Star Empire

"...?"

When Cavinriel regained consciousness, he found that he was in an independent medical cabin, surrounded by a large circle of various equipment, a circle of nervous-looking technicians, and Calost's face that was almost threatening to fight. The big face on the facade.

"What's going on with you?" Seeing that Cavinriel's various indicators and soul fluctuations had finally become normal, Kalost finally relaxed, "What exactly did you verify? It's worth your excitement to even risk your life. ?Do you know how strong the emotional fluctuations are required for a life form of your level to be overloaded and damaged to that extent? Your emotional fluctuations are just short of directly burning the equipment itself!"

"A great discovery! A great discovery that can directly cleanse all the technological systems of the Federation! I..."

"You should calm down a little longer." Kalost directly gave the science officer another restraining order to suppress his excitement.

"I'm sorry, General." Under the influence of physical restraint, Cavinriel finally stabilized in a relatively calm state, "What time is it now?"

"...You were unconscious for a long time - almost three days according to the perpetual clock. During this period of time, we repaired and restarted almost all of your logic modules and biochemical plug-ins. In fact, you are considered very powerful. According to The data we read from the memory disk shows that your emotional fluctuations at that time were enough to drive a normal person with a strong mind completely crazy and burn half of his personality."

"Let's put it this way, except for the large-scale psychic meme pollution created by that clan when we launched the war of annihilation against Theodal, situations like yours are already extremely rare - those weird memes are The resulting environmental distortion and cognitive distortion are truly terrifying.”

"Because this discovery will indeed subvert a person's entire cognition." Cavinriel sat up with difficulty, and the inhibitory effect had not completely subsided. "The results of the tests I did before are all consistent with the unified information. The theoretical model, and the most critical missing phenomena, had been confirmed and discovered at that time."

Caloust was momentarily stuck: "...What are you talking about?"

"I must report these situations to the Archon immediately. Sorry General, you don't have the authority to know the specific details yet. As a co-participant in this matter, you and all the technical staff present can know part of the current information, but it must be Complying with federal confidentiality regulations... you will not know more until the situation is more secure or until authorization is granted. Before that, you need to wait."

Cavernrel paused, "Besides, don't worry about the harmfulness of that golden vortex. The crystallization symptoms...according to my guess, it should be said that it is just some inherent properties of it-this inherent property is related to the nature of matter." The properties are the same, but this kind of existence is really different from our real world, so many ordinary substances may be damaged to some extent by the inherent radiation... just like plasma will burn solids... similar... "

"But! But as a self-consistent and sophisticated existence, the soul is currently the only one we think is a component that does not rely on a pure material state...or it is another kind of the purest component of matter... Maybe it is the ability to slow down Slowly shape its own structure and subtly influence the "external structural encapsulation" to adapt to these external "energy"..."

"...Hmm." After listening to this unheard of conjecture, Kalost chose to just help first after some thought. Naturally, Kalost would not go to such information that was beyond his understanding and authority. He let his temper satisfy his curiosity, but when Cavinriel fully recovered and prepared to set off, his confusion and curiosity were still very obvious on his face. Looking at Cavinriel who was about to board the ship, he Asked myself the last qualifying question:

"What is the nature of that golden vortex?"

"General, before I answer your question, let me ask you a question first." Anyway, it's not working time now. Cavernrel simply let Caloust experience this shock for himself. He turned around and said slowly, "According to our current unified structure... 38 billion years ago, in an endless sea of ​​chaos, there were countless substances without laws and order, or even matter at all. A more pure existence collapsed. In theory, it becomes a point with infinitely small volume, infinite density, infinitely high temperature, and infinite space-time curvature..."

"……Singular point?"

"Yes, it is the singular point in theory. At a certain moment, that point exploded violently in the turbulent tide of chaos, and a bubble with a diameter of more than 100 billion light years was born here and exploded For a very short period of time, there was no structure in this bubble, and all it had was a large pot of boiling Taichu "soup."

