-term abundant environment will have to continue to export strength in order to survive without any rewards at all.

The collapse of the Federation was extremely sudden. After the Ark Fleet left the universe, the only military officer left in Vidoville was Caluster. Fortunately, in the independent timeline of more than two thousand years, Cavendish They transformed a considerable number of crystal energy-soul fused individuals, and after appropriate escalation of authority, they took on the necessary responsibilities of routine inspection and stability maintenance of every ship in the Ark Fleet.

If you want to survive in the Ark, you cannot sit idle until your role is less than your energy consumption - now is an extraordinary time.

The amount of crystal energy storage crystals consumed and the events encountered when dispatching a ship for a void voyage outside the fleet are beyond imagination. Every time those precious data are used for calculations, everyone will learn from that time. I felt a deep sense of fear during the incident.

However, the most basic requirement for modeling is to have enough data and information.

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"Your Excellency, this is a moment worth celebrating." In the huge holographic projection surrounding the mathematical rate core of the first bridge, several order fields with slightly different frequencies are reintegrating. "These experiments are progressing very smoothly - —This time, more than five Arks have re-verified our information equation about the relationship between fuzzy parameters and self-consistent barriers, and proved its reliability through actual trajectories!”

"But Cavenriel, currently..."

"I know, Your Excellency, our trajectory is still very bad, but this is the best we can do so far - we can roughly represent the spacecraft trajectory as a relatively reliable polyline, and navigation in the void It’s inherently discontinuous.”

"Yeah... it's discontinuous. Many times I feel like we've been here for thousands of years... Too many things have happened before, but they all seem like they happened yesterday..."

"Anyway, you have worked hard. Yes, this moment is worth celebrating."

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After that thrilling but fortunately safe incident, in order to collect enough data, larger-scale navigation tests were repeated many times - navigation control, spacecraft response, timeline connection, changes in environmental stability coefficients, and order field frequency differences. Projects such as the relationship with the internal environment, the adaptation of order field deviation laws, and the investigation and removal of static past information fragments have also been put on the table with repeated experiments.

With the first experience and lessons learned, future experiments will be relatively more stable, and more data can be obtained with relatively lower losses.

Everything seemed to be starting to stabilize.

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While wandering, the inspection of the spacecraft itself began to be gradually put on the agenda - the report showed that every time the Ark fleet shifted, it actually replaced the old order field with a new order field. Although there is nothing in the void, the reality before them is that they can use "coordinates" composed of certain attributes to measure the trajectory of the spacecraft - even if this may only find an inaccurate one. Range, which is better than nothing.

But doing so itself is dangerous - the order field itself simulates the structure of the world barrier to a certain extent, and the time-space-law representation coefficients in the world barrier will simultaneously affect the world laws in the order field where the spacecraft is located. This means that every time the order field frequency is changed, the mathematical rate core of the spacecraft must invisibly scan the entire ship as quickly as possible, and adjust certain assignments as much as possible to help the spacecraft itself and its members adapt to the changing laws.

There is also a danger in the constant replacement of the order field. It is discovered very late - due to technical limitations, when the frequency of the order field is completely refreshed, there will always be fragmented old structures remaining in the environment where the Ark is located. And these fragments are the same as the order field itself. This means that if too many such information fragments accumulate, the fragments may continue to accumulate and eventually crush the order field, throwing the Ark fleet directly into the void.

“This has to be taken seriously – we can’t always count on luck to be on our side!”

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Initially, due to the tense nerves of civilization, the frequency of inspections was performed on a weekly basis, and subsequently on a monthly basis. However, in rounds of inspections, Cavinrel and others have confirmed that the equipment containing crystal energy can be said to be quite strong, even better than those previous hadron accumulation materials. At the same time, it The resistance - or the properties of the crystal energy itself are quite powerful. Perhaps some "infinite effect" of the crystal energy itself can offset the distortion to a certain extent.

As long as there is a suitable algorithm, the situation of the fleet is indeed stable when it sails freely - no matter the hull, personnel and environment, after they contain crystal energy, they all have self-consistency at some broader level. The ability to self-stabilize. Although, at the current level, these people and objects cannot completely resist the distortion of environmental constants in theory, it is much more difficult to create something from scratch than to pile up numerical values... At least the Federation has never taken this step.

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After confirming that the equipment can adapt well to long-term operation, the frequency of routine inspections was reduced to once a year. After all, inspections also consume resources.

In the chaos where darkness and even space have not yet appeared, a small piece of phosphorus fire that preserves order is burning and floating quietly.

