Star Empire

In the void, this little ship of order is still moving forward.

Compared with the time when it set off, the scale of this fleet has weakened much. The crash of five arks and the heavy losses of more than half of the population have made the fleet shaky internally. Looking at the spacecraft from the order field , the outer armor plate that has rotted to the point of revealing the spacecraft's ribs under the double erosion of death tide corruption and void assimilation can also reveal to a considerable extent what kind of disasters this fleet may have experienced.

Vitality and progress still survive in this broken fleet.

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"Zhai Cahir, speaking of it now, the usefulness of the Internet can be said to have expanded a lot compared to before, right?"

Vidoville looked at the network control technician who was rapidly operating the crystal panel in front of him, and the huge holographic projection suspended above the first guide rail displayed in front of them showed a complex tree diagram. As Hill's dazzled fingers jumped, the complex branches and several structures in the holographic projection were quickly becoming clearer.

"Ah, indeed." Zhai Cahir did not stop his movements.

"After all, in the previous concept, supporting facilities that could be directly called "networks" all served information transmission, such as the information collection network. Although it could be used to transmit souls within a certain node range, at that time we It is determined that the essence of the soul is a set of data; as for energy, matter and other things that are considered to have "entity" existence, most of the supporting equipment used to transport them is a "pipe network" except for giant cargo ships. , large-scale transportation is carried out through structures similar to guide rails and pipelines.”

"For example, the planet fortress we once located in the DH-33 Grand Triangular Constellation has hundreds of millions of kilometers of energy-conducting transistor networks scattered throughout its lower crust and deep within the entire planet. They are used to transport energy from the planet's core. The vacuum zero-point energy also provides other types of energy for circulation. Now, the establishment of the unified theory of information has fundamentally eliminated the gap between information and matter."

As he spoke, the activities in Zhai Cahir's hands gradually slowed down, and the originally complex tree-like structure had been basically simplified. What was displayed on the light screen was a regular tetrahedron, layered in a variety of colors. of pyramids.

"According to your request, Your Majesty, oh no, I have rearranged it according to the old authority assignments and the new requirements."

Zhai Cahir pointed to the rotating pyramid in the holographic projection: "After reorganizing the authority levels, in order to simplify the structure as much as possible and avoid too many transfers required for a command or a feedback to reach its destination, currently according to you and His Majesty Vesrivan’s detailed requirements, my final simplification of the authority level is structured as follows:”

"The highest level is the Emperor level. You and Vesrifan currently hold this level of authority; and the next level is composed of me, Cavinriel, Isendel, Ikarim and Carlos. “It’s a pity that the Federation has perished so quickly, and there are so few outstanding talents left in the Federation…”

"Then the next level, they are responsible for the specific assignment of orders and a certain degree of information aggregation. Except for the flagship, all Ark captains and all officers of the former federal engineering army hold this authority, while the lowest level is all ordinary citizens. Compared with soldiers below officers, there is still a certain difference in this part. The communication priority of military personnel is higher than that of civilians..."

"Hmm...Okay." Vidoville nodded, but soon he thought of another question: "By the way, Zhai Cahir, what is the specific mechanism by which the permission network currently plays a role in distinguishing and suppressing permissions? "

"Well, in this case, I can probably see that the current execution mechanism of the authority network is based on a special crystal energy assignment method. After the Ark fleet leaps into the void, the equipment carrying the network is no longer the original information disturbance computer. It is the mathematical rate core located in the bridge, and the corresponding high-level energy has also been converted from the original diluted arcana to crystal energy."

"Unlike arcane magic, crystal energy is difficult to directly use will to perform very detailed operations, but this does not mean that the detailed use ability of crystal energy is weaker than arcane magic."

"When the mathematical rate core performs the "information assignment" work, the body attaches different values ​​to the crystal energy information flow that is diverted to different authority levels. The inerting assignment weights of various types of crystal energy flowing to high-level authority nodes are themselves higher than those flowing to high-level authority nodes. There are fewer low-level authority nodes, and it can even be said that when obtaining the corresponding crystal energy\\information flow, the authority will be naturally distinguished."

"In this way, we can ensure that the upper layers in the permission tree can issue commands to the next layer without any hindrance - well... this is what already existed when the underlying protocol was restructured. Why do you want to re-establish it at this time? How about asking this again?"

"I mean...if this is the case, then the superstructure of our civilization will be based on a network composed of such equipment?" When learning about this situation, Vidoville couldn't help but feel a little worried, "If that's the case , then once we encounter the previous death wave invasion again."

"Actually, you don't have to worry about these aspects. From the current point of view, there is no smarter approach than mechanical authority protection."

Zhai Cahill interrupted Vidoville: "After this network reorganization, the authority to modify the underlying protocol will be held by the emperor, and no one else will have the right to interfere. The current existence of this part of the underlying protocol is to ensure the existence of the network The basic module, so this part was not damaged during the last death wave attack. Even if the death wave invades again, as long as our network has not completely collapsed and disintegrated, our permission system will not fail."

"Of course, the various determination processes of the current permission system are indeed all implemented in various types of AI and computers. In the long run, there are indeed problems, but there are still corresponding solutions: For example, it is possible that we can A higher existence can completely integrate itself into the network and truly become a part of the node; or it can make certain modifications at the soul level and directly implant parts that can reflect the distinction of authority into our souls. Of course, these It’s still basically impossible to do now.”

"...Indeed, the entire civilization is connected under the promotion and evolution of trends. It is necessary for civilization to have such an overall information exchange network...In fact, I am more worried...Although Weisrifan has repeatedly said Warn me not to think too much now...but..."

"...?"

