Xiling Empire

The temporary base that Tavel built in two days is designed according to the classic architecture of the Expeditionary Expeditionary Station: This site takes dense asteroids as its apex, uses a super alloy to build the skeleton, and sets a large number of landing platforms on the edge of the skeleton. Small ports for engineering drones and various types of ships to dock, while the inner ring of the skeleton is distributed with first-level engineering nodes and second-level engineering nodes. These facilities are responsible for preliminary cutting and scanning of the collected samples to eliminate valuelessness. Ore debris, and send valuable, rough-processed mineral samples to the material transfer station, which sends the mineral samples directly to the large laboratory in the center of the base through hyperspace equipment. This concise and efficient system can ensure that the entire site always operates at the highest efficiency, and with the expansion of its supporting drone fleet and engineering vessels, it continues to extend to the surrounding space. When developed to a certain level, the pioneering research station can be upgraded to a space bunker or military node. Modular empire equipment can be built with a crisscross superalloy framework with only a few modifications. In fact, the Kuiper belt base in the capital world originally came from this place: its predecessor was nothing more than a pioneering research station.

Based on basic pioneering sites, the architecture is constantly upgraded, and eventually evolved into high-level facilities such as military stations / space fortresses / colonial cities / military nodes, which is one of the common upgrade processes for empire space facilities.

Of course, we do not intend to upgrade this pioneering research station right now. Although Sandora has considered pulling this remote world into the empire territory and building it into a military core universe, this asteroid belt as an excavation site itself is not much. It's worth the value of building a base. The only thing that works for us is the stones from the home world.

Inside the large laboratory in the center of the workstation is a honeycomb structure. Contains a large number of modular sample analysis rooms. Meteorites collected by engineering drones are sent here for various tests to determine when they cross the barrier of the world, and try to determine the current hometown world from the clues on these stones. -Of course, it would be better if we could find the coordinates of the hometown world, but this seems hopeless. The flash of space here has been over for tens of thousands of years, and even though this universe once passed by the homeland world, they have now been away from each other for a long time.

Tavel brought us to her current workshop-strictly speaking, the current quality projection workshop, because we know that Taver's number of units is now calculated using a basketball court ...

This is a large hexagonal hall that may use space expansion equipment. It's very broad here. Dozens of non-gravity platforms are neatly arranged in the hall, half of which are suspended by their meteor fragments. The distance between each non-gravity platform is about ten meters. The self-discipline machine for scientific research responsible for handling laboratory chores flies agilely between these gaps, checks the working condition of each non-gravity platform, or assists the The cutting beam dissects the meteorite sample. Assistant technicians in white uniforms gathered in small groups next to certain platforms to analyze the data. Intense discussions, or acting as emperors: they must have made some great discoveries. In the past two days, every scientist on this site has experienced countless major discoveries: found a new hometown substance, verified a footnote in the memory of the ancestors, and learned a little new information about the hometown world. Enough to get them excited.

Imperial scientists have never been a reserved and stable group. Each of them has a fiery heart ...

"This is the largest sample analysis room. A meteorite of each type must be kept here," Tavel led us to the nearest gravity-free platform. "We have found 37 substances from our hometown world. , Both metallic and non-metallic. They exactly match the hometown information recorded in the memory core. Look at these things— "

Tavel said, looking around the hall: "These ancient things are from their hometown ... our creators built the ark with these things, and even used these things to create the first primitive in the fifth generation, really I dare not imagine. We will have the opportunity to see these primitive minerals with our own eyes. The entire research team is now excited. This is the second time we have been so excited about the ancestors since the discovery of the primitives. "

Tavel mentioned the fifth generation-I know this. Sandora also introduced himself to the history of the Apostles of the Spirit. They divided the entire spiritual civilization into "generations". From the first time the Spiritlings walked upright until the establishment of the new empire, they are counted in "generation". The most remarkable thing about this chronology is that it does not record history from the perspective of a certain race, but from the perspective of the entire civilization. The first to fourth generations are the history of the Spirit people, as well as the childhood of the Spirit civilization. They recorded the years of the Spirit people from the formation of the tribe to the exploration of the entire universe, and they realized the history of the world's margins. Already incomplete, only a few broken chapters in the core memory of the Apostles of the Spirit can describe it.

The fifth generation is the inflection point of this civilization: in this generation, the spirit civilization encounters the abyss and jumps out of the world. The old spirit people are extinct, the new spirit spirit apostles are born, and the new race replaces the creator. "Human" Replaced by the "Apostles", the hometown world became a historical noun, and the "Spiritual Civilization" was taken over by a young ethnic group, stepping into the endless void without a doubt-this is also the meaning of the number "Five" in the Spiritual Civilization Great cause.