"However, with the rapid cooling after the big bang, the boiling "soup" gradually cooled down and stabilized, and the earliest hadrons and leptons began to be produced. As the bubble continued to cool, hadrons They begin to combine and form atoms. In the bubble, the light that dominates everything gradually fades away, and gaseous matter begins to appear and gather under the influence of gravity, slowly converging into the first stars. Do you know what this is?"

"What you are describing is the creation model that is currently most consistent with all observations, the Big Bang model." Combining some of the knowledge that Cavinrel told himself before, Kalost had a vague feeling in his heart, but it is real It was too beyond cognition, "You mean..."

"General, this model...may be able to add some preconditions, and at the beginning of its birth, we may...in the near future there will be a better description system than the tachyon equation to describe the What the universe looked like at its birth 38 billion years ago is now in front of us."

Cavenriel turned on the panoramic mode. Under the golden light, he and the giant ship behind him were bathed in the golden light. Against the dark background, the silver spaceship shone brighter than the chariot of heaven in mythology. It is even more dazzling, with an inner throbbing feeling that vaguely transcends all worldly limitations, as if it is about to completely expose the truth of the entire world, affecting everyone who can "see" it in various ways.

Even though the invisible pressure released by the huge whirlpool, which was as big as the sky that was about to fall, was always there, the awe shown by these people made them forget their own mental pressure.

"That golden vortex can be considered to be the situation that our world may have existed before the primordial matter and basic laws of the universe were formed. What we see can be completely understood as the ongoing creation! The predecessor of the world is in the process of creation. Be shaped!”

After saying these words, Cavinriel teleported onto the spaceship. The fleet flagship quickly completed its full system warm-up. The huge Taloga-class hull floated from the platform as light as a feather. At the tail of the fusiform hull, four slender needle-shaped propulsion ring energy restraint arrays slowly opened, and blazing white light quickly formed around the needle tips.

The spacecraft slowly adjusted its posture, and a strange sense of materiality gradually began to emerge from the spacecraft. The figure of the spacecraft gradually became illusory, but the brightness of the white ring at the stern increased sharply.

After the brightness reached its peak, the originally illuminated surroundings quickly returned to darkness, and the spacecraft turned into a shadow floating on the three-dimensional drawing paper, facing the long wall of the warped world that was large enough to completely change the structure of the universe. It flies through the formed pass. Its actual flight speed is not very fast. This is just some deformed application of conventional power. However, in the projection of the three-dimensional space, it can leave the light far behind.

A jump of nearly four billion light years. This distance is already very far for short- and medium-range navigation methods such as high-dimensional property jumps. In order to maintain the pressure on three-dimensional space, the power system of the spacecraft has to move more The output is diverted to the line that supplies energy to the space distortion force field.

Currently, among the power systems used by large federal spacecraft, the most widely used, most powerful and most advanced is the slow-output vacuum zero-point energy engine whose principle is similar to that of space annihilation bombs.

In the huge constraint and energy-guiding device, a small piece of "world fragment" with overlapping mapping is imprisoned by the time stasis field. The physical time stasis field formed by the constantly distorted supergravity can be fine-tuned within a range, but For the sake of safety, the adjustable range of the time stasis field of this engine is extremely limited, and the power of the engine itself is capped at the maximum opening coefficient of the time stasis field, and cannot be overloaded.

During the silent voyage, Cavinriel once again reorganized all the experimental phenomena and data he had obtained, and readjusted the original theoretical model based on this. The result was that the original model was unexpectedly accurate, even Many possible phenomena have been foreseen in the old theoretical model. What Cavinrel is doing now is to make simple corrections to some unclear points in the original theory based on the actual observed phenomena, or to add some irrelevant ones. Urgent stuff.

"This result... Why does it feel so accurate... It seems that the moment this theory appeared, those seniors had completely pointed out the entire path..."

