The Federation's ordinary weapons could hardly cause enough damage to the Warp entities, and their psionic skills were very limited. They only knew how to create and throw elemental energy. They knew nothing about the rituals of summoning and repelling those who ventured deep into the Warp.
Therefore, the war dragged on for a long time and became exhausting, which caused dissatisfaction among those who had the ability to change everything but were restricted by etiquette and laws.
He was a human who had just joined the dragon's ranks. His name was Sarkhan. He was a tribesman from Dacherl, the second grassland planet in the star system where the industrial world of Karen was located.
When he saw Drax soaring through the skies of Dacher, he became a fanatic worshiper of these creatures. Fascinated by the majesty and power of dragons, he was one of the first to join us on that planet, earning him the nickname "Dragon Priest."
And he's an illegal psyker. This is obvious; the human empire's crude management capabilities have prevented them from seriously using big data systems to collect information on every resident and then determine whether they can bend a spoon with telekinesis.
Thanks to his active cooperation, he became a representative of naturalized people in the New World as an advanced role model and was able to accompany our fleet.
However, his way of thinking was still imperial. He had no idea about the peaceful ideals pursued by the Federation, and his worldview was still religious.
So after seeing the dragons being shot down by the Living Saint, he was extremely angry and unconsciously used his psychic abilities and magic.
The so-called magic power is a method that deviates from the right way of using power. In other words, it is a prohibited way of using spiritual energy.
The principle of tranquility and harmony does not have a strong impact on people's daily lives. It only requires you to live the life you want in a way that does not violate the rules.
However, the control over the use of power is very strict. The use of psychic power is limited to the manipulation of elemental energy and aura healing. The skills of summoning psychic entities and directly entering the virtual world are strictly prohibited.
But Sarkhan was not subject to such restrictions. The power of tranquility had not yet completely filled his worldview. A world filled with various gods, demons and spirits rather than natural energy was what he was familiar with. Therefore, when his psionic power manifested out of control, he called upon a certain entity for power.
At this moment, just as the worship of nature, based on the principles of Yin and Yang, ultimately succumbed to the personified idols of the Three Pure Ones, the beginning of the nameless becoming known. Bound by tranquility and forced to manifest in the form of natural elements, the collective spiritual energy of the Federation's creatures partially overflowed its original boundaries, becoming a distorted reflection existing in the realm of the soul.
He brought victory and doubt.
.........
The living saint's protection was like an impenetrable barrier, virtually rendering the Federation's military power incapable of deployment. Every fiery breath of the dragon was neutralized by the invisible divine force. Despite the might of the Interstellar Federation's military, it remained unable to destabilize this divinely protected planet of the Ecclesiarchy.
As the dragons were defeated by the Living Saint's divine power, Sarkhan's rage reached its peak. In that moment, his psionic power erupted, and uncontrolled energy swept out like a torrent, tearing the shackles of the Tranquility Principle and calling forth a being he had not anticipated.
The roars and screams of battle echoed in his ears, but his mind was far away. His thoughts began to flow into the abyss, the place where souls converged. A massive creature emerged from his consciousness, its scales shimmering like glass, each scale seeming to hold a star, its eyes filled with wisdom and majesty.
The entity appeared to be a pure white dragon, but at the ends of its limbs, a shimmering light appeared, revealing that its pure white was a fusion of many colors. Its form possessed the majestic ferocity of the flying dragons of Drax, and the slender elegance of the coelurons.
His voice had such a perfect balance that it was impossible to tell what his emotions were.
Io, Asgeras, the Great Scale, Element of Harmony. So it said.
"You, you, what is this sacred sight?" Sarkhan choked with emotion.
It is the multifaceted spirit of Helka, the One who receives name from the nameless, the reflection of the essence of the Confederation in the spirit plane, a being that connects the two worlds. The Soul Dragon says that He is harmony itself.
Sarkan was so excited that he could hardly believe that he could hear the response from the god: "Great Io, what power will you give me?"
Then he realized he would bring victory. Io's power was not merely the fire of dragons, but the otherworldly itself. Sarkhan felt a power he had never felt before gathering within him, the dragon god taking up residence within him.
Sarkhan raised his hands, closed his eyes, and focused all his psychic energy. His thoughts became a call, spreading outward. With his call, every Drax that had been cast from the sky by the Living Saint was inspired, and their massive bodies once again rushed towards the place protected by the sacred shield.
The dragons' breath once again covered the battlefield, and this time their attack became exceptionally powerful. Their fire and lightning breaths were no longer ordinary natural elements, but contained otherworldly power.