The second page of the fifth generation is the beginning of the history of the Hilling Empire.

Few civilizations have such a history: it is a general history of civilization, but the "protagonist" has been changed in the middle of history, and the race in the first half of history has been completely replaced, but the history of this civilization has not changed its name and continues Handed down. The spirit people gave their civilization to the race they created, and they disappeared in the depths of the void. The spirit apostles took over this civilization from their ancestors, and swore to inherit it, even making it almost unprecedented by any means. Strong empire. Absolute dedication, absolute loyalty, moving towards the goal, regardless of all consequences-this is the factor engraved in the depths of each individual soul named "Spirit", paranoid and terrible.

It is precisely because of this chronology. The Apostles of the Spirit also called the age of the mother of the Spirit people "the age of our mother star". Although the apostles were not born at that time, not even a drawing, they still considered it to be their own history beginning.

I just heard that Tavel suddenly mentioned the fifth generation, and then I suddenly thought about it. And Sandora was obviously thinking more and more specifically. She frowned as she looked at samples of meteorites suspended on a gravity-free platform before turning to Tavel: "Everything found is a natural mineral?"

"Yes, natural minerals," Tavel's expression seemed a little regrettable, "these materials should come from a broken rocky planet in the hometown universe. The analysis of the ingredients shows that they were formed at similar ages, so the probability of coming from the same celestial body is extremely high. No artifacts have been seen in the material samples that have been found. Perhaps the place where the hometown world leaked was just far away from the activities of the ancestors. Of course, it is not ruled out that we have not found those artifacts. After all, the engineering team has not put this area The search is complete, and it is possible that some of the hometown material was pulled by the gravitational perturbation in the galaxy into the orbit close to the sun. This is the theory. "

"Do your best." Sandora nodded, "but don't hope too much. The universe is vast, and creators are unable to leave their marks on all celestial bodies, and it is normal to find their relics."

We have seen mineral samples of various forms under the guidance of Tavel. During this period, two new and valuable samples were sent in. After cutting, Tavel obtained two complex compounds. Unfortunately, this compound is still not an artificial product. I know that both she and Sandola hope to find the "relics" left by the creator in these hometown materials, but the possibility of this situation is really too low. It is estimated that it is no more than buying the two-color ball in the middle of the 20th period. Choi and finally not been killed ...

But the information at hand is enough to satisfy people: now Tavel is basically sure that the hometown world is still alive and that it was extremely active at least 20,000 years ago. According to the data she collected from the samples, all the parameters of the hometown substance can be accurately measured, which is of great significance: if a substance can be accurately measured, that is, it has the only measurable physical property in the macro, then It must come from a stable universe. Because the universe is on the verge of "the end of mathematics." That is, when the chaos of the law leads to the collapse of the universe, everything in the world will fall into a "state of uncertainty". This uncertainty is not the same as the uncertainty in quantum science. It refers to the macroscopic loss of "nature" An object will have no mass or infinite weight. It may be solid but it may also flow suddenly. It will become anything in your sight and may suddenly disappear. This is the state of the internal matter of the universe infected by the abyss before it is destroyed-and we are in This is not the case for the meteorite samples collected in the asteroid belt. They look normal.

"Even in the worst case, 20,000 years is not enough to destroy a universe with such a high degree of stability."

Tavel concluded by pointing to a pale gray ore sample.

"Wait, I think of a question," Sandora thoughtfully for a moment, and suddenly raised her eyes. "How long have these ore history? I don't mean the age when they came to this universe, but they are in their hometown. History after the world took shape. "

"Your Majesty, this is the most confusing place," Tavel immediately understood Sandorah's thoughts. "We conducted a chronological analysis of all the samples we found, and determined that the oldest element in them was also one hundred and two. A billion years ago. "

I thought about it and found that I still didn't understand it, so I dragged Sandola's sleeve: "What the **** does that mean?"

"The hometown world has been destroyed by the abyss to this day ... I don't know how long it has been, but definitely more than billions of years," Sandora exhaled, "and the samples of these substances we found are too young If according to the data analyzed by Tavel, these material fragments have evolved normally after the homeland world was eroded by the abyss-the hometown world has survived to this day and is a miracle. It has maintained the normal universe after being eroded by the abyss Evolution, this is simply impossible! "

"Not only that," Tavel added, "All the samples we found were free of traces of abyss, as if they were from a normal universe."

"Are you sure ?!" Sandora suddenly looked up, looking at Tavel in disbelief.

