Star Empire

"...if the Star Federation is destroyed, it will become part of history. Today is the last day of the Star Federation."

"But it is not the last day of Star Civilization. The end of civilization will eventually come, but it will definitely not be now!"

"The Star Empire has been established since then."

As soon as the words fell, all communication channels in the entire fleet fell silent.

"Let's all go to work. From now on, we will look forward with a new attitude." Wei Ruifan waved his hand, and the live broadcast projections suspended in the arks were extinguished.

"Don't worry about any problems. Direct modifications from the bottom of the soul are more effective than any concept instillation or auxiliary plug-ins. I experienced it when I was affected by the death wave before. Now, the permission system has become truly practical. part of the network."

Recalling the severe pain from the deepest part of his body that he had felt when he was slightly infected, Vidoville couldn't help but shook his head, "Cavenriel, has the new sailing direction of the fleet been decided?"

"About this... I'm sorry, Archon, er, or emperor... At present, we have quite a lot of choices, but in general these choices... are almost bad."

"Why do you say that?" Vidoville frowned, "By the way, it doesn't matter what you call him. Call him the one who is the most efficient. It doesn't matter. We don't have time to write these down."

"Understood, please see, this is our current estimated route plan." In the voice of Cavinriel, a huge holographic projection appeared above the crystal guide rail in the direction of the ship's bow. The main part of the projection was two The huge cubes are spliced ​​together and have clearly differentiated colors. At the fuzzy junction of the two giant cubes, a dim golden light spot is specially marked.

"In order to avoid the pursuit of the world fragments, we carried out two extremely high-intensity void migrations. Although the "speed" of these two jumps was very fast, due to the limited ability of our mathematical rate core information migration calculation, this Just like an emergency evacuation, we didn't run very far in this case."

Isendel on the side lightly swiped his finger, and the screen made further adjustments in conjunction with Cavinriel, who was explaining the current situation: the light spot was pulled closer, and two unequal parts were extended from the center of the ball. of "hemisphere."

"The routes marked in gold are the routes we can choose, the small gray part is not recommended, and the red part is unnavigable." Cavernell pointed at the suspended holographic projection and explained.

"As for the largest part of the no-navigation zone, you should be clear. After a certain information offset reaches a certain level, there is no obvious change in the void directly. However, in these two different void areas, The information mapping rules will change quite significantly, and it will be extremely easy to get lost."

"From this phenomenon, we speculate that the void has a boundary phenomenon - we can even speculate on this basis that there may still be some measurable order in the background of the void."

"However, due to the particularity of the overall structure of the void, we are currently unable to determine whether these two different areas are separated from each other like these two cubes, or whether they overlap each other in structure, and the two parts are distinguished by a certain parameter As a "demarcation line" or "demarcation zone."

"But right now, it would be unwise for us to use our limited resources to explore such a problem. We can no longer afford other more serious losses, so these options should be ruled out."

After watching Vidoville and Weisrifan nod, the small gray "cone" part was highlighted, "This part is towards the direction of our home world. Of course, this cone The marking method of the body is just a rough projection of the simulation. The description method of the void as a whole is extremely complicated. If we can directly restore it with the model we can do, it is completely beyond our understanding and even beyond the scope of conventional display methods. exist."

"With our current level of information processing... we cannot analyze it, because we are still far from acquiring the full power of crystal energy. To a considerable extent, our cognition is limited by the conventional laws of the world. It itself is a This kind of existence is generated after the fluctuation, collapse and solidification of information. Compared with crystal energy, they are too "fixed"."

"And crystal energy can record these large-capacity super information. In addition to the rank bonus, its huge uncertainty can also serve as considerable storage redundancy. Having said that, these "directions" are not recommended, but they are not The reason why it is a restricted area is that before the collapse of our universe, the crystal energy-driven void scanning array anchored near the world barrier has determined that there are only two "hometown" and "target" in the void within a considerable range. Universes so close that they almost touch each other.”

"As for the reason why it is not recommended, it can be said very clearly - the death wave, and there are even powerful facilities of unknown civilization buried in our universe. But now they are no longer a threat: the "target" universe has completely collapsed and It has been completely eliminated by the void, and the remaining world fragments of the "hometown" universe have been dismantled. Although the physical space of that fragment is much smaller than the former macro universe, the various scenes reflected in it are from the past. The entire universe at different times and different ranges..."

"According to Zhai Cahir's timeline closure theory, it can be inferred that the fragment was formed by the forcible aggregation of all remaining cosmic debris by that unknown giant structure."

"The two universes have perished. Theoretically, that area should now be similar to the void we are in. It has also become like this, turning into a chaotic area where nothing exists and needs to support its own safety island. However, we cannot be sure about that area. Whether there are other existences in an area that we don't know about, we don't know where that extremely powerful information broadcast was sent, who it was sent to, and what kind of response it received."

