Star Empire

The screams originating from outside reality are unheard, they are just like the breeze blowing over the boulders. They never exploded and never existed.

The shell has shattered, the balance has collapsed, and the fracture zone can no longer sustain itself.

Cut by the blazing stellar wind of the Void Sun, and under the erosion and dismantling of the Void, countless clusters of consciousnesses inside and outside the fault zone screamed as if they were awakening from a dream, roaring heart-breakingly in an attempt to break free from their own completely collapsed, The body is completely hopeless, but there are not many beings that can serve as targets for their escape.

The rolling torrent had completely dissipated before it came into contact with the vast and final darkness of the outside world, and the rotting flesh and blood lost its toughness and resistance. After the Genesis-Doomsday versus Destruction balance was completely destroyed, these sourceless waters were quickly dried up by the fire from reality and from themselves.

It may have lasted for many thousand years, it may have been many tens of thousands of years, or it may have been the end of a battle that was longer and more difficult to count. The remaining remains of the Great Fault Zone are quickly dissipating and evaporating, just like the dense fog that is being quickly dissipated under the scorching sun.

However, the empire cannot be happy, the imperial fleet cannot be happy, and everyone cannot be happy.

Because, for these beings, the crisis is far from over.

There was a serious problem in the former logistics area - the "existence attribute" that originally supported the stable operation and existence of everything here collapsed.

The collapse is spreading, and the broken pillars cannot support the strata above them, as well as everything contained in the strata. They all fall down, erupting with terrifying roars in the formless and insubstantial form.

Behind the battlefield, everything in the logistics area can be said to have worked hard to save the imperial beings who retreated from the front line. During this long period of time, they have undertaken tangible attacks from all directions that may be quadrillion times more than usual. and invisible pressure. Now, they can no longer support the endless pressure.

It may be many thousand years, or it may be many ten thousand years. Almost all the battleships that have been rescued and have not yet fallen, as well as the fields, lives, and evolutionary matrices that have not yet died, have gathered here to wait for repair.

In order to ensure the safety of these beings as well as the stability and safety of the environment itself as much as possible, they will be blocked by the stasis field as much as possible during the waiting process. However, the nature of the death tide is weird beyond imagination. They are enough to change from almost absolute Tiny cracks were pried out in the stillness, and these cracks were continuously expanded, allowing the destruction to return again.

It is impossible to know what exactly happened between these countless dead tides of pollution and reactivation from various points. They may have some resonance, or they may not have mutated themselves, but the structure itself is due to their existence. But they have been disturbed even more seriously. The structures have been corrupted, and they are collapsing in batches. From real form, from virtual information, from stability to nothingness, everything is falling, like a waterfall falling off a cliff.

The corrosion of the death tide and the pressure that is trillions of times greater than usual gather here at the same time, causing the thick and vast power that relies on order to form where civilization cannot see, between the world of order and the realm of the death tide. The broad shadow of stability, which was enough to suppress the outbreak of the death wave, suffered a serious imbalance of scope and was melted.

If you think that the existence ladder that maintains the stability of everything here is a real, actual building, it has an actual structure and an actual framework.

At this time, all the columns have been crushed, all the plates have been completely broken, the foundation of the building has slipped and collapsed, and the collapse is still expanding.

The various types of oceans that are still providing maintenance materials for the battleships, as well as the field structure covering the oceans, first appeared abnormal. Field beings cannot control their own "bodies", nor can they control their own thoughts, and their degraded souls cannot be controlled. The information operation method that transcends the mundane and the worldview itself cannot control these violent and dangerous information structures themselves. Before the soul falls into madness, these beings will first be burned to death by themselves, or blown away by their original bodies.

The golden ocean shimmering with golden light and emitting sparkling waves in a fixed pattern quickly dimmed, and the vast ocean surface was quickly filled with a layer of solid aura of decay. The original crystal energy and arcane energy quickly lost their luster, and they suddenly expanded in an uncertain direction, forming another ocean that was equally blazing but had a completely different nature - it might be vacuum zero-point energy, or it might be something else. some existence

. They have not stopped collapsing, but they are getting brighter and brighter, as if some strange resistance is pulling everything here to two extremes.

The various warships wrapped in the ocean also failed to escape the corresponding fall. Their shells and armor structures quickly decayed, and the energy-conducting transistors running through them, which were like blood veins, spread throughout the ship's body. Decayed, they turned into lifeless sand like the crystal arrays attached to the outer armor of the ship and used for calculation constraints, information transmission and reception, shields and field broadcasts, and quickly collapsed and scattered under the slightest disturbance. .

All constraints and warning measures failed to take effect, because when the crash occurred, these systems that had been overloaded during the recovery period and struggled to fight against the death wave contamination and their own instability did not have much redundancy. The passing sand turned into dust.

However, some weirder and more twisted phenomena broke out almost simultaneously in the ocean: after falling to a certain extent, countless battleships, although in different shapes, all followed the rules and In the hull structure that was shaped by the concept of fluidity, countless large and small bulges and tumors suddenly expanded and burst. Many of these pathological structures are so large that their actual observable volumes are far larger than their parent bodies.