This power broke through the Living Saint's sacred stance and poured into her protective shield. The originally indestructible sacred barrier seemed so fragile in the face of Io's power. The dragons' attacks continued to tear at her shield, suppressing her form bit by bit.
The Living Saint would never retreat from the intimidation of the Alien God, but the odds were stacked against her. Her divine power began to crumble. Her form could no longer sustain itself, its once holy radiance gradually dimming, disintegrating into ethereal fragments.
Finally, with an earth-shattering roar, the living saint's physical form completely disintegrated, and her soul was guided by a powerful force, forcibly expelled from the material world, and returned to the void of the subspace.
All of this happened extremely quickly, almost in the blink of an eye. When the last ray of divine light disappeared, the entire battlefield fell into a brief silence.
Sarkan woke up as if from a dream. Everything that had just happened seemed like an illusion, but he knew that everything had changed.
"What happened?" A squid man asked in confusion, breaking the shocking silence brought by the War of Gods.
The Federation won.
53. Returning to my hometown with great power
As the living saint's glory gradually faded, the Ecclesiarchy world fell into a dead silence. The shattering of the psychic barrier not only symbolized defeat on the battlefield, but also profoundly shattered the spiritual pillars of the Ecclesiarchy's followers.
The imperial soldiers and believers who were still fighting hard began to collapse. Some of them knelt on the ground in despair, muttering prayers of faith in the God-Emperor, as if they were still hoping for a miracle at the last moment; others had empty eyes, put down their weapons, and watched blankly as the federal soldiers' steps advanced step by step.
However, not everyone gave up, and some were enraged. Some believers launched a desperate and frantic charge, their roars mixed with curses and oaths against the "heretics," attempting to sacrifice their lives for their faith.
However, this disorganized resistance pales in comparison to the well-equipped and well-trained Federation Army. The roar of the Drax dragons terrifies the entire crowd, and the heavy artillery fire of the mecha troops tears through their ranks. The resistance is crushed, and those who surrender are incorporated. This cathedral, once known as the "Sanctuary", is gradually disintegrated.
Finally, the flag of the Federation was hoisted atop the cathedral's spire. The fall of this building, once a symbol of the Empire's state religion, completely crushed the fighting spirit of the remaining state religion members.
Soldiers and civilians alike surrendered to the Federation. After losing their protection, the two affiliated imperial civilizations quickly expressed their willingness to accept the Federation's rule in exchange for survival.
This victory brings more problems than gains, but we must first deal with the aftermath. After occupying the state religion world, the federal army quickly began the subsequent recruitment and transformation work.
The factory ship's projection system broadcast surrender announcements in various areas, calling on the remaining residents who might be resisting to voluntarily surrender their weapons and register their identity information.
At the same time, the administrative staff accompanying the army also began their work. They needed to stabilize the situation as quickly as possible and plan the management and reconstruction of this newly occupied territory.
Inside the cathedral, the Federal Command established a temporary administrative center. Brightly lit, hundreds of administrative personnel busied themselves with their duties. Each was striving to complete their assigned tasks: registering prisoners, distributing supplies, and managing cultural conflicts.
“The first step is to pacify the civilian population and ensure their basic needs are met,” the Director of Administrative Affairs told his team. “Then we need to establish a temporary governance structure that will preserve their social foundation as much as possible while gradually introducing federal management systems.”
Federal officials began an intense and orderly operation. They selected influential individuals from among the captives, as well as members of opposing factions who had always supported our state religion, and gave them appropriate powers to maintain local order. At the same time, they dispatched intelligent human security teams to conduct regular patrols to prevent any further rebellion.
The Federation gave generous treatment to the imperial nobles who were willing to cooperate and the state religion members whose faith had collapsed, and gave them additional compensation in return for their voluntary surrender of power in exchange for their support for the new regime.
Those extremists who refused to cooperate were detained. They were actually only a very small minority, but they still could not be tolerated.
The Federation's determination and efficiency were awe-inspiring, and the residents of the Empire World gradually accepted reality. After all, although the battles had caused casualties, they had also brought about a significant increase in supplies. Although this wasn't because the locals had won...
While stabilizing the situation on the ground, the Federation did not neglect construction in space.
The engineering team on the factory ship worked day and night, building a star fortress above the star in the shortest possible time. At the same time, a void fortress was also formed in the orbit of the desolate planet.
