Star Empire - Chapter 543 Extra - [Maybe... the past and the future]

[This extra chapter corresponds to before the establishment of the Halo Federation, but does not correspond to a specific plot or a specific moment. 】

【The Beginning of Chaos】

The history here is too long.

The birth and annihilation of information can erase almost all traces.

Even the gods can only integrate a few unclear words from this broken history and rotten memory fragments.

Some more physical, more absolute distance prevents technology from filling the gaps, and many truths have been lost.

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At the beginning of the era, the environment in the void was extremely turbulent. There was no compatibility between the occasional order body and the chaotic world tide, as well as the still boiling heterogeneous sea of ​​chaos.

At the beginning of the era, the Will of the Void had not yet fully “awakened” – in order to ensure the safety of the “inheritance”, the Will of the Void paid a higher price.

The first batch of existences with sufficient information disturbance power to determine the order in the void – they cannot even be called complete civilization.

In addition to the Doelanka “Zerg” that can almost represent the chaos of the beginning, there is also a “barely” ordered civilization in the void – Nerocat.

This civilization seems to have forgotten most things – their original form, most of their history.

They seem to have been given some kind of sustenance, and they seem to have carried out some kind of deception, and they have also made some sacrifices on a scale that is unimaginable. Those pasts, which spanned so many fields and covered so many memories, are no longer important now. .

In that era without any unifier of void order, the world was chaotic, the order was unclear, and all stable laws had not yet been formed.

The almost completely out-of-control creation activities in the void caused countless deformed worlds to live and die without any rules.

The endless fountain of ghostly light is the only hope for the survival of civilization.

As long as hope remains, development will not stop. Relying on endless resources, civilization has restored many things in a relatively short period of time with its completely mutated memory. Everything seems to have really passed. However, while the endlessly rising ghost light promotes the recovery of Nerokat civilization, it also affects the existence and development of Doelanka to a considerable extent – the basic existential tones of the two sides conflict with each other.

War is inevitable.

It is said that the power of Chaos Impact and Spectral Light almost ignited all the relatively stable worlds in the void at that time – during the long war, Doelanka actually also recovered from countless devoured and assimilated Niero-rotating creations or individuals. There is a certain pattern and power called order.

Although Doelanka was born in chaos and is similar to the superorganism of the Zerg civilization, this does not mean that it does not have wisdom. At the beginning, this huge and chaotic consciousness tried to use the nature of Neroka’s creation to change the world. Being good gives you an advantage.

But as time goes by, some kind of agitation from Nelocat and the “quiet trend” of the void itself are slowly changing the once chaotic and uncontrolled creation activities and the chaotic world structure that is chaotic and uncertain – even if Even the wisdom of chaos can also feel the changes taking place.

While the war continued, this chaotic intelligent super-individual began to try to pursue the possibility of orderly transformation of itself. However, the long-standing inherent life forms make it impossible for them to have a highly solidified state of order similar to the Nerokat civilization.

In the inevitable decline, some of the Chaos leaders of the Zerg tried to create “cores”, that is, seeds, according to the order structure of all they captured.

The nature of this seed and what it will grow into have nothing to do with existence itself. The two of them are already on opposite sides of order – in what is considered the most suitable environment, they planted this “nucleus” “And cleanly annihilated all existential connections related to nuclear.

At the same time, the joint bridge-building action of the Nerokat civilization distributed on both sides of the void failed due to incomplete considerations. The spreading pollution obliterated the reality and the reality, and the civilization suffered irreversible damage.

Previous attempts ultimately failed, and opportunism only resulted in delay and a brief lag at a higher level. No one can escape the inevitable death penalty.

The details of the past are no longer available, but the chaotic sea… they are the opposite of all existence, the end of all order, and the final return of all rules. Such means…are not enough to cross the abyss as high as oneself.

It is a foregone conclusion that the two incomprehensible existences will soon be completely destroyed.

【turbulent history】

After the demise of civilization, there seemed to be an infinitely short and infinitely long period of tranquility in the void. That moment can no longer be traced back.

