Star Empire

The dreams of the soul fragments continue. For the Empire, the source of dreams for these soul fragments, development has never stopped.

Deep in the thick layers of time and space, every layer of iteration formed in the long history is deposited. Countless iterations cover the original foundation, constantly reshaping the whole and reshaping the most superficial "painting".

According to the long-standing choice and the most mainstream point of view, everything does not exist in the past, nor does it exist in the future - they exist in the [present].

For objective reality, such a view is too absolute, but a point of view with clear direction can help everyone clarify themselves, clarify their direction and goals.

You know, the future is promising. But more importantly, live in the present.

There are countless waves in the flowing river, and there are countless foams floating in the waves. Between the waves, bubbles formed and collapsed countless times.

Among them, many bubbles and fragments have indeed disappeared, and they have indeed been submerged in the long river of history. However, a very small amount of debris has always maintained some vague activity.

They jump continuously in the vast territory of the empire, passing through various worlds and passing through various fields. In the invisible and subtle depths of these lives, they are wrapped with a lot of information, and the traces left by countless major events in the historical evolution are imprinted on them...

They are tiny fragments of information that are close enough to be measured in probabilities and fluctuations. They appear to be alive - and they may have actually come from "life" at one time.

Who knows? Or who will reveal all this? It is impossible for them to reveal their true nature on their own, so who will record them and tell them all?

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The darkness is being lit up, and the tentacles of development are winding forward, constantly pushing the boundaries of understanding and the limits of development.

The seeds were fired hundreds of thousands of times, far away from their homeland, heading into the endless darkness to expand their territory. Long years have passed, and the borders of our homeland have never stopped expanding.

The abyss that once seemed unbridgeable began to become less dangerous and finally closed. The former pioneering base, the once unknown has been incorporated into the known, and has been incorporated into the order and protection of the homeland, but the stories compiled from these changes are not all good stories.

The relative brilliance and advancement of the empire as a whole are inseparable from its own size and perfection. For those seed civilizations far away from the empire, largeness and perfection are impossible properties.

When the seeds took root and sprouted in the darkness, no matter how prosperous they could grow, they were still too weak compared to the empire itself.

Moreover, growth without interference is only the most ideal situation. In reality, there are too many factors to consider - information loss and time disorder caused by the invasion of fault zones. The independence of the authority system means that development is no longer synchronized and standardized. No longer exists. The long-term accumulation of different things seen and heard is enough to promote the separation of culture at a fundamental level. It may even lead to a complete change in the nature of "seed civilization" due to the occurrence of certain unlikely events...

The list goes on. Moreover, even the most vigorously growing seed civilization, after a long period of time once again bordering the empire's borders, has been separated from the empire itself by an unspeakable barrier - there are some rational factors that can be analyzed, and some Irrational factors are mixed in.

There are many ways to deal with them... From reintegration, to the establishment of diplomatic relations, to declarations of war, extermination orders and even secret executions... it is impossible to expect reason to take over reality.

Not to mention whether the process of inferring causes from effects can be considered rational. Even if they are indeed reasonable, what kind of principles do they conform to? What scope of theory?

Many specific events can only be analyzed and treated in detail. Macroscopic laws do exist, and they do dominate the main direction of development. But when it comes to details, when it comes to every thing, almost every thing is an isolated example based on itself - yes, it has always been like this, there will always be something unique in the subtleties, there will always be different.

And when these subtle differences are added up, they may dissipate before the future arrives, or maybe... new rules will emerge.

If this matter is further extended to the ever-changing mortal civilization, then there will be more changes and possibilities.

Nice words and rigorous actions cannot exchange for true trust and comprehensive openness - or, in other words, they should not be exchanged in the first place.

Over a long period of time, they and they taught the empire many things - promises may not always be kept, covenants and agreements do not mean absolutely stable relationships, attacks from behind may appear at any time, and deep connections may even become backlash. of highways...

Most of the consequences of these accidents were wiped out by the impact of the unlimited anti-run plan, but the long-term impact they brought after their actual occurrence cannot be consumed by the unlimited anti-run plan and the abundant material base.

These practices, as well as the way of thinking that guides them, are close to non-existence within the empire. Even if they predict that they may happen countless times, the beings of the empire only realize that they are not pure illusions until they finally face all of them.

