Star Empire

"To be honest, if I hadn't witnessed the whole process this time, I would have sued you for wasting military supplies." After completing the mission, the two people's faces were full of unreserved exhaustion - in this statement Under the huge pressure generated by the golden vortex, any long-term thinking activity is difficult.

"...It sounds like I don't feel bad. Part of my effort was involved in the Federation's previous development of color nuclear materials. I'm still a little surprised. Why do you have so many topics here when I come? Many of them should be said to be normal detection. All the contents are classified into untouchable items for you... Do you encounter strange beings and just lock them up without asking anything?"

Cavinrel shook his head. Although he had anticipated these situations from the beginning, the latest model of deep space probes and the compact high-dimensional property transition generation engine were all invented by Cavinrel tens of millions of years ago. , the most proud product result developed by Datong, which inherited the theory of the predecessors, but his own pride fell apart in less than ten seconds under the influence of this inexplicable powerful force.

However, Cavinriel not only did not feel depressed at all, but was secretly excited in his heart. These forces transcended physics, and studying them is likely to lead to a breakthrough in the ultimate unified theory.

After all, there is the most fundamental point: the problem itself is to be solved.

"Let's pause for a moment. You have been working at high intensity for so long, and you are almost always staring at pictures that seem to contain a huge amount of information. Your physical part and soul perception will be exhausted."

Kalost didn't want to say anything more when he saw this. Although the federal biochemical transformation could stabilize and repair the soul to a certain extent, working for a long time in this environment may still have an impact on the overall stability of the body.

Cavinrel responded. After the tense tension was released, he almost lost his balance. A white halo appeared on the ground at his feet. The halo slowly rose and turned into a pillar of light. Science Guan's body slowly faded away as the light beam rose, but before disappearing, he suddenly asked another question:

"General, are the people who were first rescued suffering from unknown radiation crystallization still alive?"

"...Naturally, although they are all within the contaminated area and we cannot get direct information inside the contaminated area, at least the various anti-trigger systems are still working. We try to maintain the stable state of the infected individuals as much as possible. At present, they They all still have life reactions.”

Caloust was stunned by this question for a moment, and then he discovered that Cavinrel probably wouldn't be able to finish what he said in terms of time, so this part was sent directly to the science officer through the information collection network.

"Continue to monitor, and if there is any cessation or other changes, tell me immediately." Cavinriel's figure disappeared, and the last two words he said failed to fly into the general's ears, and the last two words were also Sent from the information collection network.

"..." Kalost looked at the extinguished teleportation exit with a dumbfounded look. Feelings of fatigue and sleepiness quietly came over the two of them amid their banter. From the moment he received the order from Vidoville until now, he has been tired of dealing with various anomalies in the frontline base. In fact, he is the most tired one.

"Get ready for the shift. The current situation is beyond expectations. Everyone must ensure that they get enough rest and recovery!" Kalost ordered the personnel on duty to be replaced so that those who had also participated in the monitoring of abnormal phenomena could recover as soon as possible because of the abnormal amount of information. Causes fatigue caused by overload in the brain and processor, while instructing the AI ​​to continue monitoring the patient population showing crystallization symptoms.

After compression and integration, everyone discovered one thing: among the data sent back by the first batch of probes, all the encounters of the thousand probes were similar except for the last one. It would also save money to organize and merge the destruction processes that were too similar in advance. A waste of time.

"General, the space station recommends that you take a rest. The current atmosphere seems to have some kind of fluctuation that interferes with cognition, and you have been working continuously for several days."

"I don't need to be reminded of time... For time, the concept of day and night has long ceased to exist... It's still federal rules, it's already this time, and we still use planet-star relative timing, what time does the perpetual clock Isn’t it bad that we have to follow this incompatible timing method..."

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"For some reason, Kalost has always felt that the Federation's practice of inheriting the time system of the planet is a bit inappropriate - the original single planet can indeed use the replacement of day and night to calibrate the time..."

"However, as the Federation continues to expand outwards, the number of habitable planets and large-scale space settlements has also begun to skyrocket. Up to now, it can be determined that there are more than 170 billion river-level star systems in the universe. There are about 2000 to 600 billion stars in each galaxy, and of course there are some special big ones or small ones."

"Under this base, it is not suitable to use the original concept of day and night. After all, it is impossible for the Federation to set the orbit of every habitable planet to be the same as the base point of the parent star, nor can it arrange the change of work and rest throughout the territory. …”

"So, after experiencing a period of chaos during the expansion, the Federation formulated a "standard time" based on the modified citizens' physiques that is most in line with physiology and efficiency. With twenty-four hours as a work and rest unit, all citizens were divided into two groups. , Within a work and rest unit, there are two groups of personnel who are alternately responsible for each position to ensure that the state machine operates at all times."

"The base point equipment of standard time has gone through several generations. The current generation is a specially designed "perpetual clock". These clocks are placed in deep space, and they are within tens of millions of light years around. No other galaxy has experienced a super-large-scale fusion event of massive bodies in the past hundreds of millions of years, so time distortion caused by mass can be avoided as much as possible."

"The core material of the clock is a special information pulse body. As long as any form of energy is input to this object, this object can produce information fluctuations at a fixed frequency. One fluctuation is a flight. Second."

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"Record... It has been difficult for the Federation to completely unify the time system... Different colonial stars and different cosmic environments will lead to relative differences in timing methods... The universe is indeed not uniform enough, but..."