This cutting-edge facility, incorporating the Federation's most advanced technologies, is not only a symbol of the Federation and a vital colony, but also a strategic fortress designed to counter future threats. It will intimidate the galaxy and cultivate our lineage, preventing any ill-intentioned individuals from challenging it.
However, although the outcome of the battle was decided, the Federation's military leadership did not celebrate the victory for long.
Their attention was focused on the unusual phenomena that emerged during the war, particularly the distortions of reality and the mind caused by psychic influences. After the war, all soldiers, psychics, and scientists who participated in the battle were required to report their experiences and observations in secret and in detail.
Sarkan was the first to be summoned, and his questioning was the most detailed, even the priests and nuns of the State Church had to wait in line. After all, the Dragon Priest had disrupted the Federation's own spiritual power, which was far more important than the Empire's crazy summoning of gods.
"These psionic phenomena are beyond our comprehension," the Psionic Technology Specialist said during the post-war meeting, "especially the paranormal phenomena and the interference of unknown psionic entities as described by Sarkhan. We need to return to Helka Prime and conduct in-depth research using more advanced equipment and resources."
In order to ensure the security of psychic technology information, the federal command quickly ordered all relevant data to be uploaded to a non-networked independent database, encrypted and protected by the Tianji Project, and then assigned species with low psychic potential to guard it.
This data includes records of the psionic fluctuations of living saints as they move, energy traces released by Sarkhan's psionic arts, and information on all psionic technology found on the world of the Ecclesiarchy.
A few days later, after completing the final deployment and leaving behind some garrisons, the federal fleet eagerly continued its journey in order to quickly complete the mission and return to the aircraft carrier planet.
They need to complete the analysis of these data in the shortest possible time so as to be better prepared for possible future applications.
The conquest of the northernmost star region encountered no setbacks. There was no sign of civilization of cosmic forces such as the Empire, and there was a normal, habitable planet with no trace of intelligent life.
There is also a desolate planet here that is suspected to be the remains of some ancient pioneer civilization. The surface of the planet is covered with gray dust. After testing, it seems to be some kind of nanorobot.
This expansion, which took years to complete, has finally been completed.
The Federation now controls 32 star systems, about five times as many as before. This is the limit of our ruling capabilities given our navigation and communication capabilities without highly delegating power to create vassal states.
This peaceful outcome brought a sense of comfort to the exhausted soldiers of the Federation, and they could finally embark on the journey home.
Generals died in a hundred battles, warriors returned after ten years. This great expedition made us experience too much, and the test of blood and fire tempered our will.
Those giants in the universe can be complacent and think that they are invincible, like lions among sheep, but we are not afraid of them now.
We don't know how to be afraid.
54. Theory of Divinity
When the Empire invested more troops and fleets and engaged in a brutal tug-of-war with the Tau near the Damocles Gulf, and even the later famous "Commander Farsighted" emerged at this moment, the expansion of the "mysterious alien force" located in the south of the Tau also stopped.
This made the Inquisitor and the Ecclesiarchy very satisfied. Apparently, these alien allies of the Tau were no longer able to launch a pincer attack due to the attacks on the Tau's core world.
It seems that the alien empire's offensive has been broken, and human rule here will soon be out of danger.
.........
The Interstellar Federation has no interest in considering what the Imperials are thinking. Their expansion period has ended, and now they just want to farm well and then knock down all those who come to provoke them.
The so-called internal affairs repair is a sign of loyalty. Only with this can one fight. Living a good life is more important than anything else.
So now, it's time to solve the various problems encountered during the expedition.
First of all, the most important issue is the influence of psychic energy.
The inquiries about Sarkhan and the records of the battle with the Living Saint gave the psionic directors a greater understanding of the Federation's influence on the virtual plane, and ultimately proposed the theory of divinity.
.........
The measurement system we usually call cohesion is actually a quantitative standard for the Federation's influence in the spiritual realm, which can not be completely replaced by what the Empire calls "faith".
Our monthly cohesion flow is calculated in thousands of standard units at least, and its power is far greater than others or even ourselves think.
As the saying goes, comparing strength is the instinct of many species, and the same is true in the field of thinking. Theologians in the state religion world once tried hard to conceive of an omniscient and omnipotent existence who could shake countless universes with a wave of his hand. Although 99% of the empire's residents did not understand what the universe was, they just believed it because of this word.
But what they imagine is not as much as what we see. Is their belief really big enough?
We have seen things they have never seen, and we know things they do not know—space battleships burning on the shoulders of constellations, and brilliant lights gleaming in the darkness of the vacuum. All those moments are lost in time, like tears in the rain.