Corresponding countermeasures have been established and continuously improved, and the screening process before contact has changed from loose to rigorous to strict...

A lot of changes have taken place, and some of those countermeasures, those spikes that were supposed to grow outwards, have grown in the "wrong" direction for various reasons - they have pierced inside, toward the original "intimate" "Infinite" between groups.

The consequences of such mistakes can be said to be no less than the death tide disaster caused by the fault zone. Their emergence has enabled countless lives inside and outside the empire to go through the red tape process from establishment to destruction that almost brought them down time and time again, and to survive time and time again wars that were enough to ignite the world's veins and even the branches of the world. The network structure of the empire It has been revised and cut again and again... In this long history, the scorching sun and black wings have been enough to cut up the story more than once - even the traces of history will be disrupted by it.

all of these……

No, none of this can be generalized either.

The main body of ΣCivilization has passed away, but the impact left by this civilization is still shrouded in mystery until now.

Apart from the "actual impact" of the scattered Σ fleets that occasionally appear at the borders of the empire and the two dangerous decisive battle flagship invasions, the exploration of its history and the analysis and restoration of past mysteries have always been able to provide warnings and reminders to the empire. They were valuable assets to the empire as a whole.

...The "new" thing may not be new in essence, it may just be new in certain forms of expression, or new in different combinations of certain environments. For top-level civilizations, and for Σ that has reached a bottleneck period, novelty in form and expression may no longer be of value.

The resulting inability to make progress may also be one of the reasons for the ultimate madness of ΣCivilization. But for Xingming Civilization, for the current empire... this is not yet the case.

Form is related to direct expression, and expression is related to the essence behind things. Form and expression are at the top, and essence is at the bottom.

As one of the many meanings behind the word "metaphysical," the connection and exploitation of manifestation and essence has never diminished in importance.

For the empire, many of the simple and unsophisticated properties of today can still involve profound essences that require a lot of energy to study.

In other aspects, these parts are equally important - the collision of ideas can always create different sparks.

The existence and life of the Empire are no longer limited to humanoid life, but the influence of "from humans" in the life of the Empire has always existed, which is not conducive to the expansion of the Empire's horizons and understanding.

At this time, life starting from other forms can start from a completely different perspective, bringing a new way of knowing and understanding.

Moreover, the "irrationality" and "imperfection" of the empire's life itself determine that it is currently difficult for all living beings to achieve absolute rationality and absolute consensus.

All living beings are willing to follow a jointly determined general direction, but in terms of details, everyone will always have differences in what they like and dislike. This requires coordination—on the one hand, between the things themselves that are liked and disliked, and on the other hand, between the imperial being itself that holds these attitudes.

These phenomena are common in countless civilizations outside the empire, and they have many, many ways to deal with these phenomena. Among them... there are many things that can be learned from.

This is an indirect necessity, an indirect necessity that preserves countless mortal civilizations. The direct necessity comes from the common enemy of all orders, from the death wave disaster.

Observation records accumulated over a long period of time prove that when the "level of order" in a region is higher, or the more types of civilizations in the region, the higher the level of development, the more harmonious they are, and the more upward the common atmosphere, the Order will have higher resistance to the death tide.

This kind of resistance can be demonstrated in many aspects, and the two most important aspects are that the possibility of a death wave disaster in this order area will be greatly reduced, and on the other hand it is reflected in the existence of order in this area. Resistance to Dead Tide pollution can be greatly enhanced.

The more specific manifestations of the latter include, but are not limited to, relatively slow destruction of pollution, relatively reduced severity, relatively accelerated self-purification and recovery, etc.

Through these observations and accumulated data, the Empire further confirmed the actual existence of the "Shadow of Death Tide Stability" in the data left behind by Σ.

On this basis, the Empire also began to build a preliminary model and conduct more accurate quantitative research on it. For safety reasons, it seems that the empire will not choose to directly set foot in the death tide environment on the other side of the gate for the time being, but as the research deepens, this step will be taken sooner or later...

The empire is a melting pot, and countless information is jumping in this melting pot. They either grow into new branches or become the driving force for the growth of new branches.