Gray sand and unknown viscous liquid splashed out from these swollen and ulcerated wounds, shooting into the heterogeneous ocean outside that was falling and spreading but getting brighter and cooler - as everything went on In the event of falls and collapses, the central computing system of the ship simply cannot maintain the calculation of various sustainable structures within the ship, and the heterogeneous armor structure is unable to restrain these out-of-control internal structures. Therefore, the original expansion space is separated from the original constraints. In the interval, they suddenly expanded outwards, twisting and tearing the armor structure again.

Countless dim purple-gold light clusters rose from the cold and bright vast ocean. Those flashes originally had various long-distance phenomena, but they did not maintain these properties for too long. They quickly turned into gray-white mist and dust storms. These were like The shock wave-like structure seemed to be frozen, and countless of them were frozen at this moment together with the ocean.

The oceans are getting brighter, but colder. They have real temperature in the ancient sense of civilization. They are falling all the way, but the micro-element movements inside and outside themselves begin to resist all this.

Eventually, the ocean that had frozen solid shattered. Countless oceans unfolded in the collapse of the fall. They rapidly expanded each other. The white waves rolled over the space-time filled with fine debris and joined together. They carried countless wreckage and shattered. It became countless large and small, unclear fragments, and spread and cracked under the influence of unknown forces, forming a vast mist.

While these conventional warships of different models were overturned and scattered, the super battleship maintenance array groups interspersed among countless oceans also encountered similar disasters - various types of equipment that restrained and maintained environmental stability poured out. The strange substances themselves quickly fell and collapsed, turning into pieces of lifeless, barren white sand.

Since the information complexity and total amount of information of the super flagship far exceeds that of various conventional ships, and the equipment required to repair the super flagship is also more complex and stable, the alarm here was finally sent out before everything collapsed completely, but this did not What an obvious effect: after receiving the alarm, the systems of the super flagship and core flagships immediately made the decision to jump outward to evade, but only in the next moment after making these decisions, there was some doubt and delay. Then they tightly entangled the self-discipline core arrays of those ships.

Which coordinates should I go to? Correct according to which sequence? What is the security level and priority of coordinates? How far are they from the current environment? How should I get there? ?

While the problems were entangled, the originally extremely powerful calculation and processing capabilities of these super flagships also began to rapidly collapse and dissipate, and their responses became slower and slower. Problems that once could be deduced with almost no need to wait have all turned into an endless loop that is difficult to calculate.

The countless threads that were once running in parallel seemed to have solidified. They could not take another step forward. The battleship could not calculate those complex and distant coordinates in the void. The battleship could not determine the meaning of those coordinates. The battleship could not mark the value of those calculation processes. Battleship doesn't know what it is.

The once complex and orderly logic circuits and threads of thinking fell one after another to the state before being combined. Inside the barrier level, countless cracks and cracks occurred inside the golden-red crystal array that woven the restraint existential enrichment beacon. Impurities have caused them to lose their luster, and together with the outer armor structure, they have lost their naturally "healthy" bright color.

Relatively "fragile" structures such as the constraint rings of Zhenxing Fortress, Shengmang, Shengyuan and other battleships, as well as field broadcasters, have become really fragile at this moment - the logic in the mathematical model no longer conforms to the current environment. No longer satisfied with the conditions of use, the internal loopholes of those materials that are built on a strong information base and cannot yet achieve self-perfection and self-harmony are exposed. They continue to fall down the ladder of existence and continue to lose their original value. Extraordinary attributes.

When the fall progresses to a certain level, these materials that were originally not subject to the rules within conventional reality begin to be affected by the original laws of this world in a way that is not accepted by the current world. The huge structure was broken by the hysteresis and stress generated by itself. The long wings of the holy kite's waving field structure were scattered into countless lusterless feathers. At the end of the holy light, the orthogonal ring that restrained the world's precursor suddenly broke and was lost. Fragments of its own transcendent properties were torn apart in the final impotent eruption of the world's precursor.

The shepherd satellites penetrated the ring belt, tearing apart the ineffective shield, and they smashed into the rapidly decaying earth of Zhenxing Fortress. The Mountain Class, which is like the majestic mountains in the starry sky, the Mountain Class, which is as vast as a plateau, and more various ships gathered here...

There are countless tumors and countless cracks that break through all the defense systems and all redundant structures of the ship's hull and release them outward.

The once strong and light ship hull was split from all directions by invisible cracks, and the rolling contents were splashed out of the cracks like vomiting. The imaginary number that maintained the ship's reactor—the real space channel reactor—began to dissipate and disintegrate. This has been The basic structure of the reactor, which is by far the most widely used and can still be said to be endlessly mysterious, persisted until the end.

But now, they are no longer able to maintain their own integrity, because they can no longer find any "source of information" that can maintain themselves. All the networks within the ship that transport this precious energy have been submerged in the barren white desert.

