Star Empire

"Stop sailing temporarily and closely monitor all the environment inside the ship..."

"Anomalies may become too obvious due to assignments... We must be prepared to respond quickly, and hopefully..."

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This strange information torrent lasted for more than a month before it completely dissipated. In order to prevent the void information deviation engine, which is mainly composed of crystal energy reactors and mathematical rate cores, from causing serious deviations in such a huge information impact, Vido Weir and Vesrifan had to decide to completely stop the fleet in the possible collision gap of the information torrent until the nearby aftermath completely dissipated.

During this period of time, they observed a large number of entities and phenomena that were difficult to understand in the order field. In the end, a faint blood-red color appeared in the order field supported by the fleet.

"...The information surge in the void...has basically disappeared within our visual range. It is also possible that the storm has passed."

A few days after another crystal energy detection wave was launched, Cavinrel determined based on the feedback echo: except for the current fleet navigation target whose induction was enhanced due to unknown reasons, the clutter in the surrounding void had gradually dissipated. Return to peace.

But no one felt calm. Apart from numbness, all they felt was fear.

"With the countless universes we can observe according to the level of observation we can currently achieve, we can only come to this conclusion... This is only the edge."

Zhai Cahill sat on the edge of the ring table with his head lowered, and kept making circles with his fingers, "It is simply incomprehensible. I don't know what kind of power can actually shape such a large-scale information trend. And now, looking at it, like this The large-scale information trend seems to simply cross the void, and then dissipate in the void. I really don’t know whether this information burst is directional or omnidirectional, and if it is the latter.”

"Forget it, don't think about things you can't understand. This will only increase your worries. I hope we can have the qualifications to study or analyze it in the future." Vidoville patted Zhai Cahir on the shoulder. In front of him, the brightness of the mathematical rate core began to gradually increase, and the power was restored. After ensuring that the entire fleet communicated well with each other, the position representation information of the entire "Void Safety Island" began to be modified, and the fleet embarked on the journey again.

Although it seems impossible to establish any coordinate system that people can understand in the void, in previous experimental voyages, Cavernrel and the others have basically determined a set of "ordered worlds" represented by different information. The "ordered world coordinate system" analyzed from the coordinate points is to abstract a hyperspace concept based on the different frequencies and values ​​of the order field (pseudo-world barrier) corresponding to their different "positions" in the void. And establish a coordinate construction method based on this concept.

Although this is considered opportunistic, people with special abilities or special knowledge and perspectives, including Zhai Cahir and Ikarim, have confirmed that after modifying the navigation parameters based on this system, the overall route of the fleet is stable. Sex has definitely improved dramatically.

Facing the resumption of progress, everyone understood that although the information tide around the fleet had dissipated, the "source" that caused such a large-scale void-level phenomenon would look like - Victorville I was previously ordered not to think about this topic. In addition to the fact that it is difficult to get an accurate answer, there is also an underlying worry:

The mind of a carbon-based creature, even if it is superimposed with a large number of enhanced components, even if it is bound by the underlying protocol and the emperor's order, if it is really entangled in such a thinking question, then the best result may be Will go completely insane.

If coupled with the inexplicable large-scale body (intelligent entity material) information collapse phenomenon in the fleet before, and if these terrible thoughts are now rooted in the thinking bodies of fleet members in some way, then it will once again transcend common sense and cause a new situation in the current fleet. It is not completely impossible for the body or even the soul of the person who still retains the entity to collapse.

The world view, or view of the void... may be being greatly expanded at this moment, but no one is mentally prepared.

The Imperial fleet indeed sails through the void, and travels farther than any operation ever before.

But... how big will the void be? unlimited? How high is infinity? Or is it that infinity has no meaning to it?

Even though such an action seems grand and far away now, if you compare it with what you already know, I am afraid that at best... it is equivalent to escaping from a planet to an asteroid to temporarily avoid disaster...

"People...I'm afraid they need to face new changes..."

"We are back where we started..."

"……us……"

"I hope I can forget, but I can't forget what we have experienced and what we need...it's too advanced..."

"..."

"Who is talking?! Strange, where did these messages come from?!"

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Void, X quadrant.

The thick dark chaos was pierced, the order field where the light source was located fluctuated abnormally, and the thick order barrier suddenly opened in the void. The illusory barrier was as thick and solid as a star crown, and it seemed as if its owner was breathing. Regular expansion and contraction.