Among the clumps and branches, there are similarities with each other and also independence from each other. The branches are vigorously growing, pointing to the frontier and the unknown zenith. On this basis, the celestial sphere of the empire's own development can be drawn.

From this celestial sphere, relatively independent ranges can be drawn, and this relatively independent range is the highest level division unit of the empire - the sky area.

New areas are constantly being established to meet development needs. In the process of development, there have been situations such as the addition, abolition, merger and reorganization of functional departments between regions, and even the formation of new regions independently.

Most of the time, regions collaborate with each other and compete with each other in many fields. These competitions were not clear at the beginning, and stimulated by many factors, these competitions have triggered many vicious incidents.

These vicious events eventually attracted the attention of the empire's top officials, and the competition between the regions was subsequently included in the process of precise measurement and comprehensive digitization...

It is worth noting that actual errors always seem to alert people more than speculation...?

The fragments trembled, sharing with each other the various stories they captured while traveling slowly through time and space.

Are these stories... too general?

The fragments asked each other for their "opinions".

Yes, it's too spacey - the things they describe are too huge and illusory, tens of billions of years, hundreds of billions of years, regions, departments, changes, wars...

These stories require the participation of countless beings and lives, and require the joint interpretation of countless individuals to advance. But these stories themselves... are not prepared for a specific person or a specific thing.

Be more detailed.

Be more detailed.

Be more detailed.

Be more precise.

Be more precise.

Be more precise.

No words, no communication. But tacit understanding is invisible.

The invisible tacit understanding pulls these fragments, causing them to begin to gather together, begin to approach each other, and begin to form a clearer focus. They are no longer sparsely distributed in countless worlds, distributed throughout all time, they begin to be closer to a real... "independent body".

They passed through countless space-time structures, across countless vastly different starry skies, and across countless world barriers.

They ride on the wave formed by the existence of the empire and cross the long void that is neither cold nor empty, passing by countless stories intentionally or unintentionally.

Where is the goal? Where is the end point?

have no idea.

have no idea.

have no idea.

But there will definitely be.

But there will definitely be.

But there will definitely be.

"It", or rather "they" believe so.

"They" cross some sectoral boundaries.

It may not be possible now, but... the goal may be on the way.

The imperial ministries that once represented great power and powerful coordination and coordination still exist, and they play a greater role than before. But their nature is no longer exactly the same as it once was - a large part of them no longer stems from the imposition of mandates and imperial orders, and countless people serve because they decide to exert their power.

Abundant resources are jumping like stars, they are no longer directional waves. Although it seems messy and disorganized, facing any needs and tasks, everything now can be completed brilliantly.

And what about the people in it?

Come closer.

Come closer.

Come closer.

It doesn't seem like there are many, intuitive changes.

However, it looks like there are internal changes as well.

Sentient beings...their actions are somewhat different. Now, rather than following orders and executing them, they now act more like executing to realize their own ideals.

They have abundant resources.

They have rights that are not biased.

They have thoughts of their own.

They have their own hobbies and goals.

They can decide for themselves what to do.

At the same time, the superstructure of the huge and aloof empire is still perfect, and its development has not stopped.

This is somewhat contradictory, but... ideals have to give in to certain issues after all.

The gap between the big and the small always exists objectively, and the problems that the big needs to face are difficult for small individuals to solve. When sufficient forces need to be mobilized to deal with the same difficulty, the corresponding institutions also need to exist and play a role.

Their class connotations may still exist and be clearly marked in numerical form. This is divisive and runs counter to reality and everyone.

Maybe that's not the case - change doesn't happen overnight, and iron and blood can naturally overturn the irrationality of the past. But irrationality may not necessarily require the power of iron and blood to erase.

wrong.

wrong.

You have to rely on yourself to fight for your own rights.

But this also requires understanding from former managers, and they need to actually make changes.

Look again.

Look again.

The establishment of a system and a set of theories represents a series of possibilities that can be predicted. The way of prediction lies in the rationale for their existence.

But these principles and theories are all subsets of the final set of reality, a part of reality extracted by life according to certain defenses.

There will always be some elements that are in reality but not in reason. In other words, there are always things in reality that are unreasonable, difficult to explain, or unexplainable. Logical predictions are not always accurate. In any case, what reality presents is the final result.