"It's true. Your Majesty," Tavel nodded strongly, then pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose. "After confirming that these substances came from the home universe, we began to discover all kinds of phenomena that are in and out of the memory of our ancestors. This Also mentioned by the subordinates, these hometowns are 'wonderful' places. First of all, they are young, showing that the hometown world is still evolving normally today. Second, there is no abyss reaction on all material samples, and the hometown world should have theoretically already It is right to be completely immersed in the abyss; secondly, it has nothing to do with the sample, which is the anomaly of the hometown world itself: a universe should not have such a long life, even if it is not polluted by the abyss. A robust normal universe should not have a lifespan It's so long! "

I think of a sentence that God the Father said: Any natural world has its beginnings and ends, and the universe born in the void will eventually belong to the void. "Returning to zero" is the eternal truth of the void. At present, except for the world created by artificial means by the two major protoss and the Spirit empire, the life span of all universes is limited. There may be some exceptionally robust worlds with extremely long life spans, but it is clear. The home universe of the Apostle of the Spirit is far beyond the time it could theoretically survive.

Even if there is no abyss erosion, the universe should end in a certain day in history-this is the biggest doubt that Sandora and Tavel face.

"The hometown world must be a natural universe. It was not created by God. The creators of the year did not have the technology to control the life of the universe." Sandora said flatly. Prior to that, she was immersed in the joy of discovering the news of her hometown, like other Apostles of the Spirit, and unknowingly ignored the details in this regard. Now that she has calmed down again, the abnormalities of the hometown world are beginning to make people doubt.

I spent a few minutes sorting out the high-end conjectures of Sandora and Tavel, figuring out what the focus of the matter was, and then using limited brain cells to study how to explain this phenomenon, but soon I gave up: myself Obviously, it is not as shallow as a magical head. My brain supplement level is not an order of magnitude ...

"There are only two possibilities at the moment," Tavel said slowly and slowly. "First, what happened to the hometown universe after the ancestors left? The abyss that infected the whole world may be purified. Then the entire universe was also cleaned up by some This external force has transformed it. This external force has caused the homeland universe to survive to this day, and all this happened after the ancestors left. No one knows it yet. Second, the memory of the ancestors of the Apostles of the Spirit ... may be problematic. Theoretically this is the case "

"I don't think there is a problem with ancestor memory." Sandora immediately shook her head. "And the second conjecture could not explain the life of the home universe. I personally prefer your first assumption. Anyway, we have to Find a way to find your hometown, and you can only explain everything if you go there to check the situation. "

This is definitely not an easy goal for Sandola. Without knowing the world coordinates, it is necessary to find a specific universe from the vast void precisely. Throwing it at the Protoss can give them a headache. It is true that the empire has a super void radar such as the Garden of Departures, but the search range of that thing is still a drop in the sea compared to the entire void. In the past, we had at least a rough range of searching for the new world: or know which quadrant the target world is in, or It is determined that the target world will not be too far away from the capital universe, but the "hometown world" of the Apostles of the Spirit is not in any of the above cases. Although we have material samples from our hometowns, these samples have left their world of origin for more than 20,000 years, and the information they carry that can be used to locate their hometowns is no longer accurate and readable.

It feels like I'm asking an 80-year-old blind man to go to 1.4 billion people to find his dear, who was separated when he was two years old, and he is not allowed to ask ...

"Ajun, what are you thinking about?"

Suddenly Sandola's voice rang out in my ears, dragging my thoughts that had drifted to the sky back, I scratched my head in embarrassment, and was embarrassed to communicate with her about her long-lost relatives. I know that such serious occasions are not suitable for traveling abroad, but the topic of Sandola and Tavel is really a bit too high-end. When encountering such high-end topics, my ability to go God is almost exponentially strengthened over time— — You see, I lost my mind in two sentences.

"What do you think we can do now?" I thought about it and asked a very realistic question, "The coordinates of the hometown world will not be found at half past one, and the analysis of that piece of armor will take time ~ www.mtlnovel. com ~ Should we send someone to check on the barrier of the world several times? Since there has been a flash of space, it means that the two worlds in history have been quite close, maybe there are things like collision marks on the barrier of the world. "

This is the only solution I can come up with based on my knowledge. I know this is still equivalent to letting the old blind person find his father. The only difference is to help him exclude the woman ...

"That's all," Sandora nodded helplessly. "But 20,000 years have passed, and with the self-recovery ability of the world barrier, I don't know if there are still traces of collision."

No matter how useful this solution is, a team of engineering soldiers set off to go to the world barrier to do needle-like scanning in a haystack. What we can do next seems to be over-at least the things I can help are over-well, from the beginning, I have nothing to help you guys are satisfied!

In short, professionals have begun to work in their fields of expertise. As in most cases, there is nothing to do at this time. After wandering around the base for a long time, I suddenly remembered it as if I was spending time with the little guy They swayed, so they decided to go and see what they were busy with. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (m) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please read m.)