Wrapped in this layer of order field that is almost solid and seems thicker than the atmosphere of a giant planet, a huge sea of ​​blazing white fire is rolling. Above this blazing white, blazing purgatory that looks like the surface of a star, there are countless Countless weird jets and twisted arcs resembling solar prominences were beating crazily, seemingly slowly but really fast. Many "prominences" were still extremely powerful even though they were far away from the surface of the sea of ​​fire.

They are infinite fluctuations of primordial information of unimaginable intensity.

Not long ago, there was still silence here. At that time, this star-like behemoth was not in this form at all. At that time, its surface showed an extremely dark brown color, and its texture was like sticky magma that was about to cool down. It had no vitality at all, except for the occasional one or two. A weak information jet breaks through the stagnant shell and can only flow weakly on the ground, and is quickly transformed into new shell components. However, soon, an order from the distant void disturbed the tranquility that had been maintained here for hundreds of thousands of time units:

Ηκνησηγεφυρματοεμφανζεταιτομίραολθο, στοτλοτητετραγωνίκενεργοποησησχεδωνβαρκντελν

This command activated this behemoth, and a pale light began to suddenly open up a vast order field in the void. However, during the actual unfolding process, the fierce death wave breath carried by this command destroyed the huge information body. part of the structure - it's broken and broken and needs to be repaired.

The rays of this sun can illuminate areas that are beyond the reach of mortals, and there is no telling how much logic and opportunity is needed to form the structure it requires. Now, he is such an endless and huge blazing white light group, but the countless causes and effects and countless hopes entangled in it cannot be completely healed in the end. Even if it experiences more separation of related attributes, it still contains too many secrets.

The damage is small but deep to the foundation. It needs to be repaired, and the "source" that provides it with materials is the countless collapsing worlds and world clusters in the void. Those feathers, those giant hands, those giant structures that wantonly stretch and expand are rapidly falling out of sight. This strange sun targets them, seizing and attracting the heart of the world to complete the repair of its own structure, but here During the fierce collision of information, the purest malice in the void inadvertently detonated these horrific "bombs".

A super large-scale information wave spread out into the void along with an extremely powerful "supernova explosion". In these chaotic information fluctuations, a considerable part of the original solidified order has not been completely dissolved. In the information jet In the violent interaction with each other, some information happened to return to what they once had in the world of order in the ocean of probability and possibility, and then was quickly swallowed up and dissipated by the void, returning to nothingness.

Once such an extremely powerful impact completely acts in the "positive direction", even picking out a bouquet of flowers is enough to blow the world away. However, above the boiling sea of ​​fire purgatory of this star, there are many blazing pale prominences erupting. In the stream and thick star corona layer, there are two "small" shadows but they don't care at all about the blazing white flames passing by them. No matter how the information storm washes them, the two shadows face the bright ocean of light below. Unmoved.

Said these two shadows are "small" just because there is only the huge blazing white star nearby that can be used as a reference. Facing the boundless white sea of ​​​​fire, the thickness of billions of kilometers The corona and the hot prominences hundreds of millions of kilometers long, they can only be regarded as the tiniest little ones. However, if you look at the size alone, these two shadows are definitely not small objects. On the contrary, they have huge volumes.

These are two ships.

In terms of shape, their shapes are exactly the same. The main body is a huge flying wing with an opening angle of about one-third of a circle. There is a circular gap at the apex of the spacecraft that is relatively small compared to the hull. The two long sides are at It extends with a slightly backward curve.

The tip of the flying wing is not a sharp angle, but is replaced by a "platform" that appears flat and extends backward. Behind the spacecraft, the two angular lines are refocused toward the center, and are outlined on the inner two-thirds of the entire line. A bulge appeared.

After bypassing the flat area at the tip of the flying wing, it almost becomes a straight line, and the two groups are 60 degrees and 30 degrees respectively, and the cross-section is approximately an elliptical long tail with angles at both ends. These two groups of long tails form a huge The middle "edges" of the two seemingly monolithic structures of the flying wing are slightly enlarged and extend backwards. The tail-like structure forming a sixty-degree angle is longer and slightly exceeds the two points behind the main flying wing. The connection line, and the two long tails forming an angle of 30 degrees are basically flat with the connection line.

