Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1356 - 513: The Historical Legacy of the Shattered Star Ring

Zheng Tian, dressed in a dark red commander’s uniform, stood with her hands behind her back in the center of the command room.

On the projection platform in front of her, a ribbon-shaped star cluster was rapidly unfolding. Several high-ranking commanders stood beside her, jointly consulting the star map.

This ribbon-shaped star cluster was part of the massive structure that spiraled around the Nanxiang Star Cluster—a component of the Shattered Star Ring.

Various star bodies, meteors, and space fog clusters were distributed within, forming individual stars or intertwined small star systems.

There were too many star bodies distributed in this relatively narrow ribbon area.

If everything were natural factors, allowing the ultra-small star bodies within the Shattered Star Belt to evolve on their own, then the Shattered Star Belt would remain relatively peaceful.

The various star bodies and meteors would coexist relatively harmoniously, and it might take tens of millions or even billions of years for some star bodies to change their orbits due to slow natural evolution, leading to a series of disturbances, much like the Black Mist Zone.

In pure natural evolution, no matter how complex the situation, whether large as planetary evolution or small as silt diffusion during river confluence, everything follows an incredible law of transitioning from chaos to order imperceptibly.

No matter how chaotic the Shattered Star Ring was in its initial formation, regardless of how intense the collisions between star bodies were, order would slowly emerge over time from chaos. The vast group of star bodies would eventually find their own large and small patterns and become harmonious, until one day something disrupts this balance, causing great chaos. After the chaos ends, it would slowly return to order, until a new tumult occurs due to some event. And so it repeats endlessly, eternally.

But the appearance and settlement of space pirates altered this objective external environment.

Intelligent life forms with mastery of giant structure technology and interstellar navigation inherently possess the ability to easily disrupt cosmic harmony, much like Earth’s surface civilization during the 21st-century was particularly adept at destroying Earth’s natural environment. Now, the manner and impact of this destruction have only been magnified countless times.

Numerous spaceships navigate back and forth within the Shattered Star Ring without any order or sailing standards, according to their own whims.

During navigation, a substantial amount of waste from production and life is discarded into space. Additionally, the gravitational fields released by fast-moving ships intertwine and overlap, continuously altering the originally fragile yet subtly balanced gravitational field within the Shattered Star Ring.

For example, a pirate base is constructed on a large solid star body, and the pirate ships of this base habitually take a particular route when departing for hunting, but upon returning, due to the changing hunting target locations, always choose different routes based on proximity.

Thus, the moving gravitational field left by this pirate fleet in the universe becomes imbalanced. Even if every voyage only slightly displaces neighboring star bodies by a few centimeters, this repeated tugging over time within an imbalanced gravitational field inevitably expands the displacement along the route to several meters or even tens of meters.

Eventually, this star body, deviating from the stable orbit granted by natural balance, will inevitably collide with certain star bodies, triggering larger-scale disturbances and leading to a chain reaction.

Numerous pirate bases exist within the Shattered Star Ring, where every action of each pirate base leaves increasingly more deviations in the starry sky.

When the cumulative deviation reaches a certain limit, it may trigger a catastrophic star body riot, bringing severe disasters to inhabitants on various star bodies.

According to the definition of the Imperial Royal Academy of Sciences, this phenomenon of gravitational deviation accumulating to cause natural disasters is termed gravitational pollution.

The ultimate explosive manifestation of gravitational pollution is the collision of massive star bodies such as stars and black holes, which usually occurs in the core area of the Ancient Disk Galaxy where stellar density is high. Such scale of disaster is unbearable for the Mechanical Empire, and even the Sublimators, Pilgrims, and Spirit Demon Race are exceedingly fearful.

The secondary manifestation is the collision between planet-level star bodies, and the Shattered Star Ring, which revolves around star clusters composed of thousands of stars, is precisely a heavy disaster area.

Managing gravitational pollution is not difficult; it only requires establishing a sufficiently powerful department to oversee the navigation of all starships, simultaneously monitoring the changes in gravitational fields within the heavy disaster areas, using traffic scheduling of starships to continuously neutralize the deviation caused by imbalanced gravitational fields. Naturally, this can prevent disasters economically. When the situation is critical, rescue teams can actively intervene, using artificial means to apply deviant gravitational forces and swiftly restore order.