From the ultimate goal point of view, the new army and the old army are actually the same: both groups are trying to build bridges.
And if we purely look at the ultimate goal of "weakening the Void Cataclysm", there seems to be no difference between the new army and the old army no matter who succeeds: as long as the bridge is successfully built, the imbalance on both sides of the Void will drop to within the critical value, and the Void will
The cataclysm will occur in a milder way (although it will still be accompanied by a large number of doomsdays, but at least it will not cause mass extinction, and many worlds can be preserved). This is why the new empire decided to put aside its past grievances with the Abyss Xiling
Reasons for building bridges together.
There is only one difference between the new army and the old army, and it is this difference that makes it impossible for us to make the slightest compromise with them: the extremeness of the new army. They have elevated the "imperial interests" to a level of paranoia and distortion, to the point of trying to
To ensure the empire's top pyramid status by annihilating all life except itself, even the gods are among their attack targets.
The New Army will not share the Void Bridge with anyone. They will not allow civilizations other than their own to successfully build the bridge. These lunatics will do whatever it takes to become the first super civilization to successfully build the bridge. Then they will use the Void to build the bridge successfully.
The special nature of the long bridge allows for offensive and defensive operations, permanently cutting off the possibility of other civilizations building bridges - even the super civilization on the other side.
The Abyss Xiling is obviously much gentler: she is willing to share the knowledge of building bridges with other civilizations. In order to ensure that the long bridge is built faster, she is even willing to contribute all her achievements and equipment and facilities. Perhaps she has been from the beginning.
Foreseeing the consequences of the Long Bridge in the Void being completely controlled by one civilization, she early promoted the alliance of the Abyss, Empire, Star Territory, and Huron, so that even if we only built one long bridge, this bridge would belong to the four parties.
Unless the four major forces are stupid enough to engage in internal strife at this juncture.
Abyss Xiling is willing to talk about the special properties of the Void Long Bridge. At least it proves that she does not mean to monopolize the long bridge - of course she cannot monopolize it. When the launcher is turned on, there must be four races (the Abyss-shaped Xiling apostles can be counted as the third
The four races) are all there, and this startup terminal is not activated instantly. It takes a period of time to connect the two sides, and then it will take a period of time to slowly distort the structure of the void (this is all done by Tavel and other experts themselves
The conclusions drawn from the analysis can be guaranteed to be true and reliable). In this process, it is impossible for Abyss Xiling to monopolize the long bridge under our noses through small actions.
But now there is still a question: the construction of the bridge needs to be initiated jointly by both sides of the strait. Any failure to respond in time will lead to the collapse of the long bridge. The final result will be the total destruction of the Σ civilization, and even affect the "fulcrum world" on the other side.
It is impossible for the New Army not to know this.
Is there any way they can circumvent this "synchronous startup" limitation?
"I have also thought about this issue. There are many possibilities. Perhaps they will deceive the Star Ring Federation on the other side by hijacking communication signals, trick the other side into cooperating with them, and then rush over to invade. In this way, the Star Ring Federation will be completely defenseless.
It’s time to capture the launch terminal on the other side, but the possibility is very low. We have been in contact with the ancestors on the other side. The encryption methods used by both sides are difficult to crack, so the new army should not be able to contact the Star Ring Federation," Abyss Xi
Ling heard my question and started thinking about it. She thought very carefully about this issue, "The second possibility is that they can really bypass the "synchronous start" restriction. Maybe they have some bridge-building technology."
A huge breakthrough... but this possibility is even lower. The technical basis of the new army and the old army is the same. In just a few months, it is impossible for them to break through to this extent. Then there is only the third possibility... They
Perhaps the perfect deep-diving vessel has been built."
"The perfect deep-diving boat?" I raised my eyebrows, probably understanding what this meant.