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January 25, 15th Year of the Exiled Year, after the annual routine inspection was completed.

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"Total calculation, the time before and after the statistics of this voyage log is almost the same as the time span covered by the first large-scale approval."

Cavinriel placed the crystal that stored every information offset difference and void coordinate recorded during this period on the somewhat weird interactive platform, and locked all the buckles. After setting up the machine's energy circuit and calculation interaction partition to prevent the device from burning the information storage medium in the crystal as energy, Cavinrel started the search.

Under the outline of flowing golden light spots, a huge illusory cube gradually took shape on an arc of the circular console. In the cube, a section of folded line that still had some twists and turns appeared in the cube.

"The role of the past navigation equations... even after a lot of adjustments, but for us at the current level... it is useful, but not enough." Eisendel looked at the jump breakpoints mixed in the cube, and the information was still relative to each other. The poor level of inheritance made him dissatisfied with all this.

"You can't tell just by looking at the pile of parameters that can burn out the calculator. After the simulation is projected into a conventional geometric coordinate model that can be understood, the gap is really big. If there is anything better than last time, it is that we The voyage during this period is at least roughly a straight line that can be returned to. It is a pity that there is no reference object in the void, and the voyage in the void is not continuous. Instead, after an information offset is completed, the computer will calculate and match the next theory. coordinates and then jump..."

"I don't know if there is something similar to the "undercurrent" in the void... The relationship between the void and, um... the existence of order has always been a bit vague. We can only verify our conjecture after a long enough voyage. After all, there are too few reference points, and our trajectory is our only reference point at the moment.”

"I wonder if we can solve this problem today... When our field of vision is large enough... Will there be some clearer patterns..."

Looking at the rotating new model, a few sighs emerged from the echo of consciousness, "Similar experiments have been repeated many times since that time. It can only be said that our rough navigation equations and preset parameters are correct. But there are definitely many imperfections, and I don’t know how much worse the navigation parameters revealed by the first inter-world voyage will be compared to all..."

"Sorry, it takes a long time to confirm all reports." The teleportation halo carrying the two consuls and the external connection hatch light illuminated together, and Victorville and others appeared in the first bridge. In addition, the entire There are almost no other changes to the film environment.

"Cavenriel, I heard that you have a new invention? Can it solve the problem of insufficient distance and low accuracy of the current void navigation system to a considerable extent?" Victorville looked at the hologram in front of Cavinriel seriously. Looking at the floating mapping relationships and a large number of parameters with complex symbols attached to the projection, I couldn't help but ask again.

"Ah, yes, Archon, with the help of a special information perspective, we have found a new algorithm model that enhances the ability of information to resist void decomposition."

Cavinrel stretched his hand into the holographic projection and swiped it, and most of the complex parameters and equations were instantly dispersed. What was left was a slender golden "shuttle". Around the slender shuttle, there was a layer of light The protective film is looming.

"Allow me to explain, Archon, what this and the golden rod represent is a theoretical model, a new way of sending information to the outside world, and the way of capturing the acquired information is still information entanglement - as far as our current technology and For a void environment, the information noise and delay caused by decoherence caused by decay are negligible. Here is a representative diagram of the new information body structure for propagation."

Cavinrel raised his right hand upward, and a chain-like structure that looked a bit like DNA appeared from the holographic projection, "This is the model followed by the structure of the information body we are currently using for communication... Soon, It's going to be reduced to the old structure. Now let's simulate sending this differently structured set of information out into the void."

Cavenriel started the simulation broadcast, and the two information models began to move slowly in the cube representing the void. At first, the moving speeds of the two were about the same, but soon, the golden shuttle was far behind the previous complex structure that looked like a double-stranded DNA.

The latter already had a considerable number of dark spots and defects at this time. Although the repair programs were still running, the overall structure of the information was still increasingly damaged. After a period of survival, these repair programs also lost control one by one. After the repair process got stuck, the remaining information structure quickly turned into tiny particles of light, submerged in the chaotic darkness.

"That's the structure of the information we're using in arraignments right now."

Cavenriel enlarged the area marking the simulated transmission location of another message. It can be seen that the golden shuttle is still flying in the chaos. Although the dim shield around it seems to be very fragile, it can block the void. Outside the structure of the information body, although it is not very appropriate, when Vidoville saw this scene, he couldn't help but think of the supercavitating torpedo that had appeared in the past. Under the gaze of everyone, the light pillar flew for a while. After gradually losing its luster and dimming, it finally disappeared into the void.