Among the slightly thin connecting structure in the middle of the flying wing and the two long tail guards with a small angle, the lower end of one presents a sharper V-shape, while the upper end is relatively gentle, and the cross-section presents a quadrilateral main body that connects the two The side flying wings are completely connected, and the quadrilateral main body is symmetrical on both sides. The two sides near the bow are slightly shorter, while the tail side is relatively elongated. In the violent "stellar storm", the huge prominences and information torrent jets that continue to pass by cover up their true size.

In fact, the two identical giant flying-wing spacecrafts have a long axis length of 340 million kilometers. If they were placed on the stellar ecliptic plane of the star's home universe, they would be enough to rely only on their wingtips. Divide the celestial body.

Under the influence of the blazing white jets gushing nearby, light and shadow flashed alternately on the surfaces of the two spacecrafts. The black shell deflects splashes of blazing white jets from time to time. They are silent and have no activity, but perhaps this is more proof of their extraordinary nature.

In the central core of one of the ships, the deep dark chamber was so vast that it seemed like it could swallow up the starry sky. In the center of the wide hall, a symbol suddenly lit up on the surface of a tiny floating ball that suddenly appeared. This symbol that suddenly lit up flashed with red light, and the black underlying material with a smooth luster attached to it An extremely obvious Σ logo is engraved in the outline of the red light path. This logo uses the central dark pattern Σ as the absolute main body, and derives a rather complex pattern outwards:

The black Σ symbol is in the center of a blood-red circle, and a somewhat sharp hemispherical pattern is highlighted on the upper, lower and left sides of the circle. In the center of the pattern, there is a V-shaped dark pattern with an opening facing the center. This part of the pattern Just like the pupil of an eye.

At the periphery of the pupil, a dark red ring that is quite larger than the middle part surrounds the middle part, and extends from the upper and lower vertices of the ring to both sides to form an absolutely standard rhombus, with the long axis of the rhombus A long line that is slightly thinner than the overall quadrilateral extends toward the middle from both ends. The long line turns near the "pupil" and forms a square with two gaps.

A rhombus similar to the main body but much smaller is connected above and below the main body of the symbol that is very similar to the eye. In the middle of the rhombus, two "σ" are reflected in inscriptions, and at the two tips of the long axis, they are directly connected. With huge flying wing light patterns.

Not long after the coordination between this symbol and the underlying black substrate was completed, black and red patterns suddenly emanated from around the originally regular bright light patterns. Even though they had the same background color, these inexplicable patterns had the same characteristics as the original patterns. A completely different feeling. If an intelligent body has enough power to withstand the frenzied atmosphere released from the black and red patterns, then they can be completely distinguished at the first sight of them, even if the two are already deeply entangled together.

When the pattern appeared, it instantly brought a sense of mania and depression to the surrounding atmosphere. The suspended ball attached to the black and red pattern trembled up and down, and the originally smooth surface quickly dried up and decayed, as if the evil god had descended.

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Ητελικβσηδεδομνωνσφραγζειτηνναρξη, κενσπρηναρξηπαγματοτσηθματο

On the surface of the ball that is constantly evaporating and producing black smoke, several lines of pale text gradually appear. A strange white light between reality and reality sweeps across the ball that is on the verge of collapse. The white light is moving The scan was extremely detailed, and not a single bit of position on the surface of the ball was missed.

Then, as if time was frozen, the floating sphere suddenly lost all its brilliance, including the symbols it originally displayed and the weird patterns that overflowed. The sphere began to gradually lose its form, eventually disappearing into nothingness.

Since then, in the realm that mortals can see, and in the realm where doubts remain, the "weight" that has been running through too much hard work and unknown has begun to operate.

They have severed their ties with civilization and with the great imprint of Σ, but the ties between them cannot disappear completely.

Once upon a time, in the final period when reason was gradually annihilated, these powerful beings were created and sealed outside the boundaries of civilization, in the depths of the void, by the last rational beings in civilization.

They may be complex treasures that bring disaster, blood, tears, misfortune and rebirth.

This may be indescribable and difficult to describe. They will involve, and have already involved, too many stories and possibilities. However, powerful existences always do this to the surrounding environment - they pull too much content around them, involving countless lives in countless fields and infinite levels, and the gap is too large The balance between them will be torn apart infinitely. All this cannot be explained clearly in a simple story or a few clear words.

The only source of light disappeared, and darkness and silence once again enveloped this vast realm of nothingness. However, outside these incomprehensible spaceships, powerful jets of blazing white were still violently active. In the void, this scene went on undisturbed, bright and silent.