Primarch—When I first heard this word, my first reaction was to feel so powerful!
Because I don't understand what it means at all, and from experience, what I hear from Tavel and these scientists and I don't understand at all is always very powerful-by the way, I feel that everything they say is very powerful .
"What is the original body?" I couldn't help asking Sandora. Now we are on the way to the research center, accompanied by Lin Xue and Aurelia: We have been staying in Shadow City did not go back.
Sandora thought for a while, and seemed to be thinking about how to explain to me this kind of noun that needs a lot of Beijing foreshadowing, and then she pointed to herself: "Ah Jun, do you know the life form of the apostle of Xiling? ?”
"Oh, semi-energy constructs," I nodded, "Amorphous life, the basic unit of the body seems to be in a state between matter and entity, and can be individually 'customized' according to needs, so it has a strong evolutionary ability And the life form that strengthens the ability, it seems that because of this, the physical life and the energy body life appear in the Xiling Apostle at the same time, and the two diametrically opposite life forms belong to the same race... "I couldn't bear it as I said it Living a little farther away, the life form of the apostles of Xiling surprised me from the very beginning, so I also studied it for a long time back then, such as doing a physical examination for Pandora... Well, chatting or something, so in this regard Knowledge, but I am rare to understand quite deeply.
"That's right, non-stereotyped beings can 'customize' their bodies according to the needs of the battlefield and evolution," Sandora nodded, "You also know that there are many branches of Xiling Apostles, and the relationship between each branch The difference is so huge that it almost becomes two independent species, just like armored scorpions and ravens, Alaya and Pandora, they are almost independent races in common sense, and there is no similarity in life forms, but in fact, all branches are. It's all one race..."
As Sandora said, she suddenly fell silent, and then raised her head after a few seconds, looked into my eyes and said, "Ah Jun, do you think this kind of life form may be a product of natural evolution?"
"What do you mean?" I didn't respond for a while.
"Apostle Xiling was created, I remember I mentioned it to you a long time ago," Sandora breathed out, "In order to defeat the enemy, an older race created... or transformed the Apostle Xiling, It is precisely because of this that we have gained a strong foundation. Our current life foundation is evolved on an ancient customization mechanism, which allows the life form of the Apostle of the Spirit to adapt to the environment almost unlimitedly, as long as there is With a little bit of possibility, we can always transform ourselves so that we can face any kind of challenges we may encounter. In the long evolution process, the Apostles of Xiling have fought countless times at the whole family level in order to defeat the enemy and the environment 'Ascension', we made ourselves stronger by turning ourselves into another life entirely, and in the process, gave birth to the various offspring you see now: armored scorpions, ravens, Artificial angels, war machines, evokers... These independent branches due to their unique life forms all evolved on their own initiative to deal with a certain powerful enemy. Some people once called the Xiling Apostle a war virus. This is true, our ability to evolve and self-reform is stronger than viruses. In fact, even now, after the establishment of the new empire, the Apostles of Xiling are still undergoing this kind of evolution of the whole family—becoming the third The promotion process of the Protoss is essentially just a larger-scale promotion. This kind of promotion has been with us for hundreds of millions of years."
"Hey, what do you want to say... what?" Lin Xue looked at Sandora, and finally couldn't help but speak.
"What I want to say is that today's Xiling Apostle has been updated countless times, and the number of branches has only increased in the process of countless updates. Before all this happened, the Xiling Apostle was just 'made 'When it came out, the life form was actually single: At that time, we only had one kind of apostle... "
"Prime body!" At this moment, I suddenly understood the term I heard from Tavel's mouth, and at this time, everyone had already arrived at the gate of the institute, and Tavel's body was leading her senior assistants Waiting in front of the door in person, she quickly walked towards me and Sandora with an excited expression on her face: "Your Majesty, it is the original body, it can be confirmed, there is an initial serial number stored in the sample body, and he has never passed through the entire body. Signs of promotion!"
"Very good, take us there now." Sandora nodded, then motioned for us to follow. Although I was full of questions just a few seconds ago, it seems that it is not the time to ask questions, so I can only pull Miss Lin and follow Tavel to the place where they analyze the remains.
This is a small comprehensive laboratory for precise analysis of smaller samples. On the long platform in the center of the laboratory is fixed the ancient remains we found from Ankach 5. The power worn by the soldier The armor has been carefully dismantled and placed on another platform in the corner of the room, which is being scanned by automatic equipment, while the warrior with the armor removed is lying lifelessly on the platform in front of everyone, with a mixture of metal and plastic. On the textured skin in between, there are bits and pieces of light wandering around.