And the void... I don't know why, at this moment, these coordinates connecting unknown places seem to have failed, and the originally stable structure can no longer extract any extraordinary information that can be used.

Everything here seems to be cut apart. To the outside world, everything here seems to be just a bunch of abrupt phantoms floating in the void. They are really visible but cannot be touched.

Similar disasters have erupted countless times inside and outside the vast area called the "Logistics Zone". Countless of them have come and gone, disrupting the countless world circuits distributed in this vast space-time structure. They are the last remaining things before the collapse. Stable and constrained. The incomparably huge amount of decaying extraordinary information that unfolded rapidly and had nowhere to go finally found some kind of breakthrough in the process of collapse - it was ordinary time and space, ordinary spatial geometric dimensions, ordinary world, ordinary everything.

They are arranged and combined arbitrarily, venting in an almost crazy way the pressure caused by the surrounding space-time structure that is trying to maintain a normal structure. Countless timelines, world lines, probability lines and parallel intervals that light up and go out are like The out-of-control floods are generally carrying countless wreckage and spreading outwards in layers.

They are both fragments of macro reality, afterimages of macro reality, and part of the macro reality that was once real. Countless wreckage was scattered among them, and countless lives were swept away in the torrent composed of white sand, ash, slime and debris, and were swept to unknown distances in the already chaotic structure.

In addition, there are countless supporting forces trying to rescue their compatriots who got lost in these winding endless mazes, lost their direction, missed the opportunity to evacuate in the struggle, and also lost themselves.

When danger breaks out at the macro level, it also breaks out from the micro structure.

In the vast reality, there are countless self-consistent information groups with different structures - they constantly infect the surrounding environment and transform everything. They transform the surrounding environment into themselves and constantly reproduce themselves. They Constantly passing on in nothingness, constantly inheriting its own existence. They reside inside and outside everything, jumping in reality in tangible or intangible ways.

For intelligent beings that have not been able to reach this point, they are often "invisible" and they can only speculate on the "existence" of these entities that are different from the rules of order through various abnormal phenomena. For civilizations that have entered the new macro realm of unity, they can be seen, manipulated, circumvented, and exploited.

They are memes and, in some ways, “viruses” on the level of information and information.

At ordinary times, the empire would not care about these contents, because it is nothing to those crystal energy bodies that have been transformed countless times. The "biological shields" of these bodies can almost directly burn more than 99% of the people to death. , common memetic structures attached intentionally or unintentionally. And the rest have to contend with those bodies and the connections behind those bodies. It can even be said that when a type of memes try to spread and multiply within the imperial environment and within the imperial individuals, they are fighting against the entire empire - which is almost impossible to succeed.

However, this is only the case at a macro, comprehensive, and healthy moment.

In an ideal state, the whole formed by countless individuals is affected by complex emergence patterns, and the strength of the entire empire far exceeds the sum of countless individuals. Such a powerful ascension phenomenon can give individuals several times their own anti-disturbance capabilities and Stability - However, now the existence ladder that maintains this place has collapsed. While everything here is losing itself, everything about it is also losing its original identity.

Various memes and information viruses have taken advantage of the situation. They feel the danger of the environment and the possibility that they will be evaporated by the environment. The environment is becoming cold and heavy, solidified and distorted.

They try to break into those hosts that can still provide resources at any cost - the countless empires that have not yet collapsed. They frantically extract the solidified and expanded crystal energy and expand it rapidly. They turn the infected hosts into It has become an existence that has been dehumanized both mentally and physically, and can be called a monster by the empire.

They are parasitic inside the space structure. In order to compete for the living space, they disintegrate the world circuit and broadcast network that constrains the order rules in the space. They lead to further chaos in space, leading everything further towards a frenzy of falling and collapsing.

A huge gap has emerged, and the surrounding plateau foundation has begun to tilt. The surrounding information structure is trying to prevent the collapse from continuing, but this increasingly crazy hole continues to expand, and it continues to attract the surrounding information environment, causing them to fall, like a waterfall. cliff.

The empire itself is supported by many regions, countless departments, countless research groups, countless talents from countless "sides", and countless basic entities. The huge empire base supports the empire itself. They form a layer-by-layer structure, and the structures are superimposed on each other and ascend to each other.

The final spire of the empire is the sum of all these formations. This towering spire has experienced violent collapse and fall, but it still has the ability to touch the metaphysical and the already blurred zenith.

But this does not mean that all these people, the micro-elements of the empire, and the foundation of the empire can still have all this in such an environment when they are concrete and detailed to a clear independent existence of their own.

"Looking at Victorville from the Annals of Daye, and everyone who has come here together, do you have any thoughts?"

“It took a lot of failure.”

"Yes, in this regard, just like the Observer Council, the empire has experienced many tragic failures, and may even have to directly destroy the achievements of an entire generation in order to allow a new beginning."

“But at least that was known then, and from then until now, those goals have persisted, even through numerous failures.”

"We are revitalizing from the future to the past. Standing here, we are qualified to do so. This is more valuable than one or several successes..."