"It can dive deep to the other shore without or with low damage. It has a huge and stable space container cabin for transporting the launcher. It has a powerful energy device that can power the launcher after reaching the other shore, so they don't need to
With the cooperation of the super civilization on the other side, they only need to launch a launcher to the other side in advance, and even the process of debugging and synchronization can be omitted. This process is like the early space portal. Send another 'door' to the target location in advance.
, then open the doors on both sides and start teleporting. It is obviously easier to build a perfect deep-diving ship than to circumvent the restrictions set by the void."
"The deep submersible ships built by our four races can only float to the other side by chance, and the success rate of floating over is only one percent. Even if it floats over, there will only be one core cabin left." I touched my chin, "New Army"
Can it have such high technology?"
"Maybe they just need a breakthrough, maybe they found some clues in some ancient databases, such as Occam's research data back then," Abyss Xiling knocked on his head. Although it was just a quality projection,
She would also refer to her memory bank in this way, "When Xinjun and I split, we each inherited the original entire set of databases, but there were inevitably omissions in the copying process, especially when the split was about to be completed.
We and 'her' will instantly have a sense of selfishness and regard each other as an enemy. In this case, we will subconsciously interfere with the database copy to prevent the other party from inheriting complete knowledge. Some data should be torn apart at this stage. Me and
'She' can only inherit half of it. Now I can still find a lot of fragmented data in my database. I believe that the other half of this data is in the other party's hands, but I will never know what I have forgotten. This is a death
cycle."
The self-division of Abyss Xiling has always been something we can't figure out. It's not that we don't understand why, but we don't understand the process. It's difficult for creatures in the real world to understand how a cluster consciousness rooted in the network can replicate.
itself and allow the two copies to each have subtle differences in personality. Of course, we can generally regard it as copying and cutting data, but I believe that the specific process is definitely more complicated than that, and may even involve
Chaos thinking and the like. Neither Tavel's theory nor Bubble's calculations can simulate this process. Therefore, we are not sure how many similarities and differences the commander-in-chief of the New Army has with Abyss Xiling, nor do we dare to judge based on the current Abyss
Xi Ling went back to deduce the character of the first generation Abyss Xi Ling - there is almost no accurate corresponding connection at all.
Now, based on the new information from Abyss Xiling, we have confirmed one more thing: she and the commander of the new army may not even have the same memory bank.
This can also explain why Abyss Xiling, who is supposed to know everything, cannot tell what the deep-diving equipment in the hands of the New Army is like: even for her, the memory bank is not omnipotent, and defects or turmoil in the entire network will also hurt this view.
A super consciousness that seems to be immortal.
"It's still unclear what trump card the new army has. In short, everything is estimated based on the worst-case scenario," Sandora pondered for a moment before making a decision. "We assume that they have really created a perfect deep-diving ship and have put it into place."
The other launcher is placed in a certain universe on the other side... So now as long as they can successfully open the launcher on this shore, we will be completely helpless against them. Is that so?"
"They won't be able to activate within seven days," Abyss Xiling said with confidence. "On the one hand, my army has not been completely expelled from the Serenity Core. On the other hand... I also made some small tricks in the activation terminal. The Serenity Core
The same goes for the deep dive port. These 'special arrangements' will cause intruders a lot of trouble."
It seems that even with a relatively docile personality, Abyss Xiling's cunning and thoroughness have not slowed down at all. Sandora and I felt much more at ease after hearing her words.
At this moment, the shipboard host of the Imperial Admiral suddenly sounded a broadcast: The fleet has arrived at the border. The several-hour voyage ended so quickly. Everyone who was immersed in discussions and thinking seemed to have ignored the passage of time.
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Oh, there was one person who didn’t ignore it: Qian Qian. When I turned to look at her, there was already a paper crane over one meter high in front of this girl. How bored was this girl just now? She was speeding up time to fold this thing.
Girl, have you eaten too much?
The imperial fleet docked in the orbit of a dark brown artificial planet, which is the sovereign hub of this frontier world. We saw many familiar things above the sovereign hub: a thick fortress that seemed to be stacked with multiple discs.