After looking at the whole body of this soldier, his features that are close to war puppets or ordinary robots are more obvious. Without exception, there are obvious interfaces at his joints, and blue inlays can be seen in the interfaces: Now I know that it is the original phantom energy adaptation module, which is used to allow the body to directly use psionic energy, but now in the body of the Xiling apostle, this adaptation module has evolved into their basic body unit, and even advanced apostles do not need it. This kind of module can directly use psionic energy.
The above knowledge was explained by Tavel when she introduced her discovery to us. While listening to Tavel's introduction, I looked at the ancient spirit apostle called "primarch". At the same time, a large number of The perplexing doubts are also circling in my mind, and they are becoming more and more irrepressible.
"The Primarch is the first generation of Xiling apostles, right?"
I looked at Tavel and asked, and the latter thought for a while: "It's not very accurate, because creating a race from scratch can't be completed in an instant. The ancient race that created the Apostle of Xiling was not that powerful. power, so the original Xiling apostles were produced in batches over a relatively long period of time. Therefore, "the first generation of Xiling apostles" is just a general term. The original body refers to an initial The Xiling apostles born in the historical period did not undergo evolution, but were completely designed by the ancient creators. The original body retained all the characteristics of the original birth, and at the same time retained all the defects, as you can see In this way, the warrior is even close to a war puppet, in fact, many components in his body are not very suitable for the actual situation, or the design is far from reaching the level of optimal effect, in theory."
After Tavel explained, I understood the characteristics of the original body, but my confusion did not diminish in the slightest: "Why did the Melovas want to get involved with a original body?"
"The meaning is unknown," Sandora said softly, "the Primarch has special meaning to the Apostles of Xiling, but they are ancient designs after all. From a practical point of view, even the most powerful Primarch is not as powerful as it is now An ordinary soldier, and the technology contained in the Primarch itself...should not be of great interest to the Melovas. They have followed the Empire for many years, and they have more high-tech things. I just want to know now why they still have There will be Primarchs, and they will drift so far away..."
"Speaking of this, I remembered," I slapped my head, remembering that I had a question before I had time to ask, "Sandora, the Primarch should be very important to the Apostles of Xiling, just like the ancestors, But... when you first saw the Primarch on Ankach 5, why didn't you recognize it?"
I still remember Sandora's expression after seeing the coffin and the remains in the coffin at first. It was pure surprise and puzzlement. There were many Xiling apostles present at the time, but none of them recognized the original body. The identity of this soldier was not verified until he was sent to the research institute, which is really a bit puzzling.
"I know you will definitely ask this," Sandora smiled faintly and glanced at me, "Because the information about the Primarch... as early as I don't know how many years ago, it was almost a legend for us."
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"Even a civilization as powerful as Xiling has come through bumps and bumps," Alleria said next to him. "In the first years, we also experienced displacement, the destruction of our homes, and exile of the whole family. It is even said that the most difficult At that time, there was not even a single planet that could settle down, and the inheritance of data was also fragmented, and the records about the Primarch... were gradually interrupted under such circumstances."
Lin Xue and I were dumbfounded, listening to Aurelia's narration in a state of complete ecstasy: what the other party was talking about was an era we had never imagined, a Xiling apostle who had not yet reached its peak, and was even known far away in the void. In the era when he was not powerful, he would stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods in the future, and the apostle of Xiling, known as the third god, also had an era of struggling to survive and fighting bravely.
This is not difficult to imagine, in fact, it should be said that it is expected: As a civilization that has developed all the way from the mortal stage, no matter how powerful it is at its peak, it is bound to be impossible to be born with the same rich second generation as the gods at the beginning. There is no limit to tyranny, but even though I know this, I have never really understood the history of the empire, so at first it sounds full of unreality—probably as if you suddenly knew that Bill Gates also gave people After brushing the bowl, Onyxia felt like she was an egg back then. Although there is nothing wrong with it, it can't stop the psychological shock at all, okay
"Most of the history about the initial period of birth has been unverifiable, including where the ancient race that created us came from, what they encountered before they decided to create super life forms like Xiling Apostle, and the fate of our original hometown, these There are only sporadic records of things now, and they are stored here—" Sandora pointed to her forehead, "in the basic memory bank. We only know that the ancient race died out after creating the life of 'Apostle' Well, they input all their culture and knowledge into the database of the apostles, which is equivalent to handing over the entire civilization to their own creations, and then disappear into the void. Their civilization and mission before extinction are on their own creations Continuation, so we call ourselves apostles, not "Xiling people". Although many people who don't know the inside information often confuse the two, and on some occasions, some people directly refer to the apostles of Xiling as Xiling people, but we ourselves never Don't say that. The Xiling people are extinct, and we are the Xiling apostles... "
"Apostles were created to fight against the abyss?" Lin Xue suddenly thought of something and asked.