Perhaps this is the beginning of an era.

After the collapse of civilization itself, a large number of remnants that have completely lost their self-consistent attributes and are being rapidly annihilated have left ripples after ripples in a large area of ​​​​the void. Most of these ripples have completely dissipated. They may only be able to survive in certain places. There are some strange traces left in the gate, but perhaps, some connections do exist, and some subtle influences are completely released by these wreckage.

And in this process, the almost imperceptible last remaining influence of the almost completely dissipated core finally attached itself to certain order structures, and before the wreckage was completely corrupted and destroyed to the point of losing its history, the inheritor of the will had not yet The completely burned flag was taken in by a new born from a remote corner.

There seems to be some secret in those influences:

Under those invisible and extremely dangerous round gates with strange black and red patterns that look like gaps in the world, there seems to be some void truth buried.

These perturbations, in a process of diffusion, insert themselves directly into the very fabric of the world’s existence. Such external disturbances have had a significant impact on a considerable number of lives – from toddlers to children facing the front door, the consequences are everywhere.

This is a relatively long time – so long that the residual influence finally gives birth to life, and that the order elves who once drank blood and feared the light of fire have the power to cross the world and cross the void. In the long-term development, during this relatively stable void cycle, several generations of top civilizations were born, directly or indirectly, that were scattered in the void and came into contact with the truth of the void in a subtle way.

Inspired by perhaps the influence of the relics or the more distant “Legacy of the Void”, these civilizations started their own bridge-building plans after they developed to a sufficient level – however, there was a huge lack of understanding. The actual mistakes have deceived the beings to a considerable extent, and countless wisdoms have been swallowed up by the chaotic sea. They will not realize that they have been too hasty until they are erased.

Almost all of these civilizations that unilaterally initiated attempts to build bridges were buried in the chaos of the sea and the turbulence of the void.

The chaos caused by the repeated failures of these civilizations not only made the two former inheritors exhausted, but also affected the initial “creation process” of the Will of the Void.

In ignorance, the process of complete recovery and awakening of the Will of the Void, which transferred a large amount of its own power in order to take into account inheritance, is quite long – after the Will of the Void truly clarified certain similarities and differences between itself and the world environment, many order beings almost immediately gave inspired him.

But the road always seems to be full of thorns and twists and turns. What does void mean? Maybe even I need a long period of understanding before I can finally grasp it.

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When the divine civilization, including the gods who symbolized the fire of creation, established a foothold in the void, and the second will of the void awakened and experienced countless events, order began to flourish. The boundless divine realm covers the violence in the influence, and the infinite structure filters out premature detachment. Order is no longer a fixed structure, but begins to flow among the gods as a series of living ideas.

In addition to all the information times of the multiple parallel main axes of civilization that were laid down at the beginning of the era as the “original law”, world clusters have experienced more than trillions of reincarnations of life and death in the already stable void environment.

【The radiance of divine power】

Countless years of travel, failed creations, irreparable loneliness… Under the combined influence of various factors that may be contradictory or mutually reinforcing, it may be seen as the continuation of the “meaning” of the existence of the former civilization by two void wills. Acceptance and acceptance – the unique power of disturbance is given by the will of the void to these super civilizations that have struggled on the edge of life and death countless times – in the replacement and overlapping of orders, they are truly larger, more stable and “healthier” than before. God system, stable top civilization began to be born.

There is something strange in the void, which may be a mark that transcends everything and remains here. Even the dead information is not traceless – more and more perceptions lead the gods to approach the dangerous and mysterious exit of the chaotic sea.