"So, among the many remaining directions, don't we have a relatively better choice?" Assessing the current unoptimistic environment, Weisruifan couldn't help but feel anxious: "It can be said that the damage to our spacecraft has already been considerable. Seriously, we need to find a place where we can at least supply supplies as soon as possible?!"

"In fact... assuming that with the help of crystal energy, we can resist and eventually adapt to the differences in laws between different universes, we can't find such a reliable direction." A flash on Cavinrel's face flashed A hint of gloom, "...this part of the direction can be said to be almost blank."

"Blank?" Victorville, who had been listening, couldn't sit still: "What does this mean?"

"...Literally speaking, when we were testing long-distance navigation detection methods and locking the location of the debris in the dead tide world, the detection waves we launched several times passed through the void at a distance that can be said to be quite far from our point of view. We are very lucky. , the receiving part of the entangled information that needs to be stored on our side after two launches is not damaged."

"After carefully reading the feedback from the two sweeps of the crystal energy information wave, we found that the void can be said to be quite empty, not to mention the "twin universes" that were very close before, now in our "field of vision" "Among them, there is almost no order information body that has further detection value and can be identified as a universe-level order."

"The best feedback results we get are extremely weak information feedbacks that appear and disappear in the distant void, but they are fleeting."

“There’s really nothing I can do here.”

Zhai Cahir shook his head, "I have tried my best, but now I can't see any valuable information at all. Last time I was able to cross the void. On the one hand, the Sixteenth Ark did not cut off contact with us. I can Useful parts are collected through these connections that are difficult to use but still have extremely low bandwidth. In addition, at that time, the "distance" or information offset difference between the main fleet and the Lost Ark was already quite small, and now... …There is nothing I can do in the vast void.”

"...Then, we can only do the best." Wei Ruifan sighed, "Esendel, are there any rules to follow for the two weak information fluctuations in the distant void that you detected? Those information fluctuations in the void Is the approximate location of the center fixed?"

"There was a certain deviation in the void coordinates when the two information fluctuations were detected. However, judging from the detection of the echoes... it should be the result of the same information body moving in the void. It may be world fragments, or it may be something else. What order information aggregate. If this conjecture is true, then... it is possible for us to use it as a transit-level supply station. Although it is currently impossible to accurately deduce its trajectory, one thing is certain: its void The drifting speed is not very fast, and our fleet can catch up with it."

"Approximately how long?"

"According to the current situation...after recalculating the navigation model and void equation, it will be about three thousand years."

"Sigh... I can only say that this time is not too long, but it is not short either. Our spacecraft was designed to ensure that it can continue to "fly" for ten thousand years according to the original navigation data from the beginning, but now... a small amount The energy crystal is used to store knowledge. Several emergency maneuvers and battles in the world fragments infected by the death wave have made our ship's condition worse and the crystal energy storage capacity reduced. Moreover, the target is still uncertain and we are not sure whether we can It is really not optimistic to use something that may not even be known to exist."

Victorville held his forehead and thought with a tangled face, but soon, faced with such a single choice that had to be made, everyone made a decision: only by moving forward can we gain a chance of survival.

A few minutes later, this decision was also recorded as the first emperor's order of the Star Empire.

In the main control hall, amidst the very high frequency information fluctuations generated by the perpetual clock as the time calibration center, and under the gaze of all surviving personnel, the exile fleet set sail again.

Near the center of the hall, three small obelisks are placed on a round platform at the base of the mathematical rate core according to the position of the vertices of an equilateral triangle. On the sharp corner at the top of the obelisk, there is a light golden light like a firefly. The group was flashing slowly, as if it was breathing, guarded by an obelisk in the center, and the mathematical rate core that had been forcibly overloaded several times became bright again.

Soon, the constraint shell, which was made into a multi-section arc ring, began to become unstable. However, before the situation worsened, the redundant modules added from outside came into play in time. The light spots on the surfaces of the three obelisks It was connected in series by a dim filament. After the connection was completed, the filament quickly expanded and soon became a transparent shield covering the outer layer of the central core. Maintained by this almost invisible shield , the violent golden glow in the center of the mathematical rate core gradually stabilized.

As the movement of the constraint shell stabilizes and the speed increases, the golden information fluctuations like running water are converged and extend and spread along the crystal energy-conducting track laid on the floor.

The light of crystal energy surges through every inch of the rail crystal that can still operate, and bright crystal veins spread throughout the spacecraft. From the cabin, you can see crystal energy flowing endlessly in the guide rails like blood, as if the veins of leaves are coated with a layer of golden light. Under the command of the flagship, each spacecraft in the fleet began to slowly adjust its attitude and calibrate the connection status and parameter settings with the flagship to ensure that the actions of the flagship could be consistent.

In the endless void, a crystal light point shining with the brilliance of order began to move in the predetermined direction. Behind this light point, the void wiped away all traces of its past existence here.

Looking at the mathematical rate core operating normally, Vidoville breathed a long sigh of relief.

Anyway, at least for now, everything is back on track.