Sandora nodded after thinking for a while: "Although there is no direct record, considering that the initial memory of our memory bank is the data of fighting the abyss, this should be the truth back then. We were killed to fight the abyss." Created, maybe it should be called a weapon of war, but no one knows why the creators did it to this extent: they completely replaced themselves with 'apostles', and gave up their entire civilization... They are mortals Race, but created a life like the apostle that can evolve towards God, which makes us feel incomprehensible. The research on the creator has been uninterrupted throughout the old empire era, but until the collapse of the empire, this research did not make any progress , and it became an impossible project in the New Empire period.”
"The records about the original body are also in the same state," Alleria continued. "The original body and the creator are basically in the same age. We have always speculated that during the period when the original body was first born, they may even have the The creators lived together for a period of time, perhaps the creators made the final perfection and modification of the original body during that time, but later they found that they could no longer understand these ultra life forms that were rapidly self-improving, so they chose to leave—this is all It is the speculation of scholars. After the creator completely disappeared, the Primarch became the successor of Xiling civilization. They continued to search for traces of the abyss, fight around, and follow the original instructions: evolution, becoming stronger, and destroying the abyss. These three principles , constantly developing, and developing by any means. In this process, there should have been several disasters that almost led to the cessation of civilization, and the records about them were intermittent in those super battles. But each disaster failed to defeat the Primarch, and they ignored everything They are hindering their evolution, customizing their own life forms, occupying all the places that can bring them value, and then evolving again according to the local environment. In the end, there is a "branch" that succeeds the "primarch" and once again makes the entire Xiling Things that have changed drastically in civilization. The single-evolved Primarch was replaced by a branch, and the Primarch divided itself into several groups according to the needs of the race, and each group carried out a "use it or lose it" transformation towards a fixed function. The original Primarch was comprehensive, and the creators integrated all their racial talents into the Primarch, allowing them to have a wide variety of combat modes, but the branch chose to abandon this miscellaneous but not refined route and return to the creators The status of specialization differentiation, and it has been done more thoroughly - armored scorpions, ravens, heavy armored soldiers, etc. The apostles who determined the arms by race appeared in batches, opening the era of branch clans. The history after that is clear in the database information, and the records about the Primarch are basically the same as my narration, which is similar to a story."
After Alleria finished speaking, Lin Xue and I stood beside the "primitive", quietly looking at the latter's simple and primitive psionic parts: "This is the first one that has appeared in front of you in history. Primarch, is it?"
Alleria, Tavel, and Sandora nodded silently.
"Why do the Melova people know the existence of the Primarch?" I suddenly asked this question, "Have you ever told your vassal races about the Primarch? It should be impossible."
"The Melovas may have found the records of the Primarch from some of the imperial equipment they stole," Alleria said. "When we counted the supplies of the Celestial City, we found that a large part of the lost facilities were Scientific research facilities, it is not surprising that the Melova people know about the Primarch from those materials."
"Then the question is back to the original point: what is the use of the Melovans wanting the Primarch?" This time, even Prophet Lin looked confused, she spread her arms and looked around each of us, "They also want to create the Primarch Body? Is it possible?"
Lin Xue’s words shocked me a little. I instinctively felt that this prophet might accidentally come into contact with the truth again, but Aurelia immediately denied it: “It’s meaningless, copying the original body is meaningless, it’s too obvious From our current perspective, the original body is actually stronger than the war puppet. The Merova people are not fools, even if they get the original body. From the perspective of the original body's own body structure, even if the research reaches the limit, they can only A war puppet can be copied as it is: because more and deeper knowledge cannot be obtained from the original body itself, those materials at the beginning of creation have been lost with the demise of the creator. Not to mention that even Melova Humans can reproduce the same body as the modern apostles, but they can only create a group of super soldiers. I have a little understanding of that race. They respect power and think highly of themselves because of their ancient qualifications. Therefore, they must also have suitable The ambition of their hearts, what they are pursuing... I am afraid it is something bigger."
"For example..." I thought for a while, "They also want to become the apostles of Xiling?"
The scene fell silent, and after a few seconds, Sandora actually showed a smile: "Because the god died, the servants of the day wanted to sit on the altar... This is indeed an interesting ambition."
"I'm just guessing," I spread my hands, "But Alleria also said that from the original body's research to the limit, only war puppets can be copied. I think the core technology used to create the original body was only to create Those who have read it know that the ambition of the Merova people may only be ambition forever."
"With this ambition, and the actions they made for it," Sandora narrowed her eyes, "it's a crime to be punished."