, as large as a space city, exuding full momentum.
This was exactly the kind of turtle shell fortress that the imperial army encountered when they attacked the abyss. Sandora felt that their design had many advantages worth learning, so after the war, the empire's technicians built this based on the cracked fortress blueprint.
A kind of copy. Although it is a copy, its performance has not decreased at all, but it is slightly weaker than the original version in terms of absolute destructiveness. This is unavoidable: normal psionic energy itself is more destructive than abyssal psionic energy.
It has low power and weak explosive power, but it is stable and easy to control. This makes the replica fortress's shield more powerful and stable, which can be regarded as making up for its lack of offensive capabilities.
And the current frontier universe is also one of the spoils of the first "Total War". The heavily guarded world that the imperial army first conquered has now been rebuilt. After adding a large number of fortress facilities, it has become the border defense node of the empire.
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A set of huge halo devices spread out at a distance of one light minute from the sovereign hub. The twisted and mysterious halo reflected the scenery of another universe. Opposite was a dark red starry sky: the abyss area, but the territory of the abyss Xiling.
"I have chosen the best route for you. All the places along the way are controlled by the old army. There will be no interception." Abyss Xiling uploaded a jump route map to the navigation system. The expression on his face suddenly looked a little strange.
"Would it feel weird to use the world gate in the abyss area to travel?"
I looked at the door to the world displayed on the holographic projection and raised the corners of my mouth slightly: "I really never thought about it before, but we have all formed an alliance anyway. Let's cooperate well this time."
As soon as I finished speaking, the shipboard host reported that another group of troops was entering the material plane. I quickly turned to look at another set of holographic projections, which showed the space scene on the other side of the sovereignty hub: deep and dark space rippling in the universe.
There were ripples of light, just like the endless aurora condensed into the sea surface and floating in space. Along with the ripples of light, an army with a completely different style from the "starship + space station" appeared.
They were a large number of towers and palaces floating in the air, with many flat boulders that looked like floating islands mixed in between. And between these things that didn't look like space weapons in any way, were the starry soldiers that shuttled quickly: the Protoss
The army is coming.
The number of this army is difficult to determine, because the gods are accustomed to temporarily creating various things on the battlefield to fight. They can create millions of elemental creatures and other things with a wave of their hands, and I have seen many combat units.
I don’t know whether it counts as a building or a unit. I can only see that their brilliant square array covers a large area. The monitor turned its sight 180 degrees and couldn’t find its boundary. Just judging from the size of the array
It looks like this is no less than the Imperial Army.
And this should be only part of the Protoss army, and the other part is preparing to attack the far reaches of the abyss area on other fronts.
Xingchen said that he would send all the troops that could move in the Star Region. It seemed that he was sincere. He was obviously determined to penetrate the Abyss Area.
I turned my head and looked at the five-man group of protoss men not far behind me. Kense and the other four had already stood up and were preparing to report to the protoss battle formation. Bingtis, the old god, was leaning on the seat with his eyes closed and concentrating.
They have completely entered the "imperial officer-full-time job" state, but these five are not the most amazing. The most amazing thing is...
I lowered my head and looked at my breast pocket. Dingdang was popping out his little head sleepily. The little thing looked around. He found that there was no sign of food in his sight, so he yawned and went back.
I took out the little thing that had almost turned into a rice bug and reminded her of the situation in front of her.
"Oh, yes," Dingdang was confused for a while before she realized what was happening. She hummed and climbed onto my shoulder. She waved to Kense and the other four team members, "Assemble! Assemble!"
The four protoss stood in a row in front of me in a flash. Although they were all tall, short, fat and thin, at this moment they still showed the full momentum of warriors - you can't be deceived by their usual carefree appearance, Ding Dong.
Even if the team falls behind again, they are still veterans who have experienced countless battlefields!