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This may also be a stage.

The fragments trembled, gathered together, and continued to move toward the unknown end. They are getting closer, more intimate, more and more harmonious - they no longer need to communicate explicitly to know everything about each other.

It's like... they use the same mind.

The focus they create is more precise and practical. They span countless worlds, span every structure and hierarchy of the empire, span the dazzling light and vast nothingness between the stars...

Faintly, a voice told them, and another voice told themselves that the "end" was no longer far away.

There is no need to expect pure reason and absolute accuracy. That would be to fall into a strange circle formed by metaphysics.

Follow your own simple perception, follow your own direct knowledge, follow the most common common understanding of the public, this contains truth. Knowing what is happening around you, knowing why they are happening, knowing what is happening to you, knowing why you are the carrier of those events - being able to make self-consistent and reasonable explanations for them contains wisdom.

Knowing what you should say, what you should do, and how you should complete them...this is accurate enough.

What can be done?

You can work - anything. You can serve on battleships and expand territory for civilization. You can serve in the fortress and guard the border for order. You can go to the Five Heavens Constellation to build a bridge of communication between the empire and other civilizations.

You can join a certain facility or a certain research group as an assistant for improving details and exploring cutting-edge areas. You can join the construction team, take over the achievements of your predecessors, and create more achievements for the younger generations...

What about outside of work?

You can learn - anything. How to control a battleship, how to read feedback, how to analyze stories, how to understand time and space, how to use equipment, how to identify existence, how to know oneself, how to see the world, how to perfect the body, how to contact others...

Enough knowledge will be given initially, but they are not advanced enough, they are just an overview of the basics that help life understand the world. More parts need to be mastered by one's own strength.

Whatever intelligent life wants to know, they can learn it. However, personal power is ultimately limited, and it may take eternity to master everything, but - life can also be eternal, as long as you are willing to do so.

Any more?

There are also hobbies - the empire accepts a very wide range, and anything you like is fine within this range.

You can listen to the rhythm from the world itself, you can look at the rhythm of the stars jumping, you can read the story of the shared fate of all living beings, you can think about the laws of everything - they are bigger hobbies, and at the same time there are more. As a small hobby, decorate your own home, draw a small piece of your favorite environment, repair an inconspicuous flaw, write down your own insights and experiences and compile them into stories, record your daily life, what you see and feel Then share them with others...anything goes, as long as you want.

...any more?

If you are tired, you can rest.

You can relax in your favorite environment, you can sleep in a quiet zone, you can run among the stars to release stress, you can retrieve and organize your favorite scenes, appreciate them, create them... As for what exactly, beings can decide for themselves. .

Um……

The fragments continued to sail wordlessly, passing between the stars. In the trance, even they themselves did not notice that all the scenes around them became more and more concrete, and the words that were once chattering like dreams became clear - they were real scenes passing by, down to the galaxies, down to the constellations, Specific to the planet, specific to a certain building, specific to a person.

The grand stories, the trend of the trend, the stars of existence...their details are gradually revealed in this process - most of them are countless daily routines that are not exciting, and can even be said to be scattered and trivial.

As for the "small parts" that permeate it... some of them reveal positivity, happiness and upliftment, and some reveal sadness, pain, and the faint smell of blood.

…

The right to choose is yours - whether you choose to continue, wait and see, or look back, we will respect your choice.

Yes, the world is not perfect.

But we believe that will and strength can change the imperfect status quo.

Looking at the world, the world is a narrow and fragile bubble in the endless void, but at the same time, they are also a warm home for ordered beings to live and work in peace and contentment.

Yes, everything will eventually perish.

But we believe that understanding and perspective can become completely different as the perspective changes.

Patterns eventually fade away and chaos is the ultimate melody. But - this is just one part of the cycle. Emergence guides creation, chaos guides destruction—they are both part of normalcy.

A better environment and conditions are worth striving for, and the imperfect status quo should be changed. We need to look directly at objective laws and objective reality, but there is no need to be pessimistic.

…

please believe:

If you are bright, the world will not be dark.

The soul trembled violently.

"Have you...made a decision?"

"Decision. What?"

"Leave here and go to the "real" world. Are you ready?"

".Um."