Even the power of metaphysical myths is affected by the fact that empty imagination cannot go beyond what we see with our own eyes.
Such a large amount of mental information would obviously generate enormous ripples in the mental dimension. These ripples were previously contained by the Interstellar Alliance's theory of tranquility. Tranquil thinking led us to believe that the mental plane was merely a high-dimensional space with a strange interaction with the minds of intelligent creatures, another objective natural world waiting to be transformed.
Therefore, the spiritual energy appears before us as a purely natural phenomenon. We use the Yaling organs and the cores of living stars to absorb the spiritual energy, and then transform them into ordinary earth, water, fire, wind and various material resources.
But Sarkhan changed this benign but somewhat limited state. His idealistic thinking shaped the Federation's vast mental energy flow into another state, making it lifelike.
The psychic torrent manifests itself as a personified existence, possessing broader and deeper abilities, but also possessing its own characteristics and thoughts. Our mind is projected into an independent intelligent creature.
This intelligent entity is called a top-level mentally interactive multifunctional entity by scientists of the Federation. In the eyes of more idealistic or less developed civilizations, this type of existence can be called a god.
The divine entities have a profound connection with the higher-dimensional universe known as the Warp, or rather, they are a kind of creature from that dimension. Through their metaphysical essence, the divine entities gain psychic energy in the Warp and then use this psychic energy to create reality-distorting effects.
The basic structure of the divine is formed by belief. Just as biological organisms are generally carbon-based, the divine is a "meme-based" life form. They maintain their form based on specific mental information, or "belief." Without belief, they will be assimilated and disappeared by the ordinary flow of psionic energy because they cannot observe themselves.
Generally speaking, divine entities can produce more reality-altering effects related to their own concepts or priesthood, but their vast psychic energy can achieve tremendous power, allowing them to intervene in matters they are not familiar with.
Sarkhan's prayers diverted part of the Federation's cohesion and formed a dragon-shaped deity. As for why humans prayed for a dragon god, it seemed that Sarkhan himself was in the late stage of dragon cancer, so the material he summoned to form spiritual life mainly came from the spiritual power of the dragon.
Specific information about the Federation's first "spiritual citizen" has been filed by cohesion experts:
True Name of the Divinity: Io-Ashgorath, the Great Reptile, Element of Harmony.
Image representation: A pure white dragon with colorful ends on its limbs.
Priesthood concepts: Harmony, Reptilians, Drax, and others to be added.
…………
It seems that having the protection of a divine entity would be a good thing, as it would defend the spiritual world of the Federation and provide us with supernatural powers.
Unfortunately, this result assumes that everything is normal. The Prophet of Illusions once warned us that the subspace is not normal. It is a highly distorted, unprocessed raw result, and a dangerous place that is likely to be harmful to intelligent creatures in the real universe.
If a divine psychic entity grows disorderly within it and absorbs those negative concepts, it will likely become distorted. And the connection between divinity and our souls will cause negative psychic influences to flow through and into the minds of the Federation residents.
If this is not corrected, perhaps one day in the future we will all go crazy collectively because the divine has merged some bad thought streams without any fault of our own.
However, the Federation was at a loss as to how to solve this problem. It was not until the completion of the latest tradition and the arrival of a new era of ascension that the Federation's cohesion and spiritual science experts were once again inspired as never before.
If the divine is a living meme that is distorted by the infusion of other beliefs and ideas, then we give these ideas a shell so that the walls of their hearts are no longer fully open.
The divine entity framed within a divine body will have its response pattern to external stimuli fixed, truly becoming a special life form similar to us, rather than a completely amorphous, highly chaotic, and extremely changeable life-like phenomenon.
In order to achieve this great goal and tame the power of faith, scientific research experts from all walks of life in the Federation worked hard day and night, and finally presented a great plan to the Chief Consul: the mechanical construction of holy relics and spirit machines.
55. Deus Ex Machina
"Fanatical debuff? No problem. My space industrialization and automated production lines will give the inefficient population job system a surprise surprise."
.........
In the Federation's recent ascension plan, two important plans were proposed: the mechanical construction of holy relics and the construction of spiritual machines.
The machine-made relic is a special planetary ring building, which is the most important crystallization of the Federation's semiotics and cultural shaping project.
Its unique synoptic structure brings together both psychic and scientific forces. The Relic Ring gathers the thoughts of all the planet's inhabitants, enhancing cohesion and providing beneficial bonuses.
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