However, as the scope of the Protoss’ exploration becomes larger and larger, some “birth entities” that were once regarded as inexplicable or only knew what they were but still have residual influence began to gradually come into view of the Protoss expedition team. ——In the darkness of the past, far away from the mainland of the order, in the depths of the unexplored “cognitive white zone”, the “tombstones” of many super civilizations and even top civilizations caused the gods to temporarily stop their rash advancement and turn. And start to explore the details, and develop towards stability and improvement——

Whether it is the giant gates in the ancient sea that look like giant eyes in the void, or the series of extraordinary creations that have been fragmented and have no preservation value, or the “tombstones” and incomplete marks one after another that mark everything that civilization has done. “Bridge-building technology description fragments” and so on, these countless fragmented stories, realities that no longer exist, and theoretical systems that have been completely torn up remind the gods that there may be hidden meanings behind them. What truth and cruelty.

After these files were carefully sorted and collected, the gods began to become more conservative in the overall direction of the bridge-building operation, and more power and attention was diverted to development. For the world of order, it was an extremely glorious and glorious period.

But under the glory, the impact of the River of Forgetfulness cannot be ignored. In the depths of existence and glory, the traces of violence and crisis have not all faded away. On the “other side” across the endless abyss, the new existence has shown indescribable expressions. In the strange, strange scratches, the boundless web is spreading quietly.

These secrets, which are already detached to children, should not be disclosed prematurely—that is not necessary. Appropriate ignorance is sometimes not a sin, and even many times, such ignorance can bring peace.

Everyone has secrets, and so does the void.

【Present, and future】

The moment they knew each other, there was no peace in the void.

In that desperate action, the long bridge in the void that was barely maintained by Σ’s unilateral activation of the activation terminal collapsed after twenty-one difficult seconds, and this extremely large and powerful mortal civilization was almost crushed and unstoppable. It was completely destroyed in the natural disaster of the chaotic sea, and what was left behind was a corrupted ghost wandering outside the wreckage of the endless eternal space and among countless orderly worlds in the void.

An event that had been predicted countless times broke out in such a most unacceptable way.

The gods needed to do something.

Children need to deal with the missing parts of themselves that they once ignored.

This cannot be defined as right or wrong, because every decision may lead to countless endings, and there are countless processes, variables and possibilities between countless endings. All this does not require the actual action of forces outside the order. Tragedy and endgame are also part of the story, and they should probably be avoided, but they shouldn’t be eliminated.

New civilization, new order, new blood. The goal is still there, even if it is temporarily shelved but that never means giving up.

The expeditionary fleet of the gods is like a beacon in the dark ocean with turbulent whirlpools.

Countless civilizations, forced by darkness and corrosion, will gradually approach this life-saving lighthouse, intentionally or unintentionally.

Among the sample points contained in this almost unmeasurable time and space, there will always be civilizations that can understand the true meaning of order over a long period of time, and have the possibility of being ranked with the gods by virtue of their true great wisdom. , and the gods and the will of the void will not extinguish this precious opportunity.

At the same time, the gods who have experienced a long time and endless events also know that while these actions are being carried out, the gods themselves have also begun to explore the unknown path again.

However, some principles cannot be changed.

Help and obligation are never equated, and neither are appropriate decisions and out-of-control love.

Observation, negotiation, time, judgment, decision.

Decline, mediocrity, improvement, and even sacrifice for some goals that can be called noble——

These are civilization’s own choices. Gods are guides, and when the time is right, they are also cultivators. However, God is not the corrector of endless trivial matters, nor is he a meticulous nanny who can take care of everything. This point should be made clear.

The scale of the divine world and the civilization of the gods is so large that it exceeds any measurable scope, and different acting styles and related views will naturally be different – from loving kindness to harshness, from extensive to rigorous… But no matter what, they are all There will be no essential conflict.

Because all thoughts and behaviors are based on compliance with the original operating laws of order as the highest criterion.

Many experiences, many influences, endless time and space, these past have left a solid imprint in the hearts of God and Void Will. What the eternal alternation of order has changed is the direction of all orders in the entire void.

There are many macro-plans and the macro-goals are very clear, but the broader and more complex the macro-structure is, the more it needs countless details and possibilities as flesh and blood to fill this preliminary foundation.

Gods and humans are not on the same level, but they have wills and wishes that resonate.

Believe that this can be done.

The future is promising.