Cavinriel locked himself tightly in the strongest and most secret room on the bridge, as if he was afraid of being spied on by some unknown thing. He jumped among the large number of light screens and holographic projections suspended around him. During the "interruption" period when the concept of information unification appeared twice, all the mathematical models newly formed by the Federation - these mathematical models now seem to have an additional meaning.

It seems that they can also be regarded as a real "process" in the development process of events.

As the chief scientific officer, Cavinrel believes that his predecessors will not get these theories from some science fiction theories in ancient times or the wild fantasies of some people, and then make up a set of self-consistent theories out of thin air and Even without any research aids or evidence from reality, it can perfectly match the observations made many billions of years later——

This probability is the same as seeing a star and then casually throwing a pinball into the universe. The pinball experienced just the right various disturbances during space flight and finally hit the star accurately.

Kevin Riel has studied the history of science for tens of billions of years, from the earliest chemical reactions in ancient records, the nature of elements, atomic structure, quantum mechanics to the recent warping laws of the world, the method of extracting the zero point energy of vacuum, high All the knowledge, theorems and technical data on the dimensional properties of super-light navigation technology and the confirmed and verified macroscopic laws of the universe are uniform and continuous in the natural state. Each of these can now stand proudly in the current federal species system, and they are all stepping on it. The path paved by hundreds or even thousands of wrong models or theories is finally selected and determined.

From ancient times to the present, there has never been a rule that can be directly based on some completely random accidental phenomena, and has been proven to be completely correct by later generations - many conjectures that are quite consistent with observation records at the moment they appear may even become a stumbling block to the development of actual theories. ...Is it luck this time, or is it another illusion?

Cavinrel looked around at the mathematical models and a large number of weird equations that were being verified one after another, and his brows couldn't help but frown more and more.

All the scientific workers related to this theory have died, and all the remaining evidence seems to point to one result: these theories appeared out of thin air, as if these scientists compiled the entire set of knowledge after a sleep system.

"It seems... I can only choose to put it on hold for the time being." In response, Cavinriel finally shook his head noncommittally. The world is not stable. Uncertainty and chaotic structures will hinder moving forward or backward from a certain point in time. prying eyes. Efforts to investigate such unsolved cases will only be a waste of resources.

"Science Officer, the spacecraft is about to arrive at the only entrance to the quarantine area." In response to the prompts from the shipboard AI, the strange texture of the spacecraft stirred up layers of light and shadow on the bulkhead like water waves and slowly receded. On the restarted radar screen , a large number of flashing light spots appeared with the illumination of the scanning array, and further away, a huge arc-shaped barrier blocked all signals inside the arc. If it weren't for a diameter of one light The "small" hole in the year is still connected to the outside world. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the end of the world.

"The logs... why are the logs here so messy... It seems that the Federation really needs to think about it... the steps... hmm."

Not long after Cavinrel worked at the forward base, the construction of this huge warped long wall began, and it took shape at an astonishing speed. The large number of light spots near the exit were built on this long wall. The temporary space stations built afterwards initially accommodated most people from this area.

However, as time goes by, the area affected by the abnormality of the golden vortex is not as terrible as expected, and as beings who are also in the quarantine area, they may be eliminated humanely, so some of the original residences here are relocated Citizens who were far away from the anomaly returned to the original location one after another - with tacit consent, they had the right to choose what they could do. This was a right granted to them by the laws accumulated by the federation over countless years. This part of the settlement is now fully sustainable and capable of hosting everyone who remains here.

At the only gap in the warped closed long wall, huge outposts and floating gun arrays have formed a dragnet around this small structure with a diameter of only one light-year, closely monitoring the possibility of the isolation zone and the external area. material flow.

Moreover, the troops on the "inside" side never left after being deployed, and the spacecraft that directly crossed the hollow area in the outside world were also required to enter this area. The over-distance light phenomenon caused considerable damage to the Federation at that time. Shocking, many security measures have been raised to a very high level. In fact, after Cavernelle launched the last probe a few months ago, there has been no material exchange with the outside world here.