"No matter where the call comes from, it seems that the more convenient universal time system has not been passed into law and has been absolutely universally used. A perpetual clock is far more than just a calibration device."

...However, it must be said here that these three objects with strange properties were all disturbed by information computers in an unknown way - so that a large number of existences with a short history that appeared under unknown interference are black boxes. There is also such a device in the blocked third hexagram area.

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Guaranteed by the powerful recovery ability of federal life, these people actually do not need to rest for too long. Surrounded by layers of holographic projections and light screens, Cavinrel and Carlos were checking the monitoring data captured by the probe.

There are many interesting things about these videos. Although the images are partly taken by optical equipment, there are many additional data packet attachments in the pictures, which are the sensing parameters superimposed on various other sensing systems that can bypass the light speed barrier to transmit information. .

The first interesting phenomenon is that some of the probes happened to encounter the surge of the material belt when they "landed" and captured the golden vortex in the center. As long as there is that weird structure in the video, its data volume They are all surprisingly big. A video of just a few seconds can reach tens of petabytes in size.

However, after screening, there were no additional data packets in those video materials. The huge amount of information seems to be rooted in the pixels of the picture, which inexplicably gives people a strange feeling that "the processor cannot understand some of the content and generates a large number of infinite loops."

The second point is a rare case where two probes happened to be very close to each other and captured videos of each other.

After entering the material belt, the video shows that the shields of the two probes began to crystallize. This part was expected. Trace amounts of golden crystals were also appearing in the shields of the frontline base, which is more than 5,000 light years away from the incident point. The probes There was no problem for the needle to produce faster and more severe crystallization close to the vortex, but what happened next was unexpected. The two probes were impacted by the front of the surrounding material fluctuations and were directly destroyed.

"Both the shield and armor were directly destroyed?" Calost's surprise was palpable. The shield can still be explained. After all, in that environment, the shield was mainly adjusted to the radiation defense frequency, and was relatively common against kinetic energy. The attack does not have strong resistance, and in that weird crystallized state, it is still unknown whether the power output by the shield generator is accurate.

However, the chromatic core armor protected by the shield will not be completely damaged by crystallization within such a period of time. This is a temporary conclusion that the two came to during this period of time by observing the crystallization phenomenon in the emergency medical module. The phenomenon shown by the probe after it escaped from the warp space is still consistent with this result, but those chaotic materials actually shattered the strongest material that the Federation could create by directly impacting it!

"No, that's not right." Cavernell divided this part of the picture into high-speed disassembly frames, and then slowed down one frame at a time.

"If we first assume that these chaotic substances are something that is allowed to exist in the main world, then under normal circumstances it is impossible to destroy the chromatic core armor. This material is much stronger than ordinary hadrons. The chromatic force in it The transmission gluons intensify the disturbance of mature leptons. This structure, which is no longer completely physical, was able to withstand the direct impact of extremely Class III near-light speed objects during testing. It is almost impossible to destroy this kind of structure using direct physical methods. Materials, the possibility of being destroyed so easily is even closer to zero.”

"So, science officer, do you have any ideas or possible explanations for this phenomenon?" As a battlefield soldier who had fought in the pioneering war, Kalost was intrigued that cutting-edge military equipment could be destroyed so easily. uneasiness.

"In fact... if you think about the grand unified theory that is still close to delusion... I really have a possible explanation." Cavernell hesitated for a rare moment, and then said slowly:

"The chromatic nuclear force armor and shield may not have been destroyed. When these material fluctuations disturb the probe, the nature of the protective layer seems to be directly ineffective, just as if we illuminate an ordinary planet with a material disintegration beam. All materials in this planet, whether water, soil, rocks or metal minerals, are directly split in front of the splitting beam, regardless of their previous physical and chemical properties."

"I think... the impact of those chaotic materials seems to be like this. No matter how strong the probe is and how solid the shield is, it can cut through our probe just like we cut through the planet regardless of the nature of the elements."

Kalost opened his mouth. He was not a scientist and would not ask about the technical details of these products. However, with the help of the information collection network and his own reinforcement implants, he understood the basic principles of those cutting-edge technologies. Everyone knows it.

The color nuclear force armor itself is already operating on a very low material level. If you want to ignore such a thing, it must transcend the entire current physical level.

However, the facts are there, and the evidence is irrefutable.

During the impact, the probe's shield generator was still operating at full power, and the nature of the chromatic core armor also ensured that the probe could withstand extremely powerful impacts. However, the incoming material surge seemed to ignore all defenses, from From the moment it came into contact with the shield until the core was destroyed and offline, these unknown substances almost ran over all the protective layers in a constant state of motion.

Destroying the armor layer looks as easy as a high-pressure water spray penetrating a piece of paper.

Fortunately, the destruction of the probe did not happen in an instant. It had a brief process. During this process, Cavinrel adjusted the parameters of all the probes, endured the dizziness, and, under the influence of several probes, Evidence was found in the self-discipline monitoring: the destruction is carried out at a uniform speed. Whether it is the reinforced color core armor, the inertia neutralizing material with very low hardness, or the core buffer protective layer with extremely strong toughness and recovery, they are all destroyed at a uniform speed. dropped.

The material front arrow did not destroy the color core armor.

Because if those substances have "eyes", then in its eyes, there is no color core armor at all. To be precise, the physical expression capabilities of different substances have failed.

Various materials with extremely different properties are essentially equal in front of it like ordinary material elements in front of the material splitting beam.