"Indeed, compared to the previous communication information structure, this new structure is much stronger in terms of transmission distance and resistance to decomposition."

"But Cavinriel, this new information structure... what is the difference and the reason for the difference? In my opinion, the dim shield that protects the ontological structure of the symbolic information is somewhat similar to the order field."

"Yes, Your Excellency, its structure does simulate the order field." Cavernelle nodded, "The protective structure outside this information body simulates the structure of the order field to a considerable extent. In the old chain-like self-replicating information A very serious problem in structures is that no matter how many redundant structures there are, in front of the void, this information body is spread out in the void like a flat surface."

"It itself will be invaded by the void all the time. Crystal energy can resist erosion and decomposition from the void to a certain extent. During this period of time, the self-repair program can run. But once the crystal energy foundation drops below a certain threshold, , the ability of information to resist the void will drop sharply."

"In this case, those complex structures including repair procedures will be eroded, so the information transmission capacity and resistance are very low. Chief Zhai Kahir helped further clarify the structure of the order field. We followed Zhai Kahir The results obtained by Hill were simulated, and the results obtained added a layer of order field that can serve as a protective cover outside the information to be transmitted."

"Moreover, such improvements have other benefits." Eisendel took over with a proud expression, "The large redundancy of the old structure has brought huge troubles to both the launcher and the propagation. In the void If you want to spread a large amount of information, you need to prepare a more powerful emission source, and the "offset programming" of the information itself is much more complicated. Now, with such a simpler information structure, we only need to add a multivariate counter-trend Just switch the equation around and give the message a slightly stronger first push.”

"Well, it does sound more clever." Vidoville nodded, but soon he looked at Cavinriel, "But if this method is used, my first feeling is that the information will be very directional. It’s strong, and if it were to be sent entirely to the void, would there be any unnecessary trouble?”

"There will be some, but the main problem is on the equipment." Cavinrel turned off the demonstration holographic projection. "As for "in how many directions and to what extent" the information should be sent, the key issue lies in the additional multiple counter-trends. Coordinate conversion equation...this is what we call it now to make it easier to understand.

"As long as we debug it properly, we can decide whether to let the information propagate along a specified "direction" or whether to make ripples that move in all directions like a drop of water falling into the water. And the void is not the same as space, even for large-scale scanning , unlike radar waves in the universe, the scanning accuracy within a unit area will decrease once the scanning range is expanded. Although its intensity will inevitably decrease as the diffusion range increases, you do not have to worry about it It will decay too quickly to the point of being undetectable.”

"Very good, very good. Cavinriel, after you have invented a new information structure, where are you going to apply it first?"

"The navigation system, Your Excellency, its existence is to lay the foundation for subsequent navigation facilities. One of the current solutions to our problems is to further refine the conversion relationship between void coordinates and information offsets."

"Also, we must expand our field of vision as much as possible, that is, our detection capabilities. We need to use our own route as a reference to make corrections, and we also need to confirm whether the void itself will be at a certain "moment" and a certain "position" "There is an "undercurrent" or similar phenomenon - although it seems to have left our system, we always maintain sufficient contact within a considerable range through entangled channels."

"And our navigation system relies on this advance gap to achieve its functions - currently our navigation equations and calculation errors have been reduced to a considerable extent. And these advance waves can explore the path for us - As long as we detect the difference between the transfer path of this scanning wave and the original set path, we can judge what corrections need to be made for the next voyage and record them. As long as a similar process is carried out enough times, the errors can gradually be eliminated. Compressed to a very low level.”

"I understand, let's start now." Vidoville confirmed Cavinriel's plan.

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On the outer shell of the spacecraft, a group of bright lights lit up at the bow position and in the center of the upper and lower arc-shaped shells. After a short period of diffusion, the light was quickly converged, compressed, and then integrated into the order field.

Just by looking at it, those lights seemed to disappear out of thin air, but in fact, the fleet wrapped in the order field at this time and the order field itself were like a drop of water, and like a huge copper bell, in the order Ripples spread and "buzz" over a considerable area near the field.

The vision of civilization was finally illuminated.

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"It can be said that the effect is quite good." Some time after the message was sent, Cavinriel reactivated the holographic information display. In the huge chaotic cube representing the void, an almost transparent spherical wave was rapidly expanding from the center of the cube.

"Wait a minute, what is this?"

Following Weisrifan's shout, other people present quickly noticed that at a position that could be regarded as the "rear" of the fleet, an unexpected pure black patch with an irregular shape appeared at an unknown time and was heading towards the fleet. The fleet is wandering!