Of course, I am afraid that everyone here and outside understands that the golden light is different from ordinary sources of infection - I have already established a connection with these abnormal things the moment I saw the golden light. If it is true If a situation arises, most people in the federation will probably suffer. However, despite the self-comfort factor, the federal government will take all measures as quickly as possible. After all, it is better to seize the time and do something than just wait.

After a few light seconds, the spacecraft completely broke away from the high-dimensional transition state. The bright white halo dimmed a bit, and then the spacecraft began to accelerate and fly in the direction of the gap.

On the other side, the sensing systems of these outposts had already locked onto the large ship that suddenly appeared. Before the ship accelerated towards here, everything here was ready to fight.

Countless transparent light films roam every inch of the surface of all facilities here, and some ripple-like ripples are looming in the cold and dark space. This is the vibration generated by the simultaneous stimulation of several wide-area space structure disruptors.

On the broad silver platform, the silo covers loaded with jump missiles were opened one after another, revealing the cold warheads with a hint of murderous aura; the kilometer-long energy restraint rails rotated from the base of the outpost and the space turret. Lifting it from the middle, countless electric lights jumped and flickered between the rails. At the bottom of the energy rails, destructive white energy had begun to emit little rays of light. If the spacecraft made any abnormal movements, these would be enough to instantly erase a person. The firepower that scorches the planetary system and the space together will be directed at the front face of the spacecraft in an instant.

"Fire blockade... or not, before I understand the key point, I will also deal with those dangerous infection transmission vectors in this way." As the chief scientist and chief advisor to the military governor, although he "looks" very "young", But the current scene couldn't make him panic.

Not to mention the source of creation that he has been studying, half of the long warped wall with a radius of four billion light years in front of him was provided by him. Facing this coldly radiant dragnet, he slowed down slightly. The speed of the spacecraft was increased, and a message requesting temporary communication was sent to a main antenna of the outpost group. Since in order to protect the backbone network, the frequency of some network points in the third hexagram was switched, and Cavernrel was now equivalent to a station. In a closed LAN, now he cannot communicate directly with the outpost, otherwise the outpost group's reaction would not be so intense.

After the signal was sent through layers of relays and finally contacted the commander here, some of those destructive and powerful weapons began to stop moving, but there were still a considerable number of turrets pointing at this lonely spacecraft. On the display screen in front of Cavinriel, a tall soldier with a serious expression and a face as clear-cut as a knife and ax appeared in the holographic projection, "I am the commander of this area, Nidogor O. Reeve. Hello, Science Officer, please explain your purpose."

"I need to leave the quarantine area and meet with the supreme military governor."

"I'm sorry, but we can't let you out of here without orders."

"Please return the following data to the Virtual Existence Mask Virtual Military Intelligence Center in a physically isolated manner. After the return, you will get the Archon's order. In order to avoid memes contaminating the entire army, use node jump transfer quantities and physical quantities to Are you resisting..." Cavinriel retrieved all the facilities in his memory, "The information received from the site originally used to contact the enemy was actually the situation here - is this a joke..."

"The data has been received and checked... No contaminating memetic influence or exponential self-replication ability has been found. The data is stable and in good condition. It has been encapsulated. Please wait patiently before the order arrives."

After confirming that the "Messenger" transmission probe had been launched, Cavinrel turned off the physical displays on all bulkheads of the spacecraft, and switched the spacecraft to panoramic mode. Under the superposition of several lines of sight with super-light observation capabilities, it can be clearly seen A full view of it all around. Countless starlights from the outside world are pulled and pulled by the special properties of warped space, and converge here.

On an astronomical scale, countless silver starlights gathered here and twisted into a huge cage. The menacing dome is pressing toward reality from the boundless darkness. The level of shock and depression may even cover up its original magnificence.

However, Cavinriel, who was staring at this huge dome that seemed to touch the sky and the earth in the universe, did not feel too much depression in the shock.