"Perhaps, under the current situation... Although we have paid the heaviest price in flesh and blood, maybe it is the best choice for us not to forcefully recruit people... And what we are doing now... I can't guess it. How long will the benefits last..."

Vidoville waved his hand, habitually indicating that he was unwilling to continue using this topic: "Speaking of it, we can now use the Internet to transmit everything, and now it even includes entities, as long as there is proper transmission. The protocol and upload encoding method are fine. If we continue to develop according to this trend, will our civilization eventually become a clustered superorganism?"

"Well, there is nothing wrong with saying this, and this should also be one of the trends that will emerge from the development of civilization."

Zhai Cahir nodded, "The simplest thing is that any complex organic creature, including humans before their body composition is flawless, is not an absolutely single life form in essence, but is composed of multiple complex microorganisms of different types and levels. A super-individual composed of individuals, and a super-individual has a main consciousness strong enough to coordinate the entire complex super-individual, so that the whole can act according to a relatively stable law. Many small social creatures have this property... …”

"For example, Loris ant colonies, each ant colony is a superorganism composed of lower-level beings of different types and levels, existing as a whole. Each Loris ant is similar to a cell in a superorganism, They divide labor and cooperate to jointly maintain the life activities of the superorganism. A superorganism composed of such eusocial animals can be called a "superorganism." "

"In this way, it will be an inevitable trend for the individual authority and thinking that have been dispersed in our civilization to gather again. Even if the imperial system is not adopted, there will definitely be some similar method to replace it to promote this trend. .”

Vidoville frowned slightly, "As a collective, if we want to continue to develop, the power of the collective must be properly used. The individuals in the federal period were too loose compared to the main body, which made the collective become closer again. At present, There are only two ways, one is to have an absolutely powerful leader, and the other is to gradually merge the consciousness and will of everyone to form an existence similar to a hive mind. However, it seems that both systems will have problems That is, what should we do once the central decision-making is wrong?"

"This part is when the lower-level individuals play their role, Your Majesty. Don't think that the lower-level individuals in the hive mind are only providing computing power to the higher-level individuals. They are also the nerve endings and tentacles for the entire super-individual to sense the outside world. In large enough numbers, they can collect a huge amount of data and possibilities - they obtain and transmit information for the entire civilization. The more information they can refer to, the lower the probability of making wrong decisions, but this is just The ideal state.”

"I will remember this passage." Vidoville nodded seriously to the chief control technician in front of him.

"Moreover, if we can truly organize civilization into a true super-individual, it will bring additional benefits, such as communication...perhaps without delay at a higher level."

Zhai Cahir gently moved his hands outward and re-expanded the simple permission pyramid into a permission tree that could express specific details.

"In the past, in the universe, the information collection network could truly break the light speed barrier with the help of a trace amount of arcane energy levels. However, such communication networks had blind spots in quite a few parts, such as in warped world bubbles and high-dimensional property transitions. For a ship in this state, since the Warp World Bubble itself can be seen as cutting off a small piece of the world and closing it again, it theoretically has world barrier-level information interception capabilities."

"Of course, our level was limited in the past and we did not develop the technology to such a high level."

"If we can set up a network that allows every individual to fully access the network without borrowing any equipment, then we will also have faster information transmission capabilities, and at the same time, we can greatly reduce the existence of blind spots, and even , in the future when technology has developed enough, the network may even be able to exist independently of devices and at a higher conceptual level..."

"It can be expected that once this network is fully established, the energy driving its operation will inevitably be high-frequency crystal energy, which will be many levels higher than the previous information collection network."

Vidoville was also excited when he learned about this possibility, but the reality soon unfolded before his eyes: "Currently, our souls can indeed accommodate the existence of crystal energy, but in the final analysis, these crystal energy...should still be They are all still secondary crystal energy, and this has not changed even if you have added more technology trees for more than two thousand years in the abnormal situation of the blockade zone."

"For life, high-frequency crystal energy is still an extremely dangerous thing that is in the restricted area of ​​life. Moreover, when talking about a more connected network, we have to consider the problem of death tide. Even if we have high-frequency crystal energy, I dare not say that high-frequency crystal energy can absolutely deal with the spread of the death wave. If this possibility really exists, then this network will become a fast way for the death wave to pass, even faster and more powerful than destroying the information collection network."

"The death tide, this is indeed a thorny or unsolvable problem." When mentioning this, Zhai Cahill also had a look of depression and helplessness on his face. "According to the information currently available, the death tide has the ability to pass through The ability to spread through various connections. The infection methods that can be manifested in the universe include various physical contacts, various types of radiation transfer, various types of communications, etc. We have not yet found the kind that can only be found in various types of killing memes. That’s the unreasonable way of delivering it.”

"As for the effect... it will be attached to the surface of the material, thereby causing its collapse and disintegration. For crystal energy, etc., this collapse and disintegration phenomenon is much less effective. For people, the death tide will cause the collapse of the human mind and will. Softening can also lead to extreme changes in the body, etc.”

"However, what depresses me the most is that we can't detect any of its properties at all, including my true seeing eye, and we can't see any clues about it. If you look at it forcefully, the performance of the infected death wave is a message The aggregate is constantly disintegrating and dissolving, and the manifestation of the death tide is either non-existent or a very dense "black barrier"."

"What on earth is this?" Vidoville knitted his brows into a knot this time, holding his chin with his right hand as he thought about this horrific disaster that had destroyed almost everything but had completely unknown origins. However, it didn't take long for another one to be realized. The communication request pretending to have emperor-level permissions entered his mind:

"Vitoville, come to the biochemical research cabin below the main control hall. There are important discoveries."