Dingdang looked at his four subordinates with satisfaction, then looked up at the battle formation of the gods on the holographic projection, and finally said something very informative: "Hey... Father God said that we are not short of a few... let us
Just act as a guard next to Arjun."
Everyone: "..."
Bingtis couldn't help but screamed strangely next to him: "I'll go...did the old man really say that?"
"Yes." Dingdang nodded, "I just told Dingdang directly through telepathic communication."
I was about to say how could this be such a child's play, but I quickly calmed down: It's actually nothing. In such a large-scale joint operation, the temporary deployment of a few soldiers can be said to have no impact on the overall situation. Although Dingdang and the others are
A "real professional god who has stepped into the society" with the authority of priesthood and world management, but due to their more inconsistent personalities, they are still equivalent to a group of super soldiers... they can be placed anywhere.
I looked up at the protoss army that was still emerging from the aurora ocean. The auras of Xingchen and Sheila were constantly coming out of that glorious ocean. I then turned to look at the Dingdang team beside me. The expressions on their faces
His expression was still as heartless as usual. Suddenly I felt that it was not easy for Father God to develop the Star Territory to what it is today...
However, my sigh did not last long. The system broadcast quickly interrupted everyone's thoughts: the world gate is ready.
This gate to the world, which is close to the sovereign hub, has a special nature. It is not directly connected to the interior of the empire area, but directly leads to the abyss area. It is the product of Sandora's "territorial reshaping" plan. This gate is now
It was started for the first time. Unexpectedly, it was started under the active navigation of the abyss area... It is really unpredictable.
The beginning of the "journey" is safe. We will pass through the ruling area of the Abyss Xiling and head to the war zone under the escort of those Abyss Legions. A dense blue glow emits from the force field grid, and the moment the coordinate-like engine starts
This caused the large battleship to shake slightly like a reflection in the water. Then the huge starship began to accelerate. The small and medium-sized frigates followed the mother ship like a dense school of fish following the huge waves. The first fleet entered the gate of the world first and sent back everything.
After receiving the safety signal, other troops began to enter in sequence.
The Protoss troops also have to rush to the battlefield through these world gates - although they also have the equipment and unique methods to travel through the world, since there are ready-made facilities here, there is no need to build additional Protoss world-traveling gates.
The moment the Imperial Admiral crossed the gate of the world, the little crow twisted around in his seat excitedly and let out a cheer of "Gah——". Along with this not-so-pleasant cry, the picture from the external monitor was severely distorted.
, trembled, and then gradually returned to calm, an unstable world filled with dark red spectrum appeared before our eyes.
There are not many types of worlds in the abyss, and they are basically at two extremes. They are either extremely desolate, with the entire universe filled with noise and primitive energy, but no material-rich areas can be found, as if chaos has been removed, or there is abundant matter and
The celestial body system, but everything is too active, the celestial body system is chaotic and the material order is on the verge of collapse, and there are very few normal worlds outside these two extreme environments. The universe in front of us obviously belongs to the second situation: there are twinkling stars in the line of sight
Nebulae are like the Great Wall of Space, but most of the stars are in the shape of a diffuse halo. The stars are too close together, as if evolution has failed and there is no solidified form. The large swathes of nebulae are bright red or orange, and you can see them among them.
When you see some bright lines that are like spider webs, they are out-of-control star-making movements: Although several basic values of this universe can support the material system, they are not very reliable.
The external monitor turned to the rear of the fleet. What we saw was a World Gate that was similar to the previous entrance, but the overall appearance was disturbing black and red. The World Gate was surrounded by large areas of space facilities and star ports. Fallen Apostles
...or in other words, the fleet of the Abyss Apostles is neatly arranged in space, like a group of dormant monsters.
Then they woke up from their slumber and naturally came to the flank of the Imperial Army to take on the task of protecting them.
We were once mortal enemies, but now